The Nordic Startup Awards is a unique series of events in the Nordic countries. NSAwards is one of the regions part of Global Startup Awards. Our aim is to connect the entire startup ecosystem, from successful and promising startups, investors and journalists to founders and developers.The NSAwards is carried out in two rounds. First, national finals are held in Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland and Denmark. Then, national winners will move on to the Grand Finale which relocates  every year.

Kast is an online streaming service that empowers its community to watch together, play together, and be together. The Kast platform allows people to share video gaming, live events, and virtually any on-line or webcam experience. Kast streamers — kasters — can host public or private watch parties with up to 20 live feeds and up to 100 viewers per party. Kast is available on desktop, web, and mobile. Download Kast at https://www.kast.gg Kast has offices in San Diego, California and Helsinki, Finland.

Founded in Copenhagen in early 2017, LifeX is a rapidly-growing living-as-a-service company whose vision is to make anyone feel at home, anywhere in the world ❤️ . We have grown to over 2000 units in the center of Copenhagen, Berlin, Munich, Paris, London and Oslo with more than 1000 active members. We are driven by our purpose and desire to shape the future of living. We have a technology platform that runs end-to-end residential operations and living experience. As a team, we live by our values of being member driven, transparent, team player, a doer and consistently think of way to reduce our footprint on the planet. With have raised EUR 17M and are planning to scale our mission all over Europe and beyond.

kapa.ai makes it easy for technical companies to build AI support and onboarding bots for their users. Teams at +200 leading startups and enterprises incl. OpenAI, Mixpanel, Mapbox, Docker, Next.js and Prisma use kapa to level up their developer experience and reduce support. We enable companies to use their existing technical knowledge sources incl. docs, tutorials, chat logs, and GitHub issues to generate AI bots that answers developer questions automatically. We’ve been fortunate to be funded by some of the greatest AI investors in Silicon Valley: Initialized Capital (Garry Tan, Alexis Ohanian), Y Combinator, Amjad Masad and Michele Catasta (Replit), and Douwe Kiela (RAG paper author and founder of Contextual AI), and other folks incl. angels at OpenAI.

Volve is reimagining construction management with AI-driven technology, enabling faster decision-making, automated workflows, and intelligent insights for industry professionals. Construction projects generate massive volumes of complex, fragmented information—leading to inefficiencies, delays, and costly mistakes. Volve AI streamline data access, automate evaluations, and connect critical project information, reducing review times from weeks to minutes.

Youth on Demand is an on-demand task platform that connects busy families and elderly who want help with everyday tasks, with youth (13-25) in need of work experience. We are working with two of the biggest megatrends globally: 1. Unemployment amongst youth 2. The elderly wave & growing demand for help with everyday tasks Our mission is to become the largest employer of youth in Norway, and to make a big social impact on the issues raised as a result of the aging wave. We started by building an app for the B2C plattform, and will also soon launch B2B products for businesses in need of: - Short-term tasks (similar to our B2C on-demand plattform) - Recruiting talented youth longer-term - Gift cards for employees on the B2C plattform All of these services are automated with our AI-powered technology.

Curipod is the all in one platform for teachers to plan and deliver AI native interactive lessons that prepare kids for the 21st century. 1M+ Monthly Students and growing fast. Well funded and backend by SF based Reach Capital. **What it actually means:** An interactive and collaborative lesson experience that includes all you need as a teacher to engage your kids in all subjects. Lesson planning in the form of generating interactive slides with AI. Lesson delivery that always works. Lesson delivery that makes the most disengaged and bored student share their thoughts and get an amazing classroom experience. Report summaries that help teachers quickly grasp misconceptions and identify students that need extra help.

Be My Eyes is a unique, venture-funded, profit-with-purpose company that connects blind and low-vision people needing sighted support with volunteers and companies through live video calls. With a nearly 90% successful call rate, our volunteers assist the blind with daily tasks as simple as finding something in the kitchen to something as complex as navigating an airport. Operating in 150 countries and 60 languages, Be My Eyes is the largest digital volunteering community in the world with over 6,1 million volunteers and 450.000 blind and low-vision users. We're also a proud winner of an Apple Design Award for our app. We offer a suite of enterprise products including: • Specialized Help: an add on to your existing customer call center enabling video calls to better serve your blind and low-vision customers • Corporate Volunteering: we can have your whole team or entire company receive a call to assist a blind person providing a lesson in accessibility and meaningful volunteer service. Most companies do this as part of a team meeting, onsite or offsite, and based on our customers feedback, a great deal of joy for you and your teams. • Platinum Partnership: We will partner with the biggest brands in the world who will have the opportunity to send a “thank you” note and/or discounted products and services to our volunteers via a push notification right after they successfully complete a call. • Artificial Intelligence: Be My Eyes also possesses unique and highly valuable A.I. training assets that several of the leading experts in the world have told us would significantly accelerate most company roadmaps not only on accessibility products, but also in areas like advanced robotics, and a host of other machine learning applications. With customers like Microsoft, Google, Procter & Gamble, Verizon, Sony, Instacart, Snowflake and many others, we have a chance to dent the universe through a business model that creates simultaneous delight for our blind and low-vision community, our volunteers, and the companies utilizing our platform.

90% of the world’s waste is collected at the wrong time. At WasteHero, we help cities and businesses reduce their CO2 emissions and collection costs by as much as 50% by monitoring the fill level in containers in real-time so we can dispatch collections at just the right time. We are a fast-growing and ambitious scale-up with a solution touching customers in 50+ countries and are backed by Silicon Valley investors. We are determined to be a world-leading provider of the most sustainable and cost-efficient solution for modern waste management software 🚀 Are you ready to join our mission to redefine the category for modern-day waste management software to save the world? 🍀

WOHN provides Affordable Tiny Homes, 3D printed from up-cycled waste plastic. WOHN supplies affordable modular homes designed for user comfort and well being. The homes bring aesthetics & quality of life into a condensed living making sustainable & re-densified cities possible.

Measurlabs is a growth company bringing scientific testing services to customers in 70+ countries. We work with hundreds of partner labs globally, giving companies easy access to the best testing services in the world. Practically every company developing, manufacturing, or importing tangible products or materials needs laboratory testing services for R&D, quality control, and certification. By buying these services from us, clients can access a vast catalog of testing services, with our approachable and solution-oriented testing experts helping them solve their measurement-related challenges.

MODU is a Copenhagen-based kids' brand and system of life-sized building toys designed for long-lasting play. We design modularized toys which develop children's imagination and motor skills. We believe that active play can help create a better world and we have tons of fun working on this vision. We have a super cozy office space in central Copenhagen. Our working hours are flexible, and our coffee is infinite.

Morningscore is a Complete SEO & GEO tool that guides you to growth via gamification. There is a lot of confusion in SEO. Many people don't know where to start and focus their efforts. They need an intelligent, motivating guide. This is what we are building. Our platform is an all-in-one SEO & GEO tool that's super easy to use, yet rich on data and tools. Morningscore awards customers XP points for completing suggested "missions". Once they have enough XP they level up in the tool. And in the real world they get more traffic and leads on their website. A few of our newer features: ChatGPT tracker: https://morningscore.io/chatgpt-rank-tracker/ AI Overviews tracker: https://morningscore.io/ai-overviews-tracker/ Automatic on page SEO: https://morningscore.io/automated-on-page-ai/

Challengermode was founded in 2014 with the mission to make esports truly accessible for regular gamers. Today we're building a platform that provides the fundamental online esports infrastructure for all relevant stakeholders within the ecosystem. With 2.5 billion people world-wide playing computer games and hundreds of millions of people watching professional esports tournaments monthly, Challengermode's platform is becoming the place for regular gamers to congregate, practice or compete in esports. Our best-in-class tech automates complex tournament infrastructure through game integrations and allows gamers to easily play competitions across any device or console, while enabling community building and monetization at scale for organizers of all kinds.

At Fitjeans, we're on a mission to share the great feeling of perfect fitting jeans to as many people as we can. We want our customers to feel confident and comfortable in their jeans, not having to make any compromise in looks or well being while wearing our jeans. We're a Norwegian e-commerce company that are selling tailored jeans to over 127 countries from our warehouse in Berlin. From our start in 2018, we’ve scaled rapidly, achieving over 500 000 happy customers and now exceeding 100 million NOK in annual turnover. We’re a team that values creativity, collaboration, and a drive to constantly improve. If you’re passionate about pushing boundaries in e-commerce and making a real difference in our company, we invite you to explore opportunities at Fitjeans.