Capital, Culture, and Care: Indigenous Entrepreneurship in Canada’s Arctic

Who Builds the Future in the North? Why Young Businesses Matter More Than Ever

Sit down at a roundtable with mayors and senior advisors from Arctic Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland to unpack why youth-led SMEs are crucial for the region’s future, what’s blocking them today, and how we can leverage local systems and best practices to make it easier to start and stay in business.

Capital, Culture, and Care: Indigenous Entrepreneurship in Canada’s Arctic

In this episode, we look at Arctic Canada to explore what it means to build businesses in the North, for the North. The co-founders of Entreprenorth share how they’re redesigning entrepreneurial support to better suit the reality of Indigenous northern founders, and the CEO of Ever Good Medicine shares how he is blending knowledge systems to guide his business.

Blueprints & Breakthroughs: Where to go from here

In the final episode of The Polynya effect, senior advisor Magne Amundsen and Raw Arctic CEO and Co-Founder Casper Møller talk about how to strengthen the competitive advantage of sustainable business models in the Arctic through community backed growth, smart marketing, and organized efforts by founders across sectors and borders.

Myth-Busting the Arctic Startup

Do you really need a big city to build a successful? This episode traces how young entrepreneurship in Northern Norway is evolving. We look at how support actors like Norrinova are tailoring their mentorship to young founders and how the Sámi way of doing business might hold the key to more circular, context-aware ventures across the Arctic.