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| LundXY - Global Ventures | |
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| Type | Private Company |
| Founded | |
| Founder | Morten Lund |
| Headquarters | Copenhagen, Denmark |
| No. of locations | Hong Kong, London, Singapore, San Francisco |
| Key people | Morten Lund (CEO), Anya Maxwell (Partner), Rasmus Boegh (Partner) |
| Industry | Venture capital |
| Website | www.lundxy.com |
LundXY - Global Ventures is an angel investment and startup catalyst headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, founded by serial entrepreneur Morten Lund. Morten Lund is best known as the seed investor behind Skype[1].
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[edit] Development
Since LundXY started first investing in companies in the online/ tech sector around the globe, the vision was always not only to make money but moving and supporting people to realize their ideas in most efficient and fastest ways. The founder Morten Lund plays different fields at the same time being majority shareholder of Nyhedsavisen, a free Newspaper and market leader in Denmark as well as being special member of Bill Clinton's Clinton Global Initiative[2]where LundXY is committing its financial power to development cases around the globe.
[edit] Global presence
The influence of LundXY on the creative tech scene as well as on numerous entrepreneurial trends and movements is remarkable and goes far over the Scandinavian borders. LundXY supports, for instance, the 2008 World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer of the Year Nikolaj Hyholm from Polar Rose[3] and was one of the earliest investors of Polar Rose and Imity (which was recetly bought by Zyb)[4]. Also Aresa A/S, WEF Technology Pioneer of the Year 2007, is financially supported by LundXY.
LundXY is part of the Digital Life Design Community DLD and Morten Lund, the architect and ideologist of LundXY was ranked as one of the most influential people in the tech industry[5]. Morten Lunds blog exceeds Local Newspapers in Denmark with more than 40,000 monthly readers.[citation needed]
Recent ventures include also the print media sector. LundXY co-founded Denmark’s now largest daily newspaper, Nyhedsavisen, a free newspaper, with the goal of transforming the nature of printed press by merging the offline distribution with an attractive online presence. [6] LundXY acquired a 51 per cent majority stake of Dagsbrun Media, which owns Hyhedsavisen, from Baugur Group the Icelandic investment firm. Lund XY is not only upping its stake but injecting working capital. The move comes 15 months after Baugur Group-controlled Dagsbrun Madia launched Nyhedsavisen and comes after the free news paper has made impressive progress in terms of distribution, readership and advertising revenues. Within 12 months of its launch in October 2006, it over took the established paid-for titles and rival free sheets to become the most read daily newspaper in Denmark .
EVENTS
Morten Lund, founder and architect of LundXY represents the Venture Capital Firm on events Worldwide. Recent Events where Lund was speaking:
- CGI Clinton Global Initiative,2007, New York City, USA
- Digital Life Design Conference, 2008, Munich, Germany[7]
- LeWeb, 2007, Paris, France[8]
- 3gsm, 2007, Barcelona, Spain
- ETRE 2007, Budapest
- Red Herring, Cannes, France
- SIME07, Stockholm, Sweden[9]
- Tech Tour, Montreux, Switzerland
[edit] Portfolio
The firm manages a wide-ranging 85-strong portfolio of game-changing companies encompassing web and mobile telecommunications, content and media, financial services and clean technology[10].
WILD Worldwide Investment and Involvement in Life Development
LundXY's investment vehicle WILD (Worldwide Investment and Involvement in Life Development) includes firms like Aqua Dania WaterStillar developing water purification or Aresa A/S that uses genetically modified plants to detect landmines[11].
Being Special Member of the Clinton Global Initiative LundXY is committing his global influence and financial strength to follow the founders vision: "projects with the vision to move I have an untamed lust to do stuff thatmakes a difference for the people in this world - specially f I can help to save children’s life. I want to do it for profit - since thats the only way to attract world class talent"[12]
More Companies in the LundXY portfolio:
- Hello Group , fastest growing Advertisement Agency in Scandinavia
- Zecco , free online stock trading[13].
- Maxthon , biggest search engine in China
- Polar Rose , Award winning facial recogniction software[14]
- Bullguard , Award Winning Anti Virus Software [15]
- Wamba , Social Community Movement
[edit] References
- ^ LundXY on CNBC, CNBC, March, 2008
- ^ http://net.typepad.com/net/2005/05/morten_lund_mee.html/ Clinton meets LundXY
- ^ [1], World Economic Forum, February, 2008
- ^ http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/22/confirmed-zyb-bought-imity/ Confirmed: Zyb bought Imity
- ^ http://www.dld-conference.com/upload/dld_survey_2008.pdf/ DLD08 Survey
- ^ [2], taz.de , January 1 2008
- ^ DLD bringt Vordenker nach München.
- ^ http://www.leweb3.com/leweb3/programme/index.html Lund at LeWeb3
- ^ Venture Capitalism is like rasising a child.
- ^ Lund invest in clean ergergy, Reuters, January, 2008
- ^ http://www.aresa.dk// Aresa detecting landmines with plants
- ^ http://lundxy.hostedlabs.com/?page_id=3051/ Morten Lund about WILD
- ^ LundXY ownership Zecco, gigaom, March, 2008
- ^ Tech Pioneers WEF08.
- ^ http://www.bullguard.com/news/reviews-and-awards.aspx/ Awards of Bullguard
