EIF, The Engine of The European VC Ecosystem and The Ugly Duck
EIF hosted their annual Ugly Duck conference in Luxembourg on the 25th of September and Standout Capital attended together with other VC and Growth Capital funds from all over Europe.
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We Went to the SaaStr 2019 Conference, Here’s What You Should Know!
Over 12,000 participants from 96 countries flocked to San Jose at the southern tip of Silicon Valley to take the pulse of the cloud, to network and make deals at the mega-conference SaaStr 2019, the biggest event in the world for the SaaS industry. Standout Capital was on location so please join us in this blog for a roundup of trends, stats and insights.
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Healthcare as a Consumer Application
As the healthcare industry grows and tech giants are moving into the market, what used to be smartwatches and fitness trackers are turning into health monitors and medical devices as a new health ecosystem emerges. This is a logical development as consumers take more control over their health, and new players offer new products and services.
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AWS Summit 2018 in Stockholm, Sweden’s New Biggest Tech Event
Amazon Web Services, or AWS in short, is at the center of the digitalisation of everything, and AWS Summit in Stockholm is Amazon’s biggest Nordic event with over 5,000 visitors. The reason, of course, is that 2018 is the year AWS, the world’s largest cloud, is launching three new data centers in the Stockholm region, to serve all of the Nordics.
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The Quiet Revolution – How the Giant Clouds are Taking over the Sky
The global cloud market is expected to double in size in the coming years to some $400 billion. This quiet revolution is driven by the transformation of IT to services, the need to handle IT security and also by flexibility and innovation. In Sweden, one of the clouds services, Amazon Web Services (AWS), is expected to launch in 2018 with three new data centers.
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Nothing Normal Ever Changed a Damn Thing – Hey Weirdos, Step In
We entered SLUSH 2017 together with 20,000 other excited tech heads – with the aim to drive change and to join the movement in supporting the next generation of groundbreaking founders. The line-up was impressive to say the least – over 2,600 startups and 1,500 VCs from over 130 countries as well as CEOs and Founders of leading global tech companies were brought together in Helsinki.
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Nordic Tech Hot Spot: Trondheim
We went to Trondheim to explore one of the Nordic’s top tech hubs, built around the large university, with a dynamic ecosystem of innovation, research and startups. We also discovered how the salmon industry is creating an exciting industry around Aqua Tech, and how you can finance a VC fund from selling beer.
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Will the Robots Eat our Breakfast? Exploring the Future of Work
Our worry about technology taking our jobs is age-old. Now, with the exponential development in Artificial Intelligence, computer power, new software and robotics, the discussion is hot once again. In this blog, we take a look at the future of work and automation, and think there is plenty to discuss.
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Fasten Your Headsets – Entering the Nordic Virtual Reality
Exploring what’s going on in the Nordic Virtual Reality (VR) space, we found that the unlikely hub of Nordic VR is an old office building that used to belong to accounting firm KPMG in the center of Stockholm. But let’s start at the beginning.
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Looking Forward to an Exciting Journey Ahead, Introducing Filip Lidman
Being the latest addition to the Standout Capital team I want to share a short blog post about me and what skills I hope to bring to the firm as well as to our portfolio companies.
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Is there Intelligence in the Nordics? – The Current State of Artificial Intelligence (Part 2)
We wanted to understand what’s happening in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning and set out on a journey. In a two parts blog we take a look at what AI is, it’s effects, and then explore the state of AI in the Nordics. This is Part 2, about the Nordics.
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The Data-rich Are Getting Richer – The Current State of Artificial Intelligence (Part 1)
You probably haven’t missed that there’s much discussion about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning these days. In a two parts blog we take a look at what AI is, and it’s effects, then explore the state of AI in the Nordics.
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