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The 20th batch of the legendary 500 Startups has been announced. Eastern Europe is in the groove – teams from Moscow (Visabot), Belarus (...
Startup Sauna warming up internat...
Having attracted companies from Nairobi to Minsk, this spring Startup Sauna has been in the lookout for innovation from all around the world. With Demo Day ap...
Animal live streaming taking over...
Latvian Animals Life NET is a project that incorporates animal live streams in a truly unique way, which has never been used on such a global scale. ...
CrystalSpace wins Space Hackathon...
Tartu-based CrystalSpace wins ...
The Next Big Thing In Online Dati...
We have got a chance to try the newest breakthrough in online dating – Finnish / Ukrainian dating app Klip. The app app...
Vegan Egg product Vegg winning Fa...
Nuclear scientists, Michelin star chefs, nutrition biotechnologists, marine biologists, software developers, entrepreneurs, culinary management students. ...
Going to China: Startup Guide to ...
China has been an extremely popular business destination in the past few years. Thanks to 49B dollars venture capital ...
ResQ Club acquires competitor, at...
Competitor acquisition, funding from German investors and new CEO – lots of news from ...
Got a taste for Coding? Academy o...
Finnish ICT association TIVIA recently revealed that Finland will suffer from a deficit of 15,000 coders by 2020. According to Tivia’s calculations,...
Arctic15 Is Over. What’s ne...
Arctic15 was quite something this year. While our team is slowly recovering from a 3 days long full-on marathon, we would like to present your some of the major highlights of Arctic15 – 2017....
Exit in Lithuania: TrackDuck sold...
Product design collaboration platform InVision has agreed to buy 2014-born TrackDuck, the Lithuanian visual feedback and issue tracking tool. The acqui...
Jumping Higher, Thinking Bigger
Startup investments are an exit business – too often we forget this crucial principle. Exits feed new investments, enabling new growth. By Keith Bonnici Sometimes those exits tell m...
European Angels Fund Is Coming To...
European Investment Fund chooses Finland as the next destination for its European Angel Fund co-investment program. This is a great opportunity for Finnish business angels to bring their investment...
How To Think Of Omnichannel Commu...
Every one of us has at least one brand we particularly like and follow. Although there are plenty of other similar brands around, ours is by far the best and the mos...
Nordics, rise up! Be the one to r...
Apply now for the Green Alley Award – European business competition in Circular Economy Green Alley, supporter of green start-ups throughout Europe, is looking for Nor...
Who is who in Baltic fintech?
Back when Windows XP was still a thing, fintech meant the technology applied to the back-end of established consumer and trade financial institutions. Not anymore. N...
PadKeys: The complete on-screen k...
Tired of the fact that you need to press an extra button when typing the letters instead of numbers? In 2017 we are all about efficiency. Meet PadKeys – an iP...
TOP 30 Nordic & Baltic Start...
Shhh. Don’t tell anyone, but we know what the future holds. We might not yet know the next Facebook or Apple, but every year we select TOP 30 startups for our pitching competition and they te...
Fazer Foodathon: How to painlessl...
It has been only a couple of years since the ...
Startup Constitution by Nordic La...
The startup world can be a ruthless place for an early-stage startup starting its journey to world domination. Everything is new and the legal do’s and don’ts can be found around each corner. O...
Meniga raises €7.5M round led b...
Nordic venture capital investor Industrifonden with participation of Velocity Capital and Frumtak Ventures leads a €7.5M funding round in Meniga, a global ...
Danish entrepreneurs are first to...
The American non-profit organisation Project Management Institute...
Helsinki’s 3D city model ha...
The new generation 3D city models, which the City of Helsinki has published as open data, provide application developers with countless opportunities for utilising city information. The semantic Ci...
AI turns browsing into investment
Swiss-Finnish startup Selma Finance said on Saturday it has launched the first online service to personalise investment based on your personal browser behaviour. What pages you visited last ...
The Hub Connecting Startups With ...
The Hub, a platform helping Nordic startups to find talent and investors, had its Finnish bran...
3rd Eye Studios launches in VR
Finnish 3rd Eye Studios launched on Friday its debut VR game Downward Spiral – Prologue, a zero-gravity space thriller for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. The core team of ...
Oulu’s Koukoi goes to Holly...
Oulu-based Koukoi Games unveiled a new partnership with FoxNext Games to develop a tie-in mobile game for the upcoming film, Ferdinand...
Funderbeam teams up with Taizo So...
Taizo Son’s investment fund Mistletoe will invest 2 million euros in startup bourse Funderbeam and work with the Estonian startup to...
Vivaldi takes on time tracking ap...
Last week I spent 16 hours and 2 minutes on social networking sites. Today I read this data from Rescuetime app, but in the future, I can do it straight from my Vivaldi browser. Vivaldi is a...
The Rise of Manchester: How to ge...
When I received an invitation to DIT’s pre-Slush evening “Scale your business to international success” at the British Embassy in Finland, a wave of curiosity hit me. With so much happeni...
Ahoy! Danish boat sharing platfor...
The Danish boat-sharing startup Boatflex has raised 5 million Danish crowns from the largest early-stage venture fund in Denmark, SEED Capital, and 2 business angels. “Our research shows t...
I will never click on scam e-mail
“I will never click on suspicious links or give my passwords to anyone.” I am sure we all could say this and be totally confident with the statement. Unfortunately, this is not ...
Tampere game studio raises $2.7 m
Tampere-based Traplight, the developer of Big Bang Racing mobile game,...
5 Reasons To Quit Your Job In a S...
We often write about startups aiming to revolutionise particular industries and make it easier for us, consumers to enjoy better quality products and services. Yet large companie...
Bondora turns to profits after fo...
Estonian P2P financial marketplace Bondora turned to profit late last year after focusing again on its original offering of consumer loans and aims to continue on this track in 2017. “...
Arctic on Medium
“Helping to build communities with uncapped opportunities.” Driven by our mission statement we have internally talked a lot about how we could lower the threshold for early stage startu...
Finnish startup investments jump ...
Finnish startups raised 383 million euros in 2016, rising 42 percent from a year ago driven by large investment rounds of ...
Apply For Pitching Competition at...
Many people ask us where does Arctic15 name come from. Here is an answer. The name comes from the fact that originally Arctic15 started out as a pitching competition that was gathering the TOP 15 ...
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FinTech Talks by TWINO
24th May, 2017 Spring
CUBE Tech Fair
10th May, 2017 Berlin
TNW Conference
18th May, 2017 Amster
ARCTIC15
30th May, 2018 Kaapel
Latitude59
25th May, 2017 Põhja
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Startup Sauna warming up international innovators
Having attracted companies from Nairobi to Minsk, this spring Startup Sauna has been in the lookout for innovation from all around the world. With Demo Day approaching soon, it is the time to take a closer look at Startup Sauna’s spring batch. “We traveled to 16 countries and 22 locations to meet startups through local VCs, startups […]
Animal live streaming taking over the Baltics
Latvian Animals Life NET is a project that incorporates animal live streams in a truly unique way, which has never been used on such a global scale. It all started when an IT specialist and an animal rights enthusiast asked the question: “How to raise awareness of animal welfare issues amongst the general public?” After […]
CrystalSpace wins Space Hackathon Estonia
Tartu-based CrystalSpace wins Space Hackathon Estonia with their brand new solution for satellite monitoring – portable vacuum chamber cameras. CrystalSpace idea was to the robust space grade miniature camera originally designed for CubeSats as independent mobile unit to monitor processes inside vacuum chamber. “This victory definitely validates our business idea of making a good use […]
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