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5 Eye-catching startups from Slush
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5 Eye-catching startups from Slush

Slush , the largest startup event in the Nordics, took place in the “death month” of November in Helsinki . With over 15,000 attendees comprising 1,700 startups, the array of new companies and technologies can be dizzying. From…

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Shipitwise: Crowdfunding “couldn’t be easier”
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Shipitwise: Crowdfunding “couldn’t be easier”

“Fundraising isn’t hard. At least not hard like impossible,” says Shipitwise . Sander Gansen tells the story of how Shipitwise succeeded on the crowdfunding platform Funderbeam to raise €176,000 below. As we were going through Startup Wise Guys…

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OrderYoyo plans to snatch the takeaway crown
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OrderYoyo plans to snatch the takeaway crown

Serial entrepreneur and investor Thor Angelo has thrown his weight behind OrderYoyo, and plans to overtake Just Eat as the go-to service in the Nordics to order food to your home. OrderYoyo , who received early investment from…

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The Cloakroom goes global, stays local
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The Cloakroom goes global, stays local

The Cloakroom , a Danish startup specializing in providing men with an online personal shopper, has been acquired by the similar German company Modomoto . The Cloakroom, founded by Kasper Brandi Petersen and Asbjørn Jørgensen , works by…

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Will the Nordics be the first to go cashless?
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Will the Nordics be the first to go cashless?

A number of countries are competing to become the world’s first economy to ditch paper currency. NexChange recently reported that Kevin Jenkins, managing director of Visa Europe , stated that within five years, cash will be seen as…

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