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Read up about the Mighty 36 and the nominees!

We have collected all the Mighty 36 profiles for the SIME Awards at http://sime.nu/tag/nominee-of-the-day

This has all the info about the company (bio), country, web, snapshot, jury motivation to pick them and in some cases details about the founder, online footprints etc. These companies represent Scandinavian entrepreneurship truly the way it should be represented, carrying the flags high.

Our heartfelt congratulations to them for coming this far! And good luck with the awards on 12th at Cafe Opera beginning 1900. And as in any sport, may the best company win!

Good luck from the SIME Crew.

Meet the nominee of the day (31), LoadImpact, Sweden

Company Bio

Load Impact  provides the world’s first true online load test service. Instead of paying tens of thousands of dollars to consultants for a singel load test, users can now go to www.loadimpact.com, enter a URL and for either free or a few dollars get a complete load test performed. The company excels in technology and vision in a way that will make it a true Swedish internet star.

Country

Sweden

Website

http://loadimpact.com/

SIME Profile

http://sime.nu/09/awards/rising-stars-of-the-north/load-impact/

Snapshot

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Jury Motivation

Finally it’s here. A service that infact is doing load testing in a smart reliable way without you having to put resources into a massive tech project.

Meet the SIME Jury

Online Coverage by Arctic Startup, Killer Startups

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Hail the Mighty 36 - Congrats to the stars!

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

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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.

SIME Awards: Mighty 36, the final round of 13 nominated companies to be released tomorrow

Mighty 36 has been an unparalleled success. From “thank you emails” to “I am holding my breath to get selected” (see below screen shot) , it has kept people anxious, all fueled for the greater good of finding interesting ideas and entrepreneurs that are Scandinavian.

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SIME Awards - Mighty 36 Nominee: Ball-it (Finland) in the news

Crunchgear, the gadget blog belonging to the Tech Crunch Network profiled Ball-it and found their technology “ridiculously cool”.

Read the article here

And if Ball-it does get into the top 3 from the chosen Mighty 36 pool, you can catch them at SIME probably doing a quick demo of their ball, and giving us a sneak preview on how games should be played couple of years down the line.

View past Ball-it coverage here
View the rest of the Mighty 36 here

ZPS Software files for bankruptcy

It has come to our attention (through ‘vonknut’ in the comments section of the Zero Point Software Rising Star Page which has been removed) that Zero Point Software (ZPS), a Danish gaming development company that was nominated for the SIME Awards, Mighty 36 have filed for bankruptcy. Clearly, a sad moment for all those folks involved.

Read their statement here

From all the sources we checked during the month of June (when we began the Awards shortlisting process), there was no sign of any brewing trouble, but of course it was through the online lens and no direct interaction with the company or the people associated with it. But it turns out that the company did file for bankruptcy during early July.

Our apologies for overlooking this till now, but as advised by the chairman of the SIME Awards Jury, Pontus Schultz, we have removed ZPS from the Mighty 36, and will instead nominate another company in the final round to be released during October 14th. That is, instead of releasing 12 companies (as scheduled) in Round 3 of Mighty 36, we would release 13, one more from the big list of nominees that can be found at the Mighty 36 site here to make the cut into the Mighty 36. Thanks ‘vonknut’ for pointing this to us.

View info on Mighty 36 here

The Mighty 36 - Second Round of Nominees to be released tomorrow

The Mighty 36 are really going to go on a SIME magic ride. And we have some exciting cool things lined up for them. Tomorrow is going to be a path changing day for 12 more of the Mighty 36 as we announce the second round of nominees.

View the first 12 of the Mighty 36 here

Read about the SIME Awards Process here

It’s going to be again a mix of companies from all the Scandinavian countries, true to the spirit of the name SIME. Out of the Mighty 36, 3 are chosen to present during the SIME Awards Dinner and Gala in front of an audience that would consist of top managers, entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, marketing heads - everyone who is going to look at the idea and think about doing something strategic with it, in short, an audience that you would want to terribly impress with your best suit, best smile, and most importantly your world changing idea.

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So till the launch tomorrow, we ask the nominated companies (view the list here) to hold their breath, and if you do make it, take a little bit of cool air, and give yourself a pat on your back, for the excitement has just begun.

SIME Awards, the doors open to the Mighty 36: Meet the first 12.

Yes, its finally official. After months of screening, indexing, and going through some of the best companies from the Scandinavian soil, we have opened the doors to the SIME Awards officially to present them to you.

View the SIME Awards Process Info here

SIME Awards this year focuses on 2 categories (as explained in the prev. post)
“SIME Rising Stars from the North” and “SIME Grand Prize”, the former committed to finding the next Skype from Scandinavia, the later awarding the “most innovative big company”.

We at SIME started working behind the scenes through the summer, stealthily attending various entrepreneurial events, going to places where the young minds congregated, going for the geek girl meet up’s, going for those likemind and social media lunches, we took all the effort to make sure we covered every corner of the entrepreneurial news sources, and voila, we came up with a grand list of companies that we thought were befitting to be considered for our prize.

View the full list of nominated companies and the chosen 12 of the Mighty 36 here

Then we hand picked some top digital minds within Scandinavia, the one’s that in their sleep dream of startup’s and new media, and the one’s that help big companies make such dreams come true, the geeks, the big intrapreneurs, and in all true spirit of SIME, with a smile on their face, they congregated like in the Vatican secret conclave, went through the long lists, and came up with their jury words of wisdom.

View the list of jury here


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