{"id":102570,"date":"2025-11-27T08:22:53","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T08:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/27\/nordic-founders-are-taking-bigger-swings-and-its-paying-off\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T08:22:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T08:22:53","slug":"nordic-founders-are-taking-bigger-swings-and-its-paying-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/27\/nordic-founders-are-taking-bigger-swings-and-its-paying-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Nordic founders are taking bigger swings, and\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0paying off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ten years ago, raising \u20ac1 million in Copenhagen was enough to make waves in the region\u2019s tech scene. Today, the Nordics are turning out billion-dollar companies like Lovable \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/11\/19\/as-lovable-hits-200m-arr-its-ceo-credits-staying-in-europe-for-its-success\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">which hit $200 million in revenue\u00a0<\/a>just 12 months after launching.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dennis Green-Lieber, founder of AI-powered customer intelligence platform <a href=\"https:\/\/usepropane.ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Propane<\/a>, has had a front-row seat to that shift over the last 15 years. His take? The region\u2019s social safety net gives founders room to take real swings without putting their personal lives on the line, and they\u2019re accelerating faster than Silicon Valley as a result.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today on TechCrunch\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/podcasts\/equity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Equity<\/a> podcast, Dominic-Madori Davis caught up with Green-Lieber to talk about the Nordic startup ecosystem, from its collaborative culture to its deep tech future.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Subscribe to Equity on<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/id1215439780\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u00a0Apple Podcasts<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/overcast.fm\/itunes1215439780\/equity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u00a0Overcast<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5IEYLip3eDppcOmy5DmphC?si=rZDFHv2sQUul_g94iCRgpQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u00a0Spotify<\/a>\u00a0and all the casts. You\u00a0also can\u00a0follow Equity on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EquityPod\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">X<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@equitypod\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Threads<\/a>, at @EquityPod.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/video\/nordic-founders-are-taking-bigger-swings-and-its-paying-off\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten years ago, raising \u20ac1 million in Copenhagen was enough to make waves in the region\u2019s tech scene. Today, the Nordics are turning out billion-dollar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":102571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}