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ColouReef

We are a new social startup named ColouReef and we are going to rethink and innovate the fashion industry. As you probably know, the fast fashion industry has a more negative impact on our environment and society than it does good. Being one of the most polluting ones, the industry emits more CO2 into the atmosphere than international flights and maritime shipping combined. Moreover, it is a water-consuming giant that is responsible for 20% of all industrial water pollution worldwide. Additionally, fast-fashion companies that produce garments in the global south, are profiting by exploiting local labour and nature. Fast fashion is the problem. Ever changing trends, consumerism and the fear of being left out, affects people psychologically, as fashion collections’ frequency jumped from 2 to 4 per year in 2000 to 12, 16 and sometimes 24 different collections per year in 2019. As a result, in 2014 to compare with 2000, on average people bought 60% more clothes and kept them just half as long. Consequently, this behaviour created another major problem of the industry – waste. Around 85% of the textile ends up in landfills or being burned, while barely 15% are recycled. In 2017 – 16.9 million tons of textile was produced, and only 2,6 million tons were recycled. The problem is, that many consumers in the global North are being held as hostages by the fast fashion trends, without many, if any, sustainable alternatives. This is our solution to the problems above: • To create a fashion rental service based on a circular economy, that allows customers to own different garments by paying a monthly subscription. In this way we will be able to reduce the impact of the fast fashion while allowing people an opportunity to change their outfit and style more often. • We will offer clothes ONLY from sustainable companies, which care about our planet and everyone living on it. Meaning that clothes will need to be produced sustainably and ecologically and/or contain recycled fabrics, as well as not to exploit labour within their supply chain. • Damaged and worn out clothes will be returned back to the clothing brand to upcycle or will be recycled and/or upcycled locally by ColouReef. This way we will fight together the problem of enormous waste caused by the industry. • We will change the habits of the consumers, by providing an alternative to own and wear sustainable clothing for a period of time instead of owning cheap and vastly produced fashion garments. At the same time, we will educate our customers about the damages that the textile industry is doing to our environment. • As the name of our company implies, we want to help to protect coral reefs that are on the verge of extinction. Coral reefs are a vital part of the whole underwater ecosystem. Warming ocean and ocean acidification are two of the main reasons why corals are bleaching and dying around the world. Besides our effort to transform the fashion industry into a more sustainable version of it, we will also support selected NGOs that are fighting against coral extinction. We are looking for people thinking in the same way, seeing the problems and wanting to solve them by disrupting the fashion industry. If you are interested and would like to know more, contact us on info@coloureef.com Informative links: https://www.textilemountainfilm.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61CdttBG3n0 https://www.checinternational.org/clothing-waste-and-fast-fashion-in-2020/

SafeBikely

SafeBikely is developing the next generation bicycle parking. Smart and secure bicycle parkering with access from your smartphone, developed especially for municipalities and public transport companies to allow cyclist to take an higher share of todays transport-mix within cities. We hiring in Trondheim!

Nordic Ice Coffee

At Nordic Ice Coffee it is our mission to launch a serie of new coffee beverages that will change how coffee lovers think about and enjoy their coffee. For now we have successfully launched our first product, Copacabana Iced Coffee, which comes in four different variants. We love our customers, with whom we are closely engaged. It will always be a priority to built a community around our products with the purpose of giving our customers and experience that goes beyond the great taste of our products. Coffee is farmed in some of the poorest regions in the world. As a company we want to take responsibility and help develop the local communities from where we get our high quality coffee beans. We produce our products at our own facilities, which gives is the opportunity to experiment and develop many new different coffee product - learning and playing is a part of our dna.

Optio Incentives AS

We aim to simplify how employees and key resources can gain ownership and take part of the value created within a company. All companies are different. And the incentive scheme for one company might not suit the next. An incentive program should not be “just a document” signed by an employee and stored in a drawer. A successful incentive program is built around its ability to generate the feeling of ownership and motivation, and its ability to align the interests of the employees with those of the owners. Through our software and expertise we assist management, founders and companies to achieve their optimal incentive scheme. We believe in ownership and its inherent motivational effect, and wish to enable more companies with powerful tools in order to achieve this.

Netprofile

Netprofile is the leading technology focused public relations, social media and inbound marketing agency in Finland. We work with market leading multinational technology corporations, innovative high growth startups, and supporting organizations that are boosting the development of the ICT business. We are Helsinki-based office with 17 professionals with over 20 years of experience in the field of communications and marketing.

Avilius

Avilius er en reaktion på den generelle mistrivsel, der er stigende blandt unge. Derfor er vi et hold psykologistuderende, der tilbyder individuelle samtaleforløb og gruppeforløb til unge. Avilius har som sin mission at gøre ungdomslivet sundere og sjovere, fordi det er muligt at tage tingene i opløbet og få støtte undervejs. Vi er desuden et større content-hus, der holder arrangementer, laver podcasts, skriver artikler m.m. for at uddanne og oplyse om mental sundhed.

VendingRobotics

SALES AUTOMATION is our specialty. Company VendingRobotics build automates and systems when digital trade needs automated delivery solutions. PHYSICAL HANDOVER SOLUTIONS: we build machines and solutions for pickup/delivery points, vending and exchange solutions for the agricultural and gas cylinder sector. We are also involved in the development of robotics for agricultural production. Startup VendingRobotics is based on knowledge and experience from GassAutomat.no, the first company to place a larger number of two-way vending machines for sale or exchange of propane bottles worldwide. Our purpose is the analysis of the entire sales process and the possibilities of its automation. We have a unique business model with huge growth now.

momkind

Momkind is founded by Nanna Schultz. Momkind is a webshop selling postpartum boxes and products for new moms, hereunder our very own postpartum underwear. Momkind is an online community for pregnant and new moms where we talk openly and honestly about becoming a mother. We want to make sure that no new mom feels alone. Kindness To All Mothers! ✊

CaterMate

CaterMate offers first-class waiters for your event. Appreciate your freedom and let our staff take care of the waitering for you! The most important asset of our company is satisfied staff. Our team is made up of cheerful and spirited waiters who have completed our internal training. CaterMate is a catering staffing company. We offer first-class waiters for all kinds of events. Our mentality is that "we always make that little extra" which has led to hundreds of very satisfied customers. Customer satisfaction is the most important element of our service. To ensure this, we have a pool of about 50 trained waiters.

The Protein Directory

We're building a community of alternative protein startup founders and supporters with the shared mission of starting companies and creating sustainable products to replace animal-based meat. We help founders to tell their stories and to connect with the right stakeholders. And we guide large companies to create their future strategy by working with high-potential protein startups.

MULGEO copenhagen

MULGEO copenhagen Are a Danish design brand we make Sustainable multifunctional furnitures and other products.  Our main product is our Square fibre stool with rounded corners. It is made of 100% mono-materiel Kraftliner.  In addition, the material Kraftliner is made of replanted trees, which makes our stool to a CO2-neutral product. The stool is practical to use for outerwear and bags. Quality Multiple layer Kraftliner, waterproof and water-resistant Highest UN quality mark, Class X, Recycling Resy approved,  High pressure resistance approved for 350 kg.

The Sales Factory AS

The Sales Factory, founded in summer of 2019 has a clear goal of becoming a significant player in Norway & internationally. Beside close collaboration with established brands, we are closely linked to Startup Ecosystems, Chambers of Commerce’s, Embassies and Investor groups in Norway and abroad. We work with several exciting clients with a high "disruptive factor". The company has clear ambitions for growth, and will be a unique and exciting workplace to work at and develop for the right talents. We see ourselves as close allies to disruptive Startup/Scale ups who have a clear go to market strategy. By providing the sales force they need we'll help these selected companies to establish a market in Norway and beyond. With a collective experience of more than 50 years of sales among the Founders in combination with their in depth experience in the startup/segment, in regards to structuring, consulting, investments, etc. The Sales Factory aims to become the natural choice for Startup/Scale ups who have a clear agenda to reach unicorn status.

Starship Technologies

At Starship, we are redefining how goods reach the places in which we live. We see a future where a new generation of convenience services becomes available to everyone – made possible by our awesome autonomous neighbourhood robots. We have brought together some incredible talent and have entered commercial pilots with hundreds of robots driving along sidewalks across the United States and several countries in Europe. We believe that soon there will be thousands of our robots around the world. 

Zapflow Oy

Already in 25+ countries, great companies like Paypal Ventures, Mitsubishi, Fortum, and DraftKings, use Zapflow to get more done with less effort. Zapflow is a cloud-based productivity platform that gives professional investment teams more time, more control and more information to make better-informed decisions every day.

GreenKayak

GreenKayak is a NGO working to reduce the amount of garbage floating in our coastal waters. The idea is simple – volunteers get free GreenKayak trips in return for collecting trash and sharing their experience on social media. GreenKayak also shares knowledge, and helps people of all ages get out on our beautiful oceans and take action.