Twelve is a production innovation company that researches and develops ways of solving problems of the fashion industry. Twelve’s pilot factory, operating in Helsinki, works as a launching platform for faster, more sustainable and data-driven fashion brands. Twelve operates through: - A rapid made-to-order / microbatched production cycle, following an Uber-like operations model - Owned consumer brands, such as Saima, launched September 2020 - Direct-to-consumer fulfilment model, supported by chosen agile retail partners

Formery is a remote design and innovation agency, helping companies ideate, create and transform their products and services. With our subscription model, companies can have their external "inhouse" design department, creating continuity during the product development process. It is our goal to turn innovative ideas into reality, affordable and fast We have worked with companies like Kärcher, Danzka Vodka, Ghost-Bikes and received recognition with multiple international design awards. Currently we are developping a new way how (Creative) consulting services are consumed, offering the same quality services as traditional agencies but with way less overhead - by going remote and working with independent freelancers. Instead of working project based only, we offer subscription models to fit all types of companies and in all stages. Our goal is to create a platform where independent freelancers and studios can offer their services through formery - and we assure the quality and take care of the communications and organisation.

Einka Økonomi' solution aims to prevent financial stress by providing knowledge, coaching and necessary tools to address the effect financial difficulties can have on life areas such as mental health, legal disputes and family economy planning. EINKA wants to be a completely neutral information channel, that employers can rely on to bring their employees closer to financial wellness. We are developing a knowledge hub that will help users in differing financial situations, building a tailor-made journey comprising of interactive financial tools, tutorials, strategy guides and virtual coaching with the purpose of achieving greater financial wellness for the user and increased productivity as a result - for the business. Our preliminary research has shown us that in the first quarter of 2019, the total amount of claims amounted to NOK 1 billion in Norwegian debt collection cases. In August of 2019, NAV stated that eight per cent of Norwegian employees had forced salary deductions. Personal economy subjects are not obligatory within the Norwegian schooling system, rather most people are educated on these topics via banks and other financial institutions, or often through following in their family's footsteps. This results in a knowledge gap and a hurdle for social mobility. As social entrepreneurs we have seen that nothing is being done to alleviate these problems in an effective way, so we have decided to take a stance, and commit to being the solution. Our solution will positively impact your business through helping to alleviate the stresses that come with poor financial wellbeing. A number of studies have shown direct links between financial stress and poor physical and mental health. It affects the individual, their family and loved ones and their businesses. We are dedicated to making a difference. Join us in doing something interesting, innovative and noteworthy.

EasyR is Denmarks new App that makes it easy and simple to order profesional services directly to your home. We are digitalizing the cleaning and window polishing industries, but will soon move into other categories as well. Our vision is to give people the possibility to order profesional assistance to help with everything you can imagine in your home meanwhile giving our customers more time and value in their everyday life. Our app is also making the everyday life for our partners much easier. We have simply developed an entire system that gives our partners the tools to manage their clients, communicate with them directly and send automatic notifications easily.

We are on a mission to democratize coaching by making coaching digital, flexible and affordable. With the Headlight App you have access to unlimited personal coaching whenever and wherever it suits your schedule. Through sessions with your personal coach, you will discover your personal strengths, their flip side and where there’s room for improvement. You will gain clarity, set new personal goals and get the tools to achieve them.

We, as humans, are used to think in 3D whether its your dream house you're planning on or the next change in your factory. What if those ideas of could be visualized in front of you in that house. Its natural for us to think beyond pen and paper. The CAD softwares may help but need special expertise and have no direct link to the real spaces. We have developed a simple solution where visions could be brought to reality and collaborative planning is the new norm. At Ainak, we have developed a mixed reality which can empower you to plan remotely and validate ideas in real world through our mixed reality platform. Now we are in the forefront of taking actions on the biggest change of the mankind, adopting AI to our everyday life at work. Ainak is a B2B SaaS company that helps to plan changes in factory spaces using our augmented reality, 3D and AI based platform. Mobile app enables to capture reality and place equipments virtually in the real space. Ainak Web Xperience serves as a powerful tool to collaborate remotely with a Digital Twin linking any space to a unique web link. Collaborative, agile and lean process without needing any CAD expertise or 2D drawings. We have reputed customers and have been working as a strategic partners to companies like Fortum and Puustelli to bring the future to the present. Are you excited to join us?

ALEQUI is a data-driven mobile first brand with a mission to modernize equestrian clothing and equipment. The equestrian world is mostly occupied by legacy brands with traditional styles that haven’t changed in a long time. ALEQUI aims to challenge existing players with functional clothing, a more modern look and conscious fashion.

Student Survival Guide is a community-driven project that is gathering in one platform all important information about university life in a foreign country. Students can also find tips from former students, learn more about daily life in the new country, and discover local gems, only other students know about. We are also running a weekly live broadcast where students can engage in a conversation about current events in the country and the world. We provide people with information that is crucial to a successful and happy life in Denmark. And we make sure that the information is correct, easy to understand, and actionable. We are making sure that we include the community, answer questions that people are asking, and touch on topics, which most other publicly funded organizations cannot. After a successful year on the market, we have learned how to communicate key information in an effective way, either through videos, articles or live streams. After our platform grew, we understood from peoples feedback that they needed a strong sense of community. Therefore, we are organizing weekly meetings in Aarhus, where all like-minded students can meet and work together on common goals. We have developed the project to it’s near full-market potential. We are present on all key platforms where the target group is and we have established an organizational structure that is recruiting more members. We are technologically capable to execute large projects and collaborations. We are part of AU Incubator since 2019, where we have held conversations with startup advisors. Consequently, we are using AU Incubator as a meeting point for the community that builds Student Survival Guide. Student Survival Guide is run by Michael Mares and Jaroslav Vyhnak, both 24 year old Master’s Degree Students in Economics and Business Administration at Aarhus University in Denmark. However, Student Survival Guide is a community-run project where a key asset are the contributors that write and share their knowledge. The contributor can be anyone with experience of the Danish way of life and schooling. So far, SSG has had more than 20 contributors. All of the contributors are bachelor’s/master’s degree students from international backgrounds. Contributors form teams that are responsible for various areas of the project, such as blogging, social media, video editing, news research and community management. All of the teams have their respective managers, who collaborate together to ensure proper project development. We have so far been able to reach more than 100,000 people through social media, gained more than 5,000+ followers on social media and got our videos viewed more than 43,000 times. On top of this, more than 10,000 students have already read our blogs and ‘survival guides’ to Denmark, on our website. We got the project to the point where many of the students prefer to contact us with their questions rather than relying on their universities or other ‘resourceful’ institutions.

We are an award-winning growth company providing comprehensive, acoustics-based maintenance solutions for finding faulty machines and components and for ongoing site maintenance. We save our global industrial clients time and money in the areas of air leak and electric fault detection in over 25 countries. With a mission of turning sound into value, our multidisciplinary team is passionate about finding the most advanced technological solutions that take sound diagnostics to the next level.

Tollson has developed a compact, continuous and energy-efficient technology for filtration and dewatering of a wide range of liquids. Tollson offers an mobile filtration plant for sludge and sediments dewatering, enabling wastewater utilities to streamline their dewatering processes. Our cutting-edge filtration technology is also designed for processing of food and beverages, pharmaceuticals and chemicals as well as many other industrial fields. Tollson envisions utilizing its technology to optimize the use of waste streams from industrial companies to support the increasing global demand for food, feed and better use of natural resources.

Nordic Startup School aims to be the best program for pre-seed startups in Europe. While Tomi Terentjeff was living in US, he noticed that plenty of Finnish startups showed interest on US markets and were coming there to scout the market. Unfortunately, most of the startups were not prepared to enter the US market, since a lot of funding is required and startups need to be precise on what they are doing and what value it is provided to the customers. Nordic Startup School was then founded to improve the quality of startups and educate their founders to become the best possible entrepreneurs they can be because companies come and go, but founders stay around longer. Nordic Startup School is based on values that we all believe in, centered on the “No assholes” rule. We make a long-term impact on startups and thus on society, but we do not compromise on our values for any amount of money. We want to be an example of inclusiveness, diversity, openness, and genuine cooperation. We aim to be the “hippie VC”, as we have been nicknamed. We are professional and efficient yet chill since we understand that all is temporary and one day we will be dead, and rather do things we are passionate about than live in regret our beautiful existence.

We are on a mission to decarbonise food production. Climate change is a global challenge and is being accelerated by the vast emission caused by food production systems. But in-depth understanding of the climate impact of food products is still very limited. To solve this challenge we are building the required online services for food industry companies to calculate, track and report the carbon footprint of food products utilising farm-level data.

MANTLE is the wellness brand of the future, building a health and beauty universe powered by cannabis. We are a female-founded premium CBD brand born in Sweden. Our mission is to break new ground and become Europe's most loved CBD brand through a premium offering. MANTLE has been featured in e.g. Forbes, Damernas Värld, Dagens Industri, Women's Health, Costume, Styleby and Stylist Magazine. In February 2020, we launched our first product The Original Oil - a CBD oil made from the highest-quality organic Swiss leaves. The product is awarded "Wellness product of the decade" by Styleby Magazine. We followed up with premium CBD skincare which has been incredibly well-received among both customers, press and influencers. Our product range is constantly growing, and so are the career possibilities within MANTLE.

Ambitious Africa is an initiative bringing African and Nordic youth together to take Africa to the next level. Working together providing high-quality education for future African educators and top-level business development support for local entrepreneurs. Ambitious Africa is an initiative, primarily consisting of Nordic student-lead entrepreneurial societies. The initiative is growing rapidly and now the organization needs ambitious Nordic students to work in the national operations in collaboration with local African counterparts. This is a unique opportunity to learn by doing while being supported by a community of young doers, experienced entrepreneurs, the private sector, and government entities. The national teams are cross-continental, primarily consisting of two people from the Nordics and two people from the African nation in question. The primary responsibility of the National Teams is to build an infrastructure to enable young doers to do novel entrepreneurial initiatives in the country in question. National Teams have free hands to build up the operations as they see fit based on the challenges and opportunities of the nation. We are currently looking for people for all 54 African nations starting with Rwanda, Tunisia, Mozambique, Uganda, Gambia, and Ghana. However, if you have contacts or experiences from other countries go for it, join the national team for that country.

Videolink er en unikt hightech kommunikationsystem til lowtech brugere - en slags ”Facetime for Oldies” via TV. Vi ønsker at styrke kontakten mellem generationerne i familien og inkludere eks. ældre familiemedlemmer i deres familie via brug af moderne bruger- og ældrevenlig kommunikations-teknologi. Vores mission er ganske enkelt at fjerne afsavn og minimere ensomheden. Vi har udviklet et helt unikt kommunikations-værktøj (som rent faktisk er en verdensnyhed), der muliggør, at eks. en beboer på et plejehjem, kan kommunikere med sine pårørende via videotale ved brug af eget TV. Og dette helt uden brug af nogen form for tastatur eller fjernbetjening. Det hele foregår automatisk ved, at "den som kalder op” (eks. en pårørende) modtager en SMS på ens smartphone, iPad eller PC, og så klikker vedkommende på dette link, og så starter modtagerens TV automatisk op, og ”videolink samtalen” kan begynde. Når eks. den pårørende "afslutter" videosamtalen, så slukker modtagerens TV helt automatisk igen (eller skifter helt automatisk tilbage til flow TV igen). Ideen opstod bl.a. ved, at vi har oplevet meget "ensomhed" på bl.a. plejehjem, hvor manglende kontakt til de pårørende syntes at påvirke beboernes livskvalitet. Desuden har vi et ønske om "at skabe lidt mere liv" hos den ældre del af befolkningen, som måske ikke er helt så teknologivante som gennemsnittet af befolkningen. Mange har et uopdaget behov for at holde deres familierelationer vedlige, men er måske "teknologi-skræmte", "teknologiske analfabeter", eller mangler motoriske færdigheder, er demente mm. og derfor måske har svært ved at kunne håndtere en iPad eller en smartphone. Det kan vi løse med Videolink, som er utroligt simpelt at anvende og desuden ikke kræver nogen fysisk interageren hos modtageren af videokaldet. Med Videolink, vil vi forbinde familier igen, som f.eks. pga alderdom, sygsom, demens etc. er blevet adskilt fra deres familier f.eks. ved at et ældre familiemedlem er flyttet på plejehjem, og dermed måske geografisk er distanceret fra deres familier. Desuden har den igangværende COVID-19 situation vanskeliggjort besøg på eks. plejehjem. Med Videolink håber vi dermed at kunne øget livskvaliteten og reducere ensomhed og afsavn for familier generelt. Vi giver de ældre borgere, som har skabt vores samfund, "en del af deres liv tilbage".