ArcticIndex - Database of Nordic startups Launches into Beta
ArcticIndex is the name of the Nordic Crunchbase that the guys at Arctic Startup have been working on. The site has now launched into public beta.
Right now anyone can register to add companies and people. The AS team with their development partner Kisko Labs have a good roadmap for future services, they are launching slowly.
I think ArcticIndex is a really great service that I will definitely use. I’m looking forward to two features that will make the service a whole lot useful.
- sorting of companies (and people) by type of business and geographically (which would mean no more updating of the List of Finnish Startups for me, Yay!)
- embedding of profiles open for anybody. They are now only using them on Arctic Startup, but it would make the service even more attractive if other sites could do this as well.
Every Nordic startup should right now go and add their data to ArcticIndex. But that doesn’t mean that they should neglect CrunchBase or TradeVibes.
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Date: December 10, 2008 | Time: 10:16 pm
Congrats to Arctic Startup on the public beta launch of ArcticIndex! We here at TradeVibes are happy to see the growth of startups in the Nordic region. We hope that, together, our communities can help grow the entrepreneurship ecosystem in this region even further.
Thanks also for the TrV mention! Always appreciated.
Date: December 11, 2008 | Time: 10:47 pm
Thanks for the comments Timo. The first feature we have on the todo-list, but we wanted to release this as early as possible to the public.
Secondly, we’ve got a working demo of the embeddable widgets, but we’re still tweaking small details with it. We’ll be releasing that hopefully very early next year.
Nevertheless, really appreciate your comments here!
Date: December 12, 2008 | Time: 12:24 am
Thanks for the post Timo! As you mentioned, ArcticIndex is still an early Beta and we’re working very hard on it, so you can wait for much more to come =) We try to accommodate all the feature requests that make sense for the service to be more useful for all of us. And yes, TradeVibes and CrunchBase kick as too.
While I’m at it, I want to give you a big credit and thank you for pushing the entrepreneurship forward in Finland with us at ArcticStartup, even if under a different domain. You’re doing very valuable work that not everybody always remembers to appreciate as much as they should. This is that much more significant considering that you have new young person in your family, which naturally requires big part of your time. Congrats! Go Startupbin!
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