“By joining forces with Akamai, we believe our joint customers will benefit from unsurpassed quality and reach,” said Michael Koehn, CEO of Octoshape.

“The Octoshape team is proud of the technology it has built over the years, and looks forward to evolving that technology to the next level with Akamai.”

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is an american cloud services provider headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Akamai’s content delivery network is one of the world’s largest distributed computing platforms. The company is listed at Nasdaq, and specialises in web performance, mobile performance, cloud security and media delivery solutions. It is sees in Octoshape an advanced service that can take the move to high definition content such as broadband TV into the future.

“We are working to continue to extend our platform to accommodate video throughput increases that come from the adoption of 4K, and to support a potential 100-1000X increase in network traffic in the future.” says Tom Leighton, CEO of Akamai.

“As more video gets consumed over the Internet, and on devices that can display higher-quality resolution, it is important for us to develop new ways to acquire, transform and distribute the highest-quality media for broadcast-size audiences.”

Northcap has been the initial investor in Octoshape. Thomas Weilby Knudsen, General Partner at Northcap, commented the deal:

”It is a great pleasure to see a small Nordic technology innovator enable new consumer behavior and become a global player in the rapidly growing over-the-top video streaming market. We at Northcap are very happy that Octoshapes team and technology has found its natural place to develop to the next stage.”

The terms of the deal have not been disclosed, but it is an all-cash deal.

Read the entire post here: Octoshape acquired by Akamai

“Achieving a sustained 100% growth year over year is a significant accomplishment” said Michael Koehn Milland, CEO of Octoshape

The success has come from multiple services and a focus on the right things:

TV Quality: Octoshape has realized that consumers of HD Devices are turned off by the quality of web streaming. Hence, they invented Octoshape which provides users with the best quality possible over broadband or mobile networks.

TV Economics: Before Octoshape, video streaming was charged per Gigabyte; however, Octoshape offers the first “flatrate” on streaming. As a result of their new Multicast technology, businesses can actually estimate the expenses.

TV scale: Usually 20-50 million people are a TV size that can be online at once; nevertheless, CDN servers already struggle with 10 million viewers. Through Octoshape the audience size can be bigger because they deliver the disruptive offering to solve that problem.

Broadcasters such as CNN and CBS are already using Octoshape. Additionally, Octoshape has also live-streamed sports events, for example the NBA.

“It is the leader in high-quality, large scale, and cost effective Internet media delivery.” Octoshape

There is an increasing demand for Octoshape, it has become a de-facto choice for the delivery of OTT/broadband TV content. Øresund Startup News says Congratulations and keep up the amazing work!

Read the entire post here: Octoshape reaches over 100 million users globally!

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

• Codesealers
• Falcon Social
• FlatFrog Laboratories
• iMotions
• Neo technology (Neo4J)
• Octoshape
• Opbeat
• Serstech
• SimpleSite (123hjemmeside)
• Tradeshift
• Trustpilot
• Unity
• Vopium

Seed level

B2C

• Bownty
• Click-A-Taxi
• Coolstuff
• Flattr
• Foap
• Tasspass
• Retevo (Roliga Prylar / Alphageek)

B2B

• Anyfi
• Atosho
• Conferize
• Crunchfish
• Deskwolf
• Dexplora (GetSalesDone and brisk.io)
• Firmafon
• GameAnalytics
• Graduateland
• InRiver
• Insurance Business Applications
• OneRecruit
• Sepior
• The Eye Tribe
• Wallmob
• Zaplox

Other prominent startups

• 23
• Echo.it
• Kvittar
• MovieStarPlanet
• Momondo
• Planeto
• Riidr
• Zendesk

Read the entire post here: Øresund Startups: Top50 and state of the region