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Burt expands to Norway, Focuses Development on Rich

Greg Anderson — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:40:05 +0000

Startup Wise Guys: New Accelerator With Ties To The #BalticMafia

Greg Anderson — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:40:05 +0000

Unfair Advantage – 005 – Operating Systems Of Our Lives

Antti Vilpponen — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:40:24 +0000

Bemmu Sepponen on Fan Page Apps for Facebook

Greg Anderson — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:20:18 +0000

Ovelin Grabs €1.1 Million From True Ventures

Greg Anderson — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:20:05 +0000

Iron Sky A Box Office Hit At Berlin Film Festival

Antti Vilpponen — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:20:09 +0000

CrowdCulture Mixes Crowdfunding With Public Money

Greg Anderson — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:10:13 +0000

ArcticEvening Tallinn – 1st of March, 2012

Antti Vilpponen — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:30:32 +0000

Nokia Cuts 4000 Jobs Globally

Antti Vilpponen — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:00:11 +0000

SEED Capital Raises Another €20 M For Denmark-Focused Investments

Greg Anderson — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:30:02 +0000

Here's some nice news for Danish entrepreneurs: SEED Capital has raised another €20 million for SEED Capital Denmark II, their fund focused on Danish investments. This brings the total investment fund to €91 million, which will allow them to invest...

Heverest.ru Grabs $4.3 Million In Financing

Greg Anderson — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:30:24 +0000

The Russian online retailer for sports, leisure, and travel goods, Heverest.ru, has received $4.3 million (€3.2 million) in financing led by Fastlane Ventures and eVenture Capital Partners. The company opened for business June 1st, 2011, and this inv...

Graduateland’s International Office Building ‘The Career Market Of Tomorrow’

Greg Anderson — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:10:44 +0000

Editor's note: This is a sponsored post by Graduateland part of their prize for winning the public vote in the 2011 Arctic15 conference. As Graduateland spreads to universities, students, graduates, and employers all across Europe, their office has ...

Enovo Closes 200k Angel Round For Smart Trash Sensors

Greg Anderson — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:00:12 +0000

As the saying goes, one man's trash is another man's treasure. But who knew you could make money just by looking at other people's trash? Out of Finland, Enovo is a company creating smart sensors to improve the logistics of the waste management indust...

Fits.me Raises Seven Figures To Expand Their Virtual Fitting Room

Greg Anderson — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:30:07 +0000

Fits.me, the virtual fitting room, has announced it has raised "seven figures" from the Entrepreneurs' Fund, a London-based venture capital fund. he investment will be used to accelerate the delivery of virtual fitting room services, as well as to prov...

Latvian Mac Address Book, Cobook, Sees 20000 Downloads In First Week

Greg Anderson — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:40:18 +0000

Latvian-based Cobook is seeing a good deal of news hype and downloads in its first week of release. Yesterday on their blog they announced they've seen 20000 downloads of the application, which is essentially a better address book for OSX. The applicat...

Muxlim Shuts Down, Promotes Biography

Greg Anderson — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:40:17 +0000

The Helsinki-based social network site aimed at the world's muslim community, Muxlim, has shut down and now points to DisruptionManifesto.com, a teaser page for founder Mohamed El-Fatatry's new biography authored by David Cord. I spoke on the phone ...

Pult, Trainingbook, Zonear Selected For Seedcamp London

Greg Anderson — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:50:05 +0000

Seedcamp London is kicking off this week, and with it they announced for this round they've received a record number of applications and are hosting a record number of teams. For those who aren't familiar with the program, Seedcamp is a European sta...

‘Den Lille Tjeneste’ and ‘Hinner Du’ Helps Danes and Swedes Get The Little Things Done

Greg Anderson — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:20:18 +0000

There are times when you need an extra hand to get an errand done, but at the same time the task is too minor to hire a full-blown professional to help you. A good neighbor will always give you a hand, but some things fall in that fuzzy area where it c...

Baltic Recruitment Service CV-Online Acquired By Alma Media

Greg Anderson — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:50:15 +0000

One of the largest Finnish media groups, Alma Media, has acquired CV Online, the internet recruitment service company in the Baltic countries. The size of the deal was not announced, but CV Online estimates its 2011 revenue at €2 million at a 30% gro...

Unfair Advantage – 004 – They Have To Suffer For Another Ten Years

Antti Vilpponen — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:40:06 +0000

The fourth episode of Unfair Advantage takes us to Denmark as we chat with Klaus Nyengaard, the Group CEO of Just Eat. Just Eat is originally from Denmark, where it was set up more than 10 years ago. In the last five or six years, the company has seen ...

Tallinn, Riga, Vilnius, Helsinki – We Have A Problem

Antti Vilpponen — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:40:22 +0000

Allan Martinson, one of the most best known and experienced investors from Estonia (currently the founding and managing partner of MTVP), has cast concern about the amount of new accelerators and different support programs for startups. He states a val...

Startup Incubator Begins Accepting Applications In Estonia

Antti Vilpponen — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:00:06 +0000

Startup Incubator, a new program aimed at helping startups, has spun off from Tallinn Science Park Tehnopol and begun accepting applications. The program is named Startup Incubator and it was set apart to serve startups better in a more focused way. Th...

The Tekes Bureaucracy: Is It Overstated?

Greg Anderson — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:30:08 +0000

Editor's Note: This series of posts is sponsored by Tekes and produced in co-operation with ArcticStartup to share experiences from startups about their funding experiences. From offhand comments in forum comments, hackathons, and local tech events, I...

Nordic and Russian Finalists At CeBIT’s CODE_n Innovation Contest

Mika Aho — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:10:18 +0000

Next month's 2012 CeBIT fair will feature a brand new global innovation contest called CODE_n. Short for ’Code of the New’, the contest aims to seek out and promote the world’s most innovative startups involved in the development of new business...

G-cluster Receives Investment From SFR Développement

Mika Aho — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:00:17 +0000

Finnish cloud-based video and gaming service provider G-cluster has received a significant financial investment from French telecom operator SFR. SFR was one of the first companies to deploy G-cluster's gaming service in 2010 and it now joins Intel Cap...