“This is the breakthrough we’ve been waiting for,” says Charlotta Tönsgård, former CEO and current board representative of Zimpl.

The company could do with some good news: in late February, Zimpl was forced into bankruptcy after failing investment rounds. The company was founded by, among others, Sven Ekström in 2010. Tönsgård left the company following the bankruptcy, but has since invested in the company and taken a seat on the board. Since the firm’s misfortune, Sven Ekström has bought the company and successfully pioneered the development of a new app.

A Simple but Brilliant Idea

Zimpl’s technology allows for faster and easier input of text in mobile phones and tablet computers. Their keyboard has existed as an app on Google Play since last autumn.  This unique keyboards designed for Androids learns from its user, adapts to it and becomes ‘an extension’ of them: technology catered to the individual. Each word you type adds to the keyboard’s intelligence and knowledge of who you are and what you want to say.

Zimpl’s next leap forward is launching a new keyboard using their technology in the BBM Shop.

“Zimpl is all about productivity and communicating with ease; values we believe to share with many BBM users”, says Tönsgård. “Cutting through all the noise on the app market is a big challenge for start-ups like Zimpl as well as for the end-user. A store with carefully curated content, like the one offered by BBM, is a great way to address this problem”.

The keyboard was released on the down low in the Indonesian BBM market last week and has been well received by the users there, who have rated the app highly. The keyboard is free for a 30 day trial,  after which a fee is required.

“Of course this means a lot financially, there are several hundred million BBM users. Blackberry and BBM is very much about communicating and writing should match well with Zimpl.”

Zimpl has now been released in the US as well as in Indonesia, and Tönsgård has recognized several interesting markets opening across the world.

Read more at Sydsvenskan.

Read the entire post here: Zimpl collaborates with Blackberry

On stage will be some very intersting people and ‘fallen heroes‘:

• Hampus Jakobsson, business angel deluxe
• Tomer Shalit from Nordic River,
• Peter V. Therkildsen Schlegel from Admazely (whos story we covered recently)
• Charlotta Tönsgård from Zimpl

The Panel Discussion will start at 15:00 followed by the normal group Q&A.

After the event you will have the chance to grab a few beers and meet other Startups!

Where: MINC, Anckargripsgatan 3, 211 19 Malmö
When: Thursday 13th March, 15:00 – 16.30
Official Event: On Facebook

See you there!

Read the entire post here: Startup Tools of the Trade: Post-Mortem & Lessons Learned

Mobile Gala is an event when the year’s most successful Swedish mobile businesses and innovators praised in connection with a major industry party in Stockholm. According to the nominations announced on Monday, some companies from Skåne are listed in several major categories.

Zimpl is one of the four nominees of the category “Innovation of the Year”. The company, which was founded in Lund in 2010, uses a patented technology to make it easier to enter text on mobile phones and computers. This fall, the company has moved its office to Malmö.

Mobile payment has been a hot issue throughout the year and in the category “Mobile Payment of the Year”, Malmö company Mobill, is listed as one of the five nominated companies. The company is including the technology behind the mobile operators’ payment service, WyWallet. The finesse with Mobill’s technology is that it brings together merchants and consumers in the mobile networks, whether by an app on a smart phone, or in the case of SMS payments.

App company Fivestarday from Malmö is one of the five nominees in the category “Best Mobile Marketing of the Year”. Nominations for the campaign Lifebuoy hunt took place in cooperation with Trygg-Hansa.

Malmö company Foap, which has created a picture app for individuals who want to sell mobile photos to businesses, has been nominated in the category “Best Business Service of the Year”. A total of five companies are nominated in this category, but the title of “Best gold mobile of the Year” can just belong to one company.

Mobile Gala is arranged by newspaper companies Tidningen Mobil and Mobil:Business.

Previous Mobile Gala winners which come from the Öresund region, include Lund company Doro and Malmö company TAT .

It will be interesting to find out the final winners and see if any of the companies from the Öresund region can win the top honor. Thus we will continue to follow up with the Mobile Gala final competition in Stockholm in early November.

Click here for the original news from Sydsvenskan (in Swedish).

When: Early November, 2013
Where: Stockholm

Read the entire post here: Digital and Technology: Skåne Companies are nominated for top honors at Swedish Mobile Gala