Anoto offers digital writing solutions, transmitting handwriting to digital devices. It provides services in various sectors, such as healthcare, bank and financial services, government and education. Livescribe also specialises in smartpen manifacturing and is based in San Francisco.

According to Anoto’s quarterly report, the company’s sales have increased significantly, to 55 million SEK compared to 27 million SEK in the same period last year. The Swedish company is considered a world leader on the market, and with acquiring its competitor it can increase its market share even more. Moreover, the acquisition also enables the company to extend their product portfolio and enter the consumer market.

“Acquiring Livescribe is another important step in consolidating the Anoto ecosystem and realizing synergies in hardware and software development, supply chain and operations, and sales distribution,” said Stein Revelsby, CEO of Anoto in a statement. “We are already working on a new range of products to be launched in Livescribe’s sales channels in 2016.”

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– Anoto, a company developing digital pens and papper

– Boozt.com, an e-commerce company that build and operates web-shops for Nordic Fashion Brands.

– iRezQ, a company focusing on enabling your smartphone to automatically report accidents, using it’s build in accelerometer and GPS.

– ExpertMaker, a company developing artificial inteligence for search and recommendation tools.

The complete list, with 134 startups on it at the moment, can be found here. As always the entries are using CrunchBase, and wiki-type database where anybody can enter company details.

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