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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Everybody talks about the digitalisation, but what is it? We take a look at digitalisation, how it can be understood and the Nordic opportunity.
I am excited to now be a part of the Standout Capital team, and as the company’s most recent addition I wanted to share some thoughts on what I am hoping to contribute with.
We started Standout Capital with the mission to support growth-stage, outstanding companies run by great teams. Along the way we have got questions about our investment firm, strategy and what we are looking for. This blog is meant to provide the basic facts about Standout and our approach to investing.
If you haven’t already noticed, bots are on the rise and we take a look at what they are and what they mean. Bots are new platforms for developers, they are an interface for users, they represents a whole range of innovative products and they are also a new channel for brands and enterprises to interact with consumers. This is a roundup of the current state of bots.
Nordic tech ecosystem is booming, to keep track you need to follow a media universe of blogs, podcasts, conferences and twitter accounts. Most of these sources are at the grassroots level, covering startups and innovations, which is essential to understand the wider tech market and its evolution. For your convenience, Standout Capital has listed the top online news sources across the Nordics.
Private growth companies stay private longer, and it makes sense for stock exchanges like Nasdaq to help these fast-growers earlier, before they even start thinking about an IPO. In 2014 Nasdaq Private Market launched, now it’s coming to Europe and we were interested to learn more.
Swedish business daily Dagens Industri and their tech news channel Di Digital is launching an initiative to make the Nordic digital ecosystem more transparent. Standout Capital, since long an advocate for quantifying the new business landscape, is a partner toNordic Tech List and supplying company information from our database.