Norwegian Zwipe has created the world’s most power efficient, secure fingerprint algorithm. Based on this algorithm, the company is now developing the world’s first fingerprint authenticated contactless payment card: the Zwipe MasterCard. With this PIN code free solution the company promises the possibility of a one second payment process. A vision of a PIN, password and signature free future In …

Raft is a new social startup, that have developed a calendar app for everyone that wants to have a better way to plan their life together with their partner and friends. The three founders had previously founded an app development agency called Lonely Duck. They grew that company to ten employees and delivered global apps to brands such as Puma, …

Some statements When I went through internet looking for these two words together: Startup & Oslo, I actually got gladly surprised. “The start-up scene in Norway is changing, and it is changing fast. An eco-system of organisations facilitating for innovation ensures the realization of creative economy benefits in Norway” (15/04/2014 Source: Aron Rolfsen) “Startup culture is on the rise and …

  Followmusic wanted to change the way you get updates about your favorite artists, concerts, new albums, music news and upcoming events. Martin Gammeltoft is co-founder of Followmusic together with his sister, the famous Danish DJ and radio anchor Le Gammeltoft who has a sublime network to musicians around the world. This sounds like a perfect cocktail for a team …

Oceans the dive logging and community app launched this week, after a succesfull beta trial in 2014 they are ready to serve divers around the world. Together with the world’s diving community, Oceans is set to map the teeming oceanic life, vivid landscapes and fragile underwater environment — making it available for everyone to explore. The company was founded in …

Danish start-up Airtame just received 1.4 million of seed funding from angel investor and Libratone-founder Tommy Andersen and SEED Capital. This is after Airtame successfully raised 1.3 million from crowd-funding site Indiegogo in late 2013 The money will be used to fund a full product launch of Airtame’s HDMI device which lets users share content from their devices wirelessly.  Airtame …

Søren Arnsbo, Founder, Co-Owner and CIO of Arnsbo Media, talk about his new startup Fliva and his experiences at TechCrunch Disrupt. Product videos are hot at the moment. Retailers with product videos on their site report much higher average order values and conversion rates. A survey including big retailers like Best Buy, show that more than 55 percent of retailers …

The world-famous rapper and businessman Jay-Z enters music streaming by buying Aspiro, the parent company of two subscription services, TIDAL and WiMP for $56.2 million through his own firm, Project Panther Bidco. A spokesperson from Project Panther state said that their “strategic ambition” for Aspiro is to scale the Aspiro’s platform, technology and services. WiMP, which launched in 2010 currently, …

GoMore, which is one of the largest co-driving websites in Denmark, has launched a new disruptive app. The app has a design that should make it even more fun and convenient to find a co-driver on your trips. GoMore expects that they with the introduction of this new app will facilitate more than 300,000 trips in Denmark in 2015. The …

Nordic Startup Bits have met the prominent Nordic angel investor, Hampus Jakobsson, to a talk about the Nordic startup scene and his thoughts about Nordic entrepreneurs. He has invested in 32 startups, with an average investment of 50-100,000 dollars pr. startup. Hampus is located in Malmö, Sweden, from where he has a very close connection to the Nordic startups. “Generally …

The popular digital health application Endomondo has been sold to the fitness brand Under Armour. The fitness app has been downloaded over 24 million times from users around the world since they started back in 2007. Access to the data of these millions of users is the likely motivation of Under Armour’s acquisition of Endomondo. Endomondo contains user profiles and …

Algorithms surround us in our everyday life. They help us find information, and make informed decisions. Take Autouncle.com for example, the Danish company based in Aarhus helps people buy or sell used cars based on a specific market, car model, brand, amount of kilometers, and other variables, all through an algorithm they named AutoScore. There are a lot of areas, …

Back in 2009 Heini Zachariassen walked around in the Danish supermarkets and considered which wine that he should buy. When he wanted to watch a film he used IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes to get the crowds’ opinion, but there were no tool where you as a wine consumer could rate the wine that you drink. Therefore Heini Zachariassen and Theis …

Norwegian startup Capsule.fm is the team behind the app “Capsule.fm” that mixes your music, news and social media into a live, interactive and personal audio-stream, making it easier to stay informed and entertained on the go. The startup has developed an artificial persona that does all this and more, while maintaining a simple User Interface. The Berlin-based startup is moving …

This is a post by danish entrepreneur Dan Nielsen. Dan is one of the founders of NEST Copenhagen, the first co-living space in Denmark, and here is his notes from a visit from one of Denmark’s most active entrepreneur turned angel investor. Recently I had the fortune of joining about 15-20 other people in an intimate fireside chat with Entrepreneur …