We’re a corporate innovation and venture development firm. We create, accelerate, and scale new business with the world’s leading corporations and entrepreneurs. Our multidisciplinary team consists of some of the most experienced venture builders, strategists, engineers, designers, data scientists and growth experts around. A company’s DNA is only set once. At Rainmaking we started out as entrepreneurs. People who came together to use their experiences to build impactful businesses. Whilst our activities have evolved, the entrepreneurial spirit is hardwired into our culture. We still approach every business, as if it were our own. Today, we solve challenges across the landscape of innovation. We work with companies and organizations of all shapes and sizes, from early-stage startups to Fortune 500 corporates. Our multidisciplinary team gathers venture builders, engineers, designers, data scientists, and growth experts. Over the last 12 years, we have expanded our global reach. There are now 10 Rainmaking Innovation Studios around the world, in addition to Startupbootcamp, our accelerator program, and Talent Garden Rainmaking, our workspaces for startups and innovation teams.

DBtune (www.dbtune.com) is an innovative AI startup based in the vibrant Malmö area, a short train ride away from Copenhagen, Denmark, and Lund and Helsingborg, Sweden. Since our founding in 2020, our dedicated team of engineers and Ph.D. researchers has been on a mission to revolutionize cloud and database systems using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. DBtune's core technology is a fully automated service designed to optimize databases. Our optimizer, based on machine learning, tailors each optimization to the specific customer workload and hardware in use. This approach leads to improved key performance indicators, making the process of database tuning more efficient and scalable across hundreds of instances. By utilizing DBtune, users enhance their databases' performance while significantly reducing cloud costs and environmental impact. We have garnered support from institutional and angel investors in the EU and the US, along with pre-seed funding from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (KAW). With a growing customer base, DBtune is poised to expand its influence even further, scaling our operations to bring AI-driven database optimization to a broader audience.

StepOut is a Helsinki based start-up developing an all-in-one SAAS tool empowering independent trainers in fitness, recreation and wellness to streamline their business processes. Any trainer regardless of their background, technical capabilities and type of activity can pursue or build their business from scratch with our tool. With the increase in demand for virtual fitness and wellness an increasing number of individuals are taking up their passion for fitness, wellness and recreation professionally. Our tool will enable the trainers to utilize minimum time & effort while maximizing profit by focusing on their customers. We support diversity and inclusion by offering our tool to the skilled and talented trainers coming from various backgrounds to offer their services. Earn as per your own convenience while encouraging people of all ages to lead a fit and healthy lifestyle. We are on a mission to bring the global community of doers together & lead the change to grow and break the boundaries. Our values : - Empowering independent trainers - Create convenient earning opportunities - Initiate collaborations amongst various fitness & recreation based entities - Promote a healthy and happy living world “on-the-go” - Encourage fitness & well-being for all age groups

We’re Reinventing Hiring for the World’s 2.7 Billion Frontline Workers About Kiku Kiku is the first automation platform built for the 80 % of the global workforce – front-of-house staff, retail associates, caregivers, drivers, warehouse teams - workers that make society function. We focus on 2 things at Kiku: - 10x efficiency in hiring - 10x the experience for candidates. Our AI-agent is specialized in high-volume hiring flows - finding, engaging, and shortlisting candidates 24/7 in 100 + languages, at a fraction of manual recruiting cost and with a far better experience for applicants and hiring managers. We’ve just closed a €4M seed round led by Cherry Ventures (plus top EU angels) and are assembling the founding team that will turn Kiku from clever prototype into a category-defining product.

Dory is the result of wanting to make a better door sign for both private and professional use. A sign that can compliment any surroundings, that can change and grow with you, and may be the first sign you buy and the last you’ll ever need. Dory is based on e-paper technology, app control and swappable frames in different materials and designs. The company is situated in Startuplab in Oslo Science Park.

Northstake is the leading staking partner of choice in the Nordics. Our staking solutions for selected Proof-of-Stake blockchain networks reflect our customer-centric and transparent approach and feature premium functionalities. Northstake has been regulatory compliant and inspection-ready since inception and we embrace the forthcoming wave of regulation as we believe it will allow blockchain technology to become mainstream and ubiquitous. What is staking? Staking is a way to put your crypto to work and earn rewards. Staking is the process of actively participating in transaction validation on a proof-of-stake (PoS) blockchain such as the Concordium blockchain. Anyone with a minimum-required balance of a specific cryptocurrency can validate transactions and earn staking rewards. About northstake Northstake A/S is the Nordic leading staking partner for proof-of-stake blockchains and was founded as a L2 staking solution on the Concordium blockchain. Northstake now has more than 200M CCD pledged under management and has built an industry leading staking solution to serve Concordium investors. Northstake was founded by ex-Deloitte and ex-Accenture technologists and blockchain leaders and the team encompasses leading staking and blockchain experts, cryptographer, and cloud engineering and infrastructure developers. Northstake A/S is based in Copenhagen, Denmark with +10 people employed.

Ultimate.ai is Europe's leading customer service automation platform. We help businesses like Zalando, Telia and Finnair scale their customer service with artificial intelligence.Ultimate.ai helps agents work faster and smarter, not harder, by providing them AI tools that augment their workflows. For our enterprise clients, we significantly enhance customer experience at lower costs. For the agents, we improve job satisfaction and provide freedom to focus on what really matters: the customer.

Located at Oslo Science Park and in Solheimsviken, Bergen - StartupLab is Norway's leading incubator for early stage tech startups. We have worked with more than 450 tech startups since 2012. We are currently working with 110 members in our incubators. StartupLab alumni include reMarkable, No Isolation, Huddly, Kahoot & Zwipe. StartupLab partners with some of Norway’s largest companies, universities and research institutions. We come from diverse backgrounds, but we share a common passion: empowering ambitious entrepreneurs.

Sellpy is the leading service and e-commerce site for second hand goods in Sweden and we are making it as easy as possible for you to give your old items a second life and make room for new favourites. We have given a new home to more than 5 million items since we started in 2014. We are young, passionate group of around 40 people working in our office in Stockholm and another 330 in our production facilities.

Great innovation, simplified. Ideanote’s AI-powered innovation platform lets you collect, develop and act on valuable ideas, faster. Ideanote is the all-in-one innovation platform for businesses of all sizes. Engage employees or customers in goal-driven idea collections on cost-savings, new products, better services or the next big thing.

Rokoko is a tech startup with offices in the heart of Copenhagen, San Francisco and Athens. We are a happy mixed bunch of creatives, tech nerds, world-class software and hardware engineers, 3D artists, business people, one philosopher, one idealist, thousands of sensors, and a co-founder who only wants to sit on orange chairs. Our vision is to crush the barriers of animation and interactive storytelling. We imagine a world where Rokoko enables anyone and everyone to breathe life to their creative ideas, where imagination is unshackled from technical complexities and the steep learning curves of animation. We're building creative tools for the storytellers of tomorrow.

COLLECT. OWN. BELONG. own a share of your favorite song - earn royalties alongside your favorite artist. Stockholm based music tech platform anotherblock was launched in August 2022 with the aim of empowering the emotional and financial connection between creators and consumers. Founded by Michel D. Traore, Filip Strömsten & Sebastian Ljungberg, anotherblock provides a seamless and user-friendly platform for buying and selling music rights. Collectors on anotherblock own future streaming royalties of high-end tracks and earn royalties whenever those tracks are streamed.

KROM Kendama was born to fulfill the vision of producing the highest quality of kendamas in the world while keeping it funky and relatable, striving to make kendama the biggest secondary sport in the world. Since the beginning of the company, we’ve worked on spreading kendama on a global scale. The rise and growth of the kendama community has allowed KROM to spread, and the team to travel the entire world. In 2010 KROM was founded by 2014 freestyle kendama world champion Thorkild May in hopes of igniting the kendama love wherever possible. Since then we’ve worked hard to develop the kendama culture worldwide from the KROM HQ & Shop in Copenhagen. From the KROM Shop, we host a weekly kendama club and work to support similar initiatives like kendama clubs in Colorado and Latvia. We also sponsor a large number of events every year with prizes and pro players and host events ourselves, like the 2019 European Kendama Championships. As kendama was developing across the world, KROM naturally grew with it and the ideas of creating our own kendamas and becoming more involved in the community couldn’t be kept down. In the latter half of 2012 KROM Kendama went from mainly being a crew of homies playing and distributing kendamas to starting the learning process of creating the best possible kendamas out there. Leading up DAMAFEST 2013, the North American kendama championships, KROM started to pick up steam with the recognition of the clean dama designs and crazy tricks. Thorkild May and teammate Mathias Rasmussen ended up winning the American Freestyle Championships, laying down what has become a staple of the KROM image: the signature Danish flow and the recognizably funky kendamas. Since then KROM has developed and grown even further, we’re constantly striving to represent the kendama community in the best way possible, and of course to provide the best possible products to all the supporters in across the globe. With every new kendama, we’re determined to improve both the playability and the design. For these purposes and more, we’ve gathered the most winning team in the world, composed of internationally acclaimed players with several World and European championship titles, as well as a lot of homies to help us reach our goals. We’re grateful to be able to take kendama to new heights through our work and we look forward to seeing where kendama takes us next. We’ll keep working to bring the joy of kendama to new people every single day. Kendama is unique in its ability to improve your cognitive functions and your hand-eye coordination while connecting people everywhere, even across language barriers, making us able to communicate all over the world. Kendama provides something real and tangible in a time where things are becoming more abstract than ever before. We love the toy that lets us step away from an increasingly digital world, allowing us to refresh and reconnect with the people around us. We hope that you can feel our passion and affection through the products we create. All the best, The KROM fam

make!mpact is a Nordic Impact Fintech startup with a focus on sustainability and impact investing. Our goal is to generate a positive societal impact by changing people’s financial behaviour.  make!mpact in a nutshell: We are not here to tell you how to live sustainable – nor are we here to tell you what is right or wrong when it comes to investing your money. We know that there are many ways in which you can make the world a better place, but we also know that one of the most effective ways to – collectively – make a difference, is by investing in companies that are helping to generate a positive societal impact. You might already now be thinking that investing is for someone with years of experience and deep industry knowledge – and of course, a lot of money to invest. While this may be true for many of the impact investors out there, it definitely shouldn’t stop you from getting started on your own impact investing journey – no matter your income or knowledge about investing and/or sustainability. Our m!club app matches the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to global listed companies that share the same values as you. Our goal is to enable you to make informed decisions about investments that align with your values represented in the 17 SDGs and thereby get you started investing with a sustainable mindset. The Team: We are currently a team consisting of +30 passionate, innovative and purpose-driven people with +15 nationalities. We are a large group of highly qualified young people (students and newly graduates) with various competencies within Business Development, Data Science, UX & Service Design, Web Development, Graphic Design, Video Editing, Marketing, Communication, and Finance. See organizational diagram here on: https://theorg.com/org/makeimpact/org-chart Varan Pathmanathan (CEO & Founder) has more than 10 years of experience within the financial sector, where his focus mainly has been on IT, Strategy, Business Development, Sales, Marketing and Fintech. Combining our different educational backgrounds, our unique insights into various industries as well as our strong belief in the core idea of make!mpact, we can take make!mpact from the drawing board and bring it to life – ready to empower YOU to invest in tomorrow’s world. Be the movement make!mpact 🌍

KAHU aims to close a persistent gap in maritime visibility - the inability to continuously track vessels not transmitting AIS (Automatic Identification System) data. AIS can be switched off, spoofed, or absent, creating blind spots exploited by illegal fishing, shadow fleets, and other high-risk actors. The AIS market is also dominated by a few providers, limiting access and transparency. This affects not only maritime safety and security but also the monitoring of ocean environments. We address this by building the first real-time, crowdsourced radar detection network for the ocean. Our onboard software connects to existing vessel radar, collects radar echoes, and streams them securely to the cloud using low-bandwidth protocols. There, echoes are linked into vessel tracks and fused with AIS, satellite imagery, and other data layers to produce a continuous, sea-level view of vessel movements, enabling comprehensive visibility over human activity at sea and supporting timely, informed action.