Helsinki Think Company is the Entrepreneurship Society of the University of Helsinki, with a mission to bring academics to action. We host four co-working and event venues in Helsinki, as well as organize a wide range of events, workshops, hackathons and idea accelerators together with our vast network of partners. In the core of everything we do is our community, a multidisciplinary tribe of ambitious changemakers supporting each other and making an impact.

Educas helps high school and university students learn how to learn. Our digital platform Superlæring gives students the insights and tools they need, and is used by students and teachers alike. Our content is based on scientific research from areas such as psychology and cognitive neuroscience, and is validated by learning experts.

Edventures is an impact-focused edtech and future-of-work startup offering a personalised entrepreneurship coaching and learning app to empower more people through entrepreneurship. We’re exploring how AI can make entrepreneurship as accessible as texting. With 75 million young people globally disengaged from work and education, the economic and social cost is staggering—€153 billion annually in Europe alone. Traditional entrepreneurship support excludes over 90% of potential founders, leaving millions without guidance. Edventures is bridging this gap with AI-powered, scalable coaching. Our web app features Anna, a conversational AI coach; Eddie, a gamified learning module “Duolingo for entrepreneurship”; and Franklin, a coaching dashboard for data-driven mentorship. By leveraging LLMs, a proprietary AI-system, and data-driven insights, we provide personalised, ongoing support that adapts to entrepreneurs’ needs. Our vision is to empower millions of overlooked entrepreneurs, reducing NEET rates and fostering economic inclusion. With a B2B2C model, we work with entrepreneurship support organisations to scale globally and we’re already running paid pilots.

Copenhagen Fintech is an association built on the vision to be one of the leading Fintech Hubs in the global financial services industry by supporting and catalyzing the next era of technology-led corporate and startup innovators. We combine the visionary ideas of fintech entrepreneurs, the experience of the established financial sector, the desire for societal benefits of the public sector and the research from the universities with the overarching purpose of building a thriving fintech ecosystem for the benefit of all stakeholders.

Shape is a mobile development studio, dedicated to making outstanding apps, and we are proud that our work is touched, tapped, swiped and pinched by millions of people every day. Maybe you haven’t noticed it (yet), but you could very well be one of our many daily users yourself. We’re characterized by our belief in prioritizing quality over quantity and always going the extra mile to do things right. We’re striving for perfection. Our clients increasingly perceive apps as technology investments and accordingly expect them to translate into business results. Besides orchestrating our delivery to ensure business results, we help clients separate digital opportunity from hype and build strong strategies opinionated by our technical experience and start-up acumen. If you're interested in the mobile area in general, you are also more than welcome to sign up to our monthly digest: http://www.shape.dk/mobile-digest. The digest will serve you as a shortcut to the most important news on the mobile area.

Medusa is an ecommerce software startup of 17 people with primary operations in Denmark, and employees in Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Brazil, and many more places. All working together from remote locations to redefine how modern digital commerce applications are built with our open-source commerce platform. Medusa had its first commit in 2020, raised the first round of capital in 2021, and became the largest open-source commerce project on GitHub in 2022. Today, Medusa counts a 10k developer community, has crossed +1M npm downloads, and has raised $9M in funding. Yet, we are only just getting started. More about the product at medusajs.com

At Jurnie, we revolutionise the tedious and time-consuming manual process of updating systems with unstructured data, freeing up teams and transforming data into valuable insights. Initially we are focusing on streamlining CRM updates post-customer interactions. Through conversations with over 50 businesses — from small startups to large enterprises — we discovered that teams frequently use platforms like Slack, Excel, Teams, Notepad, or Google Docs for note-taking. Teams work where they want to work, but this often leads to frustration, omissions and errors getting CRMs updated. Our innovative solution integrates with the client's existing tech stack, utilising AI to extract unstructured data from these various mediums and seamlessly update CRM records from where teams are already working. By prioritising efficiency, reducing update time, and enhancing data accuracy through AI-driven automation, we make administrative tasks simpler and more reliable. This is just the beginning. Our ambitions are to expand and accommodate more sources of unstructured data and destinations for structured data. With preliminary technical feasibility confirmed and use-case validation from future users, Jurnie is poised to transform data management processes.

Orea.ai addresses the challenge of scaling personal conversations in the digital realm. In an era where the demand for one-to-one interactions with influencers, experts, creators, and coaches is soaring, the limitation of these personalities' time and availability becomes a significant bottleneck. Fans and followers seek more intimate, personalized engagements beyond social media comments and public posts, but the reality is that individualized attention from high-profile individuals is not scalable - until now. We've developed a groundbreaking solution that leverages artificial intelligence to create AI clones of these sought-after personalities. This technology enables fans to have interactive, conversational experiences with virtual counterparts of their favourite figures. Our AI clones are designed to mimic the real personalities' mannerisms, speech patterns, and knowledge base, offering a realistic and engaging interaction that feels personal and genuine. The problem we solve is twofold: For influencers and public figures, our solution offers a scalable way to connect with their audience, enhancing their engagement without the unsustainable demand on their time. For fans, it provides an accessible, anytime opportunity to interact with their idols in a way that was previously impossible. This approach not only democratizes access to personalized interactions with influential figures but also opens up new avenues for content creation, coaching, and advice that are tailored to individual needs and questions. Orea.ai is at the forefront of redefining fan engagement, making personal conversations scalable and more accessible than ever before.

We keep quality high and prices low by making our products ourselves and selling them directly to consumers, with no need for costly middlemen. We are Europe’s largest producer of windows and doors sold directly to consumers online. Our more than 700 employees are spread across corporate HQ in Denmark and our manufacturing sites in Estonia, Poland, and Romania. We currently sell our products in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Finland, Norway, Poland, Sweden, the Netherlands, and the UK. At JABS Group, we support the important Sustainable Development Goals defined by the United Nations. We place particular emphasis on Goal 12 (responsible consumption and production), Goal 13 (climate action), and Goal 17 (partnerships for the goals). These Sustainable Development Goals help us to be ambitious and strive for more responsible production and development. We take on shared responsibility as a manufacturer and actively seek to support the United Nations’ goals. OUR MISSION We manufacture affordable, sustainably produced, made-to-measure windows and doors and sell these directly to consumers via our online channels, which provide a best-in-class consumer experience. OUR VISION To be the first choice for every consumer in Europe who buys windows and doors online.

Qluent enables everyone to access data insights easily by leveraging Generative AI to handle the complex task of extracting data from databases. What is Qluent? Qluent is a smart business analytics assistant, designed to enable non-technical users to access, explore and gain insights from their business data. It leverages the power of large language models (LLM), which are powering services such as ChatGPT, enabling users to interact with their data in a fully natural language environment, without any additional learning. What sets it apart from other LLM-based services is that it is connected to your business data sources, and uses that live data when answering questions, instead of being pre-trained on a static dataset. How does Qluent work? All data sources, such as SQL databases or data providing APIs, define a language for querying them. Qluent is trained to transform natural language questions into queries for these data sources, and then additionally trained to query your business data source in particular, with the awareness of the data objects (e.g. SQL tables, columns, or API query fields) this data source holds. When users ask a question, Qluent first translates it into a query for the data source, and then executes it on the data source, returning the results to the user. Additionally, Qluent provides users with an explanation of how the question was understood and how the query that was generated actually works, allowing users to understand how the system works interpreted their question and letting them guide the answering process with precision.

AirPlate is a startup specializing in digital license plates for drones. Despite our small size, we develop comprehensive electronics, hardware, and software, ensuring compliance with legislation. Our target market includes drone manufacturers seeking legal adherence. We provide tailored technological components for manufacturing and integration. AirPlate supports compliance in the dynamic field of unmanned aerial vehicles.

CYVI is an early-stage cyber insurance platform backed by one of Europe’s top VCs. With less than 5% of European small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) protected by cyber insurance, CYVI is on a mission to reinvent cyber insurance. CYVI enables multiple B2B channels to sell cyber insurance while helping insurers monitor client security hygiene. Our compliance cybersecurity platform allows channels such as IT providers to provide embedded cyber insurance to their clients and create new revenue streams in the process.

We are in indie game developer based out of Oslo, Norway. We have to date launched five games for PC, Switch and mobile platforms. At the moment we develop "Life Below", a creative strategy city-builder where you build and manage ocean ecosystems. So a reef builder! In addition to our own IP, we develop games and gamification projects for society. We call ourselves an impact game developer as many of our projects are focused on positive change to society. Right now we develop a game for all kids going into hospital, a history game to spice up history learning in schools, a city cleaning game using the mascot of Oslo, a climate game and an awareness game tackling difficult issues in relation to sex and identify. Many of our impact projects are successes, and are widely used. Our aim is to make society better, one game at the time.

Nordic Data Resources is a leading online data provider, well established in all the Nordic markets after a successful market launch in Q4 2015. We have run more than 1000 campaigns with 100 media agencies in our first 18 months, which generated revenue of € 0,5 million in 2016. We have a monthly run rate of more than € 100 k, which will increase significantly moving forward, particularly when we have globally launched our data. 1) PRODUCT We have developed a scalable, full-reach consumer classification online audience data suite, available for any programmatic platform and digital channel. We specialize in geo-targeting and consumer classification data to reach the entire population. Our data provide a unique way of targeting audiences in a safe and reliable way, available for both buy-side and sell-side, as well as data exchanges and DMPs. Please look at our video presenting the consumer classification audience data; https://vimeo.com/193398498. 2) REVENUE MODEL We distribute our data through programmatic trading platforms and data exchanges to advertisers/agencies (buy-side) and publishers (sell-side). Our revenue is driven by ad impressions using our data to target more effectively. We offer CPM based pricing model in the programmatic platforms, as well as a monthly fixed DMP agreement (recurring revenue model) 3) STRONG MARKET GROWTH / CUSTOMERS The data market is driven by the strong growth in the programmatic buying of ads on the internet, mobile, and soon TV. It’s the best-performing sector in the ad industry (40% growth in 2016). Our market is both the media buyer and the publishers; Agency customers / buy-side We have run more than 1000 campaigns with 100 agencies and all of the global media agency groups in the Nordic countries. See more about our Buy Side offering; http://nordicdataresources.com/agencies/ Publisher customers / sell side We launched our audiences in the Publisher market in Q1 and are now starting up with leading Nordic publishers, both broadcasters and online publishers. See more; http://nordicdataresources.com/publishers/ 4) GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS We work closely with global players in the online data /programmatic advertising industry, who have established platforms, infrastructure, and customer bases, which helps us to scale our business. We have focused on this since we started and have many great partners like Oracle, MediaMath, Google, Experian, Adform, Semasio, InsightOne, Digital Element, and son. You can see more on http://nordicdataresources.com/platforms/ 5) SCALABLE BUSINESS MODEL Data is the new gold on the internet and represents a strong growth area, growing together with programmatic trading's 30-40% market share. It is predicted that programmatic buying and selling will soon and completely take over the ad market. We have built a global distribution from day one with the leading data exchanges and programmatic trading platforms, so we have a very scalable business and revenue model. We have successfully launched our data in the Nordic markets and are now launched in Germany. Nordic Data Resources has an international "Go to Market" strategy where we plan to globally launch our data in the next 3-9 months. We are able to do this since we have a global audience data set and distribution partners, the key job is to make trading desks and media agencies aware of the existence and great value. As soon as they have tested the data, they can measure their performance, which drives the use of more data. 6) EXPERIENCED  FOUNDER/MANAGEMENT TEAM We are a founding team of 19 internet veterans, and all of us have long internet and online advertising experience. See http://nordicdataresources.com/about/ for the team overview. All in all, the founding team has a total of 150 years of Internet/advertising/data background;

Based in Kongsberg - the heart of the Subsea Valley - Kongsberg Ferrotech is utilizing world-leading competence to develop the first-ever automated solution, the Oktapous, for riser cleaning, NDT inspection, maintenance (coating), and structural repair (glass/carbon fiber reinforcement). The repair will be performed inside the patented Habitat - allowing for composite repairs subsea and in the splash zone while offering quality as if the repair was performed in a laboratory environment. The Oktapous will offer the client around 50% cost reduction, together with improved quality and significantly reduced HSE risk compare to existing solutions by removing the need for rope access, divers, and ROVs. Kongsberg Ferrotech is partly funded by the Malaysian-based oil and gas company, Petronas Charigali. This ensures us access to the market needs during development, an offshore platform for prototype testing, and the critical first client for market acceptance. Schedule highlights: • Development started in September 2015 • Stack-up/dry test in December 2017 • TRL4 testing submerged in February 2018 • Offshore testing on Petronas assets in Q3 2018 • Commercial operations in Q2-3 2019