The concept had been tweaked for the second event – there were fewer startups pitching, and more focus on 1 on 1 session afterwards between startups and investors. Overall both good improvements, and it turned into a short, good and impactfull event for everyone attending.

Early stage startups

The level of the startups was solid, and covered both early startups looking for € 50 000 or less, up to some asking for for € 1 million. The event was small, but impact-full – the audience was 15 business angels and early stage VCs, including names such as Thorvald Stigsen, Anders Frankel, Rasmus Bjerngaard and Nikolaj Nyholm. With 13 startups present and the different levels, it was also good spread for the different investors.
The startups present where:

• Petreas – connecting service providers with customers.
• Startuptravels – an airbnb for entrepreneurs.
• Sharingear – renting out music equipment to bands and concerts.
• DrinksOnUs – digitalising bar services.
• Forecast.it – a project and portofolio management service
• Sensor Six – a solid team that aims to make enterprise IT better
• Kiggit – a new and more up-to-date way of making betting
• Erghis – touch less technology
• Renouve – a new take on the cosmetics market
• Form – the smart home sensor.
• Rokoko – making motion capture cheap and affordable, especially interesting with the huge interest in virtual reality such as oculus rift.
• Donkey Republic – providing bike rentals in cities that are convenient and digital connected.
• Sponsta – making content marketing and branding on Instagram easier.

After the 4 minuts pitches by each startup, the event was changed into a 1 on 1 session with investors and startups having time for deeper questions and answers. This was highly appreciated and gave the startups feedback and insights, while letting the investors get to know the startups better.

Drawing on the regions strength

Just as last time the event included startup and angels from the entire region, both Copenhagen and the Swedish side, Skåne. Overall this was an event that was short, effective and brought lots of value. Another really good example of community efforts from #malmostartups and #cphftw, and how they do a great job of moving the startup scene forwards.

The event was held in the brand new event space at Rainmaking Loft. Great atmosphere and good for the presentation, but became a little noisy during the 1 on 1s. But this will probably improve for future events.

Stay tuned to cphftw and malmostartups for info about when and where the next AngelNext will be held. And are you interested in pitching your early stage startup, or a business angel who wants get to know good startups, get in touch with Jasenko or Joel.

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With a team of experienced entrepreneurs and business developers, Accelerace offers customized expertise, investments, and networks to help start-ups succeed through a 5-month customer driven accelerator program. Accelerace is also dedicated to developing and sharing knowledge on best practices in entrepreneurship.

The 15 new Accelerace participants are:

• Absolute SLS
• Telehealth
• GroundPlug
• Bookinabus.com
• Teamauction.dk
• Soulglow
• Begravelsesguiden.dk
• Greenticket
• 3rd Street
• Kiggit
• Innovaid
• Brain+
• Animal Care
• Fibrenetix
• Treat Systems

Accelerace is a somewhat different accelerator. It takes no equity in the startups, and provides instead counseling and mentoring, as well a wide network. It also gives the opportunity of a follow-up investment in the range of € 50 000 – 400 000. The terms can be found here. It is targets at startups who have a product which is on the market, or less than 12 months from the market.

Since 2008, Accelerace has spotted, trained and invested in more than 200 start-ups and spin-off companies, generating more than 400 jobs and a start-up survival rate of more than 94%, and that have raised a total of € 72 million in funding so far. Some of the previous participants include Templafy, Kirkeweb, Abeo, Me-Mover, Conferize, GraduateLand, Queue-it. More recent startups are Penneo, who won the best company award at Accelerace Investor Day 2014, and Magick and Coinify who tied for best pitch of the day.

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Keynote for the day was none other then Kristian von Bengtson, who runs what might be the most extreme start-up in this region: the Copenhagen Suborbitals.

But the day was about the 9 teams from Startupbootcamp, and their final pitches:

Easy Size
Easy Size will help webshops to return fewer products because of the wrong size. The only thing a client needs is to add a brand size and their tool will convert it to the desired measurements. Online-shops can implement this tool using an API. Easy Size was presented by Gulnaz Khusainova.

Funify
A service to get children to be more active with chores they do not like. Funifi motivates and incentivises kids to get their chores done. Teaching kids responsibility and providing them independence through our unique incentive based platform.

Hiveeo
Bertrand Bisson presented Hiveeo – a platform to identify, assess and manage investments in a Private Investor Network. Through a full portfolio management system it will help investors at all stages of the investment process.

Kiggit
A compelling social game where football fans can predict on football and challenge their friends. The concept revolves around a strong scalable technology optimized for realtime data handling. This was presented by Jacob Hagemann.

Passnfly
Passnfly was presented by Louis Tag. It is a simple solution for a complex problem concerning the hassles for air travelers and lost revenue by travel distributors.

Pergunter
Pergunter was presented by Joao Paulo Costa. It is a social network that enable users to ask questions through photos and videos. Shoot a picture and ask a question through selected communities and different social networks.

Projector35
Enrico Bernando presented an app that would enable cinemas and movie theaters to minimize numbers of empty-seats, and to sell add-ons for movie-goers. Consumers get up to 50 % off on movie theater tickets and concessions.

Stopandgo
A solution to public transport, providing users the accurate and timely information they need. Wherever you are, just launch StopanGo and quickly see the next departure for all public transport routes near you. Need directions? Just input where you’re headed and our trip planner will map out the quickest way to get there. Presented by Zac Coulder

Wallept
Loyalty cards the smart way through an POS solution. Wallept enables the user to store all loyalty cards and earn rewards through one system. Onur Kardesler did the presentation.

All pitches where filmed and we will add them to our TV section when they are online.

Want to know more? Trendsonline also has a nice write-up, as well as Arctic Startup and over at Startupbootcamp you can read more about the different startups.

Those of the startups that are listed on CrunchBase are in our startup list as well, the rest will be added as soon as they are on CrunchBase.

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