Founders is a startup studio. Together with exceptional entrepreneurs, we build companies from scratch and scale them as independent companies when they gain traction. Whether it’s a bank for freelancers, a way to kill the pain of doing expenses or reimagining life in cities, we are always on the lookout for opportunities to improve the way people work and live. We created Founders in 2012 because we strongly believed there was a better way to build tech companies. Our vision then and now is to refine a model that enables us to co-found successive companies on a single platform that gets smarter with each success and failure. We believe in launching early and iterating fast, knowing that failing is just part of the process on the road to success. Read more about how we work at Founders here: https://www.founders.as/handbook

We help companies detect stress, overload, and declining capacity before it turns into sick leave, disengagement, or employee turnover. Using passive biomarker data combined with cognitive validation, our platform gives companies early insights into workforce wellbeing - enabling proactive support instead of reactive damage control. Built for modern SMEs and scaleups, we turn invisible warning signs into actionable insights that protect both people and performance.

We help people become software engineers and break into the tech industry for a fraction of the cost of a traditional education or coding bootcamp. We've got 1.5 million users and customers all over the world. Our investors includes the likes of Y Combinator, Amasia, Alliance Ventures, and Startuplab.

Sealand Capital A/S is a small Copenhagen-based investment company working with start-ups and real estate assets. The company was founded in 2008 and is privately owned.    We believe in investing in great companies and teams, that we can help going from great to world-class. We do this by taking an active role in the investments we make eg via the board of directors, mentoring, sparring, coaching of portfolio companies management teams. Also we take an active role in the initial go-2-market phase.

Uniify offers a one-stop platform that makes it fast, easy and secure for financial companies to collect data on their customers. Save your business time and money, and onboard your customers in minutes instead of months with an engaging onboarding flow. Our primary customers are Fintechs, banks, lending companies, car dealers, housing companies and other financial companies that need to gather personal financial data from their customers.

About Our Startup - We’re Ivy, an AI-native platform that empowers .NET teams to rapidly build internal tools and business apps. The Problem - Today, companies spend too much time and money on repetitive, manual development of back-office apps, resulting in long lead times and frustrated teams. Existing tools often require either too much custom coding or are too restrictive to scale properly. - Our Solution Ivy leverages AI to automatically generate maintainable, production-ready .NET code. Reducing the time from idea to deployment by up to 80%. Our platform integrates seamlessly into existing enterprise workflows, allowing teams to focus on what truly matters: driving innovation and delivering value. - Why It Matters By making AI-powered .NET development faster and more accessible, we help companies improve productivity, cut costs, and gain a competitive edge. Ivy enables organizations to embrace the AI revolution and future-proof their internal app strategy without compromising on control or quality.

BlinkTroll is a defense tech company developing game-changing battlefield technology to defend the free world and help Ukraine win the war. Born in Norway, raised in Denmark, we are currently a team of 10 from five nationalities, with backgrounds ranging from special forces to academia. We are growing fast and looking for dedicated, hard-working innovators with clear hearts and minds to join us in building the arsenal of the free world. Right now, we are redefining soldier training with the BlinkTroll Training System. For centuries, training has been static—but we’ve made it dynamic and combat-realistic, preparing soldiers to face real threats with confidence. Our technology is already in use by top military and police forces across Northern Europe—and it's actively saving lives on the front lines. Now, we are scaling up to amplify that impact, with the the generation training system. Very soon, we will also redefine drone warfare and beyond. Join us. Let’s turn bold, ambitious ideas into battlefield reality and defend freedom through technology.

PriceShape is a market-leading software company, who offers an unique price comparison tool for online businesses as well as retail stores. Our software provides access to invaluable data showing the competitive situation in the market, and gives the tools to act on this data in real time. Our goal is to ensure the most optimal user experience for our clients and so far we are very proud of our achievements. We are a young and dedicated team of professionals who possess the right skillsets needed to ensure outstanding results. At PriceShape we are continuously expanding our business. We want to be first- and best-in-class and able to deliver the greatest and most user-friendly price comparison software. Today our clients are small online webshops, but also some of the biggest companies and brands in Denmark and Europe.

Sooma Oy is a pioneering Finnish medical technology SME with a mission to bring relief to the millions of people who suffer from depression worldwide. We have developed a non-invasive brain stimulation tool and a digital platform that has proven highly effective and safe for treating severe depression.

Fixably is a fast-growing SaaS provider located in Helsinki, Finland. Established in 2015 with a clear purpose, we created a complete service management system specifically designed and developed for the needs of electronics repair businesses, especially Apple Authorised Service Providers. Fixably integrates all the tools needed to perform and follow up on repairs, handle internal resources and workflows, monetary transactions, logistics, customer communication, manufacturer requirements, and more. Fixably provides users with a clear and attractive interface to make each process and workflow easy to use. The software is highly configurable and scales well for all types and sizes of businesses, providing great support for proven business processes. Fixably's team draws from a wealth of experience in the after-sales sphere, combining hands-on expertise in day-to-day device repair operations with professional software development and support capabilities. To find out more, please visit www.fixably.com https://www.facebook.com/fixably/ https://www.instagram.com/fixably/

Duunitori is a Finnish job board and recruiting media, that gathers all the job ads in one place. Duunitori manages hundreds of communities in social media and on partner sites, delivering useful career advice and thousands of jobs to the relevant audiences. Last year our sales grew almost 200% and we are continuing on the same track. Our customers include Finnair, Valio, Nordea, Elisa, Accenture, Lidl etc.

At CHAOS we provide a better understanding of cities’ complexity in an easy and lean way. Our AI-powered urban insights and forecasts enable fact-based decision-making for real estate investment and city development, which leads to the creation of more liveable cities around the world. By integrating data that different systems are creating with the data that people produce in their living environment we produce indexes that allows to measure the performance of cities today and simulate future scenarios.  Our ultimate purpose  is to create better and more sustainable cities for everyone around the world. We believe this should be achieved through data, technology and by including people. We are a multicultural team composed by exceptional talent leading in the tech and smart city industry. Business women and men, change-drivers, nerds, speakers, thinkers and doers. We value team work, progressive thinking, passion and grit. And we work in hybrid mode, half remote and half from our very cool office in the heart of Helsinki!

Every year 6 billion SEK of personal accident insurance compensation go unclaimed in Sweden! Why so? One of the main reasons is that it is extremely difficult to go through the claims process, which requires both time, knowledge and a lot of patience. With Insurello, there is no need to understand insurance specific language, have all the time in the world or have a certain background. We want to help all people claim their accident insurances money instantly online and change the insurance landscape for the better. WHAT HAVE WE ACCOMPLISHED? As of now, we're helping more than 80 000+ people claim their insurances through our platform, and the user count is growing by the hour. We were awarded the Start-up of the Year 2017 award by Business Challenge, and top-100 InsurTech start-ups in the world by Fintech Global. Since 2018, we have raised more than 100 M SEK from leading Venture Capitalist firms and trusted investors who've brought in not just money but credibility, network and business assets. We have built a winning team of ~80 awesome and highly motivated Insurellians based in Stockholm. During the first half of 2020, we have doubled the team! Right now, we are providing opportunities for fair compensation in Sweden and Denmark, expanding to France and Germany in 2021!

Trine offers a digital investment platform where individuals can invest in solar energy projects. The investment functions as a loan to local entrepreneurs in developing countries. Private investors get return on their investments while contributing to providing life-changing electricity to the 1 billion people without access today. The investment will benefit the investor, local entrepreneurs and reduce the CO2 footprint through green energy. We are constantly amazed by how different we are. Everyone is different. We have very diverse backgrounds, characteristics, interests, and competencies. We complement each other very well! At Trine, we have pretty clear responsibilities, and our work is based on trust: we trust each other to do the job that needs to be done. We respect each other's skills, and everyone has a saying. We work with our three values: people, planet and profit. We do what we do to contribute to better quality of life for people, to reduce the C02 footprint on the world and to make this a profitable business. These three words are incorporated in everything we do, both internally and externally. We never compromise on any of them. We spend most of our time at the office, even though we do offer flexibility. Every Friday is Triday: a day free from meetings to offer everyone the opportunity to work from home, from a café, to catch up on some emails or take the time to read some inspiring articles. We need to gain new perspectives all the time and be open to new strategies.

Today Mobility provides consumer-centric first and last mile logistics to the automotive industry. Our drivers pick up and deliver cars to and from workshops and dealerships all over Sweden whether it be for a Test Drive, New/Used car delivery or for a routine Workshop visit. So far we've delivered over 150,000 cars, and are working with Sweden's largest car manufacturers and dealers as they transition to online sales and service channels. Our vision is simple - to make car ownership simpler, more convenient and sustainable.