The Nordic

Running from the airport to the bus, trying to find my way over to a place called Bruno, using Google maps in desperation trying to find to this place. Finally arriving, sweaty, tired and confused — But I made it. I made it to Ultrahack 2015. Let me give you 5 good reasons to go to Helsinki in November. 1.  First of …

If you’re an entrepreneur working in the Nordic region, you know that November is a month where all hell breaks loose. Everything needs to be fixed, deadlines are coming up and there’s hundreds of Meetups and events that you want to attend. But how do you know which events to attend? It’s easy, see, I’ve made a short list with …

A way of making safe purchases on the second hand-market is finally here. Swiftcourt is launching an unique service that gives you the possibility of securing your deal. By signing a sales contract using Swiftcourt, a dissatisfied buyer gets the right to dispute the purchase in case something goes wrong. Losing a few hundred euros or more to a seller …

Marta Sjögren’s debut to the venture capital world resulted from a passion for innovation and a desire to make an impact in the world. Today, she is the Principal at Northzone,a Danish VC, nd focuses on companies in the early stage. Northzone, established in 1996, is a leading technology investor. Today Northzone has raised over $700 million and invested in …

Working in the air force, two officers have developed a platform that delivers professional drone solutions within photo and video shoots in one overall solution. It has only been a couple of months since Christian Clemmensen Møller and Klaus Wolfsberg Kastrup launched their business: Dronops.dk. With advanced drones as a platform, Dronops delivers professional drone solutions for photo and video …

In the eight years since its inception, the SXSW Startup Accelerator competition has helped to propel many startups. The accelerator is essentially a global showcase for startups, and provides a platform for entrepreneurs to present the latest ideas in sectors as diverse as fintech, wearables, and entertainment. Of the 305 companies who participated in SXSW Accelerator between 2009 and 2015, …

I am a big believer that CEOs, and other relevant people in a company, should keep an open dialogue with potential investors — all part of investing in lines and not dots. Many of these informal conversations will be one-on-one. However, in a recent Board Meeting, we discussed a company’s plan to accelerate a funding round and go on a ‘roadshow’ in …

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 …

The Nordic startup scene is high on potential, but low on global recognition. A group of Nordic startup and tech writers have decided to work together to promote startups and entrepreneurs from the region. Earlier this year, Nordic Innovation invited some regional tech writers to come to Copenhagen and discuss how they could collaborate to promote local startups and entrepreneurs …

“Ever since I can remember, I have known that I wanted to become an entrepreneur,” shares Jakob Breddam of WeLoveStartups. WeLoveStartups is an organization located in Copenhagen, Denmark that focuses on assisting startups with funding to help entrepreneurs and their companies reach their full potential. Jakob Breddom, together with Daniel Laursen, founded and came up with the concept of WeLoveStartups …

The UBI Global Awards, held this year on October 26th,  is an annual ceremony announcing the top rankings of business incubators and accelerators worldwide. Since 2013, UBI Global has done comprehensive benchmarking of over 400 incubator programs across 70 countries. This year, Swedish and Finnish accelerators took home top rankings, including Finland favorite Startup Sauna and the prestigious Uppsala Innovation …

Business angel Thomas Berglund has set his eyes on a mission. As lead investor in the premier edition of Angel Challenge, an initiative hosted by Startup Norway, he hopes to unleash a new wave of capital to young Norwegian startups. Last year Norwegian tech startups only raised 3.2% of the total investments in the Nordic region, according to the Nordic …

Although there has been much discussion in Norway about cooperation between large corporations and small startups, or “small-big” cooperation, there has been little action taken, and few success stories. This week, BI Norwegian Business School and EdTech Foundry are kicking off their cooperation, and hoping to encourage others to do the same. The collaboration between BI Norwegian Business School and …

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 …

Subway Surfers have been downloaded 1 billion times. Now the Danish creators want to go in a new direction and are working on both merchandise and a TV series about the game. This article was originally posted on Finans.dk. The game Subway Surfers has been a giant economic success for the two Danish game companies Kiloo and Sybo Games, who have …

Programming of living organisms, super intelligent algorithms and sensors in human bodies. Although this sounds like the distant future, it can soon become a reality.  Jakob Svagin, Project Manager at the hardware accelerator of the Danish Tech Challenge, identifies 3 rapidly developing technologies to keep on eye on. According to Jacob Svagin, what is common to all three technologies is …

Calling MESH just a co-working space is way too simplistic. It is a start up itself. It is a networking space. And it has its own hip café and bar.  Not to mention the working lounge. Following the MESH website we can define it as hub for the “Nordic Creators’ community”, and brainstorming with founder Anders Mjåset ,we came to …

On October 13th Salesforce Ventures, the investment arm of the cloud service giant, announced that it has earmarked $100 million to invest specifically in European startups. Salesforce Ventures has pumped half a billion dollars into over 150 cloud and enterprise startups since 2009.  Though most of those investments focuse on the US, Salesforce Ventures is now getting more serious in …

Today, the way we learn differs significantly from the past. Much has changed over a relatively short period of time, and will continue to do so. Developed education technology, or ed-tech, has been fundamental in altering our learning style.  One fascinating part of the field includes educational games, which have received much attention and interest. This year, Slush will welcome …

During Ada Lovelace‘s 200th anniversary Norway led the way with a groundbreaking coding session for hundreds of school girls. Over 200 girls descended upon the Deichmanske, Oslo’s public library, for a packed day of coding.GirlsTechFest took place on the 200th anniversary of Ada Lovelace, the world’s first computer programmer and was part of Oslo Innovation Week, a festival of innovative ideas …