Epicenter Stockholm Blog

At Epicenter we believe that we reach more impact when we collaborate within and across industries, businesses and even competitors. With our clusters we gather companies and individuals around a common challenge or question that we innovate around together.  One example of this is our PropTech cluster REDI.City - a group of companies and individuals with passion that have launched an initia...

Stockholm, home to companies like Spotify, iZettle, and Minecraft. Oslo, home to EcoOnline, Ignite Procurement and Spacemaker. Helsinki, home to Wolt, Supercell, and Aiven. The Nordics is a unique place for innovation and producing global tech unicorns. South Korea and Singapore are now teaming up with Nordic Innovation House Epicenter to provide their most promising local startups with a scale...

Would you encourage your team to network, learn new things and be the best version of themselves? Our guess is YES. Although this is what most employers want to offer their employees, they are often located in traditional offices in traditional office buildings where, frankly, innovation (and in turn – growth) is a hard nut to crack. Being in the same office, interacting with the same people,...

The diplomatic relations between Sweden and Korea goes back more than 60 years and with the Korea Startup Center at Epicenter Stockholm the relationship has grown even further. The center was established in 2020 when the Korean government was looking for a place to educate some of their most promising talent into becoming their next big companies. The solution was to partner with Epicenter to ...

Founded by Queen Silvia and members of WHO , Mentor is a non-profit organization working to empower 13-17 year old children, focusing on socioeconomically challenged areas in Sweden. Internationally also operating in Denmark, Germany, Lebanon, USA and Latvia, they passionately believe that good role models can change society. In this article we meet Cecilia Bernard, Secretary General at Mentor...

When it comes to building a fast-growing company, you need the right people onboard. Having the right people with the right skills and mind-set becomes crucial and at the very core of creating business growth. In this interview with Epicenter member UrbanUrban, we learn how you can work with HR in a flexible way to support your growth UrbanUrban is an HR and recruitment partner to fast grow...

Meet Epicenter member, Future Ordering - a digital ordering platform working to disrupt the global restaurant industry. The Future Ordering platform is enabling restaurants to offer their customers an ordering experience directly through app, web, or self-service kiosks. The company is today powering some of the most profitable and innovative restaurant chains, are deployed across 10...

Leading with emotions has been the it word for some time, but nevertheless, its importance is not going to vanish, even if AI is taking huge leaps in every direction. On the contrary, emotions are directly needed in 2021, when leading has been shifted to virtual channels and face-to-face interaction has been scarce, says Epicenter’s Fireside chat guest, forerunner of emotional l...

Belonging to a community is now more important than ever. And why is that? Well, individuals and companies feel a need to connect. In the pandemic that we’re currently in, The Epicenter-community-vibe is still standing strong and you’ll feel it as soon as you walk in the doors. In October 2020, we asked 200 of our members to give their thoughts on the value of belonging to a community,...

In the midst of the disruptive year of 2020 – the United Nations is also marking its 75th anniversary. As part of marking this very special anniversary, a night of musical performances and progressive dialogue was broadcasted from our very own Epicenter Studio! Joining forces with UN75 on June 30th turned into one of the most magical and important nights, ever at Epicenter Stockholm. https...