Ugly Duckling Ventures

TechBBQ was 🔥 Amazing to spend time with friends, portfolio founders and future partners! See you next year 🙌

TechBBQ was 🔥 Amazing to spend time with friends, portfolio founders and future partners! See you next year 🙌

🚀 I'm looking for new team members to join our sales department at Moxso🏄🏽♂️ The hire is for October/Nov, so it's a good time to apply, we will have interviews in September and October 🤘🏽 If you know the right person, please send them our way 💜 We look forward to seeing which amazing talent will be part of our team! Job-post is in the comment section.

⏱ secure time at TechBBQ with my founder & CCO Adam, see the link below ⬇ (My calendar is almost fully booked 🏃♂️) Eupry has successfully scaled to 🇺🇲 and we are doubling down on our traction, with an inbound-driven B2BSaaS business to the ever-booming 🚀 pharmaceutical industry. You can find Adams calendar here on Brella: https://lnkd.in/dCsaaSmt See you at TechBBQ 👋 Ugly Duckling Ventures Danmarks Eksport- og Investeringsfond Sagitta Family Office

Scaling a company requires many things, but above all, it’s about surrounding yourself with talented and experienced people at every level. TechBBQ is that time of year when great talent and expertise in the Nordic startup ecosystem come together to forge new relationships and reignite existing ones 🤝 Finding the right people among the thousands joining for your stage of growth, or investment thesis is no easy task. Lab08’s AI-powered matching tool, Vicinity, is one solution (check your emails from TechBBQ for info and access). While the potential of AI is mind-blowing, some ways of meeting new people will never be disrupted 🎤 This belief is shared by our good friends in the startup ecosystem - Mashup, Bobbie & Beastie, and Ugly Duckling Ventures. If you’re attending TechBBQ, check your inbox for an invitation to our Secret Karaoke Club on Wednesday at 18:00 at Onomondo's HQ. We're close to our full capacity, but send me a message if you would like to join 😀 Other great side events at TechBBQ to keep in mind: 🍻 PSV's Garden Party 14:30 to 16:30 on both days at the TechBBQ venue 💃 🕺 byFounders's Party: https://lnkd.in/dQAZt4Ur

What an incredible week at International Legal Technology Association (ILTA)'s ILTACON 2024! 🎉 From mind-blowing tech demos to insightful conversations (and of course Nashville Hot Chicken 🇺🇸) for anyone passionate about the future of law - the energy was high and the people absolutely amazing! A huge shoutout to everyone who visited our booth, shared ideas, and sparked new possibilities - and of course our friends from Denmark, Document Drafter and AskCody. If we didn’t get a chance to connect at the event or at the iManage roof-top event, let's not miss out - reach out, and let's keep the conversation going! #ILTACON2024 #LegalTech #Innovation

I recently spoke to Bootstrapping.dk about my new roles as GP at Ugly Duckling Ventures and Chair of the Board at the Fonden for Entreprenørskab sharing my thoughts on how to best navigate as a smaller VC in Denmark. The article is featured as "Investor of the Week." Link to article in the comment section below 👇 #bootstrapping #uglyducklingventures #venturecapital #startups #fondenforentreprenørskab

📰 Great to see Ugly Duckling Ventures' own Louise Lachmann featured in the 'Weekly Investor' ('Ugens Investor') profile feature in Danish startup media, Bootstrapping.dk today 🤩 The profile feature touches upon; 💪 The challenge of positioning oneself as a smaller venture fund in the current high-interest landscape 💰 The fundraise of our Fund II 🎯 Why we have decided to narrow our investment focus to B2B Subscription, and the benefits of having a concentrated portfolio model with a strong follow-up thesis 🙋♀️🙋♂️ 📈 Learnings from, and development in, Fund I, including recent positive markups in portfolio companies such as Eupry, Unioo, and YOGO.DK 👩⚖️ Louise's recent elevation to chair at Fonden for Entreprenørskab, and her focus on strengthening entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial culture Link to the article in the comment section below 👇 #uglyducklingventures #bootstrapping #venturecapital #startups #vc #vcfundraise #portfolio #b2b #saas

📣 NEW INVESTMENT! 🤩 We're happy to announce that we have invested in Danish cybersecurity startup Moxso, headed up by the two brilliant founders Rune Boye Knudsen and Mikkel Lindblom. 💰 We're co-leading a €1.5m round together with D2 Fund and are happy to be joined by Jens Karstoft on an angel ticket. 👨💻 🔐 Moxso provides a technical platform that helps organizations build a strong security culture. Moxso teaches employees 👩💼👨💼 how to identify and report phishing, minimize cyber risk through awareness training, and react to data breaches. 📈 Moxso is experiencing solid double-digit monthly growth and are preparing to enter new markets 🇸🇪 🇳🇴 📰 From today's article in ITWatch; Andreas Green Rasmussen from Ugly Duckling Ventures says (translated); "You don't have to read a lot of news to know that cybersecurity is a very big pull in the market and that training is in great demand. We believe that it is an opportune time when the market has not consolidated and the best product and the strongest commercial engine have the opportunity to go abroad. We have followed the founder team over the last year and waited for the perfect moment, when the business started to show real traction. We belive that moment is now." Andreas Green Rasmussen will take a seat on the board for UDV. Link to the article in the comment section below 👇 #fundingnews #vcfunding #cybersecurity #informationsecurity #cyberattack #saas #startupfunding

📢 We are happy to be co-leading a 6mDKK / €800k round in our portfolio company, Unioo 👩💼👨💼, together with Compounding Capital (ApS) to further accelerate growth in new and current markets 🇪🇺 🇩🇰 🙋♂️ As part of the round, Kasper Grundtvig Knokgaard from Compounding Capital takes a seat on the Unioo board. He joins existing board member Rune Hven-Jensen from Ugly Duckling Ventures. Also participating in the round is Simon L.. Having been active investors in, and on the board of, Unioo for more than a year it has been a pleasure to witness Martin, Mads, and the rest of the Unioo team 👩💼👨💼 continue to expand their product offering, and land new partnerships with an impressive list of Danish banks 🏦, and their non-profit association customers 🤾♀️ 🏡 🤩 Unioo is growing fast, and recently passed 24 Danish banks and 35.000 signed associations with an even stronger ‘hot pipeline’ 🔥 📈 🧑🔧 Unioo is looking to hire an “Operational CFO” and several senior software developers 👩💻👨💻 – Link to the job descriptions in the comment field below 👇 📰 From today's article in KapitalWatch; Kasper Grundtvig Knokgaard from Compounding Capital (ApS) says: "Unioo is a perfect fit for our investment criteria, focusing on vertical B2B SaaS companies in targeted end markets. Unioo is one of the best win-win solutions I have ever seen – solving the banks' massive pain point in collecting KYC information from a bunch of volunteer workers that just want to spend their time on adding value to their association - not on tedious and time-consuming workflows and communications with the bank. A true win-win that makes both sides smile. We are highly impressed with Unioo’s performance and not least the leadership of Martin and Mads. Two amazing people that just want to build the best possible product and experience for the customers, to free up more time for volunteer work. We are delighted to work with them and the entire Unioo team to help them achieve their ambitious growth objectives." Link to today's article in KapitalWatch in the comment field below 👇 #fundingnews #vcfunding #kyc #saas #startupfunding #regtech