Oceans the dive logging and community app launched this week, after a succesfull beta trial in 2014 they are ready to serve divers around the world. Together with the world’s diving community, Oceans is set to map the teeming oceanic life, vivid landscapes and fragile underwater environment — making it available for everyone to explore. The company was founded in …

The Nordic rocketship “United Nordics#1” ignites and takes off with a clear mission and goal. The astronauts of United Nordics # 1 are from all parts of the Nordic region, they want help brand the Nordics as super stars to build technology startups To take a man to the mon required a lot of resources and not to compare with …

After a mechanical issue with their flight and a delayed transit in Amsterdam, the French team behind 33entrepreneurs Startup Contest finally made it to Copenhagen. 33entrepreneurs is a French Startup Accelerator touring around Europe in search of candidates for their program in Bordeaux. By Tina Søndergaard While the snow was pouring down, entrepreneurs, the audience, judges and the team behind …

Echo.it, Opeepl, Voiceboxer. The list of startups which Sortedam Ventures has signed up, counts several succesessuccessful companies. They have now turned to the travel platform, Comundu, and starting from January the two companies will continue their journey together. By Tina Søndergaard You have a great idea for a digital product. You know the market and have a good idea on …

Disclaimer: This post is Daniel G.F. Laursen personal thought and comments about Nordic startups bit by bit. Nest, Waze and now Endomondo. Every big technology company in the world is competing in a war zone about user data and companies are acquiring startups that have proven success and millions of users. When Google bought the Israily startup Waze they had 50 …

From 2015 the VAT on e-products will depend on the VAT rate in the country of the costumer as opposed to the country of establishment of the company. We have spoken to VAT expert Mick Jørgensen from PwC about the new rules that can affect both your profits and your turnover of cross-border e-services. By Tina Søndergaard. The new rules are …

A transformational, non-profit program aimed at giving back to the Danish startup community, The STARTUP BUZZ is a five day journey and accelerator program across Denmark that shoots 12 entrepreneurs and their businesses into the stratosphere. A lot of crazy and amazing things happen in those five days and below you will find a recap of it all! Purpose AND …

When it comes to the telecom space, Danish companies are used to being at the forefront of innovation. The Copenhagen based technology startup company onomondo aims to continue this tradition. The three founders have secured a total of $ 1.5 m from Sealand Capital A/S and the Market Development Fund to take their unique mobile routing technology to market. “We …

Chutzpah – the word that defines Tel Aviv as the non-stop startup city. The city is number two on the list of the best ecosystems in the world according to research conducted by the Startup Genome. The word is pronounced “Hjoodspa” and is about being daring; it is in the blood and veins of the people from Tel Aviv and …

The Danish startup Swipes went all the way and secured the gold medal in the Evernote startup competition in San Francisco. “We fucking did it” That was the Facebook Message that hit our phone 2 AM the morning between Friday and Saturday from the CEO of Swipes. Later that morning Nordic Startup Bits got a change to talk with Kasper …

Coinify wants to take the digital currency Bitcoin to the mainstream market, and with more than 6,000 users they are moving fast towards their mission. Last week the Danish capital firm SEED Capital invested a “multi million” amount in the Danish startup Coinify. Hungry.dk among the first The fast-food delivery platform Hungry.dk recently joined 6,000 other Coinify merchants by accepting …

Nordic Innovation House, a co-working space, incubator and resource center for Nordic tech companies, debuted today. The new initiative is funded by an alliance of Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Icelandic and Danish governments as well as Nordic Innovation, an institution supported by Nordic governments that works to promote cross-border trade and innovation. As seen in the success of firms like Skype …

The Danish task management app Swipes has just been announced one of the top 3 winners in “Best New Startup of 2014” at the Evernote Platform Awards, the annual celebration of the best apps that connect to the powerful note-taking software of Evernote. The Danish startup was founded in May 2013 and the Swipes team located in Denmark, Bulgaria and …

We arrived in Stockholm and are the new kid in town, but with a smile on our face and ready to conquer the world or at least the nordics. There are room for more exposure to startups and there are much more room for exposure to early stage startups from the nordics. According to an analysis by VC Creandum, 3 …