We are here to radically improve how culture can be found, explored and experienced. Our mission is to put emphasis on the user, getting consumers closer to organizers and creatives than ever. Everyone has the right to spend time the way whatever they want. The power of freedom and free expression that creates the magic we all want in our lives. Poba is an app that makes it easy to find events and cultural experiences without having to navigate an endless content jungle. Never miss your thing again. --- Poba AB is a Stockholm-based software company founded in 2022. Our app is a platform that helps consumers find experiences and cultural events while enabling organizers and creators to market their business and creations to their crowd.

EIT Climate-KIC (Knowledge and Innovation Community) is Europe’s foremost climate innovation initiative. We understand that keeping global temperature rise below 1.5˚C demands unprecedented change. It requires new social dynamics, ways of doing business, capital flows, policymaking, economic models, and new ways of living. That is why our mission is to leverage the power of systems innovation to transform whole places, industries, and value chains by 2030, working across sectors to develop and scale ambitious, mission-led programmes. Established in 2010 and headquartered in Amsterdam, we orchestrate a community of more than 200 organisations including large corporations and SMEs, municipal and regional governments, universities, and research institutes, as well as non-governmental organisations and uncommon actors. Historically, we have been funded by our founder and core funder, the European Institute for Innovation and Technology (EIT), but we are currently transitioning to a multi-funder model. EIT Climate-KIC colleagues are based in one of our local offices across Europe or work remotely from home based in one of the countries where we have a branch. We meet at our local offices to exchange and connect and use online collaboration tools work with each other and with our Community. On occasion, we meet in-person as teams, and once per year as an organisation.

OUR SHIFT is a young fashion startup with a mission to shift the (fashion) world into a more responsible one. We focus on upcycling clothes combined with activism. Even though we are building a fashion brand, we are not business as usual. We're finding new ways how to do things better with environmental and social responsibility in mind.

Plus-Plus is on a journey to Inspire creative minds through open-ended play. We want to engage with consumers around the world through timeless products that encourage creativity. One important step in this journey has been to launch our DTC webshop that should be a platform for inspiration and the possibility to purchase our entire assortment. We have a small but very dedicated team but we realize that we need more resources to boost this journey even further. Plus-Plus was developed in the eighties in Holbæk, Denmark. The idea was to create a simplistic toy that would spark the imagination and creativity of children of all ages. The educational market immediately saw the potential in Plus-Plus and supported the idea of simplicity and open play in schools and kindergartens. Today, Plus-Plus is internationally recognized as a high-quality toy brand and the winner of multiple product awards. We are proud of our Danish heritage, and we continue to produce Plus-Plus at our factory in Holbæk. In 2012 we opened US sales offices in South Carolina and Ohio, and Plus-Plus is currently distributed in more than 40 countries around the world. Plus-Plus is a socially and environmentally responsible company. We work with non-profit organizations to support hospitalized children, and our factory and headquarters run on 100% green energy from wind power. All products and packaging are 100% recyclable.

Globus.ai is cloud based, human centric software that enables staffing agencies and recruiters to place more candidates – faster. Much faster. From requests to search, matching and booking – the whole process can take seconds. Even with high volume job requirements. Our customers typically improve their results (net fee income) with 40%. Globus.ai has developed a unique and intelligent software that enables staffing agencies and recruiters to find and place people with relevant skills and competencies– perfectly matching the needs of their clients. Thanks to human centric artificial intelligence, even the incoming orders are handled automatically, but still in a personal way. Then - the placing of competencies and interests with matching roles, is done within minutes. Due to machine learning, this intelligent process will speed up over time, and replace hours and minutes with seconds. Globus.ai can both speed up and transform you as a professional - and boost your recruiting business.

Novutech is a growing consulting startup founded in 2019 by Frédéric and Maxime, 2 Belgian entrepreneurs who used to work at one of the big four international accounting firms as NetSuite experts. NetSuite is a flexible and robuste cloud-based ERP suitable for small and medium-sized companies. Novutech’s activity is digital transformation within growing and international SME's: We optimize our European customers business processes by implementing, optimizing and accelerating NetSuite. The goal we want to achieve is to be recognized as the preferred long-term European NetSuite partner. We went from 2 "Novutechos" based in Belgium in 2019 to a team of 30 people working from Brussels, Lyon and Copenhagen, all driven by fun and our core values: Team first, transparency, talent development and excellence. Our people are our biggest asset and definitely the reason why we keep growing stronger. Novutech in a nutshell : - We are a startup 100% dedicated to NetSuite implementation, optimisation and acceleration - We focus on people, process and technology - We aim at developing our full potential - We work smart and play hard

Combient Foundry launched in 2018, with KONE and Stora Enso, to speed up industrial-grade innovation by working with startups in a way that creates real value for all parties. Since then, we’ve expanded our alliance of like-minded global brands to include Atlas Copco, Scania, Husqvarna Group, Autoliv and Epiroc. We work with some of the most capable startup founders on industry-pressing, even globally critical challenges, such as reducing waste and energy-consumption, and development of autonomous vehicles, robotics, and logistics solutions to build the next one hundred years of industries.

Source2Sea – built on the principle of ‘What you click is what you get’ - is the go-to, online, sourcing marketplace in the global ship supply industry. We are an open multi-supplier marketplace facilitating ship procurement and supply between maritime buyers and suppliers through online product catalogues. Source2Sea streamlines the way shipping companies get their ship suppliers spanning contracting, procurement, payment, and delivery. Source2Sea aims to empower crews and purchasers as well as incentivize suppliers, all while reducing costs and increasing convenience, transparency, and automation throughout the eco-system. The marketplace is developed in close collaboration with and for leading industry players on both the supply and demand sides. Source2Sea is built without leaving anyone out. Global provisions, stores, bonded and spare parts – Source2Sea takes pride in facilitating a broad range of products and solutions, offering purchase and order insight, track and trace, data analysis and benchmarking. Source2Sea is an independent legal entity, founded and funded by the Wrist Group.

Hive Helsinki is a new kind of coding school that preps students to launch their future-proof career through collaborative, project-based learning. Hive's goal is to deliver an accessible and scalable form of education, enabling people from all walks of life to learn future-proof skills. We believe that cracking the complex problems of tomorrow needs everyone’s input. Hive Helsinki reimagines what schools of the future look like. We provide a revolutionary peer-to-peer and project-based learning model without teachers, books or classes. The model produces proven results: our first students have successfully entered the job market and received great reviews all around.

About KÄÄPÄ Biotech, KÄÄPÄ Health, and KÄÄPÄ Forest: We are a startup committed to making both humans and ecosystems more healthy with the use of fungi. We take a biotech vision when designing solutions. We are the largest cultivator of chaga mushroom, have our own extraction product line for both consumers and a US distributor for ingredient sales, and work closely on bringing cutting edge research to market. Our company culture is demanding, fast paced, research focused, open, inclusive, and forward thinking.

Shopbox is a software company that makes managing your business easy. We believe that intuitive small applications connected with payment will explode in the coming years. We are the leading "all-in-one" SaaS mobile point-of-sale solution for small and medium-sized shops. We have secured funding from several prominent investors. We have several times achieved status as the best all-around shop system on the market by, among others, Microsoft, Intel, and Mastercard. We recently acquired one of our competitors and currently serve around 1,500 merchants in the Nordic region. Our ambition is to get to 10,000 merchants within three years Shopbox combines the most relevant business tools in one user-friendly app. It has a counter, customer club, finance module, shop, and staff manager in one app. We call it One Business—One App. Our goal is to create the richest and most user-friendly Business App in the world. We work with local partners in selected markets to reach more customers with a valuable and future-proof point-of-sale system.

Capital Systems is a Danish trading company based in Copenhagen. We are a proprietary trading partnership using quantitative methods to uncover and exploit subtle market inefficiencies in a range of liquid financial instruments on regulated exchanges. Our approach is rooted in the exploration of data in the attempt to uncover an edge in the financial markets with the aim to derive superior returns. We draw on our combined experience in the fields of management, research and software systems to drive our collaboration – using only our own capital ensures that we can stay agile and innovative in a highly competitive industry.

Aviant performs medical deliveries between hospitals by leveraging drone technology. Today, district hospitals can only analyze simple blood tests themself. The rest have to be transported to test centers, often located at the larger hospitals. Current ground-based transportation logistics between hospitals is unorganized, inefficient, and costly. This new way of transportation will increase the frequency and flexibility of test delivery, as drones can be deployed on an as-needed basis, which will drastically improve the diagnosis process in districts. An analysis posten IEEE showed how drone transportation of biological samples could save the Danish authorities 300 MNOK/year. This commercial potential has been confirmed by our contact with health regions. We currently have three paying contracts: one with St. Olavs Hospital in Trondheim and two in Sweden. Besides our three commercial contracts, we have gotten requests from seven potential customers. To keep up with the demand from the market and take care of our current customers, we need to expand the team.

Valerian Funds' vision is to be the world's preferred source of growth capital for online businesses accessible at the click of a button. Simple, Fast and Non-Dilutive From startup founders to startup founders, we have been there – we know how hard it is to raise capital. Your business needs to tick a particular box with a VC or have a minimum track record for a bank manager. Ultimately, a successful fund raise is less a testament to the quality of your business and more a consequence of being at the right place at the right time – not a very comforting thought. The founding team at Valerian set out to create a product that would eliminate the serendipitous element of fund raising and instead root the investment decision in hard data – eliminating the self-selecting criteria of who you know and instead focusing solely on performance. The team at Valerian brings in a wealth of unique specific expertise that aims to provide you with the best available, most flexible and ultimately cheapest cost of capital available for your growth.

The Curated is an online dtc fashion label focusing on sustainable luxury for the modern woman. We work with left over fabrics, certified suppliers and ethically audited factories to create limited runs of classic staples. We have an honest pricing policy in order to make luxury quality affordable.