Alongside the buy-out, the company has raised 4.5 million DKK (approximately €600,000) led by Nordic Makers, with Zendesk co-founder and former CPO Alexander Aghassipour joining the board.

“There is currently so much uncertainty and skepticism around AI tools that many people are getting too little out of tools that could actually help them. Good Tape finds the right balance between utility and trust,” .

said Alexander Aghassipour to Bootstrapping.dk about it

Founded by Ýmir Gyðuson Gíslason and Lasse Finderup, Good Tape began as an internal tool for journalists who needed their interviews transcribed without sending sensitive material to third parties.

The startup has already good traction. It reports that it is today used by 3 million people in more than 150 countries and has completed over 15 million transcriptions in more than 100 languages for journalists, researchers, consultants, lawyers, and public sector teams.

The company is now launching Good Tape Explore, a new layer that links new recordings to everything a user has previously transcribed, making it possible to find changed positions, contradictions, and supporting arguments with reference to the original audio. The service runs in a private, EU-hosted workspace with ISO 27001 certification, GDPR compliance, EU data storage, and no customer data used for AI training. With the spin-out, Good Tape is betting that privacy can be a product rather than just compliance, while now standing entirely on its own commercially.

You can read the full article at Bootstrapping.dk

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The program recently kicked off with a masterclass by international indie game expert Jason Della Rocca. In addition to international games experts and regional industry leaders giving guest lectures and mentoring, the program consists of masterclasses and workshops covering both the business side of game development and the craft of making games.

“The program is designed to support and lift the participants’ learning and development so that they can move faster, with better results. Our aim is to have the companies leave the program with a clear business plan, ready to take in capital, and with enough momentum to carry them forward to their next big milestone,”

says Jesper Krogh Kristiansen, Business & Growth Manager at Game Habitat.

The six companies in the first Minc Game batch are:

• Round Table Society, developing Cold at Dawn
• Flotsam Interactive, developing Maregrosso
• Bricks and Balls, developing Gunwhale
• Deleted Cookie, developing Plague Crew
• Playtrigger Games, developing Chess Strike
• Build at One, developing Standard Procedure

“The companies are all at a similar stage of development, which means they can also learn from one another along the way, making the program even more relevant for all the companies. For the program, we wanted companies we believe can become ready to pitch to publishers or investors, or to self-publish, by the end of the program. That is a high bar, and it’s meant to be. We expect a lot from these companies, and they should expect a lot from us,”

says Renée Jessen, Portfolio Lead Games at Minc

Minc Game aims to provide the participating companies with the tools and training to launch or scale their businesses and create world-class games and game-related products. The program is run by Minc and Game Habitat and is supported by Malmö stad.

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Innofounder is a 12-month, full-time incubator program for early-stage entrepreneurs with innovative, knowledge-based ideas that are beyond the concept stage but not yet market-ready, with little or no revenue and limited prior external funding. It has the option of providing a limited amount of funding as well, up to € 14.000 (DKK 100.000).

In an interview with Bootstrapping.dk, the leaders of the incubator shared their key learnings. Lotus Søs Nellemann, Head of Business Mentoring, points to two common mistakes in a startup’s first twelve months: founders who build blindly without validating their assumptions about their target audience, and founders who refine their MVP until it becomes a maximum viable product instead of a minimum one.

But the most striking pattern she highlights is not about product at all. It is the silent trap of co-founder disagreements about roles, direction, and ambitions that founders postpone because it is easier to focus on the product.

“It’s rarely the product itself that brings down a team in the first year. It’s the conversations they missed,”

said Lotus Søs Nellemann, Head of Business Mentoring at Second Foundation.

The interview also covers how generative AI has changed early-stage building. Since 2023, the incubator has followed more than 420 startups building under AI conditions, and the leaders describe how small teams now move dramatically faster, with multi-agent tools compressing development cycles that once took years into weeks. At the same time, they emphasize that prioritization has become more important than the ability to build: it does not matter if you can build 50 new features in an afternoon if they are not relevant to customers.

You can read the full interview at Bootstrapping.dk: https://bootstrapping.dk/innofounder-inkubatoren-fortsaetter-hos-second-foundation-til-2029-hvad-er-laeringen-fra-680-startups/

About Innofounder

The Innofounder incubation process is operated by Second Foundation and combines mentoring from experienced founders with business design and workshops. Applicants must have completed a higher education, can apply individually or in teams of up to three founders, and must work full time on the idea in Denmark, owning at least 12.5 percent of the company. The company must have a Danish CVR number when the program starts and be no more than five years old. It is open for businesses within a variety of industries, such as green technology, life science and welfare technology, new strategic technologies, and defense and security technology.

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The company aims to address a growing pain point in climate reporting. More and more companies face requirements to report emissions across their entire value chain, known as Scope 3 emissions, and purchased goods are often the largest and most difficult item to obtain reliable data for. Even companies that want to buy circularly struggle to find products, compare alternatives, and collect the sustainability information that reporting requires.

On ReLoopDesign, climate data follows the transaction itself. Companies buying through the platform receive the data for their Scope 3 reporting automatically with every order, instead of producing it afterwards as a separate project.

“Three months after the launch in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Finland, we have almost 30 brands on the platform, and now we are scaling up toward companies and the public sector, where the climate data for Scope 3 reporting follows with every order,”

said Simon Ottosson, COO and co-founder of ReLoopDesign.

Two tools sit at the center of the offering to businesses and the public sector. The sustainability calculator structures information about each product’s materials, recycled content, and circular properties in one place, in a format usable both in purchasing decisions and in sustainability reporting. The tender portal turns the procurement process on its head: companies and public organizations can publish a need or upcoming procurement, even without a finished product specification, and relevant brands receive the request directly and can propose circular solutions and submit tenders. ReLoopDesign is currently in dialogue with several major construction and property companies as well as municipalities.

The platform gathers everything from furniture, interior design, and fashion to office supplies, construction materials, packaging, and corporate gifts, for both private individuals and businesses. Every product is reviewed for its material composition before being listed, with a requirement that at least half the material be recycled.

ReLoopDesign holds no inventory of its own. Brands handle stock and deliveries themselves, while the platform provides the sales channel, payment flow, and cross-border trade. Brands pay no fixed fees, and the company takes a commission per order. For many smaller manufacturers of circular products, this becomes a way to reach the corporate market in four countries without building their own sales channels in each one.

Although the Nordics are often treated as a single market, language, buying behavior, payments, shipping, VAT, and returns differ between countries, and Norway adds customs and import as it stands outside the EU. ReLoopDesign therefore combines a common technical platform with local presence through its own Country Managers in Denmark and Norway.

The company was founded by John Waldemarsson, Ervin Dizdaric, and Simon Ottosson. John Waldemarsson, CEO, has a long background in B2B sales and business development, including digital solutions for financial reporting, ESG, and CSRD to larger listed companies in Sweden, Norway, and the Baltics, which is where the idea of letting sustainability data follow the purchase took shape.

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Horizon is designed to help automotive manufacturers and suppliers build, test, and deploy software for Android Automotive Operating System (AAOS) more efficiently.

Founded in 2020 in Malmö, RemotiveLabs lets engineers treat a vehicle’s systems as code: version-controlled, testable and shareable, closing the gap between how software is built in most industries and how it’s still built in cars. Its flagship solution, RemotiveTopology, is already used by manufacturers, tech companies and suppliers including Volvo Cars, Ford, Horse Powertrain, HERE Technologies – and supported by Arm to enable end-to-end virtual integration.

“With RemotiveLabs, Horizon extends beyond the vehicle’s cockpit and main compute nodes. It enables developers and agents to test the full vehicle in virtual, long before a physical car exists. That foundation helps software-defined vehicle programs move faster. We’re glad to bring this level of completeness to developers building on Horizon.”

said Florian Haubner, Industry Architect Lead, Google Cloud.

Google Cloud’s software-defined vehicle work has so far centered mainly on the cockpit, where Android Automotive OS lets developers build and test infotainment software in the cloud. Horizon now extends that reach to the vehicle’s other main compute nodes. Until now, there has been no feasible way to represent the rest of the vehicle well enough to test against.

“Our goal from day one has been to let vehicle manufacturers own their software, on their own terms, enabling them to left-shift integration testing through virtualization. Working with Google Cloud on Horizon sends a strong signal to the industry that it is time to move away from closed, hardware-centric and vendor-locked development. We’re thrilled to contribute with the vehicle harness and infrastructure needed to make both humans and AI agents productive in software-defined vehicle development,”

said Per Sigurdson, CEO and co-founder of RemotiveLabs.

RemotiveLabs provides an executable model of these remaining systems, the vehicle’s virtualized electrical and electronic (E/E) architecture, letting any node be tested in the context of the full vehicle. This enables manufacturers, Tier 1 suppliers and other technology companies to collaborate around a shared source of truth. Google Cloud calls the combination a “system of systems”: 

RemotiveLabs’ virtualization platform, RemotiveTopology, makes that possible by running the same network communication as the finished vehicle, down to how data packets are encoded and addressed, which also lets virtual systems connect to real hardware. RemotiveLabs also brings the two things AI agents need for this kind of development: the vehicle as code in standard version control, and a virtual environment they can control and test in. Manufacturers and partners can therefore bring the AI tools and agents of their choice to iterate and verify progress at system level, just like any other software project.

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The Øresund Startup Map puts the whole ecosystem across Copenhagen and Skåne in one place. Built over the years thru a combination of different datasets, it contains already:

• 980+ startups, investors, incubators and hubs on one interactive map.
• Startup events across the region.
• Jobs on both sides of the bridge.

It’s free, and it’s built by the community.

Are you missing something? Add it here: https://oresundstartupmap.com/#contribute

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Onomondo has built a proprietary, end-to-end technology stack designed for a world experiencing an acceleration of device connectivity. In the same way that platforms like AWS simplified cloud deployment for global enterprises, Onomondo abstracts away network friction to provide the invisible architecture driving the “connectivity of everything”. As physical AI moves decision-making onto devices themselves, Onomondo enables intelligence directly at the edge.

With native access to nearly 700 networks worldwide, the company gives enterprises control, flexibility, and orchestration over their assets. The ecosystem spans the device, the Radio Access Network, and the cloud, anchored by patented Cloud Connectors and technologies such as SoftSIM and hybrid public-private network deployment. The company’s hybrid network capability includes what is believed to be the world’s largest private LTE network at sea, spanning more than 450 Maersk vessels.

“For decades, technological progress was limited by our ability to process huge amounts of data. AI has changed that. The next challenge is creating the right data and getting it to the right place. That is an infrastructure problem, and it is the problem we have spent eight years solving,”

said Henrik Aagaard, CTO and Co-founder of Onomondo.

More than 500 customers use Onomondo’s technology, including danish giants Maersk and Carlsberg. The infrastructure allows companies to collect, process, and act on real-world data in places where conventional connectivity is often difficult, from ships and trucks to factories and remote industrial sites.

“Working with Onomondo has helped us move from monitoring containers at fixed points in the journey to receiving near real-time data while cargo is in transit, including during ocean crossings. Seeing issues earlier means customers can take action sooner,”

said Sonny Wilkens Dahl, Senior Vice President, Global Head of Ocean Operations at Maersk

The deal will drive Onomondo’s next phase of growth by expanding its international market presence and scaling its infrastructure deployment, while continuing to develop its proprietary technology.

“We chose Aspirity because they immediately recognised our structural differentiation and share our vision for the platform’s future. The traditional market approach has been to offer simple connectivity and leave the enterprise to manage the operational complexity around it. We took a fundamentally different path by building the foundational infrastructure layer that was missing,”

said Rasmus Jensen, CEO of Onomondo.

Aspirity Partners is a pan-European private equity firm focused on growth buyouts and strategic minority investments. The firm partners with businesses providing mission-critical, technology-enabled services in sub-sectors benefiting from long-term secular growth trends. Its model is supported by a network of founders and senior executives, known as Innovators and Leaders, who provide specialist insight and partner with businesses to help unlock step-function growth.

“As the physical AI revolution accelerates, managing billions of distributed devices requires intelligence at the network level, deep observability, and absolute control from the cloud to the edge. The team have built a genuinely exceptional and unique platform that solves these complex challenges by controlling its own global infrastructure and end-to-end technology stack,”

said Ralph Choufani, Co-Founder and Partner at Aspirity Partners.

The Onomondo investment marks Aspirity’s first in the Nordic region as it executes its pan-European strategy.

Onomondo serves customers in more than 100 countries and has attracted specialist engineering talent to Copenhagen from around the world. The transaction is subject to customary regulatory approvals and is expected to complete in Q1 2027.

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Analyzing the numbers, the first half of 2026 has marked weak start Skåne’s startup ecosystem. With only 42 deals raising approximately € 83 million across Lund, Malmö, and Helsingborg. This is less compared to 2025, which had 61 deals and a € 174 million in its first half.

The numbers for all of 2025 in Skåne where 101 investments, totalt € 223 million. We compared this to 2017, when we first looked into the overall numbers for Skåne – in 2017 there were 65 investments in startups, totaling € 154 million.

So current trend seems to be that since 2017 not much has happened when it comes to attracting investments to Skåne.

However, as with all funding news, the numbers are often easily skewed by one or two bigger rounds. In H1 2025, Qvantum raised a € 108 million round in equity and dept, which affects the numbers for 2025 a lot. However, that the total number of deals is almost 35% lower is does make it clear that it is not just this one deal that makes for a downward trend so far this year.

Looking a bit deeper into the different cities, and what time of investments that have happened so far in 2026, compared to H1 in 2025.

Lund: Deep-Tech and Biotech Dominate with €25M

Lund is for its size Skåne’s investment powerhouse, attracting during H1 2026 a total of 20 investments, worth € 39 million, almost half of the amount during this time frame. This more than its H1 2025 of € 31 million. The city’s strength lies in deep-tech and biotech, with some noteable investments including:

• Nordic Forestry Automation, Technology for precise and sustainable forestry.
• Cellevate, Developing proprietary nanofiber technology for building cell culture solutions for cell and gene therapy and novel vaccines biomanufacturing.
• Spec-Imaging, optical tools for direct analysis of turbid liquids

Lund’s long-standing reputation for cutting-edge research, particularly in nanotech and medtech, continues to attract high-value, early-stage investments.

Malmö: AI, Security and Sustainability

Malmö has raised the most funding so far, in bigger rounds, with 16 fundings so far that totalt approximitely € 41 million in H1 2026. This is however a decrease in both number and sum compared to 27 investments totalting € 138 million in H1 2025 (which includes the € 108 million round by Qvantum). The city’s startup scene is diverse, with investments in companies like:

• Valkyr, Developing cost-effective, agile, and modular defense solutions with a focus on COTS components, practical innovation, and short time-to-market
• Emission Twin, Climate and sustainability platform
• Lightbringer, AI-powered all-in-one solution for patent protection

Helsingborg: AI and SaaS

While Helsingborg’s H1 2026 investments are a lot lower than Lund and Malmö, the city is carving a niche in different AI services and SaaS solutions. Notable investments include:

• Gridly, Content operations platform for game and software developers
• Veterinary Value, Platform helping veterinary clinics become profitable
• MiMove, Platform for searching properties for sale and rent in Spain and Portugal

Overall the fundings in the region reflect an mature ecosystem, but not a growing one.

Thanks to the Funding Database by Swedish Tech News for providing the curated data on funding rounds.

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Alongside the funding, the company has released Klang Pianissimo, the first model on its new streaming endpoint. Until now, transcribing Swedish meant recording the full audio and waiting for the batch to finish. With the new endpoint, text arrives while people are still speaking, and the finished transcript is ready when the stream ends.

This makes Klang one of the few companies in Europe set up to train and release open-weights models.

Pianissimo is trained for Swedish as it is actually spoken, dialects included. In Klang’s benchmarks, it processes an hour of audio in about a second, with every token pinned to 80 milliseconds of audio. The endpoint is compatible with the OpenAI realtime API, meaning developers already streaming audio to a US provider can switch with just a base URL and an API key. Audio is processed on Klang’s own hardware in Sweden, and nothing is stored or used for training.

“Pianissimo can transcribe over 40 hours of audio in a minute. Its hard to imagine how much audio that really is,”

Said Mattias Fält, Head of AI & Co-Founder at Klang.ai

The investment just raised is from business angels such as Johan Lenander, Emil Sjödin and Daniel Gadd. It comes as human conversation becomes a core information source in an AI-driven workplace, while many existing tools still send sensitive speech data to large US cloud services. Klang.ai positions itself as the European alternative, ensuring that information stays under local control.

The new capital will support continued product development and international expansion across the Nordics, Benelux, DACH, and Japan, as well as around ten new hires across research, development, and marketing.

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The solution lets merchants handle payments, payouts, and disputes in the same system as orders, returns, and accounting, without separate agreements for each payment method. Payment options such as Swish, Klarna, Apple Pay, and cards are activated without separate applications, and local payment methods are ready when merchants expand into new markets.

“The most important thing for us has been to deliver a powerful and flexible checkout solution that is optimized to both increase conversion and free up time for merchants in their daily operations. With Adyen as a partner, we can now offer exactly that to our merchants,”

said Azddin Benberkan, CEO and founder of Quickbutik.

During a pilot period with 5,000 orders across several participating merchants, conversion increased by an average of 7 percent. Applications for Quickbutik Checkout are now open to all merchants, regardless of size.

“Our platform solution aims to offer features that historically only larger merchants have been able to implement in their checkout. Quickbutik’s solution is at the forefront and gives merchants of all sizes the opportunity to offer a world-class checkout,”

said Tobias Lindh, Managing Director of Adyen Nordics & Baltics.

Quickbutik Checkout works in the webshop, on standalone campaign pages, in payment links, and with storefronts built outside Quickbutik. The checkout is optimized for agentic commerce, a faster purchase experience, and increased conversion.

Built for especially Nordic merchants with Swish, Klarna, Fortnox, and PostNord integrated, the storefront can be built in any tool, operations can be handled by AI, and the engine is designed to sell both locally and globally to customers and AI agents.

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