March, 2015

• 18 March

  Real-time social heat maps by Heatcord

  

  Heatcord is a Swedish startup that has created a real-time social heat map that helps people find the excitement, places and crowd that fits their personality and mood of the day. Their vision is to crowdsource the world’s first social map. Many people decide on where to go based on what other people do. No one wants to spend time …

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• 18 March

  Onehundredforty is now live on Kickstarter

  

  The Kickstarter Staff picked their project, definitely for their originality. There are only 22 days to go before the project of a group of creatives from Stockholm will end their pledge on the famous crowdfunding site. And if you think that, you need to redecorate your home with a more original and personal touch, this is your chance. Onehundredforty is …

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• 18 March

  Music streaming is significantly more popular in Scandinavia

  

  One might easily believe that the transition from downloaded music to streaming is already finished. However, a new report from research firm Bernstein shows that the opposite is true. Even though the numbers are from 2013 they still give a good picture how Scandinavia is radically different from the rest of the western world. In Sweden streaming services was responsible …

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• 17 March

  SXSW – Audiocase is kickstarting Austin

  

  Danish Audiocase is joining our Nordic Startup booth at the SxSW tech & music festival in Austin Texas. We had a chat with Søren Larsen the CEO and founder of Audiocase about being a startup and the progress of their current Kickstarter campaign. Audiocase is attending the SxSW tech & music festival, which is the largest music festival in the …

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• 17 March

  How the future of the Nordic startup scene looks like

  

  Nordic Startup Bits have interviewed some of the most prominent Nordic VC’s, Gregers Kronborg from Northzone, Martin Hauge from Creandum, and Niels Vejrup from SEED Capital about their view on the Nordic startup scene. In the series of articles Nordic Startup Bits will look at the most promising, the worst and the biggest challenges on the Nordic startup scene based …

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• 17 March

  Tradeshift: Believing in yourself is the single most important thing

  

  This article is part of our content-partner program and is made in collaboration with DI ITEK. DI ITEK is an organization that aims to provide Danish businesses the best conditions possible to succeed, among other things by offering consultancy concerning staff, international service, productivity and competence development. DI ITEK is part of the European campaign,Watify, which aims to support digital entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs have the opportunity …

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• 17 March

  Former Just-Eat CEO invest knowledge and money in Planday

  

  When Planday received an investment from Creandum back in 2014, they kept a part of the investment open for the right Co-Investor. They found Klaus Nyengaard, who previously led the Danish startup Just-Eat towards an international market, and therefore was a perfect fit. The experienced entrepreneur and business angel must now help Planday, with their continued growth adventure. Klaus Nyengaard …

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• 16 March

  SXSW – Who are the Nordic Startups?

  

  The Nordicstartupbits team is hosting the Nordic booth at SxSW tech & music conference in Austin Texas. We are here with 13 Nordic startups, who are here to represent the potential of Nordic Startups and their companies – let us introduce them. We asked all the Nordic Startups to make a 140 character introduction about their startups, and here is …

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• 16 March

  SXSW – Stories & visuals from the Nordic Startup booth

  

  The Nordic booth is getting a lot of buzz at the SxSW conference & music festival, and our Nordic Startups is getting some great feedback from investors, startups and costumers from all over the world. Here is a throwback on what has been happening so far. Its been a busy few days here in Austin Texas, at the SxSW conference & …

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• 16 March

  Norwegian Xeneta disrupts the global sea freight market

  

  The Norwegian company Xeneta is disrupting the global sea freight market by making the prices transparent. Before Xeneta it was next to impossible for a customer to see through prices. Now Xeneta has put a stop to the suppliers’ opportunity to delude unenlightened customers. From a world with no transparency Imagine you would still have to go to a physical …

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