Venture Capital Firm Ventech Expands Into Scandinavia
French Venture Capital firm Ventech expands towards the Nordics to reach innovative new companies. The office opened in Helsinki will be Ventech’s fourth base-c...
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ACTIVE Venture Partners Appoints two New Team Members after Busiest month to date
It's been a hot, yet immeasurably valuable month of July for us all, undoubtedly due to the relaxing effect of the summer sun which recharges our internal bat...
Can Alliance's new early-stage fund get Norway on track?
Talking to Norwegian entrepreneurs over the years we've heard two things about the state of their early-stage funding. We've heard that there are no investors, ...
SonarWorks take €600,000 investment
The Imprimatur Capital Technology Venture Fund located in Latvia has recently announced an investment in headphones software start-up Sonarworks. The investmen...
Kaj Hed's First Major Investment Outside Rovio Goes To Kiosked In A €4.5M Round
The other week we asked where were Helsinki's big startups, and today Kiosked responded with a new funding round. €4.5 million is a nice number for the "content...
Readmill Announces New Features, Eight Launch Partners And Fresh Funding
The Berlin based startup, Readmill, founded by the Swede Henrik Berggren (he's also coming to Arctic15) has a ton of new items to announce. First of all, they a...
Denmark Moves Towards Dropping The "Entrepreneurs' Tax"
In April we did a bigger story on Danish entrepreneurs' movement against what they called the iværksætterskat, or Entrepreneurs' tax. The tax got its nickname b...
The Real Industry Transformers, Where Are They?
Most of the startups we cover here on ArcticStartup are somehow affiliated with the consumer internet or disrupt their market in such a way that small businesse...
It's Ok For Founders To Cash In, But There Shouldn't Be Any Reason To Hide It
Yesterday we revealed how Rovio's $42 million investment last year actually went to one or more of its founders, by the look of their financial statement that w...
Rovio's $42M Investment In 2011 Actually Went To Its Owners
In early May, Rovio came out with their financial results for 2011. Today, the National Board of Patents and Registration Of Finland has received Rovio's offi...