October, 2015

• 9 October

  5 tips on how to become a healthy high performer

  

  With experience as both a doctor and entrepreneur, Dr. Imran Rashid from Aleris-Hamlet Hospitals has unique insight on how to perform on a high level while maintaining a healthy lifestyle. As an entrepreneur, you need to perform at your very best in order to establish your business and make it a success. However, the process can be stressful and adversely …

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• 7 October

  Technology and Crowds, What’s Next – #Crowdchat Recap with Theo Priestley

  

  Last night, Crowdsourcing Week had a discussion with Theo Priestley about technology and crowds and Nordic Startup Bits joined the #Crowdchat. Here is a recap. What are your 3 predictions for a future when crowds and tech collide? The sourcing of innovation is going to become more open, as companies and government reach out to citizens to incubate ideas. Banking …

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• 7 October

  Entrepreneurs present solutions to Copenhagen climate challenges

  

  People from all over Europe gathered for last week’s Open Innovation Challenge Call at the Copenhagen city hall, where companies and startups bid to solve climate challenges faced by the city. Together with Climate-KIC (Climate Knowledge and Innovation Community), the City of Copenhagen hosted an Open Challenge Innovation Call, which took place last Friday, the 2nd of October.  DTU Lyngby Campus inaugurated …

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• 7 October

  IoT – The Conference is back in Lund!

  

  The fastest growing Internet of Things conference in Sweden is back after great pressure on the organizers. During October 14-15 the Internet of Things conference in Lund is back for the second time this year. After the first conference in April , the pressure on the organizers was so large that they took decision to run a new conference in the autumn …

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• 7 October

  RetinaLyze helps catch diabetes complications before it is too late

  

  RetinaLyze is a company that aims to help patients with diabetes suffering from Diabetic Retinopathy, a common complication of the disease, by finding distortions in the retina. It is important innovation, since patients rarely ever notice symptoms before an advanced state of the disease, and by then it has a high probability to cause total blindness. To combat this, RetinaLyze …

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• 6 October

  Recording in the Dreamhack Studio

  

  Xue Mei spends the evening recording interviews for Dreamhack, the largest digital festival in the world about their DreamHackathons, and game development competitions. Latest information at http://dreamhackathon.se/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFSt_Jqy9RI See Xue Mei’s inteview with Dreamhack  here.

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• 6 October

  Interview with Urska Srsen, Co-founder and CCO of Bellabeat

  

  Urska Srsen met her co-founder Sandro Mur on a kitesurfing trip in Croatia. For her, becoming an entrepreneur was a very spontaneous and almost accidental process. Something that started as a project ended up as a business. It all started when Urska’s friend Sandro contacted her mother, one of the leading obstetrical gynecologists in Europe, and started to inquire about …

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• 6 October

  Good News for later-stage European Startups!

  

  Today the London-based Octopus Ventures launches a new $140 million fund to provide growth capital to “ successful fast-growing later-stage companies across Europe”, reports Tech Crunch. Last year, Octopus Ventures revealed it had a $91.3 million early stage funds. Today, they launched a new fund focusing on later-stage startups across Europe. Furthermore, the Octopus Zenith Opportunities II LP (also known …

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• 6 October

  Danish cloud-based service is the global leader

  

  Last summer the Danish startup Templafy received 20 million in venture capital to strengthen product integration within their enterprise segment and attract the best talent in the industry. Now, they have opened their North American headquarters in New York, and solve a niche problem in a global market. Templafy is behind a cloud based service which ensures that organizations can …

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• 5 October

  Startups@Reeperbahn

  

  The SXSW of Europe, the Reeperbahn Festival, has introduced a special focus on startups – with a twist on the traditional pitch format reflecting the neighborhood’s seedy roots. The Reeperbahn and The Große Freiheit (or the Big Freedom) are part of the red light district of Hamburg, Germany. Back in the 1600’s, the North side of the Reeperbahn belonged to …

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