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 …
Coworking space Mindpark was been listed as one of the 11 most exotic coworking spaces in the world by ITworld. It was the only place in Europe to make the list. By Pia Ella Elmegård. Coworking spaces are still shooting up everywhere as the startup hubs in the Nordic cities are growing and maturing. In …
This months Stockholm Tech featured three new up and coming startups in the Stockholm scene: Adventure Box, Without The Fear, and Qasa. The night focused on financially backed startups, with all three startups receiving funding in the last few months.by Stephen Batley Adventure Box – www.adventurebox.com/ Adventure Box is an online browser-based game. Using …
When back in 2010 two friends Philip Bergqvist and Jakob Berglund started working together on Unified Remote, their ambition was to solve their own practical problem – find an easy way to remotely control music or video programs on their computers. Originally published in #NordicMade magazine But when the result of their work – a …
Projectplace’s ToDo app offers a free cloud-based collaboration tool for small teams. The app has enjoyed 20% monthly growth since its launch in April, topping 10 000 users this month! ToDo is a collaboration and project management tool, allowing teams to organize their workflow, collaborate with other team members, and store all relevant documents for …
