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NORDIC STARTUP AWARDS Season 2016

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Nordic Startup Awards connects the entire startup ecosystem - from successful and promising startups, investors and journalists to founders and developers.

The Nordic Startup Awards is a unique series of events in the Nordic countries. Since 2012 we have gathered the best of the best from the Nordic startup community, with the ambition to recognize and celebrate all the great achievement of this region. AWARDS

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The Nordic Startup Awards features 14 categories representing startups, individuals and ecosystem supporters. We have starstudded jury members ranging from top entrepreneurs to investors and ecosystem supporters. All this leads to 70 national winners and the very best 14 startup companies and individuals in the Nordic countries.

Every Nordic country holds a National event for the National finals gathering around 2300+ attendees in all. The Grand Finale is held in prestigious venues, relocating every year. The Grand Finale has gathered around 500 attendees and finalists from all the Nordic countries.

REACH 2016 marked the break of a new record for Nordic Startup Awards: nearly 24000 votes and a staggering 730+ nominations across all categories. In 2017 we expect these numbers to be even higher.

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WHAT WE DO Nordic Startup Awards (NSAwards) was born out of a vision to connect the startup ecosystems in the Nordic countries. Back in 2012, the national startup ecosystems were growing and developing fast but very little connections between the community builders, investors, talent and founders among the Nordic countries existed. A strong platform in the Nordic region was needed to showcase the innovations and stakeholders from the ecosystem to the rest of the world; by connecting them under one region, a powerful communication platform was created. Mission & Vision Our aim is to use this yearly award show as a vessel to map, connect and promote the national and regional startup ecosystems of the Nordic as well as its stakeholders, and to add entrepreneurship on the agenda of policy makers together with our partners. Our vision is to be a regional and international well known platform, within and outside the startup ecosystem, that promotes the success stories from the Nordic tech startup ecosystem and supports the growing strength of Nordic tech innovation.

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LETTER FROM THE CEO

â&#x20AC;&#x153;We firmly believe that the exchange of talent and technology in the Nordic startup scene is crucial.â&#x20AC;? KIM BALLE, CEO

Dear Friends, We live in a time where entrepreneurship has an important role to play. You can say that we live in a startup era where new companies will impact society and legislation faster than ever before. The Nordic region with its tradition of high level innovation, creativity as well as a strong entrepreneurial spirit can and should play an important part in this new era. Collaboration has never been more important! We firmly believe that in the Nordic Startup scene, nationality is not important. But the exchange of talent and technology is crucial. We want the Nordic startup scene to be comparable to the scenes in London and Berlin, and we believe the best way to do this, is by closer co-operation between the Nordic countries. The awards stands to represent the entire startup ecosystem - from the startups themselves to the people behind them, and the organizations that work alongside to make the great things possible. Kim Balle CEO and Co-Founder

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ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE COUNTRY PARTNERS IN 5 COUNTRIES

NATIONAL AMBASSADORS

ADVISORY BOARD

NORDIC STARTUP AWARDS TEAM (COPENHAGEN)

JURY MEMBERS (REGIONAL)

Sponsors

300+

National finalists per year

Partners

National winners per year

30+

Organizations involved

Regional winners per year

SOCIAL MEDIA

COMPETITION

101% Facebook likes 42% Twitter 136% Instagram 100% Youtube

130% Nominations 101% Votes 158% Press 64% Panel

Increased percentage per year.

BRAND NUMBERS SOCIAL MEDIA

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Facebook likes: 8100+ Twitter followers: 2700+ Instagram followers: 799+

Nordic articles: 85+ International articles: 25+

CONTENT CREATED

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Photos: 6000+ Videos produced: 100+

Facebook reach: 420000+ Twitter monthly impressions: 5000+

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NSAWARDS PART OF A GLOBAL NETWORK

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Central European Startup Awards

GLOBAL STARTUP AWARDS The Global Startup Awards (GSAwards) runs annual regional startup competitions currently in 26 countries throughout 4 regions around the world. The organisation and its operations are very closely tied into the national startup ecosystems with a bottom-up approach, ensuring GSAwards work with communities and the supporting organisations as much as possible throughout the entire program. Since 2012, the program has awarded (the winners) over 450 entrepreneurs, startups and organisations in 15 countries throughout Europe. We've interacted with over 4.000+ nominations during the same period, with over 40.000+ votes cast from members of the public and the community. Learn more about it at www.globalstartupawards.com

Some short facts collectively from GSA: - 26 country partners - 100+ collaboration partners - 50+ Sponsors - 70+ ambassadors - 50+ Advisory Board members

The Central European Startup Awards is the Central and Eastern European region’s biggest no-pitch, no-conference startups festival that recognizes and celebrates the entrepreneurial spirit and startup ecosystems in 10 countries across the region. The Central and Eastern European region has a strong history of innovation power and great inventors. Just think about Ernő Rubik, Albert Einstein, Nikola Tesla, John von Neumann, Edward Teller, just to name a few. Historically and culturally we are bound together, but even though most of the CEE countries enjoy the free trade and movement within the EU, we have yet to truly capitalise on our untapped collaborative potential. To better represent the tremendous

greymatter and innovative power this part of Europe harbors in its genes, Central European Startup Awards, among many other great initiatives, has the vision just to do that - elevate the region’s resumé as a startup stronghold and connect the startups and their support ecosystem for a better connected and stronger Central Europe. The region is steadily growing, more and more countries invest in their entrepreneurs, as we see from success stories from Poland through Slovenia and to our joy, the Eastern and Balkan region is coming up strong as the New East.

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“These days everyone in the startup ecosystems is focusing so much on the global hubs, just like London or San Francisco, that we lose many chances to find our peers in our own neighbourhood, hence we miss out many opportunities for raising capital, finding partners, early stage investors or clients, and we limit our resource funnels. That is even more relevant about the CEE region, which has been historically always pretty much disconnected, though we have many similarities culturally, linguistically and in our history. With more than 100 million citizens, countries mostly part of the European Union, the new generations are willing to change that disconnect.” Péter Kovács, CEO, CESAwards NORDIC STARTUP AWARDS / 25

ASEAN Rice Bowl Startup Awards The spirit of ASEAN Rice Bowl Startup Awards is simple: Entrepreneurship is the Rice Bowl of South EastAsia. And the future of South East Asia Is Entrepreneurship. With the rise of borderless connectivity, more and more young people across South East Asia who are quick to capitalize on this are able to connect and grow their businesses rapidly. With over 650 million people across the region, the market opportunity is tremendous. The ASEAN Rice Bowl Startup Awards recognize breakout startups in the region that harness digital or information technology to spur their business. The Rice Bowl also honours rising ecosystem players such as investors, developers and media that seed and propel entrepreneurship.

ASEAN Rice Bowl Startup Awards is the Official South East Asia award circuit for Global Startup Awards. The Rice Bowl is celebrated in all ASEAN countries with over 1000 nominations annually, organized and managed by the New Entrepreneurs Foundation (myNEF) and is headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. For more information on the Rice Bowl Asean Startup Awards, please go to http://aseanstartupawards.com/

“In Asia, to see rice in your dream means that you are in the right track of achieving your goals. At the Rice Bowl Startup Awards, we manifest that dream to recognize the contributions and excellence of breakout startups and ecosystem contributors in South East Asia. Our partnership with the Global Startup Awards will indeed propel our regional entrepreneurs to a global audience, and with it the public and media attention they truly deserve.” Lilyana Latiff, CEO of New Entrepreneurs Foundation, Chairman of ASEAN Rice Bowl Startup Awards.

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SAARC Global Startup Awards SAARC or South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation is a geopolitical union of nations in South Asia with member states including Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Maldives. The region was officially formulated to encourage development of economies and regional integrations. Each member country has their own set of diverse entrepreneur community that is not completely known by the other country. There is an immense amount of grassroot innovations and impacts made by startups in these countries.

With our series of awards program we are trying to dissolve the boundaries between the countries and foster a sense of innovation, knowledge sharing and exponential economic growth with startup impact. GSAwards - SAARC is a series of events leading to a grand finale where we bring together from founders, technopreneurs and investors to coworking spaces and more ecosystem supporters.

“SAARC at this instance is at the cusp of a startup revolution and we know this as the govts are involved in the process of nurturing their respective ecosystem. India has initiated a huge movement called startup India movement, Bhutan has a govt aided incubation, Pakistan has a significant startup ecosystem etc. Our event will be used as a bridge between the political boundaries to promote innovation across SAARC countries and to enable them to solve their problems at exponential rates.” Jerric Lyns John Co-Founder / CEO - Global Startup Awards : SAARC

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Arctic Startup

Northzone

Startup Media Of The Year

Best Investment Company

ArcticStartup has been helping to build communities with uncapped opportunities through media, events, PR and consulting since 2007.

At Northzone, we are firm believers in the power of partnerships. For the past 20 years, we have been honoured to be chosen as a partner for growth by some of the leading entrepreneurs across the Nordics, Europe and beyond.

ArcticStartup is the leading online media reporting on startups and promoting growth entrepreneurship in the Northern Europe. Also known for event brands such as Arctic15, Reverse Pitching and Startups in the Sun. Recently launched European startup magazine called CoFounder. A community for anyone who is interested in the Nordic and Baltic startup scene. ArcticStartup helps the startup ecosystem with matchmaking, connecting, scouting, consulting, sharing information, organising events, organising trips to other events, building bridges between different large corporations and startups, and also via offering internship and job positions in the Nordics and Baltics.

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ArcticStartup was founded in 2007 and is currently led by Dmitri Sarle and Jan Ameri. Headquartered in Helsinki, ArcticStartup covers Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and some news from Russia. Sign up for the weekly newsletter at www.arcticstartup.com. If you are interested to join their team, apply at join. arcticstartup.com.

Since our start as a small local fund in Oslo in 1996, we have invested in more than 120 businesses, injecting some 200 years of operational experience, and we like to think that we have learned a little along the way. Having been through the whole lifecycle of a company, from both sides of the table, we are likely to understand the

types of challenges that start-ups may face, and are committed to helping our companies through the roller coaster. And with a team of 10 investment professionals across offices in Stockholm, Oslo, London and New York, we are in a unique position to help our companies build global networks.

So what do we look for when we invest? We look for passionate teams that are building businesses with global potential. Market size is important, as is a drive to take it on. And always in the spirit of true partnership, we are passionate doers, who happily roll up our sleeves when needed and work through challenges with our companies. To find out more about what we do and the companies we have partnered with, visit www.northzone.com.

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Rainmaking Loft

Sting

Best Office Space

Best Accelerator Program

Rainmaking Loft opened in 2015 on the Copenhagen waterfront with a space for startups that gets a number of things right. Clean Nordic design is paired with low key, but knowledgeable service at this collaborative for more than 300 entrepreneurs. Founded by a group of experienced innovators, the house strives to be a resource of inspiration for early stage companies.

The air of professionalism attracts local growth successes as well, including the rising food empire Simple Feast and pioneers in VR learning, Labster. The internal event program has previously emphasized founder masterclasses, but also offers matching events with business angels and VC’s. And while it feels Scandinavian, Rainmaking Loft is very much a global gateway. With sister locations in London and Berlin, every startup in residence joins a network of 1000

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entrepreneurs and investors. The space is an active player in the startup community at large..

Recently it has contained a buildtech accelerator in collaboration with Denmark’s urban development hub, BLOX, together with Rainmaking’s own growth program, Startupbootcamp. They have developed a co-working formula based on openness and community that can be applied in many frameworks. Current projects include developing a work space for the organization Copenhagen FinTech, solely for fresh-thinking fintech companies. This year, Rainmaking Loft additionally ventured into corporate co-working, as their team helped the Nordic insurance giant Tryg welcome 300 entrepreneurs inside the Tryg campus. Learn more about it at www.rainmakingloft.dk.

STING is Sweden’s leading accelerator. We provide comprehensive growth support for your startup or project. Our support includes coaching from Sweden’s top entrepreneurs and previous venture capitalists, investment, co-working spaces like SUP46 and THINGS, Sweden’s most advanced startup recruitment service and a vast international network of investors and business partners.

Our investment platform Propel Capital consists of 30 business angels who have come together to invest in STING companies. Each startup receives an investment of 28k euro to further accelerate their growth. In addition, we have another investor group, STING Business Angels, and a large international network of investors who gather every year at our tech event STING Day to meet Stockholm startups. Our startup recruitment support is the most developed in all of Sweden. We help our startups find key people to join their teams

and provide guidance and support throughout the whole recruitment process. This year alone, we have to date helped recruit 108 new team members to startups. And each year, our event series Join a Startup brings together 60 startups with more than 300 hand-picked candidates for tech and business roles. Each year, STING evaluates 600 startups and projects that apply to our programs STING Incubate, STING Accelerate and STING Test Drive. Only the best get accepted, about 5 percent. We have worked with more than 200 startups, of which 72% are still active and growing. Together, all the STING companies have a revenue of 122 million euro, of which 90 percent comes from export, and they have created more than 1200 jobs. STING is the startup hub of the Nordics, with a vision of making Stockholm the #1 startup hub in the world.

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Moaffak Ahmed

Karolina Fund

Best Business Angel

Best Social Tech Startup

Never applied for a job, always created his own - and several businesses. Moaffak is a serial entrepreneur turned early stage investor. He started a number of consulting and marketing agencies, but really learned to enjoy the rollercoaster of startup life at the financial technology firm Trema, a company he co-founded in 1992. Starting in Finland, which was then mostly known for forestry and heavy industry, wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t easy. Nokia was making toilet paper and rubber boots, and there wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t much Finnish high tech to talk about. And then there was the recession, the most serious since the independence of the country - so, not many eager clients to invest in new technology.

Our software and business solution is dedicated to create a great crowdfunding experience, for the platform owners, the campaigners and the backers. Karolina Fund reached its unique success rate by enabling creators to leverage the power of their own communities. Our job is to help people with ideas involve the crowd around them in making their passions come to live.

Trema quickly focused abroad and got its first customers in Sweden, namely ABB, Electrolux, Ericsson, and Volvo. From there onwards, Trema was built to a global company with offices in four continents. Trema (today: Wall Street Systems) became the leading technology solution for global corporations and financial institutions to manage their financial risks, assets and trading, with clients like European Central Bank, GE, Citibank and many others. In addition to his core responsibilities of marketing, communications and building the Trema brand, Moaffak was closely involved in building the global business with the core team: opening new offices, recruiting, fund raising, M&A, etc. in Europe and North America. The company grew to over 300 employees and 50m USD in revenues. The founders decided to exit the company in 2004 and it was later merged with Wall Street Systems. After the exit, Moaffak decided that he wanted to help young entrepreneurs and

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started investing his own capital to early stage startups. In addition, he is actively involved in a number of pro bono initiatives as a mentor and donor, including Startup Sauna, TheShortcut.org and many others. As an investor, Moaffak thrives on working with passionately ambitious entrepreneurs and creative people who want to disrupt boring businesses and create amazing companies - in areas ranging from finance, commerce and communications, to education, entertainment. He also enjoys the intellectual challenge of teaming up with visionary technologists and scientists to figure out how to turn their innovations into significant growth companies. Currently Moaffak is founding partner at Superhero Capital, and Co-founder & Chairman of Sisu Game Ventures. He is invested in over 40 startups, including Smartly.io, the fastest growing B2B software company in Europe; the amazing Next Games and Oradian, who is on a mission to deliver financial services to the next 2.5 billion people.

In that process, we are not just people who run a platform. Our team consists of designers, filmmakers, entrepreneurs and business hackers, and we celebrate every single idea that comes to live as our own. We do not advocate blindly trying for the lottery of overnight success from thin air. Instead, we understand the value of being local, both within and across national boundaries. Just as there are visionaries out there carrying the seeds of the next creative venture, there are also people out there who long to be part of making the next vinyl, novel, app or small business.

This is why 4 out of 5 projects that launch on our platform are successfully funded. After having ran an Icelandic reward based crowdfunding platform since 2012 with a world record success rate of +70%, Karolina.io was developed by the team to softwarise and standardise best practices business solution in crowdfunding. This year, we are in the process of building a built in business intelligence and artificial intelligence. When this has been developed far enough, our aim is to create artificial intelligence that talks to the customer during the preparation of a campaign and helps the campaigner to make decisions on what to do to maximise the funding during the campaign. Learn more about Karolina Fund at www.karolinafund.com.

Moaffak loves challenging established truths and asking seemingly innocent and stupid questions. He holds an MA from university of Helsinki (majoring in philosophy and studying economics, politics and sociology, in addition to 16 other subjects).

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Umut Alp

Clearhaus

CTO Hero of the Year

Best Exponential Startup

Umut Alp is the CTO of Truecaller, the app which transforms mobile phone experience with a smarter set of features that will improve your daily life. Since he is employee #1 after the two cofounders of the company, he was involved in each and every step of the rollercoaster ride Truecaller experienced. During the past six years, both the product and his role evolved into new dimensions every few months, bringing new challenges and new rewards.

Clearhaus is an EU payment institution and acquirer, authorised by the Danish Financial Supervisory Authority and Principal Member of Visa and MasterCard. Clearhaus provides payment solutions for online stores across Europe. By being an early adopter of new technology, Clearhaus has made online payments more simple, innovative and secure.

During the time he has been leading tech in Truecaller, the app has reached more than 300 million downloads on various smartphone platforms providing call identification and spam blocking for more than 2,5 billion phone number identities worldwide. These impressive numbers only happen if and when you have an impressive team and Umut sees “building an impressive team” as his biggest achievement. This world class product and team are also supported by world class VC investors like Sequoia, KPCB and Atomico to reach the next level of Truecaller. Before Truecaller, Umut had the chance to gain a wide spectrum of tech experience both as individual contributor and also as tech leader in different industries and product areas, ranging from VoIP, to robotics, image processing, algorithmic stock exchange brokerage, enterprise software. Each and every role brought him some valuable experience, but the common part was all

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about being a team, being resourceful and stretching your abilities to achieve more. Just the last year of Truecaller clearly sets the stage for the company’s future success, by more than doubling active users, creating a sustainable monetization strategy, being the trusted mobile identity.

Clearhaus was founded in 2011 with one goal: to digitalise the payment industry. Our wish is to deliver payment solutions to online stores across Europe. We built our own infrastructure and through new technology has online payments become faster, simpler and more secure.

Clearhaus handles transactions for 4000+ startups, eCommerce and corporate businesses around the world every day. Today we are having more than 4,000 merchants and a market share at 10-15% in Denmark. In 2015, we had 70% monthly growth in new merchants, and in 2016 we continue with two-digit growth rates. Clearhaus is represented in EU28. Primary markets are Denmark, Germany, Norway, Sweden, UK, Netherlands, France, Spain, Slovenia and Belgium. We started out in Denmark, but today more than 60% of our revenue comes from outside Denmark.

Umut Alp, CTO at Truecaller. Although the size of the team overall is still not too big, the fact that more than 70% of employees are in engineering and product organization clearly shows the emphasis on product excellence. Being part of the leadership team of Truecaller, Umut feels very grateful to be part of such an organization with the “builder” mindset, rather than pure “seller” mindset. Truecaller will continue to bring safety and efficiency to millions of people’s lives: right where and when you need it the most during your phone communication.

Our vision is to make a competitive acquiring-institution, where merchants will be in focus proportion to Paperless Application, Best Customer-Service, Fast Account-Setup and our Sleek Dashboard. Clearhaus is built on personal relations, but it is also full of features. We understand payments and technology, while we care about conversion rates and good user experiences. We provide technology and cool features like, our Dashboard which provides insight into every transaction and every pay-out.

Claus Methmann Christensen, CEO & Co-Founder at Clearhaus.

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720 Degrees

Catchbox

Best IOT Startup

Best Bootstrapped

Do you know the feeling when obvious becomes oblivious? Spending majority of our life indoors could be one of those, and despite general availability of numerous research on health effects of indoors, it is usually not among our most common concerns.

Catchbox is the world’s first throwable wireless microphone that encourages audience engagement at events of all sizes. With its attractive soft exterior and auto mute technology, the clever device can be safely passed around without getting damaged or causing unwanted noises. Unlike normal microphones that are slow to pass around, Catchbox can be simply thrown into an audience, igniting a completely new way of organising discussions, whilst making events more engaging and fun.

“Few years back I noticed that we are lacking information about environments we work and live in, and that there are people affected by that. Once we looked into it as a team we realised there are many people and organisations who want to improve their indoor spaces, but did not feel they had the right tools to do that,” says Tomas about the beginnings. And 720 Degrees was born, with a mission to build a technology which could efficiently help with optimisation of indoor spaces for health, wellbeing & productivity of occupants. Now companies such as GE Healthcare, Nokia, Danske Bank and many others use the solution. The company employs sensors to collect

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real-time environmental data about thermal comfort, indoor air quality, and noise pollution among others. And through its cloud analytics millions of data points are transformed into intelligence helping customers to understand the conditions in their buildings and make better decisions.

During the same month of the award for ‘Best IoT Startup in Nordics’ 720 Degrees also closed a round of funding, and shortly after opened an office in New York. You can join their journey, they are hiring! Learn more at www.720.fi.

The device comes in two versions; Catchbox Lite for smaller events and Catchbox Pro for larger conferences. The replaceable outer cover can also be fully customised and branded for promotion and engagement in one. Whether a conference, lecture, workshop, team building session, management meeting or even a conference call, Catchbox is designed to spark spontaneous conversations and quickly break the ice.

Based in Finland, the Catchbox company was founded in 2012 by Timo Kauppila, Pyry Taanila and Mikelis Studers with its headquarter in Espoo, Finland and offices in Boston, USA and Riga, Latvia. The device has taken the world by storm with thousands of enthusiastic Catchbox users in the UK and Europe, the United States, Canada and UAE including Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Airbnb, Netflix, Lego, Marriott and Hilton Hotel Groups. Catchbox’s high quality products are produced in the EU from the company’s own factory in Latvia.

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Universal Avenue

Medilync

Best Newcomer

Peoples Choice

Driven by tech, fired by lifestyle, Universal Avenue is the missing link between some of the world’s most game-changing tech brands and passionate people who value ownership over their work lives, location independence and flexibility. Enabled through an innovative app, we are changing the traditional idea of direct sales in a big way - and empowering people to live on their own terms.

For brands, the model allows them to scale and expand in existing and new markets with little risk. Brand Ambassadors are trained and certified on the brands they represent and only get paid per sale, making them a totally on-demand and flexible sales solution. As Brand Ambassadors are self-motivated entrepreneurs rather than a traditional sales force, they are passionate about their portfolio and eager to share it with everyone they meet. It’s all the benefits of traditional word of mouth, yet powered by technology. Local businesses benefit from access to trained digital consultants with a portfolio of game-changing tech products to help their business grow. It’s a personal, local relationship that comes with access to a worldwide network of products.

Medilync was founded with the goal of revolutionising the way diabetes is managed and treated in a value-based care landscape. Medilync begins all product design and development with three key concepts in mind: (1) alleviating the burden of diabetes with simplicity, (2) activating and engaging patients, as well as their families, friends and providers, and (3) answering the simple question of “would we want our friends and family using it?” Co-founder, Sigurjón Lydsson, envisioned a simplified, all-inone device to diminish the overall physical

Universal Avenue is a pioneering sales platform that connects brands to customers via a talented community of Brand Ambassadors. Our innovative whenever, wherever ethos takes the gig economy to the next level by enabling Brand Ambassadors to work independently and flexibly, with the full backup of their Universal Avenue coach, app and network. The process itself is simple. Brand Ambassadors are given full training through our app, which provides brand specific material and interactive exams that simulate real life scenarios. Once training is complete, they receive a portfolio of some of the world’s most exciting tech brands with which to form relationships and drive customer acquisition - plus ongoing support and skills development. They are completely location independent, they can work as much or as little as they choose, and with no earning cap, the sky’s the limit.

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Since our launch in 2014, we’ve raised $17 million in funding from world class investors, entered six markets and grown to a team of 70 employees. Headquartered in our native Stockholm we also have offices in London, Athens, and Barcelona, and will continue to expand and connect Brands and Brand Ambassadors worldwide. Learn more at www.universalavenue.com.

Medilync’s Insulync is a simplified all-in-one device. A person is now able to test their blood glucose levels, inject with insulin, and have their metrics automatically logged/synced to the cloud for all key stakeholders to see in real-time, rather than a bag with five separate objects - including a glucose meter, box of testing strips, blood lancet, and two pens (Rapid and Lantus) Cloudlync then enables the patient and their authorised stakeholders with the ability to run simple analytics and utilise action-oriented dashboards, which presents their data along with other relevant data from other linked sources and devices.

Insulync simplifies the physical burden of diabetes management into a single, high tech device designed to bring about a high touch world for those suffering from the disease. This high touch care management device leverages automatic data logging in Cloudlync to be shared to the patient’s key stakeholders in real-time, including family, entrusted friends and providers.

burden of his father’s type-1 diabetes, while enabling Sigurjón, his family, and his providers a cloud storage platform (Cloudlync) to monitor his aging father’s readings and overall progress.

“Taking advantage of the bleeding edge technology for diabetics is long overdue. With our solution we can help diabetics take better care of their health across the board. Let technology ease the burden.” - Sigurjón Lydsson, Co-Founder.

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Are Traasdahl

Realm

Founder of the Year

Startup of the Year

Tapad CEO & Founder, Are Traasdahl, has nearly 20 years’ experience in the mobile and digital space. He is a frequent contributor for outlets such as CNBC and Bloomberg News, and has been featured in Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, Ad Age and other major news outlets.

Realm’s mission from the start has been to help developers build better apps faster. We’re the creators of the Realm Mobile Platform -- which enables any development team, no matter the size, to create engaging apps and difficult-to-build features like twoway data sync, seamless offline experiences, and real-time collaboration, and the Realm Mobile Database, a free and fully open source data solution for mobile app developers.

This year, Are will receive the 2016 Norwegian-American Achievement award. He was recently named Nordic Startup Awards’ Founder of the Year for 2016 and EY Entrepreneur of the Year in 2014. Traasdahl also currently holds several board positions across industryleading companies and heads Spring Capital, an investment holding company.

of Tapad Inc. for $360 million USD. Cofounders Are Traasdahl and Dag Liodden retain a 5% stake in the company. The Tapad acquisition is the fifth largest venturebacked M&A exit in New York since 2009. Born in Fannrem, Are continues to spend time in Norway fostering the Norwegian startup community. Recently he established an entrepreneurship “Propeller Program” through which Tapad will mentor five Norwegian startups to set them up for global expansion. Additionally, in September announced his intention a super-venture fund to early-stage Norwegian

Along with Co-Founder Dag Liodden, Are grew Tapad from a garage-startup to a powerhouse team backed by “a hell of a list of entrepreneurs who created some of the most valuable online advertising companies of the last decade” (TechCrunch). Today, the company offers the largest in-market opportunity for marketers to address the ever-evolving reality of media consumption on smartphones, tablets, home computers and smart TVs. Based in New York, Tapad now has more than 200 employees with 14 offices worldwide. In February 2016, Telenor Group entered into an agreement to acquire approximately 95%

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2016, Are to create help fund Startups.

Prior to Tapad, he founded Thumbplay, a mobile entertainment service that he grew to more than $100 MM in revenues in less than three years before he exited the company (the company, later acquired by Clear Channel, is now called iHeartRadio). Previously, he was a senior executive with Telenor Group, an international provider of telecom, data and media communications services.

We were founded in 2011 by Alexander Stigsen, CEO and Bjarne Christiansen, COO. Childhood friends from Denmark, the two worked together as mobile database engineers at Nokia during the feature phone era, where they saw the potential of very small, very efficient mobile databases. In fact, when they went out on their own as a Y Combinator startup, they incorporated under the name TightDB. We later changed the name to Realm after recognizing the potential of the technology as a platform. We’re very proud to be loved by mobile developers for our elegance and ease of use, and to be relied on by startups and the Fortune 500 alike for how we can help make their flagship apps better.

Today, our products have had more than a billion user installs as a part of some of the most well-known mobile apps in the world -- including apps from Starbucks, Groupon, EasyJet, Intel, Hyundai, the Bundesliga, Siemens, Bosch, and the BBC.

Developers choose the Realm database because it is a cross-platform embedded object database that is easier and often faster than the alternatives. They choose the new Realm platform because it provides real time data synchronization and event handling seamlessly and automatically, making it easy for them to build apps with sophisticated and engaging real time features.

Credits: Ofeigur Lydsson

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NATIONAL WINNERS STARTUP MEDIA OF THE YEAR DR – Løvens Hule – Denmark Løvens Hule is a program on the national Danish channel DR in which different aspiring startups pitch their ideas to a panel of potential investors, or lions. Breakit – Sweden Breakit.se delivers tech news on a daily basis with a focus on the Swedish startup scene, since most Swedish investment companies and venture capitalists today have tech in their portfolios – no tech – no future. Breakit.se is the first site in Sweden that delivers first class tech news. It is as simple as it sounds: a brand new news site covering the tech industry. http://www.breakit.se/ Arctic Startup – Finland ArcticStartup is helping to build communities with uncapped opportunities through media, events, PR and consulting since 2007. http://arcticstartup.com/ Joacim Lund (Aftenposten) – Norway Aftenposten is Norway’s largest printed newspaper by circulation, and is the leading subscription newspaper in Norway. The newspaper is published in Oslo , and the Norwegian newspaper published twice daily. The Morning Edition is a nationwide paper, while the afternoon edition, Evening, is a local newspaper for Oslo and the surrounding area. http://www.aftenposten.no/ Norðurskautið – Iceland Nordurskautid is a news and opinion site about the Icelandic startup and tech scene. The website was founded in 2015 and has since then covered Icelandic startups, events and the scene in general. Norðurskautið is a specialised content platform for people interested in the startup and tech scene in Iceland. http://nordurskautid.is/

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BEST INVESTMENT COMPANY Northcap – Denmark Northcap consists of experienced professionals with operational backgrounds building companies and comprehensive venture capital experience. www.northcap.vc Northzone – Sweden Northzone is a technology investment partnership, chosen by exceptional entrepreneurs as a long-term partner for growth. www.northzone.com/ Lifeline Ventures – Finland Lifeline Ventures is a team of serial entrepreneurs that invest in sectors we know by heart from our years as founders and startup leaders. www.lifelineventures.com Northzone – Norway Northzone is a technology investment partnership, chosen by exceptional entrepreneurs as a long-term partner for growth. http://northzone.com NSA Ventures – Iceland NSA Ventures invests directly in Icelandic seed and start-up companies with high growth potential. www.nsaventures.is

BEST BUSINESS ANGEL Henrik Torstensson – Sweden Henrik Torstensson is an early stage investor and the current CEO of Lifesum, a company whose vision is to make people all over the world healthier and happier. Some of his investments are Teamtailor, Sparta, Castle, Fishbrain, Brisk.io and Tieday Group. Kjartan Örn Ólafsson – Iceland Kjartan Olafsson is an entrepreneur and investor with one foot in New York and the other in Reykjavik. Kjartan is the Founder/CEO of Volta Labs Venture Development, a private startup studio and micro VC, a co-founder of Basno, a digital certification platform, and co-creator of BlockSign, an innovative blockchain-service for legally signing documents.

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Tommy Ahlers – Denmark Tommy Ahlers is an entrepreneur who started his first company in 2005, which failed 9 months later. He started his second company (ZYB) in October 2005 and exited to Vodafone in May 2008. He worked with Vodafone until 2010, and went on to his 3rd start-up when he joined in on Podio as investor and CEO. Podio was sold to Citrix in April 2012 and afterwards he worked inside Citrix until July 2015 to make Podio even bigger and managing GoToAssist and part of the overall management team in the division. of water each year, which will of course increase with number of customers. Kim Daniel Arthur – Norway Kim Daniel Arthur is an angel investor that has invested in 10+ early stage tech startups and served as board member or advisory board member on 5+ tech startups. He has more than 10 years of experience creating and optimising processes, technology and organisations to deliver high quality creative products. Moaffak Ahmed – Finland Moaffak Ahmed is a serial entrepreneur and hands-on early stage investor with over 25 years of marketing and business development experience in Europe, North America and Asia. He has created - and successfully executed - business and marketing strategies for rapidly growing high tech firms.

BEST OFFICE SPACE Mothership of Work – Finland Mothership of Work is a coworking hub for creative pros in Helsinki. We opened our doors in Feb ‘16, on 6 floors, in 2200m2 and can house 300 members. www.mow.fi

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Rainmaking Loft – Denmark Rainmaking Loft is a co-working space set up by Rainmaking, one of Europe’s leading players within entrepreneurship. It supports tech startups by providing them with a highly inspiring work environment at an affordable price. It strives to be a place, where promising entrepreneurs develop their innovations faster, because they collaborate. This is something it takes seriously. Tech startups should improve the way we shop, communicate, and organize our lives. www.rainmakingloft.dk Epicenter- Stockholm House of Innovation – Sweden Epicenter is Stockholm’s first House of Innovation at the heart of the city and Sweden’s digital landscape. At Epicenter you can work flexibly based on your current needs. Besides an excellent café, comfortable lounges and state of the art conference facilities, Epicenter also offers exciting office environments so that your company can easily grow and scale up operations. www.epicenterstockholm.com

BEST ACCELERATOR PROGRAM Next Step Challenge – Denmark Next Step Challenge is a 6-month startup competition and business accelerator program that awards €30,000 to accepted startups in the fields of next-generation energy and digital products and services and provides them with the opportunity to compete for a grand prize of an additional €250,000— the largest entrepreneur prize in the US and Europe! www. nextstepchallenge.com

FLOW – Norway The aim with FLOW is to foster innovation in Tromsø, as well as north Norway, by creating a platform which embrace and connect the startups with all the needed stakeholders. www.flownorway.com

STING Accelerate– Sweden STING enables talented people to turn their ideas into sustainable businesses. The support they offer includes qualified coaching in business development, a business angel network, a venture capital fund, a recruitment service, and an international network of investors, business contacts and experts. They contribute to the success of Sweden’s future technology companies by helping them to grow and compete internationally, and by generating export revenues for Stockholm.

Ocean Cluster House – Iceland The Iceland Ocean Cluster’s mission is to create value by connecting together entrepreneurs, businesses and knowledge in the marine industries. www.sjavarklasinn.is

Angel Challenge– Norway Angel Challenge is a two month program for 20 investors to learn startup investing by doing it. 20 startups are invited to participate together with the investors. www.angelchallenge.co

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Startup Sauna– Sweden Startup Sauna accelerator helps promising early-stage startups to get ready for taking the next step, be it entering their market or raising a seed round of funding. Our coaches are some of the most talented serial entrepreneurs, investors and other industry experts in Finland and the surrounding region. www.startupsauna.com Startup Reykjavik – Iceland Startup Reykjavik is a 10 weeks long mentorship-driven seed stage investment program, in Reykjavik, Iceland. Selected companies or ideas get $18,500 in seed funding from Startup Reykjavik Invest ehf., a 100% owned daughter company of Arion Bank. www.startupreykjavik.com

BEST SOCIAL TECH STARTUP Heimo– Finland Heimo is an online community for life challenges, where peers help each other. Anyone can find someone who has gone through the same challenges in their life. The best helper is the one who has solved the same problems. Nothing is more meaningful than compassion and empathy. www.heimo.co Lingio– Sweden Lingio is driven by the vision of making language learning more fun, by combining gaming principles, social and education we are providing a truly fun experience to our users. www.lingio.co Karolina Fund– Iceland Anyone with a great idea for a creative project can post his idea on the Karolina Fund platform. Project creators can promote their projects through the platform in text, pictures, to do lists and/or videos. Each project has a funding goal and a specific time limit set by the creator. In return for pledges to projects, creators offer rewards. www.karolinafund.com Reshopper– Denmark Reshopper is a smartphone app for local buying and selling used children’s items. www.reshopper.com

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No Isolation– Norway We are designing a product for children, isolated from their peers due to a long-term disease or disability. It is an avatar robot that can attend school on the child’s behalf. She or he can control it from anywhere using an application on a tablet or a smartphone. www.noisolation.com

BEST IoT STARTUP Sensohive– Denmark Sensohive provides sensor-based production optimization solutions to increase production efficiency and process automatization for a range of company sizes and branches. It can help you by providing sensors and wireless communication systems to increase production efficiency and process automatization for your company. www.sensohive.com Shortcut Labs– Sweden Shortcut Labs is making the wireless smart button that can control lights, play music, take pictures, find your phone, track time, snooze alarms, navigate, unlock doors, make calls, order pizza, set the mood, share location and more. www.flic.io Unacast– Norway Unacast powers the world’s largest network of proximity data, enabling brands and retailers to retarget customers online based on offline behaviour. Unacast offers the PROX Network to the world´s leading proximity solution providers to collect, segment and serve customer insight by understanding consumers’ collective offline and online behaviour anonymously, in realtime. www.unacast.com Medilync– Iceland Medilync is changing how diabetes is treated. Its product, Insulync, simplifies the physical burden of diabetes management by bringing all devices and supplies into one elegant device: store and use your preferred insulin pen and test strips, smart glucose reader built-in, lancet with the ability to replace as often as recommended, automatically saves your data, never manually to cloud storage. www.medilync.com

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720°– Finland 720° is a solution utilising artificial intelligence on real-time environmental data from sensors across large buildings to continuously evaluate indoor environmental quality and its impacts on health & productivity of occupants, providing customers with intelligence for issue prevention and data-driven optimisation. www.720.fi

BEST EXPONENTIAL STARTUP Clearhaus– Denmark Clearhaus is an EU payment institution and acquirer, authorised by the Danish Financial Supervisory Authority and is a principal member of Visa and MasterCard. Clearhaus provides payment solutions for online stores across Europe. By being an early adopter of new technology, Clearhaus has made online payments more simple, innovative and secure. www.clearhaus.com Frosmo– Finland Frosmo is part of the internet revolution by making web development easier and through data more relevant for anyone around the world. First part of our mission, we concentrate on companies in B2C digital businesses, later on it can be anyone anywhere improving user experience for any screen. www.frosmo.com nLink– Norway nLink is making the world’s first mobile drilling robot, designed to relieve construction workers from overhead work involved with measuring and drilling in concrete ceilings. www.nlink.no Guide to Iceland– Iceland Guide to Iceland provides you with more travel information about Iceland than any other website on the internet. Our goal is to provide travellers with the best possible time, services and prices available in Iceland. You can find helpful travel articles, specific attractions and even contact local people. www.guidetoiceland.is

BEST BOOTSTRAPPED Tiny Rebels– Denmark Tiny Rebels’s goal is to reduce the carbon footprint of a single child by at least 60% in their first two years. Among other things, this means saving thousands and thousands of liters of water each year, which will of course increase with number of customers. www.tinyrebels.dk Lunchback– Sweden Lunchback has been referred to as “the meetup.com for 1-1 networking”. The app is aimed at connecting startup founders with relevant mentors available in their local area by booking lunch appointments. www.lunchback.co Socius– Norway Socius is a new content provider for publishers to tell stories using social media. Socius allows publishers to be #everywhere and cover any topic, seamlessly on their properties. www.sociuslive.com Geosilica– Iceland The goal of geoSilica is to produce high quality silica health products, from Iceland’s geothermal plants geothermal water, in order to improve peoples health. www.geosilica.is Catchbox– Finland Catchbox’s first product, is the world’s first throwable microphone, an affordable and effective way to get audiences involved to asking questions and making comments. Their aim is to make live audience engagement fun, fast & effective. In addition, they take great interest in audience engagement topics surrounding events. The company blog covers a variety of topics - from audience concerns to more technical aspects of wireless communication. www.eu.getcatchbox.com

Cellink– Sweden Cellink is the first bioink company in the world. They are developing and commercializing bioinks for 3D Bioprinting of human tissue and organs. www.cellink.eu

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Christian Hager (Nabobil)– Norway Christian is the CTO of Nabobil, a marketplace that connects individuals who need a car with people who owns a car. If you need a car, you can use its marketplace to find the car near you that fits your needs, whether it’s a quick trip to the shopping mall or a weekend getaway.

CTO HERO OF THE YEAR Brian Munkholm (Realm.io)– Denmark Brian is the CTO of Realm, which is building a new, on-device database for Android (& iOS), that replaces SQLite or higherlevel frameworks like Core Data, greenDAO, OrmLite, etc. Realm is already deployed on well over one billion devices around the world. Their users include big name startups, #1-ranked app store successes, Fortune 500 companies, banks & more. Umut Alp (Truecaller)– Sweden Umut is the CTO of Truecaller, which is a leading search technology company that is transforming the phonebook with a set of intelligent and useful services. The company started off as an app to identify unknown numbers and block spam calls. Many people do not bother saving phone numbers anymore because they rely on the ability of Truecaller to find the right contact information, and identify the name behind a number, regardless of it being saved into their phone. Truecaller wants to make this a more simplified and streamlined process so you have all the current information on people and businesses you need without ever having to leave the app. Tuomo Riekki (Smartly.io)– Finland Tuomo is the CTO of Smartly.io, a platform founded in 2013, dedicated to automate Facebook and Instagram advertising. We’re a badged Facebook & Instagram Marketing Partner with the Ad Technology specialty. With Smartly.io marketers can quickly create, manage & optimize every aspect of a successful Facebook advertising campaign using tools like A/B testing, automated budget allocation, trigger rules etc. We also provide a slick realtime reporting interface & conversion tracking to attribute your campaign performance with a precision. Ragnar Ægir Fjölnisson (Kaptio)– Iceland Ragnar is the CTO of Kaptio, which provides enterprise Software-as-a-Service solutions for companies in the travel industry, helping travel companies manage customers, agents, suppliers, proposals and operations in new innovative ways. They deliver solutions via the Salesforce platform, the worlds #1 cloud platform and they are the first company to focus on the travel industry within the Salesforce ecosystem.

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BEST NEWCOMER Universal Avenue– Sweden Universal Avenue is a platform that the world’s top online brands use to grow at new markets worldwide. We scout for talented people worldwide that after an application and training process become brand ambassadors, connecting the brands we represent with venues such as hotels, restaurants, shops and experience. www.universalavenue.com Wolt– Finland Wolt is a Finnish startup focusing on developing mobile payments software. Wolt gives people a fast and simple way to handle physical-world payments on their mobile phone, enabling them to skip production queues and waiting in restaurants, bars and cafeterias. www.wolt.com No Isolation– Norway We are designing a product for children, isolated from their peers due to a long-term disease or disability. It is an avatar robot that can attend school on the child’s behalf. She or he can control it from anywhere using an application on a tablet or a smartphone. www.noisolation.com Ideanote– Denmark Ideanote is an innovation tool for transforming businesses, by solving company challenges with the ideas of your co-workers. www.ideanote.dk Sling– Iceland With Sling, you can stay on top of your business by setting up shift schedules, sending messages and chat with employees, updating your team with new information, creating and assigning tasks and get notified when they are completed. www.getsling.com

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FOUNDER OF THE YEAR Carl Pei (OnePlus)– Sweden Carl is the founder of OnePlus, a technology startup committed to bringing the best possible technology to users around the world. Created around the mantra Never Settle, OnePlus creates beautifully designed devices with premium build quality. Elias Pietilä (Wolt)– Finland Elias is the founder of Wolt, a Finnish startup focusing on developing mobile payments software. Wolt gives people a fast and simple way to handle physical-world payments on their mobile phone, enabling them to skip production queues and waiting in restaurants, bars and cafeterias. Are Traasdahl (Tapad)– Norway Are is the founder of Tapad, a marketing technology firm renowned for its breakthrough, unified, cross-device solutions. With 91.2% data accuracy confirmed by Nielsen, the company offers the largest in-market opportunity for marketers to address the ever-evolving reality of media consumption on smartphones, tablets, home computers and smart TVs. Deployed by agency trading desks, publishers, marketing technology companies and numerous Fortune 500 brands, Tapad provides an accurate, unified approach to connecting with consumers across screens Theis Søndergaard (Vivino)– Denmark Theis is the founder of Vivino, an application to find, remember and share your wines! Snap a picture of a wine, and get all the info you need. Fida Abu Libdeh (Geosilica)– Iceland Fida is the founder of Geosilica, which goal is to produce high quality silica health products, from Iceland’s geothermal reservoirs in order to improve people’s health.

STARTUP OF THE YEAR Realm– Denmark Realm is building a new, on-device database for Android (& iOS), that replaces SQLite or higher-level frameworks like Core Data, greenDAO, OrmLite, etc. Realm is already deployed on well over one billion devices around the world. Our users include big name startups, #1-ranked app store successes, Fortune 500 companies, banks & more. www.realm.io Kry– Sweden By combining new technology with leading medical expertise KRY has built a platform where healthcare concerns can be met digitally. KRY makes it possible for patients to meet doctors through video meetings and receive advice/treatment for medical concerns that do not require a physical examination for diagnosis. www.kry.se Wolt– Finland Wolt is a Finnish startup focusing on developing mobile payments software. Wolt gives people a fast and simple way to handle physical-world payments on their mobile phone, enabling them to skip production queues and waiting in restaurants, bars and cafeterias. www.wolt.com Xeneta– Norway Xeneta offers a crowdsourced price comparison service for sea freight. It lets companies share the prices they are given and compare these to the market average and ‘best of class’ for various routes and lanes, therefore helping to make for better decisions relating to the shipping component of their business. www.xeneta.com Mint Solutions– Iceland Mint Solutions is developing MedEye, an innovative medication safety solution for bedside medication verification. The MedEye solution shortens the time it takes nurses to verify and document medication administrations, increasing safety and efficiency. www.mintsolutions.eu

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EVENTS

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GRAND FINALE Grand Finale 2016 The Grand Finale in 2016 was held in the beautiful Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavik, Iceland. The event featured Nordic and international key speakers, decision makers and influencers, including the Icelandic Minister of Industry and Commerce, Ragnheiður Elín Árnadóttir, who handed out the Startup of the Year award.

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NATIONAL FINALS Danish National Finale 2016 The Danish Finale event was held at the Dansk Industri (DI) in Copenhagen, and organized by with our country partner WeLoveStartups. The afternoon counted with the presence of the Danish Minister of Business and Growth, Troels Lund Poulsen, to hand out the Startup of the Year award. Different stakeholders from the Danish startup scene as well as from the industry were present at the event, which ended with networking, snacks and drinks.

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NATIONAL FINALS Finnish National Finale 2016 The event was held at Microsoft Flux, in Helsinki, and organized by our country partner ArcticStartup in collaboration with Haaga-Helia StartUp School and Microsoft. Speakers from Tieto, Microtask and Inventure were also present at the event, which closed with networking, snacks and drinks.

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NATIONAL FINALS Icelandic National Finale 2016 The Icelandic event was held in Reykjavík University, and organised by our country partner Icelandic Startups in collaboration with Reykjavík University.

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NATIONAL FINALS Norwegian National Finale 2016 The event was held at Gamle Museet in central Oslo, organized by our country partners Startup Norway and Oslo Business Region. It was a memorable afternoon that gathered more than 200 attendees with the presence of incredible individuals, startups, and ecosystem supporters to give recognition to outstanding people and startups.

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NATIONAL FINALS Swedish National Finale 2016 The Swedish event was held in Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship as part of the Startup Day. The event was organized by our country partners Startup Sweden, Startup Guide Stockholm and Frogleap Accelerator.

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PAST WINNERS

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WINNERS PER COUNTRY

NORDIC WINNERS SINCE 2012 2015 Best Accelerator Program Startup Reykjavik (IS) Best Bootstrapped Dirtybit (NO)

SWEDEN

NORWAY

Population: 9,801,616 Regional winners: 12*

Population: 5,165,800 Regional winners: 5*

DENMARK

ICELAND

Population: 5,678,348 Regional winners: 12*

FINLAND

Best Office Space Mesh (NO)

Best Funded Startup Wrapp (SE)

Best Professional Investor Creandum (SE)

Best International Startup Zendesk (DK)

Best Social Tech Startup Be my Eyes (DK)

Best Newcomer Indoor Atlas (FI)

Developer Hero Martina Elm (SE)

Best Professional Investor Creandum (SE)

Founder of the Year Kristo Ovaska (FI) Startup Media of the Year Neil Murray - ‘The Nordic Web’ (DK)

Best Service Provider The Copenhagen Nokia Bridge Incubator (DK)

Startup of the Year Falcon Social (DK)

Founder of the Year Carl Waldekranz (SE) Best Service Provider FundedbyMe (SE)

Developer Hero Jonas Bruun Nielsen (NO) Best Newcomer Jumpstarter (SE)

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2012 Best Bootstrapped LikenShare AS (NO)

Journalist of the Year Greg Anderson (FI) Population: 5,483,533 Regional winners: 10*

Startup of the Year Plain Vanilla (IS)

Best Newcomer Unacast (DK)

2014 Population: 329,100 Regional winners: 4*

Best Professional Investor Lifeline Ventures (FI)

Best Startup Journalist Anders Kanberg - ‘De Seks Hatte’ (DK) Best Student Startup Drinkster (DK) Designer of the Year Rasmus Nielsen & Nicolas Thomsen, SHAPE (DK) Developer Hero Peter Sunde (SE) Founder of the Year Hjalmer Winbladh (SE) Startup of the Year Supercell (FI)

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NATIONAL WINNERS 2015 Next Step Challenge Denmark Startup Journey by Boost Turku Finland Startup Reykjavik Iceland Tinc Sillicon Valley Norway Sting Sweden Accelerace Denmark Reaktor Polte Finland Founders Fund Norway Argentum Norway Creandum Sweden Jacob Tjørnholm Denmark Christian Wylonis Denmark Kristo Ovaska Finland Jari Jaanto Finland Sigurdur Arnljotsson Iceland Kristján Ingi Mikaelsson Iceland 74 / NORDIC STARTUP AWARDS

Georg Lúðvíksson (Meniga) Iceland Simen Sommerfeldt Norway Johan Brand Norway Johan Attby Sweden Martina Elm Sweden Neil Murray Denmark Greg Anderson Finland Þórður Snær Júlíusson Iceland Maria Amelie Norway Startup City Denmark Startup Sauna Finland ReonTech & KPMG Iceland Mesh Norway Knackeriet Sweden Falcon Social Denmark Washa Denmark Unipegma Denmark

Þorsteinn Friðriksson Iceland

Be my Eyes Denmark

Lifeline Ventures Finland

Ninchat Finland

NSA Ventures Iceland

Smartly.io Finland

Icelandic Startups Iceland

Funzi Finland

CSE Denmark

Seriously Finland

Carl Waldekranz Sweden

Modio Iceland

Dimitrij Aleshkov Sweden

Mekano ehf. Iceland

Henrik Torstensson Sweden

Bokun Iceland

James Pember Sweden

Dirtybit Norway

Jesper Buch Denmark

Unacast Norway

Jonas Bruun Nielsen Denmark

Superplus Norway

Leo Gasteen Norway

MinFarm Sweden

Kristján Ingi Mikaelsson Iceland

Lookback Sweden Day Cape Sweden Lifesum Sweden

2014 Betafactory Norway

David Nikel Norway Bala Kamallakharan Iceland Daniel Laursen Denmark Greg Anderson Finland AirHelp Denmark Airtame Denmark Blendin Iceland Edgefolio Norway Fingersoft Finland FundedbyMe Sweden Jumpstarter Sweden Dirtybit Norway Plain Vanilla Iceland

Oleg Podsechin Finland

TrademarkNow Finland

Sampo Karjalainen Finland

Truecaller Sweden

Søren Halskov Nissen Denmark

NewCo Factory Finland

Wilhelm Joys Andersen Norway

NTNUs Entreprenørskole Norway

2012 Eyrir Invest Iceland Northzone Norway Creandum Sweden The Copenhagen Nokia Bridge Denmark Alex Carabi Sweden Anders Kanberg Denmark Antti Vilpponen Finland Henric Holgersson Sweden Hjalmar Winbladh Sweden Ilkka Paananen Finland Lilja Dögg Jónsdóttir Iceland Georg Lúðvíksson (Meniga) Iceland Mette Lykke Denmark Peter Sunde Sweden Rasmus Lerdorf (PHP) Denmark Rasmus Nielsen Denmark Nicolas Thomsen Denmark

Thomas Madsen Mygdalh Denmark Applika Sweden Blaast Finland Brugertest.nu Denmark CFEngine Norway Click a Taxi Denmark Drinkster Denmark Encap Norway FAFU Iceland Indoor Atlas Finland iZettle AB Sweden

SocialBoards Norway StreamTags Iceland Supercell Finland The Eye Tribe Denmark Wrapp Sweden Zendesk Denmark Podio Denmark Grunderskolen Norway Innovit, Entrepreneurship Center Iceland Transfluent Finland Yeos Sweden

Kiosked Finland LikenShare Norway Meniga Iceland Nordic Telecom Finland Omnicloud Sweden RefinedWiki Sweden Remake Electric Iceland

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PARTNERS & SPONSORS

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COLLABORATION PARTNERS

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COUNTRY PARTNERS

WeLoveStartups is a non-profit association established in December 2014. Their activities are centered around the “Pay-itforward” mindset. The vision is to create a movement that engages all companies and entrepreneurial stakeholders in Denmark in creating successful startups through knowledge sharing, network and handing out smart startup funding for early stage startups. The first round of smart funding was conducted in the spring of 2015 and the second round in March 2016 through the event Fundraise Denmark’s future. Until now they have helped nine startups with smart funding, and countless with mentors, knowledge sharing and network.

The association operates through a paid secretariat, a highly experienced board and more than 80 volunteering ambassadors, mentors and experts. Their many collaborators and sponsors finance the startup funding. Highly qualified industry experts and serial entrepreneurs evaluate the applicants. Furthermore, the volunteering expert mentors and sponsors are available to support the receivers of smart money in their future growth. Read more about the startups they have helped, apply for support and meet the people behind the concept on www.welovestartups.dk and their event site funddenmark.dk (in Danish).

“WeLoveStartups exists to help innovative and passionate entrepreneurs in Denmark, and in time see them win Nordic Startup Awards. Furthermore, we exist to create connections between the current entrepreneurial stars and the stars of tomorrow. Therefore, it is a perfect match for us to be the Danish country partner”. Jakob Breddam CEO, WeLoveStartups

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ArcticStartup, our country partner in Finland, is an independent, technology blog that reports on digital startups and growth entrepreneurship from the Nordic and Baltic countries. Its goal is to provide exceptional coverage of the news and trends needed to support a developed entrepreneurship community in Northern Europe. Learn more about them at w w w . a r c t i c s t a r t u p . c o m

Its aim is encourage entrepreneurship and to promote connectedness in the Nordic and Baltic regions. To do so ArcticStartup has its own media arm, events and a number of very exciting plans for expansion. It continuously gathers tens of thousands of readers from over 130 countries, giving the region’s startups a media channel for getting global recognition.

“Nordic Startup Awards being a valuable component on bringing together the Nordic startup community, and ArcticStartup vision being helping to build communities with uncapped opportunities, it is a very logical partnership we hope we will keep on giving to the community”. Jan Ameri, ArcticStartup

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Icelandic Startups help startups grow within and out of Iceland by accelerating their businesses and connecting them with industry experts, investors and leading startup hubs abroad. Its services are free of charge and presented under three main categories: Idea, Growth and Community, providing a customized support for entrepreneurs and startups ranging from the seed of an idea to the first or even second round of funding. When an entrepreneur has put together a business plan, an ideal next step would be

to apply to a business accelerator. Icelandic Startups oversees and operates three seed stage, mentorship driven accelerator programs. During all of these programs the selected startups enjoy the access to a fully equipped office space and multiple networking opportunities. The accelerators have also proved to provide the teams a well deserved attention from investors and media. Learn more about them at www.icelandicstartups.com

“We believe that there are a lot of unexplored opportunities for future cooperation between the Nordic startup communities, to advance under one umbrella. Recent success stories, such as Spotify, Rovio, and QuizUp, have brought the attention of international investors and media to the Nordic startup scene. Nordic startup community leaders are aware of the spectacular opportunity it entails for the region, and there is an ongoing discussion between them on how we can seize the moment in a union. We believe that the initiative of Nordic Startup Awards is a great milestone in that mission”. Salóme Guðmundsdóttir CEO, Icelandic Startups

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Startup Norway, one of our country partners in Norway, is an umbrella organization for several startup ecosystem initiatives. It helps startups grow by creating arenas where startups, investors, key community players & corporates come together to learn and connect. Its purpose is to be a key resource in building the Norwegian Startup Scene. Part of their core initiatives are Startup Extreme, Nordic Startup Awards and Angel Challenge. Learn more at www.startupnorway.com

Oslo Business Region, is one of our country partners in Norway, and it develops arenas, networks and tools to support startups to successfully launch and grow their business ideas. OBR also arranges pitching contests and events for startups. StartupDays is one example, where you can get inspired, share knowledge, network and much more. Learn more at www.oslobusinessregion.no

“We have been involved in NSAwards since the beginning back in 2012 where it started as a passion-driven idea. NSAwards has developed into an important platform which acknowledges and showcases talent from the Nordic startup ecosystem to the world. We would love to see NSAwards grow even more over the coming years.” Maja Adriaensen, CEO Startup Norway

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For Conneqtify, our country partner in Sweden, relationships are the building blocks for all community organizing activities. Whether you want to organize a marathon or launch a new product, you will need lots of good relationships. Why? Because the relationships we have with our coworkers, the communities we serve, and even our adversaries are the means for achieving our goals. People don’t work in isolation: we need to be working together! It is our relationships all added together that are the foundation of an organized effort for change. We need lots of people to contribute their

“I think supports together and has

ideas, take a stand, and get the work done. To Conneqtify is to build these relationships in with emotion, empathy and passion with a common goal to motivate and empower. Learn more about it at http://conneqtify.se/ Startup Guide Stockholm, another Swedish partner, also contributed to showcase innovation and talents from the country. The company is a concept that was born in Berlin, with more than 3000 copies sold, and it has now expand to Denmark and Portugal.

Nordic Startup Awards is a great initiative because it promotes and those who do good things in society. It’s also a initiative that brings people and that makes it very strong. NSA is an initiative that connects countries the potential of being a great platform for cross border collaborations”. Oskar Malm Wiklund Community builder & Business Developer Stockholm, Sweden

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Daniel Laursen Denmark Founder of Trendsonline

Karen Elisabeth Hesjka Norway Relations Manager - Startups and Growth Companies at DNB

Einar Gunnar Guðmundsson Iceland Corporate Development at CEO Office Arion Bank

Kjetil Holmefjord Norway Incubator Manager at StartupLab

Ekaterina Gianelli Finland Investment Director at Inventure

Kriszti Toth Norway Head of Program Committee at TEDx Oslo, Founder at MESH

Our ambassadors are active and connected persons within their respective startup ecosystem; active directly in the startup community of each Nordic country. The ambassadors are also responsible for creating the final shortlist from the open nomination process.

Henrik Storm Dyrssen Sweden Leksell Social Ventures

Mei Wen Sweden Startup Sweden

NATIONAL JURY

Hilde Indresovde Norway General Manager at Nyskapingsparken Inkubator

Marius Thorvaldsen Norway University lecturer, Managing director, Board member

Ingvild Kielland Norway Event Manager at FLOW Norway

Oskar Malm Wiklund Sweden Startup Grind

Peter Fosso Sweden Stockholm Entrepreneurs Meetup

Tina Jonasen Denmark Business developer, Digital Coach & Accountant.

Riku Seppälä Finland Open Ocean Capital

Tuomas Maisala Finland Director at Spinno Enterprise Center

Søren X. Frahm Denmark Creative Director at Artlinco

Vlad Suteu Denmark Regional Manager at Venture Cup

Sussi Bianco Denmark Innovation Consultant

Þórunn Jónsdóttir Iceland Founder at thorunnjons.com

PANEL Nordic Startup Awards collaborates with a panel consisting of ambassadors, national and regional jury and an advisory board. Each of them participates over different phases of the competition. AMBASSADORS

Our national jury members judge only on the national finalists and they are from the same country as the national finalists. Jury members cannot be part of the ambassador network within the same competition year.

REGIONAL JURY Our regional jury members judge on the regional finalists (national winners). A regional jury member can also be active as a national jury member in the same season. Regional jury members are invited by NSAwards as well as from GSAwards, and they can be from the region but also from outside the region.

AMBASSADORS Arnar Laufdal Iceland CEO & Owner at Kaptio

Jaana Pylvänen Finland Innovation Director at Kora Arctic Cluster

Arne Vesterdal Denmark Direktør at INCUBA

Jenný Ruth Hrafnsdóttir Iceland Seed & VC Investment Manager at NSA Ventures

Claes Mikko Nilsen Finland Network Manager at FiBAN

Juhani Polkko Finland Founder & CMO of San Francisco Oy

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Svana Gunnarsdóttir Iceland Investment manager at Frumtak

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JURY Adam Lebech Denmark Branchedirektør, Dansk Industri Digital

Daniel Laursen Denmark Founder, Trendsonline

Adrián Sneeuw The Netherlands Management in Creative Industries & EU Project Evaluator

Drazen Dodik Finland Technical Evangelist at Microsoft

Amy Cosper USA Editor in Chief, Entrepreneur Magazine

Eldar Ástþórsson Iceland Sr PR Manager at CCP

Ashran Dato’ Ghazi Malaysia CEO @ MaGIC

Eric Asmussen Sweden C.E.O at Xtravel

Bjørn Christensen Norway Partner at Alliance Venture and Owner, Alliance Venture

Fredrik Arnander Sweden Standout Ventures

Boris Meggiorin France Head of International Development - Creative industries and urban planning Christian Stadil Denmark Owner/CEO/Adj.Prof. Thornico A/S Food & Technology Christina Forsgård Finland Consultant, Speaker, Startup Coach, Founder of Netprofile PR Clare McGee Ireland Supporting NI individuals and SMEs 86 / NORDIC STARTUP AWARDS

Fredrik Jung-Abbou Sweden Co-founder and CCO of KRY

Helga Valfells Iceland Managing director at NSA Ventures

Margrét Lára Friðriksdóttir Iceland Executive Vice President, Human Resources & Corporate Strategy at Össur

Henrik Scheel Denmark/USA Founder and CEO of Startup Experience

Mohan Ram India Senior Manager, Kyron Global

Inka Mero Finland Chairwoman and Co-Founder, KoppiCatch

Morten Wagner Denmark Director of Digital Innovation & IdemoLab at DELTA

Javier Agüera Reneses USA Founder @ Geeksphone

Oskari Kettunen Finland Managing Partner at Reaktor Ventures

Jeanett Sandmo Norway Innovation Norway

Pekka Sivonen Finland General Director at Vertical Accelerator

Joseph Michael Sweden Stockholm Business Region Development Juliane Schulze Germany Member of the Board of Media Deals

Péter Halácsy Hungary CTO & Co-Founder at Prezi Peter Oszkó Hungary / CESA Managing Partner at OXO Group

Fredrik Winther Norway Oslo Business Region

Lars Iversen Sweden CEO Frogleap

Pétur Guðjónsson Iceland Executive Vice President, Commercial Regions at Marel

George A. Tilesch USA US Managing Partner, Innomine Group/President & Chairman of the Board

Margaret Mulligan Belgium Research and innovation funding and policy specialist of EBN

Prathibha Sastry India Startup Evangelist, iSpirit

Heidi Austlid Norway Director KT-Norge

Margrét Arnardóttir Iceland Project Manager for Wind Power at Landsvirkjun

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Rolf Assev Norway Startuplab

Utsav Somani India Angel Investor, Let’s Venture

Rune Sævik Norway Communications Manager at Investinor AS

Vanessa Carpenter Denmark Technology Experience Designer, Design Thinking Advocate

Sami Lampinen Finland Managing Director & Partner, INVENTURE

Ville Miettinen Finland Serial Entrepreneur; Founder and CEO, Microtask

Sean Percival Norway 500 Nordics Sophia Bendz Sweden Executive in Residence at Atomico Taneli Tikka Finland Entrepreneur, Executive, Board Member. Thorsteinn B. Fridriksson Iceland CEO at Plain Vanilla Toke Kruse Denmark Founder and CEO - Billy

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STORIES & TESTIMONIALS IDA

Realm Startup of the Year 2016 Realm is building a new, on-device mobile database for Android (& iOS). Some of the users include big name startups, #1-ranked app store successes, Fortune 500 companies, banks & more. The company was founded in 2011, and it has already deployed on well over one billion devices around the world.

Younoodle YouNoodle connects top startups with opportunities for growth. Corporations powered by startups grow faster and outperform their peers. Investors with the right dealflow produce better returns. Cities and colleges with thriving startup ecosystems produce more jobs and economic growth. This is what YouNoodle is all about – powering the global startup revolution.

The Danish Society of Engineers IDA represents more than 100.000 members within the fields of technology and science. This year it works on a special initiative with focus on tech entrepreneurship, called IDA Startup. Its mission with this initiative is to support tech startups with an ambition to scale. Throughout 2016, IDA will be exploring barriers and potentials for tech startups to scale, developing events, conferences and partnerships around tech entrepreneurship, building bridges between IDA members and startup ecosystems, and share inspiring startup stories from a tech and science point of view.

DI Confederation of Danish Industry (DI) is the strong voice of corporate Denmark. On the behalf of 10,000 member companies, DI works to provide the best conditions for Danish businesses in order to improve the opportunities for growth and overall competitiveness. Confederation of Danish Industry (DI) is a private organisation funded, owned and managed entirely by 10,000 companies within manufacturing, trade and service industry.

Learn more about them at www.ida.dk

Learn more about them at www.younoodle.com

“We are very humbled and deeply honored by it. I think this award is quite important to us. It is a great testament of the technology that we have developed over the last four and a half years, so it is hugely appreciated.” Brian Munkholm, CTO, Realm Danish CTO Hero of the Year 2016

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“Nordic Startup Awards celebrate important agendas such as “Best Social Entrepreneur” and “Best Newcomer”, which underlines their strong commitment to promoting entrepreneurial spirit across all aspects of society”. Torsten Kolind, CEO, YouNoodle

“Already being a supporter of the startup ecosystem it felt natural also to support the celebration of the ecosystem here at the Nordic Startup Awards. You guys are doing a great job inspiring, stimulating and recognizing entrepreneurship throughout the Nordic region, whilst connect the whole Nordic startup community.”

“The Confederation of Danish Industry (DI) hosted the Danish finale of Nordic Startup Awards 2016 at “Industriens Hus” in central Copenhagen to help highlight some of Denmark’s most promising businesses. It was very inspiring to meet all the nominees and learn about their successes. They are not only inspiring to other startups but also to the older and established companies. In DI we will keep working for better conditions for Danish startups, both practically and politically.” Anders Sparre Chefkonsulent, DI’s digitale taskforce

Maj Brincker Højring Consultant, Change Manager at IDA

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Startup Guide The Startup Guide concept was born in Berlin, when founder Sissel Hansen experienced the challenges of starting up in a new city, in a new country, on her own. She came up with the idea of a guide and put together a team, which resulted in the first guide book being released in the summer of 2014. The Berlin book has been sold in more than 3000 copies across 30 stores. In the spring of 2015 the next guide was released in Aarhus. Now the turn has come to Copenhagen, where the startup scene has developed tremendously over the past 5 years. Many initiatives have been taken to build the startup scene in Copenhagen and the city is slowly starting to pop up on the global startup map. want to help foster that, so Denmark can continue to be on the forefront of a creative and entrepreneurial knowledge society.

Løvens Hule Danish Startup Media of the Year 2016

Catchbox Nordic Best Bootstrapped 2016

“For us it is important to say that we think that Løvens Hule is a public service to develop good ideas to get out to a broader audience, all this about startup industry and entrepreneurship. We are happy that there are other people who thinks that it is a good idea to make a television program like this.”

“It feels fantastic to get some recognition for the work you do, and we do recognise ourselves as a startup, so it is very relevant for us to go into these crowds and this kind of events where we get to know like-minded people and share ideas”.

Erling Groth Journalistic editor at DR

Universal Avenue Nordic Best Newcomer 2016 “It feels awesome! We got also the Swedish award but this is even greater, to get acknowledgment by whole Nordic countries. Because when we entered the market, the Nordics where the first countries that we entered, so it is great to be acknowledged by the people who you have been working with”.

“Nordic Startup Awards is a great event, which truly builds connections between ecosystems, but even more important, it highlights and celebrates entrepreneurs. To be an entrepreneur can be a tough and lonely road at times, so events like this creates a community feeling as well as role models for aspiring entrepreneurs.”

Mikelis Studers Co-Founder Catchbox

Mina Knezevic Brand Relations Manager, Universal Avenue

Be My Eyes Nordic Best Entrepreneurial Tech Startup 2015 “It is a great pleasure to win this award, and honestly I didn’t expect it because there were other great nominees so it is a real surprise and a great feeling. We do have some challenges ahead of us, so it is great to get this reward so we can have the good spirit to work on them”.

“Nordic Startup Awards is a powerful and great platform to bring to light all these amazing startups and amazing founders, CTO Heroes, and all the people that are doing such an amazing job. By making them visible, we will create role models for all the others that are about to start their own company and do something great”. Svava Björk Ólafsdóttir Project Manager Icelandic Startups

“Nordic Startup Awards is a great organization because we recognise startups, we make them visible. If they want to have success, they need this visibility; they need customers, investors and everyone to have a reference to them. Nordic Startup Awards is really helping them with that”. Anette Nørgaard Next Generation AMM Microsoft

Hans Jørgen Wiberg Founder Be My Eyes

Sissel Hansen Founder & CEO at Startup Guide

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