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.

Something is wrong with how we meet new people. Meeting new people is supposed to be exciting, spontaneous and fun. Yet, datings apps have turned it into a monotonous routine. All dating apps claim to be different, but they are essentially all a speed dating game played in solo mode with a pool of strangers. It’s a game of swipe, match and “hey, what’s up” chats that rarely lead anywhere. Sometimes you miraculously get past the boring smalltalk, dodge the ghosting and actually meet! But more often than not, the date you “won” feels like a boring coffee interview. We deserve better than that. That’s why we are creating a different experience of meeting new people. What if instead of playing this speed dating game by yourself, you are playing together with your friends. Instead of the coffee date interview, it’s more like going to a spontaneous party with your close friends and bumping into a crush. If we can bring our vision for this social network to life, a spontaneous adventure of meeting new people with your friends will always be just a few clicks away.

The founders of dibz.se struggled with the housing shortage in Sweden. Therefore, they took up the fight to make digital waitlists accessible to the people, starting with Swedish housing waitlists. The vision is to do the same for all markets with an imbalance between supply and demand, worldwide, independent of waitlists. dibz launched the platform dibz.se in July 2021. The platform currently covers all housing waitlists in Sweden, from Kiruna to Ystad. Enabling our customers to maximise their opportunities for a firsthand rental contract by utilising cloud computing, robotic process automation (RPA), UX/UI, and an agile approach. The journey has just begun, and we are now looking to expand the product into more areas that need digital infrastructure improvements. We will erase the information privileges that exists, helping people around the globe to make future proof decision. For example, it isn’t fair that a child’s possibility to play guitar is based on the child’s parents’ knowledge of a hidden waitlist that the child needs be in from the date of birth. We are driving change. There are better ways to distribute services and goods more efficient and fairer. dibz.se will be the go-to platform for goods and services with matching market characteristics where price simply can’t clear the market. dibz will serve both B2B and B2C, making the future brighter step by step.

HEI Schools is an industry trailblazer in bringing Finnish-style early education to the world. HEI Schools offers an easy-to-implement Finnish early education model for local preschool owners around the world. The company is co-founded by and backed by academics from the University of Helsinki. Today HEI Schools has 14 early education centers open and 20 more in the preparation phase around the world: in China, USA, Australia, Korea, Argentina, Indonesia, Egypt, Taiwan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Mongolia, Canada, and Finland. HEI Schools embraces the Nordic values of accessibility and openness and wants to make high-quality early childhood education available globally. HEI Schools’ office and the core team are based in Helsinki where you’ll get to work in a team of 20 passionate and supportive professionals.

Abzu® empowers scientists to bring drugs to market faster by accelerating their exploration and understanding. From disease understanding to drug discovery, Abzu has introduced new methods and technology to drive discoveries and reduce R&D costs for pharmaceutical and biotech companies. Founded in January 2018, Abzu is a deep tech startup with offices in Copenhagen, Denmark and Barcelona, Spain. You’ll have the opportunity to be part of a highly-skilled, fast-thinking, and energetic team. Our philosophy and culture are based on self-management, which empowers people to be themselves and make their own decisions about their work. We are focused on creating the best environment where people have integrity, a strong sense of responsibility, and collaborate in creative and inspiring ways. We believe and trust in people, their high potential, and inestimable value. This requires transparency and trust, which is an integral part of our technology and who we are. This organizational style is not a fit for everyone. For more information about Abzu, see abzu.ai/about-us and https abzu.ai/news-and-media

Hubb is the leading Nordic chain of virtual restaurants — kitchens built from the ground up specifically for food delivery. We serve more than 100,000 customers yearly across all our locations in Greater Copenhagen, with sales reaching DKK +50 million annually and turning profits. We've raised more than DKK 30 million from investors. Who are we and what do we do? We're a team of ambitious founders who have built start-ups before, with prior experience from both the food delivery industry, tech, and in the high-culinary world of Michelin restaurants. We run small, efficient, delivery-only kitchens with no tables, waiters, or front-of-house staff. Around 80% of our orders are delivered and 20% picked up, through platforms like Wolt and Uber Eats, where we are one of the largest brands. Our food is developed by Michelin-trained chefs across four of the most popular take-away categories — burgers, fried chicken, Greek gyros, and Asian bao buns — which customers can mix in a single order, all engineered to still taste great after a 20-minute delivery. Great food, built to be delivered. We deliver consistently excellent, delivery-first food: 500,000+ orders served to date, 80%+ repeat purchases, and an 8.8/10 rating across 50,000+ reviews, twice named Denmark's highest-rated restaurant on Wolt. The problem we solve: most restaurant food is designed for the dining room, not the doorstep, so it arrives late, soggy, and inconsistent — while the restaurants making it lose money to delivery's high commissions and operational complexity. At the same time, independent restaurateurs sit with half-empty kitchens, with capacity they cannot monetise properly to turn a profit. Hubb fixes both sides. We operate our own kitchens, and we partner with restaurants that operate a virtual Hubb venue from their existing kitchens. We turn their idle capacity into profit with a turnkey virtual brand — we give them our proven menus, recipes, suppliers, on-site staff training, and branded packaging — while we run the platforms, marketing, and support. They simply cook. Now, we're looking to scale to become the biggest virtual take-away brand across food delivery platforms in the Nordics, with ambitions to open a virtual restaurant in every city and local area with food delivery platforms serving customers. We believe we are pioneering the next big thing in the food delivery industry, and hope you would like to submit an application to come to join us in this effort.

Material Exchange is a unique B2B platform that works with leading footwear and apparel brands to digitalize the material sourcing processes. Global restrictions on travel and a shift to digitalization has accelerated the need for digital material data. Material Exchange has a comprehensive library of materials that are required by brands to develop and produce footwear, apparel and accessories. The Material Exchange database is a highly secure vault containing approximately 40,000 digital materials from some of the largest material suppliers in the world including, Clarino, Tiong Liong Corp, Kuraray and over 350 more. Material Exchange brand customers include Ariat, Keen, Caleres, Steve Madden, Deckers Brands, Global Brands Group and many more. By leveraging the platform brands can reduce sourcing costs, improve product development timelines and reduce supply chain risks. The platform supports suppliers in better connecting to their brand customers and enables them to find opportunities for new business.

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.

Brite Payment Group is a fast-growing second-generation challenger in the European payment space. Allowing consumers to make payments using their bank account, Brite employs state-of-the-art open banking technology to process instant payments across Europe across a wide range of verticals. With connections to many of the continent’s largest banks, consumers and merchants receive their funds instantly, making online payments safer and more convenient than ever. Headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, Brite is following the rollout of open banking across the world. With an ambition to build the payments experience of the future, we communicate with consumers, merchants, partners, regulatory authorities, cooperating banks, and investors on a constant basis

We're Europe’s largest sports booking app and SaaS for sport venues. We aim to socialize the practice of sports: through the app, players can book courts, find other players with similar skill levels and join a social community dedicated to the game. We are +90 employees around the world. We have offices in Madrid, Lisboa, Sweden, México, Milan and growing!

Hubro Education turns every student into a CEO in our online business simulation games. Practice is crucial to develop a deep understanding of any discipline, and Hubro’s business simulations offer an effective, engaging and innovative way to do just that in business education. We work with universities and business schools in more than 40 countries around the world. The company has a diverse team and will grow to 12 team members in early 2024. Our HQ is in Oslo at Rebel, Universitetsgata 2. As of June 2023, Hubro is wholly owned by Sage, a leading independent academic publisher with offices in Los Angeles, London, Washington DC, Singapore, New Delhi, and Melbourne. Read about the acquisition here: https://www.shifter.no/nyheter/et-av-verdens-storste-forlag-kjoper-norsk-edtech-startup/279172

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.

We serve originality, always. This is our fundamental principle and it trickles down into every aspect of what we do. Photographers, copywriters, owners of copyrighted material in general, all rely on us to represent them in a world where upholding copyright is a complex and - to most people - impossible job. With an easy-to-use platform, a professional team and an educational approach, we are proving to our continuously growing customer base that safeguarding originality deserves a serious effort all around.

What are we doing? Freespee is a sales acceleration platform for companies whose buying journeys combine online and offline conversations. Our cloud communication platform improves lead management & conversion tools that address potential revenue gaps across the entire sales funnel, from lead to outcome. Who are we? Freespee is a team of +60 people made up of 25 nationalities located across London, Paris, and Uppsala. We focus on ensuring everyone has a proper work/life balance, one that prioritizes family, life, fun and work. We have a few simple values that are core to the way we work together - be genuine, stay focused, engage others, but most important, make an impact.

Kodiak Hub is a cloud-based Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) platform that helps global procurement teams to source smarter and drive sustainable supplier relationships. To power sustainable global trade, creating shared & sustainable value requires catering to the needs on both sides of a trading table, creating winners among both Buyers and Suppliers. The purpose of Kodiak Hub is to enable businesses to unlock and leverage value in their value chain with the help of state-of-the-art and user-friendly technology developed for people, by people, at the intersection of great design, user experience & science.