byFounders

17/02/2021

We use social media to share relevant and valuable insights with you and connect with our community, but as we went down the rabbit hole of analysis we quickly realized that those goals aren’t met on here. Why? Because, to put it bluntly, Facebook is for 👵 and we’re all hanging out on LinkedIn, Twitter, and IG anyway.

Agree? Good, then, come join us there instead. 🤞

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/byfounders/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/byFounders
IG: https://www.instagram.com/byfounders/

09/11/2020

Our team is growing - join us in giving a warm welcome to our newest team member - Caroline Frantl Larsson! 👋

Caroline will be sharing the stories and perspectives from the byFounders Collective and our portfolio companies, with you!

Having spent the last three years in London, where she executed impactful marketing and PR campaigns for Nordic startups, she's familiar with our community already and looks forward to elevating the many unique stories we want to tell!

Say hello 🙋‍♀️:

We’re thrilled to welcome Caroline Frantl-Larsson to our team to elevate our community’s voices.

21/10/2020

Pernille Hippe Brun, byFounders Collective member wrote a fantastic book about how the Nordic countries have fostered world-class businesses, through unique ideas, leadership, organisation and businesses looking beyond profit to matters that relate to people and the planet.

On the move - Lessons for the Future from Nordic Leaders has been mentioned in the October 2020 issue of the Danish Magazine Penge & Privatøkonomi as worth a read.

You can buy the book online (link below) or in your local bookstore!

https://www.amazon.com/Move-Lessons-Future-Nordic-Leaders-ebook/dp/B07N2JXX4C

15/10/2020

🍒 Looking for freelance designers 🍒

We’re about to embark on a visual brand refresh and are looking for a designer interested in joining us for the next few months in our Copenhagen office.

Ideally, you understand our industry and have been through similar processes before. We'd love it if you're also proficient in Webflow and PowerPoint.

Interested? Follow the link and give us your details! We'll reach out if there's a match. ✌️

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12/10/2020

Henrik has been supporting our investment process with Garden from the very early stages when we started looking into the opportunity.

"I love infrastructure software so I was intrigued by Garden, and I've been coaching them along the way and helping them get to the point of finding the elusive product-market fit".

Henrik Rosendahl is a serial enterprise software entrepreneur with four successful exits under his belt, including Akanda Inc and CloudVolumes.

10/10/2020

Are you a founder and thinking about hiring international talent?

The world is getting increasingly connected and an ever-rising number of companies are not limiting themselves to local talent, but are reaching out to the incredibly qualified global talent pool.

In this episode of SafetyWing's podcast 'Building Remotely', Sondre Rasch Co-founder & CEO at SafetyWing talks to Matt Drozdzynski from Pilot, a platform that allows distributed teams to hire and pay employees anywhere in the world.

Together they explore the new possibilities, challenges and benefits of hiring a (remote) team internationally, honing in on the following topics:

- The main differences in hiring locally and internationally

- The challenge of finding and onboarding international talent

- The most efficient way of starting, and ending a contract online

- Why you should hire internationally as a company

Grab your device, plug-in and start listening!

The world is getting increasingly connected and an ever-rising number of companies are not limiting themselves to local talent, but are reaching out to the i...

09/10/2020

Up to 70% of Danish patients do not feel that the pharmaceutical industry listens to them about their medicine, and have a distrust towards the industry.

DrugStars is disrupting the relationship between patient and the pharmaceutical industry through their latest launch of DrugsDisclosed.com – a Trustpilot model for medicine. The free service allows patients and the general public to record their experiences of their medication.

It currently contains 55 million data points about patients' experiences and thus becomes "a goldmine of knowledge" - Claus Møldrup, DrugStars founder and former professor of social pharmacy at the University of Copenhagen.

Airfinity, DrugStars og Radiobotics er tre meget forskellige virksomheder. Alle tre har haft kæmpe succes i kraft af COVID-19 og rider på en bølge af [...]

06/10/2020

We're expanding our team - welcome, Sebastian!

Sebastian will be the first point of contact for many founders, as he'll be focusing on the initial stages of the investment process. Sourcing and screening new opportunities, he'll support the team on competitive dynamics and emerging trends.

With a background from DN Capital and Global Founders Capital, his primary interests lie within consumer-focused businesses and marketplaces. He’ll be looking further into topics like the Passion Economy, Business-in-a-Box Platforms, and Vertical Social Networks.

Get to know Sebastian ⬇️

We are delighted to introduce the latest addition to our team: Sebastian Johansson!

04/10/2020

We're bolstering our position in the Swedish tech ecosystem by welcoming to our Collective co-founder and former CEO & COO of KRY, now founder & CEO of MANTLE, Josefin Landgård!

"Having made the journeys I have, both as a founder/operator and athlete gives me a unique perspective on how to go for your dreams"

Welcome, Josefin 🙌 🤩

Co-founder and former CEO & COO of KRY, now founder and CEO of MANTLE joins the byFounders Collective.

02/10/2020

"Based on my experience, I'm really excited to be able to advise and give back to the community here in the Nordics to companies who are trying to figure out how to make it on the world stage" - Robin Daniels, byFounders Collective member

Robin recently moved back from San Francisco to Copenhagen, and is now the CMO of Matterport. We are excited to be able to work in close proximity with him, as he continues to support our portfolio companies particularly within growth marketing, go to market sales and branding.