{"id":612,"date":"2011-02-26T17:19:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-26T17:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrietteweber.com\/?p=612"},"modified":"2021-04-18T17:24:54","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T17:24:54","slug":"the-scandinavian-female-entrepreneurs-who-do-startups-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrietteweber.com\/index.php\/2011\/02\/26\/the-scandinavian-female-entrepreneurs-who-do-startups-list\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scandinavian “female entrepreneurs who do startups” list"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So a couple of days ago, Fast Company launched a “25 women-run startups to watch” list<\/a>. Today I am advisoring the Copenhagen Startup Weekend<\/a> teams – so this is the weekend of startups for me. \u00c2 Anyway the Fast Company article had two awesome women in it, that I’ve had the chance to meet and fall a little bit in love with, Tara<\/a> and Wendy<\/a> who rocks.\u00c2 But I think we should have a scandinavian list as well. Seen from my perspective, it’s a great way of giving out information about what ladies are in the startup scene up here. I have defined the ladies on the list as people who are running startups themselves, and not agencies, blogs or consultants, but startups as in convenience and services for the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, I know the list could be better, I hope that there are more ladies in startups in Scandinavia, that I just don’t know about. SO : If there’s anyone you think is missing on the list – please let me know in the comments – I personally think that there could be so many more ladies on the list. Im totally missing some startups from Norway. Anyway have a look at it – and let’s see if we can build this out more – together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s my list, most of the ladies on are people I’ve been introduced to, met or who I see regularly, they are truely an inspiration to be around:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heidi Harman founder RunAlong<\/a> and co-founder of Geek Girl Meetup<\/a>. Runalong is a female health community focusing on group runs or walks. Geek girl Meetup is an un-conference for Geek Girls taking place so far in Stockholm, G\u00c3\u00b6teborg, \u00c3\u02dcresund and Copenhagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anna Oscarsson is founder of \u00c2 Kvittar<\/a> – a startup with the purposeful and convinient aim of making all the receipts of Sweden index’ed and searchable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ulla-maaria Engestr\u00c3\u00b6m founder of thinglink<\/a> a startup aiming to turn photos into a surface for\u00c2 advertising, commerce, entertainment, search and social connection<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tine Thygesen is CEO of 23 video<\/a> – a company that helps individuals do visual sharing. She’s also the former CEO of Venture Cup in Denmark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Annika Lidne is the founder of Disruptive Media<\/a> – a company that helps people to understand the revolution within digital media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maija Itkonen is the CEO of Powerkiss<\/a> a company that does wirefree charging through surfaces and furniture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Camilla Ley Valentin Partner in Queue-it<\/a> – a virtual queue system that prevents website crashes during user peaks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Natasha Friis Saxberg of Gignal<\/a> – presenting your event online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mette Lykke, co-founder of endomondo<\/a> a community based on free gps tracking on sports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Malin Str\u00c3\u00b6man – former VP of Stardoll<\/a> a game and fashion community for girls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Silje Vallestad founder of Bipper<\/a> – a safe mobile tool for your kids<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tina Aspaila founder of Eat.fi<\/a> – a finnish national restaurant search and review site<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuula Antola founder of Kaipaus<\/a> – a company that makes beautiful scent dispensers – jewelry like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So a couple of days ago, Fast Company launched a “25 women-run startups to watch” list. 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