Bantaba is a digital matchmaking platform connecting African startups with professionals and investors in the African community living abroad (the “diaspora”). Despite an entrepreneurship rate of 22%, more than 70% of startups in Africa lack access to talent and capital. This is the problem we are solving. Our platform matches African Startups with diaspora mentors, consultants and investors. Bantaba is part of SSE Business lab and we were finalists in the Shift Capital competition. Read more about us on Breakit.se.

Alvar Pet is a Helsinki-based startup on a mission to minimise the carbon pawprint. Dog ownership is rapidly growing – this year, there are more puppies born in Finland than babies. Dogs have become our family members, and we are ready to invest in them: the money spent in pets has more than doubled within the last decade. We worry about where the pet industry is heading. Dogs are pampered with more and more stuff, and fed with meatier food than necessary. Opulence doesn’t make a dog any happier, and the overconsumption happens at the expense of the environment. Pups bring so much joy to our everyday. That’s why owning a dog should not be a choice against the climate – and that’s why we founded Alvar. We founded Alvar to joint together the growing popularity of pets and the growing popularity of eco-aware lifestyles. We do it by offering (easy for customers, need-based for dogs, impactful for environment) sustainable solutions to conscious pup owners.

AutoPi is the first extendable Internet-of-Things (IoT) platform for your car, built on the Raspberry Pi. The AutoPi system consists of a hardware dongle with many extension possibilities and an IoT software platform from which you can monitor and configure your car. You can set up advanced triggers, add widgets to your customizable dashboard, install new features and much more.

At DTACT we work on the front line of data automation and security development, exploring undiscovered grounds to fulfil our social (and corporate) responsibility. DTACT Raven is our flagship product, which is an end-to-end data pipeline and data streaming platform - built with a modular brick framework to work seamlessly with open source, proprietary and third-party software. The company was founded in the Netherlands in 2017, and a big portion of our team is Dutch, along with colleagues from Denmark, Germany, Singapore and Australia. Our tech stack consists mostly of React, Golang, Rust and Python. All resulting in a Cloud Native platform.

Esgaia is a fast-growing tech start-up based in Stockholm and Gothenburg. We’ve developed a leading platform (SaaS) that helps investors manage data related to engagement with portfolio companies on environmental, social, and governance issues. Our technology streamlines processes and workflows, enabling investors to engage with companies more efficiently. Ultimately, we aim to empower investors to drive better outcomes for their clients and society at large.

Startup Migrants is a company based in Berlin and Oslo. We help cities to boost job creation. We are passionate about collecting and analyzing data that can help cities to solve their challenges. Our data is collected from 15 countries, 45 cities and over 200 in depth interviews with policy makers, entrepreneurs, NGOs and migrant founders. We also have created Startup Preschool, a 3-day crash course in entrepreneurship with and for young multicultural talents. We have so far done 84 Preschools and planning to many more in Norway, Germany, Austria and the UK and other countries. Our more than 1000 participants are now part of an acive alumni group and go on applying to accelerators and starting companies.

Marksman Training Systems is developing an advanced shooting simulator to help sport shooters or hunters to enhance their skills in a highly accurate way. VISION IT’S OUR VISION to make shooters everywhere more safe, confident and accomplished in the sports of hunting and shooting and ultimately to get better results and more enjoyment from his and her shooting activities. MISSION. IT’S OUR MISSION to maintain world leadership in the field of simulators for shotgun and rifle shooting through consistent innovation and the use of cutting-edge technical advancements. We serve our customers with respect, integrity and speed and provide them system solutions that advance their business objectives. PROMISE. OUR PROMISE: MARKSMAN will ELEVATE YOUR GAME. What are we trying to solve? When training shooting outdoor, a shooter sees the result of his shot, but not the why. We want to enhance that training. Thanks to our unbeatable accuracy (0,0143˚) and our unique and patented built-in ballistic calculator, we can produced a powerful analysis to show the why. Our realistic shooting simulators, used both by professionals and amateurs, provides a Movement Replay Analysis, and a Shot Impact Analysis.

Vattn enables clean drinking water for all! We solve the difficulties of managing private water quality. In Sweden, 2.4 million drink water from private wells. These individuals with private wells are expected to follow the same water regulations as municipalities in order to maintain water quality but without access to biological and chemical expertise! We will facilitate water management through our software and connected services by providing guidance with the analysis, call to actions, including external data and new technology to make the access to clean freshwater easier, capable and more efficient.

At Fornix, we aim to improve the quality of mental health across the globe by making treatments safer, controllable, more efficient, and widely available to everyone. Utilizing the strengths of XR technology we develop these tools together with mental health experts and hospitals/polyclinics. We consist of a strong and diverse team made up of engineers, psychologists, designers, animators, and more. If you are interested in learning more you can visit our site at: https://fornixvr.com Or reach out to us directly via: hello@fornixvr.com

Storka AB is a Swedish HealthTech start-up on a mission on making preconception wellness the new normal. The physical & mental well-being of individuals & couples prior to conception influence not only their fertility but also the lifelong health of their future baby. The preconception phase opens up opportunities to prevent non-communicable diseases and - we want to close the knowledge gap among aspiring parents about the importance of preconception health as a key determinant for reproductive health & pregnancy outcomes. In collaboration with researchers, medical doctors and different health & wellness practitioners, we are currently building a digital preconception wellness platform, which will offer science-backed & evidence-based educational resources that focus on lifestyle interventions (in the areas of movement, nutrition, sleep & stress managemen)t, delivered in an easy-to-digest and easy-to-implement solution. Storka is a member of the EU-funded HealthTech start-up hub HealthTech Nordic, is currently in the process of joining a prestigious accelerator.Storka has a lot of traction from leading & world renowned researchers & health practitioners, as well as from angel investors for potential pre-seed investment. We are currently building a kickass team across content creation, tech development, design, and a world-class ecosystem of skilled, experienced & renowned advisors across the world.

We made Vev for the next generation of creatives. From our own experiences as developers, designers, digital producers, content writers, and so much more, we were constantly faced with the brick wall that is web production. Large bespoke builds were costly and labor-intensive, and CMS templates made our stories feel flat and uninteresting. We built Vev with this simple principle: Take what's in your imagination and put it on the page. We are excited to bring creative power back to teams and we can't wait to check out what you all create.

UMAI is a software provider that helps restaurants to save time and increase revenues by automating manual tasks, minimize last-minute cancellations, upsell customers more effectively and provide more personalized service. UMAI provides solutions which helps restaurants: 1) Increase monthly sales via our automated marketing solutions, our reservation management tool, our guest database functionality and our online marketing features. Our solutions always pay for themselves. 2) Bring customers back twice as often-Our smart marketing solutions identify who likes your place and brings them back twice as often, driving up your customer retention. 3) Increase Customer Spend - Via upselling tools, ticket sales, payment features, and CRM capabilities, you will know more about your guests and be able to automatically increase the value you receive from each paying customer.

Safe Online is a Danish SaaS company dedicated to creating a future where personal data is handled safely. We aim to inspire and empower people to take personal data seriously and increase digital trust worldwide. Our products help companies automate their data processes to keep up with global privacy regulations while making their customers feel confident and empowered about how the company handles data. Our solutions make it easy for small and medium-sized businesses to: - Discover personal and sensitive data in their systems - Handle privacy requests - Share data securely Our SaaS tools reduce the otherwise complicated, manual and time-consuming processes associated with privacy law compliance. You can read more about Safe Online at www.bysafeonline.com.

We are solving the data access challenge in AI. AI is the next major enabling technology, just like cloud and smartphones. It will transform every industry. Machine learning is about learning from data. The problem is that most companies cannot use the data they already have. There are privacy concerns, regulatory constraints, and many practical issues to deal with. We're building a federated learning solution that makes it possible to create machine learning models on unseen data that is distributed between several data controllers, either in different data centers or devices at the edge. We are currently working together with organizations such as Swiss Air, AstraZeneca, AI Sweden, GE Healthcare, and several others. We are an expert team with post-docs and faculty members from top-ranked Uppsala university and experienced entrepreneurs. And as one of the leaders in this field, we are now accelerating the development to take our solution to market.

Teamspective is a growth company from Helsinki, developing the next-generation engagement solution for building winning organisations and thriving company culture. We help companies identify and tackle their most important issues in teamwork, leadership, and cross-team collaboration with a unique solution combining continuous feedback collection and people engagement analytics with network analysis.