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16 December

3 reasons European crowdfunding platforms beat U.S. ones

If negotiations regarding the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) agreement are finalized, European FinTech startups will be in a great position to become world leaders in the peer-to-peer finance market. Here are 3 reasons why. 1. Experience advantage Due to the dynamic increase in equity crowdfunding, which can be expressed by more than one hundred percent growth annually, Americans will …

15 December

Aalborg, Denmark: the next Nordic startup hub?

Aalborg is a lot of things: it is a student city, a trade city, and the fourth largest city in Denmark- but the most interesting thing about Aalborg is that there are approximately 1,000 new businesses every year, many of which are tech startups. BusinessAalborg, Aalborg Kommune’s business department, offers free, one-on-one advice and the possibility of financial assistance for …

11 December

KeyWe’s digital notebook trains your memory

Icelandic startup KeyWe is creating an app that ties together an emotional, visual, and logical approach to learning. Olafur Stefansson and Halldor Thorsteinsson are brothers in law and co-founders of the ed-tech startup KeyWe. I’m meeting with them at the Innovation House in Seltjarnarnes, Iceland for a chat about their startup. They arrive on time. Composed and confident, with a spark …

11 December

Copenhagen film festival CPH:DOX spotlights tech and innovation

This year edition of the Copenhagen Documentary Festival showed a variety of films that opened windows into the worlds of art, technology, and startups. Under the category ‘’Before and After Science’’ the festival gathered movies in which science and cinema cross paths, giving the latest new innovations and research a visual form. Can technology and our progress brings intimacy in …

11 December

AngelList: Top tips for getting funding in the Nordics

Phillip Moehring one of 30 employees at Angellist, visited Mesh in Oslo to give some tips about how to raise money in the Nordics. AngelList was originally a blog started in Silicon Valley, based on the idea of tracking funding and investors for startups. It is now a home for startups and investors around the world, and has become the …

10 December

Unfair Fashion brings sustainability to the Nordic fashion industry

A Danish start-up company called Unfair Fashion is taking on the challenge of changing the mindset in the fashion industry. Innovation and creative thinking often rely on a flexible market environment, willingness to change, and the potential for collaborations. The fashion industry has often been seen as the opposite: a closed and self-focused market, where transparency is not a high …

9 December

Germany’s Paua Ventures to invest €40 million in Nordic startups

The German investment company Paua Ventures has just announced a new fund of €40 million which will be invested, among other things, in Nordic startups. Paua Ventures, established in 2010, is an investment company based in Berlin. The fund has now collected about €40 million in its new fund to support promising European companies in the Seed or Series A …

9 December

Funzi is on a mission to figure out the algorithm for learning

Finnish ed-tech startup Funzi starts with a premise you may be familiar with – learning on a mobile phone. But their unique focus on emerging markets has people around the world sitting up and taking notice. Funzi is reinventing how learning is delivered – not in terms of content, but in terms of the delivery of learning to the individual. …

8 December

Radiant Games encourages kids to code with release of Box Island

Radiant Games, an Icelandic mobile gaming startup, just released its full-length title Box Island: Epic Coding Adventure. The release closely follows an earlier release of a shorter version of the game, specially released for Code.org’s Hour of Code events this week, part of Computer Science Education Week, held December 7-13. This article was originally posted on Nordurskautid, Iceland’s premier outlet for …

8 December

Gaming doesn’t have to be isolating, says Dodreams CEO

“You could say that people read too many books.” So says Erik Pöntiskoski, the CEO of Dodreams, the company behind the very popular and addictive mobile game, Drive ahead!. He is responding to the issue of excessive device usage in this day and age, which he feels has a largely detrimental effect on human interaction. His startup Dodreams,wants to make …