Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship plays an important role in the Nordic economies in terms of driving innovation and creating jobs. Nordea Startup & Growth specialises in serving high-growth companies and companies in their early stages looking for fast growth.

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Sustainability

New life for 20,000 pieces of returned furniture

Secundo aims to double its turnover two years after its start-up. The money is earned on furniture that was previously thrown away.

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Vuoden erityinen yrittäjä 2024 -kilpailun voittaja Riesa Consultative Oy

Diversity & inclusion

Awarding life-impacting ideas

We’ve now found the winners of our special innovation contest for entrepreneurs that make a real difference in people's lives with the their products or services. Congratulations to Anatomic Studios, Pull & GO and Riesa Consultative!

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Confused young male computer programmer scratching head while sitting with laptop at creative office

Entrepreneurship

Angels, dragons, unicorns? A brief guide to start-up terminology

This brief guide to start-up lingo contains the most commonly used start-up terminology, which is often rather cryptical and not very intuitive.

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Erika Poussa in her bakery shop

Entrepreneurship

“It doesn’t matter how old you are”

At 27, Finnish Erika Poussa has already a long career as bakery owner, recipe developer, and producer of baked good for the retail market. Meet the entrepreneur behind Bakerika.

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Amputee athlete tying his shoe

Diversity & inclusion

Promoting innovation for life impact

In Sweden we have for several years run a special innovation contest to put spotlight on entrepreneurs that make a real difference in people's lives. The concept has since expanded to Denmark and Finland and application is now open for 2024.

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Lasse W. Madsen. stifter af Levitate

Entrepreneurship

Everybody should have equal access to an active life

Lasse W. Madsen, who was last year's winner of our Danish Handipreneur prize, insists that all amputees should be able to afford a prosthetic leg. That has given both himself and other leg amputees all over the world their future back.

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Nordea at Slush 2022

Entrepreneurship

Signs of positive trends in somewhat gloomy startup market

A rather gloomy funding year for startup and growth companies is coming to an end. Have we hit rock bottom and where should we look for bright spots? Our Startup & Growth team share their latest insights.

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Feltagenter Farmforce

Entrepreneurship

Giving back power to the first link in the chain

With the help of Nordea, Farmforce contributes to limiting deforestation and child labour in the agricultural sector in Africa, Latin-America and Asia.

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Winner of Superfinns

Entrepreneurship

Finnish startup gets a boost from mentoring programme and is now looking for the right partner for its next steps

Oulu-based QuietOn is one of several Finnish health tech startups looking to grow internationally. Along its journey, the company has sought support from the various programmes Nordea offers to growth companies.

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The BraveCamp Entrepreneurship Academy stage

Entrepreneurship

Nordea partners with University of Warsaw Incubator to support entrepreneurs

Nordea is now a proud and active partner with BraveCamp – an event organised by the University of Warsaw Incubator to support young people who want to enter the business world.

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Ideathon at the Training and Conference Centre of the University of Łódź

Entrepreneurship

Young minds and creative solutions: Nordea partners with University of Łódź for Ideathon

The external environment is constantly changing and consequently we need events that allow current as well as future employees to provide input and initiate changes. At Nordea we’re aware of the valuable input that students can bring to the discussion. That’s why we’re excited to be partnering with Ideathon.

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Nordea at Slush 2022

Events

Meet us at Slush 2023

The countdown to Slush has begun, and we’re ready with several events for both investors and startups. We will be there to meet and connect founders and investors, listen to ideas and talk progress. This is where you will find us during the event.

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