Sopu Academy is a young edtech startup based in Helsinki, providing international negotiation skills education globally. The company is supported by the Helsinki Education Hub, and currently provides hands-on online programs to develop individuals’ negotiation and communication skills. Previous Sopu Academy programs gathered participants from Finland, Turkey, Austria, Germany, Singapore and Thailand. At Sopu Academy, we reimagine negotiation education through data-driven, interactive and online programs. We believe negotiation skills are fundamental for every individual to pursue a meaningful, balanced and happy life.

Spect8 is a norwegian tech startup with a mission to help sports organizations, pro-athletes and sponsors that don’t have enough time, capacity, or the necessary skills to reach their potential in growing fan engagement and commercial value. Due to the power of association among consumers, brands allocate an increasing amount of their advertising budgets towards sports teams and athletes. To measure the value of a sponsorship, sponsors rely on manual measurements and expensive consulting services. At the same time, athletes, clubs, and federations are left with few resources to decide what their commercial value is, and often forfeit revenue (and funding for their sport) by underselling their commercial value. To solve this problem, we have developed a tool called Foqus. Foqus is an easy-to-use machine learning tool created for sports teams and individual athletes to determine their commercial value for sponsorships, and for brands to manage and measure multiple agreements. We are currently working with Norsk Toppfotball, sports associations, clubs and and several brands, and are off to a good start to reach our goal of creating a new industry standard for how sponsorship value is created, measured, and driven. The existing team consists of three business developers with expertise in strategy, marketing, sponsorship, data and analysis. In addition, we have associated development teams with both front-end, back-end and database expertise. We have recently become a part of StartupLab's Accelerator program, are supported by Innovation Norway and have ambitions to scale our business both nationally and internationally in the coming years. We therefore wish to expand our team with a skilled developer who also wants to make a professional career as an entrepreneur. The CTO will have the overall responsibility for the further development and scaling of our core product, Foqus, as well as the development of new tools and concepts going forward.

We, at Luxreaders, are a young, international, small (but prosperous!) Danish company with our roots in Copenhagen, Denmark. Since 2018, we help people read! With reading glasses as the initial core product, Luxreaders was eventually founded with the ambition of creating a platform, that would transform the way people buy their reading glasses! ... Wait, what? Reading glasses? Yep, you read that correct ;-) And later on, the assortment has expanded to blue light glasses and sunglasses. So how and why do we sell glasses online? Our experience within the optical industry has revealed to us that the market is highly driven by purchasing reading glasses through gas stations, supermarkets and such. These businesses, to a large extent, focus on low prices, high margins and aren't interested in customization when it comes to consumers personal fit, style and quality. We want to change that! Our passion for minimalist, Scandinavian design is the key element expressed through our tailored eyewear. All our glasses are designed in Denmark, where we devote our work to unite new trends with traditional and classic designs. Luxreaders strives to create an experience that is effortless and hassle-free. No more queues, no more settling for cheap over-the-counter glasses that never last or fit well. Although our company is online, we still cherish the aspect of consumers having a personal shopping experience with us.

Walkbeat is an award-winning Start-up based at Sahlgrenska Science Park that is transforming the lives of both, humans and animals. We provide accurate gait insights to professionals so everyone can move better, conduct early interventions, better rehabilitation and improve quality of life. And we do it in the toughest conditions possible with extremely high accuracy and precision. At Walkbeat Horses, we support some of the top trainers and athletes from the equine world during using the latest wearable technology to accurately analyse the health and performance of their horses.

Relabee provides a better way for patients and their family & friends to address the daily needs of living with a chronic disease so that they can live happier, healthier lives. Living with a chronic disease—understanding the condition, taking medication, and making lifestyle changes—isn’t easy. This puts stress on the patient, their close family and friends… and on healthcare systems. Research has shown, though, that a supportive network of family and friends can be one of the most powerful influences that helps a person with a chronic disease live well with their condition. At Relabee we believe that there is a huge potential in activating the patient’s network of loved ones to support the patient in living their lives on their own terms. We are developing a global solution that delivers improved communication and better outcomes for our users– whether the patient, family, or friends. Relabee is an app that matches friends and family to the support needs of the patient, helps them understand the chronic conditions better, and helps patients engage with their networks more effectively and efficiently. With Relabee, friends and family will be able to help their loved one with a chronic disease achieve their treatment targets and live the life they want.

FOROS is a green investment platform that makes forest management and investing simple and accessible for everyone. Our key features are: sustainable forest management and secure cross-border investing. Forestry is a dinosaur industry that we aim to disrupt. Coordination among marketplace participants is very fragmented. For a forest owner, it is cumbersome finding out prices from different forestry companies and finding a trustworthy partner, especially across borders. Foros opens up opportunities for much wider groups of people to benefit from owning forests. People will be able to invest in forests at ease, entrusting forest management to our experienced forestry professionals who will take good care of forests and manage them sustainably. Forest owners will get our offers and suggestions for how to best manage the forest. We call them 'your forest value growth plan'. These offers forest owners will be able to activate and implement within a few button clicks. Behind the scenes, to aid better decision making we will utilise big data analytics and machine learning. To date we have handled €24m in forest land transactions. This shows that there is a dire need for a digital, modern solution for existing forest owners.

Camping, local experiences combined with sociality, sustainability and closeness to nature is a growing area. The Norwegian camping industry has however an old-fashioned reputation and is very ripe for development. The majority of Norwegian campsites are family businesses, with limited capacity and resources for business development. Topcamp is building a camping business chain, mainly by buying or incorporating existing campsites with untapped potential and modernizing, streamlining and to a much greater extent digitizing the business. The previous owners of sites most often become partners in the process. Topcamp combines traditional core values such as good hosting, high-quality facilities, a rich range of activities and experiences – with modern business operations, technological operation and management tools.

At Friday Home we develop and globally markets iconic smart home devices all wrapped up in an attractive design by the Danish Bjarke Ingels Group, BIG. At Friday we are putting an effort in developing inhouse – we own the full stack from firmware to apps and servers.

Unparalleled uncertainty and pace of change requires new solutions and ways to run your business. Ufficify is on a mission to improve the efficiency and experience in the way offices are rented, used and utilized. Through our Office-as-a-Service (OaaS) platform we connect the needs of entrepreneurs and SMEs for creative and collaborative space - with space available for long or short-term usage - in the most flexible way available. We enable the passport for you or your team to work from multiple locations - as much or as little as needed. Ufficify is available either through monthly subscription plans at different levels or as one-off purchases without any further strings attached.

IMG_PLAY was founded to help our customers gain business benefits by utilizing video technology. TV and Video are undergoing a revolution. Old business models change rapidly, new technologies open up opportunities, and in the middle of this you are in need of qualified advice and expertise. We are technical experts and engineers, we are creative and knowledgeable about content production – and we are first and foremost independent advisors in a complex area of ​​crucial importance for many companies and organizations.

FavaFond is offering micro-loans to foreign-born and minority entrepreneurs in Sweden. A large, innovative and resilient group of entrepreneurs that lacks access to capital, advice, training and the networks necessary to start a business and grow. Fostering gender-equalled financial inclusion and business advice can improve ability and opportunities to become self-sufficient and economically active. In turn, empowering them to lead a fulfilling life integrating into Swedish society. Favafond’s mission is to become a key contributor for that change to take place in Sweden and beyond. Since 2019, we have been testing our business idea/model, issuing initial loans as ”proof of concept”. Data has been collected and analyzed to learn customers profiles, preferences and needs. Also, we have been risk mitigating our lending process and adding complementary business services capacity in compliance with Swedish banking/financial regulation. Our national platform of business advisors (i.e. accountants, coaches, etc.) and minority organizations (i.e. Community associations, startup incubators, etc.) has formalized recently. They are key partners to our business to facilitate access to loans for minority groups and support the improvement of our financial products and quality assurance of our lending process. The financial vehicle to raise the capital needed to issue the loans is a social impact fund – Favafond Invest. This fund will be open to private and institutional investors seeking a financial return on their investment as well as social return with measurable results. FavaFond plans to expand its operation to the rest of the Nordic region once its business idea/model has been thoroughly tested in Sweden and a critical mass of clients established.

Digital Workspace for the Construction Industry Many construction companies are still heavily relying on paper-based repetitive processes in their everyday work. This leads to problems when monitoring the status of running projects, scheduling new projects, or planning the long-term development of the company. The company’s liquidity is in danger, when delays, reduced quality, and/or disputes with client, become the norm rather than the exception. Molteo is the tool, which consists of modules that cover all areas from capturing data, to advanced analytics, and lastly data-driven recommendations that enable the construction companies to plan and act ahead. Our real-time overview of projects, fast resource capturing, and paperless billing enables the company to become more profitable, free up time of their employees, and lastly enable information sharing across the company. • Personnel planning • Project management • QA Docs • Financial Risk Modeling • Employee Rewarding • Instant Invoice Payment • Time registration

Plastic Change en dansk miljøorganisation med et ambitiøst internationalt sigte Vi arbejder hårdt med at knække den stigende kurve over plastikspild. Plastik er overalt – på land og til vands. Tre generationers forbrug af plastik har sat sine spor. Kun en lille del bliver genbrugt eller destrueret. Resten ligger i naturen i hundredvis af år. Vi arbejder for at reducere vores enorme plastikproduktion ved blandt andet at eliminere unødvendig engangsplastik fra vores produkter, ved at sætte bedre rammer for hvordan vi designer produkter til mere genbrug, og det plastik vi ikke kan genbruge, skal vi kunne genanvende. Vi arbejder både på politisk niveau, sammen med befolkningen, i samarbejde med innovationspartnere, på internationalt niveau, sammen med forskere og med at uddanne vores fremtidige generationer om problemet. Plastic Change består af et fast dedikeret team og en række uundværlige frivillige kræfter. Alle yder en stor, uvurderlig og professionel indsats for, at organisationen kan gennemføre sine ambitioner om at knække kurven for plastikproduktion og hermed plastikforurening.

The Sales Factory, founded in summer of 2019 has a clear goal of becoming a significant player in Norway & internationally. Beside close collaboration with established brands, we are closely linked to Startup Ecosystems, Chambers of Commerce’s, Embassies and Investor groups in Norway and abroad. We work with several exciting clients with a high "disruptive factor". The company has clear ambitions for growth, and will be a unique and exciting workplace to work at and develop for the right talents. We see ourselves as close allies to disruptive Startup/Scale ups who have a clear go to market strategy. By providing the sales force they need we'll help these selected companies to establish a market in Norway and beyond. With a collective experience of more than 50 years of sales among the Founders in combination with their in depth experience in the startup/segment, in regards to structuring, consulting, investments, etc. The Sales Factory aims to become the natural choice for Startup/Scale ups who have a clear agenda to reach unicorn status.

Quartal is a full-stack Stockholm-based market entry and venture building firm. We are specialized in helping international companies expand to Sweden without any hassle and at the same time help them reach their fullest potential in the Swedish market and globally. We are able to help our clients to expand their business globally through our 130+ market entry consulting network covering over 100 markets while leapfrogging from Sweden. Our distinguished partners and entrepreneurs have the experience and know-how to cover a company's whole life-cycle, from incorporation to IPO. Our services have been provided to companies from many countries such as Iceland, Germany, France, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Lithuania, Egypt and many more. We have provided our services to humble startups in the FMCG sector to multinational tech firms while helping them become a frontrunner in their industries in Sweden and globally. We are driven by developing international companies to become more sustainable and agile. Sustainability and technology is two main cornerstones in our company and we believe that our approach can be a positive contribution to a better world.