The world’s first smoothie vending machine company sees phenomenal response on crowd funding platform. In 2007, when cancer researcher Astrid Friborg attended a lecture on entrepreneurship for a course that she took in parallel with her doctoral research, she was struck by a brainwave. A juice bar had won a competition, and she wondered if she could do something with …

With his background in developing SMS services, Daniel Döderlein was annoyed by the fact that money could not change hands as easily and quickly as sending a text message. Döderlein decided to figure out why. The idea of sending and receiving money instantly using your mobile phone came to Döderlein in the summer of 2006, about a year prior to …

Last year, the Finnish startup conference SLUSH was at NASDAQ in New York to ring the bell. This year, Nordic startup friends got an idea during a visit to Founders House in Copenhagen. After two months of countless emails and Skype conversations, a group of passionate people from the Nordic startup community created a grassroots initiative and a common hashtag. …