{"id":6498,"date":"2023-06-02T13:15:48","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T13:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klak.is\/?p=6498"},"modified":"2023-06-02T13:15:49","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T13:15:49","slug":"haraldur-hugoson-fra-eca-hreppti-1-saeti-in-nnpc-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klak.is\/en\/haraldur-hugoson-fra-eca-hreppti-1-saeti-i-nnpc-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Haraldur Hugoson from ECA won 1st place in NNPC 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Klak and Weird Pickle hosted the Silicon Vikings New Nordics Pitch Competition 2023, which took place in Gr\u00f3ska on the final day of Iceland Innovation Week. 8 outstanding startups competed for the best elevator pitch. Foreign and domestic startups, entrepreneurs and investors were there to watch and encourage the competitors. Haraldur Hugoson, co-founder of ECA, Esports Coaching Academy, didn't worry and took the first place. Valur \u00de\u00f3r Gunnarsson co-founder of Taktikal took second place and Stef\u00e1n Baxter founder of Quick Lookup took third place.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The startups in the New Nordics Pitch Competition Grand Final were chosen by an international jury from the United States. Silicon Vikings is a professional organization with a strong network that connects the Nordic and Baltic regions with Silicon Valley in California. The organization has been headquartered in Silicon Valley since 1997 with strong ties to all the Nordic and Baltic countries, which is a bridge between regions to strengthen their image and increase their attractiveness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The eight participating this year were ECA, Taktikal, Quick Lookup, Porcelain Fortress, Horse Day, Melta, Leviosa and Moombix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Klak og Weird Pickle st\u00f3\u00f0u fyrir Silicon Vikings New Nordics Pitch Competition 2023 sem f\u00f3r fram \u00ed Gr\u00f3sku \u00e1 lokadegi Iceland Innovation Week. 8 fram\u00farskarandi sprotafyrirt\u00e6ki kepptu um bestu lyftukynninguna. Voru \u00fear m\u00e6ttir erlendir og innlendir sprotar, frumkv\u00f6\u00f0lar og fj\u00e1rfestar til a\u00f0 fylgjast me\u00f0 og hvetja keppendur. Haraldur Hugoson me\u00f0stofnandi ECA, Esports Coaching Academy ger\u00f0i […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":6499,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_project":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[213,819],"tags":[49,130,160,303,822,110,821],"project":[],"birta":[],"class_list":["post-6498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-klak","category-new-nordic-pitch-competition","tag-groska","tag-klak","tag-klak-icelandic-startups-2","tag-nyskopun","tag-silicon-vikings-new-nordics-pitch-competition","tag-sprotafyrirtaeki","tag-weird-pickle"],"acf":{"tengd_verkefni":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klak.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klak.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klak.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klak.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klak.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klak.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klak.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klak.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klak.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klak.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6498"},{"taxonomy":"project","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klak.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project?post=6498"},{"taxonomy":"birta","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klak.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/birta?post=6498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}