October, 2014

• 16 October

  Stockholm-based Instabridge announce $1M funding for the crowdsourced wifi solution

  

  Instabridge is a Swedish startup that gives you, me and everyone free wifi anywhere in the world. The Stockholm-based startup now announces a $1M investment from Creandum, GP Bullhound and business angels Niall Murphy, Scott Bannister (PayPal) and Felix Hagnö (TradeDoubler). The startup has been growing their product and user base under the radar, but tell SwedishStartupSpace.com that their users add over 1000 new wifi …

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• 14 October

  Improve your network: Alternative ways to meet new people

  

  These are the enthusiastic words of Danish entrepreneur Nikolaj Astrup Madsen. Nikolaj runs theWorkaway Camp that is going on in Barcelona right now, and will also be hosting Workaway Camp in Morocco in January. Everybody knows that great relations can be the most valuable thing for you personally, your career and for your company. There is no reason to discuss …

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• 9 October

  A Norwegian app wants to create a more moving experience to meet new people

  

  You are at a bar or festival sweeping through profiles of people nearby on your iPhone to find new friends, and all you see are pictures of people taken a year or so ago during a vacation break. Sounds familiar? Blink, a location-based app for iOS created by a Norwegian startup Blink, wants to change that by giving you the …

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• 8 October

  Startup eco-systems – Tel Aviv – bit by bit

  

  Chutzpah – the word that defines Tel Aviv as the non-stop startup city. The city is number two on the list of the best ecosystems in the world according to research conducted by the Startup Genome. The word is pronounced “Hjoodspa” and is about being daring; it is in the blood and veins of the people from Tel Aviv and …

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• 8 October

  How do like dem’ Apples? Organic, Chippy and Tasty

  

  APPLE A DAY is attempting to penetrate the fat and sugar filled market with its line of tasty fruit and vegetable based treats. Attributing its name from a famous English proverb, APPLE A DAY, is Danish company producing healthy, organic and delicious snack foods. The company was first launched in February 2013 and is run by three young entrepreneurs Rasmus …

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• 7 October

  Summary of Balderton’s Sthlm Tech Meetup

  

  Bladerton, the investors behind Tictail (8M USD) and MySQL (sold to Sun Microsystems for 1B USD) and many more, held a meetup last night for Stockholm’s Tech Entrepreneurs. The meetup featured keynotes from Balderton, Tictail, Alexander Bard (best selling author and expert on the philosophy of technology) and Tanya Marvin-Horowitz (Partner at Capital A Partners VC firm). To finish the …

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• 7 October

  Danish startup Sharingear is all about more music, more tours and less back pain.

  

  Sharingear is a peer-to-peer platform for musicians to lease or rent backline equipment and instruments. With the increased rate of piracy in recent years, touring has become a popular means of financial support for musicians. However touring is an expensive exercise due to the high costs of transporting heavy equipment. Sharingear aims to solve this problem by offering users a …

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• 6 October

  Gold to Swipes at the Evernote Platform Awards

  

  The Danish startup Swipes went all the way and secured the gold medal in the Evernote startup competition in San Francisco. “We fucking did it” That was the Facebook Message that hit our phone 2 AM the morning between Friday and Saturday from the CEO of Swipes. Later that morning Nordic Startup Bits got a change to talk with Kasper …

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September, 2014

• 30 September

  A Swedish startup wants to make the Internet a safer place

  

  Fredrik Almroth and his colleagues didn’t know the vulnerability they had found in one of Google’s services would earned them $10K after contacting the search giant and sharing the details with them, read the story here from Thenextweb Almroth is now part of the Detectify team, a Swedish startup that offers a based web application that analyzes the security status …

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• 29 September

  SEED Capital follows the trend and invest in bitcoin startup Coinify

  

  Coinify wants to take the digital currency Bitcoin to the mainstream market, and with more than 6,000 users they are moving fast towards their mission. Last week the Danish capital firm SEED Capital invested a “multi million” amount in the Danish startup Coinify. Hungry.dk among the first The fast-food delivery platform Hungry.dk recently joined 6,000 other Coinify merchants by accepting …

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