Nordic Startup News

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.

Jun 14, 2024 | nordicstartupnews.com | Peter Green

Another warm beginning of the warm Finnish summer – and another warm welcome to the old Cable Factory for the annual Arctic15 startup-investor conference. This story is the annual “vibes collection” from the Arctic15 floor, backstage, DealRoom meetings, official afterparties, unofficial gatherings and most importantly about HI, maybe with some added AI. (Got carried away with the HI, so wrote a separate story of Human Intelligence and Hunome.

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.

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.

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.