Northstack Editorial

Northstack Editorial

Box Island featured for Code.org "Hour of Code"

Box Island, the mobile learning game by Radiant Games, will be featured as a mobile tutorial for this years’ Hour of Code events. Radiant Games will publish a special edition of the game called Box Island: One Hour Coding for the event. Box Island is the only new mobile tutorial

CrankWheel, hassle-free in-call screensharing, is launching today

Today, CrankWheel launched after a closed beta since June this year. CrankWheel is an enterprise-friendly, 10-second screen sharing that makes it easy to add visual presentation in the middle of a phone call. The product is aimed at both sales organisations, where showing the product, rather than just telling, can

Startup Tourism – a new accelerator for the tourism industry announced

Earlier today, Klak Innovit and its partners – ISAVIA, Íslandsbanki, Blue Lagoon, Vodafone, Icelandic Tourism Cluster – announced the forming of Startup Tourism, a new accelerator program aimed at startups in the tourism industry. Klak Innovit has previous experience operating the accelerators Startup Reykjavik and Startup Energy Reykjavik. Oddur Sturluson is the

NSA Ventures: A profile of Iceland's biggest VC fund

NSA Ventures is a permanent, semi-official early stage venture fund in Iceland. It was founded in 1997 by a one-time endowment from the Icelandic government of 3 billion ISK ($~25MM) but operates without additional official funds. Its current size is around 5.5 billion ISK ($~44MM). This makes it Iceland’

Mesher is a new way to shop for clothes online

Mesher is a smartphone app that helps you buy clothes that fit. It uses the camera on the device to scan your body and estimate your measurements, and in turn recommend clothes for you based on fit and style preference using a Netflix-style recommendation algorithm. The Mesher team participated in

Strimillinn helps consumers “master their shopping basket”

Meet Strimillinn, a new service that aims to help you monitor your day-to-day shopping and help you make smarter decisions as a consumer. Strimillinn provides consumers with an app which they can use to scan receipts from grocery stores and other retail stores people visit on a day-to-day basis. The

Introducing the Icelandic Startup and Tech Community on Slack

We’re very happy to announce the opening of #nordurskautid – a Slack community around the startup and tech scene in Iceland. There currently are channels like #ux – for user experience design, #pitching – about pitching to investors and customers, #events – about events in the community, or #reading – for interesting articles and