According to research by McKinsey, diversity means higher financial performance for companies. King, the gaming powerhouse behind games such as Candy Crush , works towards inclusion through “nudging”. “There is a direct correlation between diversity and companies’ financial…
Creathor Venture announced this week that it is leading a financing round of up to €14 million for Helsinki -based Blueprint Genetics , an AI-enabled clinical genetic testing company. Blueprint Genetics is among a wave of Nordic companies…
Heidi Berg and her team was one of the winners of the first round of Ignite intrapreneurship programme . She and Nazmin Neza are now developing Engage, a new business venture, in Grameenphone , Telenor Group’s company in…
CrowdEyes is a twist on the format of traditional dating apps to help people who lose or forget their things at this year’s Roskilde Festival . With a festival area equivalent to 350 football pitches, the analogy of…
In 2016, Finnish startup and early stage growth companies raised the second highest amount of venture capital funding in Europe when looking at investments as percentage of GDP. The investment amount was almost twice as large as the…
At the end of May 2017, Finland’s Feedbackly announced they were planning to expand to Mexico. Founded in 2013, the company has had success in Europe, where their multichannel customer experience measurement tool has been used by companies…
Nordic design is indeed trending worldwide. In less than three hours the new Danish watch brand IVER Denmark reached their funding goal on Kickstarter with backers from four continents, going well beyond the expectations of the team. Founder…
In March 2017, #nordicmade companies took over SXSW at the #nordicmade booth. With a helpful boost from the Rising North fund, the #nordicmade program included a pitch night, an investor dinner, a partnership with the John Lennon Educational…
Now in it’s sixth year, Europe’s largest interdisciplinary festival , Tech Open Air , is uniting the international tech and creative scene in Berlin on July 11-14th after World Tour stops in cities like L.A., Tokyo and Austin,…
Bitcoin s are seemingly making a convincing case for a digitized, decentralized currency, and the world is excitingly falling into the lockstep. If thoughts over bitcoins have ever crossed your mind and evoked a curiosity in you to…
Last weekend, Sweden’s first travel hackathon, Startup Weekend Travel Edition , took place in Stockholm. The event was arranged by the global entrepreneur network, Startup Weekend, with Amadeus as the main sponsor. During 54 intense hours, over 60…
Imagine smart home s or self-driving cars that communicate with each other. Or the day when doctors and teachers use virtual and augmented reality at hospitals and schools. Imagine trains, drones and cars forming transport systems that are…