Stockholm — A Swedish deep technology company N-ink is announced as the winner of a science challenge by Voima Ventures, an early-stage investor based in Helsinki and Stockholm. The challenge targeted Nordic and Baltic early-stage startups and research teams with groundbreaking science-based innovations. By winning the challenge, N-ink secures a €1M investment as a convertible note from Voima Ventures. Out of one hundred applications, eight teams were selected to compete in a final round before a jury of top-tier investors and industry experts. These included Paebbl’s Co-founder and co-CEO Mar ..read more

Last week I had a pleasure to join the 2nd ever NORDEEP 2023 Summit, to see and hear what’s happening in Deep Tech scene within the Nordics. The opening keynote insights were given by Risto Siilasmaa, and that paved the way for this 2 days conference for a good crowd of attendees mainly from Finalnd and other Nordic countries. Risto urged the audience to think and act accordingly, and find answers for “How to increase the likelihood of creating a winning strategy” at NORDEEP. Siilasmaa’s talk provided a unique glimpse into the heart of Nordic Deep Tech and Innovation, and his insights resonate ..read more

Scandinavia’s biggest awards show for startups, the Nordic Startup Awards, has published their shortlist for the best startups of the year out of 740 nominees. In May, the Nordic startup ecosystem gathers to pay tribute to the biggest stars in the scene.  Promising businesses, entrepreneurs, and community builders are honored with awards such as Startup of the Year, Best Newcomer, Founder of the Year, and Best Business Angel. It’s about more than a party The Nordic Startup Awards is about much more than the ecosystem celebrating together. “The Nordics compete with tech hubs like Silicon V ..read more

The Nordic Game Awards (NGA) ceremony takes place during Nordic Game Conference (NG) – the largest annual gaming conference in Northern Europe. NG was first held in 2004 in Malmö, but NGA was introduced only in 2007. The event gathers more than 2000 game-related experts, programmers, designers, managers, and entrepreneurs from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. Of course, attendees from other countries are welcome but they aren’t able to claim rewards. The 2019 NGA will take place on 22-24 May in Malmö. With the rise of online gambling, the attendees of NGA would expect new award c ..read more

Make the World Listen to You Get Sandwich is a startup that wants to help people who are struggling with public speaking by providing them with a library of authentic practice videos. The startup was founded in 2017 by Min’an Tan and Martha Winata, who were also struggling with their public speeches. They believe that improving people’s public speaking skills means improving their lives. “Get Sandwich is used to help scale teams’ high-performing excellence. All speaking practices get recorded and mined for constructive peer-to-peer feedback. Customers include Klarna, TEDxStockholm and Toastmas ..read more

The Risk of Making a Bad Business Decision When Lending Can Be Reduced by Using AI Waiting to know the fate of a credit request by sitting on a chair in a bank and facing a clerk across the desk might soon become a thing of the past. In an era when so many things are done over the internet there is no reason why credits should be handled any differently and in fact, digital lending already allows online loan application. But the risk of making a bad business decision and not approving a credit to someone who is able to repay it remains. The same goes for approving a loan to someone who will la ..read more

The biggest Danish and Swedish esports teams, Astralis and Ninjas in Pyjamas, have come together to attract game development talent to Greater Copenhagen. The partnership launches ahead of Denmark’s biggest esports event to showcase the significant organizations and career opportunities in the region following a shortage of game developers Copenhagen Capacity and Invest in Skåne, the official investment promotion agencies for Greater Copenhagen  have launched a campaign in partnership with Astralis and Ninjas in Pyjamas to help drive game development talent to the region. Greater Copenhag ..read more

The drones affiliated with GLOBHE are actively monitoring areas around the world around the clock. The term “Crowddroning” means to unleash thousands of drones and their operators to provide ultra high resolution Earth observation data from every corner of the earth. This way, the collected data supplements the underused information the numerous satellites have to offer. The data itself is ready-to-analyze high-resolution data, straight to any server so the clients of GLOBHE can focus on analysis. “We have gathered more than one million images of the earth so far. This is an unprecedented data ..read more

How Can Hotels Improve Their Guest Journey with Bookboost? Businesses today are facing new challenges posed mainly by the changing customer behaviour. New trends are being set by the millennials, dubbed the “experience generation”, whose expectations are primarily based on experiences rather than the sense of ownership. This generation has, as such, affected the creation of new business models where customer experience is the central focus. One of the industries that is also experiencing a major shift as a result of the growing customer demands is the hotel industry, where the guest experience ..read more

In the past couple of years their has been an increase in Swedish eCommerce as a result of the pandemic. In an interview, Per Ljungberg, the chief executive officer at Svensk Digital Handel, mentioned that three out of four people in Sweden didn’t shop online ever before March 2020. However, experts suggest that the new first-time consumers are here to stay resulting in a growing eCommerce sector post-pandemic. Sweden’s strength in the e-commerce industry In the global market, not just after the covid pandemic broke in, but for decades, Sweden has been a critical player in ecommerce softw ..read more