At Erletek we build robot fleets for a smarter, stronger and more sustainable construction industry. We come from within the construction industry with a vision of modernizing it with the help of smart autonomous machines to help reduce the labor shortage, mostly by taking over the infamous "3D jobs" (Dangerous, Dull and Dirty) and allow people to build faster than ever before, safer for everyone involved and cheaper so more people can benefit from our robots. Come join us and help us make the construction industry future-proof.

Viran is the AI layer for government contracts. We are an AI-native public procurement service that finds the public tenders a company can win, reads every document behind them, and produces the bid. Public buyers in the EU spend roughly 14% of GDP through competitive tendering. Every one of those contracts is decided on paperwork, and the companies best able to deliver the work routinely lose them, either because the opportunity never reaches them or because they misread a requirement and are excluded before anyone scores their offer. The work that decides a public tender is not sales work. It is reading. Somebody has to find the right contract among thousands, open the annexes and the draft agreement, separate the pass-or-fail qualification requirements from the scored award criteria, and be honest about whether this company can prove what the buyer is asking for. Done properly that is a specialist day per tender, which is why most companies bid on instinct, hire a bid consultancy, or never bid at all. That reading is what our agents do, at a volume no bid team can match. How Viran works: 1. Discovery. We monitor open 100,000+ weekly public sales opportunities across the Nordics, the EU and beyond, and surface only the contracts where you are a credible bidder. 2. Analysis. We read the full document package for each one: technical specification, draft contract, annexes, qualification requirements and award criteria. 3. Fit. We judge each tender against what your company can actually prove, and tell you plainly when the answer is no. 4. Bid. We produce the response. You review and submit. Viran serves manufacturers, software companies and service providers selling to the public sector in Finland, the Nordics and across the globe, including foreign vendors entering markets for the first time. The result is that public procurement stops being a lottery you enter occasionally and becomes something you run continuously, on the contracts where you are the strongest bidder in the room.

The PeopleFirst Standard™ Psychological Safety. Measured. Proven. The Problem Psychological safety is now a legal obligation in 30+ countries. ISO 45003, Danish BEK 1406, the EU Framework Directive, UK HSE Management Standards, Canadian CSA Z1003, and Safe Work Australia all require organisations to assess and evidence psychosocial risk at work. None of them prescribe how. So organisations reach for what they have: engagement surveys. Likert scales that ask people how they feel. Global engagement sits at 21% despite billions spent annually on these tools. Regulators, boards, and insurers increasingly know the difference between an opinion score and a defensible evidence base. The organisations that can't tell the difference are accumulating liability. The measurement approach is broken. We're fixing it. The Solution The PeopleFirst Standard™ is the first independently certifiable standard for psychological health and safety at work. Not a survey. Not a wellness tool. A standard, built on the same logic as ISO 9001 for quality or B Corp for social responsibility. The platform delivers a 25-question scenario-based behavioural diagnostic across 5 dimensions, measuring what people actually do under pressure, not what they say when asked nicely. Results are mapped clause-by-clause to ISO 45003:2021, BEK nr. 1406/2020, EU Directive 89/391/EEC, CSA Z1003-13, HSE Management Standards, and Safe Work Australia Code of Practice simultaneously. Organisations achieving Level 3 or above on our 5-level maturity model earn the independently certifiable PeopleFirst Standard™ mark. Those below receive a full diagnostic report with prioritised, evidence-based recommendations. For Danish organisations, the assessment serves as a validated psychosocial supplement to the mandatory APV process, providing the evidence base that Arbejdstilsynet's own framework requires but does not supply. GDPR compliant by design: no PII collected, sessions destroyed on submission, 20-respondent anonymity floor. Advisory services delivered by a separate team, after the report is issued help organisations act on what they find. Why It Matters 136 independent studies confirm psychological safety predicts team learning, innovation, and performance. (Frazier et al., Personnel Psychology, 2017). Work-related stress costs Danish employers €1.17 billion annually. The conditions that produce these outcomes are measurable and improvable. Where We Are The platform is live at thepeoplefirststandard.com. Active pilot conversations are underway with major Danish employers. The team brings two decades of leadership across military, Ørsted, Novo Nordisk, and startups backed by advisors spanning occupational psychology, enterprise sales, and organisational safety. We are applying for Innofounder funding and building the team that takes this global.

Baser Baser is a family-owned, direct-to-consumer brand designing premium parasols, patio umbrellas, and bases. Founded on Scandinavian design principles, radical honesty, and a genuine commitment to sustainability, we help families across Europe and Australia make outdoor shade decisions they won't regret. We currently operate across four markets — Denmark, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Australia — with the ambition to become the modern market leader in e-commerce shade solutions across Australia, the US, the UK, and Europe. It's a category that has been overlooked for decades, and we see clear white space to build something better. What makes us different Nearly every umbrella in the world is produced by the same handful of factories and sold the same impersonal way: through retailers, marketplaces, and middlemen with no real relationship to the end customer. We took the opposite path. Baser is a fully digital, content-led, direct-to-consumer brand — and as far as we know, the only one in our category combining mid-to-high quality, an online-first model, content leadership, and genuinely personal service. That personal service is central to who we are. Instead of chatbots and call centres, customers get real, human guidance — including founder-led advice that helps them choose exactly the right product for their space. We'd rather educate someone honestly than push them toward the most expensive option, and that approach has earned us the trust of thousands of families. Products built to last We don't believe shade should be disposable. Our products are engineered to outlast the seasons and the trends: 100% aluminium frames — no rust, no wobble, wind-tested to 50 km/h Solution-dyed fabrics that hold their colour for years rather than fading after one summer Certified UV protection up to UPF 80+, with real, verifiable numbers PFAS-free across the entire range — safe for families and the environment GRS-certified recycled materials throughout, including our patented sandbag base system Backed by a 5-year spare-parts guarantee and a 10-year frame guarantee If something breaks, we fix it. We're building products people keep, not replace. Our values and culture We're a small, ambitious team that takes our work seriously without taking ourselves too seriously. We value honesty over hype, quality over shortcuts, and specificity over vague claims. We're transparent about how and where our products are made, and proud of the quality behind them. Above all, we're building a company where people feel trusted, supported, and clear on what success looks like — grounded in strong human values and high standards, as we grow into new markets around the world.

Aether is a Norwegian startup based in Oslo, founded by a team of developers with deep expertise in maritime vessels and sensor data. We conduct onboard testing in Tromsø, and conduct our commercial activities in Ålesund and Oslo. We are building a SaaS platform for ships that maintains safe and accurate navigation during GPS jamming and spoofing, helping vessels operate with confidence when traditional positioning systems fail.

AnankeLabs is developing KAIROS Substrate, a real-time deterministic safety engine, to help organizations operating AI, cybersecurity, and autonomous systems solve structural exposure to novel, zero-day threats with a proactive physics engine that mathematically calculates exact breaking points before execution. We are tackling the fundamental failure of reactive, probabilistic defenses. Today, AI, cybersecurity, and robotics rely on known historical data—like threat signatures or mapped environments—to predict safety. This creates a permanent, widespread synchronization lag across modern infrastructure, leaving systems structurally exposed to novel, zero-day catastrophes and unpredictable "distribution shifts." This problem deeply affects operators across multiple high-stakes domains: AI Safety: Operators rely on post-generation statistical classifiers, forcing them to anticipate every adversarial path. This leaves systems highly exposed between vulnerability discovery and classifier updates. Cybersecurity: Current defenses depend on pattern-matching that requires a known signature. This creates a dangerous reality where defenders are forced to absorb the initial zero-day breach just to extract the signature needed to stop future attacks. Robotics: Systems use neural policies optimized for statistical averages. When encountering novel environments, they lack a physical safety substrate, resulting in hardware executing a "software hallucination at full mechanical torque" and causing kinetic collisions. AnankeLabs is creating an entirely new category of safety by shifting away from guessing if an action is safe based on past data, and moving toward a deterministic engine built on first principles. We built KAIROS Substrate, a real-time safety physics engine that acts as an automatic brake. Instead of relying on pattern-matching, it evaluates actions before execution, instantly detecting and blocking structurally unsound actions across AI, cyber, and robotics by calculating exact mathematical breaking points. Crucially, we made auditability a structural property of the engine itself. Because KAIROS is perfectly deterministic (identical inputs produce identical outputs at ε=10⁻⁶), it automatically generates an immutable, byte-identically replayable trace of every gate decision as a side effect. This eliminates subjective incident reporting and natively satisfies strict regulatory regimes like the EU AI Act, Machinery Regulation 2023/1230, DORA, and NIS2. The spark that fired our mission was the realization that relying on statistics to secure critical infrastructure is a dead-end. Watching security teams permanently synchronize their defenses to yesterday's attack surface highlighted an unacceptable structural flaw in modern technology. We saw the same unacceptable risks in autonomous systems, where a simple distribution shift could cause heavy machinery to hallucinate and collide with its environment. We realized that true safety couldn't be bolted on as an afterthought or solved with better guesswork; it had to be deterministic and mathematical. We set out to build AnankeLabs because organizations deserve a proactive safeguard that prevents failures from unseen threats from the ground up, rather than just mitigating the damage after the fact.

GoSuomiPro is an online Finnish language learning platform helping international students prepare for study, work, and life in Finland before they arrive. We solve the problem of students coming to Finland without enough Finnish skills, then struggling with tuition costs, employment, integration, and long-term opportunities. Our courses help learners build practical Finnish, prepare for the YKI language test, and understand Finnish society earlier. We started GoSuomiPro because language is the bridge to belonging, jobs, education, and independence. Our mission is to help motivated students arrive prepared, save costs, and build a real future in Finland.

Our Mission We are on a mission: Every year, millions of tons of coffee fruit waste (cascara) are discarded during coffee production, creating significant environmental challenges. We salvage this nutrient-rich, naturally caffeinated super-ingredient to craft premium, organic, non-alcoholic sparkling drinks. By prioritizing a circular economy and working directly with the upcycling of waste products, we don’t just create a delicious alternative for the conscious consumer - we also help reduce environmental impact and create an additional revenue stream for coffee farmers. How We Work We import cascara directly from the farmers and partner with expert subcontractors for our organic brewing, production, and storage, allowing our core team to remain agile, creative, and completely focused on scaling our market presence. At the outset we focus on local hipster/organic cafés, restaurant and bars in the HORECA segment preparing for broader retail when the market is ready. Why Join Us? We are a small, ambitious, and passionate team of founders, innovators, and specialty coffee enthusiasts. As a startup, we value creative freedom, and believe in true ownership. Joining us you will be a foundational part of our journey, with the opportunity to shape our sales strategy, brand culture, and future growth. If you are driven by sustainability, love building authentic relationships, and want to help turn a circular business model into a household name, we’d love to have you on board.

WeWaive is a smart music platform created for businesses that want professional, rights-cleared background music without complicated licensing fees. The platform is designed for cafés, restaurants, shops, offices, wellness studios, and other commercial spaces that want to create the right atmosphere for their customers. With WeWaive, businesses can access curated royalty-free music that matches different moods, spaces, and brand identities. One of the main benefits of WeWaive is simplicity. Businesses can browse music by vibe or genre, use recommended playlists, or create their own custom playlists. The music is ready to play and can run continuously throughout the day, helping companies create a pleasant and professional customer experience. WeWaive also offers something called Music DNA, which helps businesses build a unique sound identity. This can include custom playlists or even a unique jingle that reflects the brand’s personality, atmosphere, and values. Overall, WeWaive is a practical solution for businesses that want affordable, high-quality, license-cleared music that improves the atmosphere of their space and supports their brand identity.

Farm Legacy is a startup building the first AI-powered platform for farm succession, helping retiring farmers find the next generation to take over their land. Across Europe alone, 6.3M+ farms need a successor in the next decade. Globally, there are 608M+ farms, most of them family-run, and farming populations are aging in nearly every market. When no one steps in to take over, working farms get sold off, abandoned, or absorbed into industrial operations. Our goal is to keep family-scale farms alive by making succession simple: matching the right people, handling the legal and financial process, and supporting the new farmer with the tools they need to run the farm for years afterwards. At Farm Legacy, we believe the future of agriculture depends on the people who farm the land, and we are building the platform that makes the handover possible.

GoWest — Nordic Venture Capital Forum GoWest is one of the Nordics’ leading venture capital forums for startups, scale-ups, investors, and ecosystem leaders focused on the future of innovation and industry. Hosted in Gothenburg, Sweden, GoWest brings together founders, venture capitalists, angel investors, corporations, universities, policymakers, and talent from across Europe to accelerate the growth of ambitious technology companies — from pre-seed to Series A and beyond. At the intersection of deep tech, industrial transformation, sustainability, and entrepreneurship, GoWest reflects the unique strengths of West Sweden: a region shaped by world-leading industry, engineering excellence, and an increasingly dynamic startup ecosystem. A MEETING PLACE FOR FOUNDERS, INVESTORS AND FUTURE INDUSTRIES GoWest exists to create meaningful connections between startups and capital. Over the course of several days, we facilitate high-quality matchmaking between founders and investors while also creating a platform for discussions around the future of European innovation, competitiveness, and technology leadership. The conference focuses especially on sectors where Europe — and the Nordics — have the potential to lead globally: Deep tech Climate tech Mobility and automotive innovation AI and emerging technologies Life science and health innovation Energy and electrification Industrial transformation Space and frontier technologies University spinouts and research commercialization GoWest is designed not only as an event, but as a catalyst for long-term collaboration between startups, investors, universities, corporations, and public stakeholders. WHAT HAPPENS AT GOWEST? GoWest combines structured investor matchmaking with inspiring stage content, networking opportunities, curated side events, and ecosystem-building activities.The conference includes: Startup-investor matchmaking Pitch sessions and founder showcases Investor programs and LP activities Keynotes and panel discussions Policy and innovation forums Workshops and breakout sessions Community gatherings and side events Networking experiences across Gothenburg Every year, hundreds of startups and investors participate in curated meetings designed to create real business opportunities and long-term relationships. A PLATFORM FOR THE NORDIC INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM GoWest is built around collaboration. We work closely with incubators, science parks, universities, accelerators, investors, corporations, and public organizations across the Nordics and Europe to strengthen the region’s innovation ecosystem. The conference is founded by Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg and developed together with ecosystem partners who share a vision of building globally competitive technology companies from Europe. WHY VOLUNTEER AT GoWest? GoWest is powered by people who are passionate about innovation, entrepreneurship, technology, and building meaningful experiences. As a volunteer, you become part of an international community working at the center of the Nordic startup and investment ecosystem. This is an opportunity to: Build experience in event production and international conferences Meet founders, investors, and industry leaders Expand your professional network Gain insight into startups, venture capital, and innovation Develop communication, coordination, and operational skills Work alongside an ambitious and welcoming team Get behind-the-scenes access to one of the Nordics’ leading tech events We welcome students, young professionals, international talent, and anyone curious about startups, innovation, events, and community building. Whether your interests are within business, tech, operations, communication, hospitality, partnerships, or entrepreneurship, GoWest offers a dynamic environment where you can learn, contribute, and grow.

Durable Journey is driven by a commitment to leave the world, we all share, with a lasting positive impact. We are not just a clothing company, but pioneers for change. With our compass pointed towards innovation, we are focused on our mission to redefine the boundaries of textile production. We constantly seek innovative ways to create clothing that has a positive impact on our planet. Our commitment to innovation, guides us, towards a future where fashion and regenerative thinking are seamlessly intertwined. We believe in a world where people, animals, and the environment thrive together. Through fair practices and ethical choices, we make clothing that respects all life, ensuring our methods protect the planet. We do not compromise on quality or durability - our dedication to craftsmanship is unwavering. We believe that fashion means producing clothing that stands the test of time, both in terms of style and durability. Every piece of clothing we create is evidence of our commitment to quality and ensures it becomes a lasting addition to the wardrobe. We understand that our reason to exist is not just to create stylish garments, but to support environmental change. Every thread we weave, every design we create, and every decision we make is a testament to our dedication to a brighter future. Durable Journey invites you to join the journey - for together, we can make a difference one step at a time. Our vision is clear: “We create a world where fashion is synonymous with responsibility towards nature, the welfare of both people and animals and where craftsmanship prevails. Together, we believe our actions today pave the way for a better tomorrow so we can create a brighter future for generations to come”.

EnergyMate is a digital platform (app) that supports cancer survivors with cognitive late-effects get their energy and life back through evidence based neurorehabilitation methods and a supportive community. 400.000 people in Denmark alone lives with or after cancer - and >50% of survivors struggle with cognitive late effects and many lose their job or have to work on reduced time and never retur to a normal life after cancer. We want to change that.

We're building the future of tennis - one Smart Tennis Court at a time Zenniz makes tennis courts intelligent. Our system delivers electronic line calling, real-time match analysis, video tools, and gamified drills by turning sensor data and video into insights that help players, coaches, and clubs perform at their best. We are used on courts around the world, and we are growing fast. This year, we are expanding our customer support operation from Finland into North America and beyond. This hire is where that starts.

Hive Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is a premium BJJ gym in Copenhagen built on two things: world-class instruction and a community that takes the sport seriously without taking itself too seriously. We train kids, adults, and a fast-growing group of women who are finding their footing — and confidence — on the mat. Our members come from all over the world, which means Hive is as international as the city it sits in. We've grown through reputation and word-of-mouth, and we're now building the brand infrastructure to match the quality of what happens inside the gym. If you're looking to work on something with a real identity, a real community, and real room to make your mark — this is it.