Agera helps companies and private persons obtain offers from auditors, lawyers and accountants. After conquering especially Sweden Agera is armed to the teeth to continue their expansion. The service is simple: fill in a form describing the task you need completed and receive three non-committal offers within a few hours. Agera is mainly a B2B service but private persons can …

Do you have what it takes to boost the business of five major organisations? Then attend Reverse Pitching 3.0 in Helsinki, Finland at the 17th of April and show off your talent. Special focus: Media The focus of this edition of Reverse Pitching is Media and Aller, Alma Media, DNA and YLE as well as the energy company Helen are …

Startup Iceland is the first of its kind in Iceland. Among other things, it is a yearly conference build on a philosophy and mission of building a sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystems in Iceland. The conference takes place in May and welcomes startups and entrepreneurs from all over the world to participate. While other startup events often have a certain agenda – …

With a still growing pool of awards awaiting the most innovative ideas, STARTER has decided to postpone the application deadline for their Startup Contest. The new deadline is May 4.  The infoShare Startup Contest in Poland gives you a chance to win 10,000 euro in cash plus an opportunity to tap into the pool of further 850,000 euro accumulated by investors. At the …

While major corporations often have a hard time keeping up with a rapidly changing environment, the converse is true for startups, who are often more agile. StarTap, a new Finnish accelerator program, facilitates partnerships between the two parts allowing them to tap into each other’s strengths. KoppiCatch StarTap™ is a new Finnish lean venturing program launching this month. The aim …

The World Cup Tech Challenge was launched in 2014. Now, startups from all over the world are welcomed to sign up for the 2nd Annual World Cup Tech Challenge. So if you wish to compete for the coveted World Championship title in Silicon Valley this summer read on here. World Cup Tech Challenge is for the next generation of the …

The Danish company Lemonsqueeze, who helps companies enter the States has now outgrown their current office space in Manhattan. In order to keep welcoming promising new Scandinavian startups a place to grow their business the company now occupies new office space in Brooklyn. Lemonsqueeze helps startups with everything from recruiting and managing the right talent, to ensuring control of the corporate …

Today the association WeLoveStartups has awarded its first grants. The non-profit association has selected three promising startups from extremely diverse fields. After a long selection process, where 50 applicants were narrowed down to only 9 finalists WeLoveStartups‘ expert jury has now selected the three final recipients of the association’s grant. A wide diversity of scholarship recipients The three startups that …

Large business projects have several stakeholders and each of them often have different understandings of the current state of a given project. This causes miscommunication which can lead to fatal consequences for the entire project. Screenful helps prevent this by visualising the true progress of the project in a way, that everyone understands. Based in Helsinki, Finland Screenful develops business performance …

The Founder Institute launches their first chapter ever in Iceland. After an exploratory trial uncovering a large number of interested aspiring entrepreneurs looking for training and membership, the program has now decided to officially launch in Reykjavik. The Founder Institute is a four month accelerator program. Participating entrepreneurs are promised a “learning by doing”-process in which they will encounter structured training, …

THINGS is Sweden’s first co-working space for hardware startups. The focus is on high growth areas such as Internet of Things, wearables, 3D scanning and printing and medtech. The project is initiated by the incubator STING, which is also behind the co-working space SUP-46. Welcome to the article about the new co-working space THINGS. Before you go any further, STING …

A few weeks ago we introduced startupdocs.se which provides free, balanced and standardized legal documents for Swedish seed stage startups, angel investors and VC firms. Today, the website was launched. Erik Byrenius, founder of startupdocs.se, initiated the project back in 2014. The process of developing the legal documents has been long, and he is happy the the website is now …

Getting rid of your old stuff can be demanding and time consuming. This is why many of us have huge piles of stuff lying around, which we would actually rather sell or give away. Sellpy is an on demand service that undertakes the hassle for you and make sure that you will never see your old stuff again. Michael Arnör, …

Three years ago, the Norwegian education technology, called EdTech, was a small industry with only a handful of companies. But on the big SXSW show in Austin, Norwegian companies this time had their own house, and collected large crowds every day, says Heidi Arnesen Austlid ICT Norway. In this Kahoot was an important factor. “The Norwegian companies are adept at …

Swedish Charity Storm is a fundraising and payments platform for the non-profit sector. With the platform Charity Storm helps charity organisations as well as other associations to keep up with new marketing tools and payment methods and thus also target the needs of the younger crowd. A desire to make an impact on the world Charity Storm was born out …

One might easily believe that the transition from downloaded music to streaming is already finished. However, a new report from research firm Bernstein shows that the opposite is true. Even though the numbers are from 2013 they still give a good picture how Scandinavia is radically different from the rest of the western world. In Sweden streaming services was responsible …

The Norwegian company Xeneta is disrupting the global sea freight market by making the prices transparent. Before Xeneta it was next to impossible for a customer to see through prices. Now Xeneta has put a stop to the suppliers’ opportunity to delude unenlightened customers. From a world with no transparency Imagine you would still have to go to a physical …

Maintaining the company culture in a growing startup can be hard. How do you make a team consisting of 300 employees divided between three countries pull in the same direction? Peter Holten Mühlman, founder of Trustpilot, explains what their journey has taught him. Being a “startup” is popular. It is colourful, youthful and fun. It is not a process, nor …

The Danish startup Colego experiences great growth and has just received 15 million Danish kroner from the venture company Northcap Partners. The money are earmarked to conquer the European market. On the online portal Colego private persons as well as businesses can obtain tenders on all sorts of tasks, big or small. Regarding their mission Martin Sylvest Lavlund CEO in …

Founded in 2010 Bungalo is an Icelandic based online marketplace for cottage rentals. The company focuses on providing cottages through local families who can help travelers explore the area and culture. Last year the company expanded to launch in the Canadian market as well. CEO Haukur Gudjonsson leads a team of seven staff. A solution to an experienced need The …