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Helsinki-based Trip Republic have been nominated for the Travel Technology Disrupt Award, the at the Travel Technology Europe conference in London on February 24-25th.  They are the sole Nordic company nominated this year. Trip Republic has developed a seamless travel planning and booking solution and is currently in beta mode, with plans to launch a full website and iOS application next …

Serial entrepreneur and investor Thor Angelo has thrown his weight behind OrderYoyo, and plans to overtake Just Eat as the go-to service in the Nordics to order food to your home.   OrderYoyo, who received early investment from SEED Capital , are also said to be in dialogue with international investors. Helle Uth, Investment Manager at SEED Capital, explains in a …

While exclusivity has always been a part of the allure at Stockholm’s elite Fashion Week, this year one designer gave unprecedented access to her collection— through virtual reality. Swedish fashion designer Ida Klamborn, in cooperation with the communications company Tele2 have started a project dubbed the Democratic Front Row. Klamborn and others say that young people are the source of inspiration designers, so …

Sustainable Brands is a global business community dedicated to helping shift the world to a sustainable economy.  In anticipation of their Copenhagen conference in 2016, founder KoAnn Skrzyniarz outlines 7 sustainable, global business trends. KoAnn Skrzyniarz  travels around the world working with large brands to promote sustainability while still maintaining a competitive business. “There will be new sustainable ideas and …

Juwan Lee has spent over 30 years working around the world in financial services, before leaving money management to create NexChange, a global social network for the financial services industry. Armed with in-depth experience from the worlds major financial capitals, he shares his insights for the Nordic countries. Fintech, such as electronic finance, digital wallets, and cryptocurrencies, are changing the …

Millennials have grown up with technology, which makes them an entirely new breed of consumer. Armed with their devices, they have the world at their fingertips. But access to more knowledge does not necessarily mean making better choices, or does it? Memories of the financial collapse are firmly embedded in the minds of millennials, which has been attributed to their …

Magnulf Pilskog and Erik Bakstad, two Norwegian consultants who specialized in visualizing large datasets, felt that they kept repeating the same steps over and over again.  Rather than embrace the tedium, they started Ardoq to save them from bureaucratic boredom. Ardoq automatically visualize business processes, so that an organizations documents, business processes, and dependencies on their IT systems can be …

The Cloakroom, a Danish startup specializing in providing men with an online personal shopper, has been acquired by the similar German company Modomoto. The Cloakroom, founded by Kasper Brandi Petersen and Asbjørn Jørgensen, works by putting customers in touch with a personal shopper, who will select outfits that are sent to the customer.  The customer can then select the items …

The world of SEO (search engine optimization) tools has become a jungle, and choosing which tool to promote your website in search engine rankings is a tough decision.  Below, we compare two of the newest SEO tools geared specifically for startups. RankScanner vs SEORanking RankScanner,was developed by Rune Jensen, an active entrepreneur since the age of 14 with experience in …

Firms often hire strategy consultants to move their organizations forward.  But what happens when strategy consultants leave?  The outlooks isn’t good. According to a 2009 study by McKinsey, roughly 70% of organizations fall short of their goals while implementing key strategic initiatives. Many B2B startups tackle management tools, including Podio and Zendesk.  But few address the specific problem of change …

A number of countries are competing to become the world’s first economy to ditch paper currency.  NexChange recently reported that Kevin Jenkins,  managing director of Visa Europe, stated that within five years, cash will be seen as “a peculiar way of paying for things.” But one region stands out as the front runners in the race to become cashless:  the …

As the economy created by alternative finance expands, services like Capdesk will become an essential tool for investors.  Capdesk is a shareholder platform that improves the experience for shareholders of unlisted companies by gathering all investor activities in one place. Although currently only a small percentage of people buy shares in unlisted companies (companies not listed on the stock exchange), …

Investing in startups is not an easy job. As an investor, you are not only betting on a specific startup and team, but often on a market that doesn’t exist yet. Even the best team in the world is doomed to fail if it undertakes the wrong market.  The opposite is not always true. One of the biggest mistakes venture …

Mike Hearn, one of the core developers of Bitcoin, recently wrote a Medium post in which he publicly announced that he will no longer be taking part in Bitcoin development and that “the bitcoin experiment has failed.” A New York Times article soon followed, and then countless other journalists joined in, echoing Hearn’s remarks without attempting to explain the highly …

Everyone has experienced a weather forecast that does not quite hold true and ruins everything from picnics to camping trips. The anemometer developed by the Danish startup Vaavud has set out to solve this problem. Vaavud is a crodwsourced weather service on a mission to deliver personalized weather information in high resolution. It is basically a “Waze for the weather.” …

This past weekend Brussels hosted the first ever Hackathon dedicated to Virtual Reality (VR) in Europe, where close to 100 participants took over the co-working space Co.station to hack the next generation of VR technologies. The event was hosted by a collaboration of MIC.Brussels and impulse.brussels, who supports the development of companies using VR.  20% of the participants came from …

John loves his Friday nights out with his friends. Last Friday, he went out to with his friends to the pub,  had a good time, and picked up the tab for the table at the end of the night with the plan to “settle” the bill later. But we all know what happens next. When “later” arrives, John feels awkward …

A tech-savvy Norwegian school is giving its students the option to play competitive video games, all in the name of education. Playing video games might not sound like something that children should be doing at school, but today a growing of entrepreneurs are calling for schooling systems to adopt a game-style of learning,promise that it could help cut school’s costs …

The VR Hackathon in Brussels kicked off last night, bringing with it the promise of a new world of VR in 2016 and a healthy dose of viking tech-savvy – 20% of the participants came from the surprising VR stronghold of Denmark. Perhaps a sign of things to come,  a surprising number of pitches came from outside the VR stronghold …

After a turbulent year that saw markets riled, commodities plunge, and currencies wither against the dollar, many expected the American dollar to come back out as the top currency in 2015. Instead, the cryptocurrency Bitcoin is being heralded as the best performing currency.  Does this mean everyone is poised to get on board with bitcoin?  Not yet. On the face …