Tonight: Arctic Startup and Social Websites

May 8th 2008
Antti Vilpponen

Last minute reminder to all those who are in the Helsinki region tonight; get yourself down to Dubrovnik, Eerikinkatu 11, at 6pm tonight.

The event is sponsored by Mysites.com and Floobs. On the panel we have Asmo Halinen from Apaja, Jani Penttinen from XIHA Ltd and Kristoffer Lawson from Scred.

We have about 70 people marked showing up through Open Coffee and Facebook. There are people I know are coming as well who haven’t signed up so it’s going to be a full house for sure!

Looking forwards to meeting everyone there tonight!

Nextweb writing about Finnish startups

April 28th 2008
Antti Vilpponen

Nextweb, the conference organised in Amsterdam, will be blogging about Finnish startups this week. Ernst-Jan Pfauth met with a bunch of Finnish startups in Web 2.0 in San Francisco and has started the series with Xiha.

Nextweb has some 2400 subscribers through RSS so these companies are bound to get some traffic in the coming days.

VentureBeat finds XIHA and Juhani

April 21st 2008
Antti Vilpponen

Juhani PolkkoVentureBeat finds Juhani and his party list for San Francisco in a post titled Web 2.0 - The ultimate party.

If you haven’t checked out Juhani’s post yet on the parties do read it, lot’s of interesting events if you’re in San Francisco :)


Network with the Finnish startups in San Francisco

April 18th 2008
Antti Vilpponen

Mission, San FranciscoI caught sight of Jyri’s tweet on a gathering of Finnish entrepreneurs in Mission, San Francisco this coming Monday. An event co-organised by DIGIBUSINESS and Sombiz (Social Media Business Network).

Companies taking part are TripSay, Ironstar, ConnectedDay, Ideakone, Apprix, Waraamo, Ramblas, XIHA Ltd and Futurice.

Read more about the event here.

Finns in the Nextweb Conference

April 7th 2008
Antti Vilpponen

Due to lack of time, I was unable to write about this earlier, but the Next Web 2008 was organised during the end of last week. There were a lot of companies there from Finland as well. I’m counting at least XIHA Life, Scred and Floobs were present.

Timo Paloheimo from Startupbin.com was also there and has some coverage of the two days of activity as well as some photos.

Juhani Polkko from XIHA Life, sent us an e-mail that they released a new language-based search feature in Amsterdam during the conference.

Update: TripSay was present as well, so quite a good presentation from the Finnish startup scene, I must say.