At Kyoto we work to decarbonise industrial energy consumption by increasing the share of renewable energy sources used to generate industrial process heat. Kyoto Group AS was founded in 2018, and consists of 9 skilled full time employees, plus a handful of great helpers. Our largest investors are solid and forward leaning industry leaders in the green energy transition: Hydro Energi Invest AS, Kongsberg Innovasjon AS, and Valinor AS.

The only thing more important than your time is what you spend it on! Our mission is to allow small and medium-sized business owners to save time and focus on what is truly important: growing their business. Instead of spending their time on day-to-day administration and management work. We do this through digital transformation and process automation. A lot of businesses have amazing potential that is not being utilized because day-to-day operations are taking up most of the time that otherwise could’ve been invested in developing new business ideas and income opportunities. In a large part, the reason for this rising potential is the technological advancement we have seen over the past few years. Although it is creating opportunities, a lot of companies have a hard time adapting their operational and administrative processes to this new way of doing business. As mentioned our whole reason for existence is to help companies go through digital transformation, to set themselves free of their old inefficient processes. We use a combination of different frameworks from the fields of Business Process Management and Software Development to tailor digital processes 100% to our client´s workflows, management and operations. The nature of our work can described as two integrated phases that each brings a unique value to our client. The first phase is all about in-depth analysis of current processes, painpoints, operation dynamics and redesign of these from a digital perspective adding the technological aspects. The second phase is related to developing the actual automation software, scripts, integrations and business logic using the technologies. There is a catch though: in the second phase, the first phase is actually repeated – the closer we work with the technical development the more opportunities arise along the way, which usually allows us to optimize the processes even more than expected. How and why did it start? “The only thing more important than your time is what you spend it on.” I realized this when I was 16, working a boring data entry job. At that time, I had already moved out and really had to learn how to prioritize my time. My main goal and dream was to become a professional basketball player and this repetitive, boring job was just taking away my valuable time, which I could otherwise be spending at the gym. For the first time in my life, I had too many goals but too little time. So I decided to change that. What started as a few formulas and scripts to automate my data entry, quickly turned into an app, which turned into 5 apps, and by the time I was 18 turned into my own company. I realized how small and medium-sized business owners face the same issue I was facing – too many goals, but too little time. And the solution: process automation and digital transformation. 2 years later and counting, I am running a company of process specialists, analysts, consultants, developers, and technical writers to help companies and business owners create more time for what is truly important. The journey has been awesome, but to be honest it is not all about the success. Just like I see companies as a bunch of processes, I also see life as a process – a learning process! Most importantly, this journey has brought me amazing knowledge and experience, which I would never give up for anything, and it shaped into the fearless person I am today. For me, life is about challenging yourself and learning from it – throw yourself into the deep end yet learn to survive! I will say it one more time: "The only thing more important than your time is what you spend it on!" Feel free to connect and get a cool conversation started!

Pembio is a brand new productivity platform focused on goals and all the workflow you need to make you reach them. Pembio empowers you, or your entire team, to get the most important work done with stunningly simple goal planning. It's an astonishingly powerful, yet remarkably simple app to use. Pembio has all the resources you need to get great work done. Think goals, communication, work planning, rewards & high fives. And more. Much more, in fact. An all in one, virtual, space. For you. With or without your team, whatever you prefer.

Cognitive dysfunction and mental stress are pre-dominant in our society, while a healthy diet and its influence on gut has shown huge preventive potential. Metaceutic ApS develops plant-based health-enhancing products that are functionally validated to predictably alter the gut microbiota, and thereby enhance mental well-being and general cognitive performance. Besides to stand-alone products, we offer personalized solutions that are provided based on customer-specific gut microbiome profiling, and which are derived from a broad, functionally validated, botanical formulation library. We are a Copenhagen found company, with products developed locally in Østerbro and produced in south of Sweden. Collectively, we are a rapidly expanding team of ambitious individuals, who are working together to bring the first generation products PreMind®Biotics to life.

Kaninbutikken er en ny webshop, som specialiserer sig i tilbehør til kaniner. Vi har et mål om at disrupte markedet for kæledyr – her særligt markedet for tilbehør til kaniner. Vores styrke at et stærkt og gennemsyret brand og brandkultur – desuden at være bekendt med trends inden de overhovedet er blevet en del af det danske marked. Vores værdier lægger sig op af et ønske om at uddele information samt sælge produkter som sikrer danske kaniner et sundt og skønt liv. Men vi har brug for flere på vores stærke team for at indbringe vores mål om at disrupte og udbrede kendskabet til vores webshop og brand. Du kan læse mere på vores hjemmeside https://kaninbutikken.dk

The Nordic-China Startup Forum is a non-profit NGO registered in Sweden that arranges recurring events in local startup communities alongside corporate and government partners. NCSF is operated by students and young professionals from the Nordics and China and has chapters in ten cities: Stockholm, Uppsala, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Oslo, Shenzhen-HK, Guangzhou, Shanghai and Beijing.

Funderbeam is a global funding and trading platform. We connect a diverse investor network with highly vetted growth companies across international markets and, through ‘The Marketplace’, allow private investments to be traded. We’re on a mission to shake up traditional models of funding & trading of private companies. For founders, we don’t think it’s enough just to help you get your business funded. We think it’s important you get the right funding, and that you feel supported throughout and beyond your fundraising journey. So whether you’re looking for international exposure, in-house legal support, a dedicated Account Manager, or a diverse investor network ranging from Angels and VC’s to ‘the crowd’, we’ll get you to where you need to go. For investors, we’re giving you control over your investments like never before. With ‘The Marketplace’, you can trade investments, anytime, anywhere. So whether you want to gain liquidity from your current investments, or you're looking to join an opportunity that you thought you'd missed out on, you stay in control.

YAYLOH is a fast-growing start-up aiming at solving the problem of returns in e-commerce industry. eCommerce is on a high and so are we. yayloh's international team and remote-friendly environment is looking for new hungry minds and hands-on problem-solvers to join our team. We design a world-class digital return experience to help retailers extend their brand post-purchase so that their customers come back to shop again and again. Unfortunately, in commerce like in real life, love does not always happen at first sight. However, by delivering an excellent customer experience during the return process, retailers can win a customer for life.

Qualifio is the leading interactive marketing and data collection platform that enables publishers, brands, and agencies to engage, grow and qualify their digital audiences (web, mobile, social networks). Our mission is to allow more than 400 media groups, brands, and agencies to easily create and publish interactive content on websites, mobile apps, dedicated minisites, social media, and stories. Quizzes, contests, surveys, tests, animated games and 50+ other innovative formats allow them to collect data to grow, engage, qualify, segment and monetize their digital audiences. Our company counts +75 employees and has offices in Louvain-La-Neuve (Belgium), Ghent, Paris, Amsterdam, Madrid and a new office in Germany. Qualifio raised € 3M in December 2017 and has been awarded 4 years in a row one of the fastest-growing Belgian SaaS-company, ranked #10 in Deloitte Technology Fast50.

ParkMan is a fast growing community-based platform that connects car drivers with the best parking companies. Our mission is to make it easy for car drivers to find the best parking options, interact with parking companies, and pay for parking in real time whenever they need parking. We help parking providers to connect with their customers in a way that makes parking as easy as ordering an Uber.

Who are we? Harmoniq audio is a tech start-up, founded in Dec 2018. Our goal is to innovate the way speakers are produced, used and recycled. We started this journey with a focus on the development of new, sustainable alternatives to speaker components, including insulation and cabinets. At Harmoniq audio we are mainly working remotely, but we have a production facility 175m2 in Randers we are trying to setup with PNP machine and CNC machine, etc. Harmoniq audio was originally founded by Lasse Hald Andersen and Troels Mikkelsen. Lasse and Troels have known each other since kindergarten and their passion for making speakers started, like many others, with building speakers for the camp at Roskilde Festival and later for friends who needed to use festival speakers for their own camps. Since then, Lasse contiuned the journey and has been educated as an electronics technologist and prof. Bachelor in innovation and entrepreneurship, and are now running the startup, while having a full time job on the side. The interest in speaker production has led to an insight into the speaker industry, which has formed one of Harmoniq audio's central goals: to develop sustainable speakers while creating as good Hi-Fi as possible.

We were founded in February 2018 with the idea that giving plastic a value, we could get it removed from nature. A bit like the bottle deposit system, but for all kinds of plastic! We have gained amazing traction since we started, from being featured in Forbes and The Independent and invited to a panel at the first OECD forum on Blockchain to winning awards and being the only Nordic initiative among the 25 development projects/ SDG solutions selected to be showcased at Expo 2021 Dubai’s Global Best Practice Programme. We have done cleanups and pilots in more than 15 countries, proving that this really does work! Now we are building a global plastic waste ecosystem to incentivize cleanup and track where the plastic ends - most of it ideally back to reuse! The next step is to bring our vision to more places and create a truly innovative system than can help solve some of the big problems with plastic waste (of which there are more than you might imagine).

The Thorvald platforms represent a low-cost alternative to a wide variety of agricultural operations. All the Thorvald robots are built using the same components, but we customize each robot for your specific needs based on the innovative modular design. We can therefore deliver robots using standard parts but customized design to serve your needs. All our robots are built to operate in an outdoor environment. They are therefore IP67 classified at all the lower parts that may be submersed in water (wheels, lower gears, etc), and IP56 for the rest of the robot.

Norway Health Tech is a health cluster with huge international ambitions. With over 200 member from different areas of the Norwegian health sector the vision is to be world's hot spot for health innovation. Our mission is to develop and industrialize world class health technology products and services that enables sustainable and high quality treatment and care, and Norwegian Medtech industry growth.

DogBuddy is Europe's leading and largest online community of dog lovers. We help to connect dog owners with local and reliable dog sitters, providing a comfortable and caring home from home for your pooch while you're away. DogBuddy has now grown to be Europe’s leading online dog sitting and home dog boarding community, offering one of the first “airbnb style services” for dogs in the UK, Spain, Italy, France, Germany, Sweden and Norway.