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.

Tepui Agentic Labs is Europe’s first AI-native agentic data platform , built in Denmark from the ground up on EU-sovereign infrastructure for mid-market businesses trapped on legacy systems. Most mid-market companies across Europe are sitting on years of valuable business data locked inside outdated databases, spreadsheets, and disconnected systems. They have no data team to fix it, and enterprise solutions are priced for companies ten times their size. The result: critical business decisions made on gut feel, manual reports that take days to assemble, and institutional knowledge trapped in files nobody dares to touch. Tepui solves this with three product lines. Datarcon modernises legacy data, extracting, cleaning, and transforming it into a modern analytics layer the business actually owns. Our Sovereign SaaS platform lets companies run AI-powered tools on EU infrastructure with no data leaving European soil ,fully compliant, fully controlled. And Tonin, our autonomous 24/7 AI agent, monitors the business continuously, triggers alerts, generates reports, and answers operational questions in plain language. Tonin is not a chatbot , it is an always-on intelligence layer that works while the team sleeps. A standout feature of our AI agents is the Consciousness Core , an integrated ethics layer ensuring responsible AI behaviour and compliance with the EU AI Act from inception. Every agent decision is traceable, auditable, and explainable by design. The platform is built on an enterprise-grade 7-layer security architecture, fully EU-sovereign with no data leaving European soil. We serve multiple industry verticals across Denmark hospitality (restaurant groups, hotels), construction (mid-market contractors), social housing (almene boligorganisationer), investment funds (PE, VC, family offices), food suppliers, automotive (parts distributors, dealer groups), and law firms with additional verticals in development. Every vertical has the same problem: years of data locked in systems that never talk to each other. Same core product, different industry configuration. We are pre-seed, incubated at ITU NextGen Incubator 2026, and actively pursuing first pilot clients in Denmark.-sovereign deployment on European infrastructure as standard. Made in Denmark. Built for Europe.

Leftovers is a peer-to-peer marketplace connecting home cooks with neighbours who want affordable, authentic, home-cooked meals, starting in Copenhagen. We all know how expensive eating out in Denmark can be. And cooking takes time and skill most people don't have. The result? Overpriced delivery, repetitive convenience food, inefficiency and waste. Meanwhile, thousands of skilled home cooks (food influencers, aspiring chefs, international residents cooking family recipes) have excess capacity and no easy way to monetise or share it. Leftovers closes that gap. Through the Leftovers app (live on iOS and Android), neighbours browse daily home-cooked meals from local cooks, order affordable portions (50–100 DKK), and collect locally. Cooks get flexible, high-margin income and a micro-brand for their cuisine. Customers get real food, at fair prices, with zero cooking required. All while building community and addressing waste. We've just launched a Kickstarter pilot in partnership with CBS Housing (Copenhagen Business School's student residences) and are actively securing further co-living and student housing partnerships to validate and grow the model. Denmark's regulatory environment for small-scale home food sales makes it feasible. I noticed the opportunity while living in a student dorm in Copenhagen last year, where I was constantly choosing between expensive takeaway and my own basic cooking, while talented students across the hallway were cooking incredible family recipes every day. We tried sharing food amongst ourselves, and it worked. Surveys across students, young professionals, and families confirmed the need. I've since come across many examples of successful local food sharing initiatives, but no platform that coordinates it. Leftovers isn't just a platform for sharing home-cooked meals. It unlocks idle kitchen capacity, empowers home cooks, makes food more affordable, improves access to authentic local produce, fights waste, and helps build local community. The long-term vision is city-by-city expansion across Denmark, Scandinavia and Europe, where local food regulations make sense. I'm now looking for a co-founder with a passion for community-building and marketing to help turn early traction into a movement. Equity on the table. Because sharing tastes better. leftovers.food admin@leftovers.food @leftovers.cph

We're builders who love teaching what we do. Vibelabs helps everyone become builders, teaching people with no coding experience how to build software and tools with AI. Nearly 1,000 people have gone through our programs, including teams from Telenor, OBOS, Mesta, and other leading Norwegian organizations. We partner with StartupLab to bring AI skills to corporate innovators and early-stage founders. But we don't just teach, we build. We launch our own ventures, and help founders, operators, and small teams turn ideas into real, scalable products. Combining AI-native workflows, rapid prototyping, and modern product thinking, we move fast without cutting corners. From early MVPs to production-ready platforms, we focus on execution, clarity, and momentum. The barrier to building software just dropped to near zero. Companies that get this will move faster. People who get this will have a massive edge. We're here to make sure as many as possible get there, practically, not theoretically.

TUYO is a Denmark-based specialty coffee and fine cacao project rooted in long-term relationships with coffee- and cacao-growing communities in Ecuador, and inspired by Nordic values around creativity, innovation, and sustainability. We are building a regenerative business that prioritizes transparency, fair collaboration, and high-quality products, while questioning extractive models within global value chains. Our approach is relational and place-based, centered on people, landscapes, and craft rather than scale. TUYO is currently in an early build phase, finalizing its first pilot specialty coffee line and preparing for an initial public launch moment in late February. Coffee is the immediate focus; fine cacao is part of the broader product vision and will be developed in parallel at a later stage. We work as a small, hands-on team with close collaborators across sourcing, quality, and production, and we value clarity, reliability, and care in how we build both products and partnerships.

Gennem platformene MineTilbud, Dayli og Publisher understøttes formidling af tilbud, inspiration og produkter på tværs af digitale kanaler og fysiske butikker. Løsningerne giver lokale butikker, kæder og brands, store som små, mulighed for at være synlige og relevante gennem hele kunderejsen, fra den første inspiration til det endelige køb. For forbrugerne skabes et enkelt, visuelt overblik over relevante tilbud, inspiration og aktuelle produkter i medieplatformene MineTilbud og Dayli. For virksomhederne giver Publisher platformen fuld kontrol over indhold, visning og timing – og ikke mindst lavere adgangsbarrierer og større gennemsigtighed i forhold til digital annoncering.

Danish Development Research Network (DDRN) is a non-governmental organization comprising individual and institutional members based in any country. Membership is open to researchers, students, aid practitioners, consultants, private and public entities and others who are involved in the generation, communication and application of knowledge to support sustainable development in the Global South countries. There is a wide gap between North and South in research as a resource for development. According to the UNESCO Science Report 2015, low income countries had 121 researchers per 1 mill. inhabitants, as opposed to high income countries with 3,814 researchers per 1 mill. inhabitants in 2013. During the same year, 1,363,074 scientific articles were published by researchers in OECD member states, as compared to only 3,909 articles by researchers in low income countries. Global challenges call for joint research to retrieve and combine data across North-South divides. The mutual interests between South and North researchers in exploring global solutions set agendas for research beyond conventional development studies. The emphasis in Denmark on innovation holds a potential for a broad engagement with South countries towards the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Research by South researchers working in Denmark provides knowledge resources for South-North public and private partnerships.

Munk AI er Skandinaviens mest erfarne hands-on AI-partner for mellemstore og store virksomheder. Vi arbejder i krydsfeltet mellem teknologi, forretning og organisation – og hjælper ledelser og nøglefunktioner med at bringe AI sikkert og strategisk i spil, dér hvor det skaber reel forretningsmæssig værdi. Vi leverer avancerede løsninger inden for machine learning, generativ AI, datavidenskab og intelligent automatisering. Vores arbejde dækker hele værdikæden: fra AI-strategi og potentialeafdækning til modeludvikling, systemintegration og organisatorisk forankring. Blandt vores løsninger er InternGPT – en intern sprogmodel til videnadgang i større organisationer, AI til churn-forudsigelse, tilbudsautomatisering, kundeservice og compliance. Vores kunder tæller nogle af Danmarks og Europas mest ambitiøse virksomheder – og vores løsninger understøtter dagligt drift, beslutningsstøtte og forretningsudvikling på tværs af brancher. Vi tror på AI som en strukturel konkurrencefaktor – ikke som eksperiment, men som en del af kerneforretningen. Det er det ansvar, vi bygger vores rådgivning og leverancer på. Vores ambition er klar: Vi vil være Europas førende AI konsulent- og udviklingshus. Vi stræber ikke efter at blive størst i antal medarbejdere – men efter at skabe størst mulig værdi med færrest mulige ressourcer, ved at lade AI løse alt det, der kan automatiseres.

Sisters In Startup (SIS) is a platform built to close the gender gap in entrepreneurship. Our mission is to empower women by bridging the gap between their entrepreneurial ambitions and the opportunities needed to succeed. Too often, female founders face structural barriers: lack of access to funding, networks, and mentorship. At SIS, we’re creating a digital ecosystem that changes that. Through curated resources, funding guides, community support, and actionable tools, we make it easier for women to turn ideas into sustainable businesses. SIS combines education, community, and funding readiness in one place, offering practical templates, founder stories, and growth programs tailored to each stage of the entrepreneurial journey. We believe entrepreneurship should be accessible to everyone, not just those who already have connections or capital. That’s why we’re building SIS: a space where women founders can learn, connect, and grow together. Our platform will officially launch in 2026 and is currently in development. We’re looking for a passionate co-founder who shares our vision and wants to help shape the future of female entrepreneurship in Europe (and beyond).

Reveel is the leading all-in-one visitor experience platform for destinations and attractions. Through our software, attractions can turn their old paper maps into interactive digital guides in minutes, which open up in the visitors’ phones directly in their own languages. Reveel also provides attractions an opportunity to sell the visitors entrance tickets directly through global payment methods, making the visitor experience more accessible. The Reveel Studio allows attractions to maintain and update their guides seamlessly, as well as analyse valuable visitor data. All of this makes us the go-to solution for attractions and destinations looking to finally bring the visitor experience to the 21st century. Reveel is trusted by National Museums, capital cities and world-famous UNESCO-sites, but also small countryside historical sites and municipalities, from Lapland to Mexico. We believe that modern visitor experiences should be a no-brainer for all attractions. We’re looking to revolutionise traveltech, and we’re just getting started!

Payments today are fragmented, rigid, and impersonal. Merchants deserve simplicity, speed, and intelligence. We exist to free merchants from complexity and turn payments into a growth engine — by empowering ISVs as the true distribution channel. We build unified payments for companies. We are app. 20 employees based in Aarhus and Copenhagen.

At ChroniCare, we're creating a world where no one faces chronic illness alone. We're chronic disease patients and caregivers building the solution we wish existed. While many patients that have life-altering chronic conditions receive adequate medical support, they often feel lost and alone navigating all the practical and emotional challenges that come with such diagnosis. Our app connects patients through disease-specific peer-to-peer communities, allowing them to share experiences, track what matters, and support one another on their disease journey.

Brinna AI is building the next-gen brand intelligence platform, powered by AI — to help global companies take control of their brand at scale. Brand management today is fragmented, manual, and inefficient — making consistency and creativity hard to maintain. Brinna AI changes that. Our agentic platform automates and augments brand management, unlocking new levels of speed, precision, and brand coherence. We’ve spent the last five years running a leading Brand Management agency. That hands-on experience and first-hand view of the problems led us here — to reimagine how brands are built and scaled in the age of AI.

We are making healthcare workers' life easier by providing speech recognition assisted transcription services to healthcare providers. With the assistance of speech recognition, transcribing work is up to five times more efficient! Inscripta Transcription Services Oy is part of Inscripta Oy and these two companies collaborate closely to improve our products and work.

Konnectet is a new social media with the mission to connect people. We have three main functions. Our first function is: Find & create events in your city. Our second function is: Find new friends based on common interests. Our third function is: Find & create groups, for an example a food club, running club etc. We believe every human has the right to not feel lonely and we strive to become a social platform that focuses on making sure every person has the opportunity to find new friends.