MicroFundr – Not Just Yet

Yesterday we announced news that a joint group of European blogs, including us, The Next Web, TechCrunch Europe and TechCrunch France were setting up an investment fund MicroFundr™ to invest up to €14,000 Euros (USD $18,500) in Micro blogging start-ups and uses Twitter for funding process. Some of you called us out on it, and some […]

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MicroFundr, First Pan-European VC Fund, Will Use Twitter For Funding Process

Small Change Venture Capital is launching MicroFundr which will invest up to €14,000 Euros (USD $18,500) in Micro blogging start-ups and uses Twitter for funding process. The Invest Fund raised just under €14 million (USD $18m) from a group of small banks and informal investors. A joint group of European blogs, including ArcticStartup(that’s us!), The […]

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Live From TechCrunch Brunch

Reporting live from TechCrunch Brunch in Helsinki the morning following Slush. The theme for the morning’s panel discussions are the implications of regionality and unique features in the Nordic startup scene. The event was kicked off by Mike Butcher from TechCrunch UK and Ville Vesterinen from ArcticStartup, chatting a bit about Slush, its background and […]

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Two Free Tickets To Slush And To TechCrunch Brunch

Slush, an event for startups by startups, will take place next Monday in Helsinki, Finland. We have a whole lot of people already coming, but wanted to give out 2 tickets for two lucky persons who still haven’t bought their tickets. Also, we have two tickets to give away for the TechCrunch Brunch @ Slush […]

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Slush Is Just Around The Corner

Slush Helsinki is taking place in two weeks time on 24th November at Korjaamo, Helsinki. The event is a collaborative effort from Helsinki startup scene aiming bring together Helsinki’s startups, past and current, and showcasing some of the more interesting startups in the region. Slush will stop selling tickets on the 19th November, which is […]

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Slush Startup-Competition: One More Week To Submit Your Idea

Slush, an event for startups by startups in Helsinki, Finland, is this month (24th November) and deadline to submit your idea for a startup is closing in. You will have until 7th 14th November which is this next Friday, so better hurry up if you don’t have submitted your ‘next big thing’ yet. You can […]

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TechCrunch is coming to Slush Helsinki

ArcticStartup is partnering with TechCrunch UK and Slush Helsinki in organizing a brunch for start-ups, entrepreneurs, investors and key industry players the day after the Slush event. Slush will take place on Monday 24th November and the brunch on Tuesday 25th. Slush is an event for startups by startups in Helsinki, Finland. The event will […]

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Muxlim building Muslim virtual world

According to TechCrunch UK (blog post here) Muxlim, the Finnish born Muslim social network, is launching a virtual world especially Muslims in mind.  This will be much like the other virtual worlds we are familiar with such as The Second Life apart from the Muslim specific features. TechCrunch UK reports: The idea is that something […]

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Spotify rumoured to have raised €15m round

TechCrunch UK just reported (here) that Spotify, a Swedish startup offering a lightweight software application enabling on demand streaming of music, is rumoured to have raised €15m round (massive €71.6m pre-money valuation) from a Scandinavian VC fund Northzone Ventures. As TechCrunch UK commented “Northzone themselves have declined to comment, but Creandum, another of Sweden’s top […]

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Mike Butcher Of TechCrunch UK Talks About The Euro Startup Scene

I interviewed Mike Butcher of TechCrunch UK on the European startup ecosystem and how he sees it versus the US one while I was visiting Seedcamp in London. I told Mike that we need to make entrepreneurship sexier here in Europe and get more role models for students and young guns to look up to. […]

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