Make the World Listen to You Get Sandwich is a startup that wants to help people who are struggling with public speaking by providing them with a library of authentic practice videos. The startup was founded in 2017 by Min’an Tan and Martha Winata, who were also struggling with their public speeches. They believe that improving people’s public speaking skills …

Making Your Home Smart Has Never Been Easier Swedish startup Sensative has created the world’s thinnest door and window sensor. The Strips sensor is a very flexible and accurate Z-Wave sensor that notifies users when something is wrong thanks to its connection to other smart devices in the home. The startup also offers other IoT products and services. Fredrik Westman …

The Future of Addiction Treatment Is Digital Kontigo Care follows the personal journey of its founder, Daniel Benitez, who during his alcohol addiction treatment struggled with alcohol relapses even though he received good treatment. He has not been the only case though. Finding out that traditionally 8 out of 10 patients will relapse into addiction, he decided to work on …

People with Disabilities Are Missing out Places and Events Because of Lack of Info Disabled people who travel might find themselves in an uncharted area full of obstacles and miss places worth visiting just because these locations lack information about accessibility. Now, Travable, a mobile application from an Icelandic startup with the same name is looking to change that. Designed …

The Risk of Making a Bad Business Decision When Lending Can Be Reduced by Using AI Waiting to know the fate of a credit request by sitting on a chair in a bank and facing a clerk across the desk might soon become a thing of the past. In an era when so many things are done over the internet …

TRINE, the Crowdfunding Platform That Has Helped Nearly 230 Thousand People Get Access to Clean Energy Crowdfunding today is another global trend that is growing continuously. Since its emergence in the late 2000s, it has become popularized due to the individual’s decision-making process as one of the main features, and its viral nature, as it is based on the web. …

Technology in a Mission for Preventing Heart Diseases “Our vision is saving at least 1 million lives each year,” say the creators of Heartstrings, Allen and Max Mohammadi, and with a vision this concrete and ambitious, is a company not set for success? Their idea, which was born after seeing a senior individual at a family party having an instant …

How Can Hotels Improve Their Guest Journey with Bookboost? Businesses today are facing new challenges posed mainly by the changing customer behaviour. New trends are being set by the millennials, dubbed the “experience generation”, whose expectations are primarily based on experiences rather than the sense of ownership. This generation has, as such, affected the creation of new business models where …

Zadaa fights fast and unsustainable fashion with an app Fast fashion has become yet another challenge in dealing with sustainability or the lack there of, which is why we’ve been seeing a palate of initiatives that try to tackle this issue. These initiatives, transform in tech-based solutions very often, and a perfect example is the Finnish startup Zadaa which has …

Mobile Games Going More Social Is the New Gaming Trend By believing that mobile game players will find a more social and personalized experience while playing very satisfactory, the Icelandic startup Teatime Games is aiming to revolutionize the mobile gaming landscape. The four founders, Thor Fridriksson, Gunnar Holmsteinn, Johann Thorvaldur Bergthorsson, and Ymir Finnbogason call themselves industry veterans and are …

Automating the Hiring Process with 50skills Hiring new people and expanding the team is certainly a mark of progress, but it nevertheless adds to the company costs. The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) estimates the costs related to new hiring at $4,129, while also pointing out that the average time for filling in a position is 42 days. The …

A Virtual Fight Against Corruption It’s estimated that 30% of money globally allocated is diverted through acts of corruption annually. Oslo-based social business EnlightAID has the goal to prevent fund misuse with its platform that reads, records, and reports on transactions that happen during fundraising and social and environmental projects. Founders Veronica Celis and Klaus Hatle met in Canada in …

The Sports Fans Are Now in Front of Their Mobile Phones Believing that the biggest sports audience is not at the stadium, but at home with their mobile phones, Mikael Kojo, an experienced graphic designer from Finland, founded a company and launched an application for sport-themed graphics, posted on social media by the clubs and athletes. Because social media presence …

Healthy Meals Delivery for People in Lack of Time and Money The number of times we opt for food delivery often surpasses cases when we choose to cook our own healthy meal, and times have come when home cooking shouldn’t be our only option for healthy nurture. Even when it occurs the take-out food to be healthy and rich in …

Nightingale Health Enables Preventive Healthcare Teemu Suna and his company Nightingale Health want to help stop the more than 15.5 million deaths from heart disease each year, by focusing on testing and prevention. Nightingale Health says their screening is low cost and three times more accurate than current clinical tools for detecting early heart disease and diabetes. When we look …

Kara Connects Clients with Therapists in a Virtual Office Kara Connect is a startup that was founded in 2015 in Reykjavik by Thorbjorg Vigfusdottir, a former city councilor with a Master’s degree in Education. Building a dedicated team of programmers and healthcare professionals, she has focused on addressing a major challenge pressing the healthcare industry, as well as the education. …

Finding the Way in the Complexity of Clinical Data SMART-TRIAL, a solution developed by Danish IT company MEDEI, helps medical device manufacturers find their way in the complexity of clinical data. It comes at a time when EU Medical Device Regulation introduced in May 2017 puts in place new requirements for the medical device manufacturers. Some of these requirements, such …

Insubalance, the Food Supplement That Can Prevent Diabetes With the number of diabetes patients on the rise, the Norwegian startup Lion Healthcare has focused on shifting from the traditional healthcare that includes treatment once the disease is diagnosed and instead is positioning a solution that would prevent the pre and early-stage type 2 diabetes. The experienced team led by Zy …

AI and Machine Learning Take Over the Project Management Software No matter if it’s the public sector, the businesses or the NGO, project implementation and management is something each institution wants to handle seamlessly, and this is exactly where the Danish startup Forecast steps in with their solution to utilize new technology in project management or more accurately, to achieve …

Platform That Pinpoints Potential Clients Using AI One of the main challenges of the sales teams is customer acquisition in minimal time, but so far, a lot of time is spent on prospecting and negotiation, without having precise indicators whether a deal can be made. The startup Vainu showed that traditional sales prospecting is inefficient and they transformed the disorganised …