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Falcon Social is making social media management look easy

Falcon Social offer a unified software as a service(SaaS) platform for social media engaging, publishing, listening, measuring, and management. Their goal is to help their clients explore the full potential of social media marketing, and instill the right social media thinking in their employees. Their social media management tool unifies organically developed products on a single platform, and makes it …

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Tine Thygesen is ready for new adventures

Tine Thygesen has decided to change course – after eight years as a CEO she now becomes marketing manager for the upcoming Danish startup Colego. So announces Tine Thygesen in her own blog. In the blog post, she tells that she has decided to devote her talents to Colego, where she will lead a marketing and communication team of eight people. …

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Improved workflow through Fuse

When creating apps, designers and developers begin by making wireframes and mockups of their concepts, which then has to be redone with code when the building process begin. Fuse look to change this workflow, through a unique app development platform. The Fuse team was one of the Nordic startups represented at South By Southwest in Austin, Texas. Introducing Fuse Fuse …

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Interview with the founder of Spotify

The Swedish media, Breakit, have interviewed Daniel Ek, Founder of Spotify, about why he is not worried about Spotify’s losses, the future of the pharmaceutical industry, what he thinks about the lack of women in startup companies and the lack of housing opportunities in Stockholm. It has been a few years since Daniel Ek lined up for a longer interview with the …

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MEE receive over a quarter million dollars in growth loan

MEE has created a mobile payment system, which they have tested in numerous shops in Randers, Denmark, throughout the last six months. With a growth loan from Vækstfonden, a Danish state investment fund, behind them, is MEE ready to conquer the rest of Denmark. MEE is ready to challenge the other mobile payment solutions, which have gained momentum over the past …

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More great news: Realm obtains $20 million investment

Realm, a Danish startup that has created an innovative mobile database, has received an investment round of $20 million led by Khosla Ventures and Scale Venture Partners. Realm, formerly known as TightDB, has created a unique mobile database that runs many times faster than their competitors’ solutions. The database takes up so little space, which makes it perfect for mobile …

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Swedish student organization inspire students to become entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs Academy is a Swedish student organization from Uppsala University, which want to encourage the students and turn all the knowledge at the university into willpower, to become entrepreneurs. Uppsala, the fourth largest city of Sweden with more than 40.000 students, has a growing startup community but the students are leaving for Stockholm because it is bigger, somewhat close by …

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Women in Tech

The Danish entrepreneur Camilla Ley Valentin, who is co-founder and CCO in Queue-it, has just been recognized by Inspiring Fifty, as one of the fifty most inspiring women in Europe’s technology industry. In this context, the British Prime minister invited to roundtable discussion, on the challenges European women face when entering the tech world. Inspiring Fifty is a pan-European program …

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Nordic startups stick to their domestic market

A majority of the best Nordic startups are content with being on the domestic market, and has no ambitions for global and international success, even though they have the potential to create tomorrow’s global successes. It is looking good for the best Nordic startups, especially on their domestic market. EY’s Nordic Entrepreneurship Survey 2015, show that less than half have …

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Real-time social heat maps by Heatcord

Heatcord is a Swedish startup that has created a real-time social heat map that helps people find the excitement, places and crowd that fits their personality and mood of the day. Their vision is to crowdsource the world’s first social map. Many people decide on where to go based on what other people do. No one wants to spend time …

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Book your fishing trip with Fishtrip

Two Danish engineers and recreational fishing enthusiasts have created a unique platform, which makes the booking of fishing trips on board of fishing vessels in Denmark a breeze. Fishtrip is a unique booking platform for fishing trips in Denmark. Fishtrip simplifies the process of booking a trip by giving people, an easy overview of the available choices and the ability …

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Recap from CROWD15 in Copenhagen

CROWD15, the biggest crowdsourcing and crowdfunding conference in the Nordics, was held 26 and 27 of February. The conference was held in Copenhagen’s stock exchange’s facilities  and Nordicstartupbits was present at the event. The CROWD15 conference had a content rich program, with several speakers from some of the most successful startup, which focus on the strength of crowdsourcing and crowdfunding in …

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Showmybuy empower e-shops

Showmybuy is a word of mouth marketing’s platform, which ensures better and more trustworthy marketing by utilizing the social media, and the power of personal recommendations. Traditional banner marketing is being highly neglected by internet users and banner marketing is in a negative trend. Swedish startup, Showmybuy, has created a social shopping service, which take advantage of customers’ use of …

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Trust is the currency of the security industry

Crowdcurity, a startup that is helping companies test their resilience against hackers, realized from the beginning, that trust was crucial if they wanted any customers. On the fourth floor of a building, on one of the better locations in downtown San Francisco, sits the core of the Danish startup Crowdcurity, with 11 employees. The road from the good idea, to …

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Get connected with Heaps and Blendin

Many startups are trying to make money on the popularity of social networking applications. Two Nordic startups, Icelandic Blendin and Danish Heaps, have created two very similar products that both focus on connecting people for parties. Everyone love spending time with friends, but everyone is always busy, making it hard to coordinate nights out, parties or other social events. Social networking …

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Holvi – Banking for small businesses

There are 40 million small business owners in Europe alone. The one thing they all got in common is that every small business needs a bank account, as well as tools to take care of their business. Holvi is looking to fill that need. Currently there are 40 million small business owners in Europe, making the micro business segment the …

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#4 Nordic Co-working Spaces: Rainmaking Loft Copenhagen

Rainmaking Loft is a new Danish co-working space for tech entrepreneurs, which is opening this week at Holmen in Copenhagen. It is the biggest of its kind in Scandinavia with room for 320 residents. Rainmaking Loft Copenhagen is the biggest IT startup co-working space in Scandinavia. It is located in a historic warehouse, which is modernized to fit the need …

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Startup Extreme Is Not Your Average Tech Conference

Startup Extreme is a two-day technology conference in the end of June. Three hundred invited guests, consisting of international investors, tech media, community leaders and tech stars from Norway and the rest of the Nordics, will be experiencing the extremes of Norway’s fjords and mountains. In the mountains of Voss Three hundred invited guests, consisting of international investors, tech media, …

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#3 Nordic Co-working Spaces: MESH

MESH is a Norwegian co-working and event space in downtown Oslo, which is connecting and accelerating the startup scene in Norway. MESH believe that Norway’s future should be dependent on talented people creating startups instead of the North Sea oil. MESH is a big house for the entrepreneurs and creative minds of Oslo, located in a 2500 square meter four …

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Danish startup hit by bad luck

Every entrepreneurs worst nightmare became a reality for Danish startup, Sesame Labs, just a few days before they were about to launch their smart lock. An US based startup beat them to the punch and launched a similar product with an identical name. Sometimes fate plays cruel tricks and you are tempted to ask yourself “What are the odds?” This …

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