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ColouReef

We are a new social startup named ColouReef and we are going to rethink and innovate the fashion industry. As you probably know, the fast fashion industry has a more negative impact on our environment and society than it does good. Being one of the most polluting ones, the industry emits more CO2 into the atmosphere than international flights and maritime shipping combined. Moreover, it is a water-consuming giant that is responsible for 20% of all industrial water pollution worldwide. Additionally, fast-fashion companies that produce garments in the global south, are profiting by exploiting local labour and nature. Fast fashion is the problem. Ever changing trends, consumerism and the fear of being left out, affects people psychologically, as fashion collections’ frequency jumped from 2 to 4 per year in 2000 to 12, 16 and sometimes 24 different collections per year in 2019. As a result, in 2014 to compare with 2000, on average people bought 60% more clothes and kept them just half as long. Consequently, this behaviour created another major problem of the industry – waste. Around 85% of the textile ends up in landfills or being burned, while barely 15% are recycled. In 2017 – 16.9 million tons of textile was produced, and only 2,6 million tons were recycled. The problem is, that many consumers in the global North are being held as hostages by the fast fashion trends, without many, if any, sustainable alternatives. This is our solution to the problems above: • To create a fashion rental service based on a circular economy, that allows customers to own different garments by paying a monthly subscription. In this way we will be able to reduce the impact of the fast fashion while allowing people an opportunity to change their outfit and style more often. • We will offer clothes ONLY from sustainable companies, which care about our planet and everyone living on it. Meaning that clothes will need to be produced sustainably and ecologically and/or contain recycled fabrics, as well as not to exploit labour within their supply chain. • Damaged and worn out clothes will be returned back to the clothing brand to upcycle or will be recycled and/or upcycled locally by ColouReef. This way we will fight together the problem of enormous waste caused by the industry. • We will change the habits of the consumers, by providing an alternative to own and wear sustainable clothing for a period of time instead of owning cheap and vastly produced fashion garments. At the same time, we will educate our customers about the damages that the textile industry is doing to our environment. • As the name of our company implies, we want to help to protect coral reefs that are on the verge of extinction. Coral reefs are a vital part of the whole underwater ecosystem. Warming ocean and ocean acidification are two of the main reasons why corals are bleaching and dying around the world. Besides our effort to transform the fashion industry into a more sustainable version of it, we will also support selected NGOs that are fighting against coral extinction. We are looking for people thinking in the same way, seeing the problems and wanting to solve them by disrupting the fashion industry. If you are interested and would like to know more, contact us on info@coloureef.com Informative links: https://www.textilemountainfilm.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61CdttBG3n0 https://www.checinternational.org/clothing-waste-and-fast-fashion-in-2020/

Urban Cycles

Urbanization and worsening transport problems in cities (e.g. air pollution, noise, traffic injuries, congestion, parking shortages, etc) lead to new mobility trends. The increased importance of cycling and micro-mobility is one of them. Our mission is to enhance urban cycling and encourage more users to commute on their bikes. To do so we design, assemble and deliver unique electric bicycles (also called pedelecs) for urban commuters. But we are not just a bicycle manufacturer, we consider ourselves as a company defining urban mobility. We are a young Finnish startup company with 6 team members, who are currently living in 3 different countries. We came up with the concept of our e-bike and started active prototyping in early 2019. We've already built first prototypes, tested key hypotheses and are now on the final stage of product development. Because of an ongoing patenting process, we are still in somewhat "stealth mode".

Stiksen

Stockholm-based Stiksen is a Swedish brand that believes caps are as essential as any other garment. Our take is that big logotypes don’t make great caps - excellent quality does. We want our customers to feel comfortable wearing a high quality, sustainable cap in different kinds of settings, whether it be to dinner parties, the office or out in the breeze. Therefore, we offer minimalistic, Scandinavian headwear, trustworthy in function for all occasions. Read more on: www.stiksen.com

Go Zebra

Go Zebra er non-profit forening, der træner børn i innovation og iværksætteri med udgangspunkt i verdensmålene. Vores vision er at skabe en børneiværksætterbevægelse af kreative, idérige børn med selvtilid, handlekraft og mod til at turde gøre en forskel for sig selv - og andre. Go Zebra har trænet iværksættermuskler på 350+ børn på akademier og camps i fritiden i samarbejde med bl.a. FN, Too Good To Go, Ældresagen og Lego Ventures.

Cruitmed

Healthcare facilities globally are facing a staff shortage and we’ve set out to solve this with the help of our plattform. At Cruitmed, we make it faster and easier for the healthcare providers to hire doctors and nurses at scale with our automated matching plattform. We believe that the healthcare sector itself has enough challenges and that having access to good and satisfied staff shouldn’t be one of them. Visit us at cruitmed.com to learn more.

Rundera

Rundera is the booking platform that enables you to run the world. We're gathering the best small travel agencies for the ultimate running experiences around the world. A marketplace where you can book a trip to to run in the alps for five day, trail running on Madeira, or what about a trip through small villages in the Atlas mountains? Running is what we start with but we will expand quickly to also cover triathlon, swimming, hiking and cycling. Our goal is to become the leading platform for active adventurers. We got 8 travel agencies waiting to get started with our beta version. Our partners are from different destinations in Europe and North America and this is also where we will focus our marketing efforts. So even though we're a start up from Oslo we have global ambitions from day one. We believe we have a very exciting journey ahead of us. The adventure travel industry is growing rapidly, more and more people go abroad to run or attend other races. The time is now, the idea is simple, but solid, what we need now is the right team to succeed.

ROOF MANAGEMENT

ROOF Management is an alternative investment fund manager (AIFM with license) providing attractive real estate investment opportunities i Denmark. ROOF Management caters to real estate investors from multiple segments. ROOF Management is looking for a flexible and serviceminded IT-developer to support our Team and investors with technical issues on our platform.

Lemus

Stiftet i 2014 i København af iværksætter, designer og passionerede musikelsker, Rasmus Møller Kastrup, er han på en mission om at bringe den ægte Hi-Fi oplevelse tilbage i hjemmet verden over ved at retænke hele Hi-Fi- og møbelindustrien. Med en fantastisk historie og modtagelse af Lemus HOME-kollektionen med utallige design- og lydawards har teamet bag Lemus allerede rykket grænser for hvad der er muligt, og lever dag-til-dag ud fra vores vision: The future sound of HOME.

Occtoo AB

Consumers expect that all interactions with brands and retailers, in mobile, computer or in-store, are tailored to the needs of each consumer. Marketers have a great challenge to deliver relevant information at any such time, as it is time-consuming to gather all the necessary data, create the right insights and put together the right message. It must be automated. Occtoo is a cloud service that helps modern marketers consolidate information about products, consumers & purchasing behaviors, provides insights & tools that enable real-time delivery of the right relevant information via automatically generated APIs available everywhere. Marketers can spend time creating an exceptional customer experience without being limited by technology. Once the data is in place, time-to-market for creating new types of customer experiences is radically shortened.

We B Tea

We B Tea - a Swedish tea brand launched in May 2019. Our vision is to bring a new tea culture to the nordic countries, introduce tea as the healthy option not only as the warm beverage we all drink and love but also introducing cold-brewed tea to pair with food instead of alcoholic beverages and soft drinks. We B Tea inspires to slow living and a sustainable lifestyle, we want to modernise the rituals around tea to inspire people to bring rituals and reflections into their everyday life. We are a sustainable thinking company, planting trees, always think about sustainable packaging and the well being of our workers.

Restarters Norway

Restarters Norway jobber for å skape en kultur for reparasjon av elektronikk i Norge, basert på frivillighet, delingskultur og bærekraft. Vi engasjerer og inspirerer folk og beslutningstakere gjennom å spre konseptet Fiksefest for elektronikk, og ved å sette bærekraftig forbruk av elektronikk på den offentlige agendaen. Vi er en del av et internasjonalt Restarters-nettverk som har vokst ut av Londonbaserte The Restart Project. Nordmenn ligger på Europatoppen når det gjelder bruk og kast av elektronikk, og dette har store klima- og miljømessige konsekvenser. Ved å jobbe praktisk og lokalt, spre glede og mestring knyttet til reparasjon ønsker vi å endre folks forhold til elektronikk, hvordan vi setter pris på og tar vare på den. På en Fiksefest utforsker og reparerer vi elektronikken sammen, lærer av hverandre og har det gøy med å la den leve lenger. Gjennom arrangementene sprer vi derfor nysgjerrighet og ingeniørferdigheter, i tillegg til glede knyttet til å ta vare på elektronikken vår.

Vicruit

Vicruit er en jobportal med videorekruttering. Rekrutteringsprocessen i dag er omstændig for både virksomheder og jobsøgende. Vicruit fjerner flere udfordringer ved den traditionelle jobsøgning og hjælper dig med at spare både tid og resourcer. Med videoansøgninger får du nemt og hurtigt et indtryk af den jobsøgende og den jobsøgende kan på samme tid søge sit drømmejob på få minutter.

Tante Grøn CPH

Tante Grøn is a shop - webshop - eventmaker - workshop and creative hub for customers and designers. We aim to make the creative experience of knitting an inclusive and social life style experience. The shop and workshops are already a success - the next steps are to increase sales via the webshop as well as of social media

SammeVei

SammeVei is a tech startup that rolled out 2 mobility apps in the past 4 years: SammeVei; the leading ridesharing app in Norway for the sustainable urban commuting and Pick App; the revolutionary home delivery app for anything anytime! Our vision is backed by the star investors and innovation grant. We believe in on-demand mobility in urban transportation; both in the movement of people and goods.

Defudger

Defudger is a complex detection tool for the verification of digital content. Our solution reveals forgery and falsification of images, videos and deepfakes with the highest accuracy of any detection tool. We work with state of the art techniques in the fields of machine learning and computer vision to make it possible. We provide a three-level detection method that will enable publishers, news and media agencies, online platforms and everyone else interested to detect forgeries in digital files.