Sting is a community of entrepreneurs united in action, on a mission to share our experience with people whose ideas have potential to solve humanity’s biggest challenges. Stockholm Innovation & Growth, or Sting, was founded 24 years ago with the mission of putting Sweden on the map for innovation. As a Stockholm-based accelerator and incubator, we help startups get off the ground and scale. We’re proud to have supported pioneering companies like Yubico, Karma, Airmee, Sellpy, Flox Robotics, BrainZell, and 400+ others through our programs. We're a passionate group of entrepreneur-lovers, and we’re honored to be recognized as “the best accelerator in the world.” We offer comprehensive startup support, including coaching, workshops, lectures, community-building, perks, and partnerships, all designed to help entrepreneurs in deep tech, climate, health, and societal sectors.

We're an early-stage biotech startup on a mission to transform the way the world experiences alcohol. Our proprietary enzyme-based dietary supplement is designed to break down alcohol in the stomach before it enters the bloodstream, helping the 540 million people who suffer from alcohol intolerance to enjoy social experiences without the side effects.

Bolago är en plattform för entreprenörer och företagare där vi strävar efter att låta våra kunder fokusera på det som är viktigt för dem - att driva sitt bolag framåt. Vi har automatiserat hanteringen av den administration som bolagsbyggare behöver. Nu har vi precis lanserat ett nytt varumärke, där vi behöver support för att driva det framåt och växa genom vår produkt och marknadsföring.

Coursfy is an innovative e-learning platform designed to provide maximum freedom to both instructors and learners. Unlike traditional e-learning platforms that often impose rigid structures, Coursfy emphasizes flexibility, creativity, and autonomy, empowering instructors to deliver unique educational experiences and allowing learners to tailor their educational journeys to their specific needs and preferences. Additionally, Coursfy is built with a strong focus on ease of use, ensuring a seamless and intuitive experience for all users.

Operta is a newly born startup with a dynamic team. Operta's vision is to empower landlords and property managers with a cutting-edge SAAS solution that optimizes property and tenant management, enabling streamlined operations, efficient communication, elevated tenant satisfaction, and business scalability. Through our SAAS product, we want to connect landlords/property managers, tenants, and service providers (e.g., plumbers, electricians, painters) in one single platform allowing both maintenance and management of rental properties.

Short Description: Mindbuddy is developing an AI-powered mental training app to help young athletes build confidence, focus, and resilience by combining sports psychology with accessible, easy-to-use tools designed for their daily routines. The What: Mental training is often inaccessible to young athletes due to stigma, cost, or limited resources at clubs. This leaves players struggling with performance anxiety, self-doubt, and inconsistent focus - issues that directly impact their performance and well-being. Despite its importance, mental training remains underutilized, especially in grassroots and academy-level sports. With over 50% of players reporting struggles with confidence and performance pressure, this is a problem that affects millions of young athletes worldwide. The How: Mindbuddy bridges the gap between mental training and accessibility by delivering tailored sports psychology tools directly to players’ phones. Using AI, the app helps players set SMART goals, generate visualization tracks, and build mental routines for training and matches. For clubs, Mindbuddy offers a simple platform to track team well-being, measure progress, and provide coaches with actionable insights - allowing mental training to seamlessly integrate into the day-to-day routines of both players and teams. The Why: As a professional footballer for 18 years, including many as captain of Vålerenga, I’ve experienced firsthand the enormous pressure players face. It wasn’t until the latter part of my career, when I discovered the power of mental training, that I realized how much better prepared and focused I could be. That sparked the idea for Mindbuddy. I wanted to create a tool that made mental training accessible to every young athlete, breaking down the barriers of stigma and cost, and ensuring they can unlock their full potential - both on and off the pitch.

THE URGENT ISSUE IN TODAY'S JOB MARKET IN THE NORDIC COUNTRIES: ✪ Traditional recruitment prioritizes CV algorithms and keywords over human potential, by an astonishing 90%. When ATS/AI control who gets seen, we lose the most important factor: the human behind the CV. This creates not just unemployment, but social exclusion - when people can't find work, they lose connection to society and experience profound isolation. ✪ Todays recruitment methods are narrowly fixated purely on qualifications and historical experience, relying heavily on algorithms to sift through CVs. This approach overlooks the unique talents and motivations of individuals, drivingforces, personality and thus missing out on valuable opportunities for growth and success. ✪ THE RESULT: People are often using ChatGPT or Copilot to write their applications + HR are using AI to read them = nobody is getting hired. ✪ Sweden struggles with high youth unemployment and urban-rural divides. Refugee integration remains uneven, and platform work is eroding traditional protections. Union influence is waning, especially in tech and service sectors. ✪ Denmark’s famed flexicurity model is under pressure. Women are overrepresented in part-time roles, and older workers exit early. Gig work is expanding faster than regulation, challenging collective bargaining norms. ✪ Finland faces persistent long-term unemployment and mental health-related exclusion. Industrial restructuring is shifting jobs to tech hubs, leaving peripheral regions behind. Labor mobility remains low despite retraining efforts. In conclusion; the Nordic countries face mounting labor market exclusion despite strong welfare models. Norway leads with 700,000 adults outside the labor force, driven by regional stagnation, immigrant underemployment, and early retirement. The green and digital transitions are creating jobs—but not where displaced workers live. THE PERFECT STORM FOR US! TURNING THE RECRUITMENT MARKET UPSIDE-DOWN «From employer initiated to 100% talent focused.» Our Solution: Talentity.ai = AI meets empathy! Nordic's first community for job seekers, where talent takes center stage. Meeting the talents, rather than relying on historical data on a piece of paper. Creating an empathic AI, that combines human expertise with technology, supporting decision making and not taking over the entire process.

We are an agtech startup driven by a clear mission: to strengthen Swedish agriculture and food production through sharing of agricultural data. Agriculture is currently undergoing a digital revolution, characterized by the use of sensors, connected devices, and data monitoring software. This advancement introduces complex challenges in terms of data privacy, security, and transparency. Data is collected in large amounts, but is locked in silos of individual products and systems. To fully leverage the benefits of this digitalization, creating a platform for effective data sharing is essential. By establishing a robust and secure infrastructure, we enable large-scale data sharing across the agricultural value chain – without compromising privacy or security. Our platform allows stakeholders, from farmers to researchers as well as the industry, to share and access data. We provide Swedish farmers with full control over their data, while also enabling the development of new applications based on data from the platform. A prime example is our climate calculation application, Agrosfär, which simplifies how to measure and report the agricultural sector's carbon footprint. We are a small but dynamic team, well-versed in data science, IT architecture, design, and UX, and in close collaboration with agricultural experts, researchers and farmers. We are here for the long run, backed by the ownership of Lantmännen, LRF -The Swedish Federation of Farmers, Hushållningssällskapet, Växa, HKScan Sweden, and Arla Sweden. The platform, as well as the climate calculation tool Agrosfär, is developed with support from the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development.

HenryFlow is a platform that makes it possible for SMEs to automate 80% of their business in 60 seconds without any technical skills. We do this through cutting-edge machine learning and NLP technology. Starting and/or running a startup or small business is hard. Software tools are here to help you, but with over 30,000 SaaS systems on the market, how do you make sure you implement the right systems in the right way? Having a great tech stack is a prerequisite for success for these companies, but in the early stages, trying to figure out and implementing their tech is only slowing them down and delaying innovation. This problem does not only occur in the early stages of companies. When companies grow, they naturally need more advanced systems. But how do you implement the right systems and make sure they are integrated with your other systems? Between 49% - 70% of internal software implementations fail or do not deliver the expected value. HenryFlow wants to change this for good and make smooth, value-adding software implementation accessible for everyone. HenryFlow solves this problem in the following ways: 1) Based on information you provide about your company, and our large database of similar companies, Henry suggests the most optimal SaaS tech stack for your specific company. 2) Henry fully integrates all the chosen systems in the backend, so they feel like one. 3) Henry suggests workflow-automations between your systems to automate your work to the fullest 4) You can define any additional workflow-automations through Natural Language. Just tell Henry what you want. :) 5) Henry works in your browser. You can always ask him about your workflows or how to use your systems. 6) Henry collects data points on how you use your systems and suggests specific automations that will reduce your work real time. Our vision is to create freedom and opportunity through Automation and AI. We believe that it is way too hard to succeed as a small business. By putting AI in the hands of these companies, we want to create new opportunities for growth and innovation. Business owners should be spending time innovating on the products and creating great things, not on failed IT implementations and admin tasks! Additionally, most people start businesses to take back control over their own lives. They want to be their own boss and feel independent. Unfortunately, those dreams often do not last long. As their company grows, they get more work. Work that has nothing to do with their passion: accounting, taxes, salaries, stock management, project management, reporting, etc. At HenryFlow, we want to give business owners back their freedom.

At Ringtail Interactive, we are consistently pushing the boundaries of what is possible for a fast-growing development team. We currently have three different departments working on a variety of projects; from a high-quality game platform for creators of all kinds, to a cutting edge game development tool that we believe will change the industry forever, and more. The company is made up of a diverse group of experienced professionals from all around the world united by a passion for games. As we continue to build the core of the team, we will be taking big next steps on defining the future development of our projects, and all of our employees will get the opportunity to have an impact on the products we show to the world.

Abion empower brands by providing comprehensive brand protection and web security services, enabling our customers to place their focus elsewhere. Our market-leading platform makes the management of trademarks, domains and web security more efficient. Combining tech-enabled, full-service solutions with a human touch, our broad expertise ensures a safe existence for your brand. And the best of all, we are the guardian of brands since 1994.

Settle Group (formerly Auka) is a Norwegian fintech company enabling banks to launch their own mobile payments service to fight the competition from third-party providers, startups and other banks. In 2016 we were awarded the fastest-growing fintech company in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) by Deloitte. Settle Group has built a white-label financial services platform featuring real-time payments, complex clearing and settlements, card processing and more. Auka is the first regulated financial services company to run fully in the cloud. We first launched our technology to the Norwegian market in 2014 under the brand mCASH. In 2015 we sold the mCASH-operation to SpareBank 1 focusing on global sales of our white-label financial services platform. We’re always on the lookout for skilled personnel sharing our vision to become the backbone of modern banking.

Personalized surfaces using artificial intelligence Through artificial intelligence, you can highlight the information on the website that the current visitor is looking for; completely without you as an administrator having to manage or update the recommendations. Usability and customer experience By recommending pages and information to the visitor, you create a personalized website whose navigation quickly leads the visitor right. The result is increased usability and a better customer experience.

Waylog helps leading eCommerce and DTC brands grow faster by unlocking capital stuck in the supply chain. Every single eCommerce business has experienced cash flow issues at some point and most experience it all the time. It keeps them from growing at the pace they could. We help them by bridging the gap in their cash conversion cycle through fast, convenient and on-demand inventory financing. It means they can free cash stuck in the supply chain and spend it on other (more fun) things, or place larger orders with their suppliers and thus negotiate better deals. Big Banks don't care much about small businesses, at Waylog we want to give everyone access to the same supply chain financing solutions as the big players have always had access to.

‘Pick Your Pour’ is a unique digital menu - opening the world of taste in food and drink for everyone. Knowing how confusing a menu with lists of unknown ingredients and names can be, we aim to make it easier for guests to find something they like. ‘Pick Your Pour’ will customise a personal menu for every guest depending on what they’re looking for through a series of itemised questions. Saving both time and energy in this process will improve the customer experience in your restaurant or bar. We aspire to be a valued tool for both the service industry professionals and their guests. The founding idea was the wish to provide a possibility for curious customers to find new cocktails on their own, knowing they would enjoy the originality of their choice. Combining efficiency and customer interaction. We are currently developing a software program with the digital cocktail menu for restaurants and bars that want to increase their beverage sales and develop their in-house knowledge.