Fintech companies have been a hot topic in the Nordics as startups rush to disrupt the traditional financial sector. Here is a look back at some of the main fintech trends and Nordic companies to watch in 2015. Bitcoin Bitcoin reached a big milestone in 2015, when it scored a major win in Europe …
While many consider innovation to be the province of Silicon Valley and other high-tech centers in developed markets around the world, the reality is very different. A look at where intellectual property is being created gives us some indication that we have to broaden our horizons when we look at new innovations. By Ajay Krishnan, …
Atomico and Slush released a study,“The State of European Tech”, at Slush 2015. The study is the most comprehensive review to date carried out on the European tech community, its tech talent, capital flow, entrepreneurial mindset, and success stories. Niklas Zennström, CEO and co-founder of the investment firm Atomico, co-writers of the report, spoke at …
BreedReply is an accelerator focused solely on IoT (Internet of Things) early stage startups in Europe and the US started byReply, a consulting, systems integration and digital services company. Similar accelerators such as Startupbootcamp IoT & Data and HAXLR8R are organized around varied sponsors in the public and private sector. Breed’s offer is a 12 …
In the United States, startup companies that are valued at over a billion dollars in the very short term are called “unicorn” companies. Uber and Airbnb are two well-known companies to have received this designation. Now, Norwegian multinational Schibsted wants to build it’s own “unicorns”. In a stock exchange announcement, Frode Eilertsen, of Schibsted’s Media …
If negotiations regarding the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) agreement are finalized, European FinTech startups will be in a great position to become world leaders in the peer-to-peer finance market. Here are 3 reasons why. 1. Experience advantage Due to the dynamic increase in equity crowdfunding, which can be expressed by more than one hundred …
Phillip Moehring one of 30 employees at Angellist, visited Mesh in Oslo to give some tips about how to raise money in the Nordics. AngelList was originally a blog started in Silicon Valley, based on the idea of tracking funding and investors for startups. It is now a home for startups and investors around the …
The German investment company Paua Ventures has just announced a new fund of €40 million which will be invested, among other things, in Nordic startups. Paua Ventures, established in 2010, is an investment company based in Berlin. The fund has now collected about €40 million in its new fund to support promising European companies in …
Finnish ed-tech startup Funzi starts with a premise you may be familiar with – learning on a mobile phone. But their unique focus on emerging markets has people around the world sitting up and taking notice. Funzi is reinventing how learning is delivered – not in terms of content, but in terms of the delivery …
Nordic businesses represented their region on Deloitte’s EMEA Fast500 List in 2015, with Swedish based iZettle as runner up, Norwegian Clean Marine and Etrinell in the top ten, and six of fourteen Icelandic companies on the country’s Fast50 making it to the Fast500. Earlier this week, Deloitte announced the fourteenth Fast500 List for Europe, Middle East and …
