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Heylinn är ett svenskt beauty- och e‑handelsbolag som utvecklar framtidens nagellack. Vår kärnprodukt är riktigt nagellack som redan är målat och färdigtorkat på självhäftande remsor. Det gör det möjligt att skapa snygga och hållbara naglar hemma – utan kladd, torktid eller tidskrävande salongsbesök. Sedan starten har Heylinn vuxit till ett etablerat varumärke med över 57 000 kunder. Vi bygger en stark direktrelation till våra kunder genom vår egen e‑handel, personlig kundservice, sociala medier, kreatörssamarbeten och ett engagerat community. Den nära kundkontakten hjälper oss att snabbt förstå vad våra kunder efterfrågar och utveckla både produkter och upplevelser utifrån deras behov. Heylinn befinner sig i en expansiv fas där vi breddar sortimentet, utvecklar nya produktkategorier och bygger organisationen för fortsatt tillväxt. Vårt mål är att skapa ett komplett och modernt alternativ till traditionellt nagellack och salongsbehandlingar. Vi är ett entreprenöriellt och handlingskraftigt bolag med korta beslutsvägar. Hos oss får idéer snabbt bli verklighet, alla arbetar nära verksamheten och varje person har möjlighet att påverka bolagets utveckling. Vi söker människor som gillar högt tempo, tar ansvar och vill vara med och bygga nästa kapitel av Heylinn.

ORSA is a specialty coffee shop based in Copenhagen. The name means 'new beginnings' in Latin, reflecting the idea behind it: bringing a piece of London's energy to Copenhagen. We opened three years ago and now have two locations, in Vesterbro and the City Center, offering high-quality coffee, music, and an upbeat atmosphere. Through fast service and a dynamic vibe, ORSA has always aimed to bring the world of specialty coffee closer to everyday people.

Unelma is the AI-native platform for creating, growing, and launching the next generation of fashion brands. Today, talented designers and aspiring founders face high barriers to turning ideas into viable businesses, from costly product development and limited industry access to fragmented tools and difficulty validating demand. Unelma brings the journey into one platform, enabling creators to turn ideas into collections, build their brand, test market demand, connect with customers, and move toward commercialisation. Our mission is to make building a fashion brand faster, more accessible, and less dependent on capital, connections, or traditional industry gatekeepers.

WOOF is an ambitious Danish edtech company on a mission to create better conditions for learning by improving student well-being, engagement, and classroom relationships. Founded by teachers, WOOF was created in response to a challenge experienced in classrooms everywhere: educators need simple and meaningful ways to understand how their students are doing—and practical tools that help them act on those insights. Through short, anonymous student check-ins, WOOF gives every student a voice while providing teachers and school leaders with a clear, real-time picture of classroom well-being. But WOOF is much more than a measurement tool. The platform turns insights into action through engaging activities, structured conversations, and practical resources that help teachers strengthen relationships and build positive learning environments. By making well-being visible and actionable, WOOF enables schools to address challenges early and create classrooms where students feel seen, supported, and ready to learn. Today, WOOF is used by educators and schools across several international markets, including Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and the United States. From its Copenhagen base, the company brings together education, technology, and a strong sense of purpose. WOOF is a growing, collaborative organisation where ideas move quickly, individual contributions matter, and the team shares a clear ambition: to improve everyday school life for teachers and students around the world.

Viran is the AI layer for government contracts. We are an AI-native public procurement service that finds the public tenders a company can win, reads every document behind them, and produces the bid. Public buyers in the EU spend roughly 14% of GDP through competitive tendering. Every one of those contracts is decided on paperwork, and the companies best able to deliver the work routinely lose them, either because the opportunity never reaches them or because they misread a requirement and are excluded before anyone scores their offer. The work that decides a public tender is not sales work. It is reading. Somebody has to find the right contract among thousands, open the annexes and the draft agreement, separate the pass-or-fail qualification requirements from the scored award criteria, and be honest about whether this company can prove what the buyer is asking for. Done properly that is a specialist day per tender, which is why most companies bid on instinct, hire a bid consultancy, or never bid at all. That reading is what our agents do, at a volume no bid team can match. How Viran works: 1. Discovery. We monitor open 100,000+ weekly public sales opportunities across the Nordics, the EU and beyond, and surface only the contracts where you are a credible bidder. 2. Analysis. We read the full document package for each one: technical specification, draft contract, annexes, qualification requirements and award criteria. 3. Fit. We judge each tender against what your company can actually prove, and tell you plainly when the answer is no. 4. Bid. We produce the response. You review and submit. Viran serves manufacturers, software companies and service providers selling to the public sector in Finland, the Nordics and across the globe, including foreign vendors entering markets for the first time. The result is that public procurement stops being a lottery you enter occasionally and becomes something you run continuously, on the contracts where you are the strongest bidder in the room.

BilagPilot is a simple follow-up flow for accounting firms that spend too much time collecting missing receipts from clients. The firm sends one clear request, the client uploads without an account, and the team gets an overview of what is missing, what has been reminded and what has been received.

Pattern Geographic is building the future of real estate valuation. Commercial real estate represents a significant share of the economy, yet valuations are still largely performed through manual workflows, disconnected spreadsheets, and static reports. We are creating the digital valuer: an AI-ready platform that combines valuation, climate risk, sustainability, market intelligence, and urban analytics into a single system. Our mission is to make valuations more transparent, data-driven, and future-proof while helping investors, lenders, advisors, and property owners understand what truly drives long-term value. We believe the future of valuation is continuous, data-driven, and AI-assisted. We're building the platform that makes that possible.

What we are building Joey is building the future of autonomous operations for the physical economy. We are developing the first truly vertical, agentic AI platform purpose-built to eliminate administrative revenue leakage for small-to-medium field service, construction, and artisan businesses across the Nordics. Instead of a passive software dashboard that forces users to click buttons, Joey deploys autonomous AI agents that handle the entire customer and administrative lifecycle. From reading and categorizing incoming leads, managing calendars, processing bookings, and generating invoices, to executing project-specific material procurement - Joey handles it entirely on autopilot or via a secure human-in-the-loop workflow. Our core workspace is "Joey Chat" a natural language control center allowing tradesmen to textually query their business infrastructure and trigger live operational actions on the fly. Best of all? We integrate seamlessly as a non-disruptive layer on top of the financial suites they already use daily (like e-conomic, Ordrestyring, Dinero, Billy and more). Our Story & Traction We didn't build Joey in an isolated dark room. For the last 6 months, we ran a high-growth B2B AI consulting agency in Denmark, hand-crafting custom automation workflows for local contractors. The market response was overwhelming: inbound demand far outstripped our physical capacity to build. We quickly realized that building bespoke infrastructure for 1-3 months per client wasn't scalable. Joey is the direct productization of that validated market demand. We are moving our consulting traction straight into a scalable, hyper-disruptive SaaS ecosystem. Why join us? We are a lean, relentless, and product-obsessed founding team backed by early validation. By joining Joey, you aren't building a speculative product looking for a problem - you are building software directly tied to massive, unmanaged market demand. Our Cultural DNA - There is no second place, winning is the ONLY option: We don’t just participate; we compete to dominate. We have a relentless drive for high performance, set exceptionally high bars for ourselves, and celebrate bold, measurable results. We play to win at everything we do - and most importantly, we play to kill and bury the competition. - Radical Customer Empathy: We are fiercely user-obsessed. We build out of deep empathy for the hard-working tradesmen who rely on Joey to run their businesses. We listen intently, put the end-user first in every single discussion, and measure our success by a single metric: the undeniable value and freedom we create for the customer. - Product Obsession: We believe that exceptional engineering and elegant product design solve the world's hardest operational problems. We don't build generic software patches; we build intuitive, robust, and high-impact agentic architectures. We are deeply product-focused, ensuring Joey feels like magic to use.

Agentwork is a shared knowledge layer for companies. AI is great for one person but hard to make useful across a team, because company knowledge is scattered across Slack, Notion, docs, CRM, and support, and half of it contradicts itself. We connect to those tools and answer with sources you can check. When something isn't written down, we ask the person who knows, respect who's allowed to see what, and keep the answer for everyone. We're second-time founders in Copenhagen, and we think every company is about to need this.

Cleenki is building an AI-native marketplace for home cleaning to help busy households in Sweden book trusted, recurring cleaning in seconds, while giving independent cleaners fair pay and the tools to build a stable business. Our secret sauce: by treating cleaners well and letting them work for themselves, we turn motivated cleaners into loyal, long-term customer relationships that traditional agencies cannot match. The cleaning industry is built on a broken chain. Traditional cleaning companies pay low wages and treat cleaners poorly, which kills motivation. Unmotivated, underpaid cleaners churn constantly, which makes it hard for customers to find a reliable local cleaner and build a long-term relationship. The result is a poor customer experience across the entire industry: no-shows, inconsistent quality, and constant turnover on both sides of a market that should be built on trust and recurring stability. This affects almost every busy household in Sweden. With RUT making professional cleaning affordable for a large share of the population, demand is huge, yet the experience for both customers and the people doing the actual work has barely improved in decades. Cleenki is a marketplace that matches households with vetted independent cleaners and turns one-off jobs into recurring relationships. Customers book in minutes, pay securely by card, and keep the same cleaner over time. Our edge is the cleaners themselves. On Cleenki, cleaners work for themselves or run small cleaning businesses, so they genuinely care about their customers and do the little extra every single time. We are deeply focused on cleaner wellbeing, because we know that motivated, fairly treated cleaners are what create happy, loyal customers. We take a cut of each booking, and over time we are building the operating system underneath the marketplace: automated scheduling, payments, subscriptions, and the daily operations a cleaning business needs to run, so any cleaner or small company can eventually run their entire business on Cleenki. We are live and growing steadily, with over 100 paying recurring customers and 10 to 25 one-off bookings per month. The cleaning industry is outdated. Customers demand convenience, cleaners demand fairness, and sustainability matters more than ever. Cleenki delivers all three at exactly the right moment. We start in Stockholm, then expand across Sweden, the Nordics, and beyond. Before Cleenki, I started a traditional cleaning company (Cleanest Sweden AB). That is where I really got to know the industry from the inside. I interviewed and worked with dozens of cleaners, and over and over I heard the same two patterns. The first was unfair treatment: low pay, stressful schedules, and managers who simply did not care about them as people. The second was a dream. Almost every cleaner I spoke to wanted the same thing: to work for themselves, on their own terms. That is what fired the spark. I realized the cleaning industry is broken in a way that hurts everyone at once. Cleaners carry the whole business on their backs but are treated as disposable, and customers suffer the consequences through constant turnover and unreliable service. Cleenki is my way of fixing both sides at the same time: giving cleaners the independence, fair pay, and recurring income they dream of, and giving households cleaners who actually care. This is not just a booking app to me. It is a mission to give an overlooked workforce ownership over their working lives.

1. Short description (the pitch) Memorise is building a powerhouse network of senior digital-marketing specialists that helps growth companies turn marketing spend into measurable pipeline — with a client-set price cap, no lock-in, and full ownership of everything we build. 2. The What (the problem) Most companies overpay for marketing that can't prove its worth. Traditional agencies bill for activity, not outcomes: junior-heavy teams, opaque retainers, and reports that count clicks instead of revenue. Clients rarely own their own accounts or data, which quietly locks them in. It affects nearly every SME and scaleup buying marketing — budget leaks into overhead and "the name on the invoice" rather than work that actually moves the business. 3. The How (the solution) Memorise runs as a powerhouse: an in-house strategy function leads every engagement and activates senior specialists from our network — SEO, Google Ads, web, content and AI search — only when the work demands it. Every action is tied to a business goal and reported as leads and pipeline, not impressions. We work to a price cap the client sets (never more; less if we spend less), with no binding period, and the client owns all accounts, data, code and material from day one. And we go all the way to execution, not just the report. 4. The Why (the motivation) We started Memorise because the agency model is built backwards — clients pay for the office, the brand on the invoice and a PDF, while the right senior person is never free when you need them. We'd watched too many businesses pay premium retainers for junior work, then lose access to their own data the moment they wanted to leave. Memorise is the answer: pay for the work that's actually done, prove the result, and let clients keep everything. Marketing that shows up in the business, not just on the invoice.

For too long, healthcare has been reactive. Focused on treatment after problems appear, rather than prevention and performance. We're building the alternative: a physician-led health optimization platform that combines deep diagnostics with personalized protocols. 60+ biomarker testing, physical performance assessments, and dedicated physician support, all built into a continuous loop: measure, interpret, intervene, track, learn. Our mission is to make proactive, data-driven healthcare accessible, personal, and continuous. Cue turns medical insight into something you can measure, understand, and act on. No generic protocols. No one-size-fits-all care. Just personalized hormone and health optimization built on your own data. Based in Copenhagen. Building the category for proactive health in Europe.

Sekorti is AI-native trust center platform for modern SaaS companies. Create a customer-ready Trust Center in minutes and automate security questionnaires like SIG, CAIQ, and VSAQ with AI. Prove SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, ISO 42001, and EU AI Act readiness without spreadsheet chaos. The target audience for Sekorti are B2B SaaS founders stuck in Enterprise deals.

Vester159 is a full-service software and digital solutions studio built for SMVs, startups, and small-to-medium sized businesses that are ready to grow but need the right technical partner to get there. We exist because too many great businesses are being held back — not by a lack of ambition, but by a lack of execution. Generic agencies overpromise, off-the-shelf tools stop scaling, and disconnected systems quietly drain time and revenue. Vester159 was founded to close that gap: delivering enterprise-grade software at startup speed, with a relentless focus on stability, scalability, and tangible business outcomes. Our capabilities span the full digital stack. We build high-performance ecommerce storefronts using headless commerce and Shopify/WooCommerce architectures optimized for conversion. We design aesthetic, user-centric interfaces that reflect brand identity while maintaining peak performance across all devices. We develop native and cross-platform mobile applications leveraging the latest SDKs for fluid, responsive user experiences. And we eliminate the operational overhead that holds growing businesses back — through intelligent workflow automations and seamless API integrations that connect disparate systems, from custom middleware to complex ERP setups. What sets us apart is our obsession with outcomes over deliverables. We don't measure success by lines of code shipped — we measure it by the revenue unlocked, the hours saved, and the competitive edge gained. Every solution we build is designed to grow with the business, not against it. Vester159 is the technical partner that ambitious businesses deserve: accountable, precise, and built for the long game.