Voima Ventures helps founders to accelerate the growth of deep technology ventures to global markets. We shed light on the ideas and technology which require time and courage to build.The way we work is simple: we combine science-driven innovation together with the Nordic serial entrepreneurial experience and a global mindset. Voima Ventures helps founders to accelerate the growth of deep technology ventures to global markets. Voima Ventures is the 50M€ truly deep tech fund launched in spring 2019. We are aiming to make appx 25-30 new investments from the fund. We invest across all stages starting from a spin-off and seed, up to series A and growth. We primarily invest in Finland, Nordics, and Baltics.

SparkUp is a startup community where Turku Science Park Ltd, student based entrepreneurship society Boost Turku and Creative Venture Creve have brought together their know-how and services for startups and entrepreneur-minded persons in Turku region. SparkUp is facilitated by Turku Science Park Ltd.

Insj is a student organization startup that consults and coach student with entrepreneurial ideas. We have experienced coaches that guide students with an idea through the process of making a business, NGO or organization. In short: - we coach students with ideas. - we create technical and inspirational events to teach and inspire entrepreneurship. - we connect students, investors, and business. - We give practical work experience in a learn by doing environment for our student associates.

What is uQualio? uQualio is a video-first AI-powered LMS platform designed to create simple, impactful, and customized online training courses for both internal and external use. We enable organizations to build a video library of modern, digitized eLearning content with quizzes & micro-credentials to educate employees, sales partners, and customers, quickly and easily, from anywhere, anytime, on any device. Who We Are uQualio was founded by Hatla Færch Johnsen and Christian Bjerre Nielsen, combining deep expertise in business psychology with high-level enterprise software engineering. Driven by the "Pippi Spirit", a mindset of resilience, creativity, and fearlessness. We built uQualio to solve the engagement crisis found in traditional LMS platforms. As a "Profit with Purpose" company, we are committed to UN’s Sustainable Development Goal #4, ensuring our technology supports global education access. Why uQualio? uQualio solves a wide range of business and industry needs, enabling you to scale the video-based content incl. Additional files, you require to educate others efficiently. Traditional training often fails to engage learners. We utilize a "YouTube-style" approach combined with gamification to move knowledge from temporary memory to long-term retention. Technical Features & AI Capabilities - Ethical AI Content Creation: Upload a video or topic, and our AI generates course descriptions, bite-sized modules, and quiz questions in minutes. - Dynamic AI Translation: Automatically translate subtitles & courses into multiple languages to train global teams without external tools. - Versatile Course Deployment: Create specific courses for onboarding, compliance, or sales training, internal or external use, accessible on any device. - Gamification: Certifications, leaderboards, and quizzes to drive user engagement. - Integrations: Seamless connection via REST API and iFrame embedding to fit your existing tech stack. - Analytics: Detailed dashboards to track user progress, certification, and compliance.

The main piece of equipment in the gym is the barbell. It is as simple in its form as it is timeless in its design. But when it comes to using the proper safety equipment that comes with the barbell, that’s when the flaws become visible. Today’s methods of securing weight plates to a barbell is done by using collars or clips, which often lead to a poor user experience, and they are often hard to put on and pull off, can easily break or slip during lifts, they are often hard to find and even disappears. The Olympic barbell has remained virtually the same for the last 93 years, and despite today’s standards, improvements can be made. In a seemingly ever-growing market, people’s expectations of safety, design, quality, and user-friendliness in products are on the rise. Gungnir of Norway is a Norwegian startup company that designs and manufactures high-quality gym equipment. The company’s first product is the Allrounder, a standard Olympic barbell with built-in collars for securing weight plates. The built-in collar system or “SlideLock” makes the lifting experience safer, faster, easier, and more reliable than the standard safety equipment in use today. Also, the SlideLock system can be applied to several other bar types like compact group training bars or loadable dumbbells. This solution has shown enormous potential in the fitness market, which we intend to continue to take advantage of. The SlideLock is the first of many solutions that we seek to create within the fitness equipment industry. We started as a company in 2018 in Oslo, Norway, with an idea for a better solution to a problem well known to many who use weightlifting equipment regularly. Gungnir’s vision is to become the new standard solution for securing weight plates worldwide. A game-changing solution to a century old problem.

The number of people on the move is growing globally because of armed conflicts, climate change, and economic inequality. Startup Refugees exists because the solution for the fast integration of newcomers to the labour markets needs to be created now. Startup Refugees offers asylum seekers, refugees, and other immigrants support in finding employment, skills development, and starting a business. We have a network of more than 1000 members, including companies, government officials, NGOs, universities, congregations, research institutes, communities, and individuals. Welcome to create change.

Continuous blood flow monitoring for early detection and diagnosisCimon Medical is based on groundbreaking, patented technology originating from the internationally renowned ultrasound environment at NTNU and St. Olavs Hospital. Our vision is to develop products for a wide range of clinical applications related to continuous monitoring of blood flow within: newborn intensive care, peripheral arterial decease and sepsis diagnosis.

The growing VOI Technology team is in the process of making the dreaded morning commute to work exponentially more enjoyable. In due time, we will have a network of electrically-powered scooters throughout densely populated urban centers. Users will access these vehicles via a phone application and ride to wherever they need to be, leaving the scooter for the next user.

DSB Digital Labs is founded to accelerate the digital transformation in DSB.  It is our task to develop new solutions which can benefit either the customer or DSB as an organisation.Noone can predict the future but we are doing our best via MVP, Preto/prototyping, Design Thinking, user involvement to figure out what the customers want.We want a culture where failing is perceived as a way of learning and with a fun and innovative culture.

Columbia Road is a digital growth consultancy challenging the old ways of running digital businesses. We exist to increase our clients’ revenue and help them get more customers in the digital era. Our team consists of business consultants who understand business-driven design, tech, strategy and growth. We believe in giving a lot of responsibility and freedom to our employees. There’s a common misunderstanding that happy and satisfied employees are automatically motivated employees. We don’t see things that way. Happy and satisfied employees are an important priority for us, but we think causal relationship is reversed: people are happy and satisfied when they have work that motivates them. For us, an employee’s happiness is the primary goal, not a tool for raising productivity or profitability. We want to empower our employees to become a better version of themselves and to have more of an impact on the world. We see happiness & satisfaction as end goals, not starting points. That being said we love to laugh a lot, play some tunes at the office and grab a few drinks after work. What kind of work is motivating in our context? People yearn for purpose in their work and want it to have meaning that creates value: purpose, for people and organisations, comes from making an impact on the world. Meaning & significance comes from providing value to someone else — in our case, clients. Clients (not us) define the value of our actions, always. Jobs at columbiaroad.com/careers

We help people get admitted to the study programme that they've always dreamt of! Our custom-built platform connects a pool of consultants with aspiring university candidates. The candidates can get help with the application process specific to the particular study programme. Whether it is a logic test, written interview or a motivational essay, we help prepare for the admission process to increase the chances of being admitted. Besides the Mimer platform, we also own the concepts 'StudieAkademiet' and 'Studena'.

Faster Innovation. Løpe help teams design digital products faster using Design Sprints.In just 4 days we help you understand the challenge, ideate solutions, decide, prototype and test solutions with real users.​ You´ll get answers in 4 days, instead of months.The team behind Løpe have 4 year of experience with facilitating workshops from some the best Design Thinking training companies and institutions in the world.In Norwegian "løpe" means to run.

Business Angels Norway is the only umbrella assocation for regional or industry-specific angel groups in Norway. We are a co-founder of NordicBAN, the Nordic-Baltic assocation for business angels. We have ca 10 angel groups all over Norway, with >500 business angels total. We are an interest assocation, working for the interests of angel groups and business angels in general. We are part of several international initiatives and projects, incl the Nordic Angel Program where we need YOU!

Connex elevates the work desk to a whole new level. A solid desk with a simple, minimalist mode of expression, makes suitable for many types of offices and styles. A mix of contrasting sharp and soft lines adds both edge and modernity to the desk. The exclusive materials make the desk a real stand out piece that will look wonderful in any modern space. Connex desk is an ideal workstation for the office and home environments. A beautiful and functional desk ideal for everyday work use. Looking for people that want to make real innovation and with a proactive attitude Work Hard Play Hard!

Skorens.dk was founded in Aarhus in 2017. It was founded by two friends, who both wanted to create an easy-to-use website, which sells sneaker care products. The idea was to always have a small sortiment of sneaker products, so it would be easier for the consumer, to find the products they need. Other than that good customer service, was also a key element of the business.