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.

At Smoothly we are changing the way people think and work by offering a groundbreaking outsourcing service, so people can do what they love and make more money at the same time. We offer companies a way to focus on the essentials, increase happiness and engagement at work while boosting their bottom line at the same time. We do this by offering high quality, flexible and affordable outsourcing as a comprehensive service that has previously been only affordable to enterprise level companies.

Cotio helps air passengers get back items that have been removed from them by airport security.Our concept is based on a straight-forward process, strong software and profound understanding of airport management. The service started at Helsinki Airport in September 2016 and was later on extended to four other airports. We have received two rounds of BusinessFinland funding.

Elevating education with Technology.We have build two beta software to support physical exercise education in preschool. Tool enable assessment of kinetic learning skills development along play.Now we Aim to start, user centered development project with Finnish National Agency of Education and expertise of game development companies.Also we are arranging www.edtechack.fi and working with www.wordynerdy.net

TimescaleDB is the first time-series database specifically designed for scale, ease of use, complex queries. Packaged as an extension. Engineered up from PostgreSQL.Our team includes top researchers and industry veterans with experience building scalable systems at a variety of large and small companies.The company is based in NYC, Stockholm, and LA, and is backed by top tier investors with a track record of success in the industry.

Get is an app for Android and iOS which provides visual food clues from surrounding restaurants and eateries. Giving you an overview of meal pictures of today's available selection from temporary and local places. We are working with consumers spontaneous needs, which goes well in line with the consumer-rhythm, people have today.

Visma Creditro is a fast-growing SaaS scale-up that fights money laundering and fraud together with our customers from the financial sector. Our platform makes it easy and simple for them to comply with regulatory compliance to which they are subject. Financial crime weakens confidence in the financial sector and related professions and to all those who deliver a good and fair job every day. Therefore, it is crucial that banks, accountants and lawyers get far better tools to spot suspicious behavior in their clients. Thats’s what drives us. We strive to create a world free of fraud, scams and money laundering. At Creditro we specialize in the development of intelligent software for the investigation of economic crime. We have used that experience to develop a platform that can help stop financial crime and make it easy for our clients to stay compliant. The platform can today identify 9 out of 10 fraudulent companies in Denmark and warns against 2 out of 3 of all bankruptcies at least three months before they happen. Creditro also has automated credit assessments, and according to our customers, a KYC-check in our platform only takes around 5 minutes. In 2022, Creditro became part of the Norwegian IT group, Visma, where we continue as an independent company, but now with even greater muscle, ready to fight for a world without financial crime and money laundering.

We help people learn a language in 90 days. Our voice-based, AI-powered mobile app teaches people Danish by chatting with "Julia". Julia is a speech-based conversational bot that will speak with you, using only the words you already know or any new words you're currently learn. We're currently part of Accelerace (#1 accelerator in Europe). Last summer we participated in a program in Silicon Valley and plan to go back. Recently, we've just raised funding from InnoBooster.  We are three friends from school that enjoy working on interesting problems. We spend most of our time working because it doesn't feel like work. If we're not working on Talking Ninja, we're probably building some other side projects for fun and playing around with new tech. We really enjoyed our time in Silicon Valley last summer and are working hard to get back.  Our very awkward team video for YC application - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCHsT8Ywz5U Danish newspaper article about our project - http://hsfo.dk/erhverv/Studerende-i-Horsens-har-lavet-smart-sprog-app-Saadan-laerer-du-italiensk-paa-tre-maaneder/artikel/87050

InTouch is a communication tool for doctors to remotely follow up with patients, optimise patient care, and support patient treatment adherence. Patients can use the app for self management and be an active part of their own treatment progression. We are an agile cross-functional feature team, including designer, product owner, project manager, mobile, web and backend engineers. Currently active on the Canadian and UK market. InTouch is a product under LEO Innovation Lab (www.leoilab.com)

Elias Software is dedicated to providing innovative solutions in the field of video game music rendering. Elias, Elastic Lightweight Integrated Audio System, is our new music engine which attempts to change the way we perceive and experience interactive music in video games today. With the Elias music engine, composers and game developers can easily collaborate to create musical scores that adapt themselves based on the player’s actions in the virtual world.

Eliq is a tech company specialized in the analysis and visualization of energy data since 2010. In 2016 Eliq conquers new ground by integrating energy advisory, monitoring and automation as a fully integrated part of the connected home.We are dedicated to help people reducing and controlling their energy consumption. We think the best way to do so is through utility companies. By offering our products to their clients one of their main benefits is the achievement of higher customer engagement. Eliq is a tech company specialized in the analysis and visualization of energy data. The Company and its founders have a background from Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg and founded Eliq based on the vision of contributing to reduced energy waste by helping people to understand their electricity consumption. The name Eliq comes from the composition of EL and IQ as in Electricity IQ. In 2010 Eliq launched the world's first energy display for in-home use equipped with a touch screen. In 2012 the company launched the world's first real-time energy monitoring service containing social media interaction and gamification functions such as competitions and comparisons with friends and neighbors. In 2016 Eliq once again conquers new ground by integrating the Eliq service for analysis and visualization of energy data as a fully integrated part of the smart home. Since 2010, the company has sold more than 40,000 products under the Eliq brand but also OEM products for IKEA among others. Right now the company is focusing more on the B2B market. We work together with utility companies all over Europe. By offering our solutions to their consumers, higher customer engagement is achieved. Eliq has repeatedly demonstrated a pioneering and innovative capacity, which has made the company what it is today, one of the global leaders in analysis and visualization of energy data.

Earth Bite was founded with a vision to create a more loving world, by delivering products that are animal friendly and environmentally sustainable. With compassion towards our nature and animals, our goal is to provide consumers with foods that are sustainable for both the human body and the global world. We launched our first products in March 2018, consisting of 100% vegan and organic energy bars.

Lääkärihinta.fi is a Finnish healthcare & vet marketplace.We started with a MVP price comparison and are now working on our startup-full time with our sights on the Nordic market. TeamKristian Ahlers - CEO Tuomas Järvensivu - CTO Taru Vainikainen - Engineer Alec Hellström - Growth 1st year traction (2016)- TEKES €50k funding- *Ship Festival pitch winner (€5k)- YC S16 interview (not accepted)- Slush100 startupLooking for- Advisor (Growth)- Seed Funding- Senior software developer.

Tidsrapportering och projekthantering anpassat för byggbranschen med appar så enkla och tydliga att dina fältarbetare faktiskt kommer att använda dem.Med en rad starka partners (Hogia, Byggmax m.fl.), storkunder (Skanska, MTA m.fl.) och tusentals användare i Europa är vi nu redo att ta oss an världen. Följ med på vår resa.

Moonwalk designs startup challenges organised as programs. Alone or together with a strategic or financial partner. A program creates startups and runs for two semesters with paying participants. Then the program is incorporated. With participants as sweat equity part owners of the entire portfolio. An equity crowdfunding campaign decides how many startups are launched. Moonwalk is a 100 days startup hatcher and accelerator. No one should work here for any other reason than that they really want to. I had to figure out a way to fund and source the competence of people, but also fund their activity so that we can share in the outcome. No one had really given me any pointers on how to do that, so I had to find a new model of crowdfunding, crowdsourcing and shared ownership. Me and my colleague Victor developed that over the course of two years. He was a previous customer and the most talented person I know in the areas of value-chains and complexity. I asked him to join me and he said yes. We are in this together.