Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Denmark’s startup scene heats up. Here are 5 companies to watch

Denmark’s startup scene heats up. Here are 5 companies to watch

A couple of weeks ago CNN Money wrote an article on seven cities they thought would be thriving as startup hubs in the future. On this list was the capital of Denmark Copenhagen.

And there is a lot of promising potential in Copenhagen.Besides some groundbreaking technical developments such as Ruby on Rails, which was made by Dane David Heinemeier Hansson, C++ made by Bjarne Stroustrup, PHP by Rasmus Lerdorf and partially Danish Skype, co-working spaces such as Founders House are starting to appear.

Foursquare co-founder Naveen Selvadurai at Founders House, Copenhagen

That the first cycle of Startupbootcamp was in Copenhagen in 2010 also shows that someone thinks there is potential in the ecosystem in Denmark. Applications are now open for the third round of the accelerator, which is... [via VentureBeat]