Supercell recently announced impressive results for 2015. The company’s three games — Clash of Clans, Boom Beach, and Hay Day — generated $2.3B in revenue, and raked in $924M in total profits. These are outstanding results especially considering that Supercell employs only 180 people. Many are familiar where Supercell stands today, but how many remember […]
Emerging technologies are reshaping urban environments. As the global population continues to grow, more and more people are moving to cities every single day, and as our planet becomes more urban, our cities need to get smarter. To handle this large-scale urbanization, new ways to manage complexity, increase efficiency, reduce expenses, and improve quality of […]
Jyri Engeström works as Entrepreneur in Residence at True Ventures, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm focused on supporting early-stage founders. Engeström is best known as the Co-Founder and Chairman of Jaiku. Jaiku grew into the leading European mobile social network before being acquired by Google in 2007. At his keynote at Slush 2015, Jyri […]
“The opposite of poverty is not wealth, the opposite of poverty is human dignity.” In her Slush Impact keynote, Jacqueline Novogratz, the CEO and Founder of Acumen Fund, spoke avidly of the possibility of capitalism – exemplified by events like Slush, where capital finds promising entrepreneurs and technological advances. Yet as capitalism also increases inequality […]
Jenny Wolfram is the CEO and Founder of Brandbastion, a company that protects companies’ social media reputation 24/7 around the globe. Brandbastion is serving two purposes: protecting companies from social media crises and reputational harm as well as giving them better ad performance and better social media ROI. Today, Brandbastion has expanded its solutions beyond […]
Tom Hulme has previously been Design Director at IDEO Europe. IDEO is one of the world’s most reputed design and innovation consultancies known for its human-centered approach. At Slush, Tom shared the most important things he learned while working at IDEO. The importance of empathy. One of the biggest reasons for large companies to fail is […]
By far, Sunday proved to be the most interesting day of this year’s Mobile World Congress, as Samsung released information on the Galaxy S7 phone, coupled with a surprise appearance from none other than Facebook founder & CEO Mark Zuckerberg. As the Morpheus-like Zuckerberg marched around the room with the entire audience immersed in a […]
Great design plays a crucial role in a building a successful brand. But how do you design a successful brand that creates competitive advantage for your company? One of the keynote speakers on the Black Stage was Konrad Bergström, Co-Founder and President of Zound Industries. Zound Industries’ idea is to sell, design, develop, and manufacture […]
Leadfeeder sees major potential in utilizing web analytics in making other sales and marketing systems more intelligent. Last week, the Helsinki-based startup announced the closure of a €530k seed round led by Finnish investors Superhero Capital and Vendep. The funding will be directed towards Leadfeeder’s expansion into new markets, tripling its workforce, as well as […]
The Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nelson Mandela once said, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”. Therefore, the issues tackled in education are very important, but also complex and difficult. The Redefining School program, which covered the challenges of education, was featured at Slush 2015. Among the speakers […]
Caterina Fake is an active angel investor, board member and advisor. She is the co-founder of the websites Flickr and Hunch and has invested in companies such as Etsy, Daily Booth and Type Kit. Fake and Petteri Koponen, Partner at Lifeline Ventures, had a fireside chat on the second day of Slush about the characteristics […]
CareMonkey, an Australia-based startup, left Slush 2015 as the winner of the annual Slush 100 pitching competition. During the year 2016 CareMonkey will focus on expanding to markets outside Australia and fuels its growth primarily by cash flow and additional funding from the founders. CareMonkey provides a risk management system that automatically keeps medical and […]
“How are you able to grow without losing the touch and feel that made you a great company? How do you get the systems in place without losing the fantastic feeling of a small company? This is extremely challenging. But if you succeed, people will reward you.” – Jorma Ollila Jorma Ollila, the former chairman […]
As we all probably know, taking care of ourselves is extremely important. Sometimes, however, it’s good to have someone to remind us how to do it. At Slush, it was Jason Ball, the Investment Director at Qualcomm Ventures, who took up this topic and gave a speech about it. So what did Jason say? Let’s start […]
Slush 2013 gathered a spectacular amount and variety of talent, ambition, knowledge and excitement under one roof. You can now watch all the speeches, fireside talks, panels and pitches from the two biggest (both in size and in program!) stages on our Youtube Channel. To get you started, here are some selected examples of the […]
What makes a good entrepreneur? How to get the attention of investors? Check out some great tips by true experts Richard Frankel (Rocket Fuel), Francis Pedraza (Everest), Mark Rein (Epic Games) and Ari Tulla (BetterDoctor). “There is only one thing you need to be a good entrepreneur, which is that you have to be willing […]
Ovelin has already made a strong footprint at Slush during the past years. In 2011 they won the Slush 100 -pitching competition and in 2012 they came up with a nail-painting product launch campaign for 2012 that even the Prime Minister of Finland remembered one year after the event. This Wednesday Ovelin launched mobile version of their […]
Did you miss the first day of Slush? Were you there but want to relive it all over again? Check out these videos to feel the Wednesday vibes one more time!
Check out our Slush 360 videos from the first day of Slush!
There is a future for slow journalism. Long Play won the 250 000 euros award in the Uutisraivaaja media innovation challenge. The winner was announced at Slush on Wednesday evening. Long Play is a Finnish company, a service for slow journalism. The Long Play team includes of Finnish journalists Johanna Vehkoo, Reetta Nousiainen, Hanna Nikkanen, Anu Silfverberg, Riku […]
Wang Jian, CTO of Alibaba made his first visit to Slush today to talk to the packed Blue Stage about their public cloud offering called Aliyun. During his presentation Wang Jiang went through many successful examples that certainly got some startups in the audience drooling on the growth speed – and maybe acting as a […]