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9 November
Last minute Slush tips

The world’s largest start-up festival, Slush will take place in Helsinki on November 16-17, but Slush isn’t just the official single event. Slush Week, running from Nov 14-18, is loaded with a good variety of Side Events. Plus, and even no Slush Pass will be needed to access many of these events. Side Events are the perfect way to get …
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17 August
GLOBHE unites the drones worldwide

The term “Crowddroning” means to unleash thousands of drones and their operators to provide ultra high resolution Earth observation data from every corner of the earth. This way, the collected data supplements the underused information the numerous satellites have to offer. The data itself is ready-to-analyze high-resolution data, straight to any server so the clients of GLOBHE can focus on …
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8 July
Action Matters – and mattered – at Arctic15, 2022

Few years ago the tagline (and the hashtag) for #Arctic15 was #FindTheOne. Nowadays it has evolved to #ActionMatters, and at this years LIVE comeback, it was really in the center of the activities. Arctic15 happened in the beginning of June in Helsinki, Finland, where the sun was shining, and a decent groups of over 1000 likeminded souls gathered again at …
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5 June
Finnish start-ups present strong growth numbers

The revenue of the member companies of the Finnish Startup Community, founded a year ago, has grown by 62 per cent from last year. The combined revenue of the companies was EUR 3.5 billion in 2021. The growth is expected to remain strong in 2022. “The majority of the revenue of our member companies comes from exports, so the importance …
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5 June
Live events are making their comeback: Arctic15 in Helsinki, Finland

The Arctic15 Helsinki takes place on June, 7-8, 2022. Before the unforeseen pandemic hiatus, the event attracted over 1500+ Startups, VCs, CVCs, Angels, and Investors to get together. For this year, the arranging committee has some realistic numbers drafted: “We aim for 300+ investors, 450+ startups, 150+ corporates, a maximum of 2000 attendees and again – the name of the …
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9 April
HoloCare and Illumie Showcased at SXSW 2022

The Norwegian medical startup projects HoloCare and Illumie were present at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas. Robert Stigliano After a cancellation in 2020, and an online-only version in 2021, South by Southwest was back this year to it’s full, pre-pandemic glory, showcasing the trends and technologies influencing our collective future. One of this year’s themes was imagining society in …
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26 March
CTO Survey says that Finnish companies are at the forefront of digital and green transition

Although R&D investments in Finland will continue to grow, some brutal challenges are looming in the future. R&D investments in Finland will continue to grow, driven by public funding. Finnish companies will continue to increase their product development investments in Finland also in 2022. Growth will be accelerated by the green transition, the advancement of digitalisation and the growth of …
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7 March
Fintech startup Inpay named fastest growing company in Denmark

Inpay, a Copenhagen based fintech, has been named the fastest growing company in Denmark out of millions of enterprises in the annual FT1000 business rankings. The company was also recognised as the sixth fastest growing fintech in Europe, and entered the ranking at as the 87th fastest growing company in Europe, the highest position a Danish company has ever reached. …
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7 March
Estonian start-up UP Catalyst secures EUR 1.59 million to turn CO2 from heavy industry emitters into graphite

Lead by Estonian startup UP Catalyst, a two-year pilot program was launched to design and build a scalable shipping container synthesis reactor that is capable of transforming CO2 emissions into graphite, a mineral now classified by the EU as a critical raw material, and various carbon nanomaterials. By Teele Niidas Until now, 500 thousand tons of graphite, has been imported …
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4 February
Norwegian VC insights: How to win in venture when the rules-and geography- of the game is chaning?

In this blog post, Katapult Group CEO, Fredrik Winther assesses the fast-changing landscape of venture, and why venture investors need to re-think strategy. By Frederik Winther The venture capital industry broke all records in 2021, and it led to systemic changes as to how it operates. Not long ago start-ups fought for the investors, these days investors are fighting to …
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