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 …
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. …
If you planning on going to an event – e.g. the two-day tech conference Startup Extreme taking place in Voss, Norway, from June 17 to 19 or the STHLM TECH Meetup in Stockholm June 23 – then prepare your self with these tips for event-goers presented by Laila Pawlak. Laila Pawlak is the founder of DARE2, …
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 …
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 Danish user review platform Trustpilot raises 500 million Danish kroner in a new investment round, and is getting ready for a major US venture, and to redeem the global potential. Trustpilot started in Aarhus, Denmark in 2008 and has since proven to be spot on with current trends of user generated content and user …
Denmark’s first platform for peer-to-peer car rental, MinbilDinbil, has been acquired by the largest car sharing platform in the Netherlands, SnappCar. MinbilDinbil takes a serious step back into the race for the Danish car sharing market as the Dutch counterpart SnappCar has bought the company. The merger makes SnappCar the second largest car sharing solution …
“TV commercials are expensive but strengthen the company’s brand.” So says the man behind the Danish online-based accounting program Billy, Toke Kruse, whom in recent times has had great success with a nationwide TV add on TV2. Toke Kruse talks about how Billy will improve its brand, how their product is being improved and how …
Last fall the startup Noisli was part of the Startupbootcamp Mobile accelerator program in Copenhagen. Now, Apple and Starbucks have chosen them as Starbuck’s Pick of the Week and therefore it will be available as a free download in all Starbucks shops in USA and Canada for the entire week. This is revealed by CEO …
UBER breaks their own record week by week – new investment and a very high valuation have been a part of UBERs short history. The total raised capital since the birth of UBER is insanely 2.7 billion dollars. But how can a six-year-old company be worth more than the iconic Harley Davidson, the cereal brand …
