Standout News #6 - Nordic Tech, Deals and Trends
Standout News #6 - The Newsletter from Standout Capital. Follow Nordic tech, trends and deals.
Standout News #6 - The Newsletter from Standout Capital. Follow Nordic tech, trends and deals.
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.
Standout News #5 - The Newsletter from Standout Capital. Follow Nordic tech, trends and deals.
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.
Standout News #4 - The Newsletter from Standout Capital. Follow Nordic tech, trends and deals.
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.
Standout News #3 - The Newsletter from Standout Capital. Follow Nordic tech, trends and deals.
We invest in tech companies, but even more so in the digital transformation of business and society. We look broadly at companies and industry sectors undergoing digital change. There are three themes that we think are especially interesting long term; private transportation, consumer finance and education. Let us tell you why.
Standout News #2 - The Newsletter from Standout Capital. Follow Nordic tech, trends and deals.
Each year consulting group Deloitte highlights the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Sweden, Finland and Norway. The award, that ranks companies based on their revenue growth, is now over 10 years old in the Nordics and a top recognition of entrepreneurship.