December, 2016

• 13 December

  Rainmaking Loft takes home co-working space of the year award

  

  ll the regional winners competed Friday in Kuala Lumpur in Global Startup Awards finale. The winner of this year’s co-working space went to Denmark’s Rainmaking Loft, while the host country took the prize as Startup of the Year. Global Startup Awards started in 2012 in Scandinavia as the Nordic Startup Awards – since at that time, they only covered the …

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• 8 December

  How to smash it at Slush – Industry stars tell all

  

  Slush is finished and if you’re anything like most people you felt overwhelmed by the sheer number of possibilities: from exciting startups and world-famous experts, to inspiring talks and promising parties. So where should you focus your time to get the most out of it next time around? Last week I set out to find the best practical advice to …

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• 8 December

  The “death month” of Helsinki is boon for startups

  

  November weekend in Helsinki for most of us doesn’t sound like the time of our lives – it’s dark, cold and windy in the seaside city. To make matters worse, the Finnish word for November, Marraskuu, by it’s etymological meaning means the month of death, marras origin from the same word family as Latins mors and French’s mort, death – …

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November, 2016

• 24 November

  BlockShow 2017: The blockchain revolution goes to Europe

  

  Blockchain technology is becoming more and more demanded worldwide, and today we all have a unique opportunity to witness “the biggest innovation after the Internet itself” gaining a growing number of implementations – both within and outside the financial sector. This significant process inevitably goes hand in hand with massive informational support – and, consequently, cross-industry popularization of Blockchain. And …

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• 24 November

  Infographic: The updated list of 15 best countries to start a business

  

  The World Bank has just released it’s annual report, “Doing Business in 2017“. Last year we reported on Nordic countries coming in at the top of the best places in the world to do business.  How do this year’s findings compare? These 15 countries in the below infographic, compiled by Market Inspector, rank the highest in their ease of doing …

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• 24 November

  7 Reasons the global construction industry needs to innovate

  

  The construction sector plays an imperative role in the evolution of businesses and society as a whole, and while there is continued interest in determining how to enhance innovation in this industry, little moves forward in the right direction. Despite its high contribution to the evolution of prosperous societies around the world, construction is much too often considered to lag …

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• 22 November

  Medihub: “We hit the bottom but now are on the way to the top”

  

  Medihub, an Estonian startup founded in spring 2015 aim at building up a kind of database in which patients can search for affordable and creditable clinics, the services of which suit their needs best. CEO Helary Lainjärv gives us some insight into the company’s past, present and future. You’ve been working as a physician for over 8 years now, so …

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• 20 November

  A year after SXSW win, Tinnitracks poised for global success

  

  Tinnitracks is a digital health startup that treats tinnitus through an inventive audio therapy app which works by manipulating the frequencies in music. After capturing the top prize at the Reeperbahn Startup Pitch in 2013 and becoming available on German insurance, they have tackled global market entry at a faster pace than many of their peers. In 2015, they captured …

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• 10 November

  3 Reasons financial institutions suck at fintech

  

  From Spar Nord announcing a new fintech collaboration with Rocket Labs in Aalborg to the central bank in Norway considering blockchain for real time clearing and settlement for domestic payments among other things, it is clear that fintech is making solid progress in the Nordic banking industry. These developments are in lockstep with the rest of the financial world, as …

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• 8 November

  Denmark’s Startup Everywhere launches app to give access to entrepreneurs globally

  

  Startup Everywhere, a Danish creative content and self-publishing startup, has just launched an app which helps entrepreneurs to navigate cities around the globe. It features co-working spaces, incubators, accelerators, and public working spaces such as cafes with good wifi.  It is currently available in six cities including Copenhagen, Berlin, Lisbon, and Stockholm. Over the last year, founder Sissel Hansen and …

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