XYZ Enterprises is developing BetterCity to help cities improve urban quality and tackle climate change by leveraging other cities. The What: There are about 1 million city governments globally. Cities are faced with budget constraints and spend a lot of money on research to improve decision making. Information about other cities and solutions is dynamic and always changing, but research projects are static. The How: BetterCity is SaaS platform to help cities improve urban quality and tackle climate change by leveraging other cities. The BetterCity platform will include city profiles with information such as: • % of travellers using each type of transportation • Car sharing and micromobilty services • EV charging • Parking • Related pricing for travelers • Related legislation • Projects Advantages to cities: • Make better decisions • Save money • Cooperate and compete with other cities The Why: Our mission is to help transform cities on a global scale to improve urban quality and help tackle climate change.

The BioInnovation Institute Foundation (BII) is an international commercial foundation with a non-profit objective supported by the Novo Nordisk Foundation. BII operates an incubator to accelerate world-class life science innovation. Our vision is to support world-class life science innovation that drives development of new solutions by early life science start-ups for the benefit of people and society. With continued positive development, The Novo Nordisk Foundation can provide up to EUR 470 (3,5 mia. DKK) to BII over 10 years.

Alinor is building AI digital workers for procurement. We help manufacturing companies 20x their direct procurement operations through autonomous agents that handle supplier outreach, quote evaluation, and much more. Our platform replaces manual processes typically managed through email and Excel, centralizing and automating all stakeholder interactions across the procurement and sourcing workflow.

‘Pick Your Pour’ is a unique digital menu - opening the world of taste in food and drink for everyone. Knowing how confusing a menu with lists of unknown ingredients and names can be, we aim to make it easier for guests to find something they like. ‘Pick Your Pour’ will customise a personal menu for every guest depending on what they’re looking for through a series of itemised questions. Saving both time and energy in this process will improve the customer experience in your restaurant or bar. We aspire to be a valued tool for both the service industry professionals and their guests. The founding idea was the wish to provide a possibility for curious customers to find new cocktails on their own, knowing they would enjoy the originality of their choice. Combining efficiency and customer interaction. We are currently developing a software program with the digital cocktail menu for restaurants and bars that want to increase their beverage sales and develop their in-house knowledge.

Our ambition is to accelerate the grid-scale energy storage revolution. Geniess provides software to help battery storage system developers identify the right customers, right-size battery storage installations, and optimize the overall business case & system configuration. This means their battery storage clients such as solar plants, electric ferries, and zero-emission construction sites can make battery decisions easier, faster and more profitable - meaning more positive investment decisions and tangible bottom-line impact.

FOROS is a green investment platform that makes forest management and investing simple and accessible for everyone. Our key features are: sustainable forest management and secure cross-border investing. Forestry is a dinosaur industry that we aim to disrupt. Coordination among marketplace participants is very fragmented. For a forest owner, it is cumbersome finding out prices from different forestry companies and finding a trustworthy partner, especially across borders. Foros opens up opportunities for much wider groups of people to benefit from owning forests. People will be able to invest in forests at ease, entrusting forest management to our experienced forestry professionals who will take good care of forests and manage them sustainably. Forest owners will get our offers and suggestions for how to best manage the forest. We call them 'your forest value growth plan'. These offers forest owners will be able to activate and implement within a few button clicks. Behind the scenes, to aid better decision making we will utilise big data analytics and machine learning. To date we have handled €24m in forest land transactions. This shows that there is a dire need for a digital, modern solution for existing forest owners.

Colorful Standard is a four-year-old sustainable essentials brand with flagship stores in London, Paris, Berlin, Zurich, Antwerp, and Copenhagen. The brand was created due to a need within the fashion industry to improve the level of standards and ethics and help undo the damage done to the environment. That's why the brand colors the world responsibly with fair, organic, and climate-positive products in over 50 environmentally friendly colors and 20 plus styles.

Advance B2B is a full-stack marketing agency specializing in B2B SaaS and subscription businesses. We offer a full range of marketing services, including strategic growth and content marketing, marketing technology, data & analytics expertise, customer and audience research, paid advertising, and growth experiments. We can help you build a scalable and repeatable marketing engine that minimizes your customer acquisition cost, rockets the monthly recurring revenue, and maximizes your customer lifetime value. We work with companies like Shortcut, Drift, TalentAdore, Recright, and Sympa. “Advance B2B has been an invaluable resource in our growth journey”, says one of them (that’s actually Rudan, VP of Marketing at Shortcut). All this means we are a strategic marketing partner that brings together a long-term strategic approach and short-term wins & growth hacks any day of the week. In other words: We’ll help you get measurable results from your marketing efforts — today AND tomorrow. 🤑 So, whatever your marketing challenge (whether it’s CAC, LTV, MRR, or any other acronym), we are ready to deliver the impact you need. Sound good? ⭐️ We're a HubSpot Diamond Certified Agency Partner ⭐️ See more at www.advanceb2b.com

The Company ViaBill operates at the intersection of the eCommerce, payments, and consumer credit sectors, and is an industry pioneer and # 1 BPNPL company in the world’s most advanced eCommerce market. An industry which is experiencing explosive growth. Becoming the best at something isn’t easy. It takes skill, hard work, and an unmatched level of ambition and determination. Our team is international, experienced and most of all, hardworking. In just a few short years, we’ve grown from our first office in an art gallery in Denmark to having our team located all over the globe, including Manhattan and Madrid offices. And now we’re on the hunt for exceptional talent to help us scale our business in Europe. From a handful of customers to handling transactions worth more than $150M per year, we aren’t afraid of new challenges and new markets. Our strategy has been validated with external investment from leading VC’s Headline, BlackFin Capital Partners and Fasanara Capital. We won’t lie, scale-ups take a lot of hard work. It takes something extraordinary to come out on top. And we want you to go the extra mile for the company – and yourself. “Opportunities multiply as they are seized.” – Sun Tzu Are you ready to dive into a new challenge with a team of committed, motivated, and talented individuals seeking to build the biggest global point-of-sale financing solution? To join the first company that together with our partner, MasterCard, took BNPL to the physical stores?

Peppy Pals is an award-winning EdTech company developing playful and digital experiences for lifelong, social and emotional learning (EQ/SEL). The award-winning, language-free apps, books, movies, toys and activities designed for children ages 2-8 have proven to be effective in both homes and schools worldwide. By using storytelling and humor, Peppy Pals' unique way of learning sparks conversations between children and adults on important social and emotional skills such as empathy, emotions, self-esteem and problem-solving.

Entrepedia AS is a "not for profit" company, set up as a subsidiary for the investment company Firda. Best practices, documents, templates, etc. from the portfolio companies will be made available for everyone through the soon to be released Entrepedia platform. Our purpose is to support founders and company builders to set up a good company from the start and further provide advice through the journey, and so increase the chances of new Norwegian successes and industry. Entrepedia's mission is to make the Nordics more innovative, starting with Norway. We are a small team consisting of: Oliver Halvorsrød, CEO  of Entrepedia and former Digital lead for ABB Norway, representing ABB Technology Ventures in NorwayGeir Førre, serial entrepreneur and Managing Partner in Firda – Founder of EntrepediaMagnus Nordseth, investment professional and Partner in Firda - active contributor to Entrepedia.A growing base of key players in the community that want to contributeYou?

A powerful wave is sweeping across the world, moving control of personal information away from businesses and back into the hands of consumers. However, this new paradigm of data privacy brings new challenges as well: It has imposed unprecedented trade barriers and legal complexities between companies and across the countries in which they operate. We are here to enable companies to become amazing data citizens and make it effortless to do business in a global world.

We want to make it easy to buy fresh, locally caught fish. We connect fishermen with local fish consumers. There is currently no easy system that connects consumers directly to the source of their seafood, although there is a growing desire towards eating locally. That is why we are developing a platform to make this more easy, cost efficient and accessible.

Paytack is a Nordic start-up offering an affordable customer loyalty platform for local businesses for their customer in the form of cashbacks to retain them and increase customer loyalty. A simple loyalty platform that helps local businesses retain customers and boost their profits. No need for loyalty cards, coupons or offer codes, just direct engagement through the PayTack app

SpinDrive commercializes levitation technology. Our passion is to push energy efficiency to the maximum level and promote oil-free solutions in various industries. SpinDrive provides active magnetic bearings. This equipment ensures high system efficiency enabling 4 years payback time. Frictionless bearings allow maintenance-free operation and save over 0.5 M euro over the product lifecycle.