Details

Last Funding Type

Seed

Industries

Communities,Consulting,Digital Media,Internet,News,Social Entrepreneurship,Social Media

Founded date

Jan 1, 2007

Number Of Employee

11 - 50

Operating Status

Active

ArcticStartup is helping to build communities with uncapped opportunities through media, events, PR and consulting since 2007.

Launched in 2007 by Antti Vilpponen and Miikka Kukkosuo as founding writers and getting out two-three articles a week, ArcticStartup quickly started gaining traction. In 2008 Ville Vesterinen and Karri Saarinen joined the founding team and ArcticStartup launched its own that were at first held in a small bar of Dubrovnik in Helsinki.

Both the media and events started going international in 2009, expanding to the neighbouring Nordics & Baltics. This growth continued until 2012, when the company nearly shut-down as the founders wanted to move-on to other projects. At that point Dmitri Sarle and Greg Anderson took over the company and re-founded ArcticStartup with Jan Ameri joining very shortly.