Hilfr secures $150k from a group of Danish angel investors.

Hilfr, a Copenhagen, Denmark-based company operating a marketplace for cleaning services, secured a DKK 1M ($150k) capital investment round. The money was provided by new and existing investors, including Thomas Bendixen, Anders Boelskift and Peter Grunwaldt, through their company, TAP Invest.

Hilfr, founded in 2017 by Steffen Wegner Mortensen, Nicolai Søndergård Kjær, Dennis True and Niels Martin Andersen, built a digital platform for cleaning services in private homes from Denmark. The company has 2,000 customers and 700 cleaners on the platform and makes money by charging a fee of 6 percent per transaction.

Hilfr is also known in Denmark as the first digital marketplace operator striking a deal with the local union 3F at the beginning of 2018. The collective agreement, signed as a 12 months pilot project, guarantees Hilfr's cleaning assistants access to sick pay, holiday allowance and pension contributions, as well as a minimum wage of DKK 141.41 per hour.