Startuprad.io – The authority on German startups
Startuprad-io brings you German startups in English. The podcast scored already in 52 countries in the podcast charts. We also run a blog, a YouTube channel, an...
Venture-capital
Unicorn Business Plans – Better pitch decks than those you see on Wall Street
Better Investor Pitches, Pitch Decks, and Business Plans than the ones you'll get on Wall Street for a fraction of the price. We craft uniquely compelling pr...
Damselfly Ventures – We take a unique approach to executive communication
We have been involved in successful exits, recapitalizations, entry to public markets, firm capital raises and investment capital raises (B, C rounds) for one r...
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...
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...
No, I Won't Be Your Technical Co-Founder
This is a guest post by Martin Grüner. He is an Estonian entrepreneur and hacker, co-founder of game studio Aplefly games. He spent last summer in US, where he ...
Just-Eat Raises $64 Million For More Competitor "Take-Away"
Just-Eat, the Denmark originated company opertaing online takeaway sites has announced a $64 million (€48 million) C-round investment led by Vitruvian Partner...
Nearing Bankruptcy, Fruugo Burned Through €40 Million to Generate €100K
Fruugo was one of the most talked about companies in the Finnish startup scene, perhaps due to the fact that the company was able to attract the top executive...
Finnish Government Backed Vigo Announces 5 New Accelerators And Results
A little over two and a half years ago, Finland saw a rise to a new kind of an accelerator program that would help early stage companies get further, faster. Ba...
Lifeline Ventures Announces €20 Million Fund
Lifeline Ventures, also one of the Vigo accelerators, has announced the launch of a €20 million fund for early stage growth companies. The investors in the fund...
Innovation Funding And The Crowd
Editorial note: This is a guest post by Richard von Kaufmann, co-founder of Zipipop and Chairman at Reality Creating Media. He has studied in great detail the...
Finnish Open Ocean Capital Invests In A $5 Million Round To Commerce Guys
Finnish VC firm Open Ocean Capital has taken part in investing to a French company, Commerce Guys. The size of the round is $5 million in total and other invest...