{"id":700997,"date":"2025-11-28T04:15:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T01:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nordic-founders-are-taking-bigger-swings-and-its-paying-off\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T04:15:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T01:15:13","slug":"nordic-founders-are-taking-bigger-swings-and-its-paying-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/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":"<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\u00a0which hit $200 million in revenue\u00a0just 12 months after launching.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dennis Green-Lieber, founder of AI-powered customer intelligence platform <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> 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 Equity 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 rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/id1215439780\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u00a0Apple Podcasts<\/a>,<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/overcast.fm\/itunes1215439780\/equity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u00a0Overcast<\/a>,<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5IEYLip3eDppcOmy5DmphC?si=rZDFHv2sQUul_g94iCRgpQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u00a0Spotify<\/a>\u00a0and all the casts. 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Today, the Nordics are turning out billion-dollar companies like Lovable \u2014\u00a0which hit $200 million in revenue\u00a0just 12 months after launching.\u00a0 Dennis Green-Lieber, founder of AI-powered customer intelligence platform Propane, has had a front-row seat to that shift&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":700998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/propane_founders-headshot-2-e1764179795401.png?w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[77143,156670,158883,159760,74839,159761,159762,70917],"class_list":["post-700997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-climate","tag-deep-tech","tag-equity-video","tag-european-market","tag-fundraising","tag-nordic-market","tag-propane","tag-startups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}