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Are you currently working from your own home and do you have excess space? Then why not share this space with other people also working from their home? The Swedish movement Hoffice facilitates home sharing in a new innovative way. It is a philosophy, and a network of people who wants to work together for free in each others’ homes …

The Icelandic startup scene rejoice after three new VC funds open within the first week of February. There has been talk about creating new VC funds in Iceland for years. As both of the current Icelandic VC funds, NSA Ventures and Frumtak, have been fully invested for years with little flexibility towards new investments. The Icelandic startup scene can rejoice …

UBER breaks their own record week by week – new investment and a very high valuation have been a part of UBERs short history. The total raised capital since the birth of UBER is insanely 2.7 billion dollars. But how can a six-year-old company be worth more than the iconic Harley Davidson, the cereal brand Kellogg’s or Mattel, one of …

Kahoot is Norwegian game-based classroom response application aiming to allow teacher to engage students in a fun, interactive and innovative way. The application allows users to create quizzes, discussions and surveys in real time that students can access on any web browser. From gameshow to lecture quiz Kahoot was conceptualized by Norwegian University of Science and Technology professor Alf Inge …

The event organizing startup Conferize has now launched a free version for smaller event organizers. Conferize was founded by entrepreneur Martin Ferro-Thomsen who also co-founded the startup succes Issuu that moved to San Francisco back in 2011. Martin Ferro-Thomsen and his team of 10 people are working straight out of Founders House, the first tech co-working space in Copenhagen that …

The startup community in Stockholm has its own hashtag for the social media called #sthlmtag, the startup community in Oslo has its own hashtag called #Siliconfjord, and the startup community in Copenhagen has introduced its own hashtag called #cphftw. The startup community of the second largest city in Denmark, Aarhus has recently introduced its own hashtag – called #AARsome. Behind …

Are you ready to get out of the basement and move your startup into a real office? Before you get yourself locked into a lease, consider trying a co-working space! They are affordable, flexible and full of like-minded people. This is the first article in a series about co-working spaces in the Nordic region. A co-working space is often a …

Norwegian Zwipe has created the world’s most power efficient, secure fingerprint algorithm. Based on this algorithm, the company is now developing the world’s first fingerprint authenticated contactless payment card: the Zwipe MasterCard. With this PIN code free solution the company promises the possibility of a one second payment process. A vision of a PIN, password and signature free future In …

Raft is a new social startup, that have developed a calendar app for everyone that wants to have a better way to plan their life together with their partner and friends. The three founders had previously founded an app development agency called Lonely Duck. They grew that company to ten employees and delivered global apps to brands such as Puma, …

Some statements When I went through internet looking for these two words together: Startup & Oslo, I actually got gladly surprised. “The start-up scene in Norway is changing, and it is changing fast. An eco-system of organisations facilitating for innovation ensures the realization of creative economy benefits in Norway” (15/04/2014 Source: Aron Rolfsen) “Startup culture is on the rise and …

  Followmusic wanted to change the way you get updates about your favorite artists, concerts, new albums, music news and upcoming events. Martin Gammeltoft is co-founder of Followmusic together with his sister, the famous Danish DJ and radio anchor Le Gammeltoft who has a sublime network to musicians around the world. This sounds like a perfect cocktail for a team …

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 …

Danish start-up Airtame just received 1.4 million of seed funding from angel investor and Libratone-founder Tommy Andersen and SEED Capital. This is after Airtame successfully raised 1.3 million from crowd-funding site Indiegogo in late 2013 The money will be used to fund a full product launch of Airtame’s HDMI device which lets users share content from their devices wirelessly.  Airtame …

Søren Arnsbo, Founder, Co-Owner and CIO of Arnsbo Media, talk about his new startup Fliva and his experiences at TechCrunch Disrupt. Product videos are hot at the moment. Retailers with product videos on their site report much higher average order values and conversion rates. A survey including big retailers like Best Buy, show that more than 55 percent of retailers …

The world-famous rapper and businessman Jay-Z enters music streaming by buying Aspiro, the parent company of two subscription services, TIDAL and WiMP for $56.2 million through his own firm, Project Panther Bidco. A spokesperson from Project Panther state said that their “strategic ambition” for Aspiro is to scale the Aspiro’s platform, technology and services. WiMP, which launched in 2010 currently, …

GoMore, which is one of the largest co-driving websites in Denmark, has launched a new disruptive app. The app has a design that should make it even more fun and convenient to find a co-driver on your trips. GoMore expects that they with the introduction of this new app will facilitate more than 300,000 trips in Denmark in 2015. The …

Nordic Startup Bits have met the prominent Nordic angel investor, Hampus Jakobsson, to a talk about the Nordic startup scene and his thoughts about Nordic entrepreneurs. He has invested in 32 startups, with an average investment of 50-100,000 dollars pr. startup. Hampus is located in Malmö, Sweden, from where he has a very close connection to the Nordic startups. “Generally …

The popular digital health application Endomondo has been sold to the fitness brand Under Armour. The fitness app has been downloaded over 24 million times from users around the world since they started back in 2007. Access to the data of these millions of users is the likely motivation of Under Armour’s acquisition of Endomondo. Endomondo contains user profiles and …

Algorithms surround us in our everyday life. They help us find information, and make informed decisions. Take Autouncle.com for example, the Danish company based in Aarhus helps people buy or sell used cars based on a specific market, car model, brand, amount of kilometers, and other variables, all through an algorithm they named AutoScore. There are a lot of areas, …

Back in 2009 Heini Zachariassen walked around in the Danish supermarkets and considered which wine that he should buy. When he wanted to watch a film he used IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes to get the crowds’ opinion, but there were no tool where you as a wine consumer could rate the wine that you drink. Therefore Heini Zachariassen and Theis …