November, 2015

• 19 November

  Breakroom brings virtual reality into your office

  

  Icelandic startup Breakroom provides its users with a private virtual reality workspace for wherever and whenever they may need it. A simple request: Imagine your current work surroundings. Next, imagine yourself working in a café tucked away on a peaceful and quaint street somewhere in beautiful Vienna, Austria or perhaps imagine yourself reading through work documents somewhere on a beach …

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• 19 November

  Startup talking about Startups: Sponsta at SLUSH 2015

  

  Last week Daniel J. Mierzwinski, head of product at Sponsta, a Denmark-based online platform that connects brands with influential Instagramers across the world, went off to Helsinki to attend SLUSH, one of the most hyped startup events of 2015. When he came home we asked him how it all was Last week I joined more than 14,000 people at SLUSH in Helsinki to build …

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• 18 November

  Keeduu launches new solution for primary education at Slush 2015

  

  Keeduu is a new learning solution, which combines official primary education curriculum with gaming in a unique way. With an official launch to the public at Slush 2015, Keeduu presented a solution aimed at schools which brings education into the digital era in an easy and simple manner. By combining a game, textbook, videos, assignments and educational exercises, Keeduu wants to …

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• 18 November

  Children are the jury for startups pitching at Stockholm IoT week

  

  Swedish co-working space Impact Hub Stockholm hosted an unusual pitching event last month as part of STHLM IoT Week – pitching to children! On October 14, 2015 Impact Hub Stockholm hosted an event entitled “NOT your usual pitching event”.   The participants were IoT startups pitching their businesses, investors…and children aged 5 years and older. At 5 pm, the Impact Hub …

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• 17 November

  Danish startup Bellmetric’s new platform will make visitors into customers

  

  The Danish startup Bellmetric has just launched a new platform designed to increase conversion rates on websites. The platform makes it easier to identify when visitors to a site need a little push in the right direction. According to Janus Lindau, the CEO of Bellmetric, many marketers are not working to personalize the visitor experience on their websites. Bellmetric has …

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• 17 November

  Win $1500 VIP PocketGamer Connects Ticket at Games Business 2015

  

  PocketGamer.bizock We’ve secured a VIP ticket for the hottest mobile games industry conference around – and by attending Games Business 2015, you have a chance to win it! PocketGamer.biz, are giving away a full-blown VIP ticket for their Pocket Gamer Connects London 2016 conference to one lucky random attendee at Games Business 2015. The VIP ticket for the London conference, …

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• 16 November

  3 interesting ideas from Ultrahack 2015

  

  Ultrahack took place from 6- 8th November in Helsinki in anticipation of the massive startup conference Slush, and is one of the biggest hackathons in Europe. Hackers from around Europe (and even some from the US) developed their ideas over one long weekend, before presenting them to investors in hopes of getting them off the ground, or in some cases, …

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• 16 November

  Routes solves complex travel planning

  

  The Norwegian startup Routes uses user-generated routes to solve the problem of complex travel planning. We met Routes at Oslo Innovation Week, where the founders pitched to investors and tried to grow their audience at the Afterwork Startup event at the newly relaunched co-working space MESH. “We started out with testing the concept on an event in Oslo, a popular …

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• 13 November

  Make money to make games, not the other way around

  

  Should we strive to make money so we can make games, or is it okay to make money for money’s sake in the games industry? At Games Business 2015, we’ll discuss the answer. Rune Drewsen is the Co-founder and managing partner at Triband, a game developer who is currently working on a Virtual Reality title called Reptilicus VR – a …

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• 13 November

  Strawpay enables micro-transactions for bitcoin

  

  With a mission to create new frontiers for the expanding digital economy, Strawpay has developed a new open payment network: Stroem. It all started with a discussion club in Stockholm several years back, where the founders discussed their common interest in bitcoin. They hit upon an idea: to create a new open payment system that builds on advanced features of …

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