Many professions in Finland are regulated and those who have been qualified abroad for a profession that is regulated in Finland will need to apply to the relevant authority for a decision on whether or not they are also qualified for the same profession in Finland. Several international professionals living in Finland are either unemployed, underemployed, or working outside the scope of their expertise. This has a negative impact on Finland’s economy as these professionals are unable to use their skills to contribute to the Finnish society. Consequently, the Finnish economy is unable to benefit symbiotically from international talent already living in Finland. Through a diverse range of programs and services, we assist international professionals qualified for a profession abroad to overcome obstacles hindering them from utilizing their skills in Finland. We provide customised support as well as mentorship and networking opportunities. We also offer one-on-one guidance as they take huge career steps toward transitioning into the Finnish workforce and advancing their skillset to contribute to the society they now call home.

SpeakSum is a B2B SaaS meeting analytics platform. SpeakSum provides live, objective, analytics for Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and Zoom. The intention is to help make online meetings more inclusive, more equitable and more productive. The key analytics we provide are spoken time for each participant, interruptions and pauses but we also calculate aggregate scores for Engagement and Participant. After the meeting we generate reports both for the whole meeting and anonymized reports for each participant so they can review their performance.

StudMatch strive to make employment of students accessible and easy for all companies, such that many more choose to make use of this often underrated resource. We help businesses define good projects that create value for both themselves and the students, make their recruitment process slick and easy by providing them with a shortlist of candidates; and give them the framework for ensuring good and effective HR for the students during their employment. In turn allows the businesses to provide meaningful relevant experiences to students through internships and part-time jobs during their studies. We deliver this value by systemizing domain knowledge into our data driven platform, allowing us to deliver our service in a scalable way. The goal is to make student employment the obvious decision for any business that seek to connect with solid talent.

Odla Mer is a vertical social network and gardening app for all gardeners and plant lovers. We make gardening easy, and inspirational with an engaging community, smart gardening tools, and insights. There are nearly half a billion hobby gardeners who are missing a place to share their passion and provides smart tools for modern gardeners. Odla Mer will solve this problem by building an inspiring and engaged community that provides smart tools and insights from “crowd-sourced” data to help make gardening easy, sustainable, and pleasurable for modern gardeners. I found solace in gardening when I was dealing with severe anxiety and depression disorder. I missed an app that was dynamic to my growing conditions and helped covert online inspirations to plant care instructions easily. As a new gardener, it can get very overwhelming. I wanted to solve this problem to help many gardening enthusiasts to grow more with the least effort. I know we would rather spend the time gardening than fiddling with the app :D With every person we help garden more, we have a positive impact on their wellbeing, the environment, and society as a whole.

RightHair is developing a global market and education platform for curly and afro-textured hair to help people and minority women solve the problems of lack of availability of products and services and women's challenges in being financially independent worldwide. Through RightHair we give women all over the world an opportunity to start their own businesses and be financially independent. We do this by creating a software platform to connect freelancers, retailers and hairdressers to their customers. And we top that off with a “skill share” community for education. People with curls and afro textured hair are excluded from offers and services in today's beauty industry. Also, financial abuse is one of the main reasons why women are unable to leave relationships, worldwide. These problems contribute to discrimination in society, that women with minority backgrounds end up outside society and this makes the poor poorer. Women of color are excluded from many of the existing offers worldwide. RightHair solves these problems by creating a market platform where all services and products meet. So that people with curly and afro textured hair always can find something in their area. We also solve women's job and financial challenges around the world by offering a platform on which they can sell their products and services. Here they also get the opportunity to take courses, learn how to start and build a business and collaborate with partners outside their network. RightHair was founded by Lalla Coulibaly and Olimata Jeng who both grew up in Norway with roots from Africa. Due to the lack of offers for themselves and their community, the ladies each started their own platforms. Over the past 5 years, Krølltopp.no and Norwegian Naturals have grown into Norway's largest platforms for curly and afro textured hair with a total of 12,000 monthly users. now the ladies have teamed up to start RightHair as the question they get the most on their platforms is “where can I get my hair cut” and “where can I find products?''. Both ladies want to put time and energy into something that can contribute to women's opportunities and living conditions. This desire comes from their own experience as minority women in Norway with African roots.

We develop, innovate, produce and deliver scalable waste-based building elements and interior products for the professional built environment. The construction industry account for 40% of all waste generated and is the #1 consumer of raw materials globally. The embedded carbon in building materials account for 11% of global carbon emission. At the same time, global floor area is expected to double by 2060. Sustainable building materials will be key to reducing footprint from the construction industry. We need to change the way we build and focus on materials produced from non-virgin materials. We make it possible to accelerate the necessary change towards a reduced use of virgin raw materials in our buildings by developing new earth and climate friendly products and solutions based on waste, biproducts, unused resources, and discarded production. We make it easy for the ones who design and build to choose a waste-based product, for the benefit of the environment, the user and the investor. Our approach is scalable. We are experts in creating valuable upcycledproducts from scalable sources of waste.We see opportunities, when others see waste. Our know-how drives innovation and product development and shape the products of tomorrow with the waste of today. Together with our trusted production partners, we offer our products at scale to the professional customer with warranties, guaranteed delivery, certifications and documentations. Come join the movement!

Sopu Academy is a young edtech startup based in Helsinki, providing international negotiation skills education globally. The company is supported by the Helsinki Education Hub, and currently provides hands-on online programs to develop individuals’ negotiation and communication skills. Previous Sopu Academy programs gathered participants from Finland, Turkey, Austria, Germany, Singapore and Thailand. At Sopu Academy, we reimagine negotiation education through data-driven, interactive and online programs. We believe negotiation skills are fundamental for every individual to pursue a meaningful, balanced and happy life.

Just living on earth these last couple of years has been exhausting and guess what, spending 100 hours just trying to find something to watch is not really what we are in the mood for at the end of yet another day in covid/war/climate crisis-times or any time for that matter. Streaming platforms are undeserving their users' need for a fast and uncomplicated path to discovery. Disney+, Apple TV+, NBC Universal’s Peacock, Warner Media’s HBO Max were all launched between November 2019 and May 2020, paving the way for what media calls the ‘Streaming War’. Needless to say the competition has become tougher over the last couple of years. In order to attract new users the content on each respective platform doesn’t seem to be the main trigger for people anymore, but rather the platform's algorithmic technology. Meaning how the content is organised, how accessible it is and the way it is presented on the platform. These algorithms are also called a ‘sociotechnical process’ by scientists and have over the last decade emerged as a crucial part of shaping our culture and personal taste through complex relationships between human and non-human players. We spend hours of our lives scrolling through these different platforms trying to find something we’d like to watch. Research suggests we spend 100 hours per year for an average user to be exact, only on Netflix. That's a total of over 21 billion hours per year. 21 billion hours in turn is 2,4 million years. Our first app is in the works and will help users figure out their own taste as well as recommend things to watch based on their own preferences, without overwhelming them in a sea of options. So, will the future of streaming require us to scroll and jump in between platforms in the same way as we do today? Not if we get to decide! We believe in a scroll-free world and Hint will provide not just one way to deal with this but many.

Bueno is a single-source solution platform for property owners initially targeting people who owns property abroad. Bueno makes it easy for people to manage their property by combining financial services with innovative solutions and cost savings. Our initial market is Spain where 2 million foreigners own property. These are underserved by traditional banks and they pay too much for banking. The problems is not unique for Spain, banking in the South of Europe is years behind Scandinavia which means Bueno are addressing a massive market. Q1 2022 we launched in Spain as the first B2C real bank challenger with accounts hosted on the local banking network, Iberpay. This means we have full support for local direct debit payments, required to own and manage a property in Spain. We have a financial partner ready for France and will solve the same problems in France when we launch there in Q3. In Q2 Bueno will launch property insurance in Spain working with one of the big traditional insurance companies but we will also partner with a 100% digital challenger to offer 100% online insurance. We launched Bueno because of our own experience, and our friends experience with Spanish banks. Banking should not be this bad in 2022.

Hi! We are Arctic Security. We're a young, exciting and disruptive cyber security SaaS company and we're on a mission to make world-class cyber security accessible for every business, regardless of their size and maturity. We help companies reduce their cyber security risk by alerting them to cyber issues they did not know about. We are based in Oulu Finland with offices in Helsinki and Singapore and customers in Europe, Asia and North America. Recently we launched a new Security as a Service offering called Arctic EWS (Early Warning Service) and are looking for people to help us accelerate growth. Arctic Security is about finding the right people. We want self-starters with lots of passion, drive and integrity who thrive in a dynamic open environment. We offer a lot of freedom to our employees and an opportunity to make a big impact on our future. You are here to help make companies safer from cyber security risks.

CURRENT was founded with a vision to make owning and managing EV chargers easy and accessible. Since 2013, we have been working to solve the challenges related to charging infrastructure by bringing together the tools and expertise needed to manage and operate charging points in one place. Today, we have helped over 150,000 users with more than 20,000 charging points across seven different countries.

Startup Extreme was created by passionated founders in 2015, with the goal of showcasing the Norwegian startup scene to the world. Seven years on, Norway has a rapidly growing startup ecosystem, Increased international interest, and three new unicorns in 2021 alone. So we feel that it is now time for Startup Extreme to also evolve and work towards something bigger – a new mission: To help build a more connected startup ecosystem. We believe that true connections don’t happen in office meeting rooms, on video calls, or at traditional events and conferences; but when people are put in situations that allow them to be real, authentic, and a little outside of their comfort zones. So what better arena to meet upcoming startup founders, eager investors, and curious corporations, who all share a passion for the startup ecosystem? ‍ We are all about the startup community and developing bonds that go deep — natural connections that are almost spiritual. Essentially we — being a startup ourselves — build events that we’d love to attend.

Allight is a vehicle-tech company developing new generation of exterior vehicle lighting to reduce fatal accidents and to increase global road safety. Around 200,000 lives involving motorcycles, scooters and mopeds are lost each year in traffic worldwide (WHO, 2020). 45% of all fatal accidents occur in corners outside populated areas due to bad visibility, lacking exterior lighting performance, poor road conditions and the human factor. Allight is developing new adaptive headlight technology for the OEM and aftermarket, thus eliminating the dark spot that the rider experiences and increasing the overall road safety as an important step towards zero road fatalities or serious injuries involving road traffic. The company holds several granted and pending patents worldwide for its innovative technology.

Safetly is a marketplace for security services. Safetly has made it more transparent, reliable and cost-effective to order security guards of high quality. The rest of us may live in year 2022 but the security industry is unfortunately stuck in the 80´s. Guards get booked for jobs through text messages or phone-tag, guards have low transparency on where they should work. Companies order security guards for a lot of hours but cannot see which guards are coming, their profile and previous experience.

Kubbco is a bold-thinking social media agency working for leading brands worldwide. It’s not just our track record, the efficiency of our process and the quality of our solutions. It’s the secret ingredient that makes it all happen: the bravery of our people. We work at the frontier of social media and digital. We are highly skilled and happily take on complex challenges.