Øresund Startups: Top50 and state of the region

Karsten Deppert — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 21:59:17 +0000

Today I held a short lunch seminar on the subject of the most prominent startups in the region. The seminar was held because I was asked to do it, and when I thought about it I realized would be interesting to do. So I did, even if it was with a limited amount of preparations (which I can be accused of, but my main philosophy is: better to do then to don’t). So I did it.

It was held over lunch at CreativeLab, the creative event concept at the SHIP co-working space. Because we have a policy of livecasting whatever we do, you can watch the recording above (Our new Bambuser channel can be found here).

If you want to download the slides, I have made them available on slideshare but there are quite low resolution there, so can be found as pdf here as well.

I am probably describing some of the startups a little bit wrong (sorry for that), and I missed some things in the presentation (corrected in the downloadable versions). But I hope it creates some value for you as the viewer anyway.

Update 1: Some have asked why so many people are walking around and the background noice – the location where the presentation was held is the auditorium in the CreativeLab, called “trappan”, and is just that: the main stairs between the first and second floor. It is designed to be in the middle of the entire place, so that any presentations held there can have drop-in / drop-out flow. A somewhat special enviroment, but I love it, often with a lot of student from Lunds University sitting around in the open areas, and the business and entrepreneurs on the stairs themselves…

Update 2: I should of course list the top 50 startups mentioned as well! Here they are (in the order presented, i.e. in alphabetical order after category):

Series A + B

B2C

Billetto
Miinto
Vivino
WatAGame (GoSupermodel)
Zmags

B2B

Seed level

B2C

B2B

Other prominent startups

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Anyfi raises €1,2M in capital

Karsten Deppert — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 19:27:53 +0000

Anyfi, a company developing a way to create virtual hotspots in private WLANs, has just recieved a round of early-stage investments. The investments totals 10M SEK (€1,2M) and is mainly by Industrifonden, a Swedish investment fond.

The aim of the company has always been global, and the raised capital will be used for hiring new talent to the company. Both a VP of sales as well as software developers are needed (if you are interested, check the positions out here).

Anyfi aims to bring “Mobile Wi-Fi that just works”, utilizing existing Wi-Fi with a Zero sign-in method. The company is founded by Björn Smedman and Johan Almbladh, and has Hampus Jakobsson from TAT as one of its senior advicers.

Correction 2012/09/16 – the round was 10M sek, not 9M sek as previously reported. Our mistake, thanks for Björn Smedman to notify us about it.

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Øresund Startups: Top50 and state of the region

Anyfi raises €1,2M in capital