It may be the shortest month of the year but there was still plenty of action for us to catch up on. Here’s our curation of the investments, exits and top stories from the Nordic startup scene in February.
Investments
Denmark
Peakon raises $22 million for its people analytics software tools
Online wine marketplace Vivino raises $20 million in Series C funding
Templafy announces $17.2 million Series B led by Insight Venture Partners
NORD.Investments has raised 5MDKK
Startup Guide World has raised 2MDKK
Spiio has taken in investment from byFounders
Yourpay raises a double-digit DKK amount
SalamPlanet has raised investment from Promentum Equity Partners
GoLearn has taken in angel investment
Finland
Games studio Small Giant raises $41 million in fresh fundin
TactoTek, Europe’s leader in injection molded structural electronics, secures $23 million to accelerate growth
Zervant raises €6 million for its online invoicing software
Thirdpresence has raised $2.4 million
Blok has raised 1.6 million euros
Hostaway bags 700,000 euros for rental software
Carbo Culture raises €550,000 for its tech that creates biochar from food waste
Cerenion secures EUR 500k from Butterfly Ventures and Icebreaker.vc
Skipperi has raised 2.3MSEK
Gaming studio Haruworks has raised investment
Valpas has taken in investment from Icebreaker.vc
Iceland
Florealis closes $3.8m funding round led by NSA Ventures
Norway
Unacast has raised $17.5 million
Boost AI has raised 40MNOK from Alliance Ventures
FinTech startup BankBridge has raised 17.8MNOK
Husleie.no collects NOK 15 million from Gustav Witzøe
Geddit has taken in a further 6MNOK
Ownersroom has raised 5MNOK
Skiwo, a digital interpretation product has raised 2.9MNOK
Instapoll has raised 2MNOK
Aristeia won Angel Challenge and 1MNOK in investment
24SevenFinans has taken in investment as part of a partnership with Collector
Convertelligence has raised investment from Erik Must
Bilagos has taken in investment by selling 33% of the company
Sweden
Mixmax raises $10.35 million to make email better for businesses
Fintech startup Anyfin raises €4.8 million for loan refinancing app
Recruitment startup Sqore has raised 32MSEK from Northzone
Transfer Galaxy raises a further 30MSEK
Fidesmo has raised 24MSEK more
Virkesbörsen grabs $1.3M from Backing Minds to further develop a digital marketplace for buying and selling wood in Sweden
Horsemeup raises 11MSEK
Stabelo has raised 10MSEK more
Gårdsfisk secures SEK 10M to expand its fish farming capacities
IOT startup Skyresponse has raised 9.2MSEK
Evam System raises €600k for a vehicle-to-vehicle emergency communication system, expects to launch in 2018
Imagimob adds €500k in funding to further grow its real time Edge AI business
Medicheck has raised 4MSEK more
Ingrid (formerly Shipwallet) has raised 2.4MSEK
Picture My Life secures SEK 2M in investment from Add Health Media
Learnster gets investment from Söderberg & Partners for a SAAS platform for education
Nutrient gets funded by KTH for a plant and insect-based food alternative
Exits
Denmark
Happy Helper is set to go public
Merus Audio has been acquired by Infineon
Talent Garden acquired 51 percent of Rainmaking Loft
Finland
Gaming studio Tribeflame is acquired by Animoca Brands in a €350k transaction
Pivot5 joins Industryhack to build global community of solvers
Norway
Get has acquired a majority stake in Futurehome
Infomedia purchases Opoint Technology from Finnish M-Brain, adds web-crawling technology for its digital products
Sweden
Vobling acquires its competitor, RayVR, strengthens its AR and VR capabilities
Mathem acquires Fruktbudet on an all-shares deal
Top Stories
Swedish government backs Northvolt battery plant to tune of €15m
Slush has a new CEO and President
Supercell 2017 results: $810 million in profit, $2 billion in revenue — without a new game
The Creators Community has opened Matrikel1 to house creative entrepreneurs
Lifesum has reached 25 million users
StartupDocs has launched in Denmark
Kahoot! has a new CEO
Spotify files to go public
Report: iZettle will go public before the summer