Finding free WIFI in Stockholm is certainly not a hard task. This is the Capital of Scandinavia , for Christ’s sake! So finding a good place to work from in Sweden’s main city is not about the connectivity.…
Paralenz, a new project by Danish design agency Moef , has broken a Kickstarter record, by obtaining a third of their funding in just the first 8 minutes of their crowdfunding campaign. Paralenz is a high-performing underwater camera…
Eagled eyed readers may have seen news of social media marketing startup PromoRepublic raising an impressive €500 000 investment round led by Sampo Parkkinen this last July and reported via GoodNewsFinland . The company has one goal in…
After 15 years at H&M, Jordan Nasser has joined the Stockholm -based start-up company Looklet , a fast-growing fashion and tech B2B start-up. Jordan Nasser was the Global Head of Digital at H&M, working with all the digital…
The legend says that in 2010, there was only Ulrik, a team of four, two laptops, and big dreams to tackle the social media market of businesses. Thus was the unassuming start of Falcon.io , now one of…
The first ever Helsinki Blockchain Conference 2016 will take place at Microsoft Flux open space, and will be the first high-profile, dedicated Blockchain event in Nordic Region. Blockchain is hailed as one of the most revolutionary technologies of…
“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…
Financial Technology, also known as FinTech has made robust strides over the last five years. It is becoming a pivotal part of the global economy. Being the technology that is meant to make financial services more efficient and…
Educational reform has never been more salient in the Nordics , as schools race to integrate digital competences into the core curriculum. Ed-tech Foundry, an ed-tech company based in Norway, has some thoughts on how higher education can…
The night had begun quietly for friends and colleagues Teemu Nivala and Joseph Cruz a couple of years ago. Laughing and swapping stories over a few glasses of wine, suddenly they were interrupted by a piercing alarm coming…
Creamfinance , a smart data powered lender has recently expanded its operations to Denmark, their sixth market entry in a span of 4 years since inception. The company headquartered in Poland has also seen steady healthy spikes 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…