The Nordic Impact Investment Network works to mobilise more capital into impact investing by supporting Nordic investors. It creates a trusted local and regional community to provide asset owners with support and inspiration for their impact investment journeys. With a very human centric and impact oriented approach, the NIIN helps its community increase the understanding for impact investing, build relationships and learn from one another to drive action and capital flows.

The innovation ecosystem plays a crucial role in the success of startups, but these ecosystems are facing operational and strategic obstacles that limit their potential. The operational difficulties include an inability to effectively support startups leading to high failure rates, low engagement from startups, and resource-intensive reporting processes. On the strategic front, innovation ecosystems face intense competition and struggle to scale their efforts and establish sustainable business models, which often rely heavily on government funding. These challenges impact a wide range of players in the ecosystem, including incubators, accelerators, universities, and enterprise innovation departments. Addressing these challenges can lead to a thriving startup ecosystem, boosting economic growth and driving progress. By investing in the solution of these significant problems, the innovation ecosystem has the potential to unleash its full potential and drive positive change.

HEIERE is created for the effortless minimalist and focuses on delivering selected clothes essentials, elevated basics, and concise trend pieces to its customers. Inspired by the simple, conscious styles people live and attire around the world, HEIERE embraces a modern lived-in aesthetic. We encountered the challenge of expressing the brand's approach through a visual identity based on its value "We believe in keeping things simple". Opting for permanence, edging, inscription to detail, and an affection for the understated, our beliefs are that the efficiency can be perfected and the ordinary can be alluring.

Speedfriending is a Scandinavian startup aiming to create social arenas where strangers meet, talk and friend zone each other. We want to simplify connecting to the social grid, wherever you are. We have recently launched our Speedfriending app, while organizing events all over Norway, Denmark and Australia. We are looking for someone who loves challenges, has a can-do-attitude, and who recognize the great impact this can have in eliminating loneliness and friendzoning the world. You will become a very important part of our team and future! (More information about us: https://linktr.ee/speedfriending_com) This is speeddating's friendly, fun and inclusive twin sister. After organizing well over 80 physical Speedfriending-events in Norway and Denmark - creating thousands of conversations and friendships - Covid 19 interrupted us. During this time have started digitizing the concept, with an Tinder-for-friends app and a video communication platform. Hope you want to join us. Best regards, The Speedfriending team www.speedfriending.com

Kollektiv is an endurance sports training platform for all. We are founded on an ambition to make the world's best athletes, coaches, and experts accessible to everyday people 🤝 Currently, coaching and guidance from the world's best is reserved for the elite of sport. We aim to change this 🎯 Our platform leverages deep-tech to assist coaches in the construct and delivery of personalized, multi-sport training plans. We compliment training with learning through video content presented by world-class athletes. We surround our users with a support team of experts 🧠 Kollektiv was co-founded by Olympian and World Champion Triathlete, Helle Frederiksen 🥇 Kollektiv is a B2C SaaS start-up, founded in Denmark, with a senior team spread across Software Engineering, Data Science, Human Performance, Product Design, Customer Success and Content Creation 💎 Kollektiv is a mobile-first product with native iOS and Android apps 📱 We are globally focused with international customers and we run forward daily with a diverse, multi-cultural founding team 🌍

Northvolt makes green batteries for a blue planet. Affordable cells and high-quality battery systems. All manufactured with a record-low carbon footprint. Purposely built to provide Europe with the opportunity to switch to renewable energy – efficiently and entirely. To accomplish this, we do things differently. We design, manufacture, and recycle everything under one roof. We even build our own factories. All this is incredibly challenging and requires us to think in unconventional ways. We’re constantly experimenting, learning and adapting to make batteries so great – they will one day make oil history. Northvolt is growing fast. We’re staffing our international office in Stockholm, our R&D facility, Northvolt Labs, in Västerås, as well as our Gdansk facility for production of battery systems. We're also hiring for our two gigafactories: Northvolt Ett in Skellefteå, Sweden, and Northvolt Zwei in Salzgitter, Germany. We want to work with smart individuals from all disciplines. Strong individuals that truly want to make a positive impact on the future. Those of us already on board share a passion for our mission. We’re prepared to work hard in pursuit of excellence. We enjoy the ride and our main drive is to make a difference for real. As a team, we’re dedicated to thinking new, working hard and having fun.

Returbo makes return management easy! Returbo is an essential eCommerce Return Management System that brings satisfaction and enjoyment to the after-purchase experiences. We provide a seamless return process that reduces the manual steps, so merchants can focus more on your business, instead of wasting time on processing returns manually. With the booming growth of e-commerce, we have simultaneously witnessed a growth in product returns. Approximately 50% of fashion purchases are returned, entailing high costs for businesses and a negative impact on the environment. As a result, there is a business and customer demand for improvement. We are here to make a change for both the end customer but also the e-commerce to minimize their returns and create a greater awareness of the environmental impacts returns have. Join our team today!

Stedger democratizes the eCommerce market by empowering webshops and suppliers alike to compete against giant international companies like Amazon. We're a young company, and are experiencing good growth. We are looking for a talented software engineer, who will play a central role in shaping and building our future product! We strive to create a culture which is fun, rewarding and transparent with room for personal and professional development - where everybody feels like they're part of something bigger.

Jordisk ("Earthly" in Norwegian) is a start-up based in Norway that is developing a unique distribution platform for sustainable packaging to help businesses which need single-use food packaging to become environmentally friendly by embracing products which are recyclable, compostable and/or biodegradable. We are also a part of the accelerator Fauna: https://www.faunaeksperimentet.no/ There is an immediate need to replace traditional single use packaging that is normally based on fossil based plastics with more sustainable alternatives that already exist in the market. Food packaging is becoming a growing global concern, because of the large amount of waste it generates and the chemicals it contains that can be detrimental to our health. In 2014, out of the 258 million tons of municipal solid waste generated in the US, more than 63 percent was of packaging materials (for food and other purposes) and, overall, only 35 percent (89 million tons) was recycled or composted. What happens to the remaining 65 percent? We all know that landfills are frequently used and that a lot of waste is just burned which leaves a huge carbon footprint. The end of life alternative for food packaging can be significantly improved by using alternative eco-friendly materials that already exist and can be implemented in a circular model. The aim of our distribution platform is to be the natural marketplace for sellers of sustainable food packaging where they can showcase their products to potential buyers who need one time packaging. Moreover, ideal sellers would genuinely care about the environment and have a circular model in order to reduce the carbon footprint as much as possible. A typical customer would be a restaurant that offers takeaway. The food packaging industry operates in a very traditional way with one-to-one contracts and is mature enough for a disruption. With our platform, we can be the link and matchmaker between the supplier and customer. Our goal is to raise awareness in the industry and among consumers, so they can know about sustainable food packaging alternatives such as products that are made of bagasse, bamboo, mycelium, leaves, bio-laminat and plant-based plastic such as PLA. The timing is ideal, as we are currently seeing drastic changes in jurisdiction and lawmaking in Europe, single-use plastic cutlery, cotton buds, straws and stirrers will be banned by 2021 and the EU's Green Deal Strategy is to find sustainable alternatives to replace traditional fossil based plastic. We are currently doing market research in Norway in order to source and partner with producers that could be interested in our platform. The feedback we are getting so far are positive, as most new producers would like further traction in order to get much needed market share. We are actively looking for another person with the technical know-how that wants to join the team to develop this platform with us. Even though we live in an era of Instagram and Facebook where spreading awareness in a particular topic is easier than before, environmental pollution is still one of the most concerning issues in today’s world. We, as consumers, are either too busy to care about packaging, or there aren’t many sustainable options to choose from when buying a product. One of the founders, Rezowan, has a background from the travel industry, and has from many of his previous travels seen the growing amount of plastic going astray, both on land and at sea. In many Asian countries, he has seen that there are no good waste solutions that contribute to, for example, plastic being recycled in a circular way. Over the last 2-3 years, new technology has been developed that makes it easier to choose sustainable and environmentally friendly alternatives, and the main goal is to promote environmentally friendly alternatives to fossil plastics so that society can become more aware of this.

Adventure Club is a design-driven consulting agency based in Helsinki, Amsterdam, Berlin, and Turku. Our aspiration to create meaningful and delightful digital products/services are backed by our passion to drive a positive impact on people’s lives and on society and the environment. We are a club of curious people constantly exploring new horizons to solve complex issues with the help of design, business, and technology. Our approach to explore is a mix of human-centered design, business thinking, and experimenting. We had a pleasure working with well known global companies like Adidas, Tommy Hilfiger, HMD, ABB, and KONE as well as local companies/startups on impact projects.

Weco Play is a collection of learning games and activities for large touchscreens. They are designed to enable several children to play and learn together. We sell our software mainly to pre-schools, schools, and special education. The software is sold as SAAS, though partnerships to B2G/B2B customers.

Our AI communication and speaking coach helps you to train for your presentation – it's just a click away from where most presentations are made. The AI digital coach trains your public speaking skills and helps you to build trust. We help your business grow faster and our AI-based software helps professionals to monitor, develop and maintain communication skills. Impactful presentations increase the chances of closing a deal. Usually, there is a couple of salespeople outperforming the other teammates and the headache of the sales managers is in improving the overall performance. Luckily, our AI-based software can turn the entire sales team into excellent speakers. While training the presentation, Your Speech Factory provides real-time feedback on eye-contact and voice. Managers can follow the team's training behavior through the web-based dashboard. We also provide learning content which is developed by our internationally recognized communication partners.

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 a cost engineering firm specialized in Danish projects, trying to make an impact in the industry by digitalizing all cost aspects of construction projects (5D - BIM). To do so, we have focused our efforts on standardizing and data collection as a first stage, and data management and automating processes to come.

We are made for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs. We make Danish tech startups succeed globally, by providing three-day market entry programs in London, New York, Berlin and Stockholm in which we take a group of high-growth tech startups with us to meet all relevant actors for their international expansion; from lawyers to accelerators, from sales advisors to Vcs. In three days, they gain essential market knowledge and create an invaluable local network for their international scaling journey that otherwise would take months!