SHIFT Business Festival is a platform that has brought together C-level decision-makers, business developers, and tech-heads from growth companies across the board since 2016. The highlight of the year is a two-day business festival in Turku, Finland. We encourage and support our festival attendees and partners to find their competitive advantage in new technology applications and sustainable business. Our company is based in Turku and is the most important business event in the region and a solid actor in the local business ecosystem. Behind SHIFT is a non-profit organization driven by volunteers and supported by network with firm supporters like Turku Science Park, Boost Turku, JCI, Creve, Turku Chamber of Commerce and Federation of Finnish Enterprises.

Lapee, the female urinal. “Lapee gives women and people who need to pee squatting a quick, safe and hygienic way out.” Urinals for men have been around for a long time, but women and people who need to pee squatting have been long overlooked. For them the need to relieve themselves in public, at events or at festivals always comes with great difficulty. The lines for closed toilet cabins are always long and only two other options present themselves: going without peeing or finding an improvised and unsafe place to pee. Both are highly problematic and degrading. Lapee is a simple solution to a long standing example of gender inequality; Lapee gives women and people who need to pee squatting a quick, safe and hygienic way out. Behind this idea of developing peeing equality are Gina (FR) and Alexander (DK), two architects who graduated from the Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen in Spring, 2017. They were working as architects for the famous Roskilde Festival when they thought and developed Lapee. Today, Lapee is available for rent in 20 countries through 30 partners. Join the movement!

MeaWallet is the "one-stop shop"​ for mobile- and digital payments. Mea has built a Mobile Services Platform to enable HCE/Tokenization, Masterpass and converged wallets. Built to support both global and local payment schemes, the platform can enable any wallet application and wearable device for mobile and digital payments. MeaWallet solutions is active in 16 countries (November 2016), and fully certified for MasterCard Cloud-Based Payment Solutions, and support for Visa. MeaWallet is a part of the Seamless Group with 250 employees, and the company is listed on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange in Stockholm (SEAM).

Spiff is your personal assistant for saving and investing money. For yourself and your loved ones. We believe in equal opportunities for everyone. Unfortunately, this is not how the world works today. We want to change this by providing a service that makes planning, saving and investing easier and more accessible than ever before. We believe that women hold the key to a better world, so that is where we start our work for more equality. Spiff is a social, meaningful and rewarding savings-app.      Spiff was born as a result of two passionate feminist entrepreneurs seeking to capitalize on their skills and experience to make a difference. Aware of inequalities across gender, culture, race and other loci, Spiff aspires to increase the accessibility of saving and investing money and to empower anyone to be financially independent.

Our mission is to create a contraceptive technology that renders hormonal birth control obsolete. We are addressing the millions of women that are demanding non-hormonal products with fewer side-effects to manage their fertility. Today, nearly 60 years after the first oral contraceptive pill was sold, most prescription birth control methods are variations on the same synthetic hormones. In collaboration with the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, we have developed a technology that reinforces the natural barrier properties of cervical mucus. The principle of the technology is to use topically-applied biopolymers to make cervical mucus impenetrable to sperm cells throughout the menstrual cycle. Our approach enables a potentially groundbreaking product that protects within a minute and for extended periods without the systemic side-effects known from hormonal contraceptives. In 2019 we raised $1.8M for pre-clinical development. Today we are incubated at the BioInnovation Institute, conveniently located in central Copenhagen, with access to state-of-the-art labs.

Meet the next Swedish unicorn straight from the streets of Stockholm sitting at SSE Business Lab Pango is building the world's first Agentic Operating System for e-commerce logistics. Our vision is to create the AI e-commerce employee of the future. While deliveries and returns are a hidden and often tedious aspect of e-commerce, we are bringing innovation to a legacy $90 billion industry. When we started, we already had 39 competitors in the Nordics. Yet, just two months after launching, we achieved product-market fit and are now powering million-dollar brands with our product. We’re building the future with those who want to say “I was there when it all started.”

Legal can be a bit... much. Shareholder agreements. Questions from stakeholders. Basic compliance. And so on. It's a lot to handle for a single person, especially when you're trying to build a company. Much proactively helps you stay on top of your legal operations by understanding your business and working where you are, without the chaos of multiple tools or systems. Every time you think "this is too much"... well, you know where to go. We're a pre-seed startup with 4 founders, building something genuinely useful for founders and legal teams who are drowning in operational complexity.

🌍 About Xbrandify Xbrandify is an AI-powered, white-label experiential travel platform that helps brands turn their audiences into communities—and their marketing into revenue. We empower lifestyle, sports, and media brands to launch their own travel platforms where they can offer everything from curated local activities to full-scale adventures—without needing to build any tech or operations themselves. 🚨 The Problem We're Solving In a world of banner blindness, short attention spans, and rising ad costs, traditional marketing is losing its impact. At the same time, experiential marketing—creating memorable, real-world brand moments—is outperforming static campaigns. But most brands lack the tools or infrastructure to deliver meaningful experiences at scale. Travel is one of the most powerful experiential touchpoints in the world—but it’s underused and difficult to execute. ✅ Our Solution Xbrandify turns travel into a scalable experiential marketing engine. We provide: - A white-label travel platform for brands to launch their own booking site - A library of curated experiential travel products (local and global) - A system to engage communities and drive conversions, loyalty, and content - An AI-driven backend (AgentOS) to automate customer journeys and support Result: Brands grow community, loyalty, and revenue—all through branded experiences that inspire action. 💡 Why It Matters - Consumers are demanding experiences over ads, and community over clicks - Brands are sitting on untapped audiences with massive travel potential - New tools in AI and fintech now make this model scalable and profitable - We're giving brands a new kind of growth engine—experiential, emotional, and revenue-generating. Instead of spending on ads, brands use travel to engage their audience, create loyalty, and generate profit. Powered by automation and embedded fintech, we make it scalable.

Lensor is an early-stage startup in the nature-tech sector, building accessible, AI-powered digital solutions that helps farmers and land managers in their transition to regenerative land use. We are offering affordable management and monitoring tools for regenerative land use transition, ensuring a profitable shift to more sustainable practices. We are piloting with farmers and municipalities in Europe and consists of a passionate team based in Helsinki, Finland.

Safepay Nordic offers an innovative payment solution tailored to businesses that facilitate high-ticket and high-volume transactions. Designed to prioritize security and simplicity, Safepay empowers businesses to provide a seamless and trustworthy payment experience. By integrating with MobilePay, one of the most widely recognized payment platforms in Denmark, Safepay ensures convenience while safeguarding transactions. For businesses in the secondhand economy—whether marketplaces, classifieds platforms, or niche services—Safepay adds value by addressing key challenges in peer-to-peer transactions. The system uses a secure escrow-like setup, holding funds until both parties accept a trade. This approach minimizes disputes, builds trust among users, and elevates the overall user experience on partner platforms. Safepay’s B2B solutions are customizable and easy to integrate, making it an ideal partner for platforms seeking to enhance user trust while streamlining payment processes. By handling payment security and reducing the risk of fraud, Safepay allows businesses to focus on their core operations whilst the SafePay engine handles all complexities around the transactions.

Legala is a legal practice management software designed to streamline various aspects of law firm operations. It offers features such as matter management, time recording, document management, email management, automated forms, client accounting, billing, reporting, and support for remote working. These functionalities aim to enhance productivity and service quality within legal practices.

Intelligent Apps Sweden AB is a forward-thinking startup dedicated to developing and launching innovative digital solutions designed to address the growing needs of the market. With a focus on leveraging cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data analytics, the company aims to create intelligent applications that improve efficiency, productivity, and user experiences across various industries. In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, businesses and consumers require tools that are not only technologically advanced but also intuitive and user-friendly. Intelligent Apps Sweden AB understands these needs and is committed to delivering solutions that strike the perfect balance between sophistication and ease of use. The company’s mission is to empower organizations and individuals by offering applications that solve real-world problems, streamline operations, and enhance decision-making processes. As a startup, Intelligent Apps Sweden AB thrives on agility and innovation. Its team of talented developers, designers, and market strategists work collaboratively to identify gaps in the market and develop digital products that fill those gaps effectively. The company's approach to product development is centered on understanding the unique challenges faced by its target audience and creating custom solutions that cater to those specific needs. By staying attuned to market trends and technological advancements, Intelligent Apps Sweden AB ensures its digital offerings remain relevant and competitive. The company places a strong emphasis on continuous improvement and regularly updates its applications to keep pace with evolving customer expectations and industry demands. In summary, Intelligent Apps Sweden AB is a pioneering startup that focuses on delivering high-quality, intelligent digital solutions that cater to the ever-changing needs of the market. Through innovation, collaboration, and a deep understanding of market trends, the company aims to drive positive change and make a lasting impact in the digital solutions landscape.

At Tokai Games we make hybrid casual idle/simulation mobile games! We are a small, but very experienced team who has entertained more than 15 million players on mobile. We have a strong passion for fun, and always design with the player in mind. Our mission is to create immersive and engaging mobile games that bring joy to millions of players worldwide. We work in short sprints, create fun game mechanics and test our mechanics with real players through paid advertisement. Our strategy is to test how fun the game is and how big the financial potentiel is. We thrive by combining creativity, humor and business!

Sustainly is the scalable single-source of truth for non-financial data. We use AI and automations to perform cumbersome data-related tasks across environmental insights (EPDs, LCAs, Carbon footprints), supply chain, documentation and much more. Our goal is to simplify and democratize access to environmental insights, to empower decision makers to make more holistic decisions. Today, performing life-cycle assessments is a highly academic discipline, which acts as a major gatekeeper for properly utilizing data, and getting a proper return of investment. In addition to make it more easy to arrive at the results, we also empower companies to actually utilize the data as a trustworthy, single-source of truth across all business units. This means that the data can create value, directly in R & D, sales, marketing, management and more.

We invest in companies aligned with our guiding principles. Companies with a focus on long-term solutions within planetary boundaries. We operate as an evergreen fund, investing patient capital within biodiversity, agriculture and food, and aim to provide a fair financial return. Our ambition is clear: To inspire and contribute to a restructuring of our economic systems, a redefinition of what value is, and a reconnection with nature and life on the planet.