Scaleup Finance is founded by entrepreneurs, and we know the pains of being a scaleup CEO. One of the biggest recurring pains is the general administration surrounding bookkeeping, payroll, auditing, financial modelling and other admin-type tasks. They drain the founders of energy. Yet another pain is that no solution completely fit a scaleup company. The big accountancy firms or smaller bookkeeping companies/persons are not only expensive but also insufficient. Right now, no offer understand scaleup companies nor are they designed for their needs. The category is stuck in old ways of working, and scaleups do not get any added value. We need to move into a new generation of financial steering to help value creation in scaleups. Scaleup Finance is put into the world to challenge this. We are always one innovative step ahead, and we aim to become a crucial form of actionable business intelligence where you can effectively get an overview of everything which relates to controlling your company. All of this based on unique insights of scaleup companies.

YOU KNOW IT Sitting at a Restaurant and trying to get in contact with a waiter to either order or pay the bill. You can see that the staff is busy and not very easy to get eye contact with. In some cases it takes 10-15 minutes to either order or pay the bill. THE SOLUTION IS It’s a software developed to assist the staff while serving all the visiting guests by allowing the guests to order and pay through their own smartphones. This application minimizes waiting time and dispersion of bacteria, it eliminates queues and increases up sales. Despite all of that it’s also a direct marketing channel between restaurant and guest. Vision: Quickit’s vision is to be the leading Scandinavian ordering and paying application when dining in. Mission: Quickit aims to streamline the service by assisting the waiters and become the quickest and easiest way to order and pay. Problems solved with Quickit - Minimizing waiting time - Eliminating queues - Empty tables - Streamlining service - Up sale - Marketing directly to the guests We were a bunch of girls who enjoyed meeting up at cafés to chat about all and nothing for hours, as a break from our exams and boyfriends. We would buy a café latte and then one more and sometimes we would have wine instead. The only problem we met again and again, were the time we had to wait for the waiter in between our orders and mainly when we wanted to pay the bill and leave. Often the result were that we wouldn’t order the extra café latte or glass of wine, because it simply took to long time. The subject of our conversation then changed into how we could solve this problem and optimize our visits and so the concept began to take shape. Not only would the concept solve the problem that gave us the idea, but it’s beneficial for so many other reasons. Like during Covid where we need to social distance and the restaurants gets a direct marketing channel to their guests to promote themselves and set up nice deals to fill their tables. With my (Anne Sofie, Founder) 7 year industry knowledge from being a waiter and manager alongside with my studies, I could then put together the two needs from respectively a business and an user and create a beneficial concept that would make the restaurant experience even better!

Prezentor is the Sales Enablement platform for strategic growth in sales. Our interactive sales content universe has a proven effect on the customer dialogue and sales conversion! Prezentor improve sales rep performance, enrich CRM with consistent and high quality data and (last but definitely not least) provide marketing and sales management with invaluable customer insights from every single customer meeting. Simply put, we make sales more human by optimising everything between a buyer and a seller before, during and after sales meetings. We are a team of approx. 20 passionate sales and buyer experience enthusiasts based in Copenhagen, Denmark and Vinnytsia, Ukraine. We have a big passion for sales and marketing and together we are on a mission to change the way B2B sales is done, make CRM entry automatic (yay!) and sales presentations intelligent. Companies like Tryg, CircleK, SaxoBank, Codan and many more already use our platform to make sure their sales operations are ahead of the game! What are some of the problems that we solve? 1. Prezentor help align company brand and message across sales reps, teams and departments 2. Automatic data collection from every customer meeting (automatically collecting and creating customer data and history in CRM) - currently a blind spot for 95% of all companies! 3. Tracking and actionable insights from emailed sales material - helping sales reps to qualify their leads and close deals faster! 4. Providing data and insights to marketing about what and how sales content is being used, by which reps, with what type of customers - helping marketing to optimise content based on data of what works vs. doesn't work! 5. Sales reps save time with all sales content in one place, always updated, available online and offline - never waste time searching folders, emails or the intranet again! 6. Interactive sales presentations, ROI and cost calculators, video and links/hotspots - make sales content come to life and use interactive elements to effectively uncover customer needs and sell based on value! 7. Data and actionable insights about sales reps behaviour before, during and after sales meetings for better coaching and faster on-boarding of new sales reps! Want to be part of an amazing growth journey and get responsibility from day one? Join us!

aTalent is a recruiting company founded in 2004, owned by The Guild of Industrial Engineering and Management Prodeko ry, KY- Aalto University business students and Prodeko alumni ry. Our headquarter are in Autotalo in Kamppi, Helsinki, where we have approximately 60 young professionals working. In 2016 we opened an office in Tallinn in order to secure our growth in the future as well. Our operations are based on three things: - Satisfied customers - Motivated, talented and committed personnel - Evolving and value creating talents aTalent specializes in young educated professionals in the beginning of their careers in the fields of IT, technology and business.

THINGS is the industry focused deep tech and innovation hub in Sweden, located on the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) campus. Our vision is to transform innovation in small companies into large scale value creation through collaboration with corporates. Our current focus areas are Internet of Things, Automation, Robotics, Machine Learning/AI, Mobility and Energy. We are housed within a 2,000m2 co-working space for startups, connected to an extended community of close corporate partners, including some of the most successful and innovative export companies in Sweden.

Redefining LinkedIn analytics since 2019. All your people. All your posts. All in one dashboard. For corporate creators and the teams behind them. Shield aggregates data, analytics, and insights, across personal LinkedIn profiles for brands and corporate creators everywhere. #shieldapp #weareshield #corporatecreators

Utilifeed is a young innovative company that provides cloud based services (SAAS) for utilities. Our solutions combine industrial expertise with modern IT-infrastructure and data analysis, creating user-friendly but powerful tools which enable increased resource utilization, improved customer relations and reduced environmental footprint. We are passionate about using the latest technology within digital and energy systems to tailor solutions that power the sustainable energy system of tomorrow.

The main piece of equipment in the gym is the barbell. It is as simple in its form as it is timeless in its design. But when it comes to using the proper safety equipment that comes with the barbell, that’s when the flaws become visible. Today’s methods of securing weight plates to a barbell is done by using collars or clips, which often lead to a poor user experience, and they are often hard to put on and pull off, can easily break or slip during lifts, they are often hard to find and even disappears. The Olympic barbell has remained virtually the same for the last 93 years, and despite today’s standards, improvements can be made. In a seemingly ever-growing market, people’s expectations of safety, design, quality, and user-friendliness in products are on the rise. Gungnir of Norway is a Norwegian startup company that designs and manufactures high-quality gym equipment. The company’s first product is the Allrounder, a standard Olympic barbell with built-in collars for securing weight plates. The built-in collar system or “SlideLock” makes the lifting experience safer, faster, easier, and more reliable than the standard safety equipment in use today. Also, the SlideLock system can be applied to several other bar types like compact group training bars or loadable dumbbells. This solution has shown enormous potential in the fitness market, which we intend to continue to take advantage of. The SlideLock is the first of many solutions that we seek to create within the fitness equipment industry. We started as a company in 2018 in Oslo, Norway, with an idea for a better solution to a problem well known to many who use weightlifting equipment regularly. Gungnir’s vision is to become the new standard solution for securing weight plates worldwide. A game-changing solution to a century old problem.

SHIFT Business Festival is a platform that has brought together C-level decision-makers, business developers, and tech-heads from growth companies across the board since 2016. The highlight of the year is a two-day business festival in Turku, Finland. We encourage and support our festival attendees and partners to find their competitive advantage in new technology applications and sustainable business. Our company is based in Turku and is the most important business event in the region and a solid actor in the local business ecosystem. Behind SHIFT is a non-profit organization driven by volunteers and supported by network with firm supporters like Turku Science Park, Boost Turku, JCI, Creve, Turku Chamber of Commerce and Federation of Finnish Enterprises.

Walk With Path (WWP) is a health-tech company focused on improved mobility, injury prevention and user-centred design. Our products offer multiple opportunities; as therapeutic aids to improve mobility and prevent falls, and within personalised medicine, clinical trials and diagnostics. Opportunities in adjacent markets, such as sports, are also being explored. Check out an interview with our founder, and a video with our founder and a user of our first product, Path Finder, here: https://www.theguardian.com/advertiser-content/axa-health-tech-and-you/heroes-of-health-tech-path-finder-lise-pape

DANISH ENDURANCE is a Danish sports brand, born with the mission of sharing the Danish spirit of happiness through endurance. Thanks to the combination of Danish design, conscious manufacturing, and collaboration with Olympic Athletes, we are proud to provide you with high-quality products that are created with attention to detail in every aspect of production.

Unruly gets videos seen, shared and loved across the open web for brands that want to move people, not just reach people.By bringing emotional intelligence to digital advertising, we help 91% of Ad Age 100 brands inform and inspire 1.44bn people around the world, using polite outstream formats on sites that people love. UnrulyX, the viewable video SSP, creates better ad experiences for consumers, improved brand outcomes for advertisers and increased revenues for top-flight publishers.Emotion matters in marketing. Emotion creates values and sets preferences. Inspires action. Drives sales. Unruly has a decade's data of consumer responses to video and uses that to hone content, model audiences and deploy ad dollars in ways that heighten emotional response and maximise brand impact.

About SwayQ The better company behind creator partnerships. SwayQ helps brands and creators work together through transparent fees, stronger trust, and better matching than the old agency model allows. Born in Copenhagen. Built for the world. SwayQ was built because the old agency model is too opaque, too expensive, and too far removed from the real partnership. Brands often pay more than they should without full clarity on fit, creators give up too much of the value they create, and both sides are asked to trust a process they cannot fully see. We built SwayQ to make the economics, the matching, and the trust clearer. We believe the economics of influence should be visible, the matching should be genuine, and both sides should see the same terms. Category over roster Matching is based on category themes and verified platform signals — not on whichever creators happen to be on an agency roster. AI-assisted matching is coming soon. Trust, not leverage Both sides see the same terms. No information asymmetry, no hidden incentives, no leverage games.

At Norlix, we are building a digital insurance and pension brokerage from the ground up. The industry is still defined by manual workflows, legacy systems, and advisory services that only happen periodically. That creates friction and means coverage and risk often lag behind how companies actually evolve. We are building a different model. By combining integrations, structured data, and continuous analysis, we make advisory proactive instead of reactive. In practice, we focus on: • Automated and continuous data collection • Ongoing assessment of risk and coverage • Systematic monitoring of the market • Data driven optimization instead of periodic reviews Our ambition is simple: To make insurance and pension advisory more precise, more transparent, and far less dependent on manual processes. We have raised 30 mio. DKK at the start of 2026, grown to 25+ people, and are building fast with a strong team that genuinely enjoys working together. We are still early, but that is exactly the point. What we build now will define how insurance and pension should work going forward.

We're builders who love teaching what we do. Vibelabs helps everyone become builders, teaching people with no coding experience how to build software and tools with AI. Nearly 1,000 people have gone through our programs, including teams from Telenor, OBOS, Mesta, and other leading Norwegian organizations. We partner with StartupLab to bring AI skills to corporate innovators and early-stage founders. But we don't just teach, we build. We launch our own ventures, and help founders, operators, and small teams turn ideas into real, scalable products. Combining AI-native workflows, rapid prototyping, and modern product thinking, we move fast without cutting corners. From early MVPs to production-ready platforms, we focus on execution, clarity, and momentum. The barrier to building software just dropped to near zero. Companies that get this will move faster. People who get this will have a massive edge. We're here to make sure as many as possible get there, practically, not theoretically.