At TopHatch, we delight and empower creative people. Our powerful, award-winning design tools simplify the creative process with smarter, more intuitive technology. You could say we’re building the future of design. We operate within the creative epicenters of Silicon Valley and nordic design-driven Finland with team members in seven countries, and are part of the 500 Startups family.

In short, Vertical is a vibrant, start-up like strategy consultancy that helps companies unleash their growth potential through an innovative, customer-centric and entrepreneurial approach. At the top of our strategic agenda is a focus and specialisation within disruptive (digital) business models, incubation and customer experience.

The Protein Kitchen was founded by Danish superhero girl Cecilie Lind and creative prodigy Morten Storgaard. With a strong belief that pure ingredients and great taste as the core of our healthy home-made food, The Protein Kitchen has become the fastest growing company in the industry. We are now heavilyexpanding our current areas of business, and through our innovative product development, we strive to expand into other promising markets. Current retailers include: 7-Eleven, Meny, Joe&TheJuice.

Floud is a social ticket sales platform with an inbuilt viral promotion mechanism. Set up your event in minutes, offer a seamless shopping experience, deliver QR tickets and control event admittance with one tool. Our killer feature for the event organizers is the viral campaign tool. With this tool, organizers can offer guests great benefits (like a ticket for half the price) if they invite their friends to the event.

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

Kokoa is a digital education company from Helsinki Finland. Our product, Kokoa Standard, is an Edtech quality verification service. Our clients are edtech publishers, buyers and investors. Through our quality evaluations, we get the evidence of product's learning effectiveness in a fast, trustworthy and affordable way. Edtech industry stakeholders around the world trust Kokoa to ensure solutions are independently certified to high-level quality standard.

Shoreline provides a simulation and operational intelligence cloud platform for the wind industry   Our platform can assist developers, OEMs, financial institutions, insurance companies, and service providers in optimizing the entire project life cycle, and thus reduce risk and subsequent cost of energy significantly.We're founded, owned and operated by industry people with experience from offshore wind development and operation and maintenance. We're located in Stavanger, Hamburg and Palo Alto.

We develop embedded AI for IoT with focus on video intelligence. Our video intelligence platform makes it easy for companies to introduce advanced artificial intelligence into their physical products. We offer a real-time embedded video engine based on proprietary deep learning algorithms that we have implemented on a range of platforms: CPU, GPU, FPGA on different chipsets, Intel, ARM, Qualcomm, Jetson.

A service for those who want to hire employees without hiring! We handle all administration and take employer responsibility.

Adventure Box is an expanding universe of connected voxel games, created and populated by players, in which you can explore, fight, and loot while developing your character. Adventure Box lets you make, share and play 3D games in the web browser.

Monsenso is an innovative technology company offering a digital health solution used for decentralised trials, remote patient monitoring and treatment support. Our mission is to contribute to improved health for more people at lower costs by supporting treatment and studies digitally and leveraging patient-reported outcomes data. Our solution helps optimise treatment and studies and gives a detailed overview of an individual’s health through the collection of outcome, adherence and behavioural data. It connects individuals, carers and health care providers to enable personalised treatment, remote care and early intervention as well as decentralised trials. We collaborate with health and social care, pharmaceuticals and leading researcher worldwide in our endeavours to deliver solutions that fit into the life of patients and healthcare professionals. To learn more visit www.monsenso.com

We are an award-winning tyre manufacturer focusing on innovation and sustainability and the first company in the world capable of mass-producing pneumatic tyres without the use of rubber. As pioneers in tyre manufacturing, we’re spearheading an ambitious production method that integrates cutting-edge technologies from multiple industries. As a result, our tyres have significantly lower emissions compared to conventional tyres. reTyre wants to make the lives of various vehicle users easier by sustainable tyre solutions. Above anything else, reTyre values an innovative and fearless entrepreneurial mindset. JOIN THE REVOLUTION Make A Real Difference If you have been dreaming of being part of something great – now’s your time. We’re not just another tyre company. We’re building a state-of-the-art factory with groundbreaking machines, pushing the boundaries of innovation. Our mission? Leading the charge in sustainability and innovation. We have multiple positions open in all departments of our company and we are always looking for talented people who want to be a part of our exciting growth journey and make a real difference.

At IEX we save time and money by creating a direct connection between systems.As a SaaS solution we offer our customers an affordable way of connecting web shops with accounting programs and POS systems - eliminating unnecessary data-entry.Today IEX is offering more than 40 different types of integrations for all the major e-commerce and accounting systems serving 600 customers and growing every day.

Flex Funding is a leading loan based crowdfunding platform. We match investors who want to lend and earn great rates at low costs, with established businesses who want affordable loans within a reasonable time, at competitive interest rates and fees, and with minimum trouble. We offer the service through our online crowdfunding platform which are not only offered to retail clients but also to financial institutions as well as in rebranded and customised solutions for White Label businesses.  Flex Funding is a Danish company with an international team based at our offices in Copenhagen, Poland (Gdansk, Lublin or remotely), and in London. We have a strong background from the financial industry from leading international banks and Fintechs.  Flex Funding is a growing organisation where all team members have excellent opportunities to develop both professionally and personally.  Our staff can influence their career development and impact the Flex Funding journey going forward.

Bridging online and offline worlds. Merchants cannot convert from printed posters nor adverts. They cannot convert people who want to pay by invoice or installments in their store without going through a time-consuming process. Elkypay transforms all of the above problems into monetization opportunities. We provide a payment solution using NFC, Beacon and QR code technologies. The solution enables buyers to use payment method through a one-click purchase procedure: No app No registration. My name is Walid Rohaimi, and I am the CEO of Amundi Technologies. I graduated in 2007 with two masters in Computer Science from Jönköping University and Information Systems applied to decision making from Université de Technologies de Troyes in France. I am passionate about geopolitics and history of science. In my spare time, I play tennis and go to a sauna. I love it! For 7 years, I worked at the Schur Group as a software engineer, Project Manager and later on as an Area Sales Manager in France. I acquired a great experience working in a demanding business environment - the newspaper printing industry. I conducted projects for the New York Times, crowd fundingThe Chicago Tribune, Austin American Statesman, Le Monde, Posten and many others around the world. All I wanted is my name mentioned in the About menu. In 2013, I quit my very rewarding job and started Amundi Technologies together with my friend Hicham Ezzahiri. But, before making that decision, I went to Denmark to meet Mr. Hans Schur, the President of the Schur Group (2.9 Billion SEK Turnover per year in 2014) since he was a bit sad watching me leaving. After a nice breakfast at his office, he offered me to keep working for Schur as a consultant and yet supporting me to develop my new business idea. Amundi Technologies is a system integrator specialized in IoT (Internet of Things), providing real-time data via multiple acquisition channels.  We build solutions both for B2B and B2C. Today Amundi Technologies is present in Sweden, France, Morocco and Gabon.  Our team worked hard to develop ATCS* Control and supervision systems, mobile applications, tag applicators and guess crowdfunding platform with 0% commission. In total, 26 people have contributed one way or another to this journey.  So far, we have made several partnerships with hardware providers from USA, UK, Denmark, Sweden, The Netherlands, Italy, France and Finland. We also implement collaborations with Software development firms in France and Sweden.  *ATCS: Amundi Technologies Control and Supervision