June, 2015

• 15 June

  Five tips for event-goers by Laila Pawlak

  

  If you planning on going to an event – e.g. the two-day tech conference Startup Extreme taking place in Voss, Norway, from June 17 to 19 or the STHLM TECH Meetup in Stockholm June 23 – then prepare your self with these tips for event-goers presented by Laila Pawlak. Laila Pawlak is the founder of DARE2, including the professional playground DARE2mansion …

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• 12 June

  Startup Lab – Leading Tech incubator in Oslo

  

  The incubator Startup Lab is housing more than 60 fledgling companies – Norway’s most ambitious technology startups. A few month ago I wrote an article about the Startup Scene in Oslo, where I mentioned how gladly surprised I got discovering an amazing eco-system of organizations facilitating for innovation. I remember, while I was diving into the big ocean of possibilities, discovering …

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• 12 June

  Meet Nordic Innovation House in Silicon Valley

  

  Over the past couple of years, there has been a boom in the number of Nordic startups looking to set up camp in the US. This boom has led Nordic Innovation to establish the Nordic Innovation House in startup mecca, Silicon Valley. 93 companies in eight months Nordic Innovation House is funded by an alliance of Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Icelandic and …

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• 11 June

  New on Indiegogo: Test your sperm quality at home with SwimCount

  

  MotilityCount is ready to go to market with their sperm quality home test called SwimCount. Last Monday the launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indegogo. By Torben Kloster Having to make a sperm quality test on cue at a clinic can be a bit of an uncomfortable experience for men. Therefore, the company MotilityCount is now trying to make the sperm …

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• 10 June

  Microsoft enters into collaboration with Danish startup Templafy

  

  Last summer, Templafy received a 20 million DKK investment. The money was going to be used for product integration with the enterprise segment and attract the best talents in the business. Now they have recently entered into a collaboration with Microsoft.  By Christina Klavsen and Tina Søndergaard The Danish startup Templafy has developed a cloud-based service, which ensures that organisations can …

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• 10 June

  Finnish startup Smartly.io hopes to win advertisers

  

  Facebook ad management looks deceptively simple. Sure, anyone can do it, but only the best practices resulting from painstaking trials and errors provide optimal/wanted results. Smartly.io is a Finnish startup that promises better and simpler platform for advertisers made through that process. Soon after the launch of Smartly.io in 2013, they became trusted partners in Facebook Marketing Partner community in building tools …

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• 9 June

  Nordic Innovation is Building a United Startup Community

  

  The Nordic region is experiencing an entrepreneurial blossoming. Nordic Innovation wishes to brace the progress and is therefore currently running ten different projects to help strengthen the Nordic startup ecosystem. In the individual Nordic states there are several initiatives working to support the flourishing environment, both public such as the ‘Væksthus’-initiative in Denmark or private such as the grassroot organization #sthlmtech in …

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• 8 June

  Track your sleep with Emfit QS

  

  Emfit QS (Emfit quantified-sleep) is a device that can help users optimize their fitness performance by tracking heart rate variability. The company Emfit has a long track record, but is now pivoting into a fast growing health tech company. The device itself is a non-contact monitoring system that is unobtrusively installed under the mattress and it provides comprehensive reports about physical …

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• 8 June

  TED Talk: The single biggest reasons why startups succeed

  

  In this TED Talk Bill Gross explains why one certain factor is often essential for startups to succeed. Bill Gross, founder of Idealab, a business incubator focused on new ideas, got curious about why some startups succeed and other fails. Therefore he gathered data from hundreds of companies (100 Idea Lab startups and 100 non-Idea Lab startups). He ranked each of …

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• 4 June

  Estonian Startup Creates Fastest Charger – The BOLD Knot

  

  The Tartu based company Bold Gadget created an innovative and fashionable tech gadget that quickly solves low battery problems. BOLD Knot is a USB charging cable that charges your phone 2x faster than other cables. Charging is possible everywhere you are at, without the need of connecting the BOLD Knot to a power source as the knot can withhold power …

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