Saturday Swedish Startup News – May 24 edition
Busy week? No time to check Swedish Startup Space? No worries – we’ve wrapped up the week’s most popular articles and latest jobs from #swedentech here for you!
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Soundtrack Your Brand launches Spotify Business
For the first time, through Soundtrack Your Brand, Spotify is available for commercial entities and gives business owners unlimited access to music. Soundtrack Your Brand is a new entity formed by music entrepreneurs Ola Sars and Andreas Liffgarden, with a number of investors including Northzone, Creandum, Spotify, Wellington, HMP
Guerilla Office expands into Malmö and Helsingborg
Guerilla Office keeps expanding. The two latest locations to be added are the buzzing southern startup hub of Malmö and the neighboring city of Helsingborg.
Launching Lykka And How Uppsala Is Getting Its Act Together
The Uppsala tech scene is starting to come together with initiatives such as Uppstart, a startup event run by Jason Dainter (who is also one of the writers at Swedish Startup Space). Living in Uppsala, I feel that there has been a lack of connections from companies and the university in Uppsala. I decided to have […]
Meet online music studio Soundtrap. Google is interested – are you?
Soundtrap is an online music studio that makes it easy to get into groovy jam session with your buddies anywhere in the world. Einar had a chat with Per Emanuelsson, CMO.
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The Gothenburg startup Football Addicts wants to change the way people interact with football
Football is the largest sport in the world with over 3.5 billion fans all over the world. With that target group, the team behind Football Addicts has a vision to change the way people interact with football. They want to gather the football community and hear their opinion.
Meet Lukas, the coolest kid in Stockholm
Now and again, you come across people who just ‘get it’. You know, the kind of people that leave you speechless with their words of wisdom and give you a instantaneous boost of inspiration. That happened to Jason last week at the latest Stockholm Tech meetup. His name was Lukas Sveilis, and he’s 12 years old (yep, 12!).
Gastrofy from Gothenburg has successfully closed a seed investment of $456K
Gastrofy has successfully closed a seed investment of 3 million SEK. Cronus Invest led the investment, together with the U.S based company 1Apeiron. With the additional capital Gastrofy will hire key personnel and continue develop their value proposition.
Recap From Gothenburg Startup Hack 2014
What started out as a smaller hackathon to bring together likeminded people in and around the startup scene in Gothenburg – ended up being something a lot grander.
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