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26 October

4 reasons why big corporations should join forces with a startup

Although there has been much discussion in Norway about cooperation between large corporations and small startups, or “small-big” cooperation, there has been little action taken, and few success stories. This week, BI Norwegian Business School and EdTech Foundry are kicking off their cooperation, and hoping to encourage others to do the same. The collaboration between BI Norwegian Business School and …

26 October

VIO – a “Netflix” for magazines

Netflix has become one of the biggest online movie and TV show platforms – but what about a platform for readers? Norwegian startup Vio Media is creating a “Netflix” for Magazines. Articles from your favorite magazines gathered in one place. That is the basic idea behind VIO – a digital magazine platform. Vio Media wants to offer readers unlimited digital …

26 October

A blend of technology, talent, and new ideas at the IoT Conference in Lund

A blend of technology, talent and new ideas at the IoT Conference in Lund This article was originally posted on Øresund Startups. The rapidly growing IoT Conference took place in Lund last week. It is the second edition of the conference this year, after a successful initial conference back in April. Renowned speakers, both locally and internationally, were present to depict …

23 October

Buy t-shirts – save water

Eco-consumption is a growing trend in Finland, thanks to Pure Waste Textiles – a Finnish startup revolutionizing the way clothes are made. This article was originally posted on Arctic Startup. About five years ago, the founders of Costo, a Finnish company that produces accessories from unused materials in the textile industry, decided to explore opportunities to go further and produce …

23 October

Danish game success “Subway Surfers” is becoming a TV series

Subway Surfers have been downloaded 1 billion times. Now the Danish creators want to go in a new direction and are working on both merchandise and a TV series about the game. This article was originally posted on Finans.dk. The game Subway Surfers has been a giant economic success for the two Danish game companies Kiloo and Sybo Games, who have …

23 October

Danish-developed “Subway Surfers” reaches 1 billion downloads

Subway Surfers, an “endless running” mobile game co-developed by Kiloo and SYBO Games, has gone from being the one of the biggest Nordic-developed mobile games, to being one of the biggest mobile games of all time. Subway Surfers reached 1 billion downloads last week, a milestone only a few games have ever reached. The billion download mark comes on top …

22 October

3 technologies to watch out for

Programming of living organisms, super intelligent algorithms and sensors in human bodies. Although this sounds like the distant future, it can soon become a reality. Jakob Svagin, Project Manager at the hardware accelerator of the Danish Tech Challenge, identifies 3 rapidly developing technologies to keep on eye on. According to Jacob Svagin, what is common to all three technologies is …

22 October

“State of the Union”– the Icelandic Startup Community

How is the Icelandic startup scene doing? Here is an overview of what has happened over the last year, using the entrepreneurial ecosystem model developed by Nicolas Collin. This article was originally posted on Startup Iceland. It has been an interesting and inspiring to see what Ken Bautista and Cam Linke with their team have done through Startup Edmonton in …

22 October

“Innovation platform” MESH relaunches as hub for Nordic creators

Calling MESH just a co-working space is way too simplistic. It is a start up itself. It is a networking space. And it has its own hip café and bar. Not to mention the working lounge. Following the MESH website we can define it as hub for the “Nordic Creators’ community”, and brainstorming with founder Anders Mjåset ,we came to …

21 October

Konsoll 2015 Will Be the Largest Norwegian Games Conference

It started with only 74 attendees in 2012, but this year, the Norwegian Game Developers’ Guild’s Konsoll conference in Bergen, Norway, aims to reach nearly 400 attendees. The Norwegian games industry is growing at a fast pace. In 2015, the industry had over 50 game releases, but the country still only has one large games studio, FunCom, which means that …