It was no picnic to get everyone trough the security gates at the far end of Pater Noster Sqare, but it was worth the wait. Once in, participants to the more than sold out Nordic Cleantech Showcase were met by the overwhelming feeling of actually being […]

We at Nordic Cleantech Open are very proud to announce the top 25 finalists of this years competition.

The top 25 have a few traits in common:
– They are all targeting big international markets,
– They where founded relatively recently (a majority are less than two years old), and
– They have the potential to make real positive change for the environment.

The top […]

With the squeezed time limit for this years competition this was even better than we hoped for.

We will do a more in depth analysis of the contestants for the Top 25 Publication but a few things can be revealed already

With 31 countries competing, there was plenty of competition for the Nordic teams that had been selected to represent their countries in the Global Ideas competition in Silicon Valley. The event was very well visited this year with close to 1200 participants including investors, experts and cleantech companies.

The winner was selected, trough public voting announcing the proud winners of 30 […]

Nordic Cleantech Open, the newly launched Nordic competition for Cleantech start-ups, is also appointing the country finalists from the five Nordic countries to the Global Ideas competition final that takes place in San Jose, California on the 17th of November. Our Selection process is now finished and we are very happy to have found five outstanding country winners among many […]

A report highlighting the Finnish cleantech start-up scene including analysis by key actors and company descriptions was released at the Cleantech Venture Day. Read it here!