Flauntin: a platform strengthening the relationship between fashion stores and their customers. Flauntin is an app that enables fashion lovers to get discounts on their favourite boutiques through essentially “flauntin” their purchases. A generous 10% discount is available for users that share their purchases on social media applications such as Facebook. These discount opportunities are …
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 …
Chutzpah – the word that defines Tel Aviv as the non-stop startup city. The city is number two on the list of the best ecosystems in the world according to research conducted by the Startup Genome. The word is pronounced “Hjoodspa” and is about being daring; it is in the blood and veins of the …
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 …
Sharingear is a peer-to-peer platform for musicians to lease or rent backline equipment and instruments. With the increased rate of piracy in recent years, touring has become a popular means of financial support for musicians. However touring is an expensive exercise due to the high costs of transporting heavy equipment. Sharingear aims to solve this …
The Danish startup Swipes went all the way and secured the gold medal in the Evernote startup competition in San Francisco. “We fucking did it” That was the Facebook Message that hit our phone 2 AM the morning between Friday and Saturday from the CEO of Swipes. Later that morning Nordic Startup Bits got a …
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 …
Coinify wants to take the digital currency Bitcoin to the mainstream market, and with more than 6,000 users they are moving fast towards their mission. Last week the Danish capital firm SEED Capital invested a “multi million” amount in the Danish startup Coinify. Hungry.dk among the first The fast-food delivery platform Hungry.dk recently joined 6,000 …
Nordic Innovation House, a co-working space, incubator and resource center for Nordic tech companies, debuted today. The new initiative is funded by an alliance of Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Icelandic and Danish governments as well as Nordic Innovation, an institution supported by Nordic governments that works to promote cross-border trade and innovation. As seen in the …
The London based venture capital firm Mosaic Ventures announced it is ready to invest a $140 million fund on Series A, early stage companies in the Nordic Region and the rest of Europe. The partners behind Mosaic Ventures are Simon Levene, Mike Chalfen and Toby Coppel. The trio has experience investing at both sides of …