Hey all,
Lovely day with the family today and a relaxing two hour yoga on Saturday was the perfect recipe for a weekend. Now back to exploring new things, writing newsletters and work.
As always, happy to hear from you, let me know what I missed, what I can improve & what you’d like to read about!
Funding rounds
🇩🇰 Tryp.com raised 500k€ for their travel planning platform.
🇩🇰 CAPSULE raised 600k€ get inspired, create outfits and buy clothes all in one.
🇮🇸 Glaze raised 1m€ for a cloud-based solution to businesses in experience economy.
🇸🇪 MYSTiC GAMES raised 1.2m€ for their multiplayer games.
🇸🇪 Focalpay raised 1.3m€ to commerce platform merging payments & retail processes.
🇫🇮 CollectiveCrunch raised 1.4m€ for their sustainable forestry platform.
🇩🇰 Humani raised 2m€ to democratise personal development.
🇩🇰 PatentRenewals raised 2m€ to help users renew patents, follow costs etc.
🇱🇹 HeavyFinance raised 3m€ for their climate tech investment marketplace.
🇩🇰 Landfolk raised 3.8m€ for their service connecting travellers with homes.
🇸🇪 Klimato raised 4.2m€ for their carbon management software for the food industry.
🇫🇮 MVision AI raised 5.4m€ for their AI powered cancer treatment platform.
🇩🇰 QuadSAT raised 9m€ to make satellites more efficient.
🇸🇪 Blinto raised 10m€ for their online auction platform.
🇩🇰 Lun raised 10m€ to help heat-pump installers decarbonize homes.
🇫🇮 IPRally raised 10m€ for their patent search engine.
🇳🇴 Two raised 18m€ for their B2B buy now, pay later firm.
🇮🇸 CCP games raised 37m€ for their AAA game with blockchain technology.
Did I miss something - send me a note!
Quick Notes
Tesi (Finnish state-owned investment company) published their yearly diversity review on the Finnish PE & VC industry (the whole report here). There’s more data from VC & PE teams than just gender diversity in the report, but it’s nice to see slow but steady growth on there, still a lot of work to do but at least some positive signs.
The a16z marketplace 100 was published, ranking the largest consumer facing marketplace startups. Interesting insights in the report (whole thing here), if you don’t have the time / energy to read through the whole thing, here are the key takeaways:
An update to the Swedish Climate Action Startup Map was published - with a lot more interaction this time. Rather than just a picture, you can actually search for what you need - access the map here. There’s also a lot of data and other content on the site if you have time to explore.
Maybe you missed Slush last year, maybe you didn’t - regardless you can now pre-register to get access to tickets earlier than others here.
Arctic15 volunteer applications are open, if you’re interested you can apply here.
I’ve just had so much fun this week reading these. I’ll definitely try a similar trick some day when I’m bored :D
As a bonus this week, if there are other Birkenstock fans in my readers, I’ve got to share this cleaning guide - here. Haven’t done the spring clean to mine with this guide yet, but I’ll definitely do that!
All the best,
Josefiina