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Here are the 5 hottest startups in Norway

The Next Web

A country of never-ending sunsets, northern lights, and home to over 50 thousand islands and fjords, Norway has always been a haven for nature enthusiasts. Norway is home to one of the fastest growing startup ecosystems in the Nordics. But now it’s also becoming a haven for techies. In the first half of 2018, the country raised $185.8

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What we can learn from edtech startups’ expansion efforts in Europe

TechCrunch

with seven, Norway with five, and Spain, Finland, and Switzerland with four each. It follows that some view expansion as a way of diversifying risk — e.g. we are growing nicely in market X, but what if the opportunity in Y is larger and our business begins to decline for some reason in market X?

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Apple wants this recipe app to stop using a pear in its logo

The Verge

He writes that the company is a small business with five employees that can’t afford a protracted legal battle with a company the size of Apple, and that it’s been a “terrifying” experience. Prepear co-founder Russell Monson started a petition (“Save the Pear from Apple!”) that had more than 14,000 signatures as of this writing.

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Sweden-based digital bank Northmill raises $30M

TechCrunch

Next stop, Norway. As it stands, 2006-founded Northmill is available in Sweden, Norway and Finland, where it competes with incumbent banks with physical branches and the likes of Lunar, Revolut and Klarna (which operates as a bank in its home country of Sweden, and Germany).

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Oda, the Norwegian grocery delivery startup, raises a fresh $151M, but at a lowered valuation of $353M

TechCrunch

Online grocery delivery, a booming business at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, has definitely come down to earth with the shifts in the economy, public health and technology investing. Rohlik in the Czech Republic, Picnic in the Netherlands and Everli in Italy — says that its Norway operations are profitable. “In

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reMarkable, maker of a focus-friendly e-paper tablet, says it closed funding at a $1B+ valuation after selling 1M devices

TechCrunch

Hardware, as the saying goes, is hard; but there remains an opportunity for startups that focus on specific niches to build viable businesses. The company’s business model was originally banked around selling hardware, which today is used by “hundreds of thousands” of active users. 42 million. EBITDA *. $31

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Tillit, a fintech offering buy now, pay later for B2B purchases, is closing in on investment from Sequoia

TechCrunch

million round in the Oslo, Norway-based company, alongside seed investors LocalGlobe and Visionaries Club. Most recently, the firm led a $20 million round in Xentral , a German startup that develops enterprise resource planning software covering a variety of back-office functions for online small businesses.

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