Slush is the world's leading startup event connecting founders with what and whom they need while building a new, inclusive and more purposeful culture of entrepreneurship. Slush is organized annually and in 2022, we are back in Nov 17-18. In addition to the main event, we have 3 other products: Node by Slush, Soaked by Slush and Slush'D that all aim to create and help founders.

StageZero Technologies is a venture backed AI data start-up based in Helsinki on a mission to accelerate the AI revolution. Founded based on ethical principles and operated by AI industry experts, the company is now one of the only EU-based and GDPR-compliant AI data providers. GDPR-compliant data is in many AI cases a bottleneck and 80% of AI project time is allocated to data issues. StageZero Technologies offers enterprise solutions for all aspects of data in AI projects. The company specializes in Natural Language Processing, computer vision, and custom algorithms.

EHUB is an innovative analytics platform designed to help teams enhance their performance by analyzing their communication dynamics, with an initial focus on professional esports, specifically CS:GO. Our startup combines Natural Language Processing (NLP), voice analysis, and domain expertise with cutting-edge research to provide actionable insights for improving communication strategies. Our primary goal is to expand our technology into other high-pressure team environments where effective communication is crucial, such as other sports, defense/military operations, emergency response units, and corporate teams. We believe that our unique approach to communication analysis can revolutionize the way teams in various domains evaluate and enhance their performance. Having already attracted attention from the Danish Government and secured a grant to continue the development of our prototype, we are well-positioned to make a significant impact in the esports industry as our first application. By demonstrating our platform's value in the competitive world of esports, we aim to showcase the potential benefits our technology can bring to a wide range of high-stakes team environments.

Fenerum is the virtual CFO for SaaS companies. The platform automize subscription management, billing, bank reconciliation, bookkeeping and reporting in one total solution. We are providing different integrations from the platform, which makes it possible to charge your subscriptions with different payment options, and to enrich your customers with a lot of extra data, with the focus on safe time and achieving the right customers.

At DTACT we work on the front line of data automation and security development, exploring undiscovered grounds to fulfil our social (and corporate) responsibility. DTACT Raven is our flagship product, which is an end-to-end data pipeline and data streaming platform - built with a modular brick framework to work seamlessly with open source, proprietary and third-party software. The company was founded in the Netherlands in 2017, and a big portion of our team is Dutch, along with colleagues from Denmark, Germany, Singapore and Australia. Our tech stack consists mostly of React, Golang, Rust and Python. All resulting in a Cloud Native platform.

P27 Nordic Payments is building the world’s first real-time, cross-border payment system in multiple currencies. P27 will enable real-time, batch, domestic and cross-border payments to be carried out quickly and at low cost on a secure and versatile platform. The platform will initially allow payments to flow instantly between people and businesses within the countries of Denmark, Finland, and Sweden, something that will benefit growth and development in the region. The platform will be designed to be expandable to allow for payments across the rest of the Nordics as well, which will contribute to the strengthening of the Nordic payment’s ecosystem. P27 is a joint initiative by Danske Bank, Handelsbanken, Nordea, OP Financial Group, SEB, and Swedbank.

Digital Empowerment of Primary Care Vision: A digital PCP(doctor/nurse) companion that provides direct access to specialist advice and enhanced administrative support. This tool will improve the effectiveness and satisfaction of professionals working in primary care medicine. Status summer 2024: 1. Public tender for Denmark won: 80% of all doctors (almen praktis) will have Dermloop with 2 years 2. Already live in the USA 3. 700+ users of Dermloop

TechBuddy is the leading tech support brand in Europe. TechBuddy is a digital platform company offering high quality on-demand and on-site tech support by tapping into a large pool of tech-savvy talents. TechBuddy connects tech talent, so called “Buddies” with the near-infinite number of customers who need technical guidance and support. The business model of TechBuddy is to identify digital talents that are otherwise unemployed or underemployed, and empower them with the opportunity to make a good living in utilizing their skills towards serving a vast ocean of customers in need of technical support.

Sooma Oy is a pioneering Finnish medical technology SME with a mission to bring relief to the millions of people who suffer from depression worldwide. We have developed a non-invasive brain stimulation tool and a digital platform that has proven highly effective and safe for treating severe depression.

Well, it all started back in 2016 with a passion for luxury items combined with a determination to modernize online shopping, guaranteeing authentic, high quality products and service. A Retro Tale is a unique retailer of pre-owned luxury bags and accessories. Unlike other retailers, we own 100 percent of our items, which means we can offer you lower prices and faster deliveries. At A Retro Tale we work at our sole discretion and are not affiliated with any designer brands. Our ambition at A Retro Tale is to offer you a first-time experience for second-hand items. Each and every one of our items are handpicked, authenticated by independent experts, inspected, cleaned, and then graded by condition. We give you information about all the particular characteristics of each item, so you know exactly what tales your item has to tell. With us you can purchase like-new luxury items for a fraction of the retail price. Enjoy

Nhost is a development platform for building secure and scalable mobile and web apps. We manage and host the backend. We make sure it’s performant, secure, and scalable and because of the technology decisions we have made our users will be 5-10x more productive than conventional technologies. Our users can from day 1 focus on their app, on their users instead of managing infrastructure.

Keybird Instruments is developing a lightweight acoustic piano to help piano enthusiasts play with their preferred sound (acoustic) with practicality and price comparable to that of digital pianos. Over 75% of piano players prefer an acoustic sound, yet most play digital because of price, size, and weight. We want to combine the best of both worlds. We can offer an acoustic piano that weighs only 43+ 16 kg, while only occupying half a square meter of valuable living space. It can be transported in normal cars. The first model has a slightly reduced amount of keys (just like many digital keyboards) having all the keys for pop and jazz but also most of the classical music for the first five years in music school. We thus have a strong focus on sound quality, rather than loudness, and we can reach the low price due to automated production in the worlds largest factory. We started this because we needed it for ourselves and saw the need for others. We asked all the piano enthusiasts we could reach and get the interest in our product confirmed. The huge market of acoustic and digital piano (we combine the benefits) is what keeps us on pace to provide an excellent alternative to digital piano's, which often get boring in the long run (We're just sharing our customer insights here ;)

Biller - The next step in business payments We are an AI-powered “Buy Now, Pay Later” payment method that allows business buyers to order online and pay directly on invoice while performing real-time credit and fraud checks and a fully automated debtor management service. Thereby we reduce the operational burden and risk for the business seller while offering speed, flexibility and convenience for the business buyer e.g. by offering the buyer flexible payment terms. Biller may be brand new, but the brains behind it have been in the game for a long time. Our three founders earned their stripes at some of the biggest names in fintech. Now, they’re combining their expertise and energy to do something refreshingly new, and solve an age-old problem at the same time. We aim to be active in every EU country by 2024. That’s huge growth, but certainly within our reach. Shortly after we started Biller, a whole bunch of capital investors started beating down our door to get in. In the end, we partnered with Banking Circle, because they clearly see Biller’s potential to solve a real market challenge. We need talented people with the right skills to turn that potential into reality.

Ready to build the company foundation for a journey to improve the competitiveness of the small companies in Europe? Invoier’s journey started in a simple statement that we’d like to democratize the market for short term financing based on one of the best assets any company has - its customers. During the course of development Invoier is currently in possession of three significant value propositions: - To sellers of invoices - Realtime access to, and ensuring market price on short term capital through a marketplace for trading invoice that is scalable and suited for internationalization - To companies that wants better risk and cash flow predictions - RIPE™, our AI engine to measure risk on invoice level rather than on company level - To investors that are looking for risk adjusted returns - Investment vehicle (AIF fund) for buying invoices directly or on our marketplace, based on Invoier’s packaging that attract institutional capital looking for risk adjusted return Invoier is a Swedish fintech startup based in Stockholm. We have financing from the European Union to build, release and stand on our own feet after 2 years. The team has grown into 12 people and we are looking to expand to 20 in the next year.

ReDI School of Digital Integration is a tech-school with focus on digital empowerment of women with refugee- and immigrant background. We will offer free courses in IT and soft skills, and create a vibrant tech-community, that will give the women new professional and social opportunities. We strongly believe that successful integration and employment depends 50% on what you know and 50% about who you know, and therefore we will put the women in contact with people from the IT sector.