Spuddle is developing a Duolingo-style app for Excel to help young professionals boost their digital confidence and career readiness by turning complex skills into fun, bite-sized learning. Our secret sauce? Gamification, microlearning, and a community-driven approach that makes Excel something you actually want to practice. Across the world, more than a billion people use Excel and yet most have never been taught how to use it properly. For young professionals and recent graduates, this creates a huge barrier: they’re expected to “just know” Excel, but in reality many feel insecure, waste time on manual tasks, or miss out on opportunities because of weak digital skills. This gap affects productivity, confidence, and employability and it’s widespread across industries, especially in early career roles where Excel is a daily tool. We’re building a mobile app that makes learning Excel engaging and accessible, like Duolingo, but for spreadsheets. Instead of long, boring tutorials, users complete short, gamified exercises that fit into their everyday routines. The app adapts to their level, rewards progress, and helps them practice consistently until Excel becomes second nature. Beyond Excel, our vision is to expand into other workplace tools, becoming the go-to microlearning platform for digital skills. Spuddle started as a side project on social media. We shared quick Excel tips on Instagram and TikTok, and within six months had over 200,000 followers. The overwhelming response showed us just how many young professionals struggle with these skills and how much they crave accessible, fun learning. What began as a hobby quickly grew into a mission: to make digital skills education less intimidating and more empowering. We’re building Spuddle because we’ve lived the problem ourselves, and we believe mastering the basics should feel motivating, not overwhelming.

About Spaak Technologies At Spaak, we are building an AI-native operating system for public affairs professionals. Our platform helps political organisations and big enterprises to navigate and influence the complex and fast-paced world of politics and regulation. Our momentum - Jan, 2024 : Spaak is incorporated - Mar, 2024 : MVP launched in Denmark, first customer onboarded - Apr-Oct, 2024 : Launched 3 core features, onboarded +20 customers and expanded our team all while bootstrapping - Nov, 2024 : Closed our first round of funding in a pre-seed round of €1.5m. Focus for 2025: - Assemble great team of ambitious software developers & political consultants - Launch first market expansion to Brussels - Improve core platform with new, exciting features

We're making innovations for assessing marine biodiversity, essentially building underwater cameras and using AI to count fish. We're in the midst of a biodiversity crisis, the wildlife population has shrunk by 73% in the last 50 years alone, and it is especially bad in marine environments. At Anemo we monitor the effect of man-made structures on the marine environment to help our clients comply, quantify impacts, and continually improve nature-positive outcomes.

The National Academy of Technology is a subsidiary for Simonsson Israelsson Holding & Consulting AB. A Swedish company within the educational market in Sweden. The National Academy of Technology aims to delivery in three fields. 1. Hosting graduate programs 2. Hosting highschool programs 3. Hosting of online programs All this with the motivation to enande a job within the field of IT for everyone.

Wayer is a photo-sharing app for young people in Denmark aged 16-30 to exchange authentic pictures and videos from experiences they've had together in an easy and private way. When users are connected as friends, they get suggested to share memories if they've taken photos at the same time and place. This gives the users the opportunity to relive meaningful experiences from their life, helping them understand that they matter to others and thereby increasing their self-esteem. Backed by Antler: an early-stage VC with investments in more than 600 startups around the globe.

At Arkyn we are on a mission to change complex SAP processes into best-in-class mobile SAP experience for global enterprises. We provide an app suite for maintenance operations utilizing cutting-edge technology and a cloud solution that easily integrates with enterprise software market leader SAP. Arkyn was founded in 2020 to help enterprises get the best from SAP. We introduce user-centric solutions to enable everyone to work faster, easier, and smarter in SAP. We are incubated through Trifork labs and we are a part of the Trifork Group with more than 1200+ employees across Europe. The business model is SaaS and Arkyn is currently delivering user-friendly apps for planning, scheduling and mobile execution of maintenance operations at enterprise-sized companies across Europe. The Arkyn team currently consists of 17 talented and tech-loving people striving to build the most amazing company.

We are a Copenhagen-based venture capital manager investing in early-stage, tech-driven startups, primarily at seed stage in the Nordics and Germany, where we have a solid brand and network. Based on our own experiences, we believe companies reach their highest potential with diverse founding teams of high-quality dreamers and crafters as reflected in portfolio companies such as: ● Organic Basics, a sustainable-first essentials brand selling direct-to-consumer. ● Fuelsave, a German CleanTech company reducing emissions of the world’s largest combustion engines. ● Hiber, an open metaverse platform enabling anyone to create virtual worlds in apps and web browsers. The founders of Dreamcraft are also the founders as well still the dreamer (CEO) and crafter (COO) of what is now a +1bn USD global and listed company. Inspired by their journey, mission and DNA, we are hands-on venture engineers supporting similar teams through engagements that go deeper than just advice, guided by our core values: • Progressive e.g. in the way we build companies. • Proper e.g. in the way we make investment decisions. • Down to earth e.g. in the way we engage founders and others stakeholders. This is our style. We like t-shirts, not suits. We value advice and know there are always ways to improve. That is how we work, who we are and what we value - being casual and approachable.

Iris.ai is on a mission to build the world's first AI researcher, a system that will be an invaluable team member in every research team across academia, industry and NGO's. We are an impact driven for-profit company. Our initial product offering is a suite of tools to semi-automate the academic literature reviews, and these tools are being delivered at University Libraries across the Nordics. Our second product suite is a set of tools for researchers in the chemical industry. Our team is a mishmash of impact driven weirdos with a fundamental desire to do really cool things that will leave the world better than we found it.

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.

Humans are made up of atoms and software of bits. When the two come together in the right constellation, magic happens. This is the central belief on which Atobi is founded. Engaging, human-centered design continues to be our guiding star when helping our customers succeed through simple and aligned execution. We believe in making things simpler while engaging employees at the same time. That is why we have created ONE platform meeting ALL needs when interacting with employees.

At DigitalGuest, we are dedicated to helping hotels deliver exceptional digital guest experiences through our customizable white-label platform. Since launched in 2016, our platform has grown from a simple digital room folder to a comprehensive platform that helps hoteliers optimize operations, boost revenue, and enhance guest satisfaction. With over 400 customers, we are proud to be a market leader in Europe for post-booking guest experience, communication, & upselling. Our passion for technology and the hospitality industry drives us to continuously innovate and improve our platform, making it even more beneficial for hoteliers. Want to join us on this exciting journey? 🤩

At Appfarm, our mission is to enable anyone to build exceptional digital solutions as fast and hassle-free as possible. We have commercialized a unique cloud-based development platform where you create, launch and manage business software 10x faster than previously possible, without using a single line of code. With drag & drop components and one-click deploy in the cloud, creating powerful digital experiences for web, tablet and mobile devices has never been easier. We are a diverse and multidisciplinary team of around 50 employees with a passion for no-code and changing the nature of digital transformation, but we're growing quickly. Our offices are located at Rebel, a center for tech in Oslo, with a great employee restaurant. Working at Appfarm comes with the following four things: 💟 A healthy and happy work environment where everyone is respected, welcomed and included. We encourage knowledge sharing between departments, and have monthly events where we get the possibility to learn from and praise each others work. 🚀 Career development. We do everything we can to ensure the happiness and professional growth of our employees. We are still a small company that is quickly developing, meaning that there is a lot of room for you to shape your own career by taking on responsibilities in areas that you are interested in. 🎉 A lot of social events where we get to do fun things together! We have four major annual events (summer party, christmas table, cabin trip, and trip abroad), but we also do smaller things in between. ↔️ Flexibility. We believe that our employees know best when and in what surroundings they are most productive, and trust that the work get done without micromanaging your schedule. We are also firm believers in putting family before work when needed, and generally avoid scheduling meetings outside our core business hours.

CVideo is a modern recruitment tool where job seekers make their own video-CV. With skilled developers, a curious corporate culture and market-leading technology, we are your best choice to help you and your company with recruitment. We are genuinely interested in recruitment and have done extensive preparatory work to get where we are today. CVideo has been developed in close dialogue with serious players in the market. These companies have high standards and that is precisely why we chose them.

Numina is the AI-first accounting platform for the Nordics. Our vision is to make accounting fully autonomous with our multi-agent system that can handle categorization, reconciliation, VAT, etc. Core accounting is a notoriously difficult market to enter, but we believe the time is now to re-build core accounting from scratch with AI.

Nexro is an early phase startup with the mission of empowering the music industry. We are developing our predictive AI analytics to give the music professionals true insights from music trends. We gather data from streaming platforms, social media, radio stations and music consumption to deliver real-time trends predictions so that labels, publishers, marketing, promotion and other music industry professionals can take their operations to the next level.