1. The Elevator Pitch GEIST is developing next-generation sailing apparel for recreational and lifestyle sailors who want protection and freedom on the water—without the bulk, stiffness, or elitist aesthetics of traditional sailing gear. By combining high-performance materials, real-world testing, and community-driven design, GEIST delivers technical sailing wear that enhances the experience instead of getting in the way. 2. The What: What are you solving? Sailing apparel today is largely designed for professional racers or extreme offshore conditions—resulting in garments that are heavy, rigid, over-engineered, and visually disconnected from how most people actually sail. This creates a gap for: - Recreational sailors - Lifestyle / adventure sailors - Coastal and day sailors who want reliable protection from wind, spray, and weather, but also comfort, mobility, and a modern aesthetic they enjoy wearing. As a result, many sailors compromise—either wearing gear that limits movement and comfort, or using outdoor apparel not built for marine conditions. This problem affects a broad and growing segment of sailors globally, especially as sailing increasingly overlaps with outdoor lifestyle, travel, and community-driven experiences. 3. How GEIST is solving it GEIST designs sailing apparel from the experience outward. We start by deeply understanding how our users move, layer, vent heat, and interact with their gear during real sailing scenarios—not idealized ones. From there, we: - Develop function-led designs focused on mobility, breathability, and smart protection - Use premium 3-layer performance fabrics and components chosen for durability, comfort, and sustainability - Prototype early and test continuously with sailors in real conditions - Co-create features, fit, and details with our community rather than designing in isolation Our first products—a sailing jacket and trousers—are built to be worn actively on the water and comfortably before and after, bridging performance and lifestyle without compromise. 4. Why GEIST exists GEIST started from lived frustration. As a sailor and outdoor enthusiast, I repeatedly experienced how traditional sailing gear interrupted the very thing it was supposed to support—the feeling of being present, capable, and free on the water. Gear was either too stiff, too bulky, too aggressive, or simply not designed for how most people sail today. I realized this wasn’t a niche problem—it was systemic. And it wasn’t being solved because the industry hadn’t truly shifted its perspective. GEIST exists to reimagine sailing apparel from the standpoint of experience, movement, and modern sailing culture. It’s about stripping away unnecessary complexity and designing gear that supports focus, confidence, and enjoyment—so when the wind hits, the world narrows, and the gear disappears.

Tinka is on a mission to empower small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to harness the full potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in a transparent and compliant manner. Our platform is designed to integrate seamlessly with various AI tools, ensuring that organizations can effectively manage and oversee AI applications while maintaining human oversight. We are seeking a passionate and skilled Technical Co-Founder to join our team, bringing expertise in full-stack development and a keen interest in building innovative solutions from the ground up.

Welcome to WeFace, the revolutionary AI-powered platform transforming the e-commerce landscape. WeFace is bringing a new era of customer interaction by combining real-time insights, video call capabilities with synchronized navigation, and AI-powered tools that shape customer journeys and enhance engagement. Our unique features, including Insight+, Triggers, Contact Icons, and synchronized video calls, allow businesses to understand, interact, and retain customers in completely new and innovative ways. We offer a live, interactive experience that lets businesses guide customers through their e-commerce platform as if they were physically in store. Collaborating with several renowned brands, WeFace has proven its ability to disrupt and revolutionize the market. But we aim to go even further. We're currently seeking investment partners to join us on this journey, to scale our operations and drive our global expansion. By investing in WeFace, you're not just investing in a product, but the future of e-commerce. Let's shape this future together.

D-Fetch er en norsk startup som utvikler en banebrytende IoT-løsning for treningssenterindustrien. Vi har på kort tid samlet et unikt team bestående av ledende aktører innen teknologi- og treningssenterindustrien, og er i full gang med å utvikle en plattform som vil revolusjonere måten treningssenter opererer på. Kundeinteressen er sikret og finansieringen er på plass, og vi trenger nå tekniske ressurser som ønsker å ta del i denne spennende reisen. Stillinger vi har åpne:- CTO- Project ManagerD-Fetch tilbyr konkurransedyktige lønnsvilkår, mulighet for eierskap, og et særdeles innovativt og spennende arbeidsmiljø. Rette kandidater vil motiveres av muligheten til å komme inn tidlig i selskapsutvikling og således kunne være med å forme produktet og konseptet.Interessenter bes ta kontakt på pgn@d-fetch.com for å få mer informasjon om selskapet og stillingene vi har ledige.

At VertaaEnsin.fi, we are on a mission to make personal finance simple and help consumers make better decisions. Every day we produce insightful and educational content on personal finance management, financial products, and so on, or we help consumers to choose e.g. the best credit cards, savings products or personal loans through our free and helpful comparison tools. We are proud to say that close to 2 million Finns have already turned to our objective and insightful advice in making better decisions in personal finance. At VertaaEnsin.fi we are passionate about our work and want to achieve great things. We think people are our greatest assets and want to share the journey with people who share our principles; We never settle for status quo, We commit to idea meritocracy, We love data not opinions, We always take full ownership of what we do.

At CirBu we make sustainable buildings the obvious choice for everyone! The earth is running out of resources, and 50% is used by construction, but most is not reused. This is causing big damage to our planet. CirBu's software solution helps property developers make smart sustainable choices in the early report, resulting in lower costs of design, use and maintenance. A Win-Win for everyone.

At UX Stream, our ambition is to revolutionize the user experience. We combine the latest wireless protocols and modern Edge-server technologies to deliver user experiences to any smart device. Interacting with our streamed UI is indistinguishable from interacting with a locally generated UI, and the power and flexibility of remote generation create opportunities for entirely new user experiences. We are working to unlock near-limitless speeds and computing power for your phone, smartwatch, VR glasses, etc. In short, we are building software to fix the hardware bottleneck preventing the massive real-time applications of the future.

Bring your imagination. Makea Games is building a UGC powered multiplayer universe for the PC & consoles. We're working on Supermoves, an exciting massive multiplayer action sports world where you get to parkour with your friends and pull off outrageous stunts. Check out more at https://makea.games. We're located in Tampere, Finland and work mostly fully remote!

Time to Raise is a Nordic acceleration program for women-led startups with full focus on fundraising (today in partnership with Microsoft, SEB, Invest Stochkolm and WeWork). Women-led start-ups account for a very small portion of VC funding (0.7% to female-only teams and 7.3 to mixed teams in the Nordics). Despite this, investors are still eager to finance the best female-led endeavours, which is where Time to Raise comes in. We train startups to be pitch-perfect and we introduce their company profiles to investors.

Ethan Partners is one of the few truly global executive search companies that focuses on startups and scaleups. Our team across Europe partners with hyper-growth technology businesses and their investors to find, attract and retain the best senior talent that will enable them to expand internationally and reach their full potential. After opening our Copenhagen office, we have gained significant traction in the Nordics and experienced fantastic growth last year – in our Copenhagen office alone the team grew from 4 to 10. In January 2022 we have already realized a 3x growth compared to last year, so we are looking to expand the team with even more great people, to join us in delivering the absolute best in class executive search across all our exciting international projects.

We are on a mission to enable product professionals across the globe to create better and more sustainable products. The products that surround us every day, from your phone to the equipment needed to provide critical medicine to patients in need. Our unique Robust Design suite integrating directly with the designers’ 3D data provides actionable analysis results and design recommendations. Powered by Robust Design, we unlock design improvements that can be transformed into our 4 core offerings. Higher quality through smarter design solutions. Faster development through increased productivity. Lower cost through simpler design. Greener products by design Joining the RD8 team means you’ll be jumping to the forefront of the robust design technology field, helping create software that will be used by mechanical product development professionals from multiple industries all over the world. Your work will power real product solutions. Our ambition is to ultimately offer generative design to the global community to make smarter, faster, simpler products that are also more sustainable. The road there requires a deep respect and understanding of our partners’ businesses and the ability to create solutions every step of the way, growing with our partners and inside our team. We are humble, but confident in this endeavour. Our power is not in the size of our ranks, but in our ability to see through design complexity and transform it into tangible design challenges that can be objectively solved. This is how we move from our own minds and into the toolbox of every product professional out there.

Danish Cyber Defence is an independent Danish cyber security partner. We secure businesses and their networks against hacking. We provide expert technical consulting and training. We have extensive hands-on experience combating advanced cyber threats from the Danish Defence and the private sector.

At Ada we are developing a next generation smart marketing platform where we use machine learning and the power of AI to make the marketing and advertising as easy as possible. We believe everyone is entitled to do professional marketing without needing to have years of experience. Our vision is to give the user the opportunity to create the perfect smart ad while keeping the technical side at bare minimum, making the experience fun, and providing an aesthetically beautiful platform.

As a Stockholm-based deep tech start-up, we develop B2B privacy-preserving data-centric edge AI solutions to inspection, learning and improving critical systems across industries (e.g. aerospace, battery and utilities). We help our customers 1) reduce inspection labor costs & time and energy consumption of data transfer, 2) improve inspection result accuracy and yields, and 3) minimize manual labeling effort, while guaranteeing data zero-touch, zero-sent and zero-leakage in both inspection and AI lifecycle. We have now one enterprise user from aerospace, and we are engaging a few more prospects from utilities and battery sectors. Currently, our top-line offerings are two-folded: 1. Privacy-preserving edge AI-driven domain-specific visual inspection solutions for better and more sustainable quality control and, 2. A proprietary light-weight edge solution to continuous self-improvement AI systems without using big & sensitive source data. Welcome to follow us on LinkedIn and Instagram as well as reach out to us via info@linkaitech.eu for a demo. Stay relevant for a next trillion-dollar industry! In addition to be part of our challenging yet exciting projects, we also have the following perks, i.e. 1. Awards & bonuses 2. Welcome lunch/pizza 3. Free fruits every week, and in the current pandemic, let’s stay fruity, healthy and safe! 4. Monthly AW pizza/dinner 5. Work from home allowed since we trust each other 6. Flexible working hours. At LinkAI, we inspect, learn and improve different, and we are linking AI / 愛.

Sanitary protection should be as obvious and accessible as toilet paper and soap Period Pack is today Sweden's leading company when it comes to menstrual protection containers. The company was founded in 2019 by Amanda Mattsson and Lova Svensson with the aim of making menstrual protection in toilets a matter of course. The company has expanded fast and today we are a team of 6 people based in Örebro. You will find our products set up at workplaces and schools all over Sweden - and soon in Denmark. Read more on our website https://periodpack.se/