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

Exabel is an artificial intelligence startup based in Oslo, Norway. Exabel’s mission is to synthesize the world’s information and learn how it evolves. We are developing a smart digital assistant software tool for professional investment managers. We are currently a team of 6 full-time employees, with diverse backgrounds; two mathematicians, three software engineers, and a business developer. Combined, we have strong experience with companies like Google, Medallia, Arctic Securities, Intelligent Trading, Microsoft, and Brain Corporation. We are located in Forskningsparken, by StartupLab. The company is well funded for several years of research, product development, and market launch.

ZEN OCEANS is a startup developing fully electric, autonomous-ready ships to affordably decarbonize ocean transport. We will think big and nudge the market for fully electric ships from 0 to 1. To fund our vision, we will develop products that in themselves can scale into large revenue-generating operations; among them maritime batteries (ZENERGY) and autonomy solutions (OCEANEYE). The future of ocean shipping is simple, safe, and sustainable - the frictionless fabric of global trade. Consequently, we consider the argument for electric and autonomous ships to be very strong. We envision a fleet of electric ships deployed at scale, coordinated by an intelligent network for the efficient movement of goods. The future starts now. Maritime batteries: We develop safe and low-cost maritime batteries for large energy systems. Type approval by DNV is ongoing. Fully electric ships: We develop energy- and cost-effective electric ship concepts for short sea trade and more. If you want to learn more, please reach out to us!

Omnidocs is a consulting and software company – but more than anything we are a document company. We create value for our customers by helping them improve their use of Microsoft Office, creating and implementing on-brand solutions that fuel productivity, embed compliance, and increase job happiness. We have a wide range of competencies when it comes to documents in a work context, but our purpose is very straightforward: We make every workday work better.

Nordic Gelato Factory is producing beatiful vegan gelato. It is all hand-made, sustainable, locally produced Italian style ice-cream. We have proven sales data from Finland and customer testimonials are overwhelmingly good. At the moment we are entering Danish market. We have been looking for right investor but we are still on process to finding the suitable. But in order to meet to requirement fo funding we need more skilful people onboard. Since we are not aiming to be only ice-cream shop in traditional context but a supplier for Gelato as a Service business model we need different knowledge onboard in order to execute the plan. This business model would need knowledge how to run a subscription model as well as handling the logistics. Lean production planning is crucial for effective production runs. Our marketing strategy wil be outsourced and we have the right company to do it. And extra pair of hands is needed for day-to-day marketing updates ! I am the company owner and founder. My best skill are in sales and marketing as well as creating customer experience. I can run the production as well. For the operational team we would need 2-4 persons with different talents supporting the journey of Nordic Gelato Factory. After getting Denmark up and running we are heading to LONDON!

Formify helps small and middle-sized companies to legally sign digital documents in Europe. Supporting the EU-regulation eIDAS (for e-signatures) we target the ease of doing cross border business. With a disruptive price modell we do not see that a signed document should cost more than a stamp and envelope. Since dec 2019 with have focused on a real cost effective development with a small team and have passed MVP. We are now scaling our journey to country after country in their native language. Competitors or colleagues in the segment have build platforms that are too hard to understand and not user friendly as you expect from applications today. Too many platforms are build on the need for demos with long sales cycles. In our world, complex things are easy to use! Formalizes the way we sign. (guess where our name come from:-)

Airmine is a technology company delivering pollen forecasts. Our vision is to help people who are affected by pollen allergies. New ways to deliver pollen forecasts - data-driven and local pollen forecasts, based on weather, topography, vegetation and measurements. We deliver local pollen forecasts as socially useful service.

Med BLING Capital ska vi demokratisera tillgången på kapital genom att skifta flödet av investeringar från slutna homogena grupper och traditionella nätverk till entreprenörer som normalt inte nås av riskkapital, som till exempel kvinnor, minoriteter och människor som bor utanför storstadskärnorna. Nu söker vi dig som vill vara med och förändra. Med BLING Capital siktar vi på att tidigt investera och vara en långsiktig partner i företag som grundats av underrepresenterade entreprenörer i världsklass eller entreprenörer med minoritetsbakgrund som skapar värde för människor och samhälle. Vi värdesätter företag med en hållbar och framåtlutad affärsmodell som angriper stora, globala marknader och löser verkliga problem. Det övergripande målet för BLING Capital är att skapa stark, hållbar avkastning genom att vara en långsiktig partner som tillför värde till våra portföljbolag.

We help teams build scalable frontend architectures by applying advanced functional reactive programming practices spiced up with a big passion for test driven development. It's happening. Microservices. They all want it, but are often heavily challenged applying and designing it. Backend ok, we've all done it before: let's just expose a bunch of endpoints. But.. how do we make a scalable frontend that are both performant and maintainable (and looks nice) - and how can we work 10+ developers in parallel? We're in the world to help such problems and challenges out of the way. We assist by guiding, leading, coding and teaching our customers teams through complex problems and architectures. Being a smaller team sharing the same passion, our drive to stay on top of newest tech is quite unique. We invest in "time-on-your-own-to-investigate-and-rate-new-technologies" so we are always on top of the overwhelmingly fast growing tech wave.

We have decided to radically change the way insurances are sold today. Instead of asking what the customer wants, we tell him what he needs. This we do by extracting intelligent insights from public available data and combing this with machine learning models trained on an insurance company’s existing portfolio.

We are a Finnish-based impact fund focusing on the Nordics. In alignment with founders of sustainable companies with environmental and social objectives, we invest and engage to make their impact operational, measurable, and profitable with a common goal to reduce the carbon footprint of consumption.

Lola&Lykke is a small, mum-founded Finnish brand on a big mission: to put mum’s health and wellbeing first—from trying to conceive to pregnancy, breastfeeding, and beyond. Since 2018, our award-winning products and growing network of European retailers have helped us reach more families, but our heart remains the same: real support for real motherhood. The maternity space can feel fragmented and overwhelming. We’re changing that with a modern, unified care experience: thoughtfully designed products, round-the-clock access to experts, and easy-to-trust guidance—so every parent can make informed choices. We know self-care often slips in busy family life. That’s why we build tools and a community that help mums feel less alone and more in control—body, mind, and everyday practicalities. Created by two Finnish mothers, we work with experienced midwives, physiotherapists, and healthcare professionals to keep everything evidence-based, safe, and accessible. Our aim is a new standard for maternal care: human, transparent, and personalised—powered by clinical insight and thoughtful technology. With Lola&Lykke, you’re not doing this alone. We’re here to educate, connect, and champion mums—so you can thrive through every stage of the journey.

Supercharging database performance to reduce server costs & server energy consumption. Vesiro is an early-stage startup that is developing an add-on to Elasticsearch to enable much better search performance. The product is in part based on our novel, patented search algorithms. Initial tests on data from Common Crawl (which is the same data used to train ChatGPT) shows that we can cut search times in Elasticsearch by 30-50% depending on search type used. The increase in search speed means that our software enables a more efficient use of servers in Elastic clusters, helping our customers save money on servers. It also means that the software reduces server energy consumption as fewer servers are needed to do the same amount of search. Vesiro was one of 20 companies to be accepted among 2500 companies applying globally to participate in the Norrsken Accelerator 2023. This means that we have been recognized as one of the world’s foremost high potential impact startups. The company is now closing its pre-seed investment round, which means that it has the capital to grow the team to accelerate software development. If you join our team, you will have the opportunity to take ownership in the company through stock options. As an early-stage startup, we have an exciting journey ahead. You will become a part of a small, tight-knit team that is turning innovative ideas into reality with the potential to have a real impact on the world. As one of the first hires, there will be great opportunities to grow in your role as the company grows. We work in central Gothenburg in the heart of the startup scene at Chalmers E-village, among tons of other startups and ecosystem actors.

Rotoy is a customizable, subscription-based robot toy that engages girls in learning the foundations of robotics and coding through thrilling storytelling and mission solving, at home. With varying stories and design personalization, Rotoy nudges girls – into STEM education. There is a female imbalance in STEM* industries with less than 25% of STEM graduates being girls. If we close this gap, European countries could boost their GDP per capita by 19% by 2040. Gender diversity also increases company performance by 48%. Despite that, parents are still 3 times more likely to encourage boys to play with STEM activities. Introducing girls to girly-looking robot toys increases the chance of interaction/play by 65%, and the story-based learning approach has been proven as an advantageous approach for girls [5]. Simultaneously, learning activities with robot-based storytelling improves children’s technology comprehension knowledge and skill by 20%. That’s why, we are offering a subscription-based programable robot toy. that combines the guided learning process of coding and robotics with genre-varying storytelling, at home. Rotoy is a pink or purple/blue 2-wheeler, square robot toy, that is programmable using a laptop or tablet.

MDriven was founded by Hans Karlsen, a software architect with focus in Domain Driven Design (DDD) and Model Driven Architecture (MDA). After working as a developer for over 20 years, he developed a low-code platform that made it 30 times faster to prototype, develop, and deploy enterprise level applications. Soon after launching Lars Olofsson joined to further develop and grow what is now known as MDriven. Today, MDriven is being used by some of the largest institutions in Sweden. Our team is composed of ten people who are either developing web applications for clients or growing MDriven as a company. Our aim is to become Sweden’s leading provider of low-code web applications and to enable companies to turn their insights into business workflows that enable them to grow.