In September 2020, we discussed the Epic Games vs. Apple (and Google) case in our blog post. To cut a long story short, Epic Games introduced a new payment system for its best-selling mobile game, Fortnite, offering an alternative in-app purchase method. The new payment system bypasses the 30 %...
Despite the global pandemic, records are being broken in the Finnish startup community Last year, Finnish startups attracted a record-breaking amount of funding. The growth funding raised by domestic startup companies almost doubled compared to the previous years. The total amount invested in Finnish startups in 2020 was EUR 951...
The materials from Lexia Growth Academy webinar: Employee Incentives, held on Wednesday 31 March, are now available. If you attended our event but forgot to take notes, you don’t need to worry! You can now download the presentations or watch the recording down below. Growth Academy: Employee Incentives - implementation...
GameRefinery, a Finnish leading gaming analytics company, was acquired by a mobile performance advertising platform Vungle at the beginning of March. GameRefinery provides game developers and publishers with tools to commercialize their games and to understand the elements of a successful mobile game. The company’s constantly growing service database already covers...
Lexia Attorneys merges with Klingendahl Attorneys. The merger will bring about a modern and international law practice that focuses on achieving clients’ business goals with rock-hard professionalism and a relaxed service attitude, catering to companies in the Tampere region. The merger also strengthens Lexia's presence in the Tampere startup scene....
Artificial Intelligence is considered to be the 5th Industrial Revolution and AI is changing permanently both how people and companies operate and interact. Computer vision and speech recognition are areas within AI that require, in addition to the algorithms, a large amount of training data such as images and recorded speech....
Our next Growth Academy webinar will be held on 31 March 2021 at 9:00-10:00. For startups it can be tough to recruit top talents without breaking the bank. In this one-hour webinar we will raise key points about employee incentives’ implementation and taxation. Register now!
Kalevala Koru, a traditional Finnish company creating jewelry has gotten into a dispute regarding the use of Finnish national epic Kalevala’s name. Helsinki based/Finnish cultural tourism project named “Kalevala kartalle” wishes to use the name Kalevala but Kalevala Koru claims the word ‘Kalevala’ should not be used in the project’s logo....
The materials from Growth Academy: Don't Mess With Personal Data, held on Thursday 25 February, are now available. If you attended our event but forgot to take notes, you don’t need to worry! You can now download the presentations or watch the recording down below. Don't Mess With Personal Data...
There are many specific questions in the field of labor law that startup companies should take into account gladly already when planning the actions of the company. In the beginning, the financial resources of the company can be limited, and the need for permanent employees can vary from time to...
