Startup Foundation was founded in 2012 by fifty-seven Finnish technology influencers, entrepreneurs and investors to create a new generation of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs to be. The foundation was born from the ecosystem to give back to the ecosystem in a concrete way. The Foundation’s mission is to create more entrepreneurs, new companies, growth and internationalization, as well as supporting and promoting the startup mentality. This mission is supported by initiatives by the foundation. Externally, the Foundation supports both not-for-profit initiatives advancing the mission of the foundation as well as individuals wishing to start their entrepreneurial journeys.

Flextribe stands as a pioneering platform dedicated to revolutionising the consulting business. Our focus is helping our clients digitise their workflows, significantly reduce manual efforts, boost their success rates, and, most importantly, equip them to work seamlessly with data. Through our state-of-the-art products and services, we empower businesses to streamline their operations, enhancing overall efficiency. We are a youthful company with a bold vision: transforming the landscape of external workforce collaboration. To achieve this ambitious goal, we seek passionate and talented individuals to embark on this thrilling journey with us.

Genevia Technologies is a Finnish CRO specialized in delivering diverse bioinformatics solutions. The company was founded in 2011 as a spin-off enterprise by a group of computational systems biology researchers from Tampere University of Technology, in Tampere, Finland. Over a course of 15 years, our team has built up an extensive experience in analyzing and integrating various microarray, next-generation sequencing and proteomics data. We have also been developing and applying systems biological and mathematical modeling techniques on a wide range of applications from bacterial metabolomics to genomics of human cancers.

Swapster is an app for swapping, but we not just another app company. Swapster building a movement of rebels on a mission to question our consumption habits. Swapster want to introduce a new kind of "social-capitalism". One where we can leverage our belongings in new ways, buy less things, and have more money to spend on doing what we love. Collaboration are our core competence, co-creation is our lead word.

Great healthcare is personalized and focused on you — the individual in pain. It begins by addressing your unique needs and dynamically adapts as you progress and heal. To truly change today's healthcare - and do it fast - all actors in the value chain need to win. Our blend of technology and expert therapists sets us apart, and in the MSK space, Injurymap promises a value-creation model that ensures a win-win for all. Currently, our online and hybrid physiotherapy services cater to Denmark. Soon we’ll be helping people in pain, payers, and therapists across Europe. We're gearing up to assist individuals, payers, and therapists throughout Our digital physiotherapy, CE-marked, and AI-driven app is available globally. Download it in the Apple App Store or via Google Play. Discover more at www.injurymap.com We are always looking for passionate and talented people to join our mission.

Since 2017, Simplifai transforms insurance businesses by optimizing claims processes with Agentic AI. Our Enterprise Grade AI Platform offers the flexibility to build custom AI Agents of varying complexities or employ one of our pre-built Agents for bodily injury, motor, and travel claims. Whether your focus is on enhancing customer experience, cutting costs, or mitigating risks, our AI Agents adapt to align with your strategies and objectives. By taking over repetitive manual tasks, our Agents empower your teams to concentrate on high-value work, improving both efficiency and customer satisfaction. As your AI partner, we collaborate closely with you to drive innovation, ensuring that every new feature we release directly addresses your evolving needs. With data privacy, security, and compliance as our top priorities, our fully certified platform ensures your business remains secure and future-ready. Discover more at: https://www.simplifai.ai/

Small Giant Games is one of the fastest growing mobile game companies in the world. We believe that small, skilled and independent teams can accomplish gigantic things. Our brand new office is located right in the center of Helsinki, and hosts our awesome, international team of 35 people. Our latest game, Empires & Puzzles, has some of the best metrics in the industry, and it has already reached top 10 grossing positions in 84 countries.

A Whole New Perspective on Software Development. Valaa is an open source technology stack allowing scalable and secure web and IoT applications to be built in a fraction of time with only basic skills in web development.

At Subit we make great scheduling software for schools and daycares. We started just four years ago and have worked hard to make ourselves a known name in the industry. We're trying to create the best environment for great products to be made and for people to grow. Working with us you will be a key part in making meaningful products for grateful customers.

The importance of bacteria in both industrial and medical applications is expanding exponentially. SBT Instruments provides fast and accurate bacteria-counting equipment to facilitate the bacto-revolution. Commercial success and pushing state-of-the-art technology to the market are the cornerstones of our company. SBT was established in 2014 as a spin-out from the Technical University of Denmark. Today, the company employs 15 people, has acquired two patents (recently filed for a third), has one product on the market and another product that is soon to be launched. Bacteria measurements are relevant in many different applications, but our current main market is found within the biopharma and biotech industries, where we sell our first product, BactoBox. We are partly owned by the Ellab-Fonden, a Danish commercial foundation that supports important and impactful social, humanitarian, and research projects.

Global Startup Awards (GSA) was born out of the Danish startup ecosystem through the Nordic Startup Awards in 2012. What began as a regional initiative has grown into the world’s largest independent startup competition platform, now covering 154 countries across 19 regions. Through its competition framework and flagship events, GSA connects startups, investors, corporates, governments, and ecosystem enablers to showcase and accelerate innovation on both regional and global levels. GSA has offices in Copenhagen and Budapest and works closely with governments, investors, and business partners worldwide. Its model operates through a licensee-and-partnership structure, in which external organisations under the GSA framework lead several regional programs. Beyond competitions, GSA has evolved into a global innovation platform spanning multiple pillars — from events and content to data, insights, and venture partnerships — that drives collaboration between the public and private sectors to strengthen innovation ecosystems around the world.

Cand is a talent management bureau. We match students with companies in relevant student jobs. We help companies hire their future employees who get the opportunity to develop competencies within their field of interest during their studies. In addition, we offer the students a chance to be part of our business academy in which we provide relevant workshops. These focus on competencies that companies demand and thus increase the student's employability.

HeapsGo er et af danmarks førende udviklingshuse for restauration, natteliv og convenience. Vi udvikler og lancerer apps, hjemmesider samt komplette platforme til bestilling, betaling, kommunikation, loyalitet og meget mere. Samarbejdspartnere inkluderer bl.a. Grød, OLIOLI, Wedo, Jagger og Frankies. Heaps har eksisteret siden 2014 og har ansatte og digitale platforme på tværs af Europa og USA. Vores hovedkontor er centralt placeret på Strøget i København K.

Mono Solutions offers fully white-label, tailored website solutions to digital service providers to empower small businesses online. We are dedicated to helping our partners create professional, data-driven websites at scale in the fastest and most cost-efficient way. Small businesses are then equipped with performance-driven websites that can serve as their proprietary hub to successfully drive business across the digital landscape. #monolove - it’s a thing. And it’s more than ‘hygge’. Ask your favorite Mono person for some examples,
 but every day we practice #monolove by being a real team - supporting each other and our reselling partners 
to be successful.

Daily Bits Of is a service for people who love learning. People whose curiosity never ends, who see gaining knowledge as an ongoing process and who believe they can acquire any skill they might need to handle work and life’s challenges. We know that finding time for learning can be difficult. We buy books that pile up, save articles that remain unread and rarely have time for that online course we’ve been longing to take. This is why we created Daily Bits Of.