Can Technology Help Make Us Happy? HumAInity Challenge Is Here To Find Out
Finland is the happiest nation for the second year in a row and the whole Nordic region tops the ranking. Then how come 12% of the population in the region are...
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AI As A State Of Mind
Artificial Intelligence in 2019 is not something unknown straight out of a science fiction or a dystopian novel – it is in your pocket, on your desktop, in you...
Invested As An Investor: Alina Prawdzik
What makes a good investor-startup relationship? How is investing different as an angel than as part of a corporate venture? – these were the questions I had i...
8 Startup Exit Tips From Conversational AI Platform’s Funderful Founder
A startup with Latvian roots, Funderful deploys AI driven virtual assistants trained to have authentic conversations with students and donors, engaging them at ...
GDPR & AI: Privacy By Design In Artificial Intelligence
As May 25th and the General Data Protection Regulation is approaching fast, we are hearing more and more about it. A lot has been discussed about the extraterri...
Bonnier And Lifeline Ventures Invest In Digital Real Estate Agency
Finnish digital real estate agency Blok closed 1,6 million euro funding round with new investors including Lifeline Ventures and the leading Nordic me...
The Future of the Housing Market is Online and It Is AI-Driven
How easy is it to sell a property? Helsinki-based company Blok has built a virtual estate agent that makes the sale of homes simple, affordable, and secure. The...
Estonia’s Frank.ai is taking on US market
Back in February, we published an article about an Estonian ad-tech startup called Frank, which was about to embark on a four month venture accelerator program ...
Taxify Will Hire 70+ Developers In Tallinn HQ
Estonian transportation company Taxify hit the news with the announcement of new investment from Didi Chuxing, a car sharing company headquartered in Beijing, C...
The First Europe's AI Accelerator
Netherlands-based Rockstart is set to kick off the first edition of the AI accelerator program in early October. Nordic startups are welcome to send their app...
New Report Reveals Strong Enterprise Appetite for Chat Bots
Market-leading research & consulting company Ovum published a report on B2C communications market. The report reveals a growing business appetite for more...
PromoRepublic pulls in $1.2 M, brings AI to content creation on Facebook and Instagram
San Francisco-based Finnish startup PromoRepubliс, which runs a social media content discovery and creation software as a service, has closed a $1.2 million s...
Automated Accounting Company Bokio Raises €3.1m Series Seed Led by Creandum
Bokio, the free automated accounting company, announced today a €3.1 million (30 000 000 SEK) in Series Seed funding led by Creandum with participation from S...
Sweden Aims To Switch To Self-Driving Cars By 2021
Earlier this year Swedish Autoliv and Volvo Car Corporation established Zenuity, a company to develop software for autonomous driving and driver assistance syst...
World’s first taxibot raises money to unite local taxi apps
Frank is a bot that lets you order taxi on Facebook and Telegram. After raising 250,000 euros from two private investors, the Latvian team has launched its mini...
Telegram bot for cheap calls
Latvian company launched a Telegram bot that enables lower rates on international calls with payments in Bitcoin. The Latvian-Canadian group 120 minutes design...
World’s First Taxibot: From Latvia
Latvian taxi order referral community Tico unveiled the world’s first taxibot on Tuesday and said it was in talks with 45 taxi firms and taxi apps to take it in...
Skillific: Headhunting Robot Is After You
The 15 in Arctic15 stands for 15 finalists of the pitching competition. We will introduce them all over coming days in reverse alphabetical order. Skillific is...