Silicon Valhalla Methodology

Here is how we find, organize, and update the company profiles in this directory. We want it open enough for researchers to trust and quick enough for everyday use.

Dataset

Updated on a rolling basis

Geography

Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland

Output

Company profiles, taxonomy pages, and jobs data

Inclusion criteria

We add a company when it is clearly part of the Nordic tech scene and there is enough public information to build a real profile. That covers startups, scaleups, and the larger tech firms worth knowing about.

Source inputs

We draw on curated company records, company websites, and public market references. To that we add fields we track ourselves: location, industry, tags, team size, founding year, and jobs we scrape from public careers pages and review by hand.

Normalization rules

We map every company onto the same country, city and industry lists so the counts add up. We merge duplicates by name, tidy up spacing and aliases, and build each page slug from the cleaned name rather than the raw source string.

Update cadence

We update in batches, adding companies and sharpening profiles as we go. Every job links straight back to the employer's careers page, so you can check any role against the source.

Content policy

The summaries on country and industry pages are navigation aids, not analyst reports. They tell you where companies cluster and then get out of the way. The longer editorial pieces are the ones we actually research.