Vainu is building a Sales Intelligence platform that helps salespeople and marketers move forward. Powered by technology to collect, read and understand all company information ever written, Vainu makes these real-time company insights easily consumable directly in its customers' existing business systems. Headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, the company launched in 2013 and is now at €15 million in annual revenue with a team of 150, spread across Europe. Over 2,000 sales and marketing teams globally use Vainu’s data to personalize customer interactions at scale—ultimately leading to more sales.

IDUN audio is a Copenhagen-based startup developing spatial audio software for headphones, making them sound 3-dimensional, just like in real life. As humans we can naturally hear where sound is coming from, and how far away things are. But when listening with headphones we cannot use these abilities since all the sound is inside our heads. This is a very unnatural experience, making us tired at the end of the day. We are radically changing this with our breakthrough spatial audio technology using head tracking. With IDUNs technology running in the headphone, listening with headphones becomes as natural as in everyday situations.

FUTURE OF WORK We’re an employee experience platform empowering organizations to reduce churn and increase belongingness by strengthening community. Our Home Dinners and Homestay Platforms are designed to give colleagues a deeper sense of knowing, empathizing and inspiring each other. We believe in the power of human connections to inspire and transform. That’s why we put people at the center of everything we do. Our aim is to make the world a fairer and more empathic place – one human experience at a time.

AddSearch is an innovative SaaS company providing advanced and easy-to-use search solutions for websites of companies of all sizes. We are a growing and dynamic team of professionals and serve customers across all sectors in over 50 countries globally. A well-designed site search solution helps companies in improving online sales conversion and customer satisfaction, and decreasing customer support costs through easier and more accurate information discovery. Site search is a well under-utilized opportunity for vast amounts of companies across the globe, and we are seeing a growing interest in this space. Find out more about AddSearch: https://www.addsearch.com/

WE ARE BOB W. It means we’ve put together the ‘best of both worlds’- apartments where a boutique hotels meets authentic home. Out flats are always locally designed, authentic and work-friendly. Decked out with local stuff, and hotel linens & professional cleaning. All with 100% renewable energy. And the kitchen is fully equipped too. Oh, and we’ve also hooked up some sweet services in the local neighbourhood: A complimentary local gym and handpicked breakfast spots. We’ve carefully selected local tips too. So, if you’re well-travelled, get the best of both worlds with Bob W.

Hubro Education turns every student into a CEO in our online business simulation games. Practice is crucial to develop a deep understanding of any discipline, and Hubro’s business simulations offer an effective, engaging and innovative way to do just that in business education. We work with universities and business schools in more than 40 countries around the world. The company has a diverse team and will grow to 12 team members in early 2024. Our HQ is in Oslo at Rebel, Universitetsgata 2. As of June 2023, Hubro is wholly owned by Sage, a leading independent academic publisher with offices in Los Angeles, London, Washington DC, Singapore, New Delhi, and Melbourne. Read about the acquisition here: https://www.shifter.no/nyheter/et-av-verdens-storste-forlag-kjoper-norsk-edtech-startup/279172

Peppy Pals is an award-winning EdTech company developing playful and digital experiences for lifelong, social and emotional learning (EQ/SEL). The award-winning, language-free apps, books, movies, toys and activities designed for children ages 2-8 have proven to be effective in both homes and schools worldwide. By using storytelling and humor, Peppy Pals' unique way of learning sparks conversations between children and adults on important social and emotional skills such as empathy, emotions, self-esteem and problem-solving.

EMerald Geomodelling is a spin-off from the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI). Though we are a young company founded in 2019, our business is built on a decade of research and development at NGI. We are creating a tool that revolutionizes the way we build roads, railways, tunnels, and other types of infrastructure towards a more sustainable use of resources. By using AI to detect patterns and manage uncertainties, we provide critical insights early on in large building projects that help our clients make better decisions. Why do we do this? Worldwide, building infrastructure costs billions of dollars. Too often, actual costs go way over budget. These extra billions spent are a huge burden on society. Our mission is to lessen that burden. By helping our clients build roads, railways, and tunnels with fewer costly interventions, we help free up funds for other worthy social and environmental goals.

Turis is the wholesale eCommerce platform of the future. We enable brands and manufacturers to allow their retailers to place orders in a digital format to make wholesale ordering quick and pain-free. We are extremely user focused and strive to deliver a best-in-class ordering experience. Similarly, we want to make implementation a breeze and a task that should be done in days, not months.

Freelancerhub helps IT agencies to manage their freelancers.   Freelancerhub makes it easy to find the best freelancer for the customer's needs. At its core is an innovative, self-learning algorithm which clusters synonyms and establishes relationships between technologies. Thereby it is the first platform that can find matches in related data, which hugely increases the chances of finding relevant freelancers. Around this algorithm a platform has been developed managing the data of freelancers. Many skilled IT people excel at their work, but are lost between thousands of CVs. Freelance agencies rarely use more than 10% of the freelancers in their database. There lies a huge potential in activating the remaining 90%. Our mission is to enable IT freelance agencies effectively to find the best matches between a given task and their CV database. Thereby the focus can shift from finding any match to finding the best.

A powerful wave is sweeping across the world, moving control of personal information away from businesses and back into the hands of consumers. However, this new paradigm of data privacy brings new challenges as well: It has imposed unprecedented trade barriers and legal complexities between companies and across the countries in which they operate. We are here to enable companies to become amazing data citizens and make it effortless to do business in a global world.

Fantasma Games has the perfect mix to create the next generation slots. With backgrounds from the leading gaming and gambling companies, we got a deep understanding on how we want to influence the market. Fantasma Games is a Stockholm based game studio founded in 2017. The company vision is to create slots beyond gambling. The games to come will provide an exceptional one-handed mobile gaming experience for the gambling industry.

HANREJ is a Copenhagen based brand with its main focus on jewellery, expanding into more accessories.  Our brand universe is inspired by human authenticity and we mainly center our visual identity around a humorous, ironic and genuine view on this authenticity.  We are currently developing our new collection, which will be presented during Paris Fashion Week this winter.  We're a small, but extremely ambitious team, with a strong vision, looking to further expand internationally.

Go Dogo offers deep-tech products that help dog parents keep their dogs mentally healthy. Dogs need mental stimulation to stay healthy. The stimulation should be based on both owner-facilitated and owner-independent challenges. The owner-facilitated mental stimulation (different types of training) is critically important, as it is not just mental stimulation - it builds and continuously strengthens the human-dog bond. Solving owner-independent challenges on the other hand is extremely important because it boosts the dog's self esteem and self confidence, which is crucial in order to prevent many behaviour problems, such as insecurity, anxiety, aggression, in-door soiling, excessive barking/whining, destructive behavior and canine depression. Available solutions that may provide owner-independent mental workout are low-tech products made out of wood, plastic, cloth or a combination. They are typically about moving or pushing or clawing at something to find or release a hidden treat. They are not giving any instructions or feedback and they have no progression - so they are usually either too easy or too difficult. If too easy, the dog does not get a whole lot of mental workout - and if too difficult the dog tends to give up fast, and hence does still not get the desired mental workout. The solution is our Go Dogo! Go Dogo uses the home TV to give the needed instructions and feedback and it dispenses treats as rewards when the dog does an exercise correct - or in some situations to support the motivation to keep trying. Computer vision enables Go Dogo to recognise the dogs movements, and the intelligent software adapts to each dog individually and only gradually increases the level of difficulty to ensure adequate mental stimulation. Please, go visit our home page to see some of our videos of dogs playing Go Dogo.

AWAN (As We Are Now) is a Nordic comfort-first fashion brand for women by women, based on circular principles and a DTC business model. We play at the intersection of fashion, wellness and technology, creating a new dressing experience of liberating comfort that feels good, looks great and cares for the planet. AWAN received a pre-seed investment from Antler Stockholm in spring 2020 and are now on a journey to grow the brand internationally. AWAN was founded in Norway late 2018, by serial entrepreneur Anette Miwa Dimmen (CEO/Creative Director). The core team is currently divided between Oslo and Stockholm. We are looking for more people to join our mission! We’d love to hear from you.