Last night, Crowdsourcing Week had a discussion with Theo Priestley about technology and crowds and Nordic Startups Bits joined the #Crowdchat . Here is a recap. What are your 3 predictions for a future when crowds and tech…
RetinaLyze is a company that aims to help patients with diabetes suffering from Diabetic Retinopathy, a common complication of the disease, by finding distortions in the retina. It is important innovation, since patients rarely ever notice symptoms before…
The fastest growing Internet of Things conference in Sweden is back after great pressure on the organizers. During October 14-15 the Internet of Things conference in Lund is back for the second time this year. After the first…
Urska Srsen met her co-founder Sandro Mur on a kitesurfing trip in Croatia. For her, becoming an entrepreneur was a very spontaneous and almost accidental process. Something that started as a project ended up as a business. It…
Last summer the Danish startup Templafy received 20 million in venture capital to strengthen product integration within their enterprise segment and attract the best talent in the industry . Now, they have opened their North American headquarters in…
Today the London-based Octopus Ventures launches a new $140 million fund to provide growth capital to “ successful fast-growing later-stage companies across Europe”, reports Tech Crunch . Last year, Octopus Ventures revealed it had a $91.3 million early…
With over 1.6 million apps available on the Android platform and over 1.5 million apps available on Apple, the growing proliferation of apps has amazed many. Consider this from the second most popular app store in the world:…
The SXSW of Europe, the Reeperbahn Festival , has introduced a special focus on startups – with a twist on the traditional pitch format reflecting the neighborhood’s seedy roots. The Reeperbahn and The Große Freiheit (or the Big…
While a lot of effort goes into marketing and advertising to get new customer s to buy a product or service, companies somehow do not share the same enthusiasm when it comes to providing a good experience. However,…
Inspired by SXSW, Reeperbahn Festival is Germany’s largest club festival and since its debut in 2006 it has grown to become one of the most important meeting places for the music industry worldwide. In 2009, the organizers introduced…
With sleep measurement and gadgets both being red hot topics on crowdfunding platforms, when one of the companies combining the two says, “We made a strict decision not to do an Indigogo or Kickstarter campaign,” it does raise…
Welcome to the fourth chapter in the story of Planday’ s establishment in the United States – a true expansion adventure, controlled with a heavy hand by Danish-owned , whose specialty is helping European companies gain a foothold…