Last year, the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, launched the first Young Transatlantic Innovative Leaders Initiative , an international exchange program focused on the themes of entrepreneurship skills and enhanced Euro-Atlantic integration. They…
Norway has only recent emerged as a startup hub, with it now leading the Nordics as the fastest grower in number of investment s. However the Norwegian scene is often not acknowledged beyond Opera , and we think…
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…
This weekend, the Danish entrepreneur prize “Den Gyldne Fugl”, or the Golden Bird, was awarded at Aarhus University. The winner was RaskRask , a platform for on-demand health-oriented massage, who previously offered on-demand physiotherapy. The market is always…
Startup Everywhere, a Danish creative content and self-publishing startup, has just launched an app which helps entrepreneurs to navigate cities around the globe. It features co-working spaces, incubators, accelerators, and public working spaces such as cafes with good…
It was perhaps significant that the recent Oslo Innovation Week (OIW) five-day series of events was preceded by a forty-eight hour Techfugees hackathon where more than one hundred data scientists, engineers, user experience designers and entrepreneurs united in…
Tallinn-based scientific collaboration platform Guaana is giving out 10 percent of the company to users for free, hoping to involve them more tightly in its quest to define a new, universal format for scientific projects. The effort has…
Impact Iceland 2016 is crowdfunding Iceland’s first conference on social entrepreneurship on Karolina Fund. It will be the first in a series of conferences in Iceland focusing on social innovation as a profitable, sustainable , and impactful response…
Denmark is riding on a green wave. The country has been lauded for its focus on sustainable energy, recycling, and high quality of life. The Danish startup Miljøskærm , based at the science park at Scion DTU, uses…
Sustainability is more than an environmental concept – it’s big business too. At the Impact Investor Ball last week, several startups pitched their products for a more sustainable future. Lean Green was one of them. The company has…
The Stockholm-based healthy food startup Naturalbox explains their successful crowdsourcing campaign on Prowly. Results: coverage in key media channels, nearly 100 investors, 212% campaign overfunding. In order to raise capital for its operations, Naturalbox chose crowdsourcing over a…
Start-up founders who focus on issues of resource preservation, resource recovery and recycling, often lack access to funding opportunities, as they have difficulty competing the b2b scale-ups that investors see as big money. That is why in 2014…