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I SamData Magasinet nr. 1 – 2012 har Ernst Poulsen interviewet mig om det QuantifiedSelf netværk, som er ved at blive etableret i Danmark, og som jeg tidligere har blogget om. Jeg er kun en af flere initiativtagere, og vi er desværre endnu ikke kommet så langt, at der er etableret en mere formel skal for initiativet.
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On 5 January 2012 it was announced that the owners of SmartGuy A/S, Christian Kusk, Poul Kusk and Nicolai Kjærgaard via their holding companies had acquired a number of shares in SCF Technologies A/S totalling two thirds of the outstanding capital and its correlated voting rights.
The shares in SCF Technologies A/S have been acquired by the owners of SmartGuy A/S through a directed capital emission of 5,437,794 new shares in SCF Technologies A/S at a total price of app DKK 11m.
SmartGuy was founded in 2000 by Christian Kusk, Nicolai Kjærgaard, Jens Dalsgaard and Poul Kusk. The company offers fashion clothing for sales via the Internet and is today one of Northern Europe’s leading online fashion clothing shops. For the financial year 2010/2011 SmartGuy has seen a growth in its activity and its turnover has increased to DKK 237m which is a growth of app 21 percent compared to the previous financial year.
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On 2 January 2012 it was announced that KMD, the largest Danish IT firm, had acquired Itella Information A/S which is a part of the Finnish Itella group.
KMD with an annual turnover at about DKK 4b and more than 3,000 employees is owned by a private equity fund EQT and Danish public pension fund, ATP and develops and supplies software and service solutions to Danish municipalities, government and businesses. Itella Information A/S supplies services as e-invoices, EDI, workflow systems, scanning, print, physical and electronic archiving.
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On 24 November 2011 it was announced that Sproom ApS, a Danish invoice portal designed to give businesses and organisations an easy, user-friendly and inexpensive way to send-and-receive electronic invoices and orders, had received DKK 3m in funding from Accelerace Invest K/S. Accelerace Invest is a Danish limited partnership that has among its limited partners Vækstfonden. Accelerace Invest K/S, in contrast to its name, does not invest in equity of its portfolio companies but offers financial loans at attractive terms for selected companies that have completed the Accelerace programme. The loans are targeted-proof–of-business, breakeven, etc., which can bring the funded company closer to a large investment round.
Sproom is a portal that gives companies one site shopping for exchanging electronic business documents such as orders, invoices, reminders, etc. Just as its Danish and much more visible and more international competitor, Tradeshift, Sproom’s mission is to revolutionise e-commerce and create a global business network that eliminates barriers to send and receive business data electronically.
Sproom was founded by Steen Haustrup, the current CEO, and has as a seed investor, the Danish VC firm Seed Capital.
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Danish tech startup, ViewWorld ApS was founded in September 2010 by, among others, Christian Friis Bach. The company has developed a smartphone application that helps to ensure that users of smartphones deployed by NGOs and other organisations can speedily, credibly and efficiently communicate and report their findings in the field. ViewWorld provides workflow-based handling of the reported information on report and templates hosted by ViewWorld and delivered to its customers.
Among ViewWorld’s customers are the Danish Red Cross, Care Denmark, International Media Support, Rockwool Fonden and Danish Church Aid.
On 14 December 2011, a group of new investors, among these Development Invest ApS (Thomas Augustinus and others), Tana Copenhagen (Erik Bryld and Finn Skadkær Pedersen), Niels Dabelstein and existing investors, among these Junge & Co (David Junge) agreed to provide further funding for ViewWorld to develop and grow its services and products. The new investors who all have extensive expertise and network within the area that ViewWorld works in, will actively participate on ViewWorld’s board.
As part of his appointment as Minister for Development Cooperation, the founder and CEO Christian Friis Bach has stepped down from all positions in ViewWorld and is now no longer a shareholder. As interim CEO, Rune Bech Persson has taken the position as interim CEO until a new CEO has been appointed.
(Disclosure: I am an early seed investor of ViewWorld ApS, chairman of the board and Bender von Haller Dragsted provides legal services to the company).
