SproutWorld is the company behind the world’s only patented plantable pencils and makeup liners. With their original circular design, our award-winning products can blossom from the stub of a pencil. Simply plant our products after use to give them a second life as flowers, herbs and even trees🌱 Since 2013, we’ve sold more than 85 million pencils in over 80 countries. Our business clients come from a wide range of sectors from travel, energy, education and logistics to health, medical, NGOs and fashion. Many businesses and customers are looking at how they can be more sustainable. Our plastic-free, minimum waste, ecofriendly products offer a fresher, greener alternative. SproutWorld's plantable products are ideal for campaigns, promotions, conferences, trade shows, corporate gifts, or in the office. We have a range of standard or customization options to suit your business needs. Our plantable products illustrate in a simple and visual way what’s possible when we think with a more sustainable mindset. While a pencil won’t change the world, we believe our second life products can inspire and encourage individuals and businesses to take small steps towards positive change, by adopting more sustainable and circular practices. Because if we all take action, together we can make a greater impact – and be a force for good. 💚

Nordic Valley is a Scandinavian innovation hub focused on building, owning, and scaling AI-driven digital platforms. We create and manage technology ventures that address real structural challenges across talent, innovation, and organisational development. Our approach combines long-term ownership, disciplined execution, and close collaboration with founders, institutions, and ecosystem partners. Nordic Valley serves as the strategic and operational backbone behind our portfolio providing governance, capital structure, and product direction from early build to scale. Under the Nordic Valley umbrella, we develop and own AI-powered platforms including: - Nordly: Talent Hiring Platform - Automated Funding Discovery & Application Tool - Founder & Startup Collaboration Networks - Strategic Advisory & Venture Support

Comeply is a pioneering SaaS compliance management platform designed specifically for organizations navigating the complex regulatory landscapes of highly regulated industries, with particular expertise in pharmaceutical compliance. We transform how companies understand, monitor, and maintain their compliance posture by delivering real-time regulatory intelligence coupled with powerful analytical capabilities. Our platform continuously scans, processes, and interprets regulatory changes from authoritative sources including ICH, FDA, EMA, eCFR, and pharmacopoeias, creating an always-current compliance knowledge base. What sets Comeply apart is our unique ability to automatically compare regulatory requirements against a company's internal quality management documentation, identifying compliance gaps and potential risk areas before they become issues. We provide dynamic compliance scoring that quantifies and visualizes compliance status across various regulatory domains such as safety, site oversight, and quality management, enabling leadership to make informed decisions based on clear compliance metrics. When regulations evolve, our sophisticated delta analysis highlights specific differences between previous and updated requirements, with targeted notifications that connect directly to the departments and processes affected within your organization. Beyond mere notification, Comeply delivers contextual understanding of regulatory changes, showing precisely how they impact your current compliance position and what actions may be required. By automating the labor-intensive processes of regulatory monitoring and interpretation, we enable compliance and quality assurance teams to shift from reactive document management to strategic compliance leadership, reducing compliance risk while simultaneously cutting monitoring costs by up to 80%. For pharmaceutical companies and other organizations where regulatory excellence is non-negotiable, Comeply transforms compliance from an operational burden into a sustainable competitive advantage.

make!mpact is a Nordic Impact Fintech startup with a focus on sustainability and impact investing. Our goal is to generate a positive societal impact by changing people’s financial behaviour.  make!mpact in a nutshell: We are not here to tell you how to live sustainable – nor are we here to tell you what is right or wrong when it comes to investing your money. We know that there are many ways in which you can make the world a better place, but we also know that one of the most effective ways to – collectively – make a difference, is by investing in companies that are helping to generate a positive societal impact. You might already now be thinking that investing is for someone with years of experience and deep industry knowledge – and of course, a lot of money to invest. While this may be true for many of the impact investors out there, it definitely shouldn’t stop you from getting started on your own impact investing journey – no matter your income or knowledge about investing and/or sustainability. Our m!club app matches the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to global listed companies that share the same values as you. Our goal is to enable you to make informed decisions about investments that align with your values represented in the 17 SDGs and thereby get you started investing with a sustainable mindset. The Team: We are currently a team consisting of +30 passionate, innovative and purpose-driven people with +15 nationalities. We are a large group of highly qualified young people (students and newly graduates) with various competencies within Business Development, Data Science, UX & Service Design, Web Development, Graphic Design, Video Editing, Marketing, Communication, and Finance. See organizational diagram here on: https://theorg.com/org/makeimpact/org-chart Varan Pathmanathan (CEO & Founder) has more than 10 years of experience within the financial sector, where his focus mainly has been on IT, Strategy, Business Development, Sales, Marketing and Fintech. Combining our different educational backgrounds, our unique insights into various industries as well as our strong belief in the core idea of make!mpact, we can take make!mpact from the drawing board and bring it to life – ready to empower YOU to invest in tomorrow’s world. Be the movement make!mpact 🌍

We’re Reinventing Hiring for the World’s 2.7 Billion Frontline Workers About Kiku Kiku is the first automation platform built for the 80 % of the global workforce – front-of-house staff, retail associates, caregivers, drivers, warehouse teams - workers that make society function. We focus on 2 things at Kiku: - 10x efficiency in hiring - 10x the experience for candidates. Our AI-agent is specialized in high-volume hiring flows - finding, engaging, and shortlisting candidates 24/7 in 100 + languages, at a fraction of manual recruiting cost and with a far better experience for applicants and hiring managers. We’ve just closed a €4M seed round led by Cherry Ventures (plus top EU angels) and are assembling the founding team that will turn Kiku from clever prototype into a category-defining product.

🚀 About Halfspace.ai: Welcome to Halfspace.ai, where our mission is to revolutionise the world of data by building next-generation artificial intelligence products. Our team of experts create state-of-the-art AI solutions that transform businesses, improve lives, and shape the future. We take pride in our diverse and inclusive work environment that fosters creativity, collaboration, and continuous learning.

Garden is a development automation platform for Kubernetes and cloud native applications. The widespread adoption of cloud native technologies such as containers and Kubernetes has made it easier than ever to operate and scale applications. But important developer workflows have been overlooked or neglected along the way. Many developers find that they’re now less productive than they were before the cloud native era. Developers working on distributed microservices applications have been left without an efficient way to build, run tests, and iterate in a production-like environment. Garden makes it easy to spin up production-like environments for development, testing, and CI, and to use the same workflows for every stage of the process. With Garden, developers get fast feedback exactly when they need it, and DevOps teams are no longer bogged down with provisioning and managing ad hoc environments.

Stellar is a leading influencer marketing company, known for its revolutionary software. With our influencer platform, marketers can get rid of spreadsheets and automate the tedious manual process of influencer and campaign analysis, using data to make better decisions about the influencers they hire, and measure the ROI from their campaigns Our mission: to develop the most innovative solutions to make influencer marketing more transparent, easier and more effective – for everyone. “From Big Data to Big Stories”: the Stellar SaaS offers a wide range of data and functionalities, allowing Communication, PR or Influence managers to automate their tasks and better optimise their influencer collaborations on Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Facebook and Twitter: influencer research (+15M profiles), analysis of their profiles and audiences, campaign management, content monitoring and both performance & ROI reporting. Today, Stellar has a young, dynamic and growing team spread over Paris, Brussels and Copenhagen.

UNIwise is a successful Danish EdTech business. WISEflow, our digital assessment platform is making a real difference to the student and faculty experience of exams and assessment in universities right across Europe. UNIwise started as a spin out of a Danish university itself and have kept strong ties to the higher education sector in terms of client knowledge and know how. Behind are a visionary management and dedicated team of developers, consultants, supporters and staff in constant expansion and operating from our three main locations in Aarhus, Denmark (HQ), Manchester, UK, Germany and Norway. UNIwise collaborates today with over 120 educational sectors in Scandinavia, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Belgium, Austria, Portugal etc.

The stock market is one of the best tools for individual and societal wealth creation. Astro changes the way we invest by giving you access to expert information and tools, but astronomically simple with the Money Feed, Smart Risk and delightful visuals. Do you obsess over details in design, engineering, or compliance? Send over an email to ras@astro.io We're a design and tech-obsessed team with an innate drive to bend the norms of the financial industry, we're rebuilding the investment platform from the ground up to help you invest with ease. We exist to create value for people and have no time for mediocrity and politics. Integrity, productivity, and creativity are a must. We like smart multi-artists and generalists who learn fast. Where money flows, the future goes - we shape the economy and society together.

Waitly.dk is a leading software solution for managing housing waitlists. We eliminate the manual work involved in handling waitlists for co-operative housing, rentals, and allotments. Our platform ensures a smooth and transparent sign-up process, allowing house hunters to see their position on the waitlist before registering. We have automated all communication, payments, and information management, enabling housing associations and administrators to use their time more efficiently. Today, we support a wide range of housing organizations in digitizing their waitlist management, and we continuously develop new features to make administration even easier. Want to be part of our proptech journey? Get in touch with us now! Waitly.dk was created by people who have experienced firsthand how challenging it can be—not only to find a new home but also to manage multiple waitlists. We saw a problem we could relate to, and today, we help hundreds of housing associations and thousands of home seekers with a smarter and more efficient solution.

All your contracts - from all departments - in one place. Control your contracts with confidence & ease Everything you need to manage, track, and finalise contracts — all in one clear, actionable space. As your budgets get squeezed even tighter, every decision counts! Having a clear overview of your contracts means seeing all available opportunities at the right time—ASAP!

At Baser, we are revolutionizing the market for parasols and parasol bases. Our innovative patent introduces a superior locking system that excels in functionality and affordability within the mass market. Our vision is global, reflecting our international perspective, and yes, we do have a penchant for high-quality coffee. Our company culture is profoundly shaped by the principles outlined in "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People." We foster an environment that encourages proactivity, a deep desire to learn, and the sharing of expertise. We value employees who are ready to contribute ideas and take initiative. We embrace the mantra that "failure is the First Attempt In Learning." This philosophy underscores our supportive culture, where we focus on personal and professional growth, providing the necessary tools for success. Key principles we live by include being proactive, effective planning to prevent burnout, fostering win-win situations with everyone we interact with, and practicing empathetic communication, especially in challenging situations. By recognizing our diverse strengths and skills, we synergize to achieve far greater outcomes.

November First improves cross-border and international payments based on transparent real-time currency exchange rates allowing businesses around Europe to start saving money and time on all their international and local payments and transfers.November First collaborate with one of the biggest banks in Europe to deliver the cheaper currency to companies of all sizes.November First will expand its operation throughout Europe and will be looking for talented and ambitious people to realize the potential. We have people from different countries who each contribute to the culture of the team. We are placed near the harbor, so we do jump in the water when it is not too cold. We love a great bottle of wine and from time to time play board games.

At DigitalGuest, we are dedicated to helping hotels deliver exceptional digital guest experiences through our customizable white-label platform. Since launched in 2016, our platform has grown from a simple digital room folder to a comprehensive platform that helps hoteliers optimize operations, boost revenue, and enhance guest satisfaction. With over 400 customers, we are proud to be a market leader in Europe for post-booking guest experience, communication, & upselling. Our passion for technology and the hospitality industry drives us to continuously innovate and improve our platform, making it even more beneficial for hoteliers. Want to join us on this exciting journey? 🤩