TBT: the Helsinki Spring
Remember the Helsinki Spring? Only a startup deity like Steve Blank could visit Helsinki in September and tell us that spring was coming (and for us to believe ...
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Fishbrain picks up $8 million round
Fishbrain, the mobile social network for fish... wait no, anglers, announces today it has raised a whopping $8 million round led by Northzone with Tokyo-based R...
IndoorAtlas grabs $3 million deal in South Korea
The rough guesses of the GPS on your phone may be getting out of style while our brave new world of down-to-the-meter indoor positioning kicks off. But while we...
Nordic apps helping sell iPhones in new ad
Apple put out this promo video, highlighting the depth of their app store and throwing some hate towards their competitors. With the Nordics killing it on the a...
Smartly.io growing fast after winning Facebook's Excellence in Innovation
After offering me a drink as I entered the office, Smartly.io's CEO Kristo Ovaska pauses for a moment and stares off into space, wondering if he should have a f...
Arctic15 pics pt. 10
The last of our Arctic15 pics. Find part 9 here!Happy birthday Jevgeni! Congrats to Fourdeg and all of our contestants!That's all we've selected from the Arctic...
Game Analytics goes publisher with Runway
Game Analytics, the region's most SEO friendly startup company, has been doing free analytics for games since late 2011. This comes at a cost to the company, of...
Survey: What do you think about accelerators?
In the next issue of CoFounder we're digging into accelerators and with it, we need your opinion.We're putting together a little poll to figure out what our rea...
Rovio looks for a comeback with Angry Birds "2"
Out of Angry Birds Seasons, Angry Birds Space, Angry Birds Transformers, Angry Birds Stella POP!, and so on, you might be surprised that Rovio has never made an...
Click & Grow accepted into YCombinator
The first baltic team makes it into the prestigious accelerator.The Baltics are no strangers to Silicon Valley accelerators, the "Estonian mafia" itself was coi...
Fieldly receives investment from business angel
Helsingborg’s based company Fieldly that provides digital project management tools for construction companies raised 5.3 million SEK (620,000 euro) investment, ...
Video: Pipedrive's summer meetup in Estonia
Pipedrive's summer team meetup got caught on tape, which we've got embedded below. The Estonian-founded company recently picked up a new CEO, and is moving thei...
Fits.me acquired by Rakuten
Fits.me, the company solving the problems of online clothing fit (through robots) announces it has been acquired by Rakuten, the japanese e-commerce giant that'...
Watch: Reddit's founder and new CEO Steve Huffman back at A15 2011
Reddit is in the news again after a controversial couple of weeks. We won't waste any ink summarizing the internet drama, but what's interesting to us is that t...
TBT: Jonathan from Spotify
#ThrowbackThursday to when you couldn't afford a Spotify subscription.
He was Spotify's version of MySpace's Tom - a friend you couldn't afford to get rid of. H...
Malmö's Wheelys accepted into Y Combinator
Dagens Industri reports that Malmö-based Wheelys has been accepted into YCombinator's upcoming program. It's an interesting move for YCombinator - Wheelys isn't...
Truecaller takes on SMS spam
Stockholm-based Truecaller today announces the launch of Truemessenger, a replacement SMS app for Android phones. Today's tech companies try to replace text mes...
Video of the day: Confetti
Surely TeliaSverige is trying to make some happy associations between their brand and the internet, but joke's on their buzz marketing campaign - I don't speak ...
Jolla's Sailfish coming to Yotaphone
The special sauce behind Jolla, the Finnish phone and tablet developer, has always been in their OS. As an ex-Meego team they've taken what they've learned from...
