Lapee, the female urinal. “Lapee gives women and people who need to pee squatting a quick, safe and hygienic way out.” Urinals for men have been around for a long time, but women and people who need to pee squatting have been long overlooked. For them the need to relieve themselves in public, at events or at festivals always comes with great difficulty. The lines for closed toilet cabins are always long and only two other options present themselves: going without peeing or finding an improvised and unsafe place to pee. Both are highly problematic and degrading. Lapee is a simple solution to a long standing example of gender inequality; Lapee gives women and people who need to pee squatting a quick, safe and hygienic way out. Behind this idea of developing peeing equality are Gina (FR) and Alexander (DK), two architects who graduated from the Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen in Spring, 2017. They were working as architects for the famous Roskilde Festival when they thought and developed Lapee. Today, Lapee is available for rent in 20 countries through 30 partners. Join the movement!

Validé fully facilitates innovation projects from the early R&D phase until commercialization by providing expertise in technology management, startups, incubation, investment, IPR and IP portfolio management, transactions, technology marketing, prototyping, and product development. Validé is the official technology transfer office of 10 research institutes and responsible for the IP portfolio management and commercialization of their intellectual assets. Validé offers incubation services to high-tech startups including accelerator programs, office space and full service startup packages.

WeDoBooks was established to create more and better readers because reading is a fundamental building block for learning, education and creativity. Access to the right book at the right time is one of the biggest motivators for reading. That is why we specialise in helping publishers get digital books to readers as quickly and easily as possible - whether the reader uses the library, goes to school or uses commercial services or bookstores. We do this through our innovative platforms with the aim of creating a healthy digital book market.

We are serious about what impact games can have on learning and change. We see games as a powerful language that can shape the world. It has many dialects and with 15+ years of experience, we master them all.When we make games, we pick the right mechanics from a big tool box – such as competition, storytelling, achievements, curiosity, collaboration – to achieve the right impact.

normify is an engineering-documentation technology company modernizing how technical documents are checked and maintained — "docs-as-code" for engineering. Its graph-based compliance engine checks technical deliverables against the norms and project requirements they must comply with — clause by clause, with every finding cited back to its exact source, in minutes instead of days of manual review. Instead of an engineer cross-checking a document against a standard with a highlighter, normify returns every non-conformance with a traceable audit trail for QA and client review. The graph-based method — not a raw LLM wrapper — is what lets normify reach 96.1% labelled recall across 10+ standards. It is norm-agnostic (customers bring the standards and requirements their projects are bound to), portable across LLM providers, and available self-hosted so sensitive engineering data never leaves the customer's environment. normify is extending from compliance checking into version-aware change intelligence — tracking what changed between document revisions and whether it still complies. Target users: discipline leads, technical authorities, QA/QC and document-control teams at operators, EPCs, and engineering consultancies.

AnankeLabs is developing KAIROS Substrate, a real-time deterministic safety engine, to help organizations operating AI, cybersecurity, and autonomous systems solve structural exposure to novel, zero-day threats with a proactive physics engine that mathematically calculates exact breaking points before execution. We are tackling the fundamental failure of reactive, probabilistic defenses. Today, AI, cybersecurity, and robotics rely on known historical data—like threat signatures or mapped environments—to predict safety. This creates a permanent, widespread synchronization lag across modern infrastructure, leaving systems structurally exposed to novel, zero-day catastrophes and unpredictable "distribution shifts." This problem deeply affects operators across multiple high-stakes domains: AI Safety: Operators rely on post-generation statistical classifiers, forcing them to anticipate every adversarial path. This leaves systems highly exposed between vulnerability discovery and classifier updates. Cybersecurity: Current defenses depend on pattern-matching that requires a known signature. This creates a dangerous reality where defenders are forced to absorb the initial zero-day breach just to extract the signature needed to stop future attacks. Robotics: Systems use neural policies optimized for statistical averages. When encountering novel environments, they lack a physical safety substrate, resulting in hardware executing a "software hallucination at full mechanical torque" and causing kinetic collisions. AnankeLabs is creating an entirely new category of safety by shifting away from guessing if an action is safe based on past data, and moving toward a deterministic engine built on first principles. We built KAIROS Substrate, a real-time safety physics engine that acts as an automatic brake. Instead of relying on pattern-matching, it evaluates actions before execution, instantly detecting and blocking structurally unsound actions across AI, cyber, and robotics by calculating exact mathematical breaking points. Crucially, we made auditability a structural property of the engine itself. Because KAIROS is perfectly deterministic (identical inputs produce identical outputs at ε=10⁻⁶), it automatically generates an immutable, byte-identically replayable trace of every gate decision as a side effect. This eliminates subjective incident reporting and natively satisfies strict regulatory regimes like the EU AI Act, Machinery Regulation 2023/1230, DORA, and NIS2. The spark that fired our mission was the realization that relying on statistics to secure critical infrastructure is a dead-end. Watching security teams permanently synchronize their defenses to yesterday's attack surface highlighted an unacceptable structural flaw in modern technology. We saw the same unacceptable risks in autonomous systems, where a simple distribution shift could cause heavy machinery to hallucinate and collide with its environment. We realized that true safety couldn't be bolted on as an afterthought or solved with better guesswork; it had to be deterministic and mathematical. We set out to build AnankeLabs because organizations deserve a proactive safeguard that prevents failures from unseen threats from the ground up, rather than just mitigating the damage after the fact.

CHAOS builds a Location Intelligence platform that helps rental housing companies, real estate investors, property developers, retailers, urban planners, and public sector clients to make smarter business decisions and stay ahead of the curve using our intelligence engine powered by geospatial data. We're not a big company with a polished onboarding programme and a pool table in the corner. We're a tight-knit group of people who care about the problem we're solving, move fast, and figure things out together. If you're the kind of person who'd rather have real ownership over your work than a fancy job title, you'll fit right in.

Academy is an invitation-only members community in the heart of Copenhagen. We bring together a curated group of leaders for a confidential exchange of insight, perspective and experience — set within a frame of network, office, home and hospitality. A space designed for the few, built for the long term.

GoWest — Nordic Venture Capital Forum GoWest is one of the Nordics’ leading venture capital forums for startups, scale-ups, investors, and ecosystem leaders focused on the future of innovation and industry. Hosted in Gothenburg, Sweden, GoWest brings together founders, venture capitalists, angel investors, corporations, universities, policymakers, and talent from across Europe to accelerate the growth of ambitious technology companies — from pre-seed to Series A and beyond. At the intersection of deep tech, industrial transformation, sustainability, and entrepreneurship, GoWest reflects the unique strengths of West Sweden: a region shaped by world-leading industry, engineering excellence, and an increasingly dynamic startup ecosystem. A MEETING PLACE FOR FOUNDERS, INVESTORS AND FUTURE INDUSTRIES GoWest exists to create meaningful connections between startups and capital. Over the course of several days, we facilitate high-quality matchmaking between founders and investors while also creating a platform for discussions around the future of European innovation, competitiveness, and technology leadership. The conference focuses especially on sectors where Europe — and the Nordics — have the potential to lead globally: Deep tech Climate tech Mobility and automotive innovation AI and emerging technologies Life science and health innovation Energy and electrification Industrial transformation Space and frontier technologies University spinouts and research commercialization GoWest is designed not only as an event, but as a catalyst for long-term collaboration between startups, investors, universities, corporations, and public stakeholders. WHAT HAPPENS AT GOWEST? GoWest combines structured investor matchmaking with inspiring stage content, networking opportunities, curated side events, and ecosystem-building activities.The conference includes: Startup-investor matchmaking Pitch sessions and founder showcases Investor programs and LP activities Keynotes and panel discussions Policy and innovation forums Workshops and breakout sessions Community gatherings and side events Networking experiences across Gothenburg Every year, hundreds of startups and investors participate in curated meetings designed to create real business opportunities and long-term relationships. A PLATFORM FOR THE NORDIC INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM GoWest is built around collaboration. We work closely with incubators, science parks, universities, accelerators, investors, corporations, and public organizations across the Nordics and Europe to strengthen the region’s innovation ecosystem. The conference is founded by Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg and developed together with ecosystem partners who share a vision of building globally competitive technology companies from Europe. WHY VOLUNTEER AT GoWest? GoWest is powered by people who are passionate about innovation, entrepreneurship, technology, and building meaningful experiences. As a volunteer, you become part of an international community working at the center of the Nordic startup and investment ecosystem. This is an opportunity to: Build experience in event production and international conferences Meet founders, investors, and industry leaders Expand your professional network Gain insight into startups, venture capital, and innovation Develop communication, coordination, and operational skills Work alongside an ambitious and welcoming team Get behind-the-scenes access to one of the Nordics’ leading tech events We welcome students, young professionals, international talent, and anyone curious about startups, innovation, events, and community building. Whether your interests are within business, tech, operations, communication, hospitality, partnerships, or entrepreneurship, GoWest offers a dynamic environment where you can learn, contribute, and grow.

Hybird is an AI-first energy technology company transforming the way businesses manage and use electricity. Born out of frustration with outdated monitoring systems, Hybird combines proprietary circuit breaker innovation with intelligent software, into the Hybird Operating System (OS). This OS tracks electricity usage at the source level, and makes it possible to cut waste, lower costs, and reduce CO₂ emissions. By pairing real-time hardware insights with advanced pattern detection and consumption optimisation, Hybird delivers typical savings of 20–30%. In short, Hybird turns everyday switchboards into connected, data-driven systems that give businesses smarter control over their energy footprint.

Alipes is a proprietary high frequency trading company. We design and build advanced algorithms that use natural language processing, machine learning, and ultra-fast technology to react to new information in the markets. Since our inception in 2008, Alipes has been a trailblazer in automating financial markets, continuously growing and diversifying into new business areas through cutting-edge technology. In 2022 we entered the Energy sector, focusing on short-term physical power trading using machine learning to interpret fundamental and market data for our strategies.

We're an early-stage biotech startup on a mission to transform the way the world experiences alcohol. Our proprietary enzyme-based dietary supplement is designed to break down alcohol in the stomach before it enters the bloodstream, helping the 540 million people who suffer from alcohol intolerance to enjoy social experiences without the side effects.

ARTBIO is redefining cancer care by developing a new class of alpha radioligand therapies (ART) and building the ecosystem that maximizes their potential. ARTBIO is a clinical-stage radiopharmaceutical biotechnology company focused on developing a new class of alpha radioligand therapies (ART). Our unique patient-centric approach is underpinned by a deep understanding of cancer biology and the infrastructure needed to effectively design, manufacture, and distribute our therapies.

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.

Claryo combines sensor technology and AI to detect anomalies in industrial settings. Take the opportunity to apply your skills in a meaningful way at a startup, where your work will directly impact industry innovation and environmental sustainability. Join us and be part of a passionate, innovative team where your work directly contributes to the development of a cutting-edge product.