The Nordic-China Startup Forum is a non-profit NGO registered in Sweden that arranges recurring events in local startup communities alongside corporate and government partners. NCSF is operated by students and young professionals from the Nordics and China and has chapters in ten cities: Stockholm, Uppsala, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Oslo, Shenzhen-HK, Guangzhou, Shanghai and Beijing.

The Why is a no-profit organisation that initiates, produces and distributes documentaries on pressing social and environmental issues. It promotes human rights, democracy, gender equality and justice by providing the world with thought-provoking and investigative documentary films. It fights for freedom of media and free access to realible information for all and collaborates with public broadcasters, NGOs and educational institutions across all continents. The Why contributes to the UN SDGs by educating for sustainability and supporting free media.

We're advancing micro-encapsulation technology solutions. Effective delivery of bioactives (including probiotics) via micro-encapsulation is still an industry-wide issue. The technology is not yet mature enough to provide adequate and prolonged stability or efficiently deliver to the target site in the body. We at Mello are changing the game for bioactive delivery. We're working closely with Danish Technological Institute to develop the first water-free process, necessary to generate a lipid-based TrueCoreTM particle at micro size. We're building a delivery platform for different bioactives. We aim to be THE market leader in delivery solutions for sensitive and unstable 'actives'.

Startup Guide is a publishing and media company that produces guidebooks and online content to help entrepreneurs navigate and connect with different startup scenes across the world. As the world of work changes, its mission is to guide, empower and inspire people to start their own business anywhere. Founded by Sissel Hansen in 2014, Startup Guide today has books in over 30 cities in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the US, including Copenhagen, London, Tel Aviv and New York. In autumn 2018, the company launched a media website, startupguide.com, which was born out of the desire to explore different types of content and reach a wider audience by taking advantage of the digital medium. At the core of Startup Guide’s three physical stores in Berlin, Copenhagen and Lisbon are the belief that there’s nothing like real-life experiences and seeing and feeling actual products. The stores, which double as offices for the company’s 20-person team, promote products by startups as well as showcase Startup Guide books.

TAG Sensors utvikler og produserer kombinerte NFC-/RFID-tags for kontinuerlig overvåkning av kjølekjede for varer fra produsent til sluttbruker. Gjennom vår løsning får kundene kontroll på at temperaturfølsomme varer som fisk, frossen mat og farmasiprodukter har vært innenfor temperaturgrensene fra produksjon til forbruk.

We create spaces for neighbours to collaborate and thrive. The value of a good neighbour is immense but people feel awkward making these connections. Boappa is a communication platform for housing cooperatives and home-owners associations that encourage neighbours to collaboration, the sharing economy and a positive community.

Just Plants ApS was founded in 2019 with the mission to mainstream plant-based deliciousness. We create ready-to-eat meals focusing on taste, sustainability and nourishment. Our dinner meals are especially suited for families with children. They create harmony around the dinner table. The company is founded and managed by Malte Clausen and Catharine Harper. https://justplants.dk/ https://www.facebook.com/justplantsdk/ https://www.instagram.com/justplantsdk/

--Improving resilience against a changing climate-- Haawal Engineering focuses on creating practical solutions to address the challenges of a changing climate. Our main innovation is a user-friendly, portable flood barrier designed to protect communities from flooding. Developed and patented by our team, this effective solution has already been adopted in Norway, Germany, and Spain. As we continue to grow and adapt, Haawal Engineering remains dedicated to finding accessible and inventive ways to help communities face the realities of climate change.

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.

ProgressData.io helps companies measure their paygap, diversity and get practical research based improvement suggestions.  Companies wanting to measure their paygap, diversity often find that it is more expensive and time consuming than anticipated. Collection of relevant data can take weeks depending on the size of the company. Companies rarely have in-house staff with experience in measuring diversity, so even if the data is available it can be difficult to analyse and apply methodology based in research. Progressdata provides a dashboard and a reports, measuring improvement over time.

Rektra is a digital headhunter matching employers and talents with the candidate’s future vision in mind. What Recruitment today is - Costly, and without any guarantee of success - Inefficient, where cold calls consumes more time than the candidates that actually matters - Prejudiced, leading to poor fits and unhappy employees How Rektra provides an automated sourcing tool matching employers and candidates using AI, enabling efficient and unprejudiced recruitments. In contrast to the traditional CV, Rektra is forward-looking focusing on the candidate’s preferences for their next position, allowing for quality matches and sustainable employments. Why Rektra was founded to create a new, innovative way of recruiting; sourcing talents where skills and ambitions matter and name, gender and age don’t. Our vision is a fair job market though technology. Rektra has received external funding to kick-start the business.

We strive to enable consumers to freely choose the origin of their energy by providing them with a transparent and validated source of energy. We create verifiable energy authentication, detailing the source, type and location of the energy produced, available for producers and consumers around the globe. For the first time ever, end-consumers will be able to prove they consume and operate completely on 100% renewable energy.

RemoteMore brings the matching of remote job candidates and companies to a level of efficiency and effectiveness that does not exist today.More and more companies are realizing that hiring the best person for the job means hiring globally. While there are many options for hiring traditional employees – the choices are too limited when it comes to hiring remote employees with longer-term commitment.We want to fill this gap in the market.

We are a Norwegian multicultural research and development company in the fields of wastewater treatment and biogas production. Our focus is firstly, on technology development for effective nutrient management schemes with innovative separation and aggregation processes for biofertiliser products. On the other hand, consultancy services and operation-training packages in the aforementioned industries, are part of our activities for effective waste management procedures for compliance with env. regulations.  Emilio Alvarenga: Originally from Honduras and living in Norway since 2011. I am a very enthusiastic person with a solid background (PhD) in water treatment and renewable energies. I am the CEO of the company and I like to work as part of a team.Dorina Jamniczky: She is from Hungary and lives in Budapest! She is very efficient and she is currently taking a Bachelor degree in Bioengineering. She is kind and has great ideas for the company. She is our CTO and she is pure talent!Lene Elisabeth Storengen: Norway is her home country and she is our Marketing and PR officer. She is very creative and has social skills that she's using in our company. She is also an entrepreneur and she aims to invest in cultural-values, environmental and humanitarian companies.

Aega ASA is a solar utility company that acquires and operates solar power plants. The company currently owns a portfolio of seven individual solar parks in the Umbria, Lazio, Abruzzo, Emilia-Romagna and Lombardia regions in Italy with a combined production capacity of 7MWp, and an initial annual electricity production of approximately 10GWh depending on the annual solar irradiation.  The company focuses on acquisitions of smaller existing solar parks (below 5MWp capacity), following strict investment criteria.  The company targets to reach a total production capacity of 20MW within 2017 by taking advantage of the current attractive market for secondary solar parks meeting the strict investment criteria.