Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 30, 2010

James Moody of Australia’s national research organization was talking about an idea of a humanitarian license for patents that has been floated by the YGL community. Since I’ve been working on IP policy and licensing on Bookshare, I was quite interested and had ideas of how to work with companies to apply their IP to social needs.

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South Africa Bangladesh License Africa 165

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Northmill Bank , the Sweden-based challenger that has around 200,000 customers across three European countries, has raised around $30 million in new funding. Next stop, Norway. Leading the round is M2 Asset Management, the Swedish investment company controlled by Rutger Arnhult, and asset management firm Coeli. Making sense of Klarna.

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Sweden Digital Norway Raise 93

TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

Flexible licensing with both Standard Commercial and Extended Licenses. Yay Images was born in 2008 in Oslo, Norway to create an affordable stock media agency with high-quality content. Full details on the Yay Images’ Partner Perk: Unlimited downloads across a collection of over 12 million images, 1.5 Dedicated account manager.

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Images Accessibility Norway License 88

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Lunar , the Nordic challenger bank that started out life as a personal finance manager app (PFM) but acquired a full banking license in 2019, has raised €40 million in Series C funding from existing investors. Overall, the bank has 5,000 business users and 200,000 private users across Denmark, Sweden and Norway.

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Challenge Denmark Finland Norway 76

TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

Challenger banks have become, collectively, a force to be reckoned with in the world of financial services for consumers, and today one of the big players out of the Nordics — Lunar — is announcing growth funding along with two new services to continue filling out its ambition of providing a one-stop super app for its users.

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Platform Raise Finland Denmark 95

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Backed by the likes of Sequoia, Silverlake, and Atomico, a new $650 million funding round in September gave the company a whopping $10.65 Siemiatkowski also shares what’s next for the company as it ventures further into the world of retail banking after gaining a bank license in 2017.

Sweden 143

Sweden San Francisco Tech Companies 143

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Backed by the likes of Sequoia, Silverlake, and Atomico, a new $650 million funding round in September gave the company a whopping $10.65 Siemiatkowski also shares what’s next for the company as it ventures further into the world of retail banking after gaining a bank license in 2017.

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Sweden San Francisco Tech Companies 82