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THE NORDICS

News from home

What happened in Nordic hardtech, with credit and links to the original reporting.

THE WORLD

News from outside

The global shifts that matter for building physical technology here.

NEW RAISES

Who is raising

Curated open rounds from the community, seen by the investors on the map.

EVENTS

Where to be

The gatherings worth your calendar, across the Nordics.

The archive

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ISSUE

One sharp email, every two weeks.

What's in every issue

News from home

News from outside

Who is raising

Where to be

The archive

The Business of Hard Problems

Your Hardtech Guide to Almedalen

Football's Hidden Tech Stack

She's Building Europe's Deeptech Future

Why Norway’s Deeptech Scene Is Hard to Ignore

Built To Stay – 8 Companies That Didn’t Leave The Nordics

The race for the physical layer

The Valley Between Prototype and Production

From bonfires to bottlenecks

Join Us at Mashup — Physical AI, Capital and 20% Off

The New Industrial Stack

Several doors just opened

Donut Lab and the Proof Problem

Who holds the chain?

When infrastructure thinks like nature

The Nordic Hardtech Event Map – What to Attend in 2026

Why Defense Tech is Built Wrong

The deeptech funnel Europe keeps ignoring

Predictions for a decisive year

When to Ignore the Market (At First)

The Home Power Shift — how Greenely turns households into energy assets

The Hardtech Christmas List – What Nordic Founders Really Want

The Unscalable Edge – why hardtech wins by starting slow

When the Strait Shakes – What Asia’s Map Means for Nordic Hardtech

Ten Nordic Companies Turning Heat into Hardtech

Hardware of Resilience: what Europe builds when it’s scared

Why Robots Still Need Management

Welcome to the Solid Age

The Deep End – Nordic Hardtech Goes Blue

Quantum That Counts: The Nordic 10 You Need to Know

Why the best founders are “difficult”

Execution kills dreams. Just ask the wearables.

Robotics decoded — 10 Nordic companies reshaping industries

Why hardtech fails without story

The Quest for Timeless Tech (Plus A Hardtech Canon You Didn’t Ask For)

Four startups, five minutes

Sign here for 15 years of heat

Your first investor isn’t who you think

What If the Road Powered the Journey?

The Rise of The Solar Rebellion

A Unicorn Moment Worth Pausing

Coding in Color – Summer Edition with imagi’s Dora Palfi

The Patent Reboot

Mistakes hardware founders can't afford

IPercept and the CNC Whisperers

Why Growth Needs More Than Grit

Build, Share, Repeat

Flatfrog Patented – Owning the Road to Scale

Less is More – How Flic Pushed the Button on Scalable Hardware

Circular or Nothing – Why Agood Company Went Big

Beyond the Buzz – Making Deeptech Deliver

From logs to code — Industrial AI that pays off

Gothenburg Rising — podcast with Madelene Näslund

The Nordic Case for Space — podcast with Ted Elvhage

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