November, 2015

• 24 November

  5 Reasons to Attend Games Business 2015

  

  After three fantastic years in existence, and several hundred attendees, Denmark’s largest games industry conference, Games Business 2015, is back on Dec. 7th. And here’s 5 reasons why you should join us. 1. The best speakers The biggest names from the Danish and Nordic games industry will be speaking at Games Business 2015, sharing their experience and insights. You can …

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• 24 November

  Stuttering tales from the pitching stage at Slush: Part 1

  

  The Slush pitching competition: one of the highest stakes startup competitions in the world. Three minutes to explain who you are, what you do, how you will make money and how you will grow your business. In addition you must stick out from the crowd and seduce a panel of spoiled venture capitalists.  No matter how experienced you are, the …

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• 24 November

  Moving, not moving, and mobility

  

  One of the main themes at NEXT15 , the two-day tech conference that occurred concurrently with Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg, was mobility. The conference attempted to answer the question “How will we move?” with all the opportunities and challenges that it implies. But zooming out and looking at the question in the context of the entire conference – with discussions …

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• 23 November

  Meshcrafts brings smarter charging to electric vehicles

  

  While sailing on the west coast of Sweden, Meshcrafts founder Åsmund Møll Frengstad of Norway  found himself bothered by the inequalities in energy consumption between himself and a fellow boater. First, while the other boater had a giant boat compared to his, both had to pay the same daily fee to charge their boats.  In actuality, Åsmund may have consumed …

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• 23 November

  Promus wants to make a Music City

  

  They have a mission to strengthen and equip the city of Aarhus’ music industry for the great challenges the music scene faces. As a meeting point for skills, networking and production, Promus is the first of its kind in Denmark. Since 2010, Promus has functioned as a community and networking center for both the music industry and musicians in Denmark. …

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• 19 November

  How Interceptor Entertainment acquired veteran gaming studio 3D Realms

  

  In February 2014, Interceptor Entertainment, a small gaming studio located in Aalborg, in the rural north of Denmark, acquired the influential US veteran games developer and publisher 3D Realms. At Games Business 2015, Interceptor Entertainment CEO Frederik Schreiber gives the full story of the challenges involved with acquiring one of the most influential studios of all time, which you can …

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• 19 November

  Fintech company Lunar Way aims to bring neo-banking to the Nordics

  

  With its Danish partner bank in place, the Scandinavian “neo-bank”, Lunar Way, is now rolling out its partner model in Northern Europe.  It will be the first mobile bank in Norther Europe to rapidly scale through this model. The partner model is the first of its kind in the world of European neo-banking and gives Lunar Way the advantage of …

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• 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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