The innovation ecosystem plays a crucial role in the success of startups, but these ecosystems are facing operational and strategic obstacles that limit their potential. The operational difficulties include an inability to effectively support startups leading to high failure rates, low engagement from startups, and resource-intensive reporting processes. On the strategic front, innovation ecosystems face intense competition and struggle to scale their efforts and establish sustainable business models, which often rely heavily on government funding. These challenges impact a wide range of players in the ecosystem, including incubators, accelerators, universities, and enterprise innovation departments. Addressing these challenges can lead to a thriving startup ecosystem, boosting economic growth and driving progress. By investing in the solution of these significant problems, the innovation ecosystem has the potential to unleash its full potential and drive positive change.

Our mission is simple: Creating innovative clean skincare products formulated by experts with raw Scandinavian ingredients. Sourced in nature and backed by science. woods_ unifies the raw and powerful Nordic nature’s potency and the vibration of the metropolitan insistence on efficiency, design and function. This is why our formulations are supercharged with innovative and highly effective ingredients. All woods_ products are designed, developed and produced in Denmark - formulated by leading Scandinavian experts, engineers and beauty nerds.

Aline is an EdTech platform validating informal learning and enabling data-driven development for organisations and individuals by providing a real-time overview of interests, knowledge, and progress. We are a team of people all passionate about the same thing: no one is ever done learning, and knowledge is one of the most powerful tools one can have; something we should all have the right to. Founded at the end of 2020, we have been developing our products, onboarding customers, and taking in investment at full speed ever since. If you work with us you will be given full responsibility from day one, we learn, we adapt, and we grow fast. We work out of Stockholm but we are remote from day one so if you are in another city then that's no problem. We ensure to have transparency, openness to ideas, and most of all Aline-ment with the team, which happens every Friday at our 'Aline & Wine'.

At Friday Home we develop and globally markets iconic smart home devices all wrapped up in an attractive design by the Danish Bjarke Ingels Group, BIG. At Friday we are putting an effort in developing inhouse – we own the full stack from firmware to apps and servers.

Zerion is a pharmaceutical development company improving the formulation of poorly soluble drugs (oral solid dosage forms) that are currently not reaching their therapeutic potential. Through the use of our proprietary formulation platform, Dispersome®️, we aim to develop new treatment options for patients across all therapeutic areas. We are focused on improving existing drug products by building an internal pipeline. In addition, we are partnering with originator pharma companies to enable their early stage drug molecules. Using our enabling excipient-based technology we strive to improve the lives of patients around the world. Zerion was established in 2019 as a spinout company from the University of Copenhagen based on almost a decade of research.

UMAI is a software provider that helps restaurants to save time and increase revenues by automating manual tasks, minimize last-minute cancellations, upsell customers more effectively and provide more personalized service. UMAI provides solutions which helps restaurants: 1) Increase monthly sales via our automated marketing solutions, our reservation management tool, our guest database functionality and our online marketing features. Our solutions always pay for themselves. 2) Bring customers back twice as often-Our smart marketing solutions identify who likes your place and brings them back twice as often, driving up your customer retention. 3) Increase Customer Spend - Via upselling tools, ticket sales, payment features, and CRM capabilities, you will know more about your guests and be able to automatically increase the value you receive from each paying customer.

Paragit Solutions is an early-stage medical device startup working to develop and market a novel solution to support early diagnosis and personalized treatment of neurological disorders – starting with Parkinson’s. Based in Copenhagen, the company has won several innovation challenges in Scandinavia and Silicon Valley and the development has largely been funded by EIT Health, Innovation Fund Denmark, and other innovation environments. We are working with leading clinical partners to test and validate the solution, and recently closed our seed round of 12 million DKK from prominent investors. We are a small team of 5 full-time employees and 7 part-time/freelancers working with high flexibility from our office in Frederiksberg. We are developing a solution consisting of both hardware and software. The patented Paragit Sleeve collects high-resolution data on muscle activity, movement, and grip force from patients during daily life. The data is transferred to the software suite, where it is modeled and correlated to clinical measurements of disease severity. This provides clinicians with a holistic overview of patients’ symptoms and treatment responses during daily life, which, in turn, fosters optimized treatment and better care.

Televindu er et ungt og ambisiøst selskap i vekst. Vi har som mål å gi beboere på sykehjem et bedre og mer tilrettelagt aktivitetstilbud gjennom video. Televindu er en videoplattform med over 250 tilrettelagte videoer for personer med demens. Flere kommuner og sykehjem i både Danmark og Norge bruker videoplattformen til å vekke minner og samtaler mellom beboerne og personalet. De laster også opp egne videoer til plattformen og gir beboerne et vindu til kulturelle aktiviteter i nærområdet. Televindu ble etablert i 2019 og har i dag kontorer i Aalborg og Oslo. Les mer om oss på www.televindu.no

You could say that Hilfr is "Airbnb for private cleaning" but Hilfr is more than that Hilfr aims to provide decent working conditions for providers of cleaning services on our platform. As the first cleaning platform in Europe we have negotiated a collective agreement with a trade union (3F). This ensures that people working on Hilfr are guaranteed a good minimum salary, pension, holiday pay, access to sickness benefit and a number of other benefits. All Super Hilfr's are employed by Hilfr Aps which means that tax is payed in accordance with Danish law. Hilfr is a very intuitive and easy-to-manage platform. It is free to sign-up but everyone has to upload a picture of a personal ID, which is key part in ensuring a credible and secure platform. We charge the by far lowest fee in the market - only 6 percent. And our fee is not taken from the Hilfrs wage, it is added to the customer’s bill to ensure transparency. It is important for us to make sure that Hilfrs can keep as much of their pay as possible. That is only fair.

LOOW is a multipurpose clothing company for versatile people. We have specialized in 100% merinowool products of the highest quality. Our products are inspired from the usage and functionality in the danish army, this functionality is then combined with extreme comfort and a modern timeless design you experience in our 100% merino wool products. We aim to produce locally, when we have the option, or at least in Europe. LOOW is now in expansion-mode and we require a bit more manpower.

Howdy ApS er en healthtech virksomhed, der har udviklet en innovativ og effektiv service, der forebygger sygdom inden for mental- og fysisk sundhed. Howdy anvendes dagligt af mange kunder i Danmark og Sverige og tusindvis af medarbejdere i hele verden. Gennem en unik metode giver vi virksomheden løbende indsigt i både medarbejdernes og organisationens trivsel, og vi griber proaktivt ind ved opringning til vores kunders medarbejdere og ledere gennem med team af psykologer og fysioterapeuter, der hurtigt reagerer på kritisk eller negativ udvikling i trivslen.

BidTheatre builds software and solutions for data driven online marketing, putting insights, creativity and transparency first. So called ”programmatic advertising” is growing rapidly as it offers new opportunities for marketers to reach their target audiences and make their marketing more efficient. The company was founded in 2012 and has offices in Stockholm, Sweden. Clients are media agencies, brands, publishers and other marketing professionals. The company is privately held, profitable, and enjoys rapid growth. BidTheatre is listed on Deloitte's Fast 50 in 2017 and 2018, and Financial Times' list of Europes fastest growing 1000 companies in 2018 and 2019.

Groundbreaking multi use app-controlled tech garments, delivering targeted muscle stimulation (NMES). Innovating sport & fitness training; revolutionizing sensory-force gaming; advancing remote therapy. Custom projects for multi industry segments. Highlights • Pioneering technology with nano carbon integrated textiles • Already commercial with the Sports & Fitness range across numerous markets • Instant scaleability with our highly experienced Partners • More than twenty years experience in refinement of electrical stimulation • Highly experienced team and board capable of executing future plans The Business Sport & Fitness – harnessed via compact smart-tech garments, NMES builds performance, recruiting dormant muscle fibres, prevents muscle fatigue and recovers downtime. More portable than Peloton - interactive training is efficient, adaptable and progressive. Gaming – real-world or console delivery provides sensory-force feedback through our tech garments enabling users to experience real battles via a programmed arsenal of weapons. The user no longer plays the game but becomes part of the game. Medical – driven by the need for remote healthcare, our smart devices offer a three in one treatment solution. NMES coupled with pain relief is prescribed by practitioners and monitored remotely through motion sensing to inform treatment planning. The Market Exploiting over 20 years of NMES tech experience our products are creative, innovative, and user-friendly. The advent of Covid-19 created an unparalleled demand for remote solutions to health, fitness, and entertainment. Peloton’s growth of 110% in a year; the gaming industry projected to surpass $200bn in 2023; remote rehabilitation generating a projected $11bn during 2020 - all signify a timely market introduction to our products. Our pioneering interactive gaming platform offers realistic, non-vibration, intensive live sensory-force feedback and for medical our three-in-one user-friendly, remote monitoring and treatment solutions empower patients. The Proof • Winner of the ISPO Brand New Innovation, 2019 our sport & fitness products are already in the market in Europe and Asia. • The confirmed network of personal trainers developing training programs led by an industry leader. • Prototypes are developed for garments and weapons in real-world gaming and the technical groundwork is ready for release pending investment. • Two new board members joining the Group, with extensive M&A & industry experience. • Medical prototypes are produced and being tested whilst working towards MDR and FDA applications and certification. • In Europe Sports & fitness being sold through a number of channels, including Sport Tiedje. Discussions progressing with additional markets and major labels The Future Ramp up sales in H2 2020 with the Sports & Fitness range, whilst developing the soft offers in parallel for launch shortly, generating cash flow to further develop other segments.

At Jonna, we want to make biking availabe by selling quality refurbed e-bikes and bikes. Our bikes are anything from brand new to up to 36 months old. We are specialized in battery and engine refurbishments/diagnostic and give guarantees on all sold products. We offer a new purchase experience with full transparency for products which are otherwise complicated for consumers to purchase on the second hand market.

Gotain är ett svensk företag som erbjuder skräddarsydda gardiner i noggrant utvalda textilier och nyanser. Varumärket lanserades 2017 med visionen att göra det enklare att beställa skräddarsydda gardiner, såväl tunga eleganta sammetsgardiner som lättsamt skira linnegardiner. Kvalité är viktigt för oss, därför väver vi alla tyger i Spanien och Turkiet, två länder med lång tradition och bred kunskap inom textilproduktion. Gardinerna skräddarsys sedan till kundens exakta mått i vår Atelje i Sverige. Vårt sortiment är noggrant framtaget med målsättningen att erbjuda ett hållbart utbud, nyheter är inte säsongsbetonade utan tas fram ur upplevda behov från våra kunder. Det kan vara kulörer, strukturer eller helt nya material som efterfrågas.