Erghis is a Swedish startup from the vibrant Öresund region. Its gesture-based interface, The Sphere, allows complete touchfree control of smart devices and can easily be integrated into other applications as a powerful touchfree control scheme. In 2014 Erghis received the distinction of being chosen as one of the top 20 tech startups in Swedish incubators. Since then Erghis has featured in international media with its revolutionary interface. At Erghis, we believe that computer interaction should be all about you, the user. It doesn’t matter what you are interacting with or why. Whether you are typing an email, using a vending machine or controlling a robot, what matters is that you are able to interact easily and comfortably, in a way that suits you. As technology continues to get smaller and is built into our very surroundings, traditional interfaces will no longer be enough. A new type of interaction is required, and as smartphones needed the touchscreen, so the devices of the future will need a touchfree interface. When you no longer need to hang a screen on your wall because the whole wall *is* a screen; when you don’t put a smartphone in your pocket because your clothes *are* your computer, imagine being able to open your hands and have complete control of these devices literally at your fingertips. That is the power of touchfree. That is the power of the Erghis Sphere. At Erghis we are committed to bringing you the touchfree interface of the future today. But we are always looking for forward-thinking companies – big and small – who can find creative uses for the Sphere and want to help us make this exciting future happen.

Heylinn är ett svenskt beauty- och e‑handelsbolag som utvecklar framtidens nagellack. Vår kärnprodukt är riktigt nagellack som redan är målat och färdigtorkat på självhäftande remsor. Det gör det möjligt att skapa snygga och hållbara naglar hemma – utan kladd, torktid eller tidskrävande salongsbesök. Sedan starten har Heylinn vuxit till ett etablerat varumärke med över 57 000 kunder. Vi bygger en stark direktrelation till våra kunder genom vår egen e‑handel, personlig kundservice, sociala medier, kreatörssamarbeten och ett engagerat community. Den nära kundkontakten hjälper oss att snabbt förstå vad våra kunder efterfrågar och utveckla både produkter och upplevelser utifrån deras behov. Heylinn befinner sig i en expansiv fas där vi breddar sortimentet, utvecklar nya produktkategorier och bygger organisationen för fortsatt tillväxt. Vårt mål är att skapa ett komplett och modernt alternativ till traditionellt nagellack och salongsbehandlingar. Vi är ett entreprenöriellt och handlingskraftigt bolag med korta beslutsvägar. Hos oss får idéer snabbt bli verklighet, alla arbetar nära verksamheten och varje person har möjlighet att påverka bolagets utveckling. Vi söker människor som gillar högt tempo, tar ansvar och vill vara med och bygga nästa kapitel av Heylinn.

We're on a mission to help financial professionals (actually) use AI. We have built a Virtual Controller that helps bookeepers, accountants and controllers with ensuring they produce a high quality output for their end customers. We are a VC backed startup and more importantly have (paying!) customers. We are on a crazy ride and looking for people that want to be a part of building at the forefront of AI with us. Reach out to hear more :)

Torii is developing EU-hosted and EU-sovereignty authorisation and user management to help EU businesses solve the complex auth building within 10 minutes using our integration. The problem many businesses in the EU face is that they have to rely on giant US auth providers like Clerk, Auth0, Supabase, etc., which may come with a lot of legal overhead due to how EU and US law collides on user data storage and transfer. There has been three agreements between the EU and US so far, and two of them has been struck down in court so far, and the third on is upcoming, making almost illegal for EU businesses to use the US providers. We are solving this problem by making a just-as-easy-to-integrate solution for EU. The auth market is earning 6.2 billion USD in 2025 and is expected to rise to 17,2 billion USD in 2034. The EU can swallow a lot of this market since US and EU law is growing further apart.

Maranics builds a platform that digitalizes operational workflows in complex, regulated industries. Where data was previously lost, scattered across silos, or trapped in manual processes, Maranics creates a single connected layer capturing what matters, routing it in real time, and delivering accurate, contextual data directly to the systems that need it.

AngelEQ is B2B sales intelligence built Sweden-first, now covering Norway too. It carries the complete active company registers of both countries: 2.5 million+ companies, with filed financials for 800,000+, named board and CEO decision-makers for 400,000+ Swedish companies, and 500,000 named business contacts. Describe the customer you want in plain language, for example "profitable manufacturers in Skåne over 10 million", and AngelEQ resolves it against the register and returns an export-ready list. It also carries every visiting address in Sweden: 1.4 million workplaces including every branch, refreshed monthly from the official register. Built in Ängelholm by ProToSell AB. EU-hosted, GDPR-first.

About Crowdster At Crowdster, we're building one of Europe's next-generation investment platforms, combining proven technology with a new vision for accessible investing across Europe. For decades, many attractive investment opportunities have primarily been available to institutions, banks, and professional investors. We believe that should change. Our mission is to make investing more accessible, transparent, and secure by connecting investors with carefully selected real estate and business financing opportunities across Europe. Crowdster is a regulated European investment platform operating under an ECSP (European Crowdfunding Service Provider) licence issued by the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority. This enables us to offer investment opportunities throughout the European Union within a highly regulated framework designed to protect investors while creating new financing opportunities for businesses and property developers. Our initial focus is real estate financing. Many high-quality property developers struggle to secure flexible funding through traditional banks despite having strong projects and valuable underlying assets. At the same time, private investors are increasingly looking for investment opportunities that offer attractive returns backed by real assets. Crowdster brings these two worlds together. Through our platform, investors gain access to professionally structured investment opportunities, while developers receive an efficient, transparent, and scalable source of financing. Every project undergoes a comprehensive due diligence process, and investor protection is at the core of everything we do. While Crowdster is a new European brand, it is built on a proven foundation. The platform, technology, and business model originate from Fundbricks.com, which successfully operated in Denmark for more than five years. The knowledge, operational experience, and technology developed during that journey now form the foundation for Crowdster's expansion across Europe. Today, the original founders are supported by an experienced management team, a professional Board of Directors, and a CEO with more than 20 years of experience from the banking and financial sector. Together, we combine entrepreneurial thinking with deep financial expertise and regulatory compliance to build a company designed for long-term growth. But we're building far more than an investment platform. Our ambition is to create one of Europe's leading investment communities—where technology, transparency, regulation, and trust make investing accessible to more people than ever before. Our headquarters are located in Malmö, Sweden, and we work with investors, developers, and partners across Europe. As a fast-growing fintech company, we value initiative, collaboration, and people who enjoy solving challenges in a dynamic environment. We're still early in our European growth journey. That's exactly what makes this an exciting time to join. You'll become part of a company where your ideas matter, decisions are made quickly, and you'll have the opportunity to help shape the future of a regulated European fintech from the inside. If you're ambitious, enjoy taking ownership, and want to help build something with genuine European potential, we'd love to hear from you. We're not just building an investment platform. We're building Europe's next investment community.

Baser Baser is a family-owned, direct-to-consumer brand designing premium parasols, patio umbrellas, and bases. Founded on Scandinavian design principles, radical honesty, and a genuine commitment to sustainability, we help families across Europe and Australia make outdoor shade decisions they won't regret. We currently operate across four markets — Denmark, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Australia — with the ambition to become the modern market leader in e-commerce shade solutions across Australia, the US, the UK, and Europe. It's a category that has been overlooked for decades, and we see clear white space to build something better. What makes us different Nearly every umbrella in the world is produced by the same handful of factories and sold the same impersonal way: through retailers, marketplaces, and middlemen with no real relationship to the end customer. We took the opposite path. Baser is a fully digital, content-led, direct-to-consumer brand — and as far as we know, the only one in our category combining mid-to-high quality, an online-first model, content leadership, and genuinely personal service. That personal service is central to who we are. Instead of chatbots and call centres, customers get real, human guidance — including founder-led advice that helps them choose exactly the right product for their space. We'd rather educate someone honestly than push them toward the most expensive option, and that approach has earned us the trust of thousands of families. Products built to last We don't believe shade should be disposable. Our products are engineered to outlast the seasons and the trends: 100% aluminium frames — no rust, no wobble, wind-tested to 50 km/h Solution-dyed fabrics that hold their colour for years rather than fading after one summer Certified UV protection up to UPF 80+, with real, verifiable numbers PFAS-free across the entire range — safe for families and the environment GRS-certified recycled materials throughout, including our patented sandbag base system Backed by a 5-year spare-parts guarantee and a 10-year frame guarantee If something breaks, we fix it. We're building products people keep, not replace. Our values and culture We're a small, ambitious team that takes our work seriously without taking ourselves too seriously. We value honesty over hype, quality over shortcuts, and specificity over vague claims. We're transparent about how and where our products are made, and proud of the quality behind them. Above all, we're building a company where people feel trusted, supported, and clear on what success looks like — grounded in strong human values and high standards, as we grow into new markets around the world.

Cleenki is building an AI-native marketplace for home cleaning to help busy households in Sweden book trusted, recurring cleaning in seconds, while giving independent cleaners fair pay and the tools to build a stable business. Our secret sauce: by treating cleaners well and letting them work for themselves, we turn motivated cleaners into loyal, long-term customer relationships that traditional agencies cannot match. The cleaning industry is built on a broken chain. Traditional cleaning companies pay low wages and treat cleaners poorly, which kills motivation. Unmotivated, underpaid cleaners churn constantly, which makes it hard for customers to find a reliable local cleaner and build a long-term relationship. The result is a poor customer experience across the entire industry: no-shows, inconsistent quality, and constant turnover on both sides of a market that should be built on trust and recurring stability. This affects almost every busy household in Sweden. With RUT making professional cleaning affordable for a large share of the population, demand is huge, yet the experience for both customers and the people doing the actual work has barely improved in decades. Cleenki is a marketplace that matches households with vetted independent cleaners and turns one-off jobs into recurring relationships. Customers book in minutes, pay securely by card, and keep the same cleaner over time. Our edge is the cleaners themselves. On Cleenki, cleaners work for themselves or run small cleaning businesses, so they genuinely care about their customers and do the little extra every single time. We are deeply focused on cleaner wellbeing, because we know that motivated, fairly treated cleaners are what create happy, loyal customers. We take a cut of each booking, and over time we are building the operating system underneath the marketplace: automated scheduling, payments, subscriptions, and the daily operations a cleaning business needs to run, so any cleaner or small company can eventually run their entire business on Cleenki. We are live and growing steadily, with over 100 paying recurring customers and 10 to 25 one-off bookings per month. The cleaning industry is outdated. Customers demand convenience, cleaners demand fairness, and sustainability matters more than ever. Cleenki delivers all three at exactly the right moment. We start in Stockholm, then expand across Sweden, the Nordics, and beyond. Before Cleenki, I started a traditional cleaning company (Cleanest Sweden AB). That is where I really got to know the industry from the inside. I interviewed and worked with dozens of cleaners, and over and over I heard the same two patterns. The first was unfair treatment: low pay, stressful schedules, and managers who simply did not care about them as people. The second was a dream. Almost every cleaner I spoke to wanted the same thing: to work for themselves, on their own terms. That is what fired the spark. I realized the cleaning industry is broken in a way that hurts everyone at once. Cleaners carry the whole business on their backs but are treated as disposable, and customers suffer the consequences through constant turnover and unreliable service. Cleenki is my way of fixing both sides at the same time: giving cleaners the independence, fair pay, and recurring income they dream of, and giving households cleaners who actually care. This is not just a booking app to me. It is a mission to give an overlooked workforce ownership over their working lives.

North Star Tech Oy is a Finnish company that makes research integrity verifiable. Its product, North Keeper, is a verifiability layer for the research lifecycle, built on Microsoft Azure. Research integrity is now a board-level obligation for universities, research funders, and publishers, driven by the reproducibility crisis, fabricated results, and tightening funder mandates. Today integrity is asserted, not proven: ethics approvals sit in filing cabinets, reproducibility lives in a methods section few can rerun, and grant spending is reconciled long after the money is gone. North Keeper runs deterministic checks on the research record and turns each passed check into verifiable evidence. It can prove that identified records met defined integrity controls at a point in time, recorded as evidence a funder, journal, or auditor can verify directly. This is the distinction the product is built on: proof, not assurance. It does not claim that a scientific conclusion is true. The first check covers ethical consent, with reproducibility and responsible spending as deliberate later phases. Each passed check is issued as a tamper-evident, post-quantum-signed True North Certificate and recorded in the True North Registry, a public, append-only record anyone can verify against. North Keeper consumes Microsoft Purview, Microsoft Fabric, and Azure Cost Management as substrate rather than rebuilding them; the owned engines and the registry are what make the evidence independent. North Keeper is a transactable ISV product on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, with metered consumption pricing and Microsoft co-sell, so customers buy through their existing Microsoft agreement. North Star Tech Oy is based in Helsinki and serves universities, research funders, and publishers across the EU and the Nordic region first, then the wider global research market.

At PanzerGlass, we are dedicated to delivering world-class protection for screens and smart devices to keep them from breaking and our customers minds worry-free. Our extensive product portfolio is made to protect smartphones, tablets, and smartwatches so that our customers can live the lifestyle they desire. Since 2013, we have committed ourselves to innovation and continuous improvements, listening closely to our customers to meet their needs and exceed their expectations in more than 70 markets across the globe. At PanzerGlass, we strive to be the best and have worked intensively to become ISO 14064 certified, meaning that our CO2 baseline is fully aligned with the Greenhouse Gas Protocol. Founded in Denmark, our headquarters is based in Hinnerup, and our other main offices are based in China, Guangzhou, and the UEA, Dubai. We are proud to be an international organisation with more than 30 different nationalities employed. At PanzerGlass we have that one thing that cannot be copied - our culture! We work hard, and we have fun while doing it – and trialling a 4-day workweek.

For too long, healthcare has been reactive. Focused on treatment after problems appear, rather than prevention and performance. We're building the alternative: a physician-led health optimization platform that combines deep diagnostics with personalized protocols. 60+ biomarker testing, physical performance assessments, and dedicated physician support, all built into a continuous loop: measure, interpret, intervene, track, learn. Our mission is to make proactive, data-driven healthcare accessible, personal, and continuous. Cue turns medical insight into something you can measure, understand, and act on. No generic protocols. No one-size-fits-all care. Just personalized hormone and health optimization built on your own data. Based in Copenhagen. Building the category for proactive health in Europe.

Farm Legacy is a startup building the first AI-powered platform for farm succession, helping retiring farmers find the next generation to take over their land. Across Europe alone, 6.3M+ farms need a successor in the next decade. Globally, there are 608M+ farms, most of them family-run, and farming populations are aging in nearly every market. When no one steps in to take over, working farms get sold off, abandoned, or absorbed into industrial operations. Our goal is to keep family-scale farms alive by making succession simple: matching the right people, handling the legal and financial process, and supporting the new farmer with the tools they need to run the farm for years afterwards. At Farm Legacy, we believe the future of agriculture depends on the people who farm the land, and we are building the platform that makes the handover possible.

GoWest — Nordic Venture Capital Forum GoWest is one of the Nordics’ leading venture capital forums for startups, scale-ups, investors, and ecosystem leaders focused on the future of innovation and industry. Hosted in Gothenburg, Sweden, GoWest brings together founders, venture capitalists, angel investors, corporations, universities, policymakers, and talent from across Europe to accelerate the growth of ambitious technology companies — from pre-seed to Series A and beyond. At the intersection of deep tech, industrial transformation, sustainability, and entrepreneurship, GoWest reflects the unique strengths of West Sweden: a region shaped by world-leading industry, engineering excellence, and an increasingly dynamic startup ecosystem. A MEETING PLACE FOR FOUNDERS, INVESTORS AND FUTURE INDUSTRIES GoWest exists to create meaningful connections between startups and capital. Over the course of several days, we facilitate high-quality matchmaking between founders and investors while also creating a platform for discussions around the future of European innovation, competitiveness, and technology leadership. The conference focuses especially on sectors where Europe — and the Nordics — have the potential to lead globally: Deep tech Climate tech Mobility and automotive innovation AI and emerging technologies Life science and health innovation Energy and electrification Industrial transformation Space and frontier technologies University spinouts and research commercialization GoWest is designed not only as an event, but as a catalyst for long-term collaboration between startups, investors, universities, corporations, and public stakeholders. WHAT HAPPENS AT GOWEST? GoWest combines structured investor matchmaking with inspiring stage content, networking opportunities, curated side events, and ecosystem-building activities.The conference includes: Startup-investor matchmaking Pitch sessions and founder showcases Investor programs and LP activities Keynotes and panel discussions Policy and innovation forums Workshops and breakout sessions Community gatherings and side events Networking experiences across Gothenburg Every year, hundreds of startups and investors participate in curated meetings designed to create real business opportunities and long-term relationships. A PLATFORM FOR THE NORDIC INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM GoWest is built around collaboration. We work closely with incubators, science parks, universities, accelerators, investors, corporations, and public organizations across the Nordics and Europe to strengthen the region’s innovation ecosystem. The conference is founded by Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg and developed together with ecosystem partners who share a vision of building globally competitive technology companies from Europe. WHY VOLUNTEER AT GoWest? GoWest is powered by people who are passionate about innovation, entrepreneurship, technology, and building meaningful experiences. As a volunteer, you become part of an international community working at the center of the Nordic startup and investment ecosystem. This is an opportunity to: Build experience in event production and international conferences Meet founders, investors, and industry leaders Expand your professional network Gain insight into startups, venture capital, and innovation Develop communication, coordination, and operational skills Work alongside an ambitious and welcoming team Get behind-the-scenes access to one of the Nordics’ leading tech events We welcome students, young professionals, international talent, and anyone curious about startups, innovation, events, and community building. Whether your interests are within business, tech, operations, communication, hospitality, partnerships, or entrepreneurship, GoWest offers a dynamic environment where you can learn, contribute, and grow.

............................................................. SecondShopper is the app that makes secondhand shopping easy, smart, and inspiring. We bring together thrift stores, vintage shops, and flea markets into one curated, location-based platform - connecting conscious consumers with local gems