Is It Time to Pivot from Corporate to Co-Founder? Great startups don’t fail because of bad ideas - they stall because they can’t reach the market. From deep-tech to consumer products, many early-stage ventures have strong teams and promising solutions - but lack the commercial insight to grow. Commercial Co-Founder is a programme designed for professionals ready to pivot out of traditional commercial roles and into high-impact roles within early-stage startups.

Nyx is a cloud-based nightclub management platform designed to streamline operations for venues and enhance the nightlife experience for guests. It offers a suite of tools including membership management, table booking, ticket sales, and guest list handling, all integrated into a single system. For venues, Nyx provides a comprehensive suite of features to manage daily operations efficiently. The platform allows for the creation of custom membership systems, enabling venues to offer unique perks and engage with their audience through push notifications, emails, or text messages. The table booking system offers a visual overview of the venue, handling orders, payments, credits, and bookings, all integrated with the membership system to provide a seamless experience. The ticket system facilitates the sale of event tickets or regular covers, with integration into the members app for a consistent user experience. For guests, Nyx serves as a digital wallet for nightclub membership cards, allowing users to discover clubs, register using their Nyx account, obtain memberships, buy tickets, and stay updated on events and news from their favorite venues. Nyx's flexible pricing model caters to venues of all sizes, with a starting price of €29 per month, and additional costs based on the number of members and active logins. The platform is available on both iOS and Android, ensuring accessibility for all users. With over 200 venues and more than 400,000 registered members, Nyx is redefining the way nightclubs manage their operations and connect with their audience.

GitHub made it easy for the world to build software together. SomebodyMakeIt does the same for physical products. SomebodyMakeIt is where brands, IP owners, and product creators can turn ideas into real products without building supply chains from scratch through a shared infrastructure for sourcing, collaboration, production, and scaling. Physical product creation is still absurdly broken. If you want to launch something real, you usually need to find the right people, manage scattered files and feedback, coordinate suppliers, handle production risk, and commit money before you know if demand exists. That kills speed, margins, and momentum. It also locks out a huge number of creators and companies that could launch great products if the system were easier. This is a massive market gap hiding in plain sight. We are building the platform where physical products get built. A place where ideas, briefs, collaborators, makers, manufacturers, production knowledge, and execution can live in one system. Instead of every company rebuilding the process from zero, they can plug into shared infrastructure for developing, testing, and scaling products. The more projects that run through the platform, the stronger the network becomes. More data, better matching, faster execution, more repeat production, and more value captured across the lifecycle. We started this because we think it is crazy that software has world class infrastructure for building together, while physical products are still stuck in email, spreadsheets, fragmented sourcing, and expensive guesswork. That should not be true anymore. We are building SomebodyMakeIt because the company that becomes the default place where physical products get built can become incredibly important.

EAB is a dynamic startup founded in Helsinki, based in Berlin revolutionising how artists safeguard, monetise, and enhance their creative legacies. Grounded in the Solana Foundation ecosystem in 2023, EAB is pioneering Europe’s first Artist-powered bank and Copyright Vault, delivering innovative digital banking, smart contract solutions, Token licensing, and AI-driven metadata protection. Our mission bridges blockchain innovation, financial empowerment, and cultural preservation.

Traced Systems, part of the ChromaWay ecosystem and powered by Chromia, is redefining product lifecycle management with blockchain-powered Digital Product Passports. Our platform merges Web3 innovation with industry compliance, enabling transparent, traceable, and verifiable product histories—from production to end-of-life. Designed for industries impacted by EU regulations, we empower businesses to seamlessly meet sustainability goals, optimize supply chains, and navigate evolving compliance landscapes. By integrating decentralized, tamper-proof records and on-chain interactions, we unlock new avenues for engagement, trust, and data encryption. Since 2021, we’ve contributed to this vision through rigorous research, tech development, and field testing in collaboration with the EU. Traced Systems now represents the culmination of these efforts—a cutting-edge digital infrastructure for lifecycle tracking that prioritizes sustainability, compliance, and innovation using Chromia technology. Through strategic partnerships and lifecycle management initiatives, Traced Systems accelerates the transition to circular business models, fostering sustainability, regulatory alignment, and a next-generation digital experience powered by Web3 technology.

At Myvox, we move air with MEMS. We are a Swedish deep-tech company developing next-generation microspeakers and microfans using MEMS – Micro Electro Mechanical Systems – a chip-based technology that combines mechanics and electronics at microscopic scale. Our patented “Speaker-in-a-Chip” and “Fan-in-a-Chip” replace bulky, 100-year-old technologies with ultra-thin, energy-efficient components that can be manufactured like semiconductors. This opens up new possibilities for sound and cooling in compact consumer devices like earbuds, hearing aids, and smartphones. With Myvox, sound gets crisper, devices run cooler, and the technology inside becomes smarter and more scalable. Join us as we reimagine how air moves in the smallest spaces.

ARTBIO is redefining cancer care by developing a new class of alpha radioligand therapies (ART) and building the ecosystem that maximizes their potential. ARTBIO is a clinical-stage radiopharmaceutical biotechnology company focused on developing a new class of alpha radioligand therapies (ART). Our unique patient-centric approach is underpinned by a deep understanding of cancer biology and the infrastructure needed to effectively design, manufacture, and distribute our therapies.

Funler is an AI-powered customer support platform that helps businesses streamline their support operations, reduce costs, and improve response times. Unlike traditional AI chatbots, Funler combines automation with human adaptability, ensuring a seamless customer experience. It continuously learns from interactions, including manual responses, to enhance accuracy over time. Designed for quick deployment, Funler integrates effortlessly into existing workflows, making it ideal for businesses of all sizes, particularly SMBs. Unlike competitors that focus on either automation or human support, Funler offers a hybrid model that ensures efficiency without sacrificing personalization. It is industry-agnostic, serving e-commerce, SaaS, and service-based businesses. Additionally, Funler is expanding internationally through strategic partnerships, positioning itself as a global leader in AI-driven customer support. With a growing customer base and recurring revenue, Funler is not just an idea but a scalable solution with real market traction.

Elly is an early-stage, pre-revenue AI startup revolutionizing the future of AI interactions. Our innovative solution curates and recommends the best AI models based on user prompts, ensuring seamless, private, and energy-efficient interactions with top-performing, compliant models. Elly's mission is to elevate AI conversations by continuously accessing and recommending the best AI models tailored to user prompts. This approach not only enhances the quality of interactions but also boosts productivity through an intuitive interface and advanced prompt engineering. With our platform, we're setting new standards for accessible, efficient, private and compliment AI for all.

Hale is a growing tech company specializing in breathwork through our app, breath guide certifications, and studio sessions. We provide online breathwork and partner with wellness studios to expand the reach of breathwork practices. We aim to bring breathwork to the forefront of health and wellness internationally.

We’re a small but passionate team focused on simplifying life for dog owners. Our app helps dog parents discover dog-friendly spots, connect with local services, and create meaningful experiences with their four-legged companions. Our vision is bold, our mission is clear, and we believe great ideas thrive in a collaborative, open-minded environment. We are remote-first and prioritize communication, empathy, and curiosity to create a thriving team dynamic, inspired by the dog.

HorseDay helps trainers of Icelandic horses track training session, plan training ahead, register shoeing, register medical activity or note down whatever is relevant for caretaking of horses. With HorseDay the user can create a profile for each horse by connecting WorldFengur paddock to the application. We at HorseDay are equestrians, we are experienced in horse keeping on a broad basis. We are familiar with horse breeding, training horses, competing in sport and showing breeding horses, buying and selling horses and more or less everything related to horse keeping in the Icelandic horse world. HorseDay is supposed to be a community where activities with horses are held, people can find knowledge and useful information and people exchange opinions. Our intention is that HorseDay will be useful tool to all equestrians and those who are interested in horses. We intend to lead the digital journey of managing everything related to horse management.

We are Belly Box, a small start-up on a mission to help reduce the mental load for families with children. Our first product is a meal kit—think Hello Fresh for school lunches, but with high-quality, organic ingredients. We are also building a community to provide parents with tools and knowledge for educating children about sustainable consumption.

We're Netto, pragmatic green finance and technology experts who empower banks to meet their net zero goals as efficiently as possible. Through our software we translate complex language, regulations, and processes into a one-of-a-kind software platform that simplifies the green loans process between banks and their commercial real estate clients. Netto ensures clarity, transparency, and compliance with green loan requirements, guiding the pathway to net zero lending portfolios before 2050.

Sortedam Ventures is supporting ambitious founders with technical expertise, capital and execution power. We are a group of experienced technical co-founders and investors who have built startups from A-Z in industries such as Energy, Maritime, Health, Data Infrastructure, Market Research, and more. We help accelerate your startup's growth by providing leadership, drive innovation, manage technical projects, streamlining development process and align technology with business objectives. We reduce the risk of making wrong technical choices, being slow to market, creating unnecessary technical debt and hiring the wrong people. We provides flexible investment models without compromising your equity or financial flexibility. We are your technical co-founder.