Our mission is to create a contraceptive technology that renders hormonal birth control obsolete. We are addressing the millions of women that are demanding non-hormonal products with fewer side-effects to manage their fertility. Today, nearly 60 years after the first oral contraceptive pill was sold, most prescription birth control methods are variations on the same synthetic hormones. In collaboration with the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, we have developed a technology that reinforces the natural barrier properties of cervical mucus. The principle of the technology is to use topically-applied biopolymers to make cervical mucus impenetrable to sperm cells throughout the menstrual cycle. Our approach enables a potentially groundbreaking product that protects within a minute and for extended periods without the systemic side-effects known from hormonal contraceptives. In 2019 we raised $1.8M for pre-clinical development. Today we are incubated at the BioInnovation Institute, conveniently located in central Copenhagen, with access to state-of-the-art labs.

We're on a mission to help financial professionals (actually) use AI. We have built a Virtual Controller that helps bookeepers, accountants and controllers with ensuring they produce a high quality output for their end customers. We are a VC backed startup and more importantly have (paying!) customers. We are on a crazy ride and looking for people that want to be a part of building at the forefront of AI with us. Reach out to hear more :)

Baum Guitars is a Danish brand manufacturing high-quality instruments in Aarhus, Denmark. The Baum team design and craft a variety of guitars and basses rooted in the Danish design and modern instrument crafts. The Original Series and VEGA Series complement the Danish-made guitars by offering more accessible and approachable Baum instruments designed in the Danish custom shop and crafted in Asia. All our instruments are rooted in our love for the classics combined with our Danish approach to production, quality, and design. We care about making instruments you can put through its paces tour after tour. We believe every guitar should be inspiring and remarkable, so you can create something noteworthy. Danish design combines simplicity, functionality, and elegance into one instrument. Our instruments present sleek lines and sophisticated curves. The smooth, organic lines invite players to pick them up and plug them in to create music. Proprietary designs play a big role in why Baum guitars look, feel, and sound different. We design our hardware and pickups to streamline the Baum experience. Goldsound® pickups, Baum Precision Tuners™, TrueTone Tremolo™, and the Levitator™ roller-bridge are all fine-tuned to improve the instrument’s quality feel, sleek look, and dynamic sound. We're musicians. Just like you. We just happen to make guitars for a living. Baum started the same way most bands do. In a basement. A need to create something of your own — not a copy of something else, but something that carries your name and your decisions. That's how Morten started building guitars. One at a time, after work, in Aarhus. You do it through sound and notes. We do it through wood and design. That basement is now a small team. The guitars are now on stages around the world. And that's where we meet you.

Aino is an e-commerce design and technology agency in Gothenburg, Sweden. We build headless storefronts for fashion and lifestyle brands, most of them on Centra or Shopify with Storyblok as the content layer. Editors get visual editing and live preview, and engineers get a content model that survives redesigns. We have shipped Storyblok builds for Samsøe Samsøe, Icebug, Beyond Medals and Forsman & Bodenfors, and we have been a Centra Pro Partner since 2015. Design and engineering sit in one team, from first sketch to the years after launch.

Kalevon is an AI-powered Visual Intelligence SaaS platform for industrial and enterprise organizations. It connects to existing cameras and uses computer vision and machine learning to transform raw video into real-time alerts and actionable operational insights. Customers can start with specific AI use cases and scale across sites and operations through a flexible SaaS model, without replacing their existing camera infrastructure.

Yesper is the AI civil engineer for construction and infrastructure. Construction and infrastructure teams lose enormous time to manual, document-heavy work — reading tenders, taking off quantities, checking deliverables against the rules. Yesper's AI agents read a project's documents, drawings and models, reason against the Swedish standards, regulations and contracts a project runs on (AMA, AB 04, PBL, Miljöbalken and more), and deliver whole pieces of engineering work: tender review, quantity takeoff from BIM/IFC and drawings, and compliance checks — each with page-level source citations. It integrates live Swedish authority data (Trafikverket, SGU, SMHI, Lantmäteriet), computes in code so the numbers hold, and stores data in the EU.

STO Digital Finland is a Vantaa-based digital solutions unit under Saana Tuotanto Oy. We help businesses improve their digital presence, customer communication, and operational efficiency through practical technology solutions. We provide websites, booking systems, e-commerce platforms, CRM setup, digital marketing support, website maintenance, custom software development, AI automation, and industry-specific digital solutions. Many businesses need digital tools to get more enquiries, manage customers, reduce manual work, and stay competitive, but they may not always have an internal IT team or the budget for large consultancy services. STO Digital aims to solve this by offering flexible, cost-effective, and scalable digital support with a Finland-based business presence and an experienced international technology delivery team. Our goal is to become a trusted digital partner for businesses in Finland and Europe by combining local understanding, practical business-focused solutions, and reliable technical execution.

BlueShadow is a dual-use technology startup offering maritime security as a service. With a passionate team on a mission to protect society by safeguarding critical offshore and coastline infrastructure and resources. Using deep intelligence powered by advanced fusion data and sensors, and using machine and intelligence experience to predict potential threats, and deploying an array of autonomous drone solutions to prevent harm before they materialize. Our team does both software and hardware system integration, using our core technologies and the best available hardware solutions from partners across Europe to solve the mission.

Cleenki is building an AI-native marketplace for home cleaning to help busy households in Sweden book trusted, recurring cleaning in seconds, while giving independent cleaners fair pay and the tools to build a stable business. Our secret sauce: by treating cleaners well and letting them work for themselves, we turn motivated cleaners into loyal, long-term customer relationships that traditional agencies cannot match. The cleaning industry is built on a broken chain. Traditional cleaning companies pay low wages and treat cleaners poorly, which kills motivation. Unmotivated, underpaid cleaners churn constantly, which makes it hard for customers to find a reliable local cleaner and build a long-term relationship. The result is a poor customer experience across the entire industry: no-shows, inconsistent quality, and constant turnover on both sides of a market that should be built on trust and recurring stability. This affects almost every busy household in Sweden. With RUT making professional cleaning affordable for a large share of the population, demand is huge, yet the experience for both customers and the people doing the actual work has barely improved in decades. Cleenki is a marketplace that matches households with vetted independent cleaners and turns one-off jobs into recurring relationships. Customers book in minutes, pay securely by card, and keep the same cleaner over time. Our edge is the cleaners themselves. On Cleenki, cleaners work for themselves or run small cleaning businesses, so they genuinely care about their customers and do the little extra every single time. We are deeply focused on cleaner wellbeing, because we know that motivated, fairly treated cleaners are what create happy, loyal customers. We take a cut of each booking, and over time we are building the operating system underneath the marketplace: automated scheduling, payments, subscriptions, and the daily operations a cleaning business needs to run, so any cleaner or small company can eventually run their entire business on Cleenki. We are live and growing steadily, with over 100 paying recurring customers and 10 to 25 one-off bookings per month. The cleaning industry is outdated. Customers demand convenience, cleaners demand fairness, and sustainability matters more than ever. Cleenki delivers all three at exactly the right moment. We start in Stockholm, then expand across Sweden, the Nordics, and beyond. Before Cleenki, I started a traditional cleaning company (Cleanest Sweden AB). That is where I really got to know the industry from the inside. I interviewed and worked with dozens of cleaners, and over and over I heard the same two patterns. The first was unfair treatment: low pay, stressful schedules, and managers who simply did not care about them as people. The second was a dream. Almost every cleaner I spoke to wanted the same thing: to work for themselves, on their own terms. That is what fired the spark. I realized the cleaning industry is broken in a way that hurts everyone at once. Cleaners carry the whole business on their backs but are treated as disposable, and customers suffer the consequences through constant turnover and unreliable service. Cleenki is my way of fixing both sides at the same time: giving cleaners the independence, fair pay, and recurring income they dream of, and giving households cleaners who actually care. This is not just a booking app to me. It is a mission to give an overlooked workforce ownership over their working lives.

1. Short description (the pitch) Memorise is building a powerhouse network of senior digital-marketing specialists that helps growth companies turn marketing spend into measurable pipeline — with a client-set price cap, no lock-in, and full ownership of everything we build. 2. The What (the problem) Most companies overpay for marketing that can't prove its worth. Traditional agencies bill for activity, not outcomes: junior-heavy teams, opaque retainers, and reports that count clicks instead of revenue. Clients rarely own their own accounts or data, which quietly locks them in. It affects nearly every SME and scaleup buying marketing — budget leaks into overhead and "the name on the invoice" rather than work that actually moves the business. 3. The How (the solution) Memorise runs as a powerhouse: an in-house strategy function leads every engagement and activates senior specialists from our network — SEO, Google Ads, web, content and AI search — only when the work demands it. Every action is tied to a business goal and reported as leads and pipeline, not impressions. We work to a price cap the client sets (never more; less if we spend less), with no binding period, and the client owns all accounts, data, code and material from day one. And we go all the way to execution, not just the report. 4. The Why (the motivation) We started Memorise because the agency model is built backwards — clients pay for the office, the brand on the invoice and a PDF, while the right senior person is never free when you need them. We'd watched too many businesses pay premium retainers for junior work, then lose access to their own data the moment they wanted to leave. Memorise is the answer: pay for the work that's actually done, prove the result, and let clients keep everything. Marketing that shows up in the business, not just on the invoice.

WalletPlus er en dansk takeaway-platform, der hjælper restauranter, pizzeriaer og spisesteder med at sælge mad direkte til deres gæster — uden de store portalers kommission på 25-30 %. Vi giver dem online bestilling, betaling og loyalitet i én løsning til én fast, gennemsigtig pris, så de beholder både fortjenesten og deres egne kunder. Som sælger hos os sælger du ikke bare software — du giver små erhvervsdrivende en bedre forretning. Vi er et ambitiøst team med kort fra idé til handling, høj indtjening og reel indflydelse. Vil du være med?

We are 3A FoodTech, part of Sagitta Family Office - one of Denmark’s largest family offices with a long history from engineering. Centrally located offices at Islands Brygge, Copenhagen and a team of 30 - with the resources to build at highest ambition. We are building the next generation of automation and robotics in food tech, and the hardware that supports our AI and software, and integrates with AI-driven decision-making.

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.

Cendo is a leading Danish AI voice company helping businesses in Denmark and Norway automate customer conversations with AI voice agents. We build voice AI for customer support, booking, and lead qualification, enabling companies to handle large call volumes with better availability and efficiency. Cendo was selected for the Innofounder programme by the Danish Innovation Fund.

Funky Matcha is a premium matcha brand on a mission to make ceremonial grade matcha the world's next great daily ritual. We create innovative matcha products sold directly to consumers and businesses across 15+ countries — from Sweden and the UK to Hong Kong and Singapore. We're obsessed with quality, accessibility and bringing the world's finest matcha to more people, in more forms, everywhere.