Nordic XR Startups has made their third investment of 2019. Applications are still open on an ongoing basis, as the biggest startup event of the year, Slush, draws nearer. Following Grib from Finland and MeetinVR from Denmark earlier this year, Nordic XR Startups has formed ties with their first Icelandic company, Flow. Flow […]

2019 has shown the light of day to numerous new VR headsets. What do they offer? And where is the tipping point for the true masses? AR has it easy. Almost everyone you know has a smartphone and therefore an AR enabled device. Everyone not only owns one, but it’s the one item […]

After two successful years and two batches of accelerated startups, Nordic XR Startups changed its model in favour of ongoing applications at the beginning of 2019. NXS is constantly looking for great Nordic companies to invest in, while advancing its mission to improve and grow the local ecosystem and its competitiveness. The first companies […]

Nordic XR Startups, the Helsinki-based international accelerator program that kickstarted in the spring of last year, has finished the application phase for its second batch. From the group of applicants, four companies developing VR and AR innovations were chosen for this year’s program. The Nordic program, that was previously known as Nordic VR […]

Japanese mobile game company gumi Inc. and Nordisk Film call upon Nordic VR and AR startups to apply for its second accelerator program. During its first batch NVS, Nordic VR Startups, aided six companies in boosting their business cycles and helped them to widen their business connections worldwide. Nordic VR Startups’ application period […]

UPDATE: Palmer Luckey is no longer a mentor with NVS, we wish him the best of luck with his new ventures Nordic VR Startups has been running less than a half year, and we’ve been working hard and we’ve made significant strides forward with all of our teams and our wonderful mentors. We’re […]

Established in Helsinki, Finland this spring, the international business incubator Nordic VR Startups has now finished its first application round. After receiving almost 70 candidate applications, six companies in total were chosen to the program – five Finnish firms and one Swedish company that are all working with virtual reality (VR) and augmented […]

Nordic top-level know-how in gaming and VR has not gone unnoticed on the world stage. gumi and Nordisk Film are presenting their new incubator program, Nordic VR Startups (NVS), this week in Helsinki, at tech events of Arctic 15 and X Reality Day.. At the end of March 2017, Tokyo Stock Exchange listed, […]