What even happened to Nordic and Baltic startups in 2014? We decided to dig through the ArcticStartup Archives to see what news pieces seemed like they should be remembered going forward. Take a minute to take in these headlines broken down month by month:
January
Linda Liukas’ book has a huge first day on Kickstarter
February
Fyndiq Scales Up to €13.8 Million Turnover in Three Years
Finns jumped in the Oulu River to pitch their startups
Supercell: €672M Revenues, New Game Next Month, 140 Employees
March
Spotify acquires Echonest
April
Just Eat IPO on the London Stock Exchange
Transferwise quickly hitting £1 Billion in payments
May
Rovio goes Flappy Bird with the launch of Retry
iZettle raised €40 million
We had our conference – the Arctic15!
June
Airdog hit Kickstarter to follow your extreme sports with a drone
The 11 types of people you meet at Finnish Startup events
July
Google acquired DrawElements for “eight figures”
Betterdoctor gets $10 million series A
August
Nonstop Games acquired by King for up to €67 million
Inventure’s fund hits €68 million to invest in early stage around Finland
CPHFTW goes live, bringing the Danish scene together
September
The creator of Snake is back.
IndoorAtlas raises $10 million from Baidu
A bitcoin castle rises in Estonia
Minecraft acquired for $2 billion
Narrative raises $8 million
October
Videoplaza acquried by Ooyala
Truecaller raises $60 million
November
Futuremark acquired by UL
Kahoot grew at 900,000 unique new players a week.
Seriously raises $10 million through the course of the year
Slush hits over 13,000 attendees!
Apple opens new development office in Lund
December
Jolla raises $10 million series B
