Contractbook, the Danish platform for end-to-end contract management, raised €3.5 million in funding, led by Gradient Ventures (Google’s AI fund), byFounders, and a group of angel investors, including Tim Schumacher. The legal tech startup plans to add even more flexibility and functionality to its product, so that it’s best positioned to take over an ever-ripening […]
CoachHub, the Berlin-based digital coaching platform, has announced a €10 million round from existing investors HV Holtzbrinck Ventures, Partech, and Speedinvest, plus new investor RTP Global. The news comes just three months after its inaugural €6 million fundraise. Dubbing itself a “mobile coaching cloud,” the startup democratises professional coaching, taking services usually reserved for top […]
Angular Ventures, a VC firm that’s been silently operating across Tel Aviv, London, and New York, has announced the closing of its debut fund, $41 million for early-stage deep tech enterprise companies growing from Europe or Israel. The firm reports its first-ever fund was oversubscribed by 64 percent, exclusively from commercial LPs who are interested […]
Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) has announced it will expand to Copenhagen, attracted by Denmark’s growing talent pool and the strength of the entrepreneurial ecosystem in the Nordics. SVB hopes to fuel high-growth Danish companies by connecting them with its extensive, global funding network. It will not perform any banking business in the country. Though the […]
Concentric was founded by Kjartan Rist and Denis Shafranik in 2013. The firm invests across many different industries, looking for the best opportunities that use technology to drive efficiency and empower consumers. Concentric views investment as a partnership, and the team endeavors to challenge paradigms of venture capital firms that rely too heavily on management […]
Three entrepreneurs in Finland have launched 52nd Ventures, the first Nordic venture builder, to cultivate the Finnish startup ecosystem and strengthen economic prospects for companies, employees, and the country as a whole. Taneli Tikka, Mikko Riikkinen, and Stefano Mosconi all have a sober but aspirational outlook on the state of tech in Finland. Simply put, […]
This week, Andrii Degeler and Natalie Novick discuss the fresh funding round of Unbabel and the gig economy in general, new tech-related documents leaked from the European Commission, cap table issues in the Nordics and beyond, the mystery of Cachette Capital, and more. The featured interview of the day is a conversation with Carly Kind, director of the Ada Lovelace Institute.