Well, it all started back in 2016 with a passion for luxury items combined with a determination to modernize online shopping, guaranteeing authentic, high quality products and service. A Retro Tale is a unique retailer of pre-owned luxury bags and accessories. Unlike other retailers, we own 100 percent of our items, which means we can offer you lower prices and faster deliveries. At A Retro Tale we work at our sole discretion and are not affiliated with any designer brands. Our ambition at A Retro Tale is to offer you a first-time experience for second-hand items. Each and every one of our items are handpicked, authenticated by independent experts, inspected, cleaned, and then graded by condition. We give you information about all the particular characteristics of each item, so you know exactly what tales your item has to tell. With us you can purchase like-new luxury items for a fraction of the retail price. Enjoy

FlyPort is developing a VR-based training platform for professional pilots to help airlines and flight schools get a more adaptable, sustainable and cost efficient way to educate their pilots. All with the use of our portable and immersive FlyPort VR-headset. FlyPort is bridging the gap between theory and practise in professional flight training through VR. Today’s way of training pilots is neither flexible nor conducive to effective learning, which causes pilots not to be as prepared for practical work as they should, and could be. Neither is the way we train pilots today cost efficient or adapted to a more sustainable and environmental friendly aviation industry. With the use of our portable FlyPort VR-headset, our product delivers an immersive training experience more conductive to efficient learning, accessible to the pilot anywhere, anytime and as many times as he or she wants. Not only does this improve safety, but by reducing the number of failed simulator sessions and retakes, airlines and flight schools can vastly cut their training costs while maintaining a high safety standard.

Teamspective is a growth company from Helsinki, developing the next-generation engagement solution for building winning organisations and thriving company culture. We help companies identify and tackle their most important issues in teamwork, leadership, and cross-team collaboration with a unique solution combining continuous feedback collection and people engagement analytics with network analysis.

Biller - The next step in business payments We are an AI-powered “Buy Now, Pay Later” payment method that allows business buyers to order online and pay directly on invoice while performing real-time credit and fraud checks and a fully automated debtor management service. Thereby we reduce the operational burden and risk for the business seller while offering speed, flexibility and convenience for the business buyer e.g. by offering the buyer flexible payment terms. Biller may be brand new, but the brains behind it have been in the game for a long time. Our three founders earned their stripes at some of the biggest names in fintech. Now, they’re combining their expertise and energy to do something refreshingly new, and solve an age-old problem at the same time. We aim to be active in every EU country by 2024. That’s huge growth, but certainly within our reach. Shortly after we started Biller, a whole bunch of capital investors started beating down our door to get in. In the end, we partnered with Banking Circle, because they clearly see Biller’s potential to solve a real market challenge. We need talented people with the right skills to turn that potential into reality.

We are a growing SaaS scale-up 📣 CO2HERO is the world-leading app for taking climate action and a recognized industry standard among Fortune 500 companies. 🌍 We empower companies to drive employee engagement in sustainability. We offer companies to integrate sustainability into their organisational culture by engaging their workforces in a fun and interactive way. 🚀 Enable your workforce to become eco-champions by building a more sustainable future with our Employee Lifestyle Challenges. Our solution combines science and gamification to inspire positive behaviour change, making sustainability a fun and rewarding experience for all. 💚 Our social sustainability platform measures employee carbon emissions and climate actions in real-time, empowering companies to make informed decisions. Why? To achieve Scope 3 workforce goals in your organisation, a change in behaviour is necessary. Raise awareness among your employees and encourage them to integrate sustainability into their daily habits. 🌳 Let’s unite for a better world and cut down today.

The Considerate Consumer is a digital manual for sustainable living that educates consumers on making more sustainable purchase decisions. How? We build a digital manual for sustainable everyday consumption, The Considerate Consumer. The backbone of TCC is a team of engaged, highly motivated, and optimistic sustainability enthusiasts from different nations and fields. We aim to save our planet by making all consumers transitioning towards a more sustainable lifestyle. We are here to inform, to inspire, and to encourage – we are here to help.

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.

Our software tool provides predicted properties of (bio) chemicals based on data-driven algorithms and quantum chemistry, which helps to reduce the number of experiments in R&D. Every (bio)chemical process or product needs physico-chemical properties (e.g. solubility, density) data to simulate unit operations and flowsheets of chemical manufacturing processes. Also, the formulation of products such as more sustainable solvents or more efficient materials need property calculations for designing these products. Scientists and engineers at biotech companies usually fail to develop and simulate new processes and products because: (I) the experimental data for specific molecules are not available, (II) no physical property models have been developed for the desired compounds which give satisfiable predictions, (III) measurements are too time- and material-consuming to perform. MQS has developed a software which provides novel property prediction models based on machine learning and quantum chemistry (Figure 1), in which the input from experiments can be reduced or is negligible. Therefore the number of experiments, material, labour and time are saved which translates to reducing R&D costs in a 407 billion $ industry [1,2,3]. [1] EvaluatePharma – World Preview 2019, Outlook to 2024, June 2019; [2] Edelman, B., Biotechnology Healthcare 2004 May; 1(2): 37–41; [3] Global Market Insights, Inc, Sellbyville, Delaware, Jan. 23, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)

Butterfly Ventures is one of the leading early-stage VCs in the Nordics. We have offices in Helsinki, Oulu, Stockholm, Tallinn, and Copenhagen. We invest in Nordic and Baltic deep tech companies that change the world for better. Butterfly Ventures was founded in 2012 and ever since we've been one of the most active early-stage VCs in the region. We prefer to get involved with companies early on, and most of our portfolio companies don't have any revenue at the time of our entry.

Established in Copenhagen in 2011, EMBACO rapidly grew to become Europe’s leading supplier of high quality, customisable, and sustainable packaging. Trusted by the most popular brands in the food, beverage, personal, health, and home care industries, we partner with our clients to offer unique, functional and creative packaging solutions.

Startup Foundation was founded in 2012 by fifty-seven Finnish technology influencers, entrepreneurs and investors to create a new generation of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs to be. The foundation was born from the ecosystem to give back to the ecosystem in a concrete way. The Foundation’s mission is to create more entrepreneurs, new companies, growth and internationalization, as well as supporting and promoting the startup mentality. This mission is supported by initiatives by the foundation. Externally, the Foundation supports both not-for-profit initiatives advancing the mission of the foundation as well as individuals wishing to start their entrepreneurial journeys.

Sustainary is a project house that offers affordable social and environmental consultancy expertise. At the heart of your operation lies a strong emphasis on talent cultivation. In fact, Talent First is our motto, and our objective is to craft positive talent journeys, ensuring that individuals within our organization and those we serve are empowered to reach their full potential. Beyond mere skill development, we actively prepare our talents for the competitive job market with hands-on experience, networking and knowledge transference. We understand that fostering capable, motivated individuals is key to building sustainable practices within any organization and a fundamental element of a more inclusive society. With focus on SMEs, we help small enterprises establish robust talent pipelines for future growth and success while supporting their green agenda. In essence, we embody the fusion of sustainability and talent development, creating a powerful synergy that drives both organizational and societal impact.

Quickorder provides an end-2-end solution for restaurants and cafes consisting of POS, Online ordering, schedule planning and table booking. Everything is interconnected making sure all data is gathered in one big backend, we apply machine learning to the data to make business recommendations on guest experience, staffing, etc. Quickorder is a fast-moving company where people with excellence strive. Key traits: We love these 5 key traits in our fellow colleagues: Curiosity, High work capacity, empathy, self-awareness and, Integrity In Quickorder we look at ourselves as a  pro sports team, and not a family. In a family, there is unconditional love but in a sports team you need to perform in order to be a part of the team if one guy or girl on the team falls through the whole team is in danger of doing so too. The Quickorder team: in the Quickorder team, all colleagues are extraordinary at what they do and excellent collaborators. The value and satisfaction of being a part of such a team are tremendous. Our vision of a great workplace doesn't consist of exclusive roundtable meetings with expensive catered food, gym facilities, fancy office spaces, or frequent parties with colleagues. Our version of the best workplace is a team where working towards and pursuing a common goal and vision creates real value. Therefore we decide to spend on that, instead of fancy dinners or crazy parties. We believe it is on such a team that you learn the most, perform the best, improves the fastest, and have the most fun.  At Quickorder collaboration and trust is thriving and are an essential part of the team. There is no room for " brilliant jerks" the cost to the teamwork is simply too high. succeeding as a part of Quickorder requires being effective, not working hard. A, B performances with tons of work put into it make for a mediocre result whereas a truly excellent performance doesn't need a ton of work in order to make a great impact.  Freedom and responsibility: Our goal is to inspire people, more than to manage them. We believe that great performers that are part of a team know the better solution, and therefore it's not the managers' duty to tell how things should be done, but merely to set the context so that the employee can find the best possible solution. We trust in freedom, and constantly tries to take new actions in order to improve the amount of freedom our employees possess, some examples of what we do are: Employees got an unlimited amount of vacation (only 6 paid weeks) Our policy vacation is " take vacation, and use ALL of your 6 weeks) Employees get tailored work hours that fit their work/life balance Our policy for spending, travel, and other costs is very simple: "Only spend like you would your self, and always spend in Quickorders best interest"

BluSense Diagnostics is a young and dynamic MedTech company, a spin-off in 2015 from the Technical University of Denmark. The company is developing a point-of-care blood testing device for infectious diseases, such as dengue and Zika.BluSense has a team of highly skilled professionals bringing together expertise in areas encompassing microfluidics, biochemistry, electronics, optics, nanotechnology, computing and product design.

Firmo creates derivatives on blockchain technology. With our novel programming language, chorus, we compile 'smart derivatives' to EVM and other native bytecode formats. Chorus is a formally verified, functional DSL, setting a new standard for security parameters in financial instruments on blockchain technology. Our users can execute and trade secure derivatives on the Firmo Marketplace and on other exchanges.