Proteams is a freelancer platform supporting leading multinational enterprises in flexible workforce management by building and managing teams of top freelancers. With its dedicated hypercare support team, Proteams assures successful delivery and significant savings compared to traditional vendors. Learn more on proteams.com

Coinify ApS is an established global virtual currency platform actively offering solutions in Europe, Asia and other regions. Coinify’s services include: individual currency trading, corporate brokerage, payment processing services, and Enterprise solutions via Coinify API. Our mission is to mainstream the use of virtual currencies and thus help businesses and individuals to adopt financial innovation. Moreover, Coinify can be seen as a bridge for merchants that can e.g. accept blockchain payments in 15 currencies and receive payouts in fiat. Coinify team consists of strong backgrounds in payments, finance, risk, e-commerce, and compliance areas and experience in working with digital currencies since 2010. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is owned by US-based Voyager.

Hoxhunt was founded in 2016 by four visionaries. Today, we are a team of 200+ amazing Hoxhunters advancing one of the hottest scale-up companies in the human risk management category, with locations in Finland, Germany, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Hoxhunt is one of the fastest-growing software companies in Finland, premiering in the Deloitte Fast 50 rankings for three consecutive years. Hoxhunt educates employees on how to protect themselves and their employers against malicious cyberattacks. Our core belief is that the best way to do this is through frequent, personalized, and behavior-changing cybersecurity training. We have been featured in CIO Magazine, Forbes, Inc., EU-Startups, and many more publications.

We map the built world. MapsPeople has developed the world-leading indoor mapping platform and is used by some of the most well-known global brands across multiple industries. MapsIndoors is a dynamic indoor mapping platform that integrates seamlessly into any existing smart building applications for many use cases. Using outdoor mapping engines like Google Maps or Mapbox, MapsIndoors takes mapping one step further by extending its capabilities to indoor spaces.

DBtune (www.dbtune.com) is an innovative AI startup based in the vibrant Malmö area, a short train ride away from Copenhagen, Denmark, and Lund and Helsingborg, Sweden. Since our founding in 2020, our dedicated team of engineers and Ph.D. researchers has been on a mission to revolutionize cloud and database systems using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. DBtune's core technology is a fully automated service designed to optimize databases. Our optimizer, based on machine learning, tailors each optimization to the specific customer workload and hardware in use. This approach leads to improved key performance indicators, making the process of database tuning more efficient and scalable across hundreds of instances. By utilizing DBtune, users enhance their databases' performance while significantly reducing cloud costs and environmental impact. We have garnered support from institutional and angel investors in the EU and the US, along with pre-seed funding from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (KAW). With a growing customer base, DBtune is poised to expand its influence even further, scaling our operations to bring AI-driven database optimization to a broader audience.

AIContentfy specializes in state-of-the-art AI content generation help businesses create high-quality content quickly and efficiently. Our tech is designed to provide users with an intuitive experience, allowing them to generate SEO articles for increased organic growth, especially for other startups who may not be able to invest in a blog otherwise. Our business model is a product + agency hybrid where we offer typical SEO services such as link building and article SEO optimization. We've used the same combo to grow our company website to over 200,000 monthly visitors. At AIContentfy, we are committed to helping businesses succeed in their content marketing efforts by providing them all they need to generate more business online. Our customer base includes well-known Finnish tech startup and growth companies, but also more traditional eCommerce companies. We're currently a 20 person team, fully remote. The company is lead by an experienced founder who has exited another marketing SaaS company to Silicon Valley.

Proptly was founded in 2021 by Kristoffer Gjerde, Gunnar Windsand Sem, and Thomas Kristiansen, with a bold vision to transform the often-overlooked, yet critical, part of the climate tech ecosystem: installations. What started as a casual conversation over Christmas drinks about the headaches of managing contractors, quickly turned into a mission to streamline the installation process for climate tech solutions across Europe. We recognized that while there’s no shortage of companies innovating in the climate tech space—producing world-class EV chargers, heat pumps, and solar panels—the bottleneck often lies in getting these technologies deployed quickly and efficiently. That’s where Proptly comes in. We’ve built a B2B marketplace that connects climate tech companies with a network of skilled, vetted installers, making sure that cutting-edge green technologies reach consumers without the typical delays and frustrations. Think of it like Uber for installations: companies get real-time data on installer performance, response times, and customer satisfaction, allowing them to scale their operations with ease. Revolutionizing the Installation Process Our platform tackles a glaring inefficiency in the market—the installation bottleneck—by ensuring that the best installers, backed by proven performance metrics, are always available to deploy climate tech solutions. For climate tech companies, we’re solving a massive headache: ensuring their innovations get installed, not just built. For contractors, we’re providing consistent job opportunities, helping them grow their businesses in a fast-expanding green economy. With $4 million in seed funding, high-profile partnerships including Easee, Sungrow, and Coop, and a stellar team of industry veterans from companies like Kahoot, Oda, McKinsey, EY, Tesla, and Easee, we’re setting the standard for how climate tech installations should be done. Our Vision Proptly aims to become the leading B2B marketplace for order-to-installation processes across Europe and beyond. With climate tech adoption on the rise, we aim to play a crucial role in accelerating the deployment of these technologies, helping the world transition to a greener future more efficiently. We’re not just about getting the job done; we’re about getting it done right—with transparency, speed, and customer satisfaction at the heart of everything we do.

Platform6 as the epicenter of the Tampere startup ecosystem: one stop for all things startup. Located in the heart of Tampere in the Tulli business area, Platform6 Startup House opened its doors in October 2020 and is already home to more than 70 early-stage startups and more than 10 organizations working closely to support all stages from ideation to international expansion. How we help startups Startups need a lot more than just an office and fast internet. They need a home offering everything the teams need in order to quickly scale and grow their business. The right environment to support all stages from ideation to international expansion. Facilitate access to investment/funding, mentors, strategic partners, top talent and potential customers. We are a Community, not just a space A strong and like-minded community of entrepreneurs, investors, incubation & acceleration programs, advisors, and partners connecting startups with critical resources to create, launch and accelerate high-growth businesses at a global scale in a safe, resilient friendly environment. Behind Operations Platform6 is operated by Tampere Startup Hub Oy. We are a non-profit organization of serial entrepreneurs, startups and local community builders hosting the Tampere startup ecosystem under the same roof, by the community for the community. Join us in empowering the community and accelerate disruption in Tampere.Finland!

Getting paid for hard work is an essential element to our livelihood. Yet, at the same time, it is often one of the least digitally advanced and user-friendly experiences we offer to our employees. We are here to change that. We want to make it flexible and easy to get paid and enable everyone to choose for themselves how and when they want it done. Pento's cloud-based payroll automates everything from tax calculations to payments, letting you run payroll for any business in minutes - not days.

Age Labs is a Norwegian molecular diagnostics company that discovers, develops and commercializes biomarkers for the early detection of age-related diseases. We offer a service for evaluating epigenetic drug effects for use in clinical trials. Our biomarker discovery pipeline includes a biological age predictor and a test predicting the severity of COVID-19 infection. To date, we have raised 30 MNOK in private and public funding, and became a Nordic Startup Awards finalist in 2020. We are supported by strong commercial and R&D partners, including Oslo University Hospital, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Merck Group and Fürst Medical Laboratory. Our mission is to develop novel precision biomarkers for the early detection of age related diseases to extend the human healthspan.

We know machine learning will change the world, but to do so, the people building that future need the right tools and methods to do so. That's why we are here – with Valohai's MLOps platform created for ML Pioneers, we give our customers everything they've been missing in one platform that just makes sense. We build the backbone of the AI-powered future. Valohai is a rapidly growing startup that specialises in machine learning and artificial intelligence, committed to providing cutting-edge technology solutions to businesses looking to leverage data in a meaningful way. We have made it easy for ML teams to collaborate on everything from models to metrics, allowing them to build faster and deliver stronger products to the world, pushing the boundaries of what anyone out there ever dreamed they could do with ML. With Valohai, they can now run thousands of experiments at the click of a button – creating models they trust. All while using the tools they love to build things to last. With Valohai, you will work with companies across industries, from medical imaging to biomedical engineering and geospatial intelligence to automotive. Our customers are working with game-changing projects that are yet far from the eyes of the public, redefining what is possible to achieve with machine learning. Companies like Boston Scientific, ICEYE, JFrog, Yousician, Path Robotics, Syngenta, Preligens, and many others trust Valohai. We've been working since 2016 with a team whose background comes from engineering and building core infrastructure. Our team members come from organisations like Leap Motion, Unity, Quest Analytics, Uber, Microsoft, DataRobot, and AppDynamics. At Valohai, we take our work seriously, but we don't take ourselves too seriously. We pride ourselves on having a culture that’s radically open and fun. We like to think our sense of humor is as good as our technology solutions. We work hard to ensure everyone has the full freedom to express themselves and their thoughts. Productivity isn’t dead serious. We stand out by not being afraid to make people smile while making their lives easier. We encourage you to bring your pinch of quirky to the mix. Our mission is to free machine learning teams from repetitive, mundane tasks. We allow data scientists to concentrate on building models and benefiting humankind with their discoveries. We believe in open standards, technology-agnostic development models, teamwork, and fairness. Hopefully, you do too! If yes, you might be just the person we are looking to strengthen our team and join Valohai!

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!

KROM Kendama was born to fulfill the vision of producing the highest quality of kendamas in the world while keeping it funky and relatable, striving to make kendama the biggest secondary sport in the world. Since the beginning of the company, we’ve worked on spreading kendama on a global scale. The rise and growth of the kendama community has allowed KROM to spread, and the team to travel the entire world. In 2010 KROM was founded by 2014 freestyle kendama world champion Thorkild May in hopes of igniting the kendama love wherever possible. Since then we’ve worked hard to develop the kendama culture worldwide from the KROM HQ & Shop in Copenhagen. From the KROM Shop, we host a weekly kendama club and work to support similar initiatives like kendama clubs in Colorado and Latvia. We also sponsor a large number of events every year with prizes and pro players and host events ourselves, like the 2019 European Kendama Championships. As kendama was developing across the world, KROM naturally grew with it and the ideas of creating our own kendamas and becoming more involved in the community couldn’t be kept down. In the latter half of 2012 KROM Kendama went from mainly being a crew of homies playing and distributing kendamas to starting the learning process of creating the best possible kendamas out there. Leading up DAMAFEST 2013, the North American kendama championships, KROM started to pick up steam with the recognition of the clean dama designs and crazy tricks. Thorkild May and teammate Mathias Rasmussen ended up winning the American Freestyle Championships, laying down what has become a staple of the KROM image: the signature Danish flow and the recognizably funky kendamas. Since then KROM has developed and grown even further, we’re constantly striving to represent the kendama community in the best way possible, and of course to provide the best possible products to all the supporters in across the globe. With every new kendama, we’re determined to improve both the playability and the design. For these purposes and more, we’ve gathered the most winning team in the world, composed of internationally acclaimed players with several World and European championship titles, as well as a lot of homies to help us reach our goals. We’re grateful to be able to take kendama to new heights through our work and we look forward to seeing where kendama takes us next. We’ll keep working to bring the joy of kendama to new people every single day. Kendama is unique in its ability to improve your cognitive functions and your hand-eye coordination while connecting people everywhere, even across language barriers, making us able to communicate all over the world. Kendama provides something real and tangible in a time where things are becoming more abstract than ever before. We love the toy that lets us step away from an increasingly digital world, allowing us to refresh and reconnect with the people around us. We hope that you can feel our passion and affection through the products we create. All the best, The KROM fam

Hublet is the easiest way to offer and maintain a fleet of tablets for your customers, students and employees. The tablets are always customized to fit your needs and work only in pre-defined WiFi networks. The Hublet Dock keeps your tablets locked, always updated and charged. To make life easy, Hublet comes with an all-in-one service deal including the Hublet Dock, Hublet Tablets and the Hublet Manager - a simple web-based management tool.

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.