Strive is a project revolutionizing the Finnish job market to one where startups are the best place for students to thrive in a high-growth environment. Students don't recognize the potential that startups offer as places where you can quickly and efficiently learn and grow. On the other hand startups are innovators whose success depends on their ability to find and engage the best talent. We're changing the status quo and connecting students with rapidly growing growth companies. Our main event is held in the fall and is a startup crawl connecting students to the best startups in Finland.

Our goal is to spark curiosity and bring people together. We create, develop, and publish original IPs with emergent gameplay on PC and consoles. We create games that you play with – not just play. Games that give players tools and environments to create their versions of fun. Flashbulb was founded in 2016 to create Trailmakers – an online physics based construction game. The game is out on Steam, Xbox and Playstation and is now more alive than ever with continuous updates, an ever growing player base, and an active Discord community. While supporting Trailmakers we also launched successful partygame Rubber Bandits, also out on a variety of platforms millions of copies sold. While we are still maintaining these titles, we are now kicking off out next game. At Flashbulb you will be a part of a small team of seasoned veterans and eager talent, all aiming to provide players with great experiences. We pride ourselves in creating a workplace where opinions are heard regardless of title and we care greatly about maintaining a sensible work/life balance.

Respire is a Norwegian venture studio focused on building companies within the energy transition and sustainability. We work hands-on from early problem exploration through company formation and early growth, typically partnering closely with founders as active co-builders. Our team brings experience from energy, industry, startups, and venture building, and we believe a systematic approach gives better odds in complex, capital-intensive domains. We build a small number of ventures at a time and take a long-term view. Respire contributes sector insight, structured venture development, access to relevant networks, and in-house capacity for early MVP development. We work with entrepreneurs who want real ownership and responsibility, and who are motivated by solving concrete problems in energy and green industry rather than chasing hype. We’re based at RE Gründerhus in Asker, a hub for sustainable innovation, and are now scaling the studio.

Operta is a newly born startup with a dynamic team. Operta's vision is to empower landlords and property managers with a cutting-edge SAAS solution that optimizes property and tenant management, enabling streamlined operations, efficient communication, elevated tenant satisfaction, and business scalability. Through our SAAS product, we want to connect landlords/property managers, tenants, and service providers (e.g., plumbers, electricians, painters) in one single platform allowing both maintenance and management of rental properties.

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.

SMRT Systems is a cloud-based business management platform designed by dry cleaners for dry cleaners. Originally founded in San Francisco, we have our main engineering hub in Malmö Sweden and our HQ in the Raleigh NC. We are a passionate team of builders on a mission to help digitalize the dry cleaning and laundry across the globe. Our tech stack includes Typescript / React / Tanstack / GraphQL / AWS ECS / CouchDB Python / PHP / NodeJS.

MedicQuant is an Aarhus based medtech startup that is revolutionizing patient care by developing a tool that measures drug levels at the point of care. This provides clinicians with the crucial information they need for rapid and life-saving management of patients. MedicQuant’s first solution focuses on anticoagulation therapy for acute stroke patients. By providing insight into this therapy, clinicians can determine the correct life-saving management of stroke patients, greatly improving time to treatment and reducing mortality and disability.

Short ------ Wepost makes marketing your superpower. We are developing the greatest platform for marketing. We combine artificial intelligence with design to provide high-quality creatives for scale-up companies. Each creative is tailored every individual social media platform based on the company's strategy and publishing plan. Long ----- Problem: The problem is that the vast majority of companies do not know how to use social media marketing strategically or effectively. This leads to them either; 1) spending too much money on paid advertising to reach their target audience, or 2) not having a clear strategy behind their marketing, resulting in low quality content. In the worst cases, they do both. This leads to low visibility and ultimately loss of customers and revenue. In fact, 14% of startups fail as a result of poor marketing. In addition, those who work in marketing experience that daily content production for social media is a repetitive and boring job. They themselves feel that they are overworked, and social media often fall far down the priority list. Solution: Our solution is to use artificial intelligence (AI) to turn marketing into a company's superpower. We create a platform that helps companies create a strategic marketing plan, and then automatically generates the content using AI. The content is adapted to their brand and segment, which makes the software unique on the market. In addition, the service is priced as a software, where there is a public fixed monthly subscription to the content production, something similar services from agencies do not offer today. The focus on software development also makes the service highly scalable, and with our team it is only a matter of time before it is developed.

Consigli AS develops "self-designing engineers" who will disrupt the way we plan and design the buildings and infrastructure of future society. To achieve this, we develop a SaaS platform/application using different aspects of AI (Artificial Intelligence) like machine learning, mathematical optimization, and NLP. The service platform is developed in close cooperation with large, established real estate companies that provide data and insights.

We are a startup founded in August 2021, delivering quality advisory and implementation services related to Odoo ERP (odoo.com). In Flyt we work with a range of customers within different sectors, from retail to engineering and manufacturing companies. These companies look to us for advice and experience when taking the leap to transform the way they do their work. We aim to build the number one Nordic consultancy within our area, making a concrete impact on our customers, and enabling each other to learn and grow.

Digip is revolutionizing trademark ownership and protection by digitizing the industry. Today creators and business owners are in the dark and using google search for trademarks: tomorrow they can utilize the fastest trademark engine in the world: any place any time, on demand, and always for free.

Software development is oblivious to the maze it’s stuck in. Ideas rattle through clunky systems and suffocate under the weight of ingrained complexity, sending developers round in laborious circles. Holding them back from moving us forward. Encore changes all that with a pragmatic new philosophy that breaks away. From the complexity. The industry. From the stuck-in-their-way mindsets. By proposing a new way of building cloud software. With this newfound philosophy, Encore's backend development engine empowers developers and their ideas to escape the maze. Shifting development from its compliant tool, murmuring on and on — to being a driver of potential and possibility. We’re clearing a new path for better experiences and better builds. It’s a development philosophy that sets our work free. It’s time to break away.

The Vintage Bar is a community driven marketplace based on buying, selling and providing inspiration, all within the field of premium and luxury fashion. The platform is based on a clear mission: To show that secondhand can be as cool and exiting as new items by connecting buyers and sellers from all around the world. Visual inspiration and inclusion are two of The Vintage Bar’s core values. By creating an inclusive and relatable social hangout, The Vintage Bar invites their growing community of sellers and buyers to partake in fashion in a more circular and sustainable way.

United Fintech buys and scales the best fintech companies in the capital markets sector and unites the products on a central platform. At United Fintech, we’re passionate about facing new challenges and working innovatively to solve them, with the ultimate aim of making a difference in the world of finance through technology. We’re a scale-up in the making with ambitious plans for the future. Working with a blend of cultures and nationalities, we offer a unique and exciting workplace where every individual has the opportunity to develop their career.

Raxalle develops modern workforce management and compliance automation software for construction sites. We automatise day-to-day tasks so that site managers can focus on value-adding work. We were an entirely customer-funded company from the founding in 2021 until the end of 2023, at which point we raised an angel round from Gorilla Capital, Sofokus Ventures and angel investors with previous exits in construction tech to scale the product and the business faster. Despite construction industry hitting the rock bottom, we've grown at a continuous pace. We're looking to build a European vertical category-defining company within our niche of workforce management and compliance in construction.