50 people have joined forces to build a unique creative retreat out of the former airport on the idyllic island in the Northern Norway, Lofoten.  Here, in the intersection of nature, sky and ocean, tech, gaming and art you can explore and create. Where is it? Værøy is an island in the Lofoten Islands archipelago in the Northern Norway. These …

Finland’s OURA ring takes a stab at the wearables market with a  “smart ring” this wearable offers a variety of features and functionality unrivaled in the space, particularly when it comes to sleep tracking. The company claims it’s the “world’s most advanced wearable for getting more restorative sleep.” What exactly is it though, outside of your average smart ring? OURA …

Automating the Hiring Process with 50skills Hiring new people and expanding the team is certainly a mark of progress, but it nevertheless adds to the company costs. The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) estimates the costs related to new hiring at $4,129, while also pointing out that the average time for filling in a position is 42 days. The …

A Virtual Fight Against Corruption It’s estimated that 30% of money globally allocated is diverted through acts of corruption annually. Oslo-based social business EnlightAID has the goal to prevent fund misuse with its platform that reads, records, and reports on transactions that happen during fundraising and social and environmental projects. Founders Veronica Celis and Klaus Hatle met in Canada in …

The Sports Fans Are Now in Front of Their Mobile Phones Believing that the biggest sports audience is not at the stadium, but at home with their mobile phones, Mikael Kojo, an experienced graphic designer from Finland, founded a company and launched an application for sport-themed graphics, posted on social media by the clubs and athletes. Because social media presence …

Healthy Meals Delivery for People in Lack of Time and Money The number of times we opt for food delivery often surpasses cases when we choose to cook our own healthy meal, and times have come when home cooking shouldn’t be our only option for healthy nurture. Even when it occurs the take-out food to be healthy and rich in …

Nightingale Health Enables Preventive Healthcare Teemu Suna and his company Nightingale Health want to help stop the more than 15.5 million deaths from heart disease each year, by focusing on testing and prevention. Nightingale Health says their screening is low cost and three times more accurate than current clinical tools for detecting early heart disease and diabetes. When we look …

Kara Connects Clients with Therapists in a Virtual Office Kara Connect is a startup that was founded in 2015 in Reykjavik by Thorbjorg Vigfusdottir, a former city councilor with a Master’s degree in Education. Building a dedicated team of programmers and healthcare professionals, she has focused on addressing a major challenge pressing the healthcare industry, as well as the education. …

Finding the Way in the Complexity of Clinical Data SMART-TRIAL, a solution developed by Danish IT company MEDEI, helps medical device manufacturers find their way in the complexity of clinical data. It comes at a time when EU Medical Device Regulation introduced in May 2017 puts in place new requirements for the medical device manufacturers. Some of these requirements, such …

Insubalance, the Food Supplement That Can Prevent Diabetes With the number of diabetes patients on the rise, the Norwegian startup Lion Healthcare has focused on shifting from the traditional healthcare that includes treatment once the disease is diagnosed and instead is positioning a solution that would prevent the pre and early-stage type 2 diabetes. The experienced team led by Zy …

AI and Machine Learning Take Over the Project Management Software No matter if it’s the public sector, the businesses or the NGO, project implementation and management is something each institution wants to handle seamlessly, and this is exactly where the Danish startup Forecast steps in with their solution to utilize new technology in project management or more accurately, to achieve …

Platform That Pinpoints Potential Clients Using AI One of the main challenges of the sales teams is customer acquisition in minimal time, but so far, a lot of time is spent on prospecting and negotiation, without having precise indicators whether a deal can be made. The startup Vainu showed that traditional sales prospecting is inefficient and they transformed the disorganised …

Flexibility Is the Future of Work Many people today have turned to flexibility and want to work from other places except their offices and homes. They need places that will be both affordable and inspiring, located in urban areas with nice surroundings. That’s why Danish startup Sp8ces wants to transform some of Copenhagen’s most beautiful places into co-working spaces and …

Next-Generation Customer Service Powered by AI Customer satisfaction is an integral part of any business and the invested customer service can be a step forward in reaching that aim. However, finding the proper means to communicate with the customers is not a simple process, and it could reflect on the company business operations. In the U.S. alone, poor customer service …

Inaccurate Time-Tracking Is Over Mathias Mikkelsen was working at an agency and was really frustrated by the inaccurate methods that businesses were using to track time. That’s why he decided to create Timely and help everyone who needs to track their time for work or simply control their time. The startup was founded in December 2013 and currently counts 24 …