The roster of venture exchanges just got a little more crowded, with the opening of Nordic region’s alternative marketplace, OMX Group’s First North.

One company – Deadline Games – has been admitted to trading on First North, and 15 approved advisers and 18 members are attached to the marketplace, OMX reports. Kristian Jensen, Danish Minister for Taxation, will conduct the opening ceremony today and trading in Deadline Games shares will begin tomorrow morning in the electronic trading system.

“With First North, OMX offers yet another attractive marketplace. First North is tailored to support the many, primarily small, companies that are to help ensure growth and prosperity in Denmark and the Nordic region in general,” said Jan Ovesen, deputy president of the Copenhagen Stock Exchange, in a release.

“We are very happy about the great support and inspiration that we have received in connection with the establishment of the alternative marketplace from the Danish government and Danish parliament, the various players in the financial sector and the Danish business community in general.”

Apart from establishing a Nordic alternative marketplace, OMX also offers small companies a channel through which to raise risk capital and an access point for both professional and private investors to invest capital in non-stock exchange listed companies via the same trading system that is used for trading in shares listed on OMX’s exchanges.

Jensen commented, “In order for companies in Denmark to turn innovation and business ideas into commercial successes, more risk capital is needed. First North can serve as a display window for new and dynamic companies – a display window that will put even more focus on a big and important layer of small, but dynamic and innovative companies which are a prerequisite for an energetic and vigorous business sector.”

The approved advisors include several Denmark based brokerage firms and investment banks, as well as global accounting firms Deloitte, Ernst & Young and Grant Thornton.