Algorithms surround us in our everyday life. They help us find information, and make informed decisions. Take Autouncle.com for example, the Danish company based in Aarhus helps people buy or sell used cars based on a specific market, car model, brand, amount of kilometers, and other variables, all through an algorithm they named AutoScore. There are a lot of areas, …
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Planning your move to the US market? You don’t have to do it alone
Many entrepreneurs from the Nordics dream with following the steps of companies like Issuu or Spotify into the United States, an almost 320 million population market with a single currency. But imagine moving your startup to a new city across the Atlantic. Setting up a new office in New York City, all the paperwork and legal issues, hiring the right …
Read More »The Danish startup that was born as a high school event ticket platform is ready for more
Receiving a monthly paycheck is a luxury that most entrepreneurs can’t afford in the early stages of their startups. Renting an office space and paying for a weekly consultancy?, sounds like an impossible dream. But that is exactly what Jonas Bøgh enjoys. The Bachelor student from Aarhus University and cofounder of the Danish startup Greenticket, says that starting a company …
Read More »A mobile solution from Norway to help build the future
CHECKD is not the next emerging social media to keep an eye on, it is a mobile app and solution target to the construction sector, an industry of bricks and steel with a turnover of €1,162 billion in Europe alone. This smartphone app wants to help the construction sector to save money and time by letting them concentrate on building. …
Read More »A Norwegian app wants to create a more moving experience to meet new people
You are at a bar or festival sweeping through profiles of people nearby on your iPhone to find new friends, and all you see are pictures of people taken a year or so ago during a vacation break. Sounds familiar? Blink, a location-based app for iOS created by a Norwegian startup Blink, wants to change that by giving you the …
Read More »A Swedish startup wants to make the Internet a safer place
Fredrik Almroth and his colleagues didn’t know the vulnerability they had found in one of Google’s services would earned them $10K after contacting the search giant and sharing the details with them, read the story here from Thenextweb Almroth is now part of the Detectify team, a Swedish startup that offers a based web application that analyzes the security status …
Read More »Mosiac Ventures ready to invest $140 m. in early stage startups in Europe
The London based venture capital firm Mosaic Ventures announced it is ready to invest a $140 million fund on Series A, early stage companies in the Nordic Region and the rest of Europe. The partners behind Mosaic Ventures are Simon Levene, Mike Chalfen and Toby Coppel. The trio has experience investing at both sides of the Atlantic, working for prestigious …
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