Sweden

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 …

Entrepreneurs Academy is a Swedish student organization from Uppsala University, which want to encourage the students and turn all the knowledge at the university into willpower, to become entrepreneurs. Uppsala, the fourth largest city of Sweden with more than 40.000 students, has a growing startup community but the students are leaving for Stockholm because it is bigger, somewhat close by …

Swedish Charity Storm is a fundraising and payments platform for the non-profit sector. With the platform Charity Storm helps charity organisations as well as other associations to keep up with new marketing tools and payment methods and thus also target the needs of the younger crowd. A desire to make an impact on the world Charity Storm was born out …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Hundreds of startups from Europe have been submitting their names in order to be featured in the competition. Tech5 is an online initiative in search of Europe’s fastest growing Tech startups. On the 9th March, the top 5 companies from each country have been selected. All country finalists will be invited to attend The Next Web Conference Europe  on 23rd -24th …

Showmybuy is a word of mouth marketing’s platform, which ensures better and more trustworthy marketing by utilizing the social media, and the power of personal recommendations. Traditional banner marketing is being highly neglected by internet users and banner marketing is in a negative trend. Swedish startup, Showmybuy, has created a social shopping service, which take advantage of customers’ use of …

Uppstart is a free one-day technology startup event for anyone interested in the field, regardless of occupation. So whether you are a student, a startup, an entrepreneur, an investor or anything in between Uppstart is the event you want to join if you share the interest. Two times a year the city of Uppsala hosts Uppstart and recently the event …

Erik Byrenius is a former entrepreneur who wishes to give something back to the startup community. After selling his first startup Onlinepizza.se Erik wished to “enter” the startup scene anew. By a circuitous route this wish turned into startupdocs.se. Here, you can download fair and standardised term sheet, shareholders’ agreement, a guide to stock options and more – for free. …

Last week Swedish iZettle, Europe’s number one provider of mobile payment services introduced iZettle Card Reader Lite – the world’s first free-­of-­charge Chip & PIN reader. With the Chip and PIN reader from iZettle all you need to start, run and improve your business is a smartphone or tablet. An easy solution with a transparent price structure Lite is a …

The app Closr is started by the two Swedish entrepreneurs Alex Lewerentz and Peter Eriksson. They started the app Closr because they had so many contacts spread over the phone book and other social networks, but still they had no place to save important information to help them remember stuff that they wanted to pick up on the next time …

Swedish Phoodster has created an app that generates mouth-watering meal suggestions incorporating items currently on sale at your local stores. An Idea Born from an everyday problem Most of us have a hard time deciding what to cook, especially if you are trying a new diet or are looking for something special. We are bombarded with promotions as soon as …

Swedish Weld is building a browser-based prototyping tool for websites and apps, with the goal of simplifying prototyping and development for everybody.   Prototyping made easy Weld is a fast and responsive UX (User experience) prototyping tool for websites and apps, which makes it simple for non-programmers to create responsive web and app prototypes, which scale and adapt beautifully to …

D82 is one of the latest additions to Sweden’s rising range of co-working spaces. The office is placed in the center of Stockholm in a newly renovated building. In D82 startups are secured office space, meeting rooms, space for relaxation and networking, and of course, what all hard working entrepreneurs need: good coffee! D82 already holds many of Sweden’s most …

Monday the 19th of January E-commerce Park of Sweden was inaugurated in a large 4.000 square meter building localised in Helsingborg. Here small and medium-sized e-commerce companies can now acquire office space in direct continuation of Sweden’s second largest container dock. We know the concept from the startup environment where entrepreneurs work under the same roof in order to make …

SUP46, Start-Up People of Sweden, is a co-working & meeting space located in the heart of Stockholm, with the goal of making Stockholm the #1 startup city in the world. This is the second article in our series about Nordic co-working spaces. You can read the first article about Danish Startup City here! Stockholm is home to a large number …

Tuesday last week Canon Inc made an 23.6 billion SEK ($2.83 billion) offer for network video surveillance market leader Axis AB. This is the biggest purchase ever for the Japanese firm. Canon’s decision about the offer is based on falling demand for digital cameras and an aim to diversify its operations overseas. Axis AB With 1627 employees in more than …

1. BannerFlow Do you want to make high quality banner ads, so you can retarget your customers on other websites? Banner Flow is a Stockholm-located startup that allows you to make HTML5 banner ads, so you don’t have to hire a graphic designer. Try it here: http://www.bannerflow.com/ 2. Zendesk Zendesk is a Danish startup that has made an online service …