JOOLL = cykel over lønnen! (English below) Kort fortalt er JOOLL konceptet, at man får en flot og lækker cykel/ladcykel til en fast lav pris pr/måned inkl forsikring og serviceaftale, som så stilles til rådighed for medarbejderen der derved får “en JOOLL” som vi i mange år har kendt det fra biler som “fri firmabil”… bare i meeeeeeeeget mindre beløb og forpligtigelser for både medarbejder og virksomheden. JOOLL disruptede branchen i 2019 og har siden været på en flot vækstrejse og idag har medarbejdere på mere end 3000 danske arbejdspladser "en JOOLL". JOOLL er nu et cross-border concept hvor vi leverer vores løsning i Danmark, Sverige & Tyskland fra vores hovedkontor i København. JOOLL = Your Company Bike, was founded in 2019 with the ambition of changing the way people have their bikes, exploiting a growing market coupled with an increase in employer social responsibility awareness. JOOLL has in record time carved out a new and disruptive area in old school market. We are a fast moving, international expanding and vibrant organization that focuses on execution and constant development. As a market leader and market disrupter JOOLL has now surpassed JOOLLs to employees at more than 3000 Scandinavian workplaces. JOOLL is now a cross-border concept where we deliver our solution in Denmark, Sweden & Germany from our head office in Copenhagen.

SHIFT Business Festival is a platform that has brought together C-level decision-makers, business developers, and tech-heads from growth companies across the board since 2016. The highlight of the year is a two-day business festival in Turku, Finland. We encourage and support our festival attendees and partners to find their competitive advantage in new technology applications and sustainable business. Our company is based in Turku and is the most important business event in the region and a solid actor in the local business ecosystem. Behind SHIFT is a non-profit organization driven by volunteers and supported by network with firm supporters like Turku Science Park, Boost Turku, JCI, Creve, Turku Chamber of Commerce and Federation of Finnish Enterprises.

Valpas transforms hotels and hospitality providers visibly into the cleanest places to stay when away from home by making them safe from the dirtiest creatures: bed bugs. The Valpas bed bug safety standard is loved by over 60 award-winning hotels like Le Pigalle and the F6, groups like Autograph Collections and Esprit de France. Founded by passionate travellers who got attacked by bed bugs while traveling. More info: https://www.valpashotels.com/

ORBITAL SYSTEMS is a cutting edge tech company headquartered in Sweden with operations in the U.S. and Germany. We are creating a new paradigm in daily water usage through our patented shower technology, saving over 90% of the water and 80% of the energy, while increasing comfort and hygiene. Our founder and CEO, Mehrdad Mahdjoubi, has won the Edison Award 2015 (U.S.), the GreenTec Award 2015 (Germany), and the SKAPA award 2014 (Sweden) as the invention of the year. The company was launched under the mentorship of Skype founder Niklas Zennström and is today one of the fastest growing startups in international clean-tech.

Meet the next Swedish unicorn straight from the streets of Stockholm sitting at SSE Business Lab Pango is building the world's first Agentic Operating System for e-commerce logistics. Our vision is to create the AI e-commerce employee of the future. While deliveries and returns are a hidden and often tedious aspect of e-commerce, we are bringing innovation to a legacy $90 billion industry. When we started, we already had 39 competitors in the Nordics. Yet, just two months after launching, we achieved product-market fit and are now powering million-dollar brands with our product. We’re building the future with those who want to say “I was there when it all started.”

Sisters In Startup (SIS) is a platform built to close the gender gap in entrepreneurship. Our mission is to empower women by bridging the gap between their entrepreneurial ambitions and the opportunities needed to succeed. Too often, female founders face structural barriers: lack of access to funding, networks, and mentorship. At SIS, we’re creating a digital ecosystem that changes that. Through curated resources, funding guides, community support, and actionable tools, we make it easier for women to turn ideas into sustainable businesses. SIS combines education, community, and funding readiness in one place, offering practical templates, founder stories, and growth programs tailored to each stage of the entrepreneurial journey. We believe entrepreneurship should be accessible to everyone, not just those who already have connections or capital. That’s why we’re building SIS: a space where women founders can learn, connect, and grow together. Our platform will officially launch in 2026 and is currently in development. We’re looking for a passionate co-founder who shares our vision and wants to help shape the future of female entrepreneurship in Europe (and beyond).

FEESH...the feed for your fish Aquaculture is the fastest-growing food sector and is vital for meeting the protein needs of a growing global population. Yet, its growth is constrained by reliance on two unsustainable protein sources: fishmeal and soy protein concentrate (SPC). Fishmeal is produced from wild-caught fish, putting pressure on already fragile marine ecosystems, while soy production drives large-scale deforestation and carries a heavy carbon footprint. Both are also subject to volatile global markets, making aquafeed production environmentally damaging, expensive, and vulnerable. Insects, particularly Black Soldier Fly Larvae (BSFL), are an attractive and more sustainable alternative. They can be produced locally, upcycle organic waste streams into valuable protein, and have a low environmental footprint. However, despite this potential, insect meal remains a niche ingredient in aquafeeds. The main barrier is chitin, a fiber-like polymer in the insect exoskeleton that reduces digestibility and locks away valuable proteins. This limits inclusion rates of BSFL meal in aquafeeds to just 2–8%, far below the levels needed to meaningfully replace fishmeal and soy. At FEESH, we are solving this problem by applying a precision microbial fermentation platform, enhanced with ultrasonication pre-treatment, to upgrade BSFL meal into a high-performance protein ingredient. Our process disrupts the chitin-protein matrix, making proteins more bioavailable, reducing indigestible fiber, and enriching the lipid fraction with beneficial fatty acids such as EPA and DHA. Additionally, fermentation produces bioactive peptides and immunostimulatory compounds that improve gut health and disease resilience in fish. The result is a fermented insect meal with digestibility levels reaching 90–95%, enabling high inclusion rates of >20% in aquafeeds without compromising fish growth, palatability, or welfare. By combining biological and physical processing, FEESH unlocks the true nutritional potential of insects, transforming them from a niche supplement into a viable replacement for fishmeal and soy protein concentrate. This matters because the aquafeed industry needs scalable, circular, and climate-friendly solutions. Our innovation reduces dependence on environmentally destructive feed sources, cuts CO₂ emissions, and strengthens food system resilience. For insect producers, it creates new market opportunities with higher-value products. For aquafeed formulators and fish farmers, it delivers a sustainable, locally produced protein that supports both performance and animal health. And for society, it contributes to global food security and a more sustainable bioeconomy. FEESH is pioneering the next generation of aquafeed ingredients, designed not just to sustain aquaculture, but to make it thrive responsibly.

At Complir, we’re on a mission to make product compliance effortless and future-proof. Compliance teams are under pressure like never before. Scattered product data, inconsistent reporting standards, and a constant stream of new EU regulations make it harder to stay compliant - and even harder to stay competitive. Many brands rely on outdated systems, external consultants, and reactive approaches just to keep up. We believe it’s time for a smarter way. Complir uses AI agents to automate complex compliance workflows, connecting scattered data, filling gaps, and surfacing risks before they become problems. Our platform helps brands anticipate regulatory changes, simplify reporting, and accelerate sustainable practices like reducing harmful chemicals and cutting resource consumption. By making compliance easier and more transparent, Complir helps brands avoid fines, recalls, and reputational damage - while saving time and resources. We’re already working with some of the biggest Nordic retailers to reshape how product compliance is managed. We’re just getting started, but the potential is massive. It’s time to modernize the backbone of retail.

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!

At Tokai Games we make hybrid casual idle/simulation mobile games! We are a small, but very experienced team who has entertained more than 15 million players on mobile. We have a strong passion for fun, and always design with the player in mind. Our mission is to create immersive and engaging mobile games that bring joy to millions of players worldwide. We work in short sprints, create fun game mechanics and test our mechanics with real players through paid advertisement. Our strategy is to test how fun the game is and how big the financial potentiel is. We thrive by combining creativity, humor and business!

We're are a small video game studio that love mysteries and discoveries. We wear Indoor Sunglasses so that no one can see us cry. Our games make people ask questions and solve harder problems than they thought possible. Our story starts back in university where we were making the earliest school version of our current title, Mind Diver, a detective game based on our heartbreaks. It was nominated as Best Student Game at IGF 2023. We are now fully funded and set out to make a grander Mind Diver that could make anyone feel smart and feel seen. Hopefully we'll get to make many more mysterious games in the future.

SAHA is developing a software and a mobile app to help athletes to optimize their training to reach their full potential through fully personalized training experience. There are millions and millions of athletes around the world but only very few coaches - not to mention the small amount of coaches training professional athletes. Each coach can coach personally only few athletes at a time. We are helping all athletes to access top level coaches - coaches of professional athletes to unlock every athlete's true potential true fully personalized training experience. With SAHA app every athlete can get an access to top level coaches to get optimized training through personalized training based on athlete's personal data, needs, wants and analysis. We are former professional athletes coaching current professional athletes from Olympic gold medalists to World Champions. We saw the need for more personalized coaching and realized the power of personalized training. No more one size fits for all. We want to create the best possible coaching for every single athlete so every athlete can optimize their training and unlock their true potential around the world.

Nordic Makers is an early-stage investor founded by entrepreneurs that have built some of the largest technology companies out of the Nordics (e.g. Zendesk, JustEat, Sitecore, TAT). We know how much grit and luck it takes to build big companies. We are not a fund but we invest our time and our children’s money in crazy, gritty and ambitious founders. We work hands-on with our portfolio companies to share the learnings we had from building our own companies. We hope to contribute to the Nordic ecosystem becoming even stronger in supporting growth companies throughout their journey.

SASHA is at the forefront of developing groundbreaking technology to address the urgent issues surrounding online privacy and image-based abuse. Our commitment to creating a safer digital space is fueled by a collective responsibility to future generations. We strive to foster an online community where diversity is embraced, and justice prevails. We value creativity, collaboration, and a commitment to quality, and we believe in fostering an environment where our team members can thrive and contribute to cutting-edge developments.

Short Description: Mindbuddy is developing an AI-powered mental training app to help young athletes build confidence, focus, and resilience by combining sports psychology with accessible, easy-to-use tools designed for their daily routines. The What: Mental training is often inaccessible to young athletes due to stigma, cost, or limited resources at clubs. This leaves players struggling with performance anxiety, self-doubt, and inconsistent focus - issues that directly impact their performance and well-being. Despite its importance, mental training remains underutilized, especially in grassroots and academy-level sports. With over 50% of players reporting struggles with confidence and performance pressure, this is a problem that affects millions of young athletes worldwide. The How: Mindbuddy bridges the gap between mental training and accessibility by delivering tailored sports psychology tools directly to players’ phones. Using AI, the app helps players set SMART goals, generate visualization tracks, and build mental routines for training and matches. For clubs, Mindbuddy offers a simple platform to track team well-being, measure progress, and provide coaches with actionable insights - allowing mental training to seamlessly integrate into the day-to-day routines of both players and teams. The Why: As a professional footballer for 18 years, including many as captain of Vålerenga, I’ve experienced firsthand the enormous pressure players face. It wasn’t until the latter part of my career, when I discovered the power of mental training, that I realized how much better prepared and focused I could be. That sparked the idea for Mindbuddy. I wanted to create a tool that made mental training accessible to every young athlete, breaking down the barriers of stigma and cost, and ensuring they can unlock their full potential - both on and off the pitch.