Finally, all the 36 super stars from the SIME Rising Stars of the North are released, and the list looks formidable to say the least. Should we pity the jury members who have the task of digging deeper into the business models, growth options, innovation height, sustainability amongst other KPI’s to rank them in an order from 1 - 36? I think we should, they have a Himalayan task ahead of them.

View the Round 3 Nominees here

Read about the SIME Awards Process here

What amazes me is the diversity of the whole list, from music / video streaming to video ad servers, from search 2.0 (or 3.0 / 3.0 - whatever) to AI, from surface charging to web security, they just all seem to come in all forms and shapes, with innovation being the common aspect they all share.

View the Mighty 36 here

Mighty 36 has garnered a lot more traction than we thought, keeping people and companies anxious (Read the LinkedIn comment in this post), to get every ounce of the details to know if they have made the cut or not. And if they did, boy, the joy and thank you emails seem to be unparalleled, we call it the SIME Magic.

The nominees in Round 3 are :

Sweden:

- Spezify

- Oculusai

- Livebookings

- LoadImpact

- Burt

- Mr. Green

- Cloudo

Finland:

- Powerkiss

- WebOfTrust (WOT)

- WreckaMovie

Denmark:

- YouCalc

- Unity Technologies

- Endomondo

We feature every one of the nominees in a daily section called “Meet the Nominee of the Day”. You can meet the so far nominated companies through this section here. (tag = nominee of the day)

So here is a salute to all those who made it to the Mighty 36. The rest, you are all super stars of Scandinavia as well. We think its great you made it this far, and we wish you all the very best in your journey. SIME is the dark sky, you are all the stars.