Bliqat is building the AI-native operating system for the construction and installation industry. We help contractors eliminate the administrative work that takes time away from billable work by automating everything from customer visits and quote generation to project management, documentation, and invoicing. Construction is one of the world's largest industries, yet millions of small and medium-sized contractors still rely on fragmented software, spreadsheets, and manual processes. Administration often consumes 20–30% of their working time, while slow and inefficient quoting leads to lost revenue and poor customer experiences. Bliqat uses AI to transform a simple voice description into a professional quote in under a minute and automates the workflows that follow. By embedding AI into contractors' daily operations, we continuously learn each company's pricing, customers, and workflows, creating proprietary workflow intelligence, increasing switching costs, and becoming the system of record for the business. Our vision is to become the AI operating system powering millions of contractors across Europe, helping them spend less time on administration and more time serving customers and growing their businesses.

Componental began with a simple but stubborn curiosity: what happens when musicians are given tools that invite exploration instead of prescribing outcomes? Founded by musicians and technologists, Componental was born out of years spent taking instruments apart, questioning workflows, and searching for better ways to stay connected to the joy of making music. At the heart of Componental is a belief that technology should feel playable, expressive, and a little bit magical. Our work is deeply rooted in electronic music culture, from studios and live stages to DIY scenes and experimental communities, but always with an eye toward the future. Dubby, our first product, grew from this mindset: a versatile music multi-tool designed to remove friction, spark ideas, and encourage happy accidents rather than constrain creativity. We build slowly, thoughtfully, and with intention. Every decision, from hardware design to DSP, from software workflows to community features, is guided by real musicians, real use cases, and real curiosity. Componental isn't about chasing trends or shipping features for the sake of it. It's about creating instruments people can grow with, trust, and return to again and again. As we move forward, our mission stays the same: to design musical tools that feel alive, honest, and deeply inspiring, tools that invite you to explore sound on your own terms. Dubby, our music multi-tool, is a hands-on electronic music instrument that lets you build sounds, perform live, and explore ideas in real time. It bridges the gap between studio experimentation and stage performance, without locking you into presets, genres, or workflows.

The Problem: What problem are you attempting to solve, and how big is it? Children suffering from school refusal systematically fall out of the education system because traditional teaching methods fail to meet their individual learning needs. Today, 110,000 children have experienced school refusal—equivalent to one in five students. This target group becomes isolated at home during their school years, which later leads to difficulties in securing and maintaining employment, costing society 2.2 billion annually. Research shows that the most critical factor for these students is restoring their self-confidence regarding learning; they need to experience learning as a positive activity and process the traumas that led to their school refusal (The Back2School Modular Cognitive Behavioral Intervention, 2024). Therefore, before attempting to reintegrate students into the physical school environment, it is crucial to rebuild their confidence and bring them up to the academic level of their peers to reduce feelings of stigmatization. The Solution: What is your idea? Describe your product or service. GradeAid is an AI agent that creates personalized learning experiences. Students simply scan their homework or verbalize what they wish to learn. Our AI then generates tailored content derived from pedagogically validated materials, specifically designed for children who lack academic confidence or have fallen behind. The system continuously learns from the student's interactions and automatically adapts the curriculum. This helps restore the self-confidence and joy of learning that many of these students lack, while ensuring the process is both personalized and fun. The platform features a 24/7 AI tutor providing instant feedback. Through gamification, students earn coins for their virtual pets. This approach was selected because research has long established that gamification effectively builds confidence and helps children re-engage with learning (Impact of gamification on school engagement: a systematic review, 2024). Instead of forcing the child to fit the system, our technology adapts to the child's way of learning. Our intention is to build confidence so that children find it easier to return to school, equipped with the mental energy to focus on social reintegration. The platform supports both English and Danish. We are currently testing the Danish version.

Hefring Marine is an Icelandic data-driven marine deep-tech company leveraging Machine Learning and Internet of Things (IoT). Our hardware-enabled Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution provides vessel operators and control systems with decision-making support and monitoring insights for improved safety, fuel efficiency and maintenance planning. We are a dynamic team with backgrounds in software development, mechanical and electrical engineering, condition and vibration monitoring, and Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. As well as boat building and design, business development and strategy, sales and marketing, and product and service development. Our ambition is to be the leading provider of data-driven solutions that empower the intelligent future fleet to be safer, more efficient and more capable of autonomous decision-making.

About ARTificial Mind: ARTificial Mind is an art-tech studio founded by artist Cecilie Waagner Falkenstrøm. For over eight years, we have been pioneering the creation of interactive AI art using machine learning techniques, particularly large language models (LLMs). Our work has gained international acclaim, with exhibitions at some of the world's most renowned museums, and even in space aboard NASA’s section of the International Space Station. www.artificialmind.ai About NobodyWho: NobodyWho is an open-source software platform designed to empower game developers, even those with no experience in large language models (LLMs), to create offline-first, locally processed, and compute-efficient dialogue systems for non-player characters (NPCs) in video games. Our core product is a copyleft-licensed plugin compatible with several game engines. https://gitlab.com/nobodywho/nobody NobodyWho is a spin-out from the art-tech studio ARTificial Mind. We share office space in the heart of Copenhagen.

Advancing UXO Detection through Drone Innovation At Dropla Tech ApS, we believe that sensor fusion and AI hold immense potential to transform the detection and removal of unexploded ordnance (UXO). Developing autonomous drone systems that integrate the latest: • Multispectral sensors to rapidly scan the land and precisely locate UXO underground • Machine learning algorithms that fuse data from multiple layers to identify anomalies indicating potential explosive hazards • High-resolution 3D mapping capabilities to generate high-precision georeferenced maps marking UXO hotspots and safe zones to guide safe and efficient removal Latest data cleaning and processing techniques enable our drones to cover territory much faster - making surveys up to 10x more efficient. We realize true impact requires more than technology alone. That's why Dropla researchers: • Collaborate closely with demining groups to ensure our drone solutions meet real-world needs • Contribute data and insights back to the community through open dataset initiatives that advance the broader UXO detection field Our true north will always be the same: to harness technological progress for good by helping rid conflict zones of unexploded threats and giving communities an opportunity to rebuild.

Sidestream is a company that works to promote circularity in the food industry. We do this by matching and handling food industry by-products and waste streams between the businesses that have them, and those can use them. Our goal is to get undervalued food waste streams back into the food supply chain where they can be put to better use.

Operta is a newly born startup with a dynamic team. Operta's vision is to empower landlords and property managers with a cutting-edge SAAS solution that optimizes property and tenant management, enabling streamlined operations, efficient communication, elevated tenant satisfaction, and business scalability. Through our SAAS product, we want to connect landlords/property managers, tenants, and service providers (e.g., plumbers, electricians, painters) in one single platform allowing both maintenance and management of rental properties.

Model Prices is the world's largest index of model train models and prices. On the Model Prices website, users can search for models across more than 1,000 shops from all over the world + compare prices across all the shops. Model Prices covers everything related to model trains: Rolling stock, track, landscape, buildings, etc.

Stack by.me is a social media platform where users can invest together, making investments more engaging and available to non-professionals - especially women. Today, there is a substantial capital gap in Norway and globally. In Norway, the gap is as large as a Norwegian state budget. (which is huge!) - only 20% of the value of Oslo Børs is owned by women today - Women invest 63% less than men, on average - while we only make 11% less - At the same time, 86% of all min. pension receivers are women, so women should be investing more - not less! Why is that? Women tell us - they don´t feel like they have enough knowledge - they don´t know who to ask for help Through the Stack-app, we give them the network to learn from and discuss investments - in an easy and fun way.

Hemie is on a mission to help people find an apartment according to their life situation. We do so by providing a mobile application for rental apartment switches, rent out apartment, and finding a subcontract. We are present in Sweden, mostly in the big cities with currently 6000+ users since our launch, September 22.

Settle Group (formerly Auka) is a Norwegian fintech company enabling banks to launch their own mobile payments service to fight the competition from third-party providers, startups and other banks. In 2016 we were awarded the fastest-growing fintech company in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) by Deloitte. Settle Group has built a white-label financial services platform featuring real-time payments, complex clearing and settlements, card processing and more. Auka is the first regulated financial services company to run fully in the cloud. We first launched our technology to the Norwegian market in 2014 under the brand mCASH. In 2015 we sold the mCASH-operation to SpareBank 1 focusing on global sales of our white-label financial services platform. We’re always on the lookout for skilled personnel sharing our vision to become the backbone of modern banking.

Trifork is a global NextGen IT company that develops innovative software solutions in collaboration with its customers. The company has more than 1,000 employees, across 61 business units, with offices in 12 countries in Europe and the USA, and works in six business areas: Digital Health, FinTech, Smart Building, Cloud Operations, Cyber Protection and Smart Enterprise. Trifork’s research and development takes place in Trifork Labs, where Trifork continuously co-invests and develops technology start-up companies. Trifork is behind the brand, GOTO, which runs a global tech community with more than 38 million views on YouTube.

Pale Blue Dot is a €87M seed-stage venture capital firm investing in climate tech startups that reduce and reverse the climate crisis and help us prepare for a new world. Pale Blue Dot is based in Malmö, Sweden, and invests in early stage companies, in Europe and the US.

MyBlueLabel offers the LifeScience industry a very transparent and well-crafted state-of-the-art software(eQMS) to make complicated rules easier to understand, fast-tracking their way to market at a fraction of the normal cost – subsequently being able to help millions of users, patients, and relatives.