We use robots to automate and democratize access to healthcare! The groundbreaking robot, Careebo, has been designed and developed by a team of robotics researchers at the Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) in Odense, a city home to one of the world’s leading robotics clusters. The robot was developed as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the issues we suddenly faced as a global society. Clearly, we were not ready - we want to change that! The pandemic led to cross-infection between citizens and healthcare workers, low qualtiy samples due to inter-personal variability, and unequal access to basic healthcare such a swab sample. At Lifeline Robotics, we aim to enhance our pandemic preparedness and global health securty by utilizing automation and robotics to create a system which enables ongoing and implemented monitoring of what moves around in our societies. We envision, that this system can be implemented at strategic locations, so citizens can easily engage before travelling, attending big events or visiting vulnerable family.

Our vision is a world where good ideas become successful. Because we believe that too many good ideas and passionate entrepreneurs fall short due to the wrong reasons - we are here to change this. With our hands-on approach and by continuously challenging ourselves and our clients, we transform good ideas into successful companies.

WeSolve is the multi-organisation community engagement platform that facilitates problem solving and decision making inside every organisation. With WeSolve organizations can optimize problem-solving and decision-making processes with the involvement of their community. This is beneficial for three main reasons: it improves member and employee retention, saves time and financial resources, and stimulates economic growth through innovation. WeSolve allows and encourages members of the community to participate in decision making and to “co-solve” challenges. At the same time, it gives organizations a tool to leverage the collective power of their community in order to become more productive and future-fit.

Vision The world is becoming more and more global, and borders will soon be more of a line on a paper than something physical. We believe in such a world where consumers can effortlessly buy products wherever they are. And, we are here to make it a reality. Our mission Panprices is am only shipping service that enables consumers to discover products, compare prices, and buy what they are looking for from abroad for up to 50% cheaper than in their local country. We not only show the best offers but enable easy and direct checkout via Panprices with local payment solutions, handle all communication between customers and retailers - hassle-free. Panprices is a funded startup initially incubated by Sting and Stockholm School of Economics Business Lab and now backed by some of Sweden’s largest private investors with experience as founders and/or early investors in Fyndiq, Tradera (acquired by eBay), Home24, Payson, and DoubleClick (acquired by Google).

Betolar’s technology turns different waste streams from the energy, mining and forestry industry into environmentally friendly geopolymer concrete. These materials are known to perform as well or even better than conventional Portland cement-based concrete, having been used already in ancient Roman and Egyptian buildings.

ParkMan is a fast growing community-based platform that connects car drivers with the best parking companies. Our mission is to make it easy for car drivers to find the best parking options, interact with parking companies, and pay for parking in real time whenever they need parking. We help parking providers to connect with their customers in a way that makes parking as easy as ordering an Uber.

Transparently NorwegianWe carefully select guaranteed Norwegian products, ship them via our own "digital highway of trust" to ourselves (in China) and sell them directly to end-users in the world (starting with China) through our own e-Commerce platform (and soon in our own retail stores). We are in business, we control the whole value chain, we do it differently and our concept can't be copied by big American tech or food companies. We also represent business opportunities for other companies.  Xuechun Zhang. Educated in economics and finance, 13 years’ employment at China Construction Bank. Founded several companies in China and operated them for six years before selling them and moving to Norway in 2011. Worked as yoga instructor while studying at BI Norwegian Business School Stavanger. For the past four years has developed large networks in Shanghai focused on the seafood industry as well as media, logistics, distribution, customs, banking and restaurants. Xuechun (or Tara amongst friends) runs our operation in China.Espen Strand Pedersen. Idea maker and concept developer of several retail stores, photography studios and other projects. Educated in photography and worked as professional photographer for more than 20 years. Experience in planning, start-up and daily operations of retail and studio businesses. In 1997 started Stavanger's first artisanal coffee shop, which remains in operation. Espen is now the CEO of Norway in a Box. Espen Strand Henriksen. Concept developer who likes to set things in motion, build networks, collaborate and see the world from multiple perspectives. Educated at BI Norwegian Business School and in the Royal Norwegian Navy. Twenty years’ experience in marketing, advertising, media, sales, management and product and concept development in Oslo and Stavanger, 14 of them working for the world’s first digital cinema company (CAPA), and was also a key person in developing the unique and award winning mobility concept (HjemJobbHjem/HomeWorkHome). Espen is in charge of stakeholders at Norway in a Box.

SHAKORI WPS plans to become local and international individuals' and companies' preferred PERSONAL purchasing partner! Weather you're a small interior shop who needs quotation on Spanish marble, you're a Port operator in East Africa who needs second hand maritime equipment, or a contractor in the GCC who needs luxury interior works done - we're at your PERSONAL service! We also take great pride helping Norwegian and European companies enter emerging markets. Send us your RFQ or RFI today!

Aleap, a non-profit incubator, offers a community for health startups. Our mission is to facilitate innovation and value creation by developing an ecosystem for ambitious health entrepreneurs and companies to create new products better and faster. We believe that entrepreneurship and successful startups will benefit from collaboration in a multidisciplinary environment with proactive sharing.   What we do 1. We help you reach your growth goals. We have our own methods to guide you and your start-up company, whether it be development, financing or commercialization.2. Here you will be part of a stimulating environment with like-minded entrepreneurs. We facilitate sharing, learning and collaboration through professional and social meeting places.3. With us, we adapt a development course especially for your company and acquire the expertise you need along the way. Our national and international network of experienced advisors contributes to an increased chance of success. Our Community  Aleap is situated at the innovation, research and knowledge hub, Oslo Science Park. The Science Park has a long tradition of commercializing R&D activities and is today home to more than 300 companies. Aleap is funded through the support of SIVA, Oslo Municipality and Innovation Norway to foster an ecosystem for health startups and innovation. Industry experts collaborate with us to provide our members with the best possible knowledge, networks and services so the entrepreneurs can focus on their core business. We have representatives in IPR, regulatory services, legal, design, financing, accounting and production services.

Fischer Lighting is a sustainable front-runner who has developed a unique circular business model where waste is transformed into new beautiful lamps that make buildings more sustainable and people healthier. In 2023, Fischer Lighting saved more than 53 tons of discarded lamps from being thrown away, and with the concepts ReUse, ReDesign, and ReCreate, unique lighting solutions are created in a beautiful and industrial design that meets all the requirements of a new lighting fixture. In addition to environmental sustainability, social sustainability is also an important part of the concept. Therefore, all the old lamps are separated and assembled by people on the edge of the labor market in Denmark. At the same time, the lamps are equipped with the latest technology, which, among other things, enables circadian lighting, which can stimulate the production of hormones in our body and create better well-being for people in buildings.

As a fast growing proptech company with over 10 000 IoT units out in the field, reaching over 100 000 people, our goal is to enhance our customers everyday lives by improving how their apartment buildings function. Our vision is to bring a traditional market into the digital age. E.g. we want you to only need one key for all the doors in your life and that your letter box tells you when you’ve got mail and also allow for integration with other systems like IFTTT, Siri/Alexa/Google assistant etc.

Greetings all developers and investors! I am Pekka Varis, working at www.catchline.fi - we produce high quality marketing videos and mation graphics for ad agencies and companies in Finland.  Check out these videos to get a deeper understanding of our mission: "Super power point" features and elements we are using: https://youtu.be/T5cWgOgSCIE  Here is 1 min preview of the wep-app UI and it´s usage: https://youtu.be/jrj8s8dhJf8

Swapfiets started in the classic start-up way. A group of friends having a good idea and deciding to just try it out: For a fixed price a month you get a Swapfiets bicycle and we ensure your Swapfiets bicycle always works. It turned out to be a great concept. After a period of fixing up bikes ourselves, Swapfiets has now arrived at a point where it has designed its own bicycle and started spreading out the service to a growing number of cities. An epic service, made easy.

Columbia Road is a digital growth consultancy challenging the old ways of running digital businesses. We exist to increase our clients’ revenue and help them get more customers in the digital era. Our team consists of business consultants who understand business-driven design, tech, strategy and growth. We believe in giving a lot of responsibility and freedom to our employees. There’s a common misunderstanding that happy and satisfied employees are automatically motivated employees. We don’t see things that way. Happy and satisfied employees are an important priority for us, but we think causal relationship is reversed: people are happy and satisfied when they have work that motivates them. For us, an employee’s happiness is the primary goal, not a tool for raising productivity or profitability. We want to empower our employees to become a better version of themselves and to have more of an impact on the world. We see happiness & satisfaction as end goals, not starting points. That being said we love to laugh a lot, play some tunes at the office and grab a few drinks after work. What kind of work is motivating in our context? People yearn for purpose in their work and want it to have meaning that creates value: purpose, for people and organisations, comes from making an impact on the world. Meaning & significance comes from providing value to someone else — in our case, clients. Clients (not us) define the value of our actions, always. Jobs at columbiaroad.com/careers

Wonderland work-eat-drink is a new coworking space built completely around creative ways of working. Our creative community opens it’s doors this August in Vallila’s Konepaja area.