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By Tina Søndergaard Thorsen and Sisse Melsen On the 14-16 of August, Camp Ven #2015 was held for the first time.  Entrepreneurs and startup players from the Øresund region were invited to spend the weekend on the island of Ven, located between Sweden and Denmark.  The concept was simple: to gather 50 people for an ‘unconference’ in idyllic surroundings. The …

When a knee injury forced footballer Philip Haglund to miss a season for football club IFK Gothenburg, he knew he had to do something different during his time for recuperation. Haglund chanced upon an article that talked about how as a society we were moving away from cash-based transactions to paperless or digital money. Haglund realized that along with such …

Garage Technology Ventures, Norway’s StartupLab, and Silicon Valley-based MAD-Partners announced earlier this month the launch of Silicon Valley Catalyst, a new joint venture to fund and grow brilliant emerging European technology companies that are ready to launch in the U.S. The collaboration brings together a team of experienced Silicon Valley and Nordic venture players to provide investment capital and intensive …

Jam-packed STHLM Tech Meetup with Atomico event brought Ngenic, MedUniverse, and Shipwallet on the stage. Who had the best pitch this Tuesday? NSB was there to find out Yet another STHLM Tech Meetup is behind us. If anything, the event, which has been going on for over two years, is getting more and more popular, with sold out tickets for …

Nordic Startup Bits will attend the STHLM Tech Meetup this week, and the doors for the event open up tomorrow, June 23 at 17:30 in Hilton Stockholm Slussen Hotel. One of the most important investors in the tech industry, Atomico, will be on stage, while three of the Stockholm’s hottest startups try to pitch them. If anyone’s wondering why Atomico …

The Nordic One project strives to create an ecosystem for young and experienced entrepreneurs alike with a focus on international growth from day one. Starting a company is a daunting task, no matter which market one starts out in. But being from a city in the Nordic region that would be considered a town in the US – perhaps a …

Swedish startup, Pricelizer is all about creating a great online shopping environment for their customers. The what and the how  is what they believe sets them apart from the competition.   Bought an item online? Then you’ve likely encountered instances when you have failed to follow through with a purchase. This could be down to a variety of reasons. What Pricelizer is aiming …

All are equal before the law. Yet, sometimes it is quite impossible to reach the courtroom and get your rights recognized. Swedish Swiftcourt wishes to change this by making the legal framework accessible, fast and economically affordable. Nowadays, many legal disputes arise as a result of unsatisfactory transactions over the internet. However, these disputes  are not tried in court as …

A few months ago a colleague came to me talking about m-commerce instead of e-commerce, regarding some solutions for my company. Curious idea, I thought, while this guy kept talking about how Mobile Commerce is changing our concept of “Store”. He was really very good explaining to me some of the best practices currently in use on mobile commerce sites …

Featuring over a 100 participants, the Gothenburg Startup Hack set sail on a ten hour journey of discovery and innovation designed to ignite the tech startup-community of Gothenburg, Step aboard to learn more about the events goals and motivations. By Vic Bassey Originally conceived by Andreas Rolén and Linus Olsson, students at Chalmers School of Entrepreneurship, the GbgtechWeek was spawned out from the …

Nordic Startup Bits was there as STING Day was held for the sixth consecutive year. With 65 selected startups and more than 140 investors gathered we were in for a great and inspiring day. STING Day is held by the Stockholm based business incubator STING and took place in Stockholm last week. Photo credit stingsthlm The headline of the day was …

Swedish startup, FutureMe Labs are creators of Lifee – a wristband for kids that motivates physical activity while being entertaining and easy to use. By Vic Bassey Wearable technology company Lifee has moved a step closer to being a real product with the delivery of a prototype to one of its biggest supporters and customers. The delivery was made by …

Weld is a Swedish startup building a browser-based design tool for websites and apps. The vision is to radically simplify app creation for everybody: “app creation as simple as drawing a slide in Keynote”.  By Vic Bassey Welcome to the article about the startup Weld. Before you go any further, STING is the local hero and supporter and helped us …

Stockholm based Universal Avenue is announcing the international launch of their ‘sales as a service’-app today. With $2 million in investment and initial launch brands including e.g. iZettle and Spotify​ Business from Soundtrack Your Brand, Universal Avenue is ready to start helping small and medium size companies advance their businesses by introducing them to innovative solutions by prominent brands. A …

Great news for the population of the Nordic countries! Ngenic, a Swedish startup from Uppsala, has found a way to solve energy management by creating a special thermostat system which can be managed through a mobile, computer or tablet and can help you save up to 15% of energy you are currently wasting. According to Norden, between 1995 and 2010, energy …

Mobile Heights Business Center invites you to a two-day community meetup in Lund,on the 23rd and 24th April. Mobile Heights Business Center, MHBC, is a Swedish business accelerator whom created Nordic Connected Health Star Track, seeking to enhance the success and international scaling of Nordic health startups and so to enable them to compete in the global marketplace. The first day …

Minc’s Wearable Tech Hackathon is welcoming IT enthusiasts for the second time. Hackers in and around the Skåne County are invited to participate in 24 hour intensive hackathon and are challenged to come up with the next wearable tech innovation. What is Minc? Minc is a hub tailored for entrepreneurs and offering such services as coaching and mentoring, office space, networking …

THINGS is Sweden’s first co-working space for hardware startups. The focus is on high growth areas such as Internet of Things, wearables, 3D scanning and printing and medtech. The project is initiated by the incubator STING, which is also behind the co-working space SUP-46. Welcome to the article about the new co-working space THINGS. Before you go any further, STING …

A few weeks ago we introduced startupdocs.se which provides free, balanced and standardized legal documents for Swedish seed stage startups, angel investors and VC firms. Today, the website was launched. Erik Byrenius, founder of startupdocs.se, initiated the project back in 2014. The process of developing the legal documents has been long, and he is happy the the website is now …

Getting rid of your old stuff can be demanding and time consuming. This is why many of us have huge piles of stuff lying around, which we would actually rather sell or give away. Sellpy is an on demand service that undertakes the hassle for you and make sure that you will never see your old stuff again. Michael Arnör, …