New York: In a few minutes, Danish BookBuses founder Oscar Aabech Jung will be entering the stage in front of 700 American investors. This is the day Oscar Aabech Jung and the rest of the Danish IT company…
A competition for the Internet of Things has been launched by three of Northern Europe’s largest companies: Tetra Pak, Scania and Nobia. The goal is to develop game-changing solutions for everything from kitchens to trucks to packaging, through…
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…
As Ed-tech is becoming the next industry to watch in the Nordics , with success stories like Kahoot, DigiExam , and Funzi. We take a look at 3 major trends in the ed-tech world. Adult education Ed-tech is…
Reykjavik-based Aldin Dynamics was born in early 2013, just in time to join the Icelandic Institute for Intelligent Machines startup accelerator program. Since then, they have been working deep in virtual reality (VR). “We build our content from…
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…
Music, tech, politicians, finance – they all want the same thing: the hearts and minds of millennials . In the rapidly developing fintech world, millennials are often a driving force working behind the scenes and pushing traditional financial…
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…
In 2013, the two founders behind the podcast app Acast , Måns Ulvestam and Karl Rosander , discovered a resurgence of podcasting happening in Sweden. When looking into the Swedish ecosystem, they found an amateur landscape where all…
The Nordics have a natural advantage when it comes to education technology, including strong school systems, technical expertise, and forward-thinking municipalities who put digitalization on the agenda . What is holding back ed-tech development in the region? Many…
Helsinki in the beginning of June was quite literally the hot-bed of start-up and investment activity in the Nordics . The beautiful 25°C weather complemented the hot new innovative solutions on display. Several events created the perfect melting-pot…