Even Founders is a nonprofit organization operating throughout the Nordic region, to create new women founders and increase funding opportunities for them. We work with founders, investors and ecosystem partners to tackle one of the biggest gaps in the startup space. Our organization provides two primary services: the Startup School and our comprehensive database. The Startup School offers a cost-free educational program designed specifically for women, teaching them the essentials of founding a company. Meanwhile, our extensive database serves as the premier source of information on women-founded companies, helping investors in discovering new investment opportunities. We are founders, investors, operators, innovators and researchers with first-hand experience from both sides of the table.

OCEAN IDEASHIP is a non profit organization, based on a broad foundation of collaboration. The quest is to share knowledge about the blue transition and empower blue impact startups. We are making a flagship for the blue transition, and sailing from place to place, we will share knowledge and showcase the possibilities in the blue in the green transition. With a sailing flagship we can create the attention the ocean deserves, and make sure that the blue transition gets the same awareness and acceptance as the green transition have today. By building capacity, knowledge and awareness into the startup ecosystem that supports entrepreneurs, we will secure many more blue impact projects in the future.

BuddyCompany challenges the big brands in the home services market and aims to be the number one marketplace for all services in the home. Partly with the help of the unique platform that makes it possible to deliver a variety of services on site with high efficiency and scalability. Partly through our sustainable view of the gig economy, which makes it possible to offer fair wages and conditions for our Buddies as well as attractive prices for our customers. Get more time for life. We envision a world where all people can take part in a seamless synergy between digital innovation and a comfortable life. We aim to challenge the big brands in the home services market and become the number one marketplace for services around the home. On the one hand, with the unique Buddy.inc technology platform that enables high efficiency in delivering services on site.

Aila is a solution that enables small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to achieve CO2 emission reductions. We offer automated carbon footprint calculation, a marketplace for products and services to reduce the business’ CO2 emissions, as well as reporting and communication tools. We are focused on removing the barriers SMEs are facing to take direct action to reduce their environmental impact and become truly sustainable, whether it is the lack of resources, knowledge or skills. We do this by compiling all the needed information and solutions under one centralised platform, making it all accessible, easily understandable and actionable. This saves the SMEs effort, time and money. The service operates as follows: 1) Calculate and assess your carbon footprint: Understand your environmental impact to set the stage for effective carbon reduction strategies. 2) Browse and switch to green solutions: Select and buy products and services from our platform that not only enable and accelerate your green transition but also have a direct impact on carbon emissions reduction. 3) Communicate your sustainability efforts: Utilise Aila's automated communication and reporting tools to transparently share your actions and commitment.

Zeeker is a startup business, mainly centered around a recruitment app. The company was founded from a passion of wanting to help the many young people who are trying to find their way from educating themselves, to finding a job relevant to their education. Statistics show that companies are taking less and less apprentices. Talking to the companies though, it often turns out that they are willing to take apprentices, but they don't have the time for reading their applications and find the right candidate. Zeeker wants to eliminate that problem!

HEKA VR is a medical software platform that enables Avatar-Therapy, a form of psychotherapy, to be conducted in a Virtual Reality or in a Telehealth setting. VR-based Avatar Therapy combines psychology and VR technology to provide transformative interventions for mental health disorders. Grounded in research, this therapy utilises virtual reality and avatars to create immersive experiences. Through the concept of embodiment, individuals psychologically connect with their avatars, leading to significant changes in thoughts and behaviours. In schizophrenia, Avatar Therapy helps patients gain control over auditory hallucinations, but Avatar Therapy holds promise for improving mental health outcomes among patients with Eating Disorders, PTSD, Bipolar disorder, Borderline disorder, Major Depressive Disorder and many more. Heka VR was born through a public-private partnership and research project called The Challenge Trial - initiated in 2019, funded by the Danish Innovation Fund and with the final research results published in The Lancet Psychiatry in July 2025. The results show that VR based Avatar-Therapy is a an effective new treatment method for 7/10 patients with treatment resistant Schizophrenia. Currently Heka VR is involved in 10+ clinical trials and studies around the world, from North America to APAC. Our mission is to scale Avatar-Therapy globally and bring clinically proven treatment methods to the patients that need it the most! Apart from the Danish Innovation Fund, we are funded by Bio Innovation Institute, EIT Health and Danish Life Science Cluster - Erhvervsfyrtårn. As a company we're a small multinational team with a can-do attitude and a big passion for what we do! We push ourselves to be better and do better, celebrate our wins and learn from our mistakes - for each other, our partners and our patients. Learn more about us and our platform, visit our Linkedin page (website is under re-construction)! https://www.linkedin.com/company/hekavr

FÓLK is an emerging Icelandic interior and lifestyle brand founded in 2017. At FÓLK our mission is to accelerate the green transition through design and our vision is to enable and inspire people to live a more sustainable lifestyle.” We work with progressive designers and manufacturers on homeware, furniture and lifestyle products focused on sustainability, responsibility, circularity, and transparency around the production process.

Vandre is a young Norwegian tech company with the ambition to impact the environmental situation by making textile brands succeed in reducing their footprint by making clothes and garments live longer. The world’s garbage piles are growing. In 2021, 40.000 tons of used fashion clothes ended up in the Atacama desert in Chile as their final destination. This is just one example of how the textile industry is not even close to being sustainable. The sports and textile industries face strict requirements and a major upheaval, when the EU is planning to introduce sustainability reporting and requirements to offer consumers repair of products in 2025. Our platform connects brands in the industry with certified repair centres and facilitates a seamless user journey with logistics and payment options. The platform is also a sought-after tool at repair centres, as it helps to make their daily operations more efficient. We have currently launched in Norway, and plan to expand to the rest of the Nordics and beyond in the future. Our HQ is in a co-working space office in downtown Oslo – a two-minute walk from Nationaltheatret, where we share office with a small PE fund, and have lunch break together with. We also have employees in other cities working remotely. As a small team, some of us are quite often on the go and strive to stick to our digital workplace practices as much as possible. This enables the whole team to work quite flexibly when needed, together with some well-appreciated face time at the office as often as possible. Today the team is communicating openly using Slack and ClickUp to organise daily work and product development. There you will feel the motivating and active vibe from the other team members, our CEO Henriette, and our always-on-the-go working Chairman and brand relationship manager Simen. We are still a small team, but team spirit we have and everyone is highly motivated to make a difference in the world and help grow Vandre to reach it's full potential. Our culture is built on trust, freedom and humour. As most team members work from home most of the time, we always strive to be available during the working hours, and prioritise weekly meetings to stimulate the team spirit being a partly remote team. In addition we believe in a high level of freedom for each colleague to find their own optimal w/l balance. Prioritising a run before lunch or picking up kids in the afternoon is all up to the individual colleague. You know best what works for you. Finally our culture is also characterised by a high level of humour, with lots of laughs and a good vibe between team members. Our team today consists of passionate and skilled people representing deep industry knowledge and experience. We are constantly open-minded scouting for entrepreneurs with a varied skill sets with the proper drive to take us forward, together with a few dedicated roles (as below). We are looking for employees who always strive to develop themselves and our organisation. We expect you to be committed and eager and to have the ability to work in teams. The team is characterised by an entrepreneurial and innovative mindset. Working at Vandre you join our effort to create a better and more sustainable textile industry, you will be part a highly dedicated and ambitious team with great and talented colleagues who love their job, and last but not least you will have fun at work.

Become a Payment Service Provider in a matter of seconds. Starting a Fintech-business have always been complicated, expensive and with huge amounts of fog in front of you. It has been impossible to foresee what the next challenge will be, and you need to develop as you go along. With the IPP Service, we do hand over a fully functional Payment Service Provider - Free of Charge! This includes full KYC-functionality, Billing setup, Merchant Portal, Processing and agreements with Acquirers behind us. Okay, you don't believe it - nothing is free... Well, that is actually it, it is free. We are being paid through the Schemes and processing, so our solely focus is to make the best of you and your own startup.

PurCity's patent pending solution (GapS), consists of novel industrial facade panels that are great substitutes for exterior facades/flat surfaces of any New/Existing buildings. Leveraging from chimney effect/natural ventilation, polluted air is naturally sucked into the panels and forced to pass through a harmless chemical process that traps CO2, particulate matter PM2.5/10 & inorganic gases. Then clean air will be delivered into the building through the Air conditioning (HVAC) system. GapS utilizes smart monitoring and control solutions, to optimize its performance. The collected polluted liquid is continuously recycled, generating valuable byproducts like Hydrogen, pure O2 and CO2 that are sellable in the market, benefiting sectors such as food, cement and agriculture.

FinnishLine offers consulting and recruiting services in the field of education and career growth in Finland and exporting Finnish education programmes to South Asian countries. We help international students to discover, understand & secure the finest study opportunities in Finland’s top universities by providing personalised support for career growth and settling in Finland in the most student-friendly manner.

At KLiin, we are a dynamic startup on a mission to revolutionize the laundry industry and redefine convenience for businesses and individuals. We understand that laundry can be a time-consuming and tedious chore, taking away valuable hours from our busy lives. That's why we are dedicated to solving this problem by providing a seamless pick-up and delivery laundry service that saves both time and effort. Our innovative approach to laundry services caters to the needs of busy professionals, students, and businesses, offering them a hassle-free solution to their laundry woes. By taking care of the entire laundry process - from collection, washing, and drying to folding and delivery - we aim to give our customers the freedom to focus on what truly matters to them. In today's fast-paced world, time is a precious commodity, and we believe that every minute counts. By simplifying the laundry process and providing a user-friendly platform for ordering laundry services, we are empowering our clients to reclaim their time and enhance their productivity. But we are not just stopping there. At KLiin, we are committed to making a positive impact on the environment as well. We actively contribute to the fight against global warming and droughts by implementing water-saving practices and utilizing environmentally friendly technologies. Our dedication to saving water with every wash helps reduce our ecological footprint and promotes sustainable practices. Additionally, we understand the challenges of modern compact housing, where space is limited and convenience is essential. Our smart alternative to everyday laundry annoyance provides a seamless and hassle-free solution, catering to the needs of those living in compact living spaces. Moreover, as the young "as-a-service" consumer generation seeks convenient and on-demand solutions for their daily needs, we offer a user-friendly platform that aligns with their on-demand lifestyle. With just a few taps on their smartphones, they can enjoy our reliable and convenient laundry service. We also take care of our elderly population, recognizing the importance of providing a reliable and efficient laundry service for those who prefer to stay at home. Our dedicated team ensures that our elderly customers receive the utmost care and attention in their laundry requirements, giving them peace of mind and comfort. At KLiin, we are not just a laundry service; we aim to be a socially responsible company that understands the diverse needs of our customers and contributes to a greener and more inclusive future. Join us in our mission to make a positive impact on the environment and enhance the lives of individuals in all stages of life. Together, we can create a better and more sustainable tomorrow.

At Kit Buildings, we provide a comprehensive range of prefabricated high tensile buildings, both temporary and permanent structures designed for our diverse customer base in various sectors. Projects we have worked on in the past include semi-permanent and permanent aviation hangars, environmental shelters, marine shelters, military shelters, recycling shelters, storage shelters and sports shelters. Kit Buildings Canada is a reputable business specializing in the supply and construction of high-quality kit buildings across Canada. With a focus on providing durable and versatile structures, Kit Buildings Canada caters to a wide range of industries and purposes, including commercial, agricultural, industrial, and residential applications. The business takes pride in offering customizable kit buildings that are tailored to meet the specific needs and preferences of their clients. Whether it's a steel building, agricultural structure, storage facility, or workshop, Kit Buildings Canada ensures that each project is executed with precision and attention to detail.

Empire AI is a company founded by workspace consultants with over a decade of experience in developing office buildings. Through our work, we noticed that the office planning process is characterized by gut-feelings, guesswork and outdated benchmarks. This results in suboptimal office space that has massive amounts of unused space - an average of 80-90% of chairs and 50-60% of rooms remain empty during work hours in a typical office building today. Simultaneously, employees are complaining they do not have the necessary rooms and support their work. To address this issue, we created Empire AI. Empire's software is designed to transform the way you plan and manage your office space, making office buildings more space efficient, sustainable, and people-centric. Our machine learning models can predict how your office space will be used, allowing you to make informed decisions before you even begin building. With our software, you'll be able to identify which rooms and areas will be most useful and which will be less so, ensuring optimal utilization of your space. It can be used for building specifications, scenario planning, monitoring and improving existing office space and to predict utilization before building the space. Our recommendations are based on years of research and data, so our customers can be confident that they're making the right choices.

At GoGood, we work towards developing a reuse economy for office furniture that will be preferred to the consumer economy. Our solution consists of a digital reuse-platform that aims to become a driving force in the reuse economy for used office furniture. We have taken a concrete approach, starting with office interiors as our initial focus. In Norway alone, the office furniture market is worth over 4 billion annually, yet we discard 140,000 tons of furniture valued at 400-500 million Norwegian kroner each year. This cannot continue. That's why we have developed a reuse-platform for furniture, including a marketplace for the professional furniture market, making it incredibly easy for businesses, interior architects, and other stakeholders to sell their furniture while also simplifying the process of purchasing used furniture for interior projects, as well as making old furniture look new again. Over the past two years, we have made significant progress in developing modern reuse solutions, products, and services. With public support totaling over 15 million Norwegian kroner from the Research Council of Norway, Innovation Norway, and the Oslo municipality, as well as partnerships with industry players such as Flokk, Aarsland, Ope, Norsk Gjenvinning, Glomma Industrier, Hannah Nordh, Oslo Waste and Recycling Agency, NORSUS - Norwegian Institute for Sustainability Research, Norsk Regnesentral, and OBOS, we are now ready with our reuse-platform making the circular economy for office furniture on a large scale possible-