From Guatemala to Holland to Singapore: this year’s winners of the “Oscars” for designers come from all over the world to receive the prize in Helsingor. The Index Award: Design to Improve Life is widely recognized as the most important and prestigious design award in the world.  For the past ten years, an international jury has awarded the prize for the …

Per Emanuelsson, co-founder of Soundtrap, is building an easy-to-use online recording studio. Originally published in #NordicMade magazine While there is no standard recipe for success, one thing is clear: success typically comes to those who enjoy what they are doing. Stockholm based entrepreneur Per Emanuelsson is a great example of that. He and his friends and co-founders Björn Melinder, Gabriel …

Thomas Helms, CEO and co-founder of Vaavud, is building a crowdsourced weather platform…a Waze for weather Everyone has experienced a weather forecast that did not quite hold true and experienced how it can ruin everything from picnics to a wedding party. The wind meters developed by Danish startup Vaavud aim to fix that problem. Vaavud is a crowdsourced weather service …

Gulnaz Khusainova, founder of EasySize, uses big data to know your body size better than you do. Originally written in #NordicMade Magazine, August 25th, 2015. The Nordic countries are booming with fashion technology startups like Son of A Tailor, Miinto, Fits. me, The Cloakroom, Heelosophy or EasySize. EasySize is the Copenhagen-based, data-driven technology startup that digs into online-retailers databases to …

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. …

One of Europe’s largest online fashion retailers, Zalando SE, is expanding their technology operations internationally by opening a new technology hub in Helsinki. On August 27th they welcomed their new local team to the company. By Dorte Primdahl Møberg Focusing on the development of innovative customer-facing products, such as fashion apps, Zalando aims to boost its fashion platform and increase …

  Marius Klausen is the Product Manager and co-founder of AIRTAME. His career as a successful entrepreneur had already started when he was 19. Story and photos by Josefine Maria Hansen AIRTAME’s office is on the second floor through a courtyard on a street outside the city of Copenhagen. I will be meeting with Marius Klausen, Product Manager and co-founder of …

Church communication platform Churchdesk announced on August 20th that they have raised an investment round of almost 14 million.  The round was led by venture capital company Mangrove Capital Partners.  By Tina Søndergaard Thorsen   The Danish startup Churchdesk,  established in 2012, has raised $2 million dollars from venture capital company Mangrove Capital Partners, which is located in the UK. …

Kasper Kim Smidt is the new COO in the Copenhagen office community Founders House, located in  Startup Village CPH.  The new COO is only 25, but already has an impressive resume behind him. And he only looks forward. By Josephine Maria Hansen I meet Kasper Kim Smidt at Islands Brygge in Copenhagen’s  Founders House,  a part of the larger startup …

There are not enough female tech entrepreneurs, says Camilla Ley Valentin, former winner of Ivækst’s Female Entrepreneur of the Year award. And she has a few ideas about why that is. Read her top 5 pieces of advice for women who dream of taking the plunge into entrepreneurship. By Josephine Maria Hansen According to Camilla Ley Valentin, CCO and co-founder of …

By Tina Søndergaard Thorsen and Sisse Melsen On the 14-16 of August, Camp Ven #2015 was held for the first time.  Entrepreneurs and startup players from the Øresund region were invited to spend the weekend on the island of Ven, located between Sweden and Denmark.  The concept was simple: to gather 50 people for an ‘unconference’ in idyllic surroundings. The …

When a knee injury forced footballer Philip Haglund to miss a season for football club IFK Gothenburg, he knew he had to do something different during his time for recuperation. Haglund chanced upon an article that talked about how as a society we were moving away from cash-based transactions to paperless or digital money. Haglund realized that along with such …

The Stockholm-based e-commerce platform Tictail raised close to 190 million SEK last week from a clutch of existing and new investors. In what can be dubbed as the one of the largest venture deals this year for the Nordic Startup community, Swedish e-commerce major Tictail has just closed a financing round of $ 22 million, which is about 190 million …