The Norwegian fashion brand BRGN was founded in 2015 by Ros-Mari Tobiassen Gaundal and Karine Trellevik Lunde. Their mission is to offer great alternatives to the traditional all-weather jacket, through high-quality garments and shoes that can be worn on any occasion and in any kind of weather. Their technical and waterproof products, designed for a functional and urban lifestyle, are now sold by over a hundred retailers in Norway, Germany, France, and the UK in addition to their two concept stores in Oslo and Bergen. BRGN set a new turnover record in 2021, at 25.8 MNOK. Up from 16. MNOK in 2020.

Pexip enables enterprises and organizations of any size to deploy and use video-based communication and collaboration. The Company’s portfolio of products ranges from self-hosted software to cloud service video solutions. Pexip provides seamless collaboration between previously incompatible video and audio technologies such as professional video conferencing systems, Skype for Business, Microsoft Teams, Google Hangouts Meet, and WebRTC. Pexip’s software-based meeting platform can also be used as a foundation for service provider offerings. Pexip has HQ in Oslo, Norway, main offices in London, UK, New York and Reston, US, and Sydney, Australia, as well as sales offices across the globe. For more information, visit www.pexip.com, or follow @PexipInc on Twitter.

Senpage is an organization that seeks to redefine how students and recent graduates approach entrepreneurship. Blurring the lines between incubator and consultancy, Senpage facilitates meaningful collaborations between founders and cross-functional teams of student consultants, seasoned mentors, and other key stakeholders. By leveraging our growing network, we aim to democratise entrepreneurship by dismantling the biggest obstacles faced by student entrepreneurs— whether it’s time, manpower, or capital. From ideation to MVP validation, join us on our mission to create a more viable, sustainable path for both student founders and consultants. Senpage's management team consists of permanent members who pursue prospective clients, recruit new volunteers, oversee our internal and external communications, and shape the organisation’s broader strategy. Our project teams are comprised of volunteers from local universities who serve as consultants for our clients. We aim to recruit volunteers with a variety of competencies to serve every potential need.

Pentonet are an established startup providing data and communication service solutions to the maritime industry. The connectivity of people and devices on boards ships is our business. Very simply we provide smarter communications for ships and sailors. The primary services that we supply are: 1. Near Shore LTE services providing a ship to shore data link based on our own LTE router that has global support, end to end firmware management and a host of special remote access features and management 2. Global Mobile service SIM cards aimed at sailors who travel constantly. 3. Onboard VoIP services for business and crew using our own platform and global reach partners fro allow us to supply multinational DIDs.

Tal&Dev is an HR-tech startup operating a matching network which leverages AI and proprietary algorithms to create lasting career matches between talents and employers. Their platform is unique with its "candidate spec" that outlines for each applicant not just their (soft & hard) skills and experience but also their ambitions, readiness for effort and workplace preferences thus allowing to vet (two-way) predictive long-term engagement and potential. This helps talents inventory their top skills/development needs and orient themselves towards their best fit career, putting them firmly in the drivers seat. And it allows recruiting teams to avoid endless resume screening and just focus on the best matching candidates as provided by Tal&Dev's proprietary algorithms. More on our services for talents: https://www.talanddev.com/ More on our services for companies: https://www.talanddev.com/companies

United Fintech buys and scales the best fintech companies in the capital markets sector and unites the products on a central platform. At United Fintech, we’re passionate about facing new challenges and working innovatively to solve them, with the ultimate aim of making a difference in the world of finance through technology. We’re a scale-up in the making with ambitious plans for the future. Working with a blend of cultures and nationalities, we offer a unique and exciting workplace where every individual has the opportunity to develop their career.

The Common Ones is a social venture with the mission of empowering businesses. We look to make an impact across industries integrating businesses, environmental care, and social inclusion. Our core tasks are helping startups and SMEs in Latin America to develop their business, navigate their sustainability strategy, and create a circular business model.

Freyja is initiating a new era for social media platforms, moderation practices, and user protection. Its sophisticated moderation and safety system is ground-breaking and allows it to offer a voice to a marginalized group of creators. Educators, charities, and brands, who offer important sex-education and awareness, don’t have a platform to promote their cause. Mainstream social media censors any mention of sensitive topics, such as sex, and ban creators without warning. As a result, the human right of sexual education is being denied, which is particularly problematic when women’s sexual rights are being stripped away repeatedly. Charities that focus on reducing revenge porn and image based sexual abuse find themselves censored, or banned for talking about their work. Companies focused on sexual health testing, period products, sex therapy and contraception also find themselves banned or censored Educators try to improve education and find themselves censored for naming a body part. Sex workers face the worst discrimination as they are instantly deleted, even when they haven’t posted anything more explict than a bikini photos, whereas a celebrity might post something actually pornographic or link directly to an adult site and not face the same censorship or bans. Freyja acknowledges this overlap of education and adult entertainment and addresses this by offering a safe environment, where people can find what they are looking for: education or entertainment. Freyja is a social media platform, which does not censor or discriminate. It’s a platform, where individuals, charities, and brands can post about sex-education, their products, and their charity work. Creators can monetize their content with a range of payment options or post content for free, like on any other social media platform.

At True, we let our clients issue secure, unforgeable documents—blockchain-secured and tamper-proof. From certificates to licences and diplomas, our solutions ensure trust, saving you time while protecting both your brand and valuable relationships. In a world of fake content, truth and trust is everything. As a trusted partner to some of the world's leading organisations, we secure their documents, as well as their reputation. https://trueoriginal.com/

Buzz is the virtual office platform where remote and distributed teams connect to work together - as effortlessly as if they were sitting in the same room. Users can see where their team mates are and if they are available, jump in and out of voice or video rooms without creating links and simply talk or screen share in one click. By re-thinking today’s technologies and enhancing them with intentional and smart UX, Buzz aims to translate a lot of the interactions that happen when working in a physical office, into their equivalent virtual representation. So that people can interact and express themselves without limitations or friction. By re-imagining remote communication and collaboration as we know it today, we are on a mission to revolutionize the future of work.

Baia has developed BaiaNet, an optimisation platform to help large market participants solve the problem of lack of visibility and accountability that leads to significant loss of revenue and assets, by optimising and coordinating cash transactions across informal supply chains. BaiaNet tracks assets, people and value across informal supply chains with messaging where 95% of transactions are cash and unverified. Cash management and traceability is a global problem effecting 2.5 billion people in informal markets. BaiaNet has a "low tech" messaging enabled front end based, with a sophisticated optimisation platform in the cloud for even the thinnest clients, orchestrating the network & providing data services to field agents via a messaging. Identifiers for asset tracking & verification, bridge the divide between offline and online Cash management to digitise face to face commerce in informal cash economies making commerce more efficient, transparent and secure The Baia founders wanted to use our experience to make a difference, and the Cash Economy is the biggest opportunity in Fintech, as well as being at the heart of the impacting the billions of people "bottom of pyramid" that do not have access to transparent, efficient and secure supply chains and access to basic business services.

Zeabuz is a spin-off from the leading research community on autonomous vessels at NTNU in Trondheim. Our autonomy technology is field-proven for shortcuts across urban waterways, and we are now searching for long-term investors while preparing for market launch. Water used to be the main infrastructure for most cities in the world. While roads are filling up everywhere, much of the urban waters are have become highly underutilized. At Zeabuz we want to reverse this trend by introducing a technology platform that makes local waterborne transport an economically viable and sustainable option. Our mobility system, which comprises a combination of a network of small vessels, electric drive, and autonomous operation, is a truly scalable solution fit for many of the world’s urban areas. Enabling increased flow by utilizing available waterways will allow more people to travel by foot and bike and hence will reduce the need for road traffic and in the end reduce emissions of climate gasses. Another perspective is that dynamic utilization of waterways will reduce the need for new inflexible infrastructures such as roads and bridges, which saves both money, emissions from concrete production, and local footprint. The Zeabuz urban mobility system will be a compelling and attractive mobility solution for cities globally. Rough estimates have shown that there is a market for approx. 4000 Zeabuz-like ferries in the EU alone. Zeabuz aims to take a major share of this emerging market. The company is founded on the idea that passenger transport across urban waters is a highly suitable starting point for commercializing autonomous mobility. In this segment, risks are mitigated by low speeds and high physical margins which also allow us to focus on solving only a few problems at a time while still earning positive returns from the start. As the Zeabuz technology platform matures in this first segment, we will explore its scaling potential across several dimensions. This means we could branch out and adapt to new opportunities and market demand based on our solid foundation in autonomy, assurance, and mobility solutions. Our autonomy platform can be utilized to deliver Autonomy-as-a-Service which enables entries into new markets, new use cases, and an expansion to more complex operational domains. Zeabuz is now preparing for launching a commercial pilot in a Scandinavian city in 2022. Much of the financial structure required is already in place and will be triggered by the entry of a Lead Investor

Biosyntia ia a biotech start-up, which was founded by Morten Sommer, Hans Genee and Andreas Hougaard Laustsen as a spin-out from the Centre for Biosustainability, at the Technical University of Denmark. Today we are 20 passionate people with capabilities spanning from strain engineering, fermentation optimization, bioprocess development, business development and sales. Until now, we have raised EUR 10 million of which EUR 4 million are from national and grants. Our investors' great support and funding mean that today we are the leading developer of natural vitamin bioprocesses. Our ambition is to replace highly polluting chemical processes and challenge the status quo with significantly more sustainable fermentation processes. Proprietary microbial fermentation processes – our unique asset We produce natural ingredients based on microbial fermentation processes. While it compares to the process of brewing beer, it is distinguished by our unique and proprietary microorganisms. We select our microbes to produce specific natural ingredients of our choice. By integrating the developed microbes into full-scale manufacturing processes, we can deliver natural ingredients to our customers at unprecedented cost, quality, and scale with minimum environmental footprint. World leaders in vitamins and plant bioactives Nature is a treasure trove of ingredients, with more than 40.000 registered bioactives. Biosyntia focuses deeply on a subset of natural products. Our current product platforms position Biosyntia as a world leader within a selection of fermented vitamins and plant-derived bioactives.

We have invented Magnetic Air Drive - a contactless transfer of powerful torque for a new generation kitchen appliances. Millo appliances is the winner of TechBBQ 2021 Hardware Startups Pitch competition. Existing kitchen appliances are typically chunky, aesthetically unappealing and difficult to clean, that's why people hide them deep in cupboards. Modern kitchens are becoming smaller, so there is limited space for storing. People are seeking for more durable, minimalistic and sustainable products, also smart and evolving over time via software updates. Magnetic Air Drive is a standard of the future kitchen. A powerful, seamless torque that is suitable for a new generation cordless as well as build-in products. It is a highly sustainable solution - one motor can power all the mechanical kitchen appliances. The first technology application is a cordless blender - www.getmillo.com, which is evolving to a multifunctional platform. New accessories coming are coffee grinder, juicer and baby food mixer. The next evolution of the Magnetic Air Drive will be integration into cooktops, opening up entirely new possibilities for the wireless kitchens of the future.

CatchScan is a cloud-based software driven platform for content creators who wants to automate protection of their copyright online. In the time of digitalization where more than 2 billion images are uploaded daily without prober license, we believe everybody should be able to uphold their rights, without the need for an expensive lawyer and without doing time intensive manual tasks. That is why we have build a powerful service that automatically and continuously searches the internet for copied content. With our easy to use platform, anyone can have the power of a professional legal department representing their originality as a creator. This lets creators be creators, instead of worrying about misrepresentation of them and their brand.