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2 weeks ago | 
nordicstartupnews.com | Peter Green |Peter Gréen
The Arctic15 startup conference, a Helsinki annual startups meet investors “chocolate shop” since 2011, has always been about connecting the right people to make things happen. But in June 2025, they tuned it up with the Deal Tank, a brand-new program that’s part Shark Tank, part startup matchmaking, and all action. Held at the iconic Cable Factory on June 4–5, 2025, this wasn’t just another pitch contest—it was a high-energy show where real deals got sparked.
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Feb 21, 2025 | 
thefishsite.com | Peter Green |Peter Gréen
Seaweed farming has long been referenced as a nature-based climate solution, but quantifying its carbon benefits has remained a challenge. A recent milestone - establishing a baseline for measuring carbon sedimentation underneath seaweed farms - marks an important step toward understanding its role in ocean-based carbon removal and mitigation.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
thefishsite.com | Peter Green
BackgroundSome concerns have been raised regarding China’s attitude to blue carbon credits. Critics point to examples such as a case in March 2024 when a court in Xiangshan, Zhejiang province, convicted two individuals for illegal fishing. Part of their penalty - $2,600 - was paid using "blue carbon credits" generated by a seaweed farming operation.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
hampshirechronicle.co.uk | Peter Green
Hursley Girls Team at Lord's (Image: Phil Green) Hursley Park were crowned under 13 National Champions at Lord’s on Saturday following a magnificent performance to beat Whitmore Lightning. On a beautifully sunny day at the Home of Cricket, skipper Sophie Butcher lost the toss and HP were invited to bat. The captain went in first with Viola Elvy and they started steadily with just six singles coming from the first two overs.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
nordicstartupnews.com | Peter Green
So, at Arctic15 we met many AI companies, and then we met Hunome, more into Human Intelligence, HI, and especially for Collective Sensemaking. With that, and a bit wider purpose statement of “helping humanity make sense of itself”, I had a pleasure to talk to Dominique & Mika from a Finnish/global startup company www.hunome.com. We mainly talked about humans, humanity, and the future.
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
thefishsite.com | Peter Green
Japan recently decided to factor the carbon sequestration of wild seaweed and seagrasses into its national emissions calculations, which could set a precedent that could invigorate the macroalgal blue carbon credit trade – both in Japan and beyond. Through leveraging satellite imagery to estimate total near-shore blue carbon ecosystems, the government calculated annual blue carbon absorption at 360,000 tonnes in 2022, equivalent to the emissions of about 140,000 households.
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Dec 10, 2023 | 
nordicstartupnews.com | Peter Green
Slush mainstage acted as a platform for company launches and product announcements, and the Media Area right behind the stage had instant Q&A session with the launchers and announcers. What a great concept, hoping this would cover even more of the speakers. One of the launches was Starstuff, that came out of the stealth mode with bells, whistles, Hanna and Mikael (aka deata) with an important mission “We are all one, and as one, no one should ever feel lonely again.
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Dec 1, 2023 | 
nordicstartupnews.com | Peter Green
Silo.ai, the Finnish AI Lab, which is Europe’s largest private AI Lab, made some remarkable launches today at Slush 2023In short, this is concerning a new platform training LLM’s, PORO1 and 2, with deployment for European languages, with keeping the data also in Europe. But NSN had a chance to sit down with Founder & CEO Peter Sarlin quickly, to dive a bit deeper in what and why and where SiloGen is going.
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Nov 30, 2023 | 
nordicstartupnews.com | Peter Green
Participated into Slush Media Day 2023, and Tech Trend Predictions 2024 panel to kick off the Slush 2023 official program, and one of the speakers Heikki Aura said something we like: “Hype is good, it’s like a great party”Blockchain Web3 Crypto were Heikki’s pick for the 2024 trend, with a lot of exciting things being built around. Games and gaming have always been big in the Nordics, and Heikki is really expecting the first real Web3 game (TBD;) to be out in next year, based on tokens.
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Nov 27, 2023 | 
nordicstartupnews.com | Peter Green
Slush is on the ground (even if it’s still snow, and frozen right now). Remembering back to the Slush earlydays, there was this saying: “It’s cold and dark outside, and the coolest developers are inside”. Back then the inside meant Kaapelitehdas aka Cable Factory, and a selected venue for after party. These days Slush is on for a week, and Slush week events and venues are multiple, spread all over Helsinki.
