GoWest — Nordic Venture Capital Forum GoWest is one of the Nordics’ leading venture capital forums for startups, scale-ups, investors, and ecosystem leaders focused on the future of innovation and industry. Hosted in Gothenburg, Sweden, GoWest brings together founders, venture capitalists, angel investors, corporations, universities, policymakers, and talent from across Europe to accelerate the growth of ambitious technology companies — from pre-seed to Series A and beyond. At the intersection of deep tech, industrial transformation, sustainability, and entrepreneurship, GoWest reflects the unique strengths of West Sweden: a region shaped by world-leading industry, engineering excellence, and an increasingly dynamic startup ecosystem. A MEETING PLACE FOR FOUNDERS, INVESTORS AND FUTURE INDUSTRIES GoWest exists to create meaningful connections between startups and capital. Over the course of several days, we facilitate high-quality matchmaking between founders and investors while also creating a platform for discussions around the future of European innovation, competitiveness, and technology leadership. The conference focuses especially on sectors where Europe — and the Nordics — have the potential to lead globally: Deep tech Climate tech Mobility and automotive innovation AI and emerging technologies Life science and health innovation Energy and electrification Industrial transformation Space and frontier technologies University spinouts and research commercialization GoWest is designed not only as an event, but as a catalyst for long-term collaboration between startups, investors, universities, corporations, and public stakeholders. WHAT HAPPENS AT GOWEST? GoWest combines structured investor matchmaking with inspiring stage content, networking opportunities, curated side events, and ecosystem-building activities.The conference includes: Startup-investor matchmaking Pitch sessions and founder showcases Investor programs and LP activities Keynotes and panel discussions Policy and innovation forums Workshops and breakout sessions Community gatherings and side events Networking experiences across Gothenburg Every year, hundreds of startups and investors participate in curated meetings designed to create real business opportunities and long-term relationships. A PLATFORM FOR THE NORDIC INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM GoWest is built around collaboration. We work closely with incubators, science parks, universities, accelerators, investors, corporations, and public organizations across the Nordics and Europe to strengthen the region’s innovation ecosystem. The conference is founded by Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg and developed together with ecosystem partners who share a vision of building globally competitive technology companies from Europe. WHY VOLUNTEER AT GoWest? GoWest is powered by people who are passionate about innovation, entrepreneurship, technology, and building meaningful experiences. As a volunteer, you become part of an international community working at the center of the Nordic startup and investment ecosystem. This is an opportunity to: Build experience in event production and international conferences Meet founders, investors, and industry leaders Expand your professional network Gain insight into startups, venture capital, and innovation Develop communication, coordination, and operational skills Work alongside an ambitious and welcoming team Get behind-the-scenes access to one of the Nordics’ leading tech events We welcome students, young professionals, international talent, and anyone curious about startups, innovation, events, and community building. Whether your interests are within business, tech, operations, communication, hospitality, partnerships, or entrepreneurship, GoWest offers a dynamic environment where you can learn, contribute, and grow.

We spent 6+ years working side by side with 150+ online fitness coaches. Managed their businesses, saw their frustrations up close, and watched them waste half their day on admin that had nothing to do with actual coaching. So we built the platform we always wished existed. Coachway is an all-in-one platform for online fitness coaches - workouts, meal plans, messaging, check-ins, payments, automations, and a branded client app. One login. No chaos. But building the product is only half of it. We also build everything that puts it in front of coaches - ad campaigns across six markets, creative production, content in five languages, conversion funnels, growth strategy. The whole pipeline from first impression to signed coach. We're based in Copenhagen. We're a small team with the ambition to become the go-to platform for online coaches across Europe. And we're still early enough that the people who join now will shape what this thing becomes. If you want to be somewhere where your work actually moves the needle - not in a quarterly report, but tomorrow morning - this is that place.

Pelea is the peer-to-peer prediction platform that makes watching sport more fun, and turns fan communities into thriving ecosystems. We let anyone become a "Game Creator." Influencers, Facebook group admins, sports bars, and fan clubs build Game Cards with simple football questions, invite their people, and run the action. No odds. No spreads. No jargon. Just react, play, and settle who actually knows their football. It is genuinely peer-to-peer. Players compete against each other, not the house. In private games you play among friends, and in public games you play against other people in the community. For Creators and Community leaders you get a turnkey solution to monetize the audience and create amazingly engaging content. We (currently) operate exclusively for residents of Denmark, require MitID verification, enforce an 18+ minimum age, and are committed to responsible play. Sport is better when everyone engages.

Unge Iværksættere er Danmarks største frivillige ungdomsorganisation for iværksætteri. I snart fem år har vi arbejdet for én ting: at gøre iværksætteri til en mulig karrierevej for unge, uanset baggrund eller ressourcer. Vi har samlet over 4.000 unge til vores events. Vi har haft nogle af landets mest betydningsfulde iværksættere og erhvervsledere på scenen. Og vi har set deltagere finde deres medstifter, bygge deres første netværk og starte virksomheder, der lever i bedste velgående i dag. Alt vi laver er gratis. Events, podcast, fællesskab — adgang skal aldrig være en barriere. Vi er et team på 15 unge i København og Århus, der driver foreningen frivilligt ved siden af studier, jobs og egne virksomheder. Vi gør det, fordi vi selv har oplevet, hvad det betyder at møde de rigtige mennesker på det rigtige tidspunkt — og fordi vi tror på, at den mulighed skal være der for langt flere. Hos os får man ansvar, når man tager det. Vi forventer ikke, at du kan det hele — vi forventer, at du har lyst til at lære det. Du går herfra dygtigere, end du kom- og vi glæder os til at arbejde med dig!

Aban Foundation is the Innovative Impactful Ecosystem. Our vision is to develop sustainable businesses to reduce poverty and diminish conflicts around the world by promoting education and cultural diversity. We do this by building at least one school in each country around the world. These schools provide high-quality education and enrich the students school experience to get understanding of and celebrate the cultural diversity around the world.

Acembee is on a mission to bring automation and intelligence to one of the world’s least digitalized industries: construction. Our AI-powered platform tracks activities across construction sites in real-time - replacing manual logging and fragmented data collection with automated, actionable insights. By eliminating spreadsheets, on-site inspections, and follow-up calls, we help contractors save hundreds of hours and make faster, smarter decisions. The result? Lower project costs, reduced CO₂ emissions, and more efficient construction - without adding complexity.

Flextribe stands as a pioneering platform dedicated to revolutionising the consulting business. Our focus is helping our clients digitise their workflows, significantly reduce manual efforts, boost their success rates, and, most importantly, equip them to work seamlessly with data. Through our state-of-the-art products and services, we empower businesses to streamline their operations, enhancing overall efficiency. We are a youthful company with a bold vision: transforming the landscape of external workforce collaboration. To achieve this ambitious goal, we seek passionate and talented individuals to embark on this thrilling journey with us.

🌍 ABOUT RODINIA GENERATION The majority of the world’s clothing is made on the other side of the planet from where it is consumed. Currently the global fashion industry accounts for 45 billion unsold products each year due to overproduction and consumer demands shifting faster than new clothes can be made. Rodinia Generation is the inventor and owner of a game changing automation-factory technology that enables clothing brands and apparel manufacturers to create onshore, on-demand sustainable fashion. The company is award-winning for its capability of producing 80% of all clothing categories without water or toxic chemicals at an avg. 40% reduced carbon footprint. The company is working towards a global network of automation-factories that handles production orders onshore and in 48 hours.  Based in Copenhagen, Denmark, Rodinia Generation runs its operations in newly renovated premises that also houses an automation-factory lab where production for selected fashion brands happens on a daily basis. With the company growing rapidly, its next major step is to scale its operations internationally by efficient roll-out of new production units, thus accelerating Rodinia’s mission to revolutionize the fashion industry. 🫶+🧠+📈 We are a team of diverse professionals ranging from fashion designers to automation engineers and software developers. We emphasize a swift feedback loop between idea and execution and pragmatism defines our work culture, demanding a high level of responsibility and hands-on approach from every team member. We value teamwork and appreciate a good sense of humour. Rodinia has been recognized by fashion companies, investors and public funding bodies (i.e. Innovation Fund Denmark) incl. the European Patent-office and has secured over €7.5M from investors and grants. Learn more on our website.

In Sweden alone, one in four euros spent in construction is wasted - because of design errors, compliance failures, and poor planning. That's enough money to build 50,000 apartments every year or three Öresund Bridges. It's 3,500 SEK wasted every second, 24/7 and that's just one country. Now, imagine the scale of this problem worldwide. We're here to change that. AI-BOB is an AI-powered platform that catches construction mistakes before they happen, making sure buildings are designed right from the beginning. No costly fixes. No wasted materials. No unnecessary delays. If you had joined us earlier, we'd likely have already saved tons of construction waste and cut millions in unnecessary costs. So yes - you're needed.

Lolo Company is a start-up headquartered in Stockholm, but with a remote-first workplace with team members collaborating across 5-6 countries depending on everyone's current locations. Our team is like the Avengers, we came together when the world needed us and beyond our superpowers, we are a wonderful assembly of misfits and rebels in tech that think differently about how tech should evolve. Lolo is all about serverless compute and networkless connectivity. Lolo Code allows developers to visual build and deploy highly scalable apps to any cloud, edge or on prem because developer complexity is at an all time high, the cloud doesn't scale in terms of costs and data residency is and should be a thing. Lolo Unify is a programmable virtual private cloud that overlays any IP network and provides a single API for fine grained control of devices, network and connected experience. Our aim is to make developers more productive and bring back the joy into coding. And also make that hassle that is the network part of the visually built and deployed compute experience. We are deep tech, solving hard problems and whilst we take the problems and our customers we solve super seriously, we take ourselves much less seriously.

PinMeTo was founded on the idea that there should be a smarter way for brands to manage online listings & profiles for all of their locations. Brands with lots of physical locations have to coordinate business info, local communication, and reputation management for all of their locations. It takes a frustrating amount of work, and inaccuracies are almost unavoidable – plus hard to catch. PinMeTo was born in 2013, when three friends – one salesman, two developers – set up shop in a startup incubator in Malmö, Sweden. After years of iterations and improvements, PinMeTo now has about 100 employees in 6 offices, and we’re trusted by enterprise companies like H&M, 7-Eleven, and Hertz. Think of PinMeTo as a really efficient messenger: you add or update location data in PinMeTo, and that data is shared with all of your locations and the networks they’re listed on.

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.

Simplified Business Administration BizBot helps entrepreneurs and investors get an overview of shares and convertible notes, enabling effective management on an easy to use and connected platform. Our goal is to simplify business administration by making all companies 100% digital. Then you can administrate your company from anywhere.

Firmnav is a RevAI platform enabling revenue teams to build AI models on top of their own data and activate it directly into their existing revenue tools/stack to grow revenue, efficiently. All without the need for technical expertise.

Lendo er Nordens førende tjeneste for sammenligning af privatlån og en af Schibsteds hurtigst voksende fintech virksomheder. Lendo findes, udover Danmark, i Sverige og Norge. I 2019 gik Lendo ind på det danske marked, og vi er nu på en spændende rejse med ambition om at blive danskernes foretrukne sted at starte, når de skal låne penge. I 2022 udvidet Lendo endnu engang, da den danske bankportal, Mybanker, blev en del af Lendo Group. Herefter startede et tæt samarbejde mellem Lendo og Mybanker for at hjælpe alle deres brugere med at træffe det bedste valg, når det kommer til lån, boligfinansiering, bankskifte og meget mere. Vi samarbejder udelukkende med seriøse banker og långivere – over 100 på nordisk plan – og alle vores danske partnere er under tilsyn af Finanstilsynet.