We back bold entrepreneurs in their earliest stages and help shape the foundation of their aspirations. We classify investments into three categories; BUILD, SCALE, and FOMO. Building cases are companies that are so early that the company might not even be registered with the authorities yet. It’s merely an idea that we need to shape together, right from the beginning. Here we put in lots of hours and enough capital to build a minimum viable product and test the product on the market. If successful, we move to a scale-up phase investing more money and/or raise capital from external investors. SCALE cases are more developed. The first team is there, and they are close to a product-market fit. We help build the foundation with capital, advisory and agreed-upon milestones within, e.g., legal work, growth hacking, or strategy. Finally, yes, we do also invest in FOMO cases with only capital…

We are an award-winning TravelTech/ CultureTech start-up offering self-guided treasure hunt inspired experiences for attractions and cities to make exploring with 3-10-years-old fun, easy and educative. Our first product is an app with self-guided treasure hunt inspired city tours, wrapped into a story of a friendly alien girl called Skyla and a rescue mission. The missions are spiced with gamification elements and sustainability at kids-level making them fun, engaging and educative at the same time. Skip the whining and "how much longer" nagging and turn frustration and 'wasted' time into family fun. Families can let the kids take the lead and enjoy a great half-day outside exploring and discovering not only the great sights but also hidden gems and lesser known areas. It is a great acitvity for both traveling and local families. Families get full flexibility and convenience. No waiting in line, time schedules or groups. With our treasure hunts families can explore at their own terms and take a break at any point in time. We have proof of business and are generating revenue, with our first paying customers, 5-star user ratings, and great user feedback. We have also won the Scandinavian Business Award 2022 for “Most Family-Friendly City Tour Experience – Denmark” and the European Travel Award for “Best Family-Friendly Copenhagen Tour Operator 2022”. We have established the first B2B partnership with a museum. We are looking to scale our concept to the B2B market through strategic direct sales and the B2C by developing a creator mode - a platform to allow users to add and curate more treasure hunts without the necessity of coding.

PowerCon Embedded A/S is a consulting company specializing in converter control, power electronics and embedded development. Throughout the years, we have worked with large wind turbine OEM's, as well as several product manufacturers in Denmark. We are a company that also looks into the future and are currently investigating projects and solutions within Cloud and Internet of Things development. Join our journey and learn from our team of seasoned experts along the way. We are always open for unsolicited applications.

Mindpool is a technology company on a mission to be the global leader in the world’s transition to a hyper-connected future of combined human intelligence and computers for efficient, inclusive, and smarter decision-making. The company is rooted in years of deep science and cutting-edge research in the field of collective intelligence. Collective intelligence is a shared group intelligence that emerges from the integration of crowds and computers so that they collectively act more intelligent than any person, group, or computer on their own. The combination of human minds and technology makes collective intelligence much more applicable for solving complex decision problems in a fast-moving business environment. Mindpool is at the forefront of developing collective intelligence software and enabling a hyperconnected future of more proactive, inclusive, and smart decision-making. We aim to assist organizations in achieving a better competitive advantage through harnessing the tacit knowledge of the company’s stakeholders which today is considered an untapped strategic resource and which represents 90% of knowledge in organisations. The Mindpool platform builds on decades of research at the intersection of collective intelligence, tacit knowledge, quantitative models, and data analysis. To learn more, check out our explainer video: http://bit.ly/what_is_mindpool

Beetroot Academy is a Swedish IT school that provides intensive practical education to train valuable skills for the 21st century. Today we operate 16 academies in Ukraine and have educated over 2400 people as per 2019. Now we are expanding outside of Ukraine with the first location being Sweden in 2020.

We.Care is a startup within the mental health care & health tech sphere. We improve peoples access to licensed psychologist help. Our treatment is solely using evidence-based methods. We are building a wide capacity within treatments using intelligent technology that support the user getting better, sooner.

Ridesum is a digital collaboration platform connecting horseback riders, trainers and experts. In our mobile app riders can find new trainers and experts, book a training session, train live remotely via video streaming or upload video for feedback and save trainers feedback. We help horseback riders to progress faster and trainers to grow their business - always with the horse well-being in focus. A great upside by reducing travelling through remote training is that it saves our planet from tons and tons of carbon dioxide emissions. Our core values: We are Curious, Committed, Brave, Ourselves & We Simplify!

✨AINO - A conversational AI tool for victims of domestic violence✨ To support our mission towards equality, We Encourage builds a conversational Artificial Intelligence tool AINO for providing psycho-social support and guidance to women victims of intimate partner violence, gender-based violence, and promoting sexual and reproductive health. Violence against women – particularly intimate partner violence and sexual violence – is a major public health problem and a violation of women’s human rights. Global estimates published by WHO indicate that about 1 in 3 (35%) of women worldwide have experienced either physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence in their lifetime. The AI tool is expected to act as a reliable source of information for women on their rights and where to seek different levels of support. The tool will be providing step by step recommendations to victims and act as a helping friend. This intervention is expected to address a chronic development issue and to have a cross-cutting impact on SDG 3 (ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages) and SDG 5 ( Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls). Furthermore, the AI tool could also help in building a network for anonymous peer to peer support networks among users who are experiencing similar incidents. The tool is build in collaboration with violence survivors, professionals, and collaborating NGOs. ✨We Encourage CSR - YOUR PARTNER IN BUILDING THE BEST SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAM ✨ Half of a company’s reputation is based on the public’s feelings about what the company is doing to support the community. Therefore, having a well-established CSR program is essential for businesses that want to improve their branding to stakeholders and customers. We Encourage is here to help you build the best CSR program.

SparkUp is a startup community where Turku Science Park Ltd, student based entrepreneurship society Boost Turku and Creative Venture Creve have brought together their know-how and services for startups and entrepreneur-minded persons in Turku region. SparkUp is facilitated by Turku Science Park Ltd.

What is uQualio? uQualio is a video-first AI-powered LMS platform designed to create simple, impactful, and customized online training courses for both internal and external use. We enable organizations to build a video library of modern, digitized eLearning content with quizzes & micro-credentials to educate employees, sales partners, and customers, quickly and easily, from anywhere, anytime, on any device. Who We Are uQualio was founded by Hatla Færch Johnsen and Christian Bjerre Nielsen, combining deep expertise in business psychology with high-level enterprise software engineering. Driven by the "Pippi Spirit", a mindset of resilience, creativity, and fearlessness. We built uQualio to solve the engagement crisis found in traditional LMS platforms. As a "Profit with Purpose" company, we are committed to UN’s Sustainable Development Goal #4, ensuring our technology supports global education access. Why uQualio? uQualio solves a wide range of business and industry needs, enabling you to scale the video-based content incl. Additional files, you require to educate others efficiently. Traditional training often fails to engage learners. We utilize a "YouTube-style" approach combined with gamification to move knowledge from temporary memory to long-term retention. Technical Features & AI Capabilities - Ethical AI Content Creation: Upload a video or topic, and our AI generates course descriptions, bite-sized modules, and quiz questions in minutes. - Dynamic AI Translation: Automatically translate subtitles & courses into multiple languages to train global teams without external tools. - Versatile Course Deployment: Create specific courses for onboarding, compliance, or sales training, internal or external use, accessible on any device. - Gamification: Certifications, leaderboards, and quizzes to drive user engagement. - Integrations: Seamless connection via REST API and iFrame embedding to fit your existing tech stack. - Analytics: Detailed dashboards to track user progress, certification, and compliance.

The number of people on the move is growing globally because of armed conflicts, climate change, and economic inequality. Startup Refugees exists because the solution for the fast integration of newcomers to the labour markets needs to be created now. Startup Refugees offers asylum seekers, refugees, and other immigrants support in finding employment, skills development, and starting a business. We have a network of more than 1000 members, including companies, government officials, NGOs, universities, congregations, research institutes, communities, and individuals. Welcome to create change.

The Finnish company Solar Foods Oy produces an entirely new kind of nutrient-rich protein using only air and electricity as the main resources. The goal of the company is to start commercial production of the environmentally revolutionary protein in 2021.

Unelma Platforms is an international software platform development company that aims to deliver software to empower people. We are a bunch of millennials. Some people like to call us hippies. Some just call us highly-energetic and growing organisation in software development space. We empower over one million people through our diverse range of platform products, applications & services.

Buildcode is an entrepreneurial eng. company specialized in developing systems for optimizing quality assurance in the construction industry. Our solution SiteMotionis based on day-to-day registrations done with drone and scanning technologies for recording and processing the data related to building informatics that enable to: - minimize errors and deficiencies on the construction site, - improve communication during the construction process,- enhance the overall quality of the building. We have a lot of fun! We work hard to learn and achieve and we face every problem with a solution. You will have the opportunity to get free coffee every day, and Buildcode will provide fresh fruit once a week. We go to lunch around 12:00 pm, you can bring your own food our eat for free at the canteen. We’re placed in two different groups: Our Technical Department and our Marketing/Sales and HR Department. But that’s only where we sit, we work crosswise all-day long.

Nordic Blue Crude AS will produce high quality, carbon neutral, synthetic fuels and other fossile replacement products, based on water, Carbondioxide and renewable power. Sustainable competitive advantages are obtained thru: Low prices on renewable electricity with full load time Rich access to «clean» Carbondioxide Extremely competent cluster of process industry skills at Herøya Very good infrastructure available