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| Aug 8, 2017 | Diet planning app makers The Mealplanner secures €1 million in seed funding | Finnish healthtech startup The Mealplanner, the developers of the FoodToDo app, has raised additional funding that brings its seed round to €1 million, from VCs and government funds.
It recently landed €400,000 from TEKES, a Finnish public ... |
| Jun 7, 2017 | Finnish startup Singa raises €1.75 million to digitise karaoke | Finland’s Singa has raised €1.75 million led by Initial Capital alongside Tamares Holdings, Superhero Capital, Reaktor Ventures, and Tekes. The money will be used for the company’s go-to-market strategy for its digital karaoke product.
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| Aug 26, 2016 | Innovation Summit: watch and learn at Ventureburn Pitching Den [Native Article] | Pitching your business/startup to potential investors is a daunting task for almost any entrepreneur, but what better way to get pointers than by watching a high-stakes pitching process?
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| Aug 26, 2016 | Innovation Summit: watch and learn at Ventureburn Pitching Den [Native Article] | Pitching your business/startup to potential investors is a daunting task for almost any entrepreneur, but what better way to get pointers than by watching a high-stakes pitching process?
We’ve teamed up with the SA Innovation Summit for the... |
| May 2, 2016 | InnoFrugal: Doing more (and better) with less | The InnoFrugal Conference acts as a forum for best practices, policy analysis, sharing the latest thinking and highlighting success in frugal innovation. The second annual InnoFrugal event was held last week at Heureka, the Finnish Science ... |
| Mar 11, 2016 | Finland: the Nordic ed-tech trailblazer? | Yes, this title is intentionally a bit “provocative”—especially for my friends in Norway, Sweden and Denmark—as there have been a number of interesting edtech developments in each of these countries, especially in the last year or two.
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| Feb 10, 2016 | From Nokia’s Snake Game To Supercell, Finland’s Gaming Industry Is Serious Business | Dennis Mitzner Contributor
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| Feb 9, 2016 | Daily funding roundup - February 9, 2016 | Fuze raised $112M; Trifacta received $35M funding; Digital Shadows snagged $14M funding
Stash, an investment app for millennials, raised $3 million in seed funding to continue the company’s growth. The round was led by Silicon Valley-based ... |
| Nov 11, 2015 | Nokia’s Fall Means The Rise Of Startups In Finland | Dennis Mitzner Contributor
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| Oct 13, 2015 | 6 Reasons to Join Slush Ultrahack 2015 | Ultrahack is part of Europe’s biggest hackathon leading up to the annual Slush conference.
You can join with your pre-existing software or start from scratch during the online pre-game period lasting until October 30th or join the 48 hour ... |
| Feb 1, 2015 | This Search Engine Wants More Human Input | Does the ever-increasing volume of digital information demand a more powerful search interface? One that allows for more complex queries to be formulated, and supports instances where the information being sought out is not necessarily some... |
| Nov 10, 2014 | Ex-Nokians Crowdfund A Device To Democratize The Internet Of Things | Nokia’s exit from the mobile making market earlier this year, selling its devices division to Microsoft who went on to make swingeing staff cuts in the acquired division, has a silver lining in bolstering the local startup scene, via all th... |
| Oct 20, 2014 | ClipMe Is Like Vine, Only It’s More Social | As the average internet users’ attention span continues to decline, apps like Vine and Instagram Video continue to grow in popularity. A startup based in Finland wants to key in on this with the launch of a new app called ClipMe.
Much like ... |
| Jul 25, 2014 | TechCrunch Helsinki Meetup Sees Finland’s New Startup Generation | Finland has a rich heritage in technology. Whatever crisis of confidence the masters of Nokia had, eventually leading to its gutting by Microsoft, that long heritage has served it well, giving rise to a several generations of engineers and,... |
| Jul 15, 2014 | Europe’s Game Sector Gets New Seed Fund Raised By LVP, Backed By Nexon, Zynga CEO, Wargaming | London Venture Partners (LVP) has announce a new early stage seed fund focused primarily on the European games sector. The eponymously named ‘LVP Seed Fund I’ is LVP’s first fund raised from third party investors. Backers of the new fund in... |
| May 10, 2014 | Fjuul Activity Tracker App Measures Exercise Intensity, Not Just Steps | Hardware fitness trackers are wrapped around the wrists of tech luminaries. Rumours continue to swirl about Apple’s intentions in the space. Facebook acquired Finnish fitness and activity tracker app Moves last month. The emergent quantifie... |
| Dec 3, 2013 | In Rovio And Supercell’s Wake, Finland’s Gaming Scene Sees A Renaissance | Somehow, 2013 marked the year that Helsinki became a global gaming capital in its own right.
Maybe it was because Supercell, a humble gaming studio that started back in 2010, blossomed into a $3 billion company in less than a year.
Or maybe... |
| Nov 19, 2013 | Here's Why Finland Is A Great Place To Run A Startup | Flickr/slushmedia/photo by Sami Heiskanen
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Finland's tech scene is booming.
The country is home to successful startups like Rovio, the maker of Angry Birds, Nokia, and multibillion-dollar gaming company Supercell.
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| Nov 19, 2013 | Here's Why Finland Is A Great Place To Run A Startup | Flickr/slushmedia/photo by Sami Heiskanen
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Finland's tech scene is booming.
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The country is home to successful startups like Rovio, the maker of Angry Birds, Nokia, and multibillion-dollar gaming company S... |
| Nov 15, 2013 | Synoste Closes €2.8M Funding | Synoste Oy, a Helsinki, Finland and Düsseldorf, Germany-based medical device company, closed an up to €2.8m funding round.
Synoste has raised a seed round of €0.8m to advance the development of its first product aimed at the limb lengthenin... |
| Apr 17, 2013 | Bitbar Completes $3M Funding | Bitbar, a Helsinki, Finland-based provider of a development, testing and deployment platform, completed a $3m funding round.
The round was led by Creathor Venture, with participation from DFJ Esprit, Finnvera Venture Capital, Qualcomm Ventu... |
| Sep 20, 2012 | Jongla Raises €1.2M in Funding | Jongla Oy, a Helsinki, Finland-based startup that develops mobile messaging apps, has raised €1.2m in funding.
Backers include Tekes and Hannu Syrjänen, Kalevi Sivonen, Janne Leino, etc.
The company intends to use the capital to continue de... |
| Jul 11, 2012 | Fluid Interaction’s ‘Twheel’ app could radically change how we use Twitter | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
If you’ve ever wanted to speed through your tweets faster, Fluid Interaction‘s just-launched Twheel app may be exactly what you’re look... |
| Jan 27, 2012 | European startup accelerators are gradually revealing their performance figures | With the rise of numerous accelerator programs in Europe one cannot help but wonder whether jumping through the application process hoops, sweating through the mentoring sessions and flirting with investors at demo days are all worth a foun... |
| Nov 28, 2011 | Researchers shrink 3G phones’ power needs with proxies in cloud | Photograph by teachandlearn reader comments 16 with 13 posters participating
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| Oct 13, 2011 | The Helsinki Spring | I spent the month of September lecturing, and interacting with (literally) thousands of entrepreneurs in two emerging startup markets, Finland and Russia. This is the first of two posts about Finland and entrepreneurship.
I was invited to F... |
| Sep 15, 2011 | ThingLink Adds Rich Media Tags To Online Images | TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Alley participant ThingLink is a Helsinki, Finland and U.S.-based startup that lets you add rich media tags to online images. These tags appear as small dots when you hover your cursor over the image, and can link... |
| Jul 20, 2010 | GigsWiz grabs €150,000 to help bands choose where to play | GigsWiz, a Helsinki-based analytics service for the live music industry, has grabbed €150,000 in a seed round of funding.
The service basically helps music bands interact with their fans with a widget on their site. During the beta phase ba... |
| Nov 5, 2008 | Is Stealth Startup Fruugo Stumbling Right Before Launch Day? | Rumor has it that Finnish social e-commerce startup Fruugo is burning through a heap of cash, both hiring and firing employees at a rapid pace and dealing with some disappointed potential customers. Caveat: the service hasn’t even been laun... |
| Apr 22, 2008 | Boom for travel sites — Can they make money? | Travel sites are in fashion this spring, with new sites adding at a steady pace. Finnish travel site TripSay is just the latest to emerge, for example, with ways to share tips about travel. It’s still in closed testing, but it plans to open... |
| How Nokia’s falling star has led Finland to boost its startup and healthcare ecosytems | Note: This story is part of a series of reports on health tech companies in Finland from a media tour for the technology conference Slush organized and funded by Finnfacts and Tekes — the Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation.
Ever since No... |