LundXY

LundXY Global Ventures is an angel investment and startup catalyst headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, founded by serial entrepreneur Morten Lund in 2007. By 2013 parts of the operation had been superseded by Lund's new OnlyXO network.

LundXY Global Ventures
TypePrivate Company
IndustryVenture capital
FounderMorten Lund
Headquarters
Copenhagen
,
Denmark
Number of locations
Hong Kong, London, Singapore, San Francisco
Key people
Morten Lund (CEO),
Websitewww.lundxy.com

Activity

The firm was founded in 2007, managing a portfolio of companies in the fields web and mobile telecommunications, content and media, financial services and clean technology.[1]

It backed Nikolaj Nyholm's startup Imity (acquired by social networking site ZYB for an undisclosed sum in 2008 .,[2] and his 2008 startup Polar Rose. It also backed Aresa, a landmine detection startup. After field testing in Serbia failed to produce the desired results, Aresa was shut down.

LundXY acquired the free daily newspaper, Nyhedsavisen from the Icelandic investment firm Baugur GroupThe paper was in its time the most widely read newspaper in Denmark with a circulation of 550,000. The firm's stated goal was to transform the nature of printed press by merging offline distribution with an attractive online presence.[3] Despite this, finances continued to be an issue and the paper closed in August 2008.

LundXY's investment vehicle 'WILD,' for Worldwide Investment and Involvement in Life Development, included firms like AquaDania with its system for water purification and Aresa A/S, a company that used genetically modified plants to detect landmines.[4]

Morten Lund was declared bankrupt in January 2009[5] in the aftermath of the failure of Nyhedsavisen, but he announced that he was out of bankruptcy in April 2010.[6] LundXY was out of the spotlight during the term of Lund's personal bankruptcy, though he continues to have a blog on that site.

Portfolio

Other companies that have appeared in the LundXY portfolio:

  • HelloGroup, an advertising agency in Scandinavia
  • Zecco.com, free online stock trading.[7]
  • Maxthon, the most popular web browser in China, w
  • Polar Rose, facial recognition software[8]
  • Bullguard anti-virus software [9]
  • Wamba, the social movement

References
  1. Reuters on Lund's move into clean energy January, 2008
  2. TechCrunch confirms ZYB's acquisition of Imity, April, 2008
  3. Lund interviewed by German business publication Taz.de, January, 2008
  4. Aresa website
  5. Butcher, Mike. "As raw as it gets - Skype legend Morten Lund made bankrupt", Tech Crunch. London, 13 January 2009.
  6. Daell Bjerrum, Vibeke. "Morten Lund ude af gældsfælde", business.dk, Berlingske. Copenhagen, 7 April 2010.
  7. GigaOM on LundXY's involvement in Zecco, March, 2008
  8. World Economic Forum commends Polar Rose Archived 2008-05-06 at the Wayback Machine, 2008
  9. Bullguard list of awards given Archived 2008-05-12 at the Wayback Machine, Bullguard website


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