AscendXYZ is a successful software company with extensive aviation industry knowledge developing disruptive solutions for the aviation industry. Our solutions are built on top of data from satellites, aircraft (LiDAR), radar systems, and manually collected data. We take complex data sources and convert it into applicable, accessible, and actionable information used for airport safeguarding. We help airports and airlines avoid expensive and potentially dangerous bird strikes by revolutionising the way these are predicted. In other words – we make the sky safer by helping to prevent bird strikes in aviation. We have developed our existing solutions together with the European Space Agency. Specifically, for wildlife monitoring we have developed a radar solution that records bird activity, makes real-time risk models, and creates activity predictions. For obstacle assessment and management we deliver 3D terrain models processed to identify obstacles posing a danger to flight procedures. We are an international team of experienced and highly-skilled entrepreneurs, developers, engineers, and data science experts working in close collaboration with aviation industry specialists to support safe uninterrupted aircraft operations.

OmsorgSync is a Swedish healthtech startup building a digital platform that helps families coordinate care for loved ones with chronic illnesses, disabilities, or age-related care needs. Our platform brings medications, medical records, appointments, health information, and family communication together in one secure, easy-to-use space. By combining family-centered care coordination with AI-powered tools, we’re on a mission to reduce the stress and complexity of caregiving, empower families, and ensure that important information never falls through the cracks. Founded in Västerås, Sweden, OmsorgSync is starting locally with the ambition to scale globally.

Tendro is the operating system for change management in complex projects. Our platform consolidates contractual changes, communication, documentation, approvals, and decision-making into a single environment where all project stakeholders work together from the same data. Every change is captured, every decision is documented, and every interaction is automatically traceable. By replacing fragmented workflows and disconnected tools with a single source of truth, Tendro removes information silos and gives project teams complete visibility across the change process. This reduces administrative overhead, minimizes disputes, accelerates decision-making, and protects contractual value throughout the project lifecycle. The result is faster decisions, less administration, better collaboration, reduced risk, and stronger project profitability. In short, Tendro enables organizations to manage complex contracts with the simplicity and control they have been missing.

The Dolce Way is an independent iOS app studio based in Helsinki, Finland. It is the trading name of DT Nova Tmi, a registered Finnish sole trader (business ID 3595452-5), founded in 2025 by Mustafa Tarabya. The studio designs, builds and publishes small, single-purpose iPhone apps across health, fitness, productivity, mindfulness and lifestyle, with 19 apps live on the App Store today. The shelf includes WaterDrop (hydration reminders and daily intake tracking), FastTrack (fasting with analytics and metabolic insights), FocusTimer (Pomodoro-style focus sessions), SimpleStreaks (a habit tracker built around streaks), ZenBreath and Breathe & Relax (breathing and calm), Affirm and Daily Dose (daily affirmations and quotes), GymCoach (an AI-powered personal trainer), Tempo (interval training), Calio (calorie and nutrition numbers), Meal Planner, DayCount, Convertly and QuickConvert (unit and file conversion), Shotkeeper (photo cleanup and storage), DreamNoise (sound for focus and sleep), TripVault (a travel diary) and PaceCoach (running). More are in the workshop, among them FlexFlow, PDFast, ScanSnap, ThinkFlow, SameSide and CVBooster. Every app is built to do one thing well: no bloat, no dark patterns, and nothing tracking you across apps. Apps ship when they are genuinely useful, not on a schedule, and several started as something the studio needed and could not find a decent version of. Alongside the apps, The Dolce Way publishes build notes and articles on hydration, fasting, habits, focus and training, with a clear disclosure whenever a piece mentions an app the studio publishes.

Yesper is the AI civil engineer for construction and infrastructure. Construction and infrastructure teams lose enormous time to manual, document-heavy work — reading tenders, taking off quantities, checking deliverables against the rules. Yesper's AI agents read a project's documents, drawings and models, reason against the Swedish standards, regulations and contracts a project runs on (AMA, AB 04, PBL, Miljöbalken and more), and deliver whole pieces of engineering work: tender review, quantity takeoff from BIM/IFC and drawings, and compliance checks — each with page-level source citations. It integrates live Swedish authority data (Trafikverket, SGU, SMHI, Lantmäteriet), computes in code so the numbers hold, and stores data in the EU.

Maranics builds a platform that digitalizes operational workflows in complex, regulated industries. Where data was previously lost, scattered across silos, or trapped in manual processes, Maranics creates a single connected layer capturing what matters, routing it in real time, and delivering accurate, contextual data directly to the systems that need it.

Nordic Waves Group is a Danish climate-tech and education startup building digital tools and learning experiences that help people better understand climate change, sustainability, and their own impact on the world around them. We believe one of the biggest barriers to climate action is not a lack of information, but a lack of understanding. Climate science is often complex, fragmented, and difficult to translate into everyday decisions. At the same time, traditional learning formats struggle to engage younger generations in meaningful ways. Our mission is to make climate literacy accessible, engaging, and actionable. We are currently focused on two core product areas: Greenhouse Calculator (GHC) – an AI-powered carbon footprint platform that helps users understand their emissions through intuitive calculations, personalized insights, and practical recommendations. The platform is designed to make climate impact understandable in minutes rather than hours. Educational Gaming Universe – a science-based learning platform that combines educational games, interactive experiences, and immersive technologies to teach climate and sustainability concepts. Rather than building games for entertainment alone, we are creating learning experiences with clear educational objectives, developed in collaboration with educators, game designers, developers, and climate scientists. What makes Nordic Waves unique is our interdisciplinary approach. Our team brings together professionals and volunteers from technology, climate science, education, game development, design, communications, and business development. We work closely with a Climate Scientist Board and a growing Teacher Community to ensure that our products are both scientifically credible and educationally relevant. Today, Nordic Waves is an international team of passionate contributors working across Europe and beyond. Together, we are building the tools, experiences, and learning ecosystems needed to strengthen climate literacy and empower informed decision-making in a rapidly changing world. Our long-term vision is to become a leading platform for climate learning, combining digital tools, educational content, and game-based experiences into one connected ecosystem that helps individuals, schools, organizations, and communities better understand and navigate sustainability challenges.

Risustudy er et AI-baseret softwaresystem udviklet til den danske folkeskole. Platformen er bygget op omkring tre centrale brugergrupper: elever, lærere og forældre. Vores mission er at løse nogle af de største udfordringer i folkeskolen – blandt andet mangel på tid, differentieret undervisning og manglende støtte til elever med forskellige behov. I dag oplever mange danske folkeskoler de samme problemer: lærere har for lidt tid til den enkelte elev, undervisningen bliver ofte for “one size fits all”, og mange elever føler sig overset eller tabt i systemet. Det er netop de udfordringer, vi vil være med til at løse gennem teknologi og AI. Idéen bag Risustudy kommer også fra personlige erfaringer. Jeg har selv haft en svær tid i folkeskolen, hvor jeg ikke passede ind i den traditionelle måde at lære på. Jeg er ordblind og har ADHD, og mine udfordringer blev ofte håndteret ved, at jeg blev sat til side i stedet for at få den støtte og forståelse, jeg havde brug for. Det gjorde, at jeg mistede motivation og ikke fik det fulde udbytte af undervisningen. Med Risustudy ønsker vi at skabe et værktøj, der hjælper elever med at lære på deres egne præmisser, giver lærere bedre muligheder for at differentiere undervisningen, og samtidig inddrager forældrene mere aktivt i elevens udvikling. Målet er at skabe en folkeskole, hvor flere elever føler sig set, forstået og støttet i deres læring.

BreatheWise is a wearable device that helps people manage stress and anxiety through guided breathing. It uses subtle haptic feedback to lead clinically backed breathing exercises, offering a simple, screen-free way to calm the body and regain focus. Designed for everyday use, it can be worn discreetly and used anywhere—at work, during travel, or at home. Users follow steady breathing patterns through touch, without needing to look at a screen or listen to audio. By translating proven techniques into physical guidance, BreatheWise makes it easier to build healthy habits and respond early to rising stress. It’s a practical tool that fits into daily life and supports both quick relief and long-term wellbeing.

Tech Nordic Advocates is Northern Europe’s largest and only pan-Nordic/Baltic tech startup organisation. We’re a not-for-profit community that brings entrepreneurs, investors, corporates and experts together to fuel innovation, collaboration and growth across the region and internationally. We’re part of Global Tech Advocates, a worldwide tech community of 48 hubs, across 60 countries and 30,000 tech leaders – helping to connect our ecosystem to the world.

We are building Commu, a platform that helps cities strengthen community, reduce loneliness, and improve wellbeing through everyday acts of help between people. Across Europe, municipalities are facing the same problem: Loneliness is increasing (especially among elderly, newcomers and vulnerable groups). Preventive wellbeing work is underfunded and fragmented and cities struggle to activate citizens in a scalable, measurable way. At the same time, there are thousands of people who want to help but no simple structure to connect them with real needs. Commu solves this gap. We enable municipalities to activate residents, organizations and volunteers into one shared digital community, where people can easily ask for help, offer help, and participate in meaningful local actions. Cities get visibility, data and impact. People get connection, purpose and a sense of belonging. Cities need modern tools to support participation, not just services We already work with municipalities internationally, and now we are building Sweden from scratch. This is not about maintaining a system it’s about creating a new way for cities and people to work together.

We're the small teams’ marketing agency. Without the price tag. We're based in Stockholm, but built for ambitious brands everywhere. We're developing an AI-powered marketing platform, specifically designed to help small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) succeed with their marketing efforts. Our platform automates the entire marketing cycle; from strategic planning and content creation to publishing, data-driven analysis, and continuous optimization. We create a self-learning, closed-loop ecosystem where the results from every activity are automatically fed back into the strategy, ensuring our customers' marketing constantly improves. Our team combines deep expertise in marketing and AI development.

Denmark records what most countries can only estimate. Every company files its ownership, its capital changes, its management and its accounts in the public registers, continuously and by law. The registers are records, not answers. More than 825,000 companies own one another, up to nineteen levels deep. One business appears as many legal entities, and its investors sit several tiers above it. Venture Insights builds and operates Bifrost, the model that resolves that network into one structure: every firm, founder, investor and transaction, dated to the legal transaction date and traceable to the filing it came from. Focused deliberately on Denmark, it identifies roughly ten times as many priced investment deals as the leading international platforms. Institutions use it where the numbers have to hold, among them the Danish Business Authority, the Confederation of Danish Industry, EIFO and Copenhagen Fintech. Filed, not announced. Population, not sample. Exact, not estimated. ventureinsights.dk

Social Mirror is an interactive smart mirror solution for retail that makes the shopping experience more social, digital, and engaging. Today, many shoppers struggle to make confident purchase decisions alone in the fitting room. They want instant feedback from friends or to share their experience online, but most in-store solutions are static and lack digital features. For retailers, this means missed opportunities to connect with customers, gather insights, and differentiate in a highly competitive market. Social Mirror bridges this gap by connecting offline shopping with online interaction. With the mirror, customers can: Invite friends to join their fitting session live via video. Capture outfit photos and receive them directly by email. Experience interactive features that turn the fitting room into a platform for inspiration, sharing, and social feedback. For retailers, Social Mirror creates a new way to engage customers, enhance satisfaction, and strengthen the connection between brand and shopper.

FEESH...the feed for your fish Aquaculture is the fastest-growing food sector and is vital for meeting the protein needs of a growing global population. Yet, its growth is constrained by reliance on two unsustainable protein sources: fishmeal and soy protein concentrate (SPC). Fishmeal is produced from wild-caught fish, putting pressure on already fragile marine ecosystems, while soy production drives large-scale deforestation and carries a heavy carbon footprint. Both are also subject to volatile global markets, making aquafeed production environmentally damaging, expensive, and vulnerable. Insects, particularly Black Soldier Fly Larvae (BSFL), are an attractive and more sustainable alternative. They can be produced locally, upcycle organic waste streams into valuable protein, and have a low environmental footprint. However, despite this potential, insect meal remains a niche ingredient in aquafeeds. The main barrier is chitin, a fiber-like polymer in the insect exoskeleton that reduces digestibility and locks away valuable proteins. This limits inclusion rates of BSFL meal in aquafeeds to just 2–8%, far below the levels needed to meaningfully replace fishmeal and soy. At FEESH, we are solving this problem by applying a precision microbial fermentation platform, enhanced with ultrasonication pre-treatment, to upgrade BSFL meal into a high-performance protein ingredient. Our process disrupts the chitin-protein matrix, making proteins more bioavailable, reducing indigestible fiber, and enriching the lipid fraction with beneficial fatty acids such as EPA and DHA. Additionally, fermentation produces bioactive peptides and immunostimulatory compounds that improve gut health and disease resilience in fish. The result is a fermented insect meal with digestibility levels reaching 90–95%, enabling high inclusion rates of >20% in aquafeeds without compromising fish growth, palatability, or welfare. By combining biological and physical processing, FEESH unlocks the true nutritional potential of insects, transforming them from a niche supplement into a viable replacement for fishmeal and soy protein concentrate. This matters because the aquafeed industry needs scalable, circular, and climate-friendly solutions. Our innovation reduces dependence on environmentally destructive feed sources, cuts CO₂ emissions, and strengthens food system resilience. For insect producers, it creates new market opportunities with higher-value products. For aquafeed formulators and fish farmers, it delivers a sustainable, locally produced protein that supports both performance and animal health. And for society, it contributes to global food security and a more sustainable bioeconomy. FEESH is pioneering the next generation of aquafeed ingredients, designed not just to sustain aquaculture, but to make it thrive responsibly.