SparkUp is a startup community where Turku Science Park Ltd, student based entrepreneurship society Boost Turku and Creative Venture Creve have brought together their know-how and services for startups and entrepreneur-minded persons in Turku region. SparkUp is facilitated by Turku Science Park Ltd.

LEGO Ventures is the venture capital arm of the LEGO® brand, focusing on the future of learning, creativity, and play. In our Venture Incubation Studio we work with founders to build start-ups that extend the LEGO Idea of learning-through-play. We believe that great ideas are born from bringing different perspectives together and giving them a safe space to challenge and inspire each other. This is exactly the space that the Incubation Studio creates. By bringing together LEGO colleagues and external entrepreneurs, we're taking a hands-on approach to exploring venture opportunities that sit at the intersection of creativity, learning, and play.

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

Tapad is home to the team that cracked the code on cross-device marketing technology. Our groundbreaking, proprietary tech assimilates billions of data points to find the human relationship between smartphones, desktops, laptops, tablets, connected TVs and game consoles. With 91.2% data accuracy confirmed by Nielsen, Tapad offers the largest in-market opportunity for marketers and technologies to address the ever-evolving reality of media consumption across devices.

eSmart Systems has developed a scalable software platform that can process, analyze and visualize large amounts of data in real time. The platform enables the future of the digital energy industry and smart cities. The company was established in 2012 and many of its key resources has more than 20 years experience of establishing and leading IT and energy-related companies in and around the energy markets in Norway, Europe and the United States.

Wolt is the one app for great food. Over 1000 restaurants in Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania. Discovery, takeaway, home delivery.Whether you have a craving for your favourite meal from the restaurant around the corner, or you’re hungry but not sure what you want to eat, Wolt will help you find it.

We are enabling the mounting of solar systems in fragile or challenging terrains. Current mounting structures are based on pile ramming, concrete or similar solutions. This limits the number of locations for ground mounted solar systems or makes it very expensive to build these systems. These systems are also very labour intensive, making it difficult to develop solar systems in locations where labour is hi-cost. Since current mounting structures is best for large flat areas, these systems also face competition for other purposes also valuing large flat areas. This makes the alternative cost of the area rather high. We are aiming on mitigating these challenges with our mounting system, opening for larger solar systems in areas that until now have been deemed not suitable. This because the soil conditions are too difficult, the terrain demands too much soil cultivation making the cost high either economical or ecological, the labour cost is too high, or the flat and open landscape is prioritized for other purposes than solar systems. We are not competing with existing mounting system, but opening new possibilities for more solar energy worldwide.

Fluencify.io helps brands scale authentic user-generated content by connecting them with thousands of trained student creators worldwide. Brands submit briefs, creators produce short-form videos, and Fluencify’s AI scores and delivers the best-performing content—fast, affordable, and ready for ads or social campaigns. We make influencer marketing effortless, data-driven, and built for Gen Z.

AI for industrial workforce. Opero is an AI tool designed to help service technicians capture and share valuable knowledge from the field. By using voice and text, Opero makes it easy to document problem-solving insights that are often lost. This information is structured and linked to existing manuals, creating a searchable knowledge base that supports training, customer reporting, and operational efficiency. Perfect for companies working with complex machinery and field operations.

What would it look and feel like to live in a neighborhood that was designed in a way that welcomed everyone, from every culture? We created nabo to find out. nabo, which means “neighbor” in Danish, is an app-based community for international people living in Denmark and their Danish friends. It is designed from the ground up for belonging. Joining nabo means committing to being a true neighbor to the others in it, to choosing to connect more deeply with one another, to take care of each other, and to share our beautiful differences until they become part of the gorgeous fabric of our community. Learn more about nabo at https://mynabo.dk

We make branded community apps for desk-less workforces. Founded in 2019, Monotree is a fast growing and profitable start up with over 250 customers in 18 different countries. We build everything in-house and believe that a state of the art product combined with worldclass service is the only war forward. We are a healthy and streamlined business that enjoys moving fast. Monotree consists only of highly skilled people, who get a maximum amount of freedom to contribute to the company in the way they see fit. We are a part of the new breed of tech companies where profitability matters - we are here tomorrow - and the day efter that. We play the long game. Monotree currently employs 12 people and we are actively hiring for more positions, with at least 3-4 people joining 2026. HQ is in Copenhagen, but some work remote. Company atmosphere is relaxed, we keep meetings to a minimum and let people dive deep into their work. We do spend a decent amount of our profits on eating out at very good restaurants.

At Yobr, we see collaboration between students and companies as a way to bring fresh perspectives and the latest skills to real-world challenges. Companies gain flexible, efficient ways to complete meaningful projects that create real value while discovering new talent. For students, it’s an opportunity to apply their skills, learn, and grow in a professional setting. The problem is that most companies struggle to tap into this potential—they don’t have the time, resources, or know-how to make it work. Yobr is changing that. We’re building a platform that leverages AI to simplify project planning, efficiently match yobs with the right students from our talent base, and support execution with intuitive collaboration tools and tailored AI agents. Since starting in January we have done pilots with known brands like SalMar, SpareBank 1 and Norbit, gaining key insight on how students projects should be run. We've developed our technical solution since August, and are looking to launch a beta of our platform in January 2025. We just closed a Angel round and received Innovation Norway's phase 2 grant, targeting break-even and a seed round in Q2 2025. We are a solid team of builders and creators, 3 being full-time and 3 part-time, based in Oslo and Trondheim. Now we are looking to take this to the next level!

Kara Connect provides a bespoke Wellbeing Hub for your workplace, giving your team members rapid, direct access to the professional support of their choice. Providing handpicked experts across 58 specialist areas from mental health to menopause, from fertility to finances, from career to conflict, in over 24 languages. With Kara Connect your employees and their families have direct access to CHOOSE the health care professional or expertise they require. All this prevents burnout and builds loyalty in your team, and frees up your managers to manage, while providing the RIGHT support for the personal issues your team members might be encountering.

The next few years will bring a revolution in how we interact with computers. It’s not just chat; more things are coming in AI than ever previously thought possible. We’re bringing it to lawyers because they deal with lots of text daily, and because frankly, they deserve delightful software. We are fast-moving, highly ambitious, love shipping, and deeply care for our users. We are on a rocket trajectory, live with 1000s of lawyers, and the biggest firms in several markets, backed by Benchmark, SV Angel, and Y Combinator, and are having a blast doing it. At Leya, you won’t only experience the future, but you’ll get to dictate it.

Even Founders is a nonprofit organization operating throughout the Nordic region, to create new women founders and increase funding opportunities for them. We work with founders, investors and ecosystem partners to tackle one of the biggest gaps in the startup space. Our organization provides two primary services: the Startup School and our comprehensive database. The Startup School offers a cost-free educational program designed specifically for women, teaching them the essentials of founding a company. Meanwhile, our extensive database serves as the premier source of information on women-founded companies, helping investors in discovering new investment opportunities. We are founders, investors, operators, innovators and researchers with first-hand experience from both sides of the table.