Global Startup Awards (GSA) was born out of the Danish startup ecosystem through the Nordic Startup Awards in 2012. What began as a regional initiative has grown into the world’s largest independent startup competition platform, now covering 154 countries across 19 regions. Through its competition framework and flagship events, GSA connects startups, investors, corporates, governments, and ecosystem enablers to showcase and accelerate innovation on both regional and global levels. GSA has offices in Copenhagen and Budapest and works closely with governments, investors, and business partners worldwide. Its model operates through a licensee-and-partnership structure, in which external organisations under the GSA framework lead several regional programs. Beyond competitions, GSA has evolved into a global innovation platform spanning multiple pillars — from events and content to data, insights, and venture partnerships — that drives collaboration between the public and private sectors to strengthen innovation ecosystems around the world.

Dixa is a global customer service tech company on a mission to create friendships between brands and their customers, break down technology silos and eliminate bad customer service.Dixa is a truly international company with 14+ nationalities working together in the heart of Copenhagen and with offices in London, Berlin and Kiev. With customers in 20+ countries, Dixa has experienced incredible growth since it’s launch in 2018, quickly becoming one of Scandinavia’s fastest growing SaaS companies.

Welcome to spektr! We’re an international team based in Copenhagen with years of experience in fintech. We’ve been in the compliance game long enough to know that one-size-fits-all solutions just don’t cut it. That’s why we’ve created a platform that’s all about flexibility. At spektr, our focus is on making compliance easier and more efficient. Our no-code tools let users customize their processes, whether it’s client onboarding, renewals, or ongoing monitoring. And we make sure everything fits together easily, integrating smoothly with existing systems and external data sources. If you’re looking to join a dynamic team that values creativity, collaboration, and a bit of fun while driving innovation in the compliance space, spektr is the place to be!

Veri is an early-stage Helsinki-based health tech startup on a mission to help people feel go(o)d through better metabolic health. The majority of modern humans are metabolically ill because we don't currently have an effortless, and objective way of improving and getting lighting fast feedback about diet. We're building just that. A solution that provides modern humans access to their metabolic health data through continuous glucose monitors combined with magical software providing actionable insights related to nutrition and performance. Our journey started in a hacker house in the Bay Area where three frustrated, driven-to-build-things-kind-of-minds, got together to build a product that wasn't available to us and our closest community. We are currently a 10 people team from 7 different nationalities with experience working with world-leading companies and organizations. Find more about our team and our values here: https://www.notion.so/humanengineeeringhq/Work-at-Veri-d922ea569f734c14b1450c563656debb

Moxso is an easy to implement, adaptable phishing simulation and training platform. By collaborating with security experts we've built the next-gen phishing tool. No code. No clunkiness. Our security drills and phishing simulations help employees recognize, avoid, and report potential threats that can compromise critical business data and systems, including phishing, malware, ransomware, and spyware.

IGDB stands for Internet Game Database and consists of 2 primary parts, an online platform consisting of a website and 3 mobile apps that provide game consumers with structured and up to date information about games and the gaming world. The second part is our API that provides everything from small hobby projects all the way up to some of the largest companies in the gaming industry with the data they need to realize their projects and ambitions.

Testbirds specialises in the testing of software such as apps, websites and Internet of Things applications by using innovative technologies and methods. Crowdtesting uses the help of a global online community that test software under real conditions. In addition, we offer numerous cloud based services for the optimisation of digital products. The combination of these diverse software testing solutions creates a unique portfolio that aims to take the quality of software to the next level. CompanyTestbirds was founded in 2011 by Philipp Benkler, Georg Hansbauer and Markus Steinhauser. Today, the company has 100 employees with offices in Munich (headquarters), Amsterdam, London and Stockholm, franchises in Hungary and Slovakia. The crowd itself has also rapidly grown over the past years with more than 300,000 registered testers located all around the globe.Working at Testbirds As we are a company focused on growth and innovation, we are always looking for new birds who would like to work with us to achieve our goal of taking the quality of software to the next level.Although we are steadily growing and developing, we hold on to our start-up flair. A part of that is reflected in our working environment, which promotes productivity through satisfaction. It’s important for us to let our employees create a working environment that makes them feel good as well as fosters productivity and creativity. We support that through flexible working hours, training possibilities and team activities amongst much more. At Testbirds everyone is responsible for his/her own work and can implement own ideas due to our flat hierarchy. Open and honest communication is highly important to us: we share an open culture, uncomplicated togetherness and joy of shared success.

Traede is a ERP solution to help you run your fashion & lifestyle brand We have everything you need to run and grow the business side of your brand in a single platform: B2B sales, B2C sales, inventory, purchasing, fulfilment CRM, reporting, and much more. This will make your day-to-day business activities simpler and less time consuming.

Fishbrain is a global social network and mobile app for Sport Fishing. And it’s true - Fishbrain can help you catch more and bigger fish. Through a combination of our Catch Map and Fishing Forecast, you can bring your fishing up another notch. Or two, even. But here’s what keeps people coming back to Fishbrain: It’s an angling community. And that gets at our mission. With 200 million people sport fishing around the world, we’re connecting anglers to make fishing dreams come true, today and tomorrow. Some of us are anglers. Some of us are parents. All of us are human. And we're also passionate about the outdoors and conservation. Together, we work to bring you the best app for fishing, hands down. There's a lot of thought and effort and fun that goes into that. Some of us work from Stockholm, Sweden. Some of us work from boats, casting lines and going to fishing tournaments. The office people and the boat people make sure to talk a lot. That's how we keep it real. We believe that it's more fun to brag about a catch with people who care about fishing. These people are often called anglers. You may think that's obvious, being an angler yourself. But on Fishbrain, your catch doesn't go head-to-head with cats doing backflips, or toddlers feeding chocolate cake to their baby sisters. For us, respecting the environment is about balance. We believe in catch & release and the sustainable harvest of fish species. Because when it comes to the outdoors, tomorrow matters too. Don't get us wrong - we're all for hard work, pre-dawn wakeups to get to a fishing spot, and getting our hands dirty. But if there's a smarter way to fish, we're on it. It means we do the hard work of crunching catch numbers so you don't have to. It means all you have to do is fish.  Our office is in Stockholm, Sweden. The office has windows, multiple coffee machines, and a team of amazing people working inside it. It's also cubicle-free. If you're one of the lucky Chosen Ones who gets to fish for us, your office might be an inshore boat in Tampa Bay, Florida. Or a kayak somewhere in South Carolina. Just sayin'. We're looking for talent to join our small team.

ABOUT Insurance is one of the biggest recurring household costs - yet the market is built on complexity: dense policies, hard comparisons, and increasingly individualised pricing with little transparency. The result is predictable: people overpay for years, miss critical coverage, or both - and often only find out when it's too late. We're building the consumer layer for private insurance, making it behave like a modern product. Upload your policies and, in under a minute, our AI turns fine print into clear answers: where you're over- or underinsured, where the gaps are, and where you're likely paying too much. We benchmark each policy against an anonymised pool of real policies to recommend better-matched alternatives - shifting knowledge and pricing power back to households. We're early-stage, moving fast, and already proving the need: 50+ customer interviews, 10 households switched, ~28% average savings while improving coverage - plus validation from senior industry professionals, a top-performing insurance salesperson on the team, and initial pre-seed backing from a Bain & Company partner.

​Trailr.ai is redefining film and TV marketing through AI-powered storytelling. Our platform enables marketing teams to efficiently analyze, curate, and optimize trailer content using generative AI. We collaborate with industry players to create emotionally compelling promotional materials, leveraging AI to enhance creativity—not replace it.

Electricity Maps provides actionable electricity data for more than 200 regions. We help businesses more effectively reduce their emissions, and enable products and services to differentiate their offerings by empowering end-users to be more carbon-aware. As wind and solar production fluctuate throughout the day, this information needs to be dynamic and updated in real-time. As this real-time information about the physical origin of electricity will be scrutinized and challenged by many parties, the effort has to be collaborative, open, and transparent. This is what motivated the creation of Electricity Maps. It started as a simple real-time data visualization in June 2016 and turned into a comprehensive data platform with high scientific integrity. More than 40,000 people use our app on a daily basis and market leaders like Google and Microsoft, are using our API for extensive projects in order to reach their climate goals and help their users take action against climate change. Our goal: a truly decarbonized electricity system. To get there, we will organize the world's electricity information, and use it to drive the transition toward a truly decarbonized electricity system.

Platform6 as the epicenter of the Tampere startup ecosystem: one stop for all things startup. Located in the heart of Tampere in the Tulli business area, Platform6 Startup House opened its doors in October 2020 and is already home to more than 70 early-stage startups and more than 10 organizations working closely to support all stages from ideation to international expansion. How we help startups Startups need a lot more than just an office and fast internet. They need a home offering everything the teams need in order to quickly scale and grow their business. The right environment to support all stages from ideation to international expansion. Facilitate access to investment/funding, mentors, strategic partners, top talent and potential customers. We are a Community, not just a space A strong and like-minded community of entrepreneurs, investors, incubation & acceleration programs, advisors, and partners connecting startups with critical resources to create, launch and accelerate high-growth businesses at a global scale in a safe, resilient friendly environment. Behind Operations Platform6 is operated by Tampere Startup Hub Oy. We are a non-profit organization of serial entrepreneurs, startups and local community builders hosting the Tampere startup ecosystem under the same roof, by the community for the community. Join us in empowering the community and accelerate disruption in Tampere.Finland!

We're bringing shared electric scooters to the streets of Europe. Jump on a scooter anytime and ride wherever in the city - all free from emissions. We are creating a system of electrically powered scooters around urban centers to provide an affordable, sustainable, and exhilarating way to commute while helping people to reduce their carbon footprint and cities to have a more sustainable transportation network. Founded in August 2018, Voi is a Scandinavian micro mobility company offering electric scooter and bike sharing in partnership with cities and local communities. We believe e-scooters can change how people move in our cities. And we want the transformation to happen in the right way—through innovation, open and transparent dialogue with cities and governments

Unacast transform Human mobility data into Actionable insights. At Unacast, we define Human Mobility as the understanding of how people interact with places over time. Understanding human interaction and movement patterns empowers companies to build better products and make smarter decisions real time. We have built The Real World Graph® to radically improve accuracy in industries ranging from advertising and analytics to bots and AI. This is similar to what Facebook did with the Social Graph, and how Google has indexed the web. Unacast is indexing the physical world.