With experience as both a doctor and entrepreneur, Dr. Imran Rashid from Aleris-Hamlet Hospitals has unique insight on how to perform on a high level while maintaining a healthy lifestyle. As an entrepreneur, you need to perform at your very best in order to establish your business and make it a success. However, the process can be stressful and adversely …

Last night, Crowdsourcing Week had a discussion with Theo Priestley about technology and crowds and Nordic Startup Bits joined the #Crowdchat. Here is a recap. What are your 3 predictions for a future when crowds and tech collide? The sourcing of innovation is going to become more open, as companies and government reach out to citizens to incubate ideas. Banking …

People from all over Europe gathered for last week’s Open Innovation Challenge Call at the Copenhagen city hall, where companies and startups bid to solve climate challenges faced by the city. Together with Climate-KIC (Climate Knowledge and Innovation Community), the City of Copenhagen hosted an Open Challenge Innovation Call, which took place last Friday, the 2nd of October.  DTU Lyngby Campus inaugurated …

The fastest growing Internet of Things conference in Sweden is back after great pressure on the organizers. During October 14-15 the Internet of Things conference in Lund is back for the second time this year. After the first conference in April , the pressure on the organizers was so large that they took decision to run a new conference in the autumn …

RetinaLyze is a company that aims to help patients with diabetes suffering from Diabetic Retinopathy, a common complication of the disease, by finding distortions in the retina. It is important innovation, since patients rarely ever notice symptoms before an advanced state of the disease, and by then it has a high probability to cause total blindness. To combat this, RetinaLyze …

Xue Mei spends the evening recording interviews for Dreamhack, the largest digital festival in the world about their DreamHackathons, and game development competitions. Latest information at http://dreamhackathon.se/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFSt_Jqy9RI See Xue Mei’s inteview with Dreamhack  here.

Urska Srsen met her co-founder Sandro Mur on a kitesurfing trip in Croatia. For her, becoming an entrepreneur was a very spontaneous and almost accidental process. Something that started as a project ended up as a business. It all started when Urska’s friend Sandro contacted her mother, one of the leading obstetrical gynecologists in Europe, and started to inquire about …

Today the London-based Octopus Ventures launches a new $140 million fund to provide growth capital to “ successful fast-growing later-stage companies across Europe”, reports Tech Crunch. Last year, Octopus Ventures revealed it had a $91.3 million early stage funds. Today, they launched a new fund focusing on later-stage startups across Europe. Furthermore, the Octopus Zenith Opportunities II LP (also known …

Last summer the Danish startup Templafy received 20 million in venture capital to strengthen product integration within their enterprise segment and attract the best talent in the industry. Now, they have opened their North American headquarters in New York, and solve a niche problem in a global market. Templafy is behind a cloud based service which ensures that organizations can …

The SXSW of Europe, the Reeperbahn Festival, has introduced a special focus on startups – with a twist on the traditional pitch format reflecting the neighborhood’s seedy roots. The Reeperbahn and The Große Freiheit (or the Big Freedom) are part of the red light district of Hamburg, Germany. Back in the 1600’s, the North side of the Reeperbahn belonged to …

This video was originally posted on HYBE. Finnish biohacking expert Teemu Arina talks about the many ways you can track and measure your life to stay on top.

With over 1.6 million apps available on the Android platform and over 1.5 million apps available on Apple, the growing proliferation of apps has amazed many. Consider this from the second most popular app store in the world: So what is driving the App frenzy among users? Quoting A New Domian’s Sandy Beger, and research by Indiana University, effective branding …

Inspired by SXSW, Reeperbahn Festival is Germany’s largest club festival and since its debut in 2006 it has grown to become one of the most important meeting places for the music industry worldwide. In 2009, the organizers introduced a business and startup space at the conference and has partnered with Hamburg Startups to highlight the local and international startup scene …

Slush 2015 will, for the first time ever, feature a Recruiting Area. The focus is to eventually make recruiting an as important part of the event for startups as funding and media coverage are today. The ability to build and grow the team is crucial for flourishing the next generation of world-conquering companies. This year’s Slush will include an unprecedented …

With sleep measurement and gadgets both being red hot topics on crowdfunding platforms, when one of the companies combining the two says, “We made a strict decision not to do an Indigogo or Kickstarter campaign,” it does raise some questions. This article was originally posted on HYBE. Heikki Räisänen, CEO and primary owner of Emfit, a 25-year old company which earlier this year brought …