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Join TechBBQ in celebrating the Danish startup environment

One of Denmark’s most spectacular scenes provide the framework for TechBBQ 2015 – a festival for the country’s startup environment. By Torben Kloster The event frames investors, the national Nordic Startup Awards final, barbeque, big business, entrepreneurs and a lot of brave speakers on stage. Wednesday May 20 the Opera House in Copenhagen hosts TechBBQ 2015. …

Events, News, Sweden

An inspiring, enlightening and festive STING Day

Nordic Startup Bits was there as STING Day was held for the sixth consecutive year. With 65 selected startups and more than 140 investors gathered we were in for a great and inspiring day. STING Day is held by the Stockholm based business incubator STING and took place in Stockholm last week. Photo credit stingsthlm The …

Denmark, Gaming, News, TechBBQ

BetaDwarf – a success against all odds

Becoming a successful game developer in Denmark is not easy. Yet Steffen Kabbelgaard Grønning, the CEO of the Copenhagen game developing company BetaDwarf, has managed to stand out.   By Jesper K. Kristiansen  In 2011, Steffen Kabbelgaard Grønning and his BetaDwarf cofounder, Kenneth Harder, were both medialogy students at Aalborg University, Ballerup dreaming of becoming …

Events, Iceland, News

Icelandic Winners of the Nordic Startup Awards

Yesterday the Icelandic startup community got together at Reykjavik University, courtesy of Klak Innovit, Nyherji, and Stjornvisi, to find out who were the Icelandic winners Nordic Startup Awards 2015. (photo credit: Haraldur Gudjonsson) “We are proud to connect with the nordic startup scene and other community leaders through the Nordic Startup Awards. It’s a great …

Denmark, Finland, Insight, News

Insights on the Nordic Business Angels

There is room for improvement in the pulsing Nordic startup and business angel environment. The Nordic startup and business angel environment is pulsing. Still more highly remarkable Nordic startups are emerging, and there has never been more venture capital available. But just as startups and entrepreneurs have to mature and grow, great business angels must …

News, Norway

Capture, play and share interactive video with Zpindler

Zpindler is a new platform to capture, play and share interactive video. Using natural interfaces they break the static rules of video as we know it. Video has evolved and changed a lot the past years. Evolving smartphones combined with high speed internet enable multiple ways of creation and consumption of video. New tools enable …

News, Norway

The Norwegian Winners of the Nordic Startup Awards 2015

The Norwegian startup community got together at Ingensteds, central Oslo last week to discover who will be competing against the other Nordic startups at the Helsinki Grand Finale of the Nordic Startup Awards this year. By Thorunn Jonsdottir, photo credit Noor Dawod The evening was organised by Oslo Business Region and Startup Norway with a …

Health, News, Sweden

Lifee gets real

Swedish startup, FutureMe Labs are creators of Lifee – a wristband for kids that motivates physical activity while being entertaining and easy to use. By Vic Bassey Wearable technology company Lifee has moved a step closer to being a real product with the delivery of a prototype to one of its biggest supporters and customers. …

Denmark, News

Coinify and the Wow Feelings in First Time Bitcoin Users

Earlier this March a Coinify’s Account Manager tried to survive an entire month just using Bitcoin in the Danish capital city of Copenhagen. Differently from last year attempter, whom managed to last 10 days, he made it. His company, Coinify works to spread the use of Bitcoin especially in Denmark. Coinify states that it “takes …

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