March, 2015

• 31 March

  #6 Nordic Co-working Spaces: THINGS

  

  THINGS is Sweden’s first co-working space for hardware startups. The focus is on high growth areas such as Internet of Things, wearables, 3D scanning and printing and medtech. The project is initiated by the incubator STING, which is also behind the co-working space SUP-46. Welcome to the article about the new co-working space THINGS. Before you go any further, STING …

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• 31 March

  EasySize and Decoded Fashion introduced a fashion technology meetup in the Nordics

  

  For the first time in Scandinavia, EasySize, a data-driven service for predicting the correct clothing size, together with the Decoded Fashion organised a meetup to investigate the ethical consumerism and the role of technology in the sustainable fashion. The event took place in the center of Copenhagen on 26th of March. Fashion technology companies are continuously growing from the Nordic …

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• 31 March

  Swedish StartupDocs launches today

  

  A few weeks ago we introduced startupdocs.se which provides free, balanced and standardized legal documents for Swedish seed stage startups, angel investors and VC firms. Today, the website was launched. Erik Byrenius, founder of startupdocs.se, initiated the project back in 2014. The process of developing the legal documents has been long, and he is happy the the website is now …

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• 30 March

  Swedish Sellpy helps you get rid of your old stuff

  

  Getting rid of your old stuff can be demanding and time consuming. This is why many of us have huge piles of stuff lying around, which we would actually rather sell or give away. Sellpy is an on demand service that undertakes the hassle for you and make sure that you will never see your old stuff again. Michael Arnör, …

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• 30 March

  Improved workflow through Fuse

  

  When creating apps, designers and developers begin by making wireframes and mockups of their concepts, which then has to be redone with code when the building process begin. Fuse look to change this workflow, through a unique app development platform. The Fuse team was one of the Nordic startups represented at South By Southwest in Austin, Texas. Introducing Fuse Fuse …

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• 27 March

  WeLoveStartups announces the last three startups for potential grants

  

  The decision is made through expert screeners, who has experience in the industries and problems that the entrepreneurs find themselves in. The screening has resulted in industry specific evaluations that the jury of experts has used as the starting point of their assessment. Furthermore, the jury of experts will focus on which startup shows the best ability of putting the …

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• 27 March

  Interview with the founder of Spotify

  

  The Swedish media, Breakit, have interviewed Daniel Ek, Founder of Spotify, about why he is not worried about Spotify’s losses, the future of the pharmaceutical industry, what he thinks about the lack of women in startup companies and the lack of housing opportunities in Stockholm. It has been a few years since Daniel Ek lined up for a longer interview with the …

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• 27 March

  MEE receive over a quarter million dollars in growth loan

  

  MEE has created a mobile payment system, which they have tested in numerous shops in Randers, Denmark, throughout the last six months. With a growth loan from Vækstfonden, a Danish state investment fund, behind them, is MEE ready to conquer the rest of Denmark. MEE is ready to challenge the other mobile payment solutions, which have gained momentum over the past …

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• 26 March

  Spanish Speaking Startup in Denmark – This Is Why We Stay Here

  

  For about a year ago a business partner lured the Spanish price-comparison platform ValorTop to Denmark. Although the company targets the Spanish market, and the founders come from the Netherlands, Spain and Japan, they now  form a Danish startup. ValorTop is a price-comparison platform targeting the 322 million Spanish-speaking people worldwide. They specialize in helping users find and buy technology …

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• 25 March

  More great news: Realm obtains $20 million investment

  

  Realm, a Danish startup that has created an innovative mobile database, has received an investment round of $20 million led by Khosla Ventures and Scale Venture Partners. Realm, formerly known as TightDB, has created a unique mobile database that runs many times faster than their competitors’ solutions. The database takes up so little space, which makes it perfect for mobile …

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