In this episode we talk with Joe Schorge, Founder and Manager Partner at Isomer Capital about the relationships between investors and their LPS. Joe has served as an LP, GP and technology operations executive, so he knows first hand what these relations are all about. Tune in!By ArcticStartup

We met Reshma Sohoni, co-founder of Seedcamp at Arctic15 and asked her why investors are so hyped about the early-stage startups, and what the early-stage startups should do to maximise their chances for success. Tune in!By ArcticStartup

Our today’s guest is a 4th Generation venture capitalist. He has driven investments in companies like Robinhood, Laurel & Wolf, Tempo Automation, Samba TV among others. He worked in operations at Facebook and was listed in the Forbes' '30 Under 30' List for Venture Capital in 2016.Welcome Billy Draper from Draper Associates! We asked Billy what doe…

“When talking about great exits, people tend to think rare B2C unicorns. Not many talks about enterprise SW or more in general B2B, but the number of exits on that front is actually quite promising.”The full article here: arcticstartup.com/article/finnish-ecosystem-exits/By ArcticStartup

“Exits do happen in Finland, it’s just their monetary value is not high enough. We didn’t have mega exits except for Supercell, and that affects our position when it comes to statistics.”The full article here: http://arcticstartup.com/article/finnish-ecosystem-exits/By ArcticStartup

"We are on the right path – companies are able to raise bigger rounds. Wolt raised $11 million earlier this year, Enevo received $15 million, and Kiosked raised $30 million in Series B funding. Plus, the amount of external funding to Finnish companies has grown in the last few years. To me, those are clearly good signs of a growing ecosystem"The fu…

Vessla co-founder Carl and Caml co-founder Tommi practised the night before Polar Bear Pitching at Tuira beach in Oulu.By ArcticStartup

We tested SoundShade – the soothing nature and noise background sound system – at our office. Here's a sample of one sound combination that we do miss during the Scandinavian winter: Nordic midsummer by the lake.By ArcticStartup

Meet Gisges, A Helsinki-based Startup enabling one to send small and personalized surprises to your close ones. In this interview, the co-founder of Gisges Antti Kaihlanen and the product lead Sabrina Viitasaari tell about their concept – And how they're making physical experiences possible through digital platform.…

We met with Solu Founder Kristoffer Lawson to have an hands on preview on the world's smallest personal computer – which is also the world's first computer as a service. Solu is now live on Kickstarter – Listen how Lawson with his team are getting ready to change the world of personal computing.By ArcticStartup

At Stockholm Tech Fest, we asked eight companies to give us one minute pitches so we could introduce as many Swedish companies after the event as possible.By ArcticStartup

In this episode of Sidetrack, The co-founder of IRC-Galleria, Jari Jaanto, tells about the impact of Finland's first social media service.Music in this episode:T.H.E. – Soul InstrumentalOtso – SeekingBy ArcticStartup

In this episode of Sidetrack, The co-founder of Heimo, Jarno Alastalo, tells about his side project – that includes an interview with a cat.Music in this episode:T.H.E. – Soul InstrumentalOtso – SeekingSounds in this episode:El_Wilk – Turning Pages and Flipping through PagesCameron – Cat MeowBy ArcticStartup

This weeks Sidetrack is a special interview from Arctic15. We had a chance to get to know Ádám Somlai-Fischer, the co-founder of Prezi, who shared his thoughts about being an entrepreneur.Music in this episode:T.H.E. – Soul InstrumentalBy ArcticStartup

In this episode of Sidetrack, Elias Pietilä – the product lead of Wolt – tells about his several side projects ranging from games to perfect circles. One of his projects actually got the Apple design award few years back...Music in this episode:T.H.E. – Soul InstrumentalOtso – BBWLATYWB Otso – Slow Motion Pony Ride…

In this episode of Sidetrack, Eemeli Aro tells about his side project of bringing Worldcon to Helsinki in 2017. You'll find more information of the project at http://www.helsinkiin2017.org/Music in this episode:T.H.E. – Soul InstrumentalScatha – Don't Stop The MysticismSami Häppäri – a–MaaSounds in this episode:Leandros.Ntounis – Crowd in a bar…

In the first episode of Sidetrack, ArcticStartup CEO Dmitri Sarle tells about his side project in oil business.Music in this episode:T.H.E. – Soul InstrumentalOtso – BBWLATYWB Otso – Slow Motion Pony RideBy ArcticStartup

Atari founder Nolan Bushnell on happiness by ArcticStartupBy ArcticStartup

Before heading off for a summer break with our podcast, we wanted to talk to Vytas Paukštys of Eskimi about their business, which isn't all that usual for a Baltic or for that matter a Nordic startup. Eskimi is doing business in Nigeria and Ghana mostly, but has users from other parts of the African continent as well. And how exactly are they doing…

Getting close to 20 full shows we decided to interview Kaspars Dancis, the CEO and co-founder of Cobook. The company creates an app that goes by the same name and can now be found in the App Store for download. Cobook App is the best, most simple and beautiful address book application out there. As you can see, we at ArcticStartup are quite fond of…

This week we talked to one of the most well known serial entrepreneurs in Finland - Taneli Tikka. He's been part of many startups, but also built some of his own companies and also bankrupted a few. We talked to him about the ride along all the years and what he has learned, both from the success cases as well as bankruptcies. In addition to this w…

We've managed to get to 16 episodes already! This week on Unfair Advantage we talk to Mike Reiner, one of the people behind the Estonian Startup Wise Guys accelerator program. Startup Wise Guys is an early stage accelerator aimed at interesting companies who want to tap into the potential of Scandinavia as well as Russia from Estonia. The accelerat…

In our 15th episode we talk to Tine Thygesen of Everplaces, Copenhagen, Denmark based startup. We discuss location based services and how Tine got into entrepreneurship through her first startup in the e-commerce space in Australia. After selling that to an Australian company she came back to the Nordics to take on more entrepreneurial challenges f…

This show will crack you up! We interviewed Antti Ylimutka and Ville Simola of Startup Sauna today. We discussed the backgrounds of the incubator/accelerator as well as where it will go in the future. Startup Sauna is one of the most well known and most respected accelerators in Northern Europe that has helped companies raise more than $12 million …

In our thirteenth show we talk to Carl Waldekranz, the CEO and co-founder of Tictail. Tictail positions themselves as the easiest, prettiest and most social way to sell stuff online. In the show we talk to Carl about what led them to start Tictail and how they actually went about building the team. There are a lot of great small stories there, we s…

Tommi Holmgren of Cabforce is our guest this week. Cabforce is an online service for booking a cab and pre-paying it before the ride. This is an obvious advantage to business travelers as they can pay the ride with their credit cards and get all the receipts electronically. The service is out in 14 cities in Europe at the moment, but it will be goi…

We missed last week due to some scheduling challenges, but we're back this week a little earlier with our talk show. This week we talk to Petteri Koponen, the co-founder of Lifeline Ventures as well as the former co-founder of Jaiku and First Hop. He's got a colorful past with this companies and in living through them, built up an enormous amount o…

This week, well, this week was different on Unfair Advantage. Our guest on the show is Antti Vilpponen, the Co-Founder and CEO of ArcticStartup. We work in the same office, but haven't talked in detail how ArcticStartup got started and why it does what it does. Instead of having this discussion over lunch or beer, we decided to record it and make i…

This week we talk to the CEO and Co-founder of Flattr, Linus Olsson. Flattr is a social micro payment system that has recently received a €1.6 million investment that values the company at €10 million. We talked to Olsson about the investment as well as their philosophy behind Flattr. The company has also recently announced partnerships with 5by5 N…

In our eighth episode we dive into discuss the new rising star of Sweden - Wrapp. We've reported on the company in the past, especially in them raising two rounds of financing worth more than $10 million. The rounds were raised from Atomico Ventures as well as Greylock Partners, both highly acclaimed investors. We talk to Carl Fritjoffson, the COO …

In our seventh episode of Unfair Advantage we talk to Christoph Thur of Ovelin. Ovelin has created a game called Wildchords that has attracted a lot of interest both from consumers, but also from investors. Recently they closed a €1.1 million investment from True Ventures. We talked to Christoph to understand how Ovelin went about creating Wildchor…

Unfair Advantage has reached its sixth episode and on the show we talk to Daniel Kaplan of Mojang. We've covered Mojang many times in the past and they are the creators of Minecraft, the hugely popular game where you...err.. listen to the show to hear how it's pitched. Daniel joined the company back in 2010 already and he was the first employee. It…

In the fifth episode we talk to Estonian investor and serial entrepreneur Allan Martinson. Allan Martinson is the managing and founding partner of MTVP. MTVP is one of the more well known and successful investment companies operating in the Baltic region. In the show, we discuss numerous things about the Nordic and Baltic startup scene as well as t…

The fourth episode of Unfair Advantage takes us to Denmark as we chat with Klaus Nyengaard, the Group CEO of Just Eat. Just Eat is originally from Denmark, where it was set up more than 10 years ago. In the last five or six years, the company has seen a huge growth in internationalisation and now operates in 15 countries. Their currently run foreca…

In our third episode we talked to Nikolaj Nyholm, a partner at Sunstone Capital in Copenhagen, Denmark. We wanted to talk to him as Sunstone had recently led a large investment into Gidsy. In the show we also talk Sunstone capital's way of doing business and what areas they see currently hot. He also shares some insight on Soundcloud and Prezi. Oh,…

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