DN Capital, a London based Pan-European investor, just released a cool presentation titled “Europe has never been better”. It names some of the global leaders that came out of Europe (Skype, Rovio, Bigpoint, Spotify, Vente-Privee…) and lists the reasons that make Europe “so successful”. I really like the presentation – and the fact that DN Capital copied my version of the Seedcamp Berlin logo (shown on page 16 and here). 
The Kraków based seed investor Innovation Nest has just signed an investment agreement with UXPin.
The Polish startup UXPin creates tools for User Experience professionals aimed at supporting their work in the area of prototyping and product development. UXPin offers paper design notebooks (for web and mobile apps) and an online application offered to customers in a SaaS model, allowing for mock-ups design of interfaces.
The fresh capital will be used by the UXPin team to speed up the development of the online application and offer new features soon. The investment of Continue reading →
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A Croatian startup just closed a Series A funding round and raising $1.4 million from Lee Hower of NextView Ventures and Jeff Clavier of SoftTech VC. It is Farmeron, which offers farmers an easier way to track performance of their farms, in a gorgeous cloud-based ERP system. Find out more about Formeron on GoalEurope.
This Week in Startups is back in Berlin and London. The event on June 8 will this time feature three German startups pitted against three in London. A jury will choose the finalists from a Continue reading →
We recently had the chance to interview Mette Lykke, the Co-Founder of the successful Danish startup Endomondo.
Endomondo’s apps help you to keep track of your sports activities and follow or even challenge your friends live while you are working out. The Copenhagen based startup was founded at the end of 2007 by Jakob Jønck, Mette Lykke and Christian Birk. Today, Endomondo has over 8.5 million users with exponential growth. Last month, the promising Danish startup announced the launch of a new Facebook timeline app. Enjoy the interview:
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PastBook is an online platform that collects all your social network memories and puts them in a tangible way. You can already order the book itself or a poster representing your digital social content.
Back in the days, families used to gather all together and go through the photo albums of their past. Who doesn’t remember the moments of seeing their parents’ pictures from their youth? Or even your grandparents? Those moments Continue reading →
On Monday, I attended the awesome first edition of the Heureka! conference in Berlin. The one-day conference was a co-hosted event by Gruenderszene.de (a leading German blog about Internet startups) and VentureVillage.eu.
The event was held in a nice location - Energieforum, Berlin – and packed full of talks, discussion, networking opportunities and even – an outdoor BBQ. Aside of the interesting program, the Heureka! turned out to be a perfect event to meet and chat with countless superstars out of the (mostly) German Internet industry. Once again, I found out that I don’t enjoy networking that much – but that’s my own problem. 
The Heureka! conference offered its over 500 attendees the chance to grab a beer with guys like Dr. Stefan Glänzer (Passion Capital), Lukasz Gadowski Continue reading →
Silk, a web application that lets users create information in a structured way, launched in open beta today. The first time we introduced you to this promising Dutch startup was when Silk got elected as the winner of TheNextWeb Startup Rally in April 2011. About a month later, the young company completed a €320,000 funding round led by Atomico. Silk’s team, which is based in Amsterdam, grew from 4 to 11 people between May 2011 and 2012.
The just released open beta version enables everyone to create their own Silk site. A Silk site is a website that can be understood by both humans and Continue reading →
There are so many interesting stories out there and unfortunately we don’t have the time to cover all of them. With our section “Worth reading” we provide you (once in a while) with some links to interesting articles of other publications:
Fruugo is shutting down its office in Helsinki. ArcticStartup had a discussion with Fruugo’s CEO about the transition from Finland to England. During the height of the e-commerce startup, Fruugo employed some 150 people. Today, as the company is shutting down its Helsinki office, the move affects less than 10 people.
Rocket Internet – the incubator of the Samwer brothers – is netting $200 million from US billionaire Len Blavatnik’s Access Industries, industry sources report. In terms of direct investment, that sum would place Access Industries second behind Swedish investment Continue reading →
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Why join the navy if you can be a pirate? This 80’s Steve Jobs’ quote is the Startup Pirates motto. We are pretty aware of all the hurdles and traps of being an entrepreneur. So is this crew of five pirates who combined the immersion event oriented spirit of Startup Weekend and the mentor and training focus of Startup Bootcamp. The result? A one week learning, doing and having fun experience for entrepreneurs, maybe near you.
The crew wants to bring together entrepreneurs, changemakers and young wannabe entrepreneurs to inspire, influence, learn from each other and Continue reading →
Today, we had the chance to interview Sebastiano Bertani, the Co-Founder and CEO of Tanaza.
Tanaza is a Milan based startup that provides a centralized (cloud-based) service to manage WiFi Access Points, without any expensive dedicated hardware controller. The young company, which was founded in 2011, aims to provide its customers (IT managers / Small Businesses) with enterprise level performance, at a fraction of the cost.
Enjoy the interview and also make sure to watch the informative video about Tanaza below this article.
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