✨AINO - A conversational AI tool for victims of domestic violence✨ To support our mission towards equality, We Encourage builds a conversational Artificial Intelligence tool AINO for providing psycho-social support and guidance to women victims of intimate partner violence, gender-based violence, and promoting sexual and reproductive health. Violence against women – particularly intimate partner violence and sexual violence – is a major public health problem and a violation of women’s human rights. Global estimates published by WHO indicate that about 1 in 3 (35%) of women worldwide have experienced either physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence in their lifetime. The AI tool is expected to act as a reliable source of information for women on their rights and where to seek different levels of support. The tool will be providing step by step recommendations to victims and act as a helping friend. This intervention is expected to address a chronic development issue and to have a cross-cutting impact on SDG 3 (ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages) and SDG 5 ( Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls). Furthermore, the AI tool could also help in building a network for anonymous peer to peer support networks among users who are experiencing similar incidents. The tool is build in collaboration with violence survivors, professionals, and collaborating NGOs. ✨We Encourage CSR - YOUR PARTNER IN BUILDING THE BEST SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAM ✨ Half of a company’s reputation is based on the public’s feelings about what the company is doing to support the community. Therefore, having a well-established CSR program is essential for businesses that want to improve their branding to stakeholders and customers. We Encourage is here to help you build the best CSR program.

Rektra is a digital headhunter matching employers and talents with the candidate’s future vision in mind. What Recruitment today is - Costly, and without any guarantee of success - Inefficient, where cold calls consumes more time than the candidates that actually matters - Prejudiced, leading to poor fits and unhappy employees How Rektra provides an automated sourcing tool matching employers and candidates using AI, enabling efficient and unprejudiced recruitments. In contrast to the traditional CV, Rektra is forward-looking focusing on the candidate’s preferences for their next position, allowing for quality matches and sustainable employments. Why Rektra was founded to create a new, innovative way of recruiting; sourcing talents where skills and ambitions matter and name, gender and age don’t. Our vision is a fair job market though technology. Rektra has received external funding to kick-start the business.

Vi jobber med en boks for hjemlevering av dagligvarer og postpakker. Målet er å møte privatmarkedet med en boks som kan motta forskjellige varetyper.  Dette medfører mer fleksibilitet for både mottager og transportør.

From the center in the Norwegian maritime cluster, Seastate 7 has the advantage of being close to our customers, collaborating partners and day-to-day users in our quest to innovate the ultimate system solution to relevant difficulties in the industry. The ocean made us who we are, and we make systems to handle it. We know the ocean, and we use our knowledge to protect it. Seastate 7 creates values for our customers in form of increased safety, sustainability and savings in operation. Smart Aqua We work with the industry, for the industry towards the future. Seastate 7 has made a new solution for the aqua industry to cope with many of the issues that they are facing at present time. We are harvesting the ideas and solutions that is already in use, making new products and improving and implementing them in a new way and a total package that is leaning towards the future. Let's call it Aqua 4.0. For the years to come!

ORIVO is a laboratory company located in Norway, with partnering labs strategically located around the world. Through a lab test based on a fingerprinting technology, we offer a verification service to the marine ingredients industry. Our service is mainly aimed at the ingredient producers and brand owners, and we deliver a unique verification of the authenticity of a marine ingredient, either in the form of a certificate or as a verification seal on finished products. The ORIVO seal on a product is a guarantee that the product is: 1. Made of real marine sources (such as salmon oil, salmon meal, anchovy oil, cod liver oil, krill oil) 2. From a specific region (such as Norway, Alaska, Peru, Iceland, New Zealand etc.) A very important part of our concept is to make sure that we test the same product as you buy. The ORIO seal is therefore based on testing of products which our third party inspectors are buying in the shop - in addition to continuous sampling from the brand owner´s production.

We are inspired by streetwear and traditional handicraft, and that is what make Fogg Gildeskål’s beanies and scarves for men unique.Thanks to the clean design the accessories fit to any occasion and they quickly become long-lasting favourite items in your wardrobe.Our philosophy is seen through our choice of natural textiles, particularly wool, local production and high quality at all levels.Bring a beanie, a scarf and join us on the road less travelled!You can visit our web shop at fogg.no or our physical shop located in Gildeskål, along the costal route in Northern Norway, between Saltstraumen and Svartisen.Fogg Gildeskål shopMevikveien 48145 NorwayCoordinates: 66.948014, 13.723522Open Tuesday - Sunday 12 - 16Monday closed Contact us to make an appointment outside normal opening hours.Warm welcome!

AscendXYZ is a successful software company with extensive aviation industry knowledge developing disruptive solutions for the aviation industry. Our solutions are built on top of data from satellites, aircraft (LiDAR), radar systems, and manually collected data. We take complex data sources and convert it into applicable, accessible, and actionable information used for airport safeguarding. We help airports and airlines avoid expensive and potentially dangerous bird strikes by revolutionising the way these are predicted. In other words – we make the sky safer by helping to prevent bird strikes in aviation. We have developed our existing solutions together with the European Space Agency. Specifically, for wildlife monitoring we have developed a radar solution that records bird activity, makes real-time risk models, and creates activity predictions. For obstacle assessment and management we deliver 3D terrain models processed to identify obstacles posing a danger to flight procedures. We are an international team of experienced and highly-skilled entrepreneurs, developers, engineers, and data science experts working in close collaboration with aviation industry specialists to support safe uninterrupted aircraft operations.

Saifion brings purchasing and import together for Shopify brands that source products from suppliers abroad. Instead of emails, spreadsheets and PDFs spread across several systems, the brand gets one place for the whole process: freight quotes from several forwarders, shipments followed from the supplier to the warehouse and the true cost of every product, including freight, duties and fees.

Fikset bygger fremtidens digitale infrastruktur for håndværkerbranchen. I dag er håndværkerbranchen splittet mellem telefoner, SMS'er, Facebook, lead-portaler, regneark, kalenderapps, økonomisystemer og forskellige CRM-systemer. På Fikset kan kunden finde en håndværker, beskrive en opgave, uploade billeder, få AI-hjælp til at forstå opgaven og få et realistisk prisniveau. Håndværkeren kan modtage relevante opgaver, sende tilbud, chatte med kunden og håndtere arbejdet gennem Fikset Pro. Samtidig bliver Fikset Pro stedet, hvor håndværkeren driver sin virksomhed. Leads, kunder, opgaver, kalender, tilbud, timer, materialer, fakturering, kvalitetssikring og kommunikation samles i ét system, med AI bygget ind i arbejdsgangene. Og når håndværkeren bruger Fikset til at håndtere en opgave, kommer kunden ind på platformen Jo flere håndværkere der bruger Fikset, jo flere kunder kommer ind. Jo flere kunder der er på platformen, jo flere opgaver opstår. Jo flere opgaver der er, jo mere attraktiv bliver platformen for håndværkere. Vi vil bygge det sted, hvor håndværkere og kunder mødes, hvor arbejdet bliver solgt, og hvor arbejdet bliver drevet fra start til slut. Hvis vi lykkes, bliver Fikset platformen, som en hel branche arbejder igennem.

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 :)

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.

Acodyne is building the world’s fastest unmanned eVTOL cargo aircraft for heavy payloads. Designed for missions where time, access, and risk define the outcome, whether it’s offshore logistics or frontline resupply. With a proprietary ducted-fan system and fixed-wing efficiency, the E200 model carries 200 kg at 450 km/h, delivering critical supplies up to 10× faster than land and at a fraction of helicopter cost. We are currently 10 people, based at our workshop at Avedøre Airfield, and plan to double our team in the next year.

The healthcare industry is rapidly evolving to meet the growing demand for accessible, affordable, and efficient medical care. Medical devices have become an essential part of modern healthcare by enabling early disease detection, accurate diagnosis, continuous patient monitoring, and timely clinical decision-making. As global populations grow, chronic diseases increase, and healthcare systems face mounting pressure from shortages of medical professionals, innovative medical technologies are becoming critical to delivering quality care. Medical technology startups are playing a key role in this transformation by developing next-generation solutions that combine advanced software, portable hardware, and digital health technologies. Our company is a Copenhagen-based startup focused on developing innovative Point-of-Care (POC) diagnostic technologies. Our mission is to create intelligent, portable, and user-friendly medical devices that enable faster diagnosis and support decentralized healthcare delivery. The company has already developed a medical device that is classified as Software as a Medical Device (SaMD), registered in EUDAMED and with Danish Medical Agency, demonstrating our expertise in creating clinically relevant software solutions that comply with modern medical device regulations. Building on this foundation, we are now developing our own portable processing device designed specifically for PoC applications. The device integrates powerful processing capabilities with advanced medical software to perform diagnostic analysis directly at the point of care, reducing dependence on centralized laboratory infrastructure. A key strength of our technology is its modular platform architecture. Rather than developing standalone devices for individual applications, we are building a scalable processing platform that supports multiple diagnostic modules. Our first product will introduce the core portable device with its initial diagnostic capability. Future medical applications and diagnostic modules can then be added through hardware and software upgrades, allowing healthcare providers to expand functionality without replacing the entire system. This approach reduces costs, extends product life, and provides a flexible solution that evolves with clinical needs. The demand for PoC diagnostics continues to grow as healthcare systems worldwide face significant shortages of physicians, nurses, and laboratory personnel. Delays in diagnostic testing can increase patient waiting times, prolong treatment decisions, and place additional pressure on hospitals and laboratories. PoC devices address these challenges by enabling rapid testing and analysis close to the patient, whether in hospitals, clinics, emergency settings, pharmacies, home healthcare, or remote locations. Faster diagnosis leads to earlier treatment, improved workflow efficiency, and better patient outcomes while reducing the burden on centralized healthcare facilities. Our portable processing platform supports this shift toward decentralized healthcare by providing reliable, easy-to-use diagnostic technology that delivers rapid clinical information wherever it is needed. The modular design ensures long-term adaptability, enabling future diagnostic capabilities to be integrated into the same platform as healthcare requirements continue to evolve. As a medical device startup operating from Copenhagen, we are committed to advancing digital health through innovation, engineering excellence, and regulatory compliance. Our long-term vision is to establish a comprehensive modular PoC platform that supports multiple medical applications and contributes to a more accessible, efficient, and patient-centered system.

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.

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.