ELDORADO? Cap sur Stockholm
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Stockholm : unicorn factory
In the past decade, this city of 800,000 inhabitants has churned out more billion-dollar tech companies than any in Europe.
• On a per-capita basis, Stockholm is the second most prolific tech hub globally, with 6.3 billion-dollar companies per million people compared to Silicon Valley with 6.9.
• The past decade’s local successes include internet calls service Skype (bought by Microsoft for $8.5bn in 2011), music streaming service Spotify (valued at $8bn), online gaming company King Digital, the company behind Candy Crush Saga (market cap of $4.9bn), Minecraft- maker Mojang (sold last year to Microsoft for $2.5bn) and web payment services Klarna (valued at $1.4bn).
In the past decade, this city of 800,000 inhabitants has churned out more billion-dollar tech companies than any in Europe.
• On a per-capita basis, Stockholm is the second most prolific tech hub globally, with 6.3 billion-dollar companies per million people compared to Silicon Valley with 6.9.
• The past decade’s local successes include internet calls service Skype (bought by Microsoft for $8.5bn in 2011), music streaming service Spotify (valued at $8bn), online gaming company King Digital, the company behind Candy Crush Saga (market cap of $4.9bn), Minecraft- maker Mojang (sold last year to Microsoft for $2.5bn) and web payment services Klarna (valued at $1.4bn).