Passion for Water Sustainability Water is essential for life and its quality affects wildlife, our food sources and the human health. The constant pollution of our waters from pharmaceutical residues or other harmful organic substances are directly connected to many of the most severe environmental and sustainability issues raised by international organizations today. These areas usually require impractical and expensive solutions and prevent the progress of improvement. The need for finding simple and cost-effective solutions to solve complex issues concerning water pollution is evident. To solve these challenges, Pharem brings a unique technology and new solutions to the market. Our solutions offers simple and cost-effective applications with high efficiency and safe implementation. With the disruptive products and an active market we look brightly on a future where we can be part of building a more sustainable society. Our Story Pharem Biotech is a clean tech company that was founded 2013 in Uppsala, Sweden. We have since established ourselves as an innovative company within the fields of water treatment and biotechnology. The company operates mainly from its headquarters located in Södertälje, where most of the product development takes place. By utilizing the broad biotechnology expertise and in depth knowledge about water treatment Pharem´s mission is to develop efficient water treatment solutions. The applications provide effective means of removing hazardous organic pollutants in water environments. The platform technology allows great flexibility to meet client needs for simple, effective solutions to tackle serious environmental issues within their operational scope. Through close, ongoing collaboration with stakeholders, we are constantly working toward exceeding expectations on the international market. We provide safe, innovative, and cost-efficient products to counteract the impact organic pollutants have on the environment.

We have improved the kanban method to go from linear (back-and-forth) to non-linear, and from columns to a canvas structure. This means complete freedom to meet the needs of any individual and business logic. Its max productivity by design and 100% online in our software. Most tools are text-heavy, linear and list focused. We know the brain decode pictures much faster than text, so that is why we build a solution that allows our customers to work smarter. Their productivity and time spend on meetings are reduced by around 30 %.

The Happiness Research Institute is a an independent think tank exploring why some societies are happier than others. The mission is to inform decision-makers of the causes and effects of human happiness, make subjective well-being part of the public policy debate, and improve overall quality of life for citizens across the world.

Ambitious Africa is an initiative bringing African and Nordic youth together to take Africa to the next level. Working together providing high-quality education for future African educators and top-level business development support for local entrepreneurs. Ambitious Africa is an initiative, primarily consisting of Nordic student-lead entrepreneurial societies. The initiative is growing rapidly and now the organization needs ambitious Nordic students to work in the national operations in collaboration with local African counterparts. This is a unique opportunity to learn by doing while being supported by a community of young doers, experienced entrepreneurs, the private sector, and government entities. The national teams are cross-continental, primarily consisting of two people from the Nordics and two people from the African nation in question. The primary responsibility of the National Teams is to build an infrastructure to enable young doers to do novel entrepreneurial initiatives in the country in question. National Teams have free hands to build up the operations as they see fit based on the challenges and opportunities of the nation. We are currently looking for people for all 54 African nations starting with Rwanda, Tunisia, Mozambique, Uganda, Gambia, and Ghana. However, if you have contacts or experiences from other countries go for it, join the national team for that country.

Sideflow is circular economy service, who is developing a service to help textile companies eliminate waste. We do it by building a platform that connects industrial sidestreams to potential utilizers. From all the material used in textile manufacturing in Finland, up to 30% ends up directly into waste, most commonly as cutting waste. Global research suggests that the amount can be even higher, up to 45% when also deadstock is included. We are creating a service and a platform that recognizes the material waste in an early phase and connects it to potential utilizers - companies that can use the rescued material in their products as it is, or after it is processed to new materials. Through our work in textile productions, we recognized the issue, and ran experiments and pilots to find solutions. In the pilots we have been able to eliminate waste by channeling the waste to new products. There lies undiscovered value in industrial sidestream, both for the economy and the ecosystem, and our mission is to recover that.

Salta Friends Ltd is a startup company in the Tech industry with the clearly stated goal of providing innovative solutions in order to helping people with disabilities and their relatives to a more social and active life together with others. The challenges that people with disabilities face on an everyday basis are hard to imagine for the rest of the population. We here at Salta Friends want to improve the quality of life for our target group while staying financially stable. We've come a long way down the road but we still have a mile or two before we can be a global player. To this time being, the Salta Friends mobile application has been developed, strong partnerships have been secured and the buzz for our product is starting to boil up. Salta Friends are on a mission to increase the quality of life for people with disability around the world. Our name is the abbreviation of; Socially Active Life Together Among Friends (SALTA Friends).

loop-it is a smart and circular deposit system for reusable packaging to prevent single-use waste. We make take-away financially and environmentally sustainable for everyone. We bring transparency and accountability into a product's lifecycle by tracking every product in use. How loop-it works: 1. Order your food or drink in a reusable loop-it cup or box. 2. Enjoy anywhere and at any time. 3. Return the loop-it cup or box at any partner location and receive a digital deposit on your account. Next time: collect another loop-it cup or box at any partner location and you are back at step 2. On our app, users can track and see their activity, find partner locations and get directions. loop-it started based on the massive amount of waste from paper cups on campus, in cities and overfilled bins. We want to transform the linear packaging system into a circular one in a collaborative approach. This is our take on enabling change. We are doers and systems thinkers. We are enthusiastic and committed to shape a better future. With our interdisciplinary skills including Computer Scientists, Business Designers and Consumer Psychologists, we have the potential and motivation to change the status quo.

We are digitising how global trade and logistics is managed We have built a multilingual platform that automates process between Exporters, Forwarders and Importers The platform offers modules for Export/Import, Logistics, Documentation, Tracking, Compliance & Analytics. Combined it automates processes, removes language barriers for the end customer who can read the same data in their own language, increasing sales prices and profitability whilst significantly increasing transparency, compliance and accountability.

VitaSim provides an evidence-based software package for skill practice in virtual reality (VR). We provide 3 different solutions: 1. Produce VR based content with VitaSim Author. 2. Experience it with VitaSim Study. 3. Explore world-class content from VR creators who are distributing their content using VitaSim Enterprise.

Urbanization and worsening transport problems in cities (e.g. air pollution, noise, traffic injuries, congestion, parking shortages, etc) lead to new mobility trends. The increased importance of cycling and micro-mobility is one of them. Our mission is to enhance urban cycling and encourage more users to commute on their bikes. To do so we design, assemble and deliver unique electric bicycles (also called pedelecs) for urban commuters. But we are not just a bicycle manufacturer, we consider ourselves as a company defining urban mobility. We are a young Finnish startup company with 6 team members, who are currently living in 3 different countries. We came up with the concept of our e-bike and started active prototyping in early 2019. We've already built first prototypes, tested key hypotheses and are now on the final stage of product development. Because of an ongoing patenting process, we are still in somewhat "stealth mode".

We aim to simplify how employees and key resources can gain ownership and take part of the value created within a company. All companies are different. And the incentive scheme for one company might not suit the next. An incentive program should not be “just a document” signed by an employee and stored in a drawer. A successful incentive program is built around its ability to generate the feeling of ownership and motivation, and its ability to align the interests of the employees with those of the owners. Through our software and expertise we assist management, founders and companies to achieve their optimal incentive scheme. We believe in ownership and its inherent motivational effect, and wish to enable more companies with powerful tools in order to achieve this.

The green transition will be expensive. Utiligize makes the only data-driven asset management program that incorporates 2030/2040 EV, battery, wind and solar forecasts into lifetime models for every asset a utility owns. Electric, water, sewage and district heating companies use our software to reduce costs by atl east 25% or increase quality of service (QoS) by 25%. We make the green transition affordable. Our platform consists of three main components: 1. A smartphone app for data collection out in the field. 2. A Cloud backend that creates load and voltage forecasts with and without demand response, plus revenue cap, benchmarking, tariff and QoS optimization. 3. A front-end with system-wide KPIs. Download reports for board members and regulators showing investment needed throughout the green transition.

Prizebeat.com was launched in may 2018 and is the leading gamification media in Denmark, with an active userbase of 150.000 users. In collaboration with brands such as 7-Eleven, Just-Eat, ALDI, Nordisk Film and Viaplay (to name a few), we are on a journey to re-invent how media can be built around gamification and engagement.

ARYZE creates Digital Cash to make payments cheaper, faster and smarter. By bridging the gap between traditional financial infrastructure and distributed ledger technology, we create an efficient, flexible, transparent, and compliant ecosystem allowing innovators to build solutions for the future. As our system will reduce the cost of transferring money to near zero, we work actively to promote financial inclusion with an inclusive community-based approach for solving SDG #10. We promote diversity, engage in new technologies and support entrepreneurship.

Skyfora is Finnish company developing next-generation weather technology. The StreamSonde is world’s lightest weather sonde and the AI-powered weather forecasts bring solutions to many industries in a world faced with climate change and extreme weather. Skyfora’s high-tech solutions increase the amount of weather and climate change observations and turns that data into better weather and climate forecasts and risk data through artificial intelligence backed up by academic research. We have won the Copernicus Masters innovation competition and our product is sold internationally. The company has several patents, which fuels the company’s giant leap in improving weather forecasting. The team features a unique combination of expertise in atmospheric science, weather instrument engineering, machine learning, fast start-up growth and international sales. Its funders and investors include the European Space Agency, Business Finland, Copernicus Incubation Programme, IoTForge foundation, Voima Ventures, Icebreaker VC and private investors.