Meet the nominee of the day (26), Youcalc, Denmark

Company Bio

Youcalc’s mission is to create the world’s largest library of analytics apps by allowing business users to create and share analytics apps.
A user driven library of now more than 130 analytics apps for CRM, sales, marketing, service/support and project management, and live data connection to a growing number of SaaS systems (Salesforce.com, Basecamp, AdWords, Google Analytics, Highrise CRM, MailChimp, etc.)

Country

Denmark

Website

http://www.youcalc.com/

SIME Profile

http://sime.nu/09/awards/rising-stars-of-the-north/youcalc/

Snapshot

Meet the founders

Rasmus Aaen Madsen, CEO/Founder.
Rasmus is a serial entrepreneur, who started his first company straight out of business school in 1996. Rasmus has founded web agencies, software companies, and web-based businesses. Biggest success so far: web agency AHEAD, which was acquired by stock exchange listed VALTECH. Rasmus sits at the board of Composite Software (as co-founder).Rasmus holds an MBA (London South Bank University) and a M.Sc. International Business Administration (Copenhagen Business School).

Henrik Kjaer, CTO/Founder.
Henrik is a spreadsheet geek and ex. Computer Sciences professor. In 1988, he programmed his first spreadsheet application in Pascal , for the Danish Ministry of the Interior. In 1990, Henrik programmed a tax calculation spreadsheet application for Politiken, a major Danish newspaper. That led to Henrik patenting the world’s first 3-dimensional spreadsheet for large-scale spreadsheet models. An entrepreneur at heart, Henrik took the technology to market through his first company Profunda. The first concepts for the technology behind youcalc were conceived by Henrik in 2003. It took some years of maturing the technology, and hooking up with Rasmus, before the idea of youcalc was born. Henrik has an MA (Econ) from Copenhagen University (1984)

Jury Motivation

Very interesting model in an area with little innovation. The need for analyzing data is getting higher and higher. This portal has the potential to consolidate a niche and thereby add value

Meet the SIME jury team here

The breath of integrated services through youcalc is amazing. Youcalc can sit live in your salesforce and allows you to track data using iGoogle and similar dashboard softwares. Think its extremely creative, and a great product for businesses to analyze and visualize data helping in making managerial decisions. Good luck guys.