Last year, the Finnish startup conference SLUSH was at NASDAQ in New York to ring the bell. This year, Nordic startup friends got an idea during a visit to Founders House in Copenhagen. After two months of countless emails and Skype conversations, a group of passionate people from the Nordic startup community created a grassroots initiative and a common hashtag. …
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The Nordic Startup Media project is still in its infancy, but holds immense potential in branding and promoting the Nordic startup community as a whole. Oddly enough, this project started as an idea between natural competitors covering the Nordic region. Various media projects across the Nordics are every day trying to help promote and thus grow that Nordic startup scene. …
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A Nordic partnership of key players in the Nordic crowdfunding scene is committed to developing an ever more crowdfunding-friendly Nordic region. The cross Nordic alliance was officially established in March 2014 by the founding members from Denmark, Norway, Finland and Iceland with the University of Agder’s Center for Entrepreneurship in Norway as the project coordinator. Has raised almost €5 million …
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Over the past couple of years, there has been a boom in the number of Nordic startups looking to set up camp in the US. This boom has led Nordic Innovation to establish the Nordic Innovation House in startup mecca, Silicon Valley. 93 companies in eight months Nordic Innovation House is funded by an alliance of Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Icelandic and …
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The Nordic region is experiencing an entrepreneurial blossoming. Nordic Innovation wishes to brace the progress and is therefore currently running ten different projects to help strengthen the Nordic startup ecosystem. In the individual Nordic states there are several initiatives working to support the flourishing environment, both public such as the ‘Væksthus’-initiative in Denmark or private such as the grassroot organization #sthlmtech in …
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The Nordic One project strives to create an ecosystem for young and experienced entrepreneurs alike with a focus on international growth from day one. Starting a company is a daunting task, no matter which market one starts out in. But being from a city in the Nordic region that would be considered a town in the US – perhaps a …
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On the 26th of May the Nordic Startup Awards grand final took place in Helsinki, Finland. See the winners and get a more thorough impression of the entire initiative here. Before the final Kim Balle, CEO of Nordic Startup Awards said the following about the event: “We have received hundreds of nominations and more than 10,000 votes have been submitted. …
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