Programming of living organisms, super intelligent algorithms and sensors in human bodies. Although this sounds like the distant future, it can soon become a reality. Jakob Svagin, Project Manager at the hardware accelerator of the Danish Tech Challenge, identifies 3 rapidly developing technologies to keep on eye on. According to Jacob Svagin, what is common to all three technologies is …
Read More »“State of the Union”– the Icelandic Startup Community
How is the Icelandic startup scene doing? Here is an overview of what has happened over the last year, using the entrepreneurial ecosystem model developed by Nicolas Collin. This article was originally posted on Startup Iceland. It has been an interesting and inspiring to see what Ken Bautista and Cam Linke with their team have done through Startup Edmonton in …
Read More »“Innovation platform” MESH relaunches as hub for Nordic creators
Calling MESH just a co-working space is way too simplistic. It is a start up itself. It is a networking space. And it has its own hip café and bar. Not to mention the working lounge. Following the MESH website we can define it as hub for the “Nordic Creators’ community”, and brainstorming with founder Anders Mjåset ,we came to …
Read More »Konsoll 2015 Will Be the Largest Norwegian Games Conference
It started with only 74 attendees in 2012, but this year, the Norwegian Game Developers’ Guild’s Konsoll conference in Bergen, Norway, aims to reach nearly 400 attendees. The Norwegian games industry is growing at a fast pace. In 2015, the industry had over 50 game releases, but the country still only has one large games studio, FunCom, which means that …
Read More »MEMRY challenges Facebook and Instagram
Did someone just spam your Facebook or Instagram feed full with pictures and videos? With the amount of content shared in social media increasing constantly, Swedish startup MEMRY wants to help their community share bundles of videos and pictures in albums within their social network. The co-founders of MEMRY, Pelle Kjellqvist and Peter Jundin, first got the idea for their …
Read More »New Breed of Computers Taking Over the World?
Solu Machines is developing a radically new approach to computers by reshaping how devices and people coexist in the connected world. Will this small group of innovative people from a basement in Helsinki be able to alter the course of an entire industry? The founder and CEO of Solu Machines, Kristoffer Lawson, talks about why they chose to take on …
Read More »European cloud startups – $100 million is headed your way!
On October 13th Salesforce Ventures, the investment arm of the cloud service giant, announced that it has earmarked $100 million to invest specifically in European startups. Salesforce Ventures has pumped half a billion dollars into over 150 cloud and enterprise startups since 2009. Though most of those investments focuse on the US, Salesforce Ventures is now getting more serious in …
Read More »Learning Through Gaming
Today, the way we learn differs significantly from the past. Much has changed over a relatively short period of time, and will continue to do so. Developed education technology, or ed-tech, has been fundamental in altering our learning style. One fascinating part of the field includes educational games, which have received much attention and interest. This year, Slush will welcome …
Read More »Norway celebrates Ada Lovelace Day with record-breaking coding class
During Ada Lovelace‘s 200th anniversary Norway led the way with a groundbreaking coding session for hundreds of school girls. Over 200 girls descended upon the Deichmanske, Oslo’s public library, for a packed day of coding.GirlsTechFest took place on the 200th anniversary of Ada Lovelace, the world’s first computer programmer and was part of Oslo Innovation Week, a festival of innovative ideas …
Read More »Trusted identity verification – Authenteq is here!
Authenteq, the Icelandic startup, was selected by CTIA Innovation Council Investor Advisors as one of the five most forward-thinking, innovative companies worldwide in the category of identity management. Trusted. Authentic. Identity. These words describe the Icelandic startup Authenteq. Their great vision and innovative technology, that secures interaction between users of sharing economy and eliminate possible deception, made them a part …
Read More »5 stupid mistakes VCs make
It isn’t only entrepreneurs who sabotage great business ideas by making stupid mistakes. Investors are just as guilty. Last week at Oslo Innovation Week, we talked with Jeanne Sullivan of Starvest Partners, about the 5 stupid mistakes entrepreneurs make over and over again. Of course, as an entrepreneur, “You have to know what to do and how to do it, …
Read More »SBT Aqua’s biosensor stops water-supply contamination in real-time
SBT Aqua‘s stated goal is to “radically improve the standards of water quality control” to prevent the spread of water-born illnesses, and they are not far from making this a reality. As DTU students, founder and CEO Gustav Erik Skands, along with his team, Frederik Peter Aalund (CIO) and Christian Vinther Bertelsen (CTO), discovered that the current way of detecting …
Read More »Tourboks launches tailor-made payment system for the Asian market
Tourboks an online portal that provides tourist attraction activities to the Asian market, is a “Chinese friendly” platform, despite it’s Danish origins. Originally reported in Øresund Startups. It is the sister company of a Danish company, Uniko Holding, which was established in 2009. The firm is now international and has 5 different companies: Uniko ApS, Eurotime ApS, Cafe Apothek Hellerup …
Read More »Oslo Innovation Week sets new standards for the Nordics
More than 60 events have been gathered at the annual Oslo Innovation Week, the largest innovation fair in all of Europe. Ranging from investors meetings to insightful talks and pitch competitions, Oslo became a global arena for connecting, networking, and learning more about innovation in the startup world. The convention catered to circa 9000 participants under the three main themes …
Read More »Lix Technology shakes up the textbook industry
Camilla Hessellund Lastein, Founder & CEO of Lix Technology, is not one to back down and take no for an answer. Having started Lix from a deep need of her own, she has captivated the textbook publishing industry in Denmark, with sights already set on expanding to markets outside of Scandinavia by mid 2016. Originally having started the company in …
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Slush 2024 Side Events (hand picked by the pros)
Slush week is here, and tomorrow there will be snow, eventually turning into Slush… The …
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#ActionMatters 2024 edition – Arctic15
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Hunome is for humans, by humans, and about humans.
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Silo.ai launches at Slush 2023
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Slush 2024 Side Events (hand picked by the pros)
Slush week is here, and tomorrow there will be snow, eventually turning into Slush… The …
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#ActionMatters 2024 edition – Arctic15
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Hunome is for humans, by humans, and about humans.
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Silo.ai launches at Slush 2023