Saturday Swedish Startup News – November 1 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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A friday night story from Gothenburg
GBG Startup Hack re:meetup took place on october 10th 2014 as a follow up of the GBG Startup Hack event on May 3rd the same year.
Was Swedish startup Merchii acquired by Indian social-question company Flipsicle?
Whilst the number was probably fairly modset, it definitely slipped under the radar that it looks like an Indian app company Flipsicle recently bought the team behind Merchii – a Stockholm-based startup who’ve been working on a number of fashion-tech-related ideas for a few years now.
STHLM Tech Meetup with Index Ventures
THE Sthlm Tech Meetup is meeting up again, and more than four hundred million people are here on this cozy Tuesday evening at the Hilton in Slussen, Stockholm. Ben Holmes from Index Ventures is our guest tonight. Index Ventures are a Europe & US-based VC firm who invest mostly in IT and life sciences companies, like Facebook, […]
5 ways to boost your STING FastForward application
Thinking about applying to the next batch of STING’s accelerator program? Here are 5 useful tips to improve your chances of getting chosen for the program.
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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.
Are you looking for an apartment? Hittebo at your service
Hittebo is a service that helps people hunting for apartments, which includes pretty much everyone in Stockholm. Almost.
Wifi community Instabridge raise $1M from Creandum
Instabridge, a wifi community and wifi client company based out of Stockholm, have today announced a $1M financing round led by Creandum, The round also included GP Bullhound and business angels Niall Murphy, Scott Bannister, early board member of PayPal and Felix Hagnö, co-founder of TradeDoubler.
“How to start a startup” @SUP46
We’ve already mentioned the video course “How to start a Startup” from Stanford being hosted at Chalmers. Another place where the video course will be shown is the Stockholm co-working place SUP46. The course is coordinated by Virpal Singh and will run every Wednesday for the coming weeks. If you’re just getting starting with your […]
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