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Location: Denmark, Capital, Copenhagen

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Investment Type: Accelerator

Investment Stage: Series B

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Date	Name	Website	Total Raised	Location
06.11.2025	Motley	motley.ai	$1.5M	Switzerlan...
24.03.2021	Kostenlose...	kontist.com	$31.74M	Germany, B...

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12.11.2025	Grab Fuels Remote Driving Future With Vay Investment	Grab is investing $60 million in remote driving innovator Vay Technology. This strategic move positions Grab at the forefront of future hybrid mobility. Vay's teledriving delivers electric vehicles directly to customers. Grab envisions a mo...
12.11.2025	AI Transforms Business Reporting: Motley Secures $1.5 Million to Automate Insights	Motley launched an AI-powered platform. It automates business reporting tasks. The innovative Swiss startup secured $1.5 million in pre-seed funding. Seedcamp spearheaded this investment round. Motley's technology dramatically cuts report p...
11.11.2025	Uber-Konkurrent Grab investiert bis zu 410 Millionen in Vay	Im #DealMonitor für den 5. November werfen wir einen Blick auf die wichtigsten, spannendsten und interessantesten Investments und Exits des Tages in der DACH-Region. Alle Deals der Vortage gibt es im großen und übersichtlichen #DealMonitor-...
11.11.2025	Newly established Motley secures $1.5 million pre-seed funding	Founded by Egor Kraev (former Head of AI at Wise), Artemy Belousov (engineer at Yandex), and Yann Ranchere (ex-CFO and Partner at Anthemis), the Motley team has experienced firsthand how reporting drains time from high-value decision-maker...
06.11.2025	Motley raises $1.5M and launches AI business reporting platform	Swiss-based Motley has raised a $1.5 million pre-seed round and launched its business reporting platform. The round was led by Seedcamp, with participation from Tiny VC, Kima Ventures, RTP Global, Founders AS, and several angels. Motley is ...
26.08.2025	Danish startup Propane secures €1 million to develop AI-powered customer intelligence platform	Copenhagen-based Propane, a new entrant in the European AI scene, has announced a €1.2 million pre-Seed round as it sets out to build what it calls the “Operating System for Customer Intelligence”. The funding round attracted backing from E...
27.10.2022	Fintech All Gravy raises seed round of €3.2 million	Copenhagen-based fintech start-up All Gravy announced its raised a seed round of €3.2 million for its ‘people operating system’ for the retail and hospitality sectors. The seed round was led by Moonfire, Founders, Upfin and The Nordic Web V...
11.12.2021	Berlin-based Wonderwerk trains a new generation of remote-first sales teams with $2.5M seed funding	Wonderwerk has raised $2.5M seed funding to help sales teams enter the remote age with its data-driven sales training and performance tracking tools. Funding comes from new investor Sparkmind.vc* and startup studio Founders*, with particip...
24.03.2021	Berlin-based Kontist raises €25 million for its freelancer-focused neobank and tax services business	Earlier this month, we published an interview with Christopher Plantener, CEO and founder of Kontist, a fintech startup that combines banking for freelancers and the self-employed with tax advisory. Today, the Berlin-based neobank is announ...
19.09.2019	Subscription email app Tempo hits the right minimalist notes	Email will likely never die, but if new apps can change how we think about using it, maybe it will feel like the worst parts have croaked. In the wake of popular apps like Inbox and Mailbox being sunsetted, like many, I’ve been left rudderl...
14.05.2019	Danish fintech startup Pleo raises massive $56 million to boost its expansion in Europe	Danish fintech startup Pleo, born out of Copenhagen-based startup studio Founders, has closed a Series B round to the tune of $56 million, less than a year after raising $16 million. The round was led by by New York growth fund Stripes with...
20.09.2018	Danish startup Headlight raises €1 million for its personal development programme for professionals	Copenhagen-based startup Headlight, which offers three-month personal development programs in Copenhagen, Berlin, and Los Angeles, has secured a €1 million funding round from the Founders startup studio. Headlight positions itself as a busi...
01.05.2017	Tech.eu Podcast #76: report on Q1 2017 EU tech funding and exits, interviews with Blacklane and Founders, and more	The Tech.eu podcast is a show where Robin Wauters and Shaheen Samavati discuss some of the most interesting stories from the European technology scene. You can find the latest episode below.Subscribe to the podcast today and don’t miss new ...
15.09.2016	Pleo Closes $3M Seed Funding Round	Pleo, a London, UK- and Copenhagen, Denmark-based provider of a smart card that automates expense reports, closed a $3m seed funding round. The round was led by by Founders, a startup studio backed by Kirkbi A/S, Bestseller and William Dema...
10.06.2015	Embedded banking: Why the future of finance is in SaaS	Every day we read stories about how banks are being disrupted. While the jury is still out, it is difficult to imagine a future where financial services look unchanged from today. There are multiple reasons why banks are suddenly vulnerable...
10.06.2015	Embedded banking: Why the future of finance is in SaaS	We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! Every day we read stories about how banks are bei...
18.05.2015	The startup studio Founders will make a business-building formula	On Indiakaj in Copenhagen sits a small group of people rethinking entrepreneurship as we know it – they’re going to make an entrepreneurship formula. Identifying patterns and utilizing standardized processes The company factory Founders h...
25.01.2015	It’s a startup’s job to make the European dream come true	Europe is not doing well today. Most countries are either climbing their way out of recession or are suffering from anaemic growth, while unemployment, especially in the south of the region, has reached unsustainable levels. In these circum...
25.01.2015	It’s a startup’s job to make the European dream come true	We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! Europe is not doing well today. Most countries ar...
-	SMB expense management platform Pleo picks up $200 million, now at $4.7 billion valuation	Copenhagen-born, London-based Pleo, which provides SMBs with company expense management tools, namely via company cards, has picked up $200 million in a new funding round. The new capital will be used to further the company’s expansion effo...
-	Measuring the impact of training on remote-first sales teams, Berlin’s Wonderwerk raises $2.5 million	Berlin-based Wonderwerk has raised $2.5 million in a seed funding round. Timely, indeed, as it would appear that we’re all being sent home again, the startup provides data-driven sales training services for remote sales teams. The new capit...

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