Maka is a designer of premium quality bags, clothing, boards, and apparel for skaters currently launching worldwide with our first two products; water-resistant skateboard bags in two unique designs that make transporting your board 100x easier. Who is behind Maka? Maka is driven by a dedicated team in Medellín, Colombia. Maka is the brainchild of two skaters; Diego Pineda (CEO) and Jorge Calle (Lead Designer). Diego was born in Colombia but fled to Arizona, USA, with his family in 1999 due to violence. He picked up skating immediately and would go on to work for skate shops and tour the country with a team. He returned in 2008 to study International Business, although he never put down his board, certain that he would find a way to make a living out of skating. Jorge was born in raised in a small ghetto in Medellín, Colombia. While many of his friends found their way into drugs and violence, Jorge found his way forward in life either on top of a skateboard or behind a sewing machine. His true passion is to create without limits, to try, to fail, and to try again until he’s created the best there possibly could be. So Diego, why did you start Maka? I live a pretty simple life philosophy; I do what I enjoy doing. However, like everyone (especially skaters), it can be hard to do what you really enjoy and pay the bills. I’ve always looked up to the skate culture for inspiration ever since I started to understand it – the style, the clothes, the street, the attitude to be against the norm of society… It’s a close-knit community, although it’s an individual activity. You don’t need a team to be able to skate. It’s a way of self-expression, and that, for me, is the starting point of it all. What is the ambition of Maka? There are not many cultures that truly accept everyone. Skateboarding does. White, black, green, yellow, purple, tall, short, weird, funny, cool – everyone is accepted because it’s about your individuality. For the majority of my life, most of the people I’ve met come from skateboarding. It all comes down to having fun. Learning, falling, and getting back up. So, why does all of this relate to ambition? Because, while we’re taking the brand worldwide, we also want to seize the opportunity to support more kids with what skating has given us; a way to express ourselves, a sense of purpose, and life-long friends. Skating made our lives what they are, and now it’s time to give back. 10% of all profits go towards supporting social causes here in the city of Medellín. To follow us on our mission, we invite you to follow our social media to help more children find paths away from the drugs and violence that are still present in this city.

Brand New Ventures styrker danske start-ups’ med erfaring, firepower og navigation. Sammen skaber vi morgendagens succesvirksomheder. Vi kender vejen til den gode idé, det komplette team og det succesfulde exit. Vi transformerer, etablerer og investerer i selskaber med potentialet til disruption og eksponentiel vækst. Brand New Ventures ledes af de tre partnere – Werner Valeur, Joakim Warnøe og Rasmus Sindberg.

Andgo 's mission is to fill every shift. We automate absence management for large organizations facing complex scheduling challenges. Andgo has over 150,000 active users in North America and is now entering the EU market. We work with sectors such as healthcare, manufacturing, logistics, retail, and others. We are a team of 25 engaged, collaborative and fun people. Our HQ is in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan while our EU HQ is in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Chromologics is a Danish biotech spin-out from the Technical University of Denmark. We have developed a fungal biotech platform for the production of novel, natural colorants. Our proprietary fermentation process allows us to be first movers to introduce lab-grown food colorants to the market. Our production is sustainable, scalable and cost-competitive. Unlike other existing natural colors, our colorants are not extracted from high value raw materials like fruit and vegetables, but produced by our wild type cell factory. Our fungal strains are non-GMO and our pigments are compatible with most dietary needs, including kosher, halal, and vegan diets. We are in the R&D phase.

Hybrid Greentech inspires organisations to be green pioneers and invest in energy storage so we together can reach 100% renewable energy. We want to make it simple to leverage the full revenue potential for energy storage. We and our customers are in an emerging renewable market that will face 30 fold growth over the coming years. Hybrid Greentech is a 4-year old company entering the scale-up phase, developing an AI-driven software ecosystem for sizing and real-time optimisation of energy storage, and Power to X solutions in energy markets. We are a team of 10 people with strong domain knowledge in renewable energy, energy storage, machine learning, and AI who want to revolutionise energy storage, grid-scale battery systems, and Power to X flexibility in energy and power markets to balance the generation and the consumption of the electric power systems with large shares of renewable energy.

Reetro is an online agile retrospective tool, we help software development teams to run better retrospectives and improve their performance by utilising AI based collaboration tools. Reetro is the most popular retrospective tool in the world built by a small, cross-functional team of passionate software developers, product managers and digital marketers working from two locations Copenhagen, Denmark and Helsinki, Finland.

Startup Grind is the largest independent startup community, actively educating, inspiring, and connecting more than 2,000,000 entrepreneurs in over 600 chapters. We nurture startup ecosystems in 125+ countries through events, media, and partnerships with organizations like Google for Startups. The cornerstone of our global community is monthly events featuring successful local founders, innovators, educators and investors who share lessons learned on the road to building great companies. Founded in Silicon Valley, Startup Grind has helped millions of entrepreneurs build their businesses, connect with strategic partners, and secure funding.

Maptionnaire is a map-based community engagement tool that bridges the gap between the community and planners. The engagement is done through map-based questionnaires that collect GIS-based data.It is mainly applied by cities, consultancies, and universities working in the field of urban and city planning, and research. Mapita Oy, the team behind Maptionnaire, is a Finnish spin-off company from Aalto University's Land Use Planning and Urban Studies research group.

The Pitch SignLab helps families that need to learn sign language or sign-assisted communication to communicate The What Parents to children who are severely hard of hearing or deaf need to learn sign language to communicate. Today, only 1 in 4 parents to deaf children in high-income countries manage to learn sign language. In low-income countries, it is believed to be less than 1 in 10. Families with individuals that benefit from sign-assisted communication face the same challenge. These include the parents to children with Down Syndrome, severe autism or Cerebral palsy. The How An international learning platform for sign languages and sign-assisted communication. The SignLab learning platform is fully digital and can incorporate new languages within weeks. The user only needs access to a smartphone or a computer. The platform makes it fun and easy to learn through gamification and timed encouragement. To ensure that the user gets the most out of every learning session, our review functionality incorporates an AI that knows what signs you are about to forget. The AI then designs a learning session that is tailored to the individual user’s need. Our curriculum is designed in cooperation with sign language teachers in each language. The platform launched in open beta in Norway November 2018. Feedback from parents and sign language teachers gave it a NPS of +64. The platform saw exponential growth with an average growth rate of 276% each month for the first three months (Nov-Feb). This growth all came from word of mouth, $0 spent on marketing. The Why Today less than 10% of the 64 million parents to deaf and hard of hearing children know sign language due to the low availability of education centers. Exclusion from communication have a significant impact on everyday life, causing feelings of loneliness, isolation, and frustration. The inability to properly communicate have a significantly adverse effect on the academic performance of children. SignLab works towards a society where all families have access to teaching themself, their children and their community signs and sign language so that everyone can feel included.

Cuttles helps dreamers and entrepreneurs develop ideas and build startups Our web app has all the features and in-app guides you need to build, understand and sky-rocket your startup. It’s simpler, faster and more impactful than ever to start a business. Create your pitch. Write your business plan. Define your team. Do your budgets. Export and share your work in a dazzling design that matches your own branding - like magic! But wait, there is more. We not just an app. We want to train, inspire and empower startups to create more game-changing solutions. Get startup schooled in our Startup Academy or speak to one of our Startup Success Managers to get support on your startup journey. Our grand vision is to inspire, motivate & grow all early-stage startups and ideas in the world. We are on a mission is to empower dreamers and entrepreneurs worldwide by simplifying the way we build and plan startup businesses through digital technology, support, and education.

BRØL -  foodtech company that designs and develops circular solutions that are pioneered as the world's 1st circular craft brewery. We are all about offering the most sustainable craft beer and driving the change with flavors, sustainability, and diversity. Our startup brewery is bringing more flavor, responsibility, and innovation into craft beer and beverage industry. Not many know, but beer is really resource-intensive to produce and with so much waste being created in our food systems, something has to change. Hence we are developing tech to bring us closer to zero waste and bring the most responsible and damn good-tasting beverages to the market. We are done building our new brewery in February, so if you are up for a visit, then let us know! BRØL is a combination of Danish words for bread and beer translating directly to 'roar' and we ROAR for positive impact and tackle a truly global issue - one sip at a time!

The short story: We're a Norwegian contech startup and we're prefabricating rebar cages with robotics. The long story: Rebartek was founded in 03/2018. In our first year, we have grown our team to 10 members with a wide range of backgrounds from different industries. We are developing a ground-breaking solution for the construction industry. Our robots manufacture steel reinforcement cages that are used in concrete structures. We are developing a highly automated service that starts at the design of the cages and ends with the delivery of the cages to the construction site. Today almost all rebar welding and tying is done manually by humans. This is dangerous, time-consuming and physically brutal work. We want to provide an optimized solution for manufacturing rebar, with an added bonus of tailored models and a streamlined administrative workflow.  Our philosophy is to take a lot of small steps quickly. We embrace failures and learn from them. We like being daring, trying new things and look for opportunities rather than focusing on limitations.  We're hiring! Rebartek needs daring, smart people. We're especially looking for a new CTO, so do not hesitate to contact us.

Gigway is a Stockholm-based freelancer platform matching companies with specialists within media, marketing, design, and tech. Our community of 2000+ skilled freelancers gets our free mobile app and companies a free company account. Match, chat, sign contract, report, review and manage payments - in one app. Our business model is to take a % fee out of all transactions. Our platform launched in May 2019, we've grown revenue 20% per month during the year and raised a seed round in Nov 2019. We've also financed the company with innovation grants and will raise another round in 2020. Shareholders as of Dec 2019 are our founder, team, and angel investors. We're right now recruiting three key team members to our team. Our vision is to democratize consulting and organize gig work for professionals in all urban areas in Europe. We believe in people. We believe in freedom.

Findec, a non-profit foundation and a hub for fintechs, is the place where the fintech community can gather and grow. Our mission is to drive innovation and access to market, by helping to build companies and attracting talent through network, knowledge and collaboration. Through various initiatives and programs, events, a physical space and a digital community, we will provide opportunities for collaboration, growth and strategic partnerships.

Bolt is one of the fastest growing startups in the world with over 10M happy customers in 25+ countries, from Europe to Mexico to Africa. We’re building a transportation platform to connect millions of riders and drivers around the world to make travel easier, quicker and more reliable.Bolt is literally changing how millions of people move by making on-demand transport affordable in tens of cities around the world.