The PERE narrative We set out to fix a fairness problem that’s plagued the hospitality industry for as long as most can remember. And if we don’t fix it - right now - it might very well result in the complete erosion of how we think about the hospitality business today. Have we got your attention? Great! Let’s start with restaurants, who still reward local businesses for referring guests in ways that are beyond outdated. Offering things like free drinks, meals and under-the-table cash payments are not only unsustainable, they’re eschewed by those receiving them and largely frowned upon by regulatory bodies. What restaurants need is a more effective and modern way to get butts in seats and reward loyal referrers. And reliable, personal referrals from higher-spending guests have never been in greater demand for the beleaguered restaurant industry. Even before the pandemic, food delivery was slowly upending restaurants by forcing them to pay absurdly high commissions for customers on what are already razor thin margins. Even more, restaurants are now pressured to change their businesses to serve take-away and delivery customers instead of the more profitable (and real) dine-in customers, which is why almost all chefs and restaurateurs got into the business to begin with. At the same time, hotels - responsible for sending restaurants a steady flow of personal referrals - are forced to fork out big bucks just to get guests to their properties, much of that going to online travel agencies who charge up to 30% commissions for referrals. With profits shrinking, you’d think that hotels could simply recover those earnings when they refer their guests to nearby businesses. If they’re paying when they receive a guest referral, shouldn’t they be paid when they make a guest referral? That seems fair. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work that way. That’s because today, the hospitality referral model is a broken, one-way street with no quick and easy way for people to profit when they make a personal referral. That includes especially hotel concierges, whose entire existence is founded on the ability to provide quality referrals. Feeling increasingly overlooked, undervalued and under appreciated in a digital world, they’re eager for an easier and better way to re-stake their claim and profit from sending guests to local businesses. That’s why we think it’s time for a change - a new and more fair way to do business in the hospitality industry. What’s long been accepted as a one-way street for paying for referrals needs to be expanded into a multilane highway where everyone can profit from personal referrals. At PERE, we’re building a global community of hospitality heroes who are passionate about delivering better service and memorable experiences by harnessing the power of personal referrals. That’s thousands of hotels, concierges, restaurants and other hospitality heroes instantly connected. With PERE, everyone wins. Professionals get a quick and easy way to profit when they refer guests. Businesses get higher spending referred customers in the door. Everyone gets a tool that lets them deliver a better customer experience and effortlessly see all transactions while staying transparent. At the end of the day, what people want are experiences. They want to connect, to learn, to grow through human interaction. At PERE, we celebrate how a personal referral connects humans in profound ways and establishes a handshake of trust and loyalty between our community. Won’t you join us?

ProtectPipe is a Finnish microbiotechnology company that has developed an innovative microbe solution, which removes organic waste from wastewater systems naturally and with proven efficiency. This is an ecological method of stopping the waste buildup process that causes blockages and corrosion in wastewater systems, and simultaneously preventing harmful waste from entering our delicate waters.

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!

We are a mobile pension solution that simplifies and grow your pension. Grandhood is adulthood, just better. 
We created the name ‘Grandhood’ since our UX research suggests that ‘retirement’ was associated with negativity and frustration. Well, with Grandhood it’s not! So, we created a new word for it. Our name cherishes the third part of your life. You have a childhood, an adulthood, and now you have a Grandhood too. Grandhood is not a place to grow old, but a place to make new memories.  We are Bold’n Credible. Casual. We rather want to initiate a casual conversation than leading a formal monologue. Frank. Honesty and trust is everything to us. We cut the bullshit and reveal the facts you actually need. Witty. We have a good intellectual capacity. Hence, we tend to be witty, always quick and inventive in our verbal humour. Bold. We are bold but not arrogant. We challenge the staus quo by daring to take ownership of new words and concepts and make them ours.

Ahum is the next-generation mental health care solution with over 140 licensed therapists around Sweden. With our intelligent platform, we strive to reduce the growing gap between mental illness and licensed therapists. Unlike traditional therapy, our solution is based on a combination of therapy sessions and digital treatment, which results in reduced treatment time and increased quality. To this day, we’ve helped over 10,000 people and we are just getting started.

Zimpler is a successful Swedish FinTech company focused on creating the best mobile payment experience in the world.  We're a mid sized company with offices in central Stockholm and Gothenburg. Our team has a startup mentality and we believe that everything is possible, the sky's the limit. We're on an amazing journey and we're always looking for new talented and friendly people.

Siru's payment solutions are designed to improve the customer experience, by improving transaction speeds. The faster checkout and processing times that Siru offers could show dramatic results in boosting sales and customer satisfaction. By implementing an operator-based billing, we allow customers to pay for products & services via a mobile phone or any other device with a SIM-card, no credit card or bank account is required.

Work Ahead is mission-driven technology startup that helps enterprises survey anonymously workers in their supply chain, focusing on human rights, decent working conditions, and advancing sustainable development. We are located in Helsinki, Finland, and work with customers from Costa Rica to Nepal, from Pakistan to Thailand and beyond.

bbhugme is a Norwegian company that has achieved great international success with the multifunctional pregnancy and nursing pillow. bbhugme is a progressive company in growth with a goal to continue to create functional and innovative products for mothers and babies - always with a focus on design and quality. The head office is located in downtown Oslo and the brand has retailers throughout Scandinavia and UK. The products are sold globally through own webshop.

Coala is a unique, prize-winning, Swedish innovation for daily monitoring and analysis of your heart. A patented medical device solution to aid the early detection of heart diseases such as atrial fibrillation, and with direct connection to caregivers. It's a ground-breaking digital service open for everyone based on many years of research and development in Sweden. Order from us or visit your local LloydsPharmacy retailer.

All people should breathe good air. Today, 92% of the world’s population live in places where air pollution exceeds WHO limits. Every year 7 million people die prematurely due to air pollution. At Sally R we combine air treatment technology developed for space travel with real time optimisation. By doing so we can offer a healthy indoor air climate to commercial real estate owners while reducing their energy consumption with 30-70%.

We use data-driven insights for empowerment and better outcomes of healthcare by developing a digital platform for lifestyle- and behavior change.Our objective is to encourage and motivate patients through an ongoing and active collaboration between individuals, family & friends and healthcare providers.Our platform  is based on a cloud solution built on a micro service architecture with access via a smartphone (iOS and Android) for patients and a web interface for healthcare providers. MyIndicators is a company founded in November 2014 in Stockholm, Sweden and is also the name of the Software as a Service (SaaS) the company has developed. The service addresses the two main challenges of active ageing and self-management of health. We have also developed indicators within the business area Education to promote student-centred learning using IT system. Patrik Helenius is one of the co-founders. He has almost 30 years experience in IT development projects in various industries, primarily in healthcare and entrepreneurship. This experience includes more than 10 years in the development of IT solutions for the management of quality indicators. Patrik developed specific solutions for a number of disease areas measuring clinical quality.Malene Schmidt is the co-founder of MyIndicators. She has more than 20 years of experience as an international educator in both Denmark and Sweden (International Baccalaureate).Nadeem Nasir is a software developer with 12 years of experience in web development working as a full stack developer. He studied a Master in Computer Science at Blekinge Institute of Technology in Sweden and worked at the IT University of Copenhagen.Tee Fwo Yi, Jude is working as a research and marketing analyst. Fwo Yi is a registered nurse in Malaysia and has a combination of public health and international research experience across Sweden, Singapore and Malaysia. She graduated with a Master in Global Health from Karolinska Institutet 2016 and analysed data from the Regassa study in Sweden.Mattias Hammarhorn started at MyIndicators as an intern and is now working as a Full stack developer. Mattias graduated from the program System development .Net  at Learnia Yrkeshögskola 2018.Sandhya Rani started at MyIndicators after she graduated from the program Technical tester at Jensen yrkeshögskola  and is now working as a software tester.

Freska, voted one of the hottest tech start-ups in Finland, is an online home services company currently disrupting the traditional home services industry in the Nordics. The market for home services is large and growing, although fragmented. With a focus on service quality and process optimisation, together with strong values forming a coherent company culture, Freska has rapidly taken a lead in the Finnish and Norwegian markets and has expanded into Sweden. The current revenue rate for the Freska Group is over 20 MEUR. Freska has been trusted by its customers over 300,000 times (and counting!) and takes pride in maintaining a quality rating above 4.7/5 stars. Freska is also a digital pioneer with an in-house team of engineers and product designers revolutionising how a traditional service company can be operated. The Freska vision is to become the leading player in the home services market in Northern Europe by 2025. The Company is backed by top-tier venture capitals and have raised over €10M to date. The aim is to scale the organisation rapidly, but in a manner that does not harm the culture and company values.

We are a Stockholm-based tech startup with a vision to make it simple for people everywhere to form habits that build towards healthier, happier lives. Lifesum gives people personalized navigation for health and lifestyle improvement. By tapping in to mobile sensor technology and combining it with passion for design and applied psychology , we try to create delightful user experience that improves health for the mainstream.

Bitbar is a technology and service company with focus on providing high-performance mobile software development and testing solutions for mobile app, game and web developers. Bitbar provides business-critical tools and technology for mobile app testing and mobile monitoring. Bitbar products have been used to make many of the most popular mobile apps and games reliable, highly optimized and compatible across the Android and iOS device ecosystems.