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.

Piscer works with talents for recruitment and ambitious consultants in Stockholm. We want to be a complement to those who work internally with supplying competence, to streamline and shorten the search time. In short, we help our clients spend more time meeting and evaluating talents. We believe in freedom, economy and creating impact by offering collaborations that create value in more ways than one. Through proven processes we find talent and consultants in IT, Management, Finance and Gaming.

Brand New Ventures styrker danske start-ups’ med erfaring, firepower og navigation. Sammen skaber vi morgendagens succesvirksomheder. Vi kender vejen til den gode idé, det komplette team og det succesfulde exit. Vi transformerer, etablerer og investerer i selskaber med potentialet til disruption og eksponentiel vækst. Brand New Ventures ledes af de tre partnere – Werner Valeur, Joakim Warnøe og Rasmus Sindberg.

ZTL is a challenger to the banks' "Transactional Services". We're a cloud-native SaaS hybrid B2B payment company in the early expansion phase. We integrate our Open Banking APIs into various ERPs and API platforms to build new business models within payment services. Drop us an email if you want to explore opportunities.

Learn2Esport was founded by esports (and traditional sports) veterans in 2016 who champion learning with esports in a formal educational setting. Since its launch, the company has been supporting the structured, educational needs of students in Sweden and countries across the EU. Working in close collaboration with researchers, educators, coaches, analysts, and professional players, Learn2Esport creates educational content - from critical thinking to collaboration, from job skills in esports to lessons on entrepreneurship and creativity - delivered by proprietary technological products that provide the best formal and informal educational experiences. Gameplan is the world’s first esports management system. It is Learn2Esport’s complete solution for states, schools, learning centers, and organizations to build and manage their esports programs, teams, camps, and centers. The platform makes it simple for teachers to access and create lessons, gauge player development, and evaluate player performance. Schools that use Gameplan report an increase in student engagement, academic performance, attendance, and development in analytical skills.

THE PLAY® is a graphic wall-art concept that celebrates iconic moments from the world of sports. Our concept’s Nordic minimalist style reinvents the traditional sports poster in a format that truly visualizes the athletes' performance and instils curiosity in the viewer. Products can be shopped at www.theplay.dk and is available globally. Founded in 2020, the company carries an ambition to become visual storyteller for the biggest global sports brands. Currently, THE PLAY® is an official partner to Lyngby Boldklub and other organizations and athletes.

HERVOLUTION Therapeutics (HERVOLUTION), an early-stage biotechnology company developing effective cancer and anti-aging immunotherapies targeting Human Endogenous Retroviruses (HERVs) HERVs are well recognized as tumour specific antigens, but until now, have been undruggable. HERVOLUTION has overcome this challenge and developed a powerful technology that can stimulate both arms of the immune system, the humoral and cellular response, against this rogue antigen class.

7.dk IVS er et dansk start-up med fokus på performance marketing. Vi samarbejder med anerkendte spiludbydere med en dansk spillicens, og vores fokus er at levere leads. Vi har en portefølje på tre spilportaler pt., men vil fremadrettet tilføje et par stykker yderligere. Vores nuværende fokus er primært betting, men vi har planer om at udvide til også at omfatte online casino. Pt. er aktiviteterne selvfinansierende, men vi overvejer om der skal eksterne penge ind for at skalere hurtigere.

Bookalista is on a mission to build the next-generation marketplace, dedicated to simplifying the buying and selling of preowned books. We envision a future where buying and selling used books is not only as common as buying new, but actually the preferred choice. Every year, countless books are published, yet many find themselves idle after just a few reads. We believe these precious resources should be enjoyed by more readers. The current methods for selling used books, however, are overly complex for many. At Bookalista, we're redefining the buying and selling process of used books, making it as easy as shopping on any other online store. Our platform eliminates the need for improvised buying systems, arranging meeting places and times, or dealing with the dilemma of "who sends/pays first." We handle all transactions, ensuring sellers receive their payment promptly once the book is in the hands of its new reader. Listing a book for sale on Bookalista is a snap, taking just 10 seconds. We, the Bookalista team, are driven by our love for books and our faith in the power of technology to enhance reading. Our aim is to ensure that captivating books are readily available to those keen to delve deeper and learn more.

Until now, software development for IoT devices has been stuck in the stone age, where updating software is risky and hard, and where a single bug anywhere in your code can break your entire device. Because of that, software on IoT devices is kept at a minimum, and all code is written before shipping the device, never to be touched again. With our platform, developers can easily implement functionality and applications while our platform ensures that the device keeps functioning no matter what. This is unleashing the creativity of software developers on IoT, and is letting them build groundbreaking products that touch the physical world. Toit is founded by the team of developers that previously built V8 for Chrome at Google, and is backed by Creandum, one of Europe’s leading early-stage venture capital firms.

Helios Nordic Energy is a PV project development company with a growing portfolio of solar farm projects. We develop and sell the rights to build-ready, consented, solar farm projects in Sweden. Our customers are pension funds and large investment funds that are looking for low-risk, good return and very long term capital placements that renders attractive monthly cash flow. Our projects contribute vastly to the transition to a 100% renewable electricity system.

At Equimade, every day is a possibility for change. ► To challenge the norm of the industry. ► To take your passions seriously. ► To create the best imaginable products. ► To be part of the solution rather than the problem. ► Together with scientists, horse people, designers and horses, we’re pushing the boundaries of how horse products are made and can be used. When at work at Equimade we want to change the horse equipment industry to a more sustainable one. We don’t aim to be the biggest horse product company. We only aim to be the best.

IO-dit is a start-up based in Malmö founded in 2020 where we develop smart farming solutions. We improve water and other resources use and efficiency, by deploying smart irrigation systems that allow to reduce water consumption up to 30% and increase crop yields up to 40%. Our mission is to decrease working hours and water waste in farming.

Checktom is the most powerful planning tool for small event suppliers. Checktom lets you manage events, staff, notes, collaborators and your gameplan - all on one platform. The team behind Checktom has been planning and managing events for 10+ years, so we know the pain and struggle that most event creatives face when planning events.

We developed a pay-per-minute LBVR platform, enabling fully self-service VR experiences, removing all staff and save 80% of the running costs. We roll out in the isle of malls under the brand YAY VR with a 60% gross margin and 30% MoM growth. Already 43 500 minutes sold so far in 1 location. --- A complete self-service VR platform combining latest hardware, software and content to create the best VR experience. Hardware: The XR Box is a modular, secure & scalable mini-arcade. Software: Containerized system infrastructure. App, box & cloud - all prepared for global scaling and distribution. Content: Fun to play & watch - experiences worth sharing. An industry ready, multi tenant platform for all kinds of VR games and experiences. --- This is the main USPs of our solution: • Location - Our size put us in the center of the malls, displaying our offer to millions of people. • Self-service - No staff needed. Saving 83% of the running costs. • Low investment - Gives a quicker break-even and higher margin. • The community - By rolling out and run all locations our selfs we own the communication with the consumer. A big value for the gaming industry to distribute their VR experiences.