The Nordic rocketship “United Nordics#1” ignites and takes off with a clear mission and goal. The astronauts of United Nordics # 1 are from all parts of the Nordic region, they want help brand the Nordics as super stars to build technology startups To take a man to the mon required a lot of resources and not to compare with …

The Stockholm-based startup FishBrain is the leading social sport fishing app with more than 650,000 users. The team is founded in 2012 by the two Swedish guys, Jens Person and Marcus Fransson. Johan Attby the current CEO came into the picture a year later after selling his previous company, which was located in Silicon Valley. After selling my company I …

It’s a tradition that after the selected teams have been a part of the Danish accelerator program Accelerace – they have the opportunity to pitch in front of hundreds of investors on ‘Investor Day’. Accelerace have chosen teams from the categories Life Science, Technology and Industry. The Investor day began 4.30 pm and lasted until 8 pm. Unlike the other …

The American venture capital firm Sequoia invest $1,500,000 in Mapillary; together with other great CVs. Mapillary is a Swedish street view startup that challenges Google Street View with the goal of mapping the whole world through crowdsourcing. The app makes it possible to share your favorite places with the rest of the world. To date the startup has close to …

Trustpilot, the leading review community for online shoppers, were happy to announce their partnership with Microsoft’s Bing and Yahoo! In late December 2014, Trustpilot announced that their reviews would be displayed through the search engines Bing and Yahoo!, through Bing Merchant Ratings. That means that Trustpilot reviews are now visible through Yahoo!, Bing and Google networks, covering more than 96% …

After a mechanical issue with their flight and a delayed transit in Amsterdam, the French team behind 33entrepreneurs Startup Contest finally made it to Copenhagen. 33entrepreneurs is a French Startup Accelerator touring around Europe in search of candidates for their program in Bordeaux. By Tina Søndergaard While the snow was pouring down, entrepreneurs, the audience, judges and the team behind …

The Danish accelerator program Accelerace has released its 13th batch of startups. Each team receive a small loan and get a close contact with one of the very experienced Accelerace mentors. The new Accelerace team consists of 16 startups and is the following: – www.huuraygroup.com – www.skillpocket.com – www.mediathand.com – www.washa.dk – www.sitpack.dk – www.ingeniumgolf.com – www.miiego.dk – www.leanlinking.com – www.wakeupdata.com – www.dallenergy.com – Neurescue Aps – Northopedica – PETITE …

Don’t act so surprised, Your Highness. You weren’t on any mercy mission this time. Several transmissions were beamed to this ship by Rebel spies. I want to know what happened to the plans they sent you. In my experience, there is no such thing as luck. Partially, but it also obeys your commands. I want to come with you to …

The new, Copenhagen based accelerator program Thinkubator (http://thinkubator.dk/) is a new 10 week growth opportunity for ambitious, early stage startups. It is created by DARE2mansion along with high profile corporate partners. Accepted startups receive free office space at DARE2mansion (www.DARE2mansion.com), a grant of 2000 euro to kick-start their dreams, access to world class knowledge partners like Singularity University, and the …

Tommy Palm, the man credited with creating one of the biggest mobile hits ever, Candy Crush Saga, leaves King.com to found new game studio Resolution Games together with other Swedish veterans. At King, Palm’s title was ‘Game Guru’, and he was responsible for adapting the web version of Candy Crush into the worldwide mobile megahit, Candy Crush Saga, that beyond …

We will at Nordic Startup Bits write about new upcoming startups located around in Europe. The first article will about the photo-sharing app, Shotnote, which is located in Munich (Germany). The company was initiated by the two founders Julian von Eckartsberg (CEO) as well as Nils Ziehn (CTO). Shotnote received funding from promenade German angel investors back in October 2014 …

Echo.it, Opeepl, Voiceboxer. The list of startups which Sortedam Ventures has signed up, counts several succesessuccessful companies. They have now turned to the travel platform, Comundu, and starting from January the two companies will continue their journey together. By Tina Søndergaard You have a great idea for a digital product. You know the market and have a good idea on …

On Nordic Startup Bits we try to filter the startup scene and we will give our reader the best from the week on the social media, Twitter. Daniel Ek, CEO of Spotify, gives advice about how Spotify got to a 50/50 male/female ratio Martin LeBlanc, CEO of Iconfinder, gives his version of why Danes are productive. It might be easier …

Disclaimer: This post is Daniel G.F. Laursen personal thought and comments about Nordic startups bit by bit. Nest, Waze and now Endomondo. Every big technology company in the world is competing in a war zone about user data and companies are acquiring startups that have proven success and millions of users. When Google bought the Israily startup Waze they had 50 …

Recently there has been a trend for unconventional style work experiences for entrepreneurs. Work camps and adventure trips have become popular alternatives for startups to unleash their creativity. By Dinuka Muhandiramge. Startups are typically renown for their cool, funky work spaces. Ping pong tables, sauna-style meeting rooms, faux grass floors are just a few of the unorthodox design styles one …