Nordic and Baltic investments show progressive trend towards sustainability in 2021

According to reports from, European Capital,  Danske Bank and i5invest, European VC and PE funds…

Latvia’s Nordigen raises €2 million to expand free open banking API

Latvia’s Nordigen has announced a new €2.1 million investment to expand their freemium model after…

Estonia’s UP Catalyst receives funding to produce oxygen on Mars

The technology startup UP Catalyst, founded in 2019, received €50 000 of seed money from…

Kiuas Accelerator
Top Finnish startup accelerator expands to the Nordics and Baltics

Summer of 2021 is closing in, and as the world is seeing a surge in…

Denmark is the second-best funded nation for startups after USA

According to a report by Money UK, Denmark is the second best-funded nation for startup…

Nordic startups building radical transparency into tech

Getting through the Nordic winter is trying at the best of times. The previous months…

Danish Dixa acquires Australian SaaS company Elevio

Danish customer support innovator Dixa has acquired Melbourne-based knowledge management platform Elevio in a circa…

Estonia-based Avokaado secures €700K to automate contract lifecycle management

Avokaado, a contract lifecycle management platform (CLM) from Estonia, announces a €700K pre-seed round, including…

An Overview of the Nordic iGaming Market in 2021

Home to the first Bitcoin lottery and other blockchain-powered online games, the Northern European region is…

“Unconventional Accelerator”: The first digital accelerator targeting underrepresented Nordic founders

Since launching its report on who funds whom in the Nordics, together with partners like…

Sweden’s Mbegu Solar: Innovation cannot be paused in wait for a more suitable year

Mbegu Solar AB was founded in 2020 and its team is based in Stockholm, Lund…

Estonia offers itself up as post-2020 mental health recovery spot for ICT-talents

You’ve heard of hygge. If you’re a Scandinavia enthusiast, you may even have heard of friluftsliv. But…

Audio first: Nordic social interactions in the year of the pandemic

Statistics show we have collectively stigmatized randomly phoning someone up and as a result, over…

Japanese web design hits the Nordics

Garden Eight is a multi-award-winning digital production team from Japan specialising in visual design, web…

Finnish AI writing tool Flowrite closes pre-seed funding which includes Unity founder David Helgason

Finnish startup Flowrite, building an AI-powered writing tool on OpenAI’s GPT-3, has closed a pre-seed…

Lithuania eases restrictions on IT licenscing for Fintechs

As in many countries during the pandemic, contactless payments have been on the rise in…

10 Latvian startups to watch

A small nation of fewer than 2 million people, Latvia is one of Europe’s entrepreneurial…

Finnish startup Linear raises €1.1M to digitalize the real estate business

Linear, a company focusing on the digitalization of real estate brokerage, has closed €1.1 million…

Kaffe Bueno closes EUR 1.1 million seed round for coffee by-product upcycling

Danish Industrial biotech startup Kaffe Bueno received EUR 1.1 million from, PINC (Paulig Group venture…

Estonian virtual Cyber Security hackathon unified participants from 14 countries to bring usable solutions to burning topics in just 48h

On the 23rd to 25th of October Garage48, Startup Estonia, the Institute of Computer Science…