Saturday Swedish Startup News – October 25 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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Truecaller partner with Microsoft in exclusive Windows Phone deal
Truecaller are on a roll. A week after announcing a massive $60M round of funding led by Sequoia and Skype-founder Niklas Zennström, they’ve this past week announced that they’re partnering with Microsoft to bring Live Caller ID to Windows Phones, exclusively.
Codarica exit Walt Disney accelerator, launch first iPad app Codequest
Codarica, a Stockholm-based startup who are passionate about teaching children how to code, have had a big week. 15 weeks after walking into the Walt Disney accelerator for the first time, they’ve completed the program and have released their first product, an iPad app called Codequest that helps 6-8 year olds get passionate about programming, and the web.
Follow-up chat with Josep from rêve after securing seed round
Rêve is a STING startup that enables shoppers to scan barcodes in the store and find product information online. We wrote about them earlier here and here. The team at rêve recently announced that they had closed a seed round successfully, with Optimizer Invest and Almi Invest now being a part of the rêve family. […]
Saturday Swedish Startup News – October 18 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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46elks secures 2.6 MSEK investment to take it up to Twilio in Europe
Today, 46elks announced a 2.6 MSEK investment by Almi Invest and a number of private investors, among them are Daniel Laurén and Mathias Ackermand. Ackermand has previously invested in companies such as Vint, Fishbrain and Freespee. 46elks is a cloud communications platform which makes it easy to integrate Voice, SMS & MMS into applications.
How Coursio is bringing their Next-Gen education platform to USA
In this technologically dependent era we live in, our daily lives are starting to revolve more around online activities than offline ones. Even education is now an online phenomenon, but that’s nothing new to us either. Though the e-learning concept was established in the late 90’s – the sector hasn’t seen as much growth or maturity as plenty […]
17 year old app developer creates TeamPics, a “private Instagram” for your company
TeamPics makes it easier for colleagues to share great moments together. Snap a picture, share it with your colleagues, browse through your company’s feed and get notified when colleagues like or comment on your photos.
Dagens Industri Journalist Turns Entrepreneur For 100 Days
One of our Sweden’s leading business journalists, Stefan Lundell, a journalist at Dagens Industri, and also podcaster at DigitalPodden, has just announced that he’s going to be leaving his “daily reporting duties” to work on a side project, with the goal of increasing digital revenues for Dagens industri. We caught up with Stefan for a brief chat about this […]
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