Is It Time to Pivot from Corporate to Co-Founder? Great startups don’t fail because of bad ideas - they stall because they can’t reach the market. From deep-tech to consumer products, many early-stage ventures have strong teams and promising solutions - but lack the commercial insight to grow. Commercial Co-Founder is a programme designed for professionals ready to pivot out of traditional commercial roles and into high-impact roles within early-stage startups.

We bring scheduling, inventory, ordering, data inshights together in one smart platform. Built as a connector for ambitious restaurant chains, Dully helps managers save time, gain full control, and make better decisions - every day! Dully connects the dots across your restaurant operations. We build Dully for ambitious restaurateurs. Dully acts as a powerful connector between people, systems, and decisions - giving managers full control, better insights, and more time to focus on the restaurant experience.

MUZE The Brand creates emotionally magnetic branding and content for premium hospitality brands, helping them solve the problem of being seen but not felt, with a foundation in psychology, storytelling, and creative strategy. There’s a huge gap in how premium brands communicate with their ideal clientele. Many, from luxury hospitality and lifestyle brands, struggle to express their unique story in a way that elevates them up the “luxury ladder” of their customer’s ideal reality. They live in a noisy space where attention is sparse. They’re seen, but rarely remembered. The brands that win are the ones people feel connected to and belong to, not just the ones they buy from. That’s where we come in. We build brand worlds. We immerse ourselves in the psychology of their target audience, gain an understanding of cultural cues and emotional triggers, and design a social ecosystem, cinematic content that make a brand feel like an insider’s club. MUZE The Brand started as ABN Media when I was 19, and evolved into MUZE The Brand about a year and a half ago. I built it because I believe premium brand content has lost the plot, too much of it is safe, bland, and forgettable. In the past 10 months MUZE has grown into a team of two, with plans to expand much further as I bring on creative support. I’ve never stayed in a 9–5 for more than four months. I’ve only ever worked a handful of part-time jobs. MUZE is my life, and I pour everything I have into making it the creative partner premium brands can’t afford not to have. You can check out both my personal profile and the agency's on Instagram to get a more well rounded idea in addition to the website: alana_nicholson_ muzethebrand

Nyx is a cloud-based nightclub management platform designed to streamline operations for venues and enhance the nightlife experience for guests. It offers a suite of tools including membership management, table booking, ticket sales, and guest list handling, all integrated into a single system. For venues, Nyx provides a comprehensive suite of features to manage daily operations efficiently. The platform allows for the creation of custom membership systems, enabling venues to offer unique perks and engage with their audience through push notifications, emails, or text messages. The table booking system offers a visual overview of the venue, handling orders, payments, credits, and bookings, all integrated with the membership system to provide a seamless experience. The ticket system facilitates the sale of event tickets or regular covers, with integration into the members app for a consistent user experience. For guests, Nyx serves as a digital wallet for nightclub membership cards, allowing users to discover clubs, register using their Nyx account, obtain memberships, buy tickets, and stay updated on events and news from their favorite venues. Nyx's flexible pricing model caters to venues of all sizes, with a starting price of €29 per month, and additional costs based on the number of members and active logins. The platform is available on both iOS and Android, ensuring accessibility for all users. With over 200 venues and more than 400,000 registered members, Nyx is redefining the way nightclubs manage their operations and connect with their audience.

Dokport is transforming healthcare by making it fast, simple, and accessible for everyone. Our doctors are available 24/7 via chat, helping patients without waiting times or unnecessary barriers. We are a growing Finnish company where every team member has a real impact on how healthcare evolves. We founded Dokport because we believe everyone deserves timely, fair medical care. By combining medical expertise with efficient digital delivery, we are building the future of healthcare: simple, scalable, and human. At Dokport, you’ll work with talented colleagues in medicine and technology, in a culture built on ownership, learning, and flexibility.

1990 Studio makes mobile software for startups that take craft seriously. Copenhagen-based, current team of six. AI engineers, iOS and full-stack developers, designers. We work with North American clients building at the intersection of mobile and AI. Projects from concept to launch, or refinement work on products that need a layer of intention. We believe software should look and feel better than it does. The best digital products blend into daily life because someone made a hundred small decisions correctly. Design and development from the same brain. Competent execution meeting taste you can't shortcut through tutorials. We're building toward creative autonomy, not scale. Looking for iOS developers. Build something great with us.

Manuscript Manager is a B2B SaaS platform that enables research institutions, funding bodies, and scholarly journals to manage and streamline the peer review process for research articles, grant applications, and other forms of scientific content. Today, we serve over 500 journals worldwide – primarily in Science, Technology, and Medical research. As a provider of mission-critical infrastructure, we deliver flexible workflows, intuitive user experiences, and efficient process automation, allowing our customers to focus on what matters most: ensuring research quality. The volume of scholarly output is growing at an unprecedented rate, bringing with it significant challenges: fraudulent practices, disruptive technological advances, and shifting business and publishing models. We address these challenges with tools that strengthen trust in the scholarly record and bring transparency to the entire peer review process.

ODDfest is Finland’s next-generation creative festival—think Slush meets Flow Festival. It unites art, business, and future thinking into one event, creating a space where creative professionals, industry leaders, and cultural innovators collide. The Problem We’re Solving: Finland’s creative and cultural industries are vibrant but fragmented. Artists, entrepreneurs, and innovators often work in silos, lacking platforms that connect them with each other, with audiences, and with opportunities for growth. Meanwhile, the cultural spaces that do exist are often either purely entertainment-driven or purely professional—rarely both. Our Solution: We bring the worlds of creativity, business, and culture under one roof—both figuratively and literally. We create spaces, online and offline, where new ideas can be born, collaborations can spark, and culture can evolve. Why We’re Doing It: We believe that creativity is a driver of societal change and economic growth. By making Finland a hub for next-generation creative culture, we’re putting it on the global cultural map—and creating a movement that inspires, elevates, and unites people from all walks of life.

PayTjek is developing an AI-powered payroll verification platform that helps employees detect and resolve salary discrepancies through automated collective agreement analysis and intelligent error detection. Payroll errors are a widespread and costly problem, with billions lost each year because employees never uncover them. Payslips are often complex and difficult to understand without specialist knowledge of collective agreements and labor laws — expertise usually reserved for lawyers, union representatives, and HR professionals. This leaves everyday workers, from healthcare staff to teachers, at risk of losing money they are rightfully owed. PayTjek democratizes payroll expertise. Employees simply upload their payslip, and our AI analyzes salary data, cross-references it with relevant collective agreements, checks against work schedules and contracts, and flags discrepancies or missing payments. The results are delivered in clear, plain language, giving workers both understanding and actionable next steps. Our technology is built to interpret even the most complex Danish labor agreements, with a roadmap to expand across European markets. We are driven by a strong sense of fairness. Payroll verification has long been out of reach for the people who need it most. Without the right tools, employees have been left powerless in the face of errors. PayTjek exists to change that — to return knowledge, transparency, and financial control to workers, starting with healthcare employees in Denmark and expanding to empower workers across Europe.

Revolutionising diagnostics through innovation. We are at the forefront of healthcare transformation, developing portable blood test devices that deliver rapid and reliable results. Our mission is to optimise the healthcare system, making it more accessible, efficient, and patient-centric for a healthier tomorrow.

Story-Lab Learning is a new kind of content agency built for the AI era. We create short, animated, and interactive learning modules – crafted by humans, powered by AI. Our focus is on microlearning that fits naturally into the workflow, using tools like We Are Learning, HeyGen, Vyond and more. We help companies train employees, partners, and customers through explainer videos, mini-scenarios, and immersive content. Our clients include Enterprises, EdTech platforms, LMS providers, HR/learning teams, and consultancies. We’re not just content creators — we’re also proud resellers of best-of-breed content creation tools like We Are Learning, enabling us and our partners to stay ahead of the curve in immersive and efficient learning production. Story-Lab is currently in an exciting early stage, with traction, great tools, and a growing network of collaborators. Now we’re looking for the right people to help us scale — and shape the future of learning. Anders Börde – Founder of Story-Lab Learning Anders is a EdTech entrepreneur with a strong track record of building digital learning ventures across the Nordics. He has held key roles at Telenor and founded Moblrn, as well as led international sales at We Are Learning – a pioneering platform for AI-driven 3D learning content. Anders combines strategic insight with hands-on execution and has helped global enterprises scale modern learning solutions. At Story-Lab Learning, he brings together creativity, technology, and AI to shape the future of microlearning.

Brinna AI is building the next-gen brand intelligence platform, powered by AI — to help global companies take control of their brand at scale. Brand management today is fragmented, manual, and inefficient — making consistency and creativity hard to maintain. Brinna AI changes that. Our agentic platform automates and augments brand management, unlocking new levels of speed, precision, and brand coherence. We’ve spent the last five years running a leading Brand Management agency. That hands-on experience and first-hand view of the problems led us here — to reimagine how brands are built and scaled in the age of AI.

Personal transportation is one of the greatest sources to Co2-emmission and air pollution. The change from a fossil fuel car to an EV is the lowest hanging fruits to decrease this emmission. Before you make this shift, you want to make sure that you can charge your car, which can be challenging if you live in a city, where you depend on a public roll out of EV charging infrastructure, which often lacks behind. This is what we want to change with Elby. Elby's solution enables an ubiquitous roll out on market conditions and at a marginal cost of the known solutions.

At Cresnd, we’re transforming the nightlife industry by connecting nightclubs and event-goers through cutting-edge technology. The Problem: The nightlife industry lacks efficient tools for event discovery and venue management. Nightclubs face challenges in optimizing operations, and event-goers struggle to find events that match their interests. Our Solution: Cresnd provides an AI-powered platform that offers personalized event recommendations, real-time analytics for clubs, and seamless booking systems, creating a more efficient and engaging nightlife experience for both hosts and attendees. Key Benefits: 1. Personalized Event Discovery: Tailored recommendations based on music tastes and interests. 2. Advanced Analytics for Hosts: Real-time insights to optimize operations and boost engagement. 3. Seamless Integration: Easy-to-use tools for event booking, ordering, and tracking customer volume all in one place. Our Mission: We’re revolutionizing the nightlife industry by using technology to empower nightclubs and enhance event discovery for attendees. Cresnd aims to create a smarter, more connected nightlife experience for everyone. At Cresnd, we’re combining innovation with passion to reshape the future of nightlife.

HealthBuddy empowers individuals to take control of their health through accessible, innovative, and patient-centered digital solutions. Focused on delivering high-quality digital health solutions, HealthBuddy collaborates closely with healthcare providers and people living with disease to create tools that meet real-world needs. Our mission is to make digital health solutions an integral part of everyday care, improving outcomes and the quality of life for patients everywhere.