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.

Columbia Road is a digital growth consultancy challenging the old ways of running digital businesses. We exist to increase our clients’ revenue and help them get more customers in the digital era. Our team consists of business consultants who understand business-driven design, tech, strategy and growth. We believe in giving a lot of responsibility and freedom to our employees. There’s a common misunderstanding that happy and satisfied employees are automatically motivated employees. We don’t see things that way. Happy and satisfied employees are an important priority for us, but we think causal relationship is reversed: people are happy and satisfied when they have work that motivates them. For us, an employee’s happiness is the primary goal, not a tool for raising productivity or profitability. We want to empower our employees to become a better version of themselves and to have more of an impact on the world. We see happiness & satisfaction as end goals, not starting points. That being said we love to laugh a lot, play some tunes at the office and grab a few drinks after work. What kind of work is motivating in our context? People yearn for purpose in their work and want it to have meaning that creates value: purpose, for people and organisations, comes from making an impact on the world. Meaning & significance comes from providing value to someone else — in our case, clients. Clients (not us) define the value of our actions, always. Jobs at columbiaroad.com/careers

Seven per cent of the world population suffers from dyslexia and other reading difficulties. SubReader has built an app that reads subtitles aloud for dyslexics, across platforms: In the cinema, on streaming services as Netflix, HBO and Viaplay and in the school. Founded in 2016 we launched the first cinema integrations in 2017, now servicing 90+ cinemas. In 2018 we launched SubReader Plus, offering premium integrations with the major streaming services and helping thousands of dyslexics. We're now expanding into the Nordic region, growing our user base and integrating with public service providers, distributors and more streaming services internationally. SubReader has received numerous prices such as; Company of the Year Europe, Danish Design Award (2019), Entrepreneur of the Year (2019) and winner of Venture Cup Denmark and finalist in University Startup World Cup (2020).

Playpulse is an in-home fitness company that provides entertainment-based workouts on custom exercise equipment for the whole family. The company’s flagship product is a wireless stationary bike with integrated game controllers that blends multi-player games into a seamless and immersive workout that you’ll actually look forward to. Based on scientific evidence and testing with thousands of players, users get a complete workout without even realizing it because they’re having so much fun!

We are Nordcloud and we're on a mission to help organisations gain te maximum benefits of the cloud. As a global leader of cloud services, we deliver cloud strategy, migration, automation, management, capacity, and training. Since 2011 we,ve completed over 200 projects to help our customers harness the power of the cloud. Nordcloud is an AWS premier consulting Partner, a Google Cloud Platform Strategic Partner, and a Microsoft Azure Gold Cloud Partner. As an independent cloud-native organisation, our team of experts delivers objective advice and builds solutions on all the leading public cloud platforms.

Vievo installs smart charging lockers for e-bike batteries at workplaces and commercial properties in Sweden, delivered as a fully managed service. The problem: more people commute by e-bike, and their lithium-ion batteries end up charging under desks, in stairwells and in bike rooms. A faulty battery can go into thermal runaway, so many facility managers do the only thing they can and ban indoor charging. Staff charge anyway, because they need the battery to get home. That leaves a safety risk nobody controls and a policy nobody follows. Our solution: every battery gets its own ventilated compartment with gas and heat detection, automatic power cut-off and built-in suppression. The cabinet is designed so that a failing battery does not spread to the compartment next to it. Employees get a safe place to charge while they work, and the building gets one monitored charging point instead of dozens of chargers in random sockets. How it works: Vievo handles the site survey, installation, monitoring and service. The customer pays a fixed monthly fee with no upfront hardware investment. Energy and usage data from each locker gives employers and property owners measurable input for their sustainability and CSRD reporting. Why us: a charging ban with no alternative does not work, and we are building that alternative for the Swedish market. Our lockers are built on hardware from PowerShelter (Netherlands), whose units are already in use at sites such as Tesla Gigafactory Berlin and IKEA. Vievo was founded in Uppsala and is backed by an angel investor.

Proku is building an AI-native bid management platform to help Swedish B2B companies selling to the public sector win more tenders, by combining each company's own bid history with outcome data and human corrections into a system that improves with every bid written. Public procurement in Sweden represents roughly SEK 900 billion per year across approximately 18,000 published tenders. On the supplier side, the process is brutally inefficient. A mid-sized consulting or services company routinely spends 40 to 120 hours on a single bid: reading hundreds of pages of requirement documents, hunting down CVs and reference assignments, rewriting the same quality descriptions for the fifth time, and then reformatting everything to match a procurement officer's template. Win rates typically sit around 20 to 30 percent, which means most of that work gets written off. The problem hits hardest for companies competing on qualitative criteria, where evaluation is based on descriptions of methodology, competence, complexion of the tender and delivery rather than price alone. That is exactly where human writing determines the outcome, and exactly the part that is least systematized today. The knowledge lives in the heads of one or two people, rarely in a system. When they leave, it disappears. The consequence is that companies either walk away from business they could have won, or burn their margin on bid work that never converts. Proku is the workspace and data plattform where the bid is actually written, not another monitoring tool that stops at sending notifications. The platform ingests the tender documentation and breaks it down into a structured requirement matrix covering mandatory criteria, weighted criteria, and the evaluation model. It then generates drafts per requirement, grounded in the company's own previous bids, CV database, and reference assignments, with integrations to the systems where that material already lives: Cinode, CV Partner, SharePoint. Every draft is traceable to its source, which matters in a context where an inaccurate claim can disqualify the entire bid. What makes this hard to copy is not the model but the data. Because we own the writing surface, we capture three signals no monitoring service has access to: what was written, what the human changed before submission, and whether the bid won or lost. That combination means quality compounds with usage, both per customer and across the customer base. My co-founder Sadegh and I previously built and sold a digital agency. We spent an unreasonable amount of our own time on public sector bids, and kept having the same experience: we knew we were the right supplier, but lost because we did not have the energy to describe it as carefully as we had in the last bid. The work was repetitive, the knowledge already existed in the company, and we still started from a blank document every single time. When we started talking to other companies, we realized this was not our incompetence. It is a structural problem across the entire supplier side. The public sector has digitized its half of the process. Suppliers are still in Word. This is a market with enormous volume, clearly measurable outcomes, and almost no modern software. We believe whoever owns the writing surface toward the public sector in the Nordics builds something very large, and we intend to be the ones who do it.

normify is an engineering-documentation technology company modernizing how technical documents are checked and maintained — "docs-as-code" for engineering. Its graph-based compliance engine checks technical deliverables against the norms and project requirements they must comply with — clause by clause, with every finding cited back to its exact source, in minutes instead of days of manual review. Instead of an engineer cross-checking a document against a standard with a highlighter, normify returns every non-conformance with a traceable audit trail for QA and client review. The graph-based method — not a raw LLM wrapper — is what lets normify reach 96.1% labelled recall across 10+ standards. It is norm-agnostic (customers bring the standards and requirements their projects are bound to), portable across LLM providers, and available self-hosted so sensitive engineering data never leaves the customer's environment. normify is extending from compliance checking into version-aware change intelligence — tracking what changed between document revisions and whether it still complies. Target users: discipline leads, technical authorities, QA/QC and document-control teams at operators, EPCs, and engineering consultancies.

Ode is building the world’s simplest solution for therapeutic music. We combine a smart speaker with a single-knob interface and AI-driven curation to reduce anxiety, agitation, and depression in people living with dementia. Founded after CEO Guttorm saw music’s impact through his grandmother’s dementia, Ode exists to remove the time, technology, and cost barriers that keep personalised music out of everyday care. Today, getting it right typically means specialist mapping, hours of playlist work, and daily device hassle, which caregivers and families can’t sustain. Ode makes it practical: curate in minutes, then play instantly with one knob—so the right music is there when it’s needed, without adding workload.

Velocity Insights is building a new class of analytical production systems that generate decision intelligence from a fully traceable evidence base. Most commonly used GenAI approaches generate narratives first and attempt to justify them during the text generation process — often resulting in outputs that are incomplete, difficult to verify, and not fully traceable to underlying evidence. Velocity Insights takes a different approach, structuring the evidence first and deriving every insight from it. This enables organizations to produce analytical outputs that are fully traceable, inspectable, and auditable — transforming how conclusions are validated in high-stakes decision environments. Designed for capital allocation and strategic decision-making, Velocity Insights enables enterprises across finance, life sciences, and technology to generate high-speed decision intelligence without sacrificing traceability or control. By combining data structuring, workflow design, and AI, the system establishes a new standard: analytical outputs that are fully verifiable, transparent, and trusted.

Arctic Coliving operates social adventure lodges in the mountains and fjords of Norway. 🇳🇴 We bring together adventure travelers, digital nomads, and remote teams to live, work, and explore in some of the country's most striking landscapes. Our lodges pair community living with modern coworking and generous amenities, welcoming guests for a week or a full season. Each location is a basecamp for adventure, connection and unforgettable experiences. We also host teams and private groups for offsites and retreats – space to do meaningful work surrounded by nature. Come share these magic places with us.

At Soolv, we help the world’s most attractive employers identify and develop future stars. Each year, these companies receive thousands of applications - filled with CVs, cover letters, transcripts, assessments, and interview notes. Over time, they generate even more data from performance reviews, staffing decisions, and project evaluations. This represents vast amounts of data that could be used to analyze and predict exceptional talent - yet they still rely on manual processes and intuition for their most important people decisions. Soolv is the AI platform that turns these hidden signals into actionable intelligence - finally bringing data-driven precision to every high-stakes decision about people. We’re backed by top-tier Nordic early-stage investors, and our customers are top firms in investment banking, law, consulting, and tech. Founded by alumni from McKinsey, Spacemaker, and reMarkable, with backgrounds from Cambridge, KTH, and NTNU, we combine deep AI expertise with first-hand experience from high-performance environments.

We’re building the operating system for modern golf clubs. GolfNext helps clubs run smarter, sell more, and deliver an excellent experience for members and guests - from the driving range to the simulator room and everything in between. Our story GolfNext grew out of Probox24, a self-service vending solution tightly integrated with national tee-sheet booking systems. What started as a single product is now a suite of connected software and hardware that powers daily operations at golf clubs. Today, GolfNext serves clubs across 18 countries, from small local clubs to large, prestigious venues. What we build A unified platform that combines payments, access, automation, and admin: • Driving Range — State-of-the-art self-service payment and ball dispensing • Self-Service Kiosk — Intuitive on-site purchasing and check-in tied to booking systems • Voucher Management — Issue, store, and redeem with full auditability • Simulator Management — Automated access control • Club Admin (Web) — Operational dashboards, content, and product setup, reporting • GolfNext App (Mobile) — A 360,000-user wallet for paying green fees, range, and more Everything is designed to be reliable, revenue-generating, and easy to run - so staff can focus on the golfer, not the system. Traction & momentum • ARR ~15m DKK and growing ~40% YoY • Operating in 18 countries with strong product-market fit • Recently welcomed a private equity fund as a shareholder to accelerate product and international expansion Why now Golf is digitizing - fast. Clubs expect seamless payments, automation, and data visibility, while golfers want frictionless on-course and off-course experiences. With new capital and a multi-year roadmap, we’re scaling the platform, deepening integrations, and launching new modules that unlock real operational leverage for clubs. How we work We’re builders. We value momentum, craftsmanship, and reliability. Engineers own problems end-to-end, ship iteratively, and collaborate closely with product, design, and operations. We favor pragmatic architecture, strong testing practices, and CI/CD to keep quality high and releases smooth. Culture & values • Ownership: Small teams, big responsibility • Customer impact: Decisions anchored in real-world club operations • Quality: Stable systems, thoughtful UX, measurable outcomes • Kindness & clarity: Direct communication, low ego, high trust Life at GolfNext (Ry, Denmark) Our HQ is in Ry, Denmark. We’re office-first because tight feedback loops matter—especially when building hardware-software systems used daily on site. There’s flexibility for occasional home working. Perks & setup • Delicious lunch program • Modern office facilities (bright spaces, focus rooms, meeting rooms, great gear) • In-house coffee bar with excellent espresso • New tech gear, supportive teammates, and plenty of room to grow The opportunity With fresh funding, strong traction, and a packed roadmap, this is a chance to shape the global platform that powers golf operations - own domains, lead initiatives, and see your work live at clubs across markets.

🌍 About Xbrandify Xbrandify is an AI-powered, white-label experiential travel platform that helps brands turn their audiences into communities—and their marketing into revenue. We empower lifestyle, sports, and media brands to launch their own travel platforms where they can offer everything from curated local activities to full-scale adventures—without needing to build any tech or operations themselves. 🚨 The Problem We're Solving In a world of banner blindness, short attention spans, and rising ad costs, traditional marketing is losing its impact. At the same time, experiential marketing—creating memorable, real-world brand moments—is outperforming static campaigns. But most brands lack the tools or infrastructure to deliver meaningful experiences at scale. Travel is one of the most powerful experiential touchpoints in the world—but it’s underused and difficult to execute. ✅ Our Solution Xbrandify turns travel into a scalable experiential marketing engine. We provide: - A white-label travel platform for brands to launch their own booking site - A library of curated experiential travel products (local and global) - A system to engage communities and drive conversions, loyalty, and content - An AI-driven backend (AgentOS) to automate customer journeys and support Result: Brands grow community, loyalty, and revenue—all through branded experiences that inspire action. 💡 Why It Matters - Consumers are demanding experiences over ads, and community over clicks - Brands are sitting on untapped audiences with massive travel potential - New tools in AI and fintech now make this model scalable and profitable - We're giving brands a new kind of growth engine—experiential, emotional, and revenue-generating. Instead of spending on ads, brands use travel to engage their audience, create loyalty, and generate profit. Powered by automation and embedded fintech, we make it scalable.

Gefjon Pharma ApS has developed a groundbreaking platform technology based on our unique hyper vesiculating outer membrane vesicle (OMV) technology. This combined with our unique extraction method enable high-yield cost-effective production of bio-industrials and therapeutics. ​ Our first product is a revolutionary broad-protective bacterial E. coli vaccine targeting poultry production. We have PoC for both the vaccine and an aerosol application method. ​ With E. coli being the single most important cause of mortality and infections in poultry, we will significantly reduce global consumption of antimicrobials, thereby minimizing the development of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), improve animal welfare, and reduce CO2 emissions and food waste, while increasing customer profits. ​ With our excellent customer relations and a strong demand for new vaccines, market entry barriers are low, and the potential is massive. ​ Vision: Saving lives through our platform technology, making cost-effective therapeutics available for everyone & everywhere​