After 15 years at H&M, Jordan Nasser has joined the Stockholm-based start-up company Looklet, a fast-growing fashion and tech B2B start-up. Jordan Nasser was the Global Head of Digital at H&M, working with all the digital channels for the international fashion retailer from 2008-2014. An early digital media adopter, he oversaw the implementation of social …
Virtual reality (VR) might be booming around the world, but as the market begins to mature and competing companies gain some attention from the masses, certain countries are starting to move ahead. By Daniel Smyth As ever, Europe and North America find themselves locked in a battle for supremacy and in the last few months …
As Ed-tech is becoming the next industry to watch in the Nordics, with success stories like Kahoot, DigiExam, and Funzi. We take a look at 3 major trends in the ed-tech world. Adult education Ed-tech is often thought about in terms of “gamified” learning tools like Duolingo, but the real face of adult education …
It started as a university project to ensure that the creators could get a ticket to the Roskilde Festival. But after four yeas of development on a hobby basis at the festival, the project has now become a living. Meet Peefence, the startup that makes mobile urinals. The Roskilde Festival is a large annual music …
The Nordics have a natural advantage when it comes to education technology, including strong school systems, technical expertise, and forward-thinking municipalities who put digitalization on the agenda. What is holding back ed-tech development in the region? Many startups in the Nordics struggle with the VC investment bottleneck and finding the right talent. However as Hanna …
At Infoshare 2016, Rachel Milgram of InnovIL shared an investor’s perspective on startup funding. Rachel’s expertise comes from years of working closely with VC’s and business angels to evaluate companies seeking investment and help match them with the right opportunities. “The fundamentals are never going to change”, says Rachel. “When an investor looks at an …
At Infoshare 2016, Richard Kastelein, of Blockchain News shared a beginners guide to blockchain, and why this technology will change the way we do business – and how the principles of blockchain are actually older than you think. Over the next 10 years, blockchain technology will change the way we do business. Although it is …
Start-up founders who focus on issues of resource preservation, resource recovery and recycling, often lack access to funding opportunities, as they have difficulty competing the b2b scale-ups that investors see as big money. That is why in 2014 Green Alley, a strategic circular economy investor based in Berlin, initiated the annual Green Alley Award, Europe’s first …
Design and creativity took free rein at the Maker area at this year’s Roskilde festival, where on Tuesday night makers competed to created the silliest robots. An arsenal of glue guns and soldering irons were snatched up by festival guests Tuesday, who were invited to join in building silly and fun robots. The building culminated …
The Nordic Startup Awards grand finale took place in the Harpa Center in Reykjavik, Iceland, and hosted collaboration with Icelandic Startups. Attendees from all over the Nordics gathered to celebrate the best startups, accelerators, and investors of the year. Kim Balle, founder of the Nordic Startup Awards, spoke about why the awards are so important …
