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NewSchool

NewSchool develops innovative digital tools for collaboration and project based learning by combining agile working methods, psychology, games and mobile media.The tools draw on a set of successful business practices  - the kanban boards for Lean Management, adapted to education purposes, in real-time. By focusing on the organization of the process, not its content, it helps develop self-regulation and collaborative skills for 21st century learners. We are an education technology start-up, with extensive change management experience, unique insights in workforce trends and technology, and pedagogy at its core. All team members have solid international experience from fields like mobile technology, business development and technology management, international education, instructional design, and learning sciences research.The team consists of Fredrik Harloff, Chief Executive Officer, and Mihaela Tabacaru , Community Manager, both co-founders of NewSchool, working full time. The third co-founder, Stian Hofslett Thowsen, works full time as a teacher and part of management team at Langaugen secondary school in Bergen, Norway. Besides the three co-founders, NewSchool relies on an interdisciplinary board of administration with senior level execs: Anne Posner, Bjarne Solhaug, and Paal Kaperdal, all with broad experience, covering international business development expertise, publishing house and human resources expertise, and digital transformation expertise. Frequent contributor and education research expert is Marina Hirnstein, PhD in cognitive psychology, expert in learning analytics .We have offices in Bergen and Oslo,  members of two incubators: Nyskapningsparken in Bergen (http://www.nyskapingsparken.no/) and SoCentral in Oslo, Nordic Center for Social Innovation (www.socentral.no). With an international mindset from day 1, we have been testing our product in classrooms across Europe, from Norway to Denmark, Portugal and Romania, to USA. Our extensive education network made it also possible to plan pilots in emerging countries like India and Iraq.

Vectron Biosolutions AS

Vectron provides services and technology for production of recombinant proteins in bacteria. Core to Vectron's activities is the patent-protected Pm/xylS expression cassette, dualUTR technology and the VB Solutions method. These methods can be used to increase yields and solubility of various proteins, including many therapeutic proteins. The technologies are available through partnerships and licensing.

WeWantToKnow

WeWantToKnow is a French-Norwegian company that focuses on Game-Based Learning. Its first product is the math game "DragonBox" and it has more games in the planning stages. The company was founded by financial analyst turned math teacher Jean-Baptiste Huyhn, the leading French game developer Patrick Marchal, and former Opera Software executives Rolf Assev and Christen Krogh. WeWantToKnow aims to make learning fun, easy and addictive. DragonBox does away with tedious equations and math quizzes, replacing them instead with a simple game involving cards and a magical box. The game evolves as kids master the skills and concepts presented. After one hour of playing DragonBox, twelve-year olds can tackle equations their parents struggle to solve. DragonBox was pre-launched in Norway to let schools, kids and parents test the game. Almost immediately, it rocketed to the top of the charts, becoming the most purchased app in the Apple App Store in Norway-- displacing other, more traditional games - check it out at - www.dragonbox.com

Style Advice

Style Advice is a new service for fashion lovers: it instantly connects you with professional stylists from all over the world. We make it easy and affordable for you to get honest and professional help, when you need it, wherever you are. Our mission is to help you save time, money and feel confident, by helping you perfect the style you want. We are a very diverse team and while this sounds like a cliché, it is very true. Because of this diversity, we receive perspectives from around over the world. Moreover, the cultural differences among us have worked out really well and fostered an environment where working together is a lot of fun. Our weekly team-meetings, for instance, entail a lot of laughter. We focus on getting a great product out on the market, but having fun while doing so. Our team is competent and has many great and truly experienced people who have worked with large brands such as Google previously.

yta.se

yta.se is on a mission to create homes for teams to thrive in. We're building the future of office space search online with our new real-time marketplace over all vacant rooms in coworkingspaces. Since 2014 we have been working on building the best tools for finding office space online. Finding an office is a broken process many years behind its peers in the private real estate market. Our marketplace strives to be the solution to that problem through innovative data-driven search combined with our expert advisory team, which eables us to help hundreds of companies finding their new office every year.

AirDine

AirDine is a service that invites people to dine in homes. We want to make it possible for people, who otherwise would never meet, to get together and have a good time over food. AirDine transforms every home into a little restaurant. As a host you make money and meet new people. As a guest you socialise and get to enjoy good meals.

COCOA Invest

COCOA offers certified ethical and Islamic-compliant robo advisory wealth management and investment solutions from USD 100. Halal and ethical investing. Intelligent, beautiful and designed for your smartphone. Through our digital mobile app, investors build up a unique investment portfolio investing in some of the leading global funds. This is a long-term investment and saving solution designed to grow with low risk over the long term, not a trading app. Located in Copenhagen, with offices also in Bahrain, we are regulated and licensed by the Central Bank. We are targeting the 1.8 billion Muslim investors who have had access to little to no solutions to date. COCOA has established relationships with leading global asset managers (some of the largest in the world) as well as the bank partnerships required to make the solution live. We are close to launching the application in the sandbox with a full rollout in the next few months. We are currently looking for a co-CTO.

Playlab

Playlab is a Danish mobile game company based in Bangkok.Founded in 2013 by 3 Danish entrepreneurs, Playlab has grown to be one of the biggest mobile game development companies in Southeast Asia. Our head studio is in Bangkok with a second studio in Manila.Our player base of +30 million global installs gives us a solid platform on which to fuel further growth and become a globally leading mobile game developer. We develop our own games and publish ourselves - giving us full creative freedom!

Gro Play

We are a game studio with a social mission. We want to entertain kids and families while also changing the way people think about important issues like health and sustainability. Games are simply great tools for learning. We are targeting the entire family, from grandmother to grandchild, which creates a common playground for all family members. Groplay is a game changer. We bridge the gap between age groups; we learn kids about important issues, and we entertain. We are interested in doing good. Social responsibility is not just a central part in our games, but in every aspect of how we work. For instance, we have recruited people with disabilities and we have worked with MISA. Doing so is obvious to us. We are aiming to merge high-level entertainment with human issues to get kids to relate to problems in a playful way. If we can make it fun and accessible, we can increase interest in social issues among children. Further, we want to create a common playground for both children and their parents and grandparents. We are a multinational team. Some of us work from home, some in Stockholm, some in Poland and some in Hungary: we assume this makes us a virtual team. Despite this, we speak every day, and we have Monday meetings to update each other and share input. We recognize effort, and we celebrate when we reach milestones.

Wexer Virtual

Wexer Virtual supplies video based group exercise and cycling classes to health clubs in more than 36 countries across 5 continents - including the majority of the top 25 health club groups globally. The Wexer Virtual platform allows both on-demand and pre-scheduled classes with high quality content from top brands. This gives members an optimized flexibility and maximized facility utilization for club owners.  With 300% growth over the past year, Wexer is a truly global provider of virtual classes. Our mission is to make world class exercise accessible to more people by providing a convenient and non-intimidating way to exercise through the use of technology. Our vision is to create a healthier and happier planet by delivering a partner-centric business approach. At Wexer we don’t have customer, only partners and we work vigorously to earn and keep partners’ trust and to secure long-term relationships.

Canavita

CBD oil can be an effective supplement to ensure that you achieve the quality of life that you desire. Canavita ensures that you can safely and securely buy CBD oil of the highest lab testet quality online. Canavita is currently operating in Denmark and Germany and has currently sold for over 500.000 DKK with a returning customer rate of 25%.

LENEO

LENEO is a FinTech company founded in 2016 in Denmark with the aim of delivering financial technology and services that fuels an Asset-as-a-Service, rental, leasing or subscription business. Our Mission is to support companies in the movement from Ownership to Usership and enable new circular business models. We offer advisory, an Asset-as-a-Service management platform and complementing services that enable North European Corporate Clients to successfully add circular Business models and services which will increase their profitability, competitiveness and added value to their end-customers. Based on an intuitive SaaS platform. Our SaaS solution can easy can be configurated and integrate with other platform to meet different requirement. With option to add different components for a fully Outsourced Managed solution including the platform and all necessary features and services.

Elvium

Elvium is a online recruitment software that changes the way businesses handle job applications. Elvium is a easy-to-use tool for HR managers. It is our vision to continue to deliver the most intuitive e-recruitment system.

Fairkredit

Fairkredit tilbyder finansiering til boligkøbere i Danmark, som ikke passer ind i bankernes kassetænkning, gennem et stort netværk af professionelle investorer. Vi har et ungt team, hvor der er kort vej fra idé til handling, og hvor vi  brænder for vækst, udvikling og innovation. Vi arbejder i den finansielle sektor og har primært fokus på boligfinansiering til yderområderne.

Swush.com

Swush.com makes sport fun by engaging users in real-time fantasy manager games.Our business is online engagement and our platforms are Holdet.dk and Lynholdet.dk. We do everything from developing, support and marketing in-house and we are located in a bright and open office space in Vesterbro, Copenhagen.Our vision is to make sport fun, and we are always keen to hear from talented people who can help us grow and make sport even more fun.