Penni.io is a strategic partner to insurers, brokers and distribution partners in the transformation process towards digital distribution. Today insurers and brokers are not able to sell digitally through partnerships due to constraints on internal IT-systems, lack of API’s for digital collaboration and not knowing how to establish customer journey for online sales through partners. Penni.io solves this for our clients! Penni.io is conceived as a global player from our founding and our ambitions are sky-high. Our goal is to become the leading platform for digital distribution of insurances.

In short, Vertical is a vibrant, start-up like strategy consultancy that helps companies unleash their growth potential through an innovative, customer-centric and entrepreneurial approach. At the top of our strategic agenda is a focus and specialisation within disruptive (digital) business models, incubation and customer experience.

We simplify the interaction between humans and computers, bringing back tactile push buttons to the connected world. Flic launched in 2014 as the largest Nordic crowdfunding campaign ever. Since our launch we have grown the impact of the product around the world while maintaining a small and young team. We release new products and services to maintain and grow our position as the go-to solution for connected buttons and novel tactile interfaces. We are a young and dynamic team of engineers and entrepreneurs. In the Flic culture we have no set working hours and very few meetings. The music is often loud and no-one complains when people talk, laugh, play videogames or decides to work from home. We do not generally follow any set processes in our work, instead we adapt and collaborate on everything in a fast paced environment. We learn from each other and we respect all points of view. We believe in transparency, freedom and collaborative responsibility.

Flashnode is the easy one-stop service for business app connections. By transferring data automatically between payment and pos systems, accounting softwares and online stores information is never lost or incorrect. Flashnode has been helping out online merchants, accountants, bookkeepers and several types of SMEs to get rid of error-prone, manual work and they love it! Founded in 2014, operating in Helsinki, Jyväskylä, Frankfurt, and www.

Valossa is a leading provider of advanced solutions for AI-based video recognition and content intelligence. Valossa products extract rich information out of audiovisual video data. Valossa is working as a part of the AI revolution for industries like media and entertainment, advertising, and traditional domains focusing on audiovisual cognitive systems, like vehicles, retail and properties. Valossa is headquartered in Oulu with office in Helsinki.

Zero Keyboard makes data entry into Salesforce fast and easy. It enables users to log calls, create leads, scan business cards, collect information, manage tasks, calendar events, and more on the go, even offline, without typing. Zero Keyboard is the perfect companion for Salesforce users. The company was founded in 2013, in Helsinki, Finland and has an office in Palo Alto, California

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.

The AuroraX loans exchange connects creditworthy borrowers with investors who seek a higher yield and a moderate risk profile.  AuroraX has the simplest, lowest and most transparent cost structure in the loan market, and a loans aftermarket in the same exchange.  Through its partnerships, AuroraX offers complimentary payment protection insurance, state of the art, PSD2-ready credit rating and safekeeping of funds in regulated financial institutions.

Chabber is a platform for booking waiting and kitchen freelancers. Our community consists of +24,000 chabbers (freelancers). We’re a small team dedicated to building the go-to platform for waiting and kitchen freelancers. We are a company within Moment Group - an organization with +200 employees and loads of interesting career opportunities for you. In other words, in Chabber you'll get the startup-vibe in a corporate set-up.

A smart home system for everyoneAnimus Home gives you the Animus Heart, a smart home gateway that connects your smart devices wirelessly. It allows you to control your smart devices at home with one simple app from simply anywhere. Animus Home is focused on creating a foundation that integrates all smart home devices and gives the user the freedom to make their smart home what they want it to be.  Animus is the latin word for soul or mind. In psychology it is described as the human subconscious where decisions are made and converted into events and reactions. These decisions become conscious and sensible, thus you talk, walk and run.The Animus Home philosophy is based on this. One system, one heart, to manage the home.Animus Home is a startup based in one of the most innovative region in Sweden. Two things are promised in a startup. One, it's going to be an adventure with ups and downs. Two, things move fast and you will learn more in one week than you would have done in one month if you worked in a corporate setting. It's not always going to be easy and that's why we believe that having the right team members is key.Is this a challenge for you?

Dogu is a software company founded in 2011 by students from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) who decided to take the road less traveled and build their own company. Dogu is an acronym for Data og Utvikling which in Norwegian means Data and Development. Since 2012, we achieved more than 185% year-on-year revenue growth. Today, Dogu has a team of 21 brave nerds working from 5 offices to build and operate amazing products: SalesScreen and LiveScreen.http://www.dogu.io/ Dogu is one of Norway’s fastest growing startups… but more important than the growth is the sense of family we’ve created.Dogu is a software company founded in 2011 by students from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology who decided to take the road less traveled and build their own company.Since 2012, we achieved more than 185% year-on-year revenue growth. Today, Dogu has a team of 19 brave nerds working from 5 offices to build and operate amazing products: SalesScreen and LiveScreen.The name Dogu is an acronym for Data og Utvikling which in Norwegian means Data and Development. We would have trademarked it, but Dogu happens to also be a Japanese mythical figurine dating back to over 10 000 years ago.So, what sets us apart and what makes us special?Aside from our finesse at the most important of startup sports, such as foosball, pingpong and beer pong, we do a LOT of activities together. We have a monthly budget for team building, which can be used for anything from Friday lunches at a restaurant to GoKarts and Lazer Tag to buying a new BBQ grill or Playstation 4 to play. But it’s not the STUFF that’s important, it’s the PEOPLE. Every day, we talk about the importance of building great culture. We invest in our people, in a BIG way!Professional development and growth is hugely important to us and we place a premium on face-to-face time and team building activities. We serve as groomsmen in each other’s weddings, we enjoy hanging out together on the weekends, and we plan each other’s bachelor parties. As cliche’ as it may sound, we really are best friends… and at the end of the day, that commitment that we have to each other pours out in our passion for building great products.We have a very horizontal leadership structure and do things not because we have to but because we want to. This company is 100% employee owned and we all care about the growth and success because we are invested in it… I’m not talking financially, I’m talking emotionally. We care about what we do and while one of our product mottos is “Never stop at “good enough” when you can be GREAT!”, we strive to go beyond great. We want to be known as entrepreneurs who dream big, plan well and dare to do the impossible.In addition to what sets us apart as people, there are some unique traits that set us apart as a company:1. We are bootstrappedDogu has never received outside funding. This has taught us a great deal about the need of creating great products that people are willing to pay money for, being cost-savings minded and adopting an agile approach to all aspects of our business.2. We are employee-ownedDogu is 100% owned by 12 of its employees keeping shareholders’ and employees’ interests completely aligned.3. We are profitableSince 2012, the company has been been profitable every single year.4. We are growingSince 2012, Dogu has grown its revenues by over 185% year-over-year.5. We are idea-drivenTop-to-bottom decision making is not our strongest suit. We always encourage everyone to come up with, debate and implement new ideas.6. We are distributedBack in the day, Dogu was located in one office in Trondheim. Our team is now distributed across Norway (Trondheim, Oslo, Bergen), USA (San Diego), France (Bayeux) and Holland (Amsterdam).7. We are flexibleWhile sitting together is necessary sometimes, we do not believe that you need to sit in an office from 9 to 17 to do your best work. We empower our team to work from where they want and on a flexible time schedule. All one needs is a laptop and a good internet connection.8. We are geared upAs true digital craftsmen, we want nothing but the best tools to do our work. We use the best tools available, such as Slack, Zoom, Office 365, Dropbox, Pipedrive, Trello, Github and of course, SalesScreen.9. We are brave nerdsWe love technology and are never scared to push the boundaries of what is possible. Our team may not be the largest but our developers are surely amongst the brightest.10. We are business mindedTechnology is only useful when it helps individuals and organizations achieve what was previously not possible. We strive everyday to understand our customers and find ways to help drive their business to become more profitable.11. We are agileWe are a small team and we cherish this. It has forced us to be agile in everything we do, to iterate quickly through possible solutions and to continuously bring improvements to our products and to our organization.12. We are independentWe are a small company with big responsibilities and we flourish with team work. But we are also good at taking ownership to get things done when we see something that needs to be improved.13. We are trustworthyIn the course of a few years, we have gone from being a 3 man unknown consultancy company to becoming a company with Products trusted by some of the most renowned companies in the Nordics: Nordea, Gjensidige, Subaru, Schibsted, Privatmegleren, Visma.14. We are familyWe see the Dogu team as a tightly knitted family who shares memories together and will keepon writing great stories. That also means that we try to include our better halves for social events.15. We are DoguIn December 2015, Dogu’s employees wrote and collectively approved the following internal vision: Dogu shall strive to be excellent and offer the best working environment possible while creating great stories for generations to come.

We are revolutionizing the experience of working in buildings by making it easy to find information about indoor locations. Just like we use digital street maps inside cities to share and find information about places, we are making the interior maps of buildings searchable, and enriched with real-time data. The result is a more efficient use of time and resources, and provides a more joyful working experience.  We are a small but growing international team with backgrounds spanning architecture, 3D-graphics, cleantech, and physics. We are empathic, ambitious, and seriously passionate about user experience.We want to help organize information about indoor environments and see it used by people to find what they need in the moment, and in the longer run make the care for buildings more sustainable.

Impact Roasters is a social coffee enterprise supporting coffee farmers and local communities in Ethiopia through its trade model called Impact Trade.    We bring coffee beans directly from small-scale farmers without middlemen from the highlands of Ethiopia, which we roast locally at our roastery in Copenhagen.    At the moment, we run different Impact projects in Ethiopia bringing significant changes to the local coffee farming communities.   Nidzara Fazlic and Daniel Halalla (Ethiopian)  started the company to bring the Ethiopian coffee culture to Scandinavia: roasting the coffee on the spot, enjoying coffee as a social drink and appreciating the work of the coffee growers who are part of the company. At Impact Roasters, we strive to share our love for coffee and tell the world about the rich Ethiopian coffee culture. We also believe that we can create long-term impact by bringing the farmers directly to the roasters. We want our partners to know where their coffee came from, when it was picked and who are the people behind the process from the beginning to the very end.

Språkkraft offers free, easy to use apps and digital tools for immigrants who want to learn Swedish via personalized media content, with language learning support to 18 languages through integrated dictionaries.Språkkraft has launched two apps: Språkkraft Reading Coach and SVT Språkplay apps (both for mobile and tablets). The apps are compatible with Android and iOS.

The future of appsAppOn is a unique SaaS company that brings app-ideas into life. Getting from an idea into a published app has never been this easy. Building and designing apps is now in the control of the entrepreneur or the project leader. Explore amazing pre-built features and create a perfect app with smart engagement tools, no coding needed. As AppOn is still in beta, we are working on new ground-breaking ideas that will reach the world in the beginning of 2018.  We are an entrepreneurial team that love business analytics, making beautiful products and reaching successful results. .