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Finnish startup Pibox raises funding for remote collaboration solution for audio content

Pibox is a centralized/all-in-one remote collaboration solution developed for working with creative collaboration. It is used daily by the head of a production, music producers, managers and sound engineers. Now, Pibox has raised € 150,000 in funding from the Pitchdrive fund and several angel investors. Pibox was launched in 2018. The solution first raised interest among music producers, sound technicians …

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Moving, not moving, and mobility

One of the main themes at NEXT15 , the two-day tech conference that occurred concurrently with Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg, was mobility. The conference attempted to answer the question “How will we move?” with all the opportunities and challenges that it implies. But zooming out and looking at the question in the context of the entire conference – with discussions …

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EventEye – Envisioning the future of Events

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Take your event to the next level. That is what EventEye offers their customers. Working as a freelance app developer Fredrik Hoel, CEO and co-founder of EventEye discovered that he kept doing the same thing over and over again. He started to question why he had to ‘reinvent the wheel’ every time he made an app for an event. He came up with …

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Its all about socializing at Cook with a Local

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It’s not about eating. It’s not even about cooking. It’s about socializing. Students from University of Copenhagen and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts have created Cook With a Local to enable people all over the world to connect with each other by cooking and eating a meal together. It all started out in 2013, as a part of …

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VIO – a “Netflix” for magazines

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Netflix has become one of the biggest online movie and TV show platforms – but what about a platform for readers? Norwegian startup Vio Media is creating a “Netflix” for Magazines. Articles from your favorite magazines gathered in one place. That is the basic idea behind VIO – a digital magazine platform. Vio Media wants to offer readers unlimited digital …

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Apps without coding? Possible with Neonto Studio

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In a world where content means everything, Finnish software startup Neonto claims that their tool makes it possible for anyone to create an app from an idea. Mobile software development is generally difficult – especially if one wants to make things ‘right’. Neonto Studio is a free Mac app (requires OS X 10.9 or newer) that creates native iOS and Android …

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Finnish startup Smartly.io hopes to win advertisers

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Facebook ad management looks deceptively simple. Sure, anyone can do it, but only the best practices resulting from painstaking trials and errors provide optimal/wanted results. Smartly.io is a Finnish startup that promises better and simpler platform for advertisers made through that process. Soon after the launch of Smartly.io in 2013, they became trusted partners in Facebook Marketing Partner community in building tools …

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TED Talk: The single biggest reasons why startups succeed

In this TED Talk Bill Gross explains why one certain factor is often essential for startups to succeed. Bill Gross, founder of Idealab, a business incubator focused on new ideas, got curious about why some startups succeed and other fails. Therefore he gathered data from hundreds of companies (100 Idea Lab startups and 100 non-Idea Lab startups). He ranked each of …

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Pricelizer targets e-commerce domination

Swedish startup, Pricelizer is all about creating a great online shopping environment for their customers. The what and the how  is what they believe sets them apart from the competition.   Bought an item online? Then you’ve likely encountered instances when you have failed to follow through with a purchase. This could be down to a variety of reasons. What Pricelizer is aiming …

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Authenteq: Privacy Without Anonymity

Authenteq is a identity verification and reputation management platform that helps online marketplaces increase transparency and trust by issuing Authenteq IDs to their users to verify that they are who they say they are. By Thorunn Jonsdottir Started as Verificy in March 2014, the team soon decided to change the name to Authenteq as most people pronounced Verificy as “Very …

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Priori Data embraces the app economy

By receiving data from about 5,000 apps operating worldwide, Priori Data is mapping the mobile app world. What is happening in the mobile app world? Is there a way to unravel the tangle around apps’ performances and revenues to visualize opportunities? Priori Data offers a solution that embraces the entire app economy. Before introducing the company, it might be helpful …

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An inspiring, enlightening and festive STING Day

Nordic Startup Bits was there as STING Day was held for the sixth consecutive year. With 65 selected startups and more than 140 investors gathered we were in for a great and inspiring day. STING Day is held by the Stockholm based business incubator STING and took place in Stockholm last week. Photo credit stingsthlm The headline of the day was …

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BetaDwarf – a success against all odds

Becoming a successful game developer in Denmark is not easy. Yet Steffen Kabbelgaard Grønning, the CEO of the Copenhagen game developing company BetaDwarf, has managed to stand out.   By Jesper K. Kristiansen  In 2011, Steffen Kabbelgaard Grønning and his BetaDwarf cofounder, Kenneth Harder, were both medialogy students at Aalborg University, Ballerup dreaming of becoming game developers. There was only …

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Bownty gives you best value for money experiences

No matter where in the world you are, Bownty promises to find you the best value for money experiences. The deal aggregator site Bownty helps clean the clutter created by hundreds of providers of discounted experiences. Bownty makes it possible to only receive preferred deals, in a frequency that suits you, on the medium you’re happiest with. Bownty was founded …

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Capture, play and share interactive video with Zpindler

Zpindler is a new platform to capture, play and share interactive video. Using natural interfaces they break the static rules of video as we know it. Video has evolved and changed a lot the past years. Evolving smartphones combined with high speed internet enable multiple ways of creation and consumption of video. New tools enable extreme creativity and engagement. We …

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Coinify and the Wow Feelings in First Time Bitcoin Users

Earlier this March a Coinify’s Account Manager tried to survive an entire month just using Bitcoin in the Danish capital city of Copenhagen. Differently from last year attempter, whom managed to last 10 days, he made it. His company, Coinify works to spread the use of Bitcoin especially in Denmark. Coinify states that it “takes an unconventional approach to mainstream …

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Is Copenhagen a Female Startup Founder Heaven?

Now in its 5th year accelerating startups in Copenhagen, Startupbootcamp Mobile wants to repeat the success of their 2014 cohort, where more than half of the teams accepted into the program were founded or co-founded by female founders. Startupbootcamp Mobile accelerator focuses on scaling mobile technologies, and solution-based startups, in which up to 10 selected startups receive 15,000 Euros seed …

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Podio announces the Podio chat app

This April it is exactly three years since the acquisition of Danish startup, Podio, was celebrated. Since then we have been hoping to see new angels in the Nordic startup scene – but we also see the Podio team continuously improve Podio. The latest news is of a launch of a new app, the Podio Chat app. When you’re working on the …

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Ngenic outperforms Nest in Scandinavia with specialised thermostat system

Great news for the population of the Nordic countries! Ngenic, a Swedish startup from Uppsala, has found a way to solve energy management by creating a special thermostat system which can be managed through a mobile, computer or tablet and can help you save up to 15% of energy you are currently wasting. According to Norden, between 1995 and 2010, energy …

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Do’s and don’ts at the Y Combinator interview?

The American seed accelerator Y Combinator might be one of the world’s most desired and respected of its kind. Henrik Zillmer, founder of AirHelp, managed to get through the eye of the needle and got accepted to the program. In this blog post he share his experience in order to help other hopeful startups. By Henrik Zillmer, posted at henrikzillmer.com Twice every year, I …

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