Crowdfunding
Swedish TidyApp seeks to raise funding through Invesdor
TidyApp, Sweden’s leading mobile platform for domestic services, seeks to raise SEK 3 million to accelerate growth. TidyApp will raise SEK 3 million (300,000 euros) through the Nordic region’s crowdfunding platform Invesdor. This will be the first funding campaign for a Swedish-based company on Invesdor. TidyApp matches independent cleaning partners with customers based on the […]
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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 […]
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PadKeys: The complete on-screen keyboard soon on your smartphone
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 iPad keyboard app that brings numbers and punctuation on the main layout of your screen, just like on a regular laptop keyboard. No need to switch […]
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Naava raises $3.2M to open a production facility in the USA and go global
Finnish healthtech company Naava will open its first international production facility in New Jersey, USA this spring. This is a historical milestone for the company to expand operations with a production facility in the USA, – and serve Americans with clean air technology from Finland. To help facilitate this new market entry, Naava also announced today […]
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Solu takes its OS to Android
Finnish startup Solu Machines has taken its unique operating system to Android platform as an early version of a Solu app, enabling any Android phone or tablet to work as a full-blown Solu desktop computer. Solu has built a completely new personal computing platform. That includes everything: hardware, software, interface, monetization – everything. They sold the […]
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Top Baltic accelerator taps crowdfunding
Startup Wise Guys, the top accelerator in the Baltic countries, has launched a crowdfunding campaign, aiming to raise 300-400 thousand euros for investing in the companies participating in its programme in Tallinn in 2017. Accelerators are typically funded by closed groups of angel investors who choose to invest through the accelerator to spread their risk across […]
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FundedByMe gets Malaysia P2P license
FundedByMe received on Thursday one of six coveted licenses by the Malaysian Securities Commission to operate Peer-to-Peer crowdfunding, making it the only European operator licensed to operate in the Asian region. “The Asian region is seeing an explosion in peer-to-peer activity, particularly, and crowdfunding in general,” said Daniel Daboczy, CEO and co-founder of FundedByMe. “These six […]
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First Finnish crowdfunded IPO
Heeros, a cloud-based financial management platform, became the first Finnish company and joined a few European pioneers to organise public share issue after raising earlier an equity crowdfunding round. Heeros raised 660,000 euros on Invesdor last year. The campaign also brought the company visibility and close to 200 new shareholders. “Heeros’ IPO is excellent news for Nordic […]
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Mate eBike tops Danish crowdfunding chart
Mate eBike, already the most successful Danish crowdfunding project ever, enters last week of the Indiegogo campaign having gathered more than $2.6 million. Danish capital Copenhagen is surely one of the biking capitals of the world and creators of Mate link it directly also to the fact that their hometown has been called the happiest […]
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Bondkick: Taking crowd to bond market
Newly-born Estonian fintech platform Bondkick aims to take crowdfunding to the corporate bond market. Bonds as an investment instrument is generally much less known than shares, but compared to equity, there are 5-10 times more bonds issued each month for example on the US market. Bondkick launched in April this year and at the moment one […]
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