Events

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 …

One of Denmark’s most spectacular scenes provide the framework for TechBBQ 2015 – a festival for the country’s startup environment. By Torben Kloster The event frames investors, the national Nordic Startup Awards final, barbeque, big business, entrepreneurs and a lot of brave speakers on stage. Wednesday May 20 the Opera House in Copenhagen hosts TechBBQ 2015. With more than 30 speakers …

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 …

Becoming a successful game developer in Denmark is not easy. Yet Steffen Kabbelgaard Grønning, the CEO of the Copenhagen game developing company BetaDwarf, has managed to stand out.   By Jesper K. Kristiansen  In 2011, Steffen Kabbelgaard Grønning and his BetaDwarf cofounder, Kenneth Harder, were both medialogy students at Aalborg University, Ballerup dreaming of becoming game developers. There was only …

Yesterday the Icelandic startup community got together at Reykjavik University, courtesy of Klak Innovit, Nyherji, and Stjornvisi, to find out who were the Icelandic winners Nordic Startup Awards 2015. (photo credit: Haraldur Gudjonsson) “We are proud to connect with the nordic startup scene and other community leaders through the Nordic Startup Awards. It’s a great platform to bring attention to …

Danish Drinkster won the ‘Student Startup Award’ at Nordic Startup Awards 2012 You can now take part in deciding who should be praised at the Nordic startup scene. The voting for Nordic Startup Awards 2015 is now open. Among other things you can vote for ‘Startup of the Year’, ‘Founder of the Year’ and ‘Best Office Space’. A few honourable …

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 …

Entrepreneurs who want to develop mobile technologies, can now apply for a participation in Startupbootcamp Mobile 2015 in Copenhagen. By Torben Kloster They call themselves the world’s leading accelerator program within mobile technologies, devices and solutions. Startupbootcamp has existed since 2010, and now there is only 10 days until deadline for applications to the mobile version in 2015. Startupbootcamp Mobile 2015 offers startups an …

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 …

Do you have what it takes to boost the business of five major organisations? Then attend Reverse Pitching 3.0 in Helsinki, Finland at the 17th of April and show off your talent. Special focus: Media The focus of this edition of Reverse Pitching is Media and Aller, Alma Media, DNA and YLE as well as the energy company Helen are …

Startup Iceland is the first of its kind in Iceland. Among other things, it is a yearly conference build on a philosophy and mission of building a sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystems in Iceland. The conference takes place in May and welcomes startups and entrepreneurs from all over the world to participate. While other startup events often have a certain agenda – …

With a still growing pool of awards awaiting the most innovative ideas, STARTER has decided to postpone the application deadline for their Startup Contest. The new deadline is May 4.  The infoShare Startup Contest in Poland gives you a chance to win 10,000 euro in cash plus an opportunity to tap into the pool of further 850,000 euro accumulated by investors. At the …

The World Cup Tech Challenge was launched in 2014. Now, startups from all over the world are welcomed to sign up for the 2nd Annual World Cup Tech Challenge. So if you wish to compete for the coveted World Championship title in Silicon Valley this summer read on here. World Cup Tech Challenge is for the next generation of the …

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 …

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, …

Denmark’s largest startup conference kicks off on May 20th, when TechBBQ opens its doors for the third time. The event offers a full day of focused learning, valuable networking and delicious food. The organizing team is preparing for another amazing conference where we celebrate success and learn from stories delivered by Denmark’s elite startup founders. This year, TechBBQ is gearing …

Elance was back with Expert Night on Wednesday, February 4, this time with the theme “Funding for startups”. It was a packed meeting room at Rocket Labs on Wednesday, February 4, which could welcome a number of experienced entrepreneurs who responded to questions and shared their best advices to get funding. The panel had Tine Thygesen, Founders House, Martin von …

Do you want to learn from other entrepreneuers’ mistake? We have collected 5 books that every entrepreneur should read to improve their chances of building their billion dollar company. 1. Peter Thiel: Zero to One The co-founder of PayPal and angel investor in Facebook, Peter Thiel, has written a book about how to build the future. In the book Peter …

There are probably only a few who understand the value of networking and meeting the right people better than Martin Ferro-Thomsen, the founder of Conferize – an open platform for professional events. Martin Ferro-Thomsen sees the upcoming TechBBQ event as an important meeting point for the founders of major startups in the region. We sat down with him to discuss his …

Falcon Social is a social media management platform based out of Copenhagen. Under the leadership of CEO Ulrik Bo Larsen, the company has grown from 4 to 130 employees in about 15 months, acquired an impressive roster of international customers,  as well as raised $9.33 million in seed and Series A venture capital. We sat down with him to hear more …