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Nordic Startup Bits have interviewed some of the most prominent Nordic VC’s, Gregers Kronborg from Northzone, Martin Hauge from Creandum, and Niels Vejrup Carlsen 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 …

Are you currently working from your own home and do you have excess space? Then why not share this space with other people also working from their home? The Swedish movement Hoffice facilitates home sharing in a new innovative way. It is a philosophy, and a network of people who wants to work together for free in each others’ homes …

Raft is a new social startup, that have developed a calendar app for everyone that wants to have a better way to plan their life together with their partner and friends. The three founders had previously founded an app development agency called Lonely Duck. They grew that company to ten employees and delivered global apps to brands such as Puma, …

Oceans the dive logging and community app launched this week, after a succesfull beta trial in 2014 they are ready to serve divers around the world. Together with the world’s diving community, Oceans is set to map the teeming oceanic life, vivid landscapes and fragile underwater environment — making it available for everyone to explore. The company was founded in …

The world-famous rapper and businessman Jay-Z enters music streaming by buying Aspiro, the parent company of two subscription services, TIDAL and WiMP for $56.2 million through his own firm, Project Panther Bidco. A spokesperson from Project Panther state said that their “strategic ambition” for Aspiro is to scale the Aspiro’s platform, technology and services. WiMP, which launched in 2010 currently, …

Nordic Startup Bits have met the prominent Nordic angel investor, Hampus Jakobsson, to a talk about the Nordic startup scene and his thoughts about Nordic entrepreneurs. He has invested in 32 startups, with an average investment of 50-100,000 dollars pr. startup. Hampus is located in Malmö, Sweden, from where he has a very close connection to the Nordic startups. “Generally …

The Stockholm-based startup FishBrain is the leading social sport fishing app with more than 650,000 users. The team is founded in 2012 by the two Swedish guys, Jens Person and Marcus Fransson. Johan Attby the current CEO came into the picture a year later after selling his previous company, which was located in Silicon Valley. After selling my company I …

The American venture capital firm Sequoia invest $1,500,000 in Mapillary; together with other great CVs. Mapillary is a Swedish street view startup that challenges Google Street View with the goal of mapping the whole world through crowdsourcing. The app makes it possible to share your favorite places with the rest of the world. To date the startup has close to …

Tommy Palm, the man credited with creating one of the biggest mobile hits ever, Candy Crush Saga, leaves King.com to found new game studio Resolution Games together with other Swedish veterans. At King, Palm’s title was ‘Game Guru’, and he was responsible for adapting the web version of Candy Crush into the worldwide mobile megahit, Candy Crush Saga, that beyond …

Few weeks ago Uber entered the Danish market and the company is now available in all the Nordic markets (Denmark, Norway and Sweden) and in that occasion we will try to analyze the main challenges Uber will have in the Nordic markets. 1. Their company culture and ethics The past months Uber has been a very hot topic in the …

Coworking space Mindpark was been listed as one of the 11 most exotic coworking spaces in the world by ITworld. It was the only place in Europe to make the list. By Pia Ella Elmegård. Coworking spaces are still shooting up everywhere as the startup hubs in the Nordic cities are growing and maturing. In Copenhagen alone three new coworking …

This months Stockholm Tech featured three new up and coming startups in the Stockholm scene: Adventure Box, Without The Fear, and Qasa. The night focused on financially backed startups, with all three startups receiving funding in the last few months.by Stephen Batley   Adventure Box – www.adventurebox.com/ Adventure Box is an online browser-based game. Using the popular voxel engine Minecraft …

When back in 2010 two friends Philip Bergqvist and Jakob Berglund started working together on Unified Remote, their ambition was to solve their own practical problem – find an easy way to remotely control music or video programs on their computers. Originally published in #NordicMade magazine But when the result of their work – a Unified Remote app for Android …

Projectplace’s ToDo app offers a free cloud-based collaboration tool for small teams. The app has enjoyed 20% monthly growth since its launch in April, topping 10 000 users this month! ToDo is a collaboration and project management tool, allowing teams to organize their workflow, collaborate with other team members, and store all relevant documents for a task in one place. …

If earlier today you were not planning on going out but now have a sudden change of heart and don’t feel like wasting another evening sitting on a couch – then Spontano will be your next favorite app! With the help of Spontano residents and visitors of Stockholm can experience the city without planning ahead. The service offers a selection …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Sthlmtechfest is a yearly event hosted by Tyler Crowley, and sponsored by a long list of companies that support the focus on startups. The event displays all the upcoming trends within different areas such as, gaming, media, commerce, and gives a large number of startups the opportunityto display their products in order to get in touch with investors, medias or …