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Here are the 5 hottest startups in Denmark

The Next Web

Now Denmark is also one of the most exciting startup scenes in Europe and is home to more than 400 tech companies that do everything from analytics and big data to gaming, cloud, fintech, and apps. In fact, this year Denmark reached 6th place on the 2018 Global Entrepreneurship Index, beating out its Nordic neighbors.

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Global philanthropy responds to the Ukraine crisis

Candid

The United States, United Kingdom, Denmark, the Netherlands, Germany, and Japan account for 91% of total grant funding for Ukraine to date. The United States accounts for 54% of total grants and dollar value, followed by the United Kingdom, Denmark, and the Netherlands, which together account for 15% of grants and 26% of total dollar value.

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Pivoting from offline into virtual events for enterprises nets Tame a $5.5M seed round

TechCrunch

million, a large round for its native Denmark, led by VF Venture (The Danish Growth Fund), along with byFounders and three leading angels: Mikkel Lomholt (CTO and co-founder, Planday); Sune Alstrup (Ex-CEO and co-founder, The Eye Tribe); and Ulrik Lehrskov Schmidt. The result is that it has now raised a seed round of $5.5

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My remarks just made at WIPO today

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We now have global permissions for around 8,000 copyrighted books out of our 70,000. • Most publishers don’t say yes or no.

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TAACCCT Grantee Focus Group / Reception

VisionLink

At the core, this initiative is about shifting a community college system that successfully provides open access to further education, to one that is even more aligned with the needs of the labor market, and the courses and credentials that lead to good jobs and careers in this increasingly global economy.

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Agreena, a regenerative farming carbon market, raises $4.7M seed from Giant Ventures

TechCrunch

Agriculture has deep roots in Denmark, a historically proud farming nation, which is why the company was born here, but we are scaling across Europe and intend to expand globally.” Simon Haldrup, Agreena CEO, said: “Our team consists of 30 professionals including carbon scientists, software developers, and commercial growth hackers.

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Quantum Machines acquires QDevil to build out its full-stack quantum orchestration platform

TechCrunch

Together we will continue to further develop the quantum community in Denmark and deliver revolutionary technologies that will make it seamless for companies developing quantum computers to realize the potential of their QPUs.” “It’s really all of that. . “It’s really all of that.