The Nordic Startup Media project is still in its infancy, but holds immense potential in branding and promoting the Nordic startup community as a whole. Oddly enough, this project started as an idea between natural competitors covering the Nordic region. Various media projects across the Nordics are every day trying to help promote and thus grow that Nordic startup scene. …

The outdoor adventure app TurApp wants to be the number one of its kind in the world. The Norwegian startup has had an amazing start, and is just about to expand to new countries and introduce their new improved 2.0 version of the app. By Cristian Morales and Christina Klavsen TurApp is a digital tool that puts outdoor regions and national parks …

Finnish startup Gizlo lets you give feedback on your experience at restaurants, bars etc. benefitting both customers and businesses. So you have been to this new trendy place, but did not feel there was a reason for it to be hyped. And you maybe had a surprisingly positive dining experience in a restaurant you passed in front a lot of …

In a world where content means everything, Finnish software startup Neonto claims that their tool makes it possible for anyone to create an app from an idea. Mobile software development is generally difficult – especially if one wants to make things ‘right’. Neonto Studio is a free Mac app (requires OS X 10.9 or newer) that creates native iOS and Android …

Serial entrepreneur, investor and Managing Partner at Prehype, Henrik Werdelin believes that making the same mistakes as others have is a waste of time. Therefore, he is passing on some of his best learnings here in this article. “It suddenly hit me; I had been working for 15 years and according to the data I will live to be 100. …

A Nordic partnership of key players in the Nordic crowdfunding scene is committed to developing an ever more crowdfunding-friendly Nordic region. The cross Nordic alliance was officially established in March 2014 by the founding members from Denmark, Norway, Finland and Iceland with the University of Agder’s Center for Entrepreneurship in Norway as the project coordinator. Has raised almost €5 million …

If you planning on going to an event – e.g. the two-day tech conference Startup Extreme taking place in Voss, Norway, from June 17 to 19 or the STHLM TECH Meetup in Stockholm June 23 – then prepare your self with these tips for event-goers presented by Laila Pawlak. Laila Pawlak is the founder of DARE2, including the professional playground DARE2mansion …

The incubator Startup Lab is housing more than 60 fledgling companies – Norway’s most ambitious technology startups. A few month ago I wrote an article about the Startup Scene in Oslo, where I mentioned how gladly surprised I got discovering an amazing eco-system of organizations facilitating for innovation. I remember, while I was diving into the big ocean of possibilities, discovering …

Over the past couple of years, there has been a boom in the number of Nordic startups looking to set up camp in the US. This boom has led Nordic Innovation to establish the Nordic Innovation House in startup mecca, Silicon Valley. 93 companies in eight months Nordic Innovation House is funded by an alliance of Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Icelandic and …

MotilityCount is ready to go to market with their sperm quality home test called SwimCount. Last Monday the launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indegogo. By Torben Kloster Having to make a sperm quality test on cue at a clinic can be a bit of an uncomfortable experience for men. Therefore, the company MotilityCount is now trying to make the sperm …

Last summer, Templafy received a 20 million DKK investment. The money was going to be used for product integration with the enterprise segment and attract the best talents in the business. Now they have recently entered into a collaboration with Microsoft.  By Christina Klavsen and Tina Søndergaard The Danish startup Templafy has developed a cloud-based service, which ensures that organisations can …

Facebook ad management looks deceptively simple. Sure, anyone can do it, but only the best practices resulting from painstaking trials and errors provide optimal/wanted results. Smartly.io is a Finnish startup that promises better and simpler platform for advertisers made through that process. Soon after the launch of Smartly.io in 2013, they became trusted partners in Facebook Marketing Partner community in building tools …

The Nordic region is experiencing an entrepreneurial blossoming. Nordic Innovation wishes to brace the progress and is therefore currently running ten different projects to help strengthen the Nordic startup ecosystem. In the individual Nordic states there are several initiatives working to support the flourishing environment, both public such as the ‘Væksthus’-initiative in Denmark or private such as the grassroot organization #sthlmtech in …

Emfit QS (Emfit quantified-sleep) is a device that can help users optimize their fitness performance by tracking heart rate variability. The company Emfit has a long track record, but is now pivoting into a fast growing health tech company. The device itself is a non-contact monitoring system that is unobtrusively installed under the mattress and it provides comprehensive reports about physical …

In this TED Talk Bill Gross explains why one certain factor is often essential for startups to succeed. Bill Gross, founder of Idealab, a business incubator focused on new ideas, got curious about why some startups succeed and other fails. Therefore he gathered data from hundreds of companies (100 Idea Lab startups and 100 non-Idea Lab startups). He ranked each of …