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What is a VC like Balderton looking for in a nordic start-up? At what stage is it good to initiate contact with Harry? What drives the disproportionate number of exiting tech start-ups in the Nordic region. What did Balderton see in TicTail (in which they invested early stage)?

Intune is chosen ahead of hundreds of other technology companies for this prestigious award. Red Herring announced its Top 100 award winners today, recognizing Europe’s leading private companies and celebrating these startups’ innovations and technologies across their respective industries.



Technology consumers, not companies, are driving nothing less than revolutions based on demand for alternatives to expensive dinosaur institutions. Seth Priebatsch of LevelUp predicts which will be the next titans to fall.

European tech entrepreneurs often look enviously at their U.S. counterparts when it comes to their venture capital backers. European VCs are parsimonious and risk-averse, they complain, compared with the deals of their U.S. counterparts.

The cycling retail boom driven by the success of the London 2012 Olympics has continued after The Hut Group, which is backed by Sir Stuart Rose and Sir Terry Leahy, acquired accessories business probikekit.com.

Not only did Kobalt sign a deal with Dave Grohl this week, the company is also formally introducing a new Label Services division that will handle digital and physical releases for independent artists as well as Kobalt clients. Though the division has quietly released several albums in recent months, most notably gospel act Larry Callahan & Selected of God's "The Evolution II," it will gain major attention next month with the release of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' "Push the Sky Away," due out Feb. 18 through Kobalt Label Services (KLS) and Cave's Bad Seed Ltd.

London, January 11th 2013 Rentify, the UK's leading software platform for landlords, has secured a £2 million Series A investment from Balderton Capital, the leading venture capital investor in Europe.

The iVX8000, Intune's unique packet optical switching system, becomes the world's first distributed switch to be NEBS certified for use in carrier networks in the United States.