Going to China: Startup Guide to Conquer The Celestial Empire

China has been an extremely popular business destination in the past few years. Thanks to 49B dollars venture capital flooding to China’s startup sector, China is now world’s second largest VC market after the US, and world’s first in value of VC-backed Internet businesses. Top that number with startup friendly government policies, over 720 million […]

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Finnish Rightware sold to China for $68 mln

China’s Thundersoft has acquired Finnish startup Rightware, the provider of automotive user interface software, for $68 million. The 2009-founded Rightware raised $9.5 million from local VC firms Nexit Ventures, Inventure and Finnish Industry Investment. The deal is expected to be closed in early 2017 and Rightware will remain “an independent company” headquartered in Finland. Rightware’s […]

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Time to go to China!

With a bit of help from The Mighty Eagle, everybody in Finland and elsewhere in the Nordics is starting to grasp how important China and the Chinese market is for their own future success. To help you with this, we teamed up with China Start! programme of Shanghai’s Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, whose […]

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Finnish way to get pregnant? App

Finnish startup iSTOC has announced its Lotus mobile app for pregnancy and fertility solution. It says the app significantly improves chances for women to get pregnant, admitting though it cannot do it alone. “Lotus is more than ovulation test, a pregnancy test or a pregnancy tracking. It is a comprehensive solution design that will bring certainty […]

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Chip Firm Ascatron Wraps A Round

Sweden’s power semiconductor firm Ascatron said on Wednesday it has raised additional 4 million euros for finalising development of its energy-saving chips, and was closing its A round with the new funding. Ascatron develops power semiconductors based on Silicon Carbide (SiC) that radically reduce losses in electrical transformers. Losses can be up to 20 percent […]

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China Inc Buys Another Nordic Startup

Shenzhen O-film Technology Co., Ltd. has bought all shares in Senseg Oy to gain access to the Finnish firm’s proprietary Electrostatic Haptic Feedback technology, and aiming to bolster its profitability and competitiveness. O-film said it plans to invest an additional 1.87 million euros to Senseg Oy after the deal. Senseg raised its B round of […]

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Vision+ Protégee MyGamez Release Their Q1 Portfolio For Chinese Markets

Helsinki based VC Vision+ has set their eyes on China where big dreams, if successful, turn into even bigger profits. Last year they hit our news with a fresh €50 million to pump into promising companies. Their more than colorful portfolio includes everything from Manga distribution to movies starred by Samuel L Jackson.

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Palmopinion puts an interesting model on mobile surveys

If I told that there is a brand new startup that puts an app on your phone that forces you to answer surveys, while giving you a few euro’s as a reward, would you think that this can potentially a huge success in the future? Probably not. Yet, this is exactly what I am going […]

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One More Gaming Success From Finland: Lola Panda Hits Millions of Downloads

The Finnish gaming success is not just about the casual games from the likes of Rovio and Supercell. There are other gaming companies that deserve the attention, especially if they also have an added benefit of being education. For instance there is Beiz, who have created the Lola Panda brand and several games to go […]

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Transfluent Adds Sina Weibo Support For Brands to Target China's Twitter

One of the startup jokes is, “We only need to get 1% of the Chinese market and we’ll be millionaires…” but all joking aside, how would you do so? Today at the LAUNCH festival Helsinki-based Transfluent is releaseing Sina Weibo (think: Chinese Twitter) support, letting brands hit new markets effortlessly by letting Transfluent’s army of translators […]

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