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 …
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 …
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 …
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 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, …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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, …
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 …