Entering the Swedish market as an expat and female entrepreneur
Content marketing and the meaningful engagement of customers online is her passion – Lydia Nicoll. After working in PR, advocacy, and with startups in the US, her home country, she returned to the Oresund region last autumn. She had previously lived here briefly in 2014, first coming from China where she worked in education. Through […]
:agile Nordic looks for startups within the energy sector
:agile Nordic is an accelerator program for startups run by the energy company E.ON in Sweden. The corporate accelerator takes both internal and external teams and is intended for startups aimed to develop solutions for the future of energy and sustainability. Startups interested in joining could have a focus on areas such as clean tech, […]
Skåne ranks second best in Sweden in E-commerce
Ehandel.se recently listed the counties in Sweden according to their number of online shops to the number of population. According to the list, Skåne has 8.17 shops per 10 000 inhabitants. It ranks second and just follows Stockholm whose index is 9.55. We can not deny that more shoppers, more shops and more goods sold online is […]
Frankly and HOWL Merge to form Above
Last month Frankly and HOWL merged to form the new Scandinavian innovation agency Above. The merger concludes the long-standing collaboration between the two companies. As the former hardware division of Nokia in Copenhagen, Frankly has a long history of releasing innovative and intelligent products. They became a standalone company when Nokia closed down in 2014. […]
Crunchfish signs an agreement with Chinese AR-company
Nasdaq First North listed Crunchfish signs an agreement with Chinese AR-company Beijing LLVision Technology to bring touchless gesture interaction to smart AR glasses for industrial use, stated in a pressrelease from Crunchfish. The agreement enables LLVision to implement Crunchfish’s software for gesture control in their AR glasses for industrial use. The Touchless A3D® software from […]
Five gaming companies are ready for game incubator in Malmö
Minc Game, the Malmö game incubator, will help to develop the next raising star in gaming industry. Now five game companies are selected in the first round of the project which will last for one year. With the successful game studios who root in Skåne like Ubisoft Massive, Mediocre, Illusion Labs and Tarsier, Malmö region is considered […]
Id-checks between Denmark and Sweden ends
In a press conference this afternoon, May 2nd, Anders Ygeman, Sweden’s Minister of Home Affairs and Anna Johansson, Minister of Infrastructure, revealed that the Id-checks between Denmark and Sweden will end 4th of May 2017. The Id-checks begun January 1st 2016 on train-, bus- and ferry passengers before traveling into Sweden. The purpose was to reduce […]
Avalanche Studios partners with Nordisk Film
Nordisk Film Games has invested SEK 100 million (10.5 million euro) into Avalanche Studios, Swedish game developer. Surprisingly, but the deal went very quick: the talks between Avalanche Studios and Nordisk Film Games has started this fall. “It has been an extremely productive dialogue. Nordisk Film Games suits us very well. They are long-term and […]
Index Ventures is partnering up with Startup Village and Founders House in Copenhagen
Index Ventures is one of Europes best performing venture funds, they are focussed on technology and is based in London. As a top venture fund they are interested in building relations with great up-and-coming nordic startups and entrepreneurs before these become household names. Given impressive track record of nordics startups in recent years, they are […]
Subway surfers – world’s most downloaded mobile game
The most downloadable game during the first quarter was Kiloo’s Subway Surfers. The game was developed in equal parts by two Danish startups: Kiloo and SYBO games, with SYBO standing for the graphics and the concept, and Kiloo for the shop and social parts. Subway Surfers was first released in May 2012. Since that, it has made a […]