Work Ahead is mission-driven technology startup that helps enterprises survey anonymously workers in their supply chain, focusing on human rights, decent working conditions, and advancing sustainable development. We are located in Helsinki, Finland, and work with customers from Costa Rica to Nepal, from Pakistan to Thailand and beyond.

Acast is the world leading technology platform for on-demand audio and podcasting with offices in Stockholm, London, New York, Los Angeles and Sydney. We have over 100M monthly listens today, and are growing rapidly. We connect listeners, podcast creators, and advertisers in a fully integrated, one-stop shop.Podcast discovery, listening, hosting, and RSS distribution: we’re the first to do it all.

Tingent är en snabbväxande konsultförmedlare inom tech och fungerar som en koordinator mellan konsultmarknaden och konsultköparna. Vår uppgift är att hjälpa våra kunder att hitta rätt konsult i rätt tid, som inte bara bidrar med sin kompetens utan också till att främja våra kunders interna företagskultur och hjälper de att nå sina mål.

Adventure Box is an expanding universe of connected voxel games, created and populated by players, in which you can explore, fight, and loot while developing your character. Adventure Box lets you make, share and play 3D games in the web browser.

Freska, voted one of the hottest tech start-ups in Finland, is an online home services company currently disrupting the traditional home services industry in the Nordics. The market for home services is large and growing, although fragmented. With a focus on service quality and process optimisation, together with strong values forming a coherent company culture, Freska has rapidly taken a lead in the Finnish and Norwegian markets and has expanded into Sweden. The current revenue rate for the Freska Group is over 20 MEUR. Freska has been trusted by its customers over 300,000 times (and counting!) and takes pride in maintaining a quality rating above 4.7/5 stars. Freska is also a digital pioneer with an in-house team of engineers and product designers revolutionising how a traditional service company can be operated. The Freska vision is to become the leading player in the home services market in Northern Europe by 2025. The Company is backed by top-tier venture capitals and have raised over €10M to date. The aim is to scale the organisation rapidly, but in a manner that does not harm the culture and company values.

Jenny is an open source conversational engine that automates conversations in any language. We offer a multilingual chatbot integration with easy to use user interface built on our bespoke proprietary  algorithms, enabling our clients to significantly improve their customer service experience. Our technology currently automates over 60% of our clients’ repetitive online chat conversations.

Born and developed in Norway, famous for its rough coastline and world-leading subsea expertise, Blueye will provide the world’s finest underwater drone for ocean exploration. It provides you with unprecedented access to the hidden world below the surface.Blueye Pioneer is developed and tested in rough Nordic conditions. With years of experience from working with the ocean, we know how to make the tools you need to tackle challenging currents and high seas.

An increasing demand for premium content has lead to a surge in demand for 3d animations and interactive solutions. Many of our targets customers have little or no experience with the process and in dealing with digital agencies or 3d animation companies. Our mission is to make it easy, fast and affordable while being transparent about the process and the pricing.

Learn to work as a successful entrepreneur. Become a co-founder with our 4-week start up accelerator. Best of all, anyone can join.// Anyone can join // Become a co-owner // Co-found a company // Build your dream job //// To apply for our programs and to learn more -> https://www.x2labs.io/ocean-space-program/ Curious about how can we derive clean, renewable energy from the power of waves, currents or tides? - Or the future of transport at sea? - Or how to manage aquatic resources in ways that lead to more clean drinking water, increased food security, better crop irrigation? Want to explore ways we save our oceans from overfishing, climate change, acidification, and pollution? Or perhaps look at how our oceans can save us? The oceans of the world are vast and hold the last unexplored expands of our planet. The long Norwegian coast has shaped our culture and the prosperity of our society and it is the single largest natural resource we have to build our future on.– Such riches demand a strategy which emphasizes high, yet sustainable activity to continue value creation and employment growth. This while simultaneously taking advantage of the knowledge and know-how we as a nation have gained through different industries working in the ocean space. Industries like; oil & gas, shipping, fish-farming, traditional fishing, wind-power, other energy creation and in a longer perspective, even mineral mining on the bottom of the sea and more.  The common challenge all industries working in and with the ocean space share is that they need to develop world leading technology!  - This to continue growth while getting rid of pollution and keep the development sustainable for future generations.Norwegian industry has proven that they can deliver tomorrows solutions and utilize experience transfer from other industries working, both within and outside the ocean space.This is the framework for this X2 Lab´s 4th Program: “Ocean Space”. Are you ready to make a difference?

Young Sustainable Impact (YSI) was started in 2016 by a group of youth in Norway who saw the cop21, Paris conference and looked ahead.We believe innovation and entrepreneurship can solve most of our challenges in the world, that youth are the driving force, and in collaboration with the experienced and established – it can be done. Innovation program: We aim to find the best talents in the world, to create impact startups to tackle the UN Sustainable Development Goals.  In Oslo we are a group of very different people, who somehow ended up together, with the same mission. We have fun, excited people who are trying their best to help people and at the same time grow into becoming that person who can influence the world in a positive direction. It's about the main goal, and not being recognized yourself - which is why any disagreement we have, turns out in a positive energy. The power of trying to get YSI to do the most good, is vital! We have found a great spot in Greenhouse, with a gaming room, ping pong, garden on the roof, (A ROOF), and other cool companies from all fields imaginable.At the same time, we work with teams in Bangladesh, South-East Asia, and China. Extremely different cultures, who also have the same goal as us. This is both hard and exciting at the same time.

PT-Planner is offering a Software-as-a-Service for personal trainers that basically replaces pen and paper and lets them handle their clients, training and diet plans, bookings, goal settings, communications and much more. PT-Planner comes with an app which the trainers clients use in order to book appointments, see their training and diet plans, communicate, track their progress and more.

RaceONE is the modern way for sharing and following races live for running, cycling and skiing. All in one unique race app. We connect spectators, organizers and participants and enhance the race experience for everyone.  RaceONE should be the first choice for participants and organizers! We make it fun to follow races!

Arthro Therapeutics is pioneering software-as-a-medicine for osteoarthritis, re-thinking and transforming how people get diagnosed and treatment for the chronic disease. Our flagship product “Joint Academy”, approaches healthcare with real science (clinical evidence) primed by objective data to deliver the best outcome for healthy joints. For the hardest-to-treat conditions we simply believe we have to go beyond pills and surgery. We have gathered industry experts, professors, physiotherapists, engineers and venture capital from relevant firms to solve this problem. We have the Swedish government as customers as well as major insurance companies.

Langstack is a remote-first company with a high degree of flexibility. We're a small international team of driven, enthusiastic, and friendly team members with an average age closer to 50 than to 25. A few of us began our computing journeys with a Commodore PET, while others started on an Amiga 500, to provide some context. If you're in search of a conventional job, you might want to pause here. Our path to success won’t be linear and working at Langstack isn’t a 9-5 kind of gig. It’s not that we’ll expect you to pull all-nighters or meet frantic deadlines, but the problems we solve are demanding. They require effort, imagination, and critical thinking. For many, high-effort and challenging work doesn’t sound particularly sexy, however, if engaging deeply with product engineering and programming is what you love, Langstack could be a fit for you. We're on a mission to simplify and accelerate how teams and organisations develop solutions for the cloud. Langstack is an AI-powered development platform that enables teams to collaborate, create, and manage public cloud solutions with unmatched efficiency. We're convinced that there's a better way to develop for clouds, and we're crafting the programming paradigm that will lead the charge. Making cloud computing simple for software creators everywhere.

Leading e-commerce within mattresses and beds based in Denmark. We are currently on the Danish, Swedish and Norwegian market. Bedre Nætter is a young company experiencing a rapid growth in sales. We wish to provide our customers with better nights as the name imply, and for this reason sell quality beds and matresses to affordable prices.