We are a group of entities who want to ensure that Finland continues to remain competitive in the future. We represent Finnish businesses, corporations, organisations and higher education institutions who are concerned about how immigrants are treated in Finland. The collective has produced nationwide marketing communications campaigns, written joint editorials in Finnish mass media, and collaborated with major events like SuomiAreena 2025. We want to spark a discussion and emphasise the ways that immigrants have already contributed to building the Finnish welfare society. We also want to ensure that Finland remains an attractive place for international talents in the future.

GoWest — Nordic Venture Capital Forum GoWest is one of the Nordics’ leading venture capital forums for startups, scale-ups, investors, and ecosystem leaders focused on the future of innovation and industry. Hosted in Gothenburg, Sweden, GoWest brings together founders, venture capitalists, angel investors, corporations, universities, policymakers, and talent from across Europe to accelerate the growth of ambitious technology companies — from pre-seed to Series A and beyond. At the intersection of deep tech, industrial transformation, sustainability, and entrepreneurship, GoWest reflects the unique strengths of West Sweden: a region shaped by world-leading industry, engineering excellence, and an increasingly dynamic startup ecosystem. A MEETING PLACE FOR FOUNDERS, INVESTORS AND FUTURE INDUSTRIES GoWest exists to create meaningful connections between startups and capital. Over the course of several days, we facilitate high-quality matchmaking between founders and investors while also creating a platform for discussions around the future of European innovation, competitiveness, and technology leadership. The conference focuses especially on sectors where Europe — and the Nordics — have the potential to lead globally: Deep tech Climate tech Mobility and automotive innovation AI and emerging technologies Life science and health innovation Energy and electrification Industrial transformation Space and frontier technologies University spinouts and research commercialization GoWest is designed not only as an event, but as a catalyst for long-term collaboration between startups, investors, universities, corporations, and public stakeholders. WHAT HAPPENS AT GOWEST? GoWest combines structured investor matchmaking with inspiring stage content, networking opportunities, curated side events, and ecosystem-building activities.The conference includes: Startup-investor matchmaking Pitch sessions and founder showcases Investor programs and LP activities Keynotes and panel discussions Policy and innovation forums Workshops and breakout sessions Community gatherings and side events Networking experiences across Gothenburg Every year, hundreds of startups and investors participate in curated meetings designed to create real business opportunities and long-term relationships. A PLATFORM FOR THE NORDIC INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM GoWest is built around collaboration. We work closely with incubators, science parks, universities, accelerators, investors, corporations, and public organizations across the Nordics and Europe to strengthen the region’s innovation ecosystem. The conference is founded by Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg and developed together with ecosystem partners who share a vision of building globally competitive technology companies from Europe. WHY VOLUNTEER AT GoWest? GoWest is powered by people who are passionate about innovation, entrepreneurship, technology, and building meaningful experiences. As a volunteer, you become part of an international community working at the center of the Nordic startup and investment ecosystem. This is an opportunity to: Build experience in event production and international conferences Meet founders, investors, and industry leaders Expand your professional network Gain insight into startups, venture capital, and innovation Develop communication, coordination, and operational skills Work alongside an ambitious and welcoming team Get behind-the-scenes access to one of the Nordics’ leading tech events We welcome students, young professionals, international talent, and anyone curious about startups, innovation, events, and community building. Whether your interests are within business, tech, operations, communication, hospitality, partnerships, or entrepreneurship, GoWest offers a dynamic environment where you can learn, contribute, and grow.

ZTL is a challenger to the banks' "Transactional Services". We're a cloud-native SaaS hybrid B2B payment company in the early expansion phase. We integrate our Open Banking APIs into various ERPs and API platforms to build new business models within payment services. Drop us an email if you want to explore opportunities.

Evyon maximizes the value of second-life EV batteries by repurposing them into high-quality energy storage systems in a streamlined, safe, and cost-effective way. We develop novel technologies for reassembly and operations to convert usable second-life EV batteries into modular plug-and-play battery storage systems. Our ambition is to make battery storage truly accessible for a wide range of applications, including reducing peak energy demand (peak shaving), increasing self-consumption of energy from solar panels, providing critical services to grid operators, and increasing available power in an environmentally friendly way to underserved locations and applications.

Klint is a GROWTH agency. We're aimed at bringing the technical, tools, creative, reporting and next-level marketing techniques to any business. We differ from other agencies because our background is all about scaling. We've worked with bootstrapped startups and large companies alike to bring value. We prioritize what you need and vertically integrate user flows, customer journey, and tools that allow us to measure traffic, conversions, and new deals from the start.

An AI-powered platform to identify and connect organizations to life science opinion leaders. This kind of service has been used by Investment Firms and Management Consultancies on a daily basis for over a decade, but unless you’re a consultant or have worked at an investment firm you are probably unfamiliar with expert consultations, and the enormous value it brings. Our vision is to take the somewhat opaque ‘Expert Network’-service to a broader market, specifically the life science industry, to realize massive value and make knowledge extraction by expert consultations a no-brainer as part of a growth strategy.

Vision: To raise the bar for humanity and have a positive impact on people’s daily life and the world. We dream about contributing with a big impact, to connect people, the world, and make it a better place. We believe in consuming responsible by giving back to the world to create a better future for humanity. We wish to make it easy for Corporates to have a positive impact on human’s daily lives both within their organization and globally world-wide. Goal before 2030: 1B deliveries and 1B donated meals to children and families. Tribe is a dual service delivery-platform and marketplace, with convenient subscriptions, matching quality suppliers with Corporates’ recurring delivery needs, while donating a meal to a child in need for every delivery made. With a dual marketplace and a flexible subscription, we make it easy for Corporates to discover and get their needs delivered recurringly by bridging the gap between Corporates and suppliers.

We develop a software product for energy companies and wind developers to guide the end-of-life phase of wind farms. Our mission is to accelerate wind energy renewal and ensure no components end up in landfill. ReWind began as an internal project in DNV, but has since spun out into an independent, fast-growing company since launching our product.

Monetor is an automated currency department for corporate market. The market segment is hugely under-serviced and Monetor will offer the similar services that a large corporate enjoys to small and medium sized companies.Non-transparent pricing and partially complex solutions of foreign exchange products coupled with marginal resources and competence are challenging factors for the SME market, when doing cross border business. Our offering is to gather and analyse vendor invoices, historical transactional information, FX rate feeds thereby providing the user with real-time Monitoring of currency exposure on an invoice by invoice basis. This information will be used to determine the to the customer cost regarding currency exposure and cross border payments. Monetor will execute spot payments and hedge future credits/debits, within the parameters of the firms’ pre-set policy or strategy for managing foreign exchange risk.  Our aim is to reduce the costs to the business and eliminate currency risk.

Appostrophe is a mobile app development company creating easy-to-use design tools that unlock people's creativity. Our portfolio consists of top-listed apps such as SCRL, Text Art, and Add Text that are used and loved by millions of people worldwide. We’re a small, ambitious team that enjoy working together in central Stockholm and are looking for more like-minded people to join our mission.

Ocast is the first open & independent media marketing platform.  We strive to be the best advertising browsing experience in the world. For publishers, we provide a SaaS tool to make ad sales and workflows more efficient & lucrative.  Ocast gives publishers a prime position in the ever-expanding commercial advertising universe. Advertisers are able to gather information across borders and verticals to make advertising planning and purchases more accessible through all stages of the buying process. We believe Ocast is the future of advertising sales and marketing. We also believe that the people behind the product are crucial in that success. We operate more like a work family than colleagues and enjoy an open culture where all voices are heard and respected.  We like to work so the case of the Mondays aren’t really a thing around our office. We enjoy catching up on Mondays then getting to business. The coffee is always on and music playing for some pep in the office and also to blur out the snoring of our office dog and fur child, Niels. 🐶 We enjoy meeting sprint goals together. It makes birthday fika a little sweeter and AW on Fridays a little more refreshing.

Univrses is a 3D Computer Vision and Machine Learning company, creating high-end technologies for autonomous systems. We work in several different areas, but our main focus is on self-driving vehicles, mobile robotics and smart city development. The Company is based in Stockholm, Sweden, but we work with clients all over the world. Our team now consists of 29 hard-working and friendly people, all working in our bright and spacious facilities by Medborgarplatsen in the heart of Södermalm, Stockholm.

DBtune (www.dbtune.com) is an innovative AI startup based in the vibrant Malmö area, a short train ride away from Copenhagen, Denmark, and Lund and Helsingborg, Sweden. Since our founding in 2020, our dedicated team of engineers and Ph.D. researchers has been on a mission to revolutionize cloud and database systems using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. DBtune's core technology is a fully automated service designed to optimize databases. Our optimizer, based on machine learning, tailors each optimization to the specific customer workload and hardware in use. This approach leads to improved key performance indicators, making the process of database tuning more efficient and scalable across hundreds of instances. By utilizing DBtune, users enhance their databases' performance while significantly reducing cloud costs and environmental impact. We have garnered support from institutional and angel investors in the EU and the US, along with pre-seed funding from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (KAW). With a growing customer base, DBtune is poised to expand its influence even further, scaling our operations to bring AI-driven database optimization to a broader audience.

At syv.ai we're building what hasn't been built yet. We're part AI Agency, and part software product development company. We're known for our best-in-class home brewed AI models, such as DanskGPT, Hviske, o7 and our newly released text to speech model. Founded in February 2024 and based in Copenhagen, we specialize in developing cutting-edge AI solutions tailored specifically for Danish businesses and the Danish language. We're a focused team of 7 people operating from the heart of Copenhagen, working with some of Denmark's and the world's leading companies and organizations - from tech giants to energy companies and public institutions. Our flagship models include: - DanskGPT: A generative transformer model with billions of parameters, trained exclusively on approximately 3 billion Danish words from news articles, books, public documents, and online texts. Available in both base and chat versions, with a smaller open-source variant (DanskGPT-tiny) released under Apache 2.0 license. - Hviske v2: Our state-of-the-art Danish transcription model, fine-tuned on Whisper v3 for market-leading performance on Danish speech. The model is open source and available via Hugging Face, achieving approximately 30% better accuracy than comparable models on the CoRal benchmark. - o7: Our reasoning model designed for complex problem-solving - Our newly released Danish text-to-speech model We deliver enterprise-grade, scalable AI solutions with a proven track record of successful implementations in organizations with up to 170,000 employees. Our approach combines strategic AI consulting, custom AI development, and knowledge-based implementation, always with a focus on GDPR compliance and data sovereignty. Beyond development, we're committed to AI education and adoption in Denmark, offering tailored presentations and hands-on courses in Generative AI to help teams build the competence needed to drive and maintain groundbreaking AI projects. What sets us apart is our deep understanding of Danish language, culture, and business needs, combined with our commitment to privacy-by-design and local data sovereignty - ensuring our solutions work seamlessly within Danish and European regulatory frameworks.

InstallatørGruppen blev etableret i 2023 og består af pt. 33 virksomheder indenfor el-, vvs-, fiber samt ventilations- og kølesystemer. På under 2 år har vi vokset os op blandt branchens største med nu over 30 installationsvirksomheder samt en afdeling i Schweiz. . I partnerskab med den nordeuropæiske kapitalfond FSN Capital bygger vi en af Danmarks førende virksomheder inden for el-, vvs-, fiber-, ventilations- og kølesystemer. Vores unikke forretningsmodel kombinerer lokalt ejerskab med national styrke: Hver virksomhed i gruppen bevarer sin lokale ledelse, kunderelationer og identitet, samtidig med at de bliver medejere i InstallatørGruppen. Vi vækster organisk og gennem opkøb og har en ambitiøs målsætning om at byde 1-2 nye partnervirksomheder velkommen hver måned.