Only 2.7% of the healthcare budget is used on prevention, leaving individuals on their own to stay healthy. Individuals might feel healthy, but most are not and completely unaware of it. For example: - 34% have too high cholesterol. - 14% have (pre-)diabetes, >25% unaware of it. - 29% have high stress levels. Poor health of individuals significantly costs employers and insurers in terms of sick days, lost productivity, and claims - all of which are largely preventable. To bridge this gap of an unhealthy population, Zack provides businesses and their employees access to comprehensive health checks - testing for more than any standard ones. Designed to deliver personalized, actionable health insights, backed by science, empowering everyone to make informed decisions about their health. We are combining advanced lab testing with 'digital twin' technology and 'behavioral science' to really improve employee health. Becoming the front door to preventive care and changing the way employers take care of their employees!

Headquartered in Lund, Joots makes sustainable everyday bags. We supply retailers with made-to-order bags with white labeling. Joots is a family-run business with manufacturing in India. We have been a frontrunner in the Indian jute industry and are recognized as an international leader. Our vision: A jute bag in every hand. At Joots, we prioritize design, quality, and sustainability: Design: Our design language explores the intersection of traditions and modernity. At Joots, we ideate, create, customize, and give brands a voice of their own. Quality: Quality is at the heart of everything we do. Our products are functional, durable, and evoke a sense of mundane beauty. Sustainability: The essence of Joots is rooted in the mantra ‘waste not, want not.’ With sustainability at our core, we produce long-lasting pieces that leave no trace. We look forward to you joining us!

Time to Raise is a Nordic acceleration program for women-led startups with full focus on fundraising (today in partnership with Microsoft, SEB, Invest Stochkolm and WeWork). Women-led start-ups account for a very small portion of VC funding (0.7% to female-only teams and 7.3 to mixed teams in the Nordics). Despite this, investors are still eager to finance the best female-led endeavours, which is where Time to Raise comes in. We train startups to be pitch-perfect and we introduce their company profiles to investors.

The Product Eyecheck System is a modular SaaS platform that effectively enables sharing of clinical imaging, referrals, and other clinical correspondence instantly and securely between healthcare professionals, such as optometrists, eye doctors, and hospitals. By digitizing the patient journey we enable quicker treatments and fewer patient queues as we can process more patients with uncomplicated diagnoses more effectively. The Problem The prevalence of the most common retinal diseases, age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and diabetic retinopathy (DR), is rising in industrialized countries. In addition to demographic changes, this trend is also partly driven by growing numbers of patients with diabetes. This is increasing the workload in hospital ophthalmic units, and public ophthalmologists leading to waiting times of up to 12 months in Norway. This in turn increases the risk for serious eye damage in the general population at risk. The Solution Eyecheck System is a modular SaaS platform that shares clinical imaging, referrals, and other clinical correspondence securely and instantly between healthcare professionals. This in turn enables decentralized controls and diagnosis of patients even in rural areas with sub-optimal eye specialist coverage. Decentralized controls and screenings are made possible due to the vast amount of geographically spread retina imaging devices in over 600 optometrist locations throughout Norway alone. In addition to that, there is a wide-ranging discrepancy of competence levels across the profession of optometrists, where such a service would benefit both the patients and the optometrists. The reason why We are passionate about Eyecare and want to avoid blindness and other serious eye complications in Europe by digitizing the patient journey and creating a modern, more sustainable way to help patients get better. Our founder is an ophthalmologist (eye doctor) in Akershus and embarked on this journey due to his own experience when meeting patients that waited unnecessarily long on their appointment and ultimately an uncomplicated diagnosis.

My name is Steven John Widecrantz. I am a Urologist at Sealand University Hospital in Roskilde Denmark. For 16 years I have been treating Kidney Cancer Patients, but in recent years I have also been in charge of postoperative complications and seriously ill patients in my department and lately also in the treatment of Corona-patients. In this capacity, I have encountered patients so weakened by months of inactivity in bed, that former healthy patients couldn’t stand on their own feet or even sit up by means of their own. They had an immense loss of muscle-mass and the malnutrition even affected their brain function. Training and mobilizing these patients is difficult and time consuming. To overcome some of these obstacles I invented the “Dr. Stevens Pillow”-system. It is made up of a system of pillows with different resistance, carefully selected in collaboration with experienced physiotherapists to meet the requirements at the different stages of the patients recovery. The pillow is placed in the foot end of the patients bed and the patient, the staff and the patients family are instructed in different exercises by the physiotherapist. The pillow can then be placed in the bed by the patient, the staff or by the family whenever the patient feels like training or when encouraged to do so, supplementing the daily training by the physiotherapist. The pillows will, with the right instruction, strengthen the patients foot-, calf- and thigh-muscles, and it will strengthen the buttocks, the stomach-muscles and the back-muscles. Secondary to strengthening the muscles, the training improves blood circulation thereby improving muscle-nutrition, wound-healing and the heart. Training also aids in prevention of blood-clots. Lung function is improved, lung problems prevented, and more oxygen provided to the bloodstream. Bedsores will also be prevented or healing improved. The patients appetite is improved providing building materials for muscles and healing, and nausea is prevented. Psychologically the patient is strengthened by being activated opposed to lying inactive in bed all day. The possibility to influence their own recovery will motivate the patients to train more. When the patient is exhausted, the pillow is just removed, and the patient can rest. The pillows are made of durable materials that can withstand daily use, and the fabric is hospital standard and easy to wash and disinfect for use for the next patient. No handles are added to ensure easy and safe cleaning. The weight makes them easy to transport. The pillows come in four different colors: Green for the weakest patients. Blue for patients that can sit, but not stand. Red for patients that can stand with the help of a roller. Black for patients that are able to walk a few steps, but still need to build strength. The Black pillow can even be used at home, where it can also be used as a step-machine, a training bench and much more. The size make it easy to store in a wardrobe. The “Dr. Stevens Pillow”-system is so simple to use, inexpensive and versatile, that it can be used in almost any setting: Hospitals around the world, Refugee-camps, Retirement-homes, Hospices etc.

📍 It all started with an idea of building a bridge! Aspiring Asia is an initiative that aims to bring together Nordics and Asian countries’ young generation to connect, inspire, and empower each other in creating impactful changes. We are a young pioneer NGO with amazing potential ahead. We are now growing our rapid forward-moving organization and looking for new driven team members to join us! 👋 In case we haven’t met before, here’s Aspiring Asia in a nutshell: Aspiring Asia is all about young people being in charge, collaborating and learning from each other. Aspiring Asia initiates and supports youth-led grassroot projects to create positive social impacts through adapting and utilising Nordics’ core strengths: Entrepreneurship, Entertainment and Education. The initiative aims to spread to 48 countries in Asia to build a community of young changemakers. Aspiring Asia supports high-quality education, facilitates sustainable development of entrepreneurship, and increases global wellbeing and happiness. Aspiring Asia, as a platform, strives to make relevant connections to develop projects in each specific country, to support scaling of successful youth-led initiatives across Asia, with the utmost support from the Nordics. We need your help to support the young generations of Asia to take the first steps on a global scale and achieve their goals! In Aspiring.Asia we do projects in the following fields: - EDUCATION: Aspiring.Asia is about accessing the best education for all. - ENTREPRENEURSHIP: Aspiring.Asia is about economic and social development through Entrepreneurship. - ENTERTAINMENT: Aspiring.Asia is about engaging learners through entertainment involving simple learning strategies that revolve around fun. Aspiring.Asia seeks to provide the needs and feed the aspirations of the youth in Asia as inspired by the efforts of Ambitious.Africa and Adelante Americas. And Yisss, we are family!

Access new markets with our global network of 10,000+ advisors! Entering new markets is hard due to the lack of networks, language skills, and knowledge of local business customs. This is where Boardio can help. We will find you local advisors with relevant industry experience, networks, and interest in your business. You only pay on our service in case you start to work with an advisor we have found - pure success fee! Get started by briefly telling us about your business and your needs at https://www.boardio.com/start. We will get back to you with suitable candidates in the next few weeks.

Easy, Fast & Fair Claim Settlements. We are developing ValueChecker to be the global brains of insurance product claims. ValueChecker technology enables fast and accurate determination of the fair claim values of damaged products, their replacement alternatives and where those replacements can be bought today. We level the playing field to ensure the fairest outcome for both the insurer and their customers. The current method of claims evaluation is both labor intensive and arbitrary, resulting in a random and sometimes unfair damage compensation value to the customer. ValueChecker today helps numerous Insurers in Europe and beyond to deliver better service and save 20% on damage compensation and operations.

We make the golf game digital with a trackable golfball; anywhere anytime. We give the information of each hit how far it flew; where the ball flies from and to with easy comparison with the other player and your previous games. We improve the golf sport and training as well as we contribute to its sustainability with preventing ball loss in the nature. Also the player will save more time from ball finding and improve skills rapidly with the useful data. Join us to bring a golfers dream to life!

Sanitary protection should be as obvious and accessible as toilet paper and soap Period Pack is today Sweden's leading company when it comes to menstrual protection containers. The company was founded in 2019 by Amanda Mattsson and Lova Svensson with the aim of making menstrual protection in toilets a matter of course. The company has expanded fast and today we are a team of 6 people based in Örebro. You will find our products set up at workplaces and schools all over Sweden - and soon in Denmark. Read more on our website https://periodpack.se/

Plastic waste and single-use packaging is one of the great unsolved problems for our planet. In Denmark, we produce 844KG of household waste annually per person. Most of this packaging is used for food and beverage products and it is an increasingly large environmental challenge. At Cirqle we are driven by our mission to make single-use a thing of the past and make reuse packaging the norm. Reusing packaging reduces the impact, and greatly minimizes the natural resource use of packaging. With our pioneering reuse packaging service and technology platform, we make reuse a reality for companies in the food and beverage industry. We are already breaking new ground with our meal-kit service, but the sky's the limit when it comes to reuse packaging. With partners we cover the full supply chain from packaging production and software development to sanitation and logistics making sustainability the easy choice for our customers.

MAAB Group is an investment and trading company specialised in commercialising innovative healthcare products internationally. The company was founded by pharmaceutical industry veterans in 2011 and was originally incorporated in Hong Kong, China. Today, the company is headquartered in New Zealand, with operations in mainland China, the UK, and Denmark. ​

Wise Jester is developing IIB – a blind, humor-based, algorithmically assisted network for intellectual inclusion and neurodiversity. IIB facilitates emergence of collaborations with shared visions, equipped with hybrid knowledge, imagination [and more] quantified, and improvisations by the users: for solving difficult problems. Check it out: https://intellectualandimmaterialbank.com/

The average consumer is believed to buy 60% more pieces of clothing than they did 15 years ago. The more we buy, the less we're wearing our clothes, leading to increased fashion waste. reWear it is a mobile app for fashion rental and sharing. Through our platform, women who love fashion and want to reduce consumption can rent clothes from peers and brands, and list their wardrobes to lend, swap and resell.

Source is a talent intelligence platform that helps companies move quicker, reduce hiring costs, and acquire top technical talent. Sourcing talent faces three major problems, which we will solve: Problem #1: Every company we worked for had difficulty finding the right software developers. With the plethora of technical skills (1,000+) on the market and uncertainty in seniority, finding the missing piece to achieving the dream team was quite cumbersome. Problem #2: The time to source candidates for one role is between 13 and 20 hours a week. In other words, one-third to a half of a week's work. This leads to inefficiency, high costs, and worst of all incredibly-high burnout rates in the recruiting industry. Problem #3: The internal cost-per-hire is roughly around $4,700, and outsourced costs can reach sums as high as $50,000. Again, per hire. Let that sink in... How do we do it: By giving talent acquisition professionals a powerful talent search engine, they are able to perform smarter, cheaper, and faster than ever before. Instead of being powered by LinkedIn or Google, Sourcemoon is powered by data found on GitHub—the most popular platform among software developers. We use GitHub API, scraping, and parsing algorithms to collect and make sense of data from GitHub (other platforms coming in the future). The market is large and growing: The global talent acquisition & staffing market is valued at $141B, growing 5% YoY, and the global recruitment software market is valued at $8B.