Blok is a digital real estate agency for residential properties. Simply put, we help people buy and sell apartments. Why? Real estate transactions are notorious for being the largest and most stressful financial decisions we take during our lives. There are a lot of questions, uncertainty and the process has traditionally been opaque and costly. Our goal at Blok is to fix that by providing a transparent and cost-efficient service, where the customer feels that she’s in control. At the core, we’re a technology company, since we recognize that winning in this market requires us to augment the best real estate agents with the best technology. Our digital services enable us to give our customers a modern customer experience and provides massive operational efficiencies for our real estate agents, which saves time and money, both for us and our customers. Founded in 2017, the company has grown rapidly with apartments sold for the combined value of over 500 MEUR to date and employs over 32 people in Finland and Sweden. We’re backed by prominent Nordic and Swiss investors and our financial situation is solid. The Story Blok's story started from our own experiences in the real estate market. In January 2015 our CEO Rudi Skogman found his dream apartment. To afford it he had to sell his old flat. After some price negotiations the apartment was sold and the real estate agent cashed in a 7000 € commission. Afterwards Rudi started thinking if using an agent had been right choice after all. There had to be a better (and cheaper) way to sell apartments. In the spring of 2016 Rudi got the idea of using technology to automate most of the selling process. Soon after that Juha, Samu and Olli joined. Things started to fall in place: What if we would let the owner arrange viewings? What if bids could be made online? What if the home valuation would be done by an algorithm? What if the transaction cost was a bit more reasonable? After taking a leap of faith and founding Blok the service was officially launched in the spring of 2017. Since then the company has served thousands of home sellers and buyers across Finland and Sweden. The company has won recognition as one of the hottest startups in Europe (Wired) and as the best new web service of the year (Grand One). The Service Our apartment sales service provides an easy and seamless digital experience for selling and buying an apartment throughout the whole home buying and selling process: - The valuation service estimates the value of your apartment based on advanced algorithms and actual transactions. - The trading platform enables bidding for apartments electronically. - The agent service automates nearly all routine tasks of the real estate agent, making the whole process extremely cost-efficient. Our Etsivä service offers an unique way to buyers to find their dream apartment. The service looks for a suitable apartment among all existing apartments in the Helsinki Capital Region and can tell you how many actually exist, how many are sold per year and for what price. You can ask us to contact the owners of those apartments to check if they are interested in buying. Our digital services matched with our stellar customer service team has resulted in a world-class customer happiness which has steadily measured in the 80-90 range on the NPS scale.

Brella is the smartest networking platform for events. Brella has been awarded Best Conference Tool 2018 & Best Networking Tool 2018 at the Event Technology awards. We're on a mission to help people find life-altering connections at events. Since 2016, we've helped attendees around the world find investment, jobs & colleagues, at events hosted by companies like Microsoft, IBM & TechCrunch (to name a few). We thrive on connecting others and meeting new people, so come join us in building the service that has connected tens of thousands of people worldwide!

Poikilingo is developing an adaptive language learning app for bilingual children, where social and cultural awareness are at the heart of our concept. Our program focuses on the cultural aspects of the language being learned, as we believe that cracking the social code is as important as learning vocabulary and pronunciation. This promotes a sense of belonging which will positively impact the child's learning process. We believe that each child is unique, so each of them deserves a study program that takes into consideration their peculiarities. The customized plan mixes activities, videos, songs and games, and adapts its level of difficulty according to the speed at which the child learns. We follow a consolidated learning approach that teaches different subjects through the language, all created by educational experts and aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. But the game-changing experience that Poikilingo brings into the market is based on animated stories where an avatar of the child goes through the culture clashes between her own culture and the one she is learning about. In societies with a high number of immigrants, it can both ease the integration of immigrant children, and also help to preserve the heritage language of descendants.

Sixty North is a software product company, consultancy and training provider based in Norway and operating throughout Europe. Our experience specifying, designing and building effective systems for complex scientific and engineering problems in the energy, defence and instrumentation industries uniquely equips us to solve problems using sophisticated software development approaches.

Plastic waste and single use packaging is one of the great unsolved problems for our planet. In Europe the average person generates almost 500 kg of waste a year of which 35% comes from packaging. Most of this packaging is used for food and beverage products and is becoming an immense waste problem all over the planet. At Cirqle we want to tackle a part of this problem and believe that one of the grand solutions are a reuse model. We are creating a new paradigm in packaging and want to make it as convenient to reuse as it is to throw away. Our vision is to be the leading platform for reuse packaging in the circular economy. With our pioneering packaging solution, we enable a seamless shift from single use to reuse packaging. We are already breaking new ground with our meal-box service, but the sky is the limit when it comes to reuse packaging. With partners we cover the full supply chain from hardware production and software development to sanitation and logistics for a multitude of packaging solutions making sustainability the easy choice.

ZOAN is a leading European XR studio based in Helsinki, Finland. The award-winning company keeps transforming industries by creating real-time digital twins and virtual experiences. ZOAN is amongst the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Finland (Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Finland, 2020). Virtual technology expertise. The core competence of our company lies in combining real-time 3D with technology solutions - of that we have 10 years of experience. Global team. Our core teams are located in Finland and Brazil, and we have a freelancer network around the globe. We are used to multinational teams and remote collaboration. Passion for the best. We want to be the ones who define global standards. Boldly going where no one has gone before. We are always exploring ways to combine 3D with other new tech.

Snowgeekz is a software development company which develops world class software service that is used by millions of people every day. The company has offices both in Stockholm Sweden and Shanghai China, and owns the biggest B2B media platform in Nordics which has 160K registered company users on it that post 2 000 content per day.

Pratum - a new automower subscription concept Pratum ApS is a newly established Raas (Robot as a service) business. The company is based on the subscription economy with a focus on giving the customer the hassle-free experience. - We want to make professional lawn mowing accessible to everyone. - We want to offer customers a worry-free way to keep their pastures. - We want customers to have a fixed cost level throughout the period So no unexpected financial surprises, in our "all inclusive full service" concept!

Redeem Tech is your digital partner who possesses the experience and expertise to help entrepreneurs reach their customers across the digital space. Our core objective is to help business owners in establishing their online presence without the overbearing challenges posed by technology. We believe in minimizing the effort from the client and maximizing the value of services delivered. We have a highly qualified and reputed professional team that is highly experienced. Redeem Tech is the Denmark based Company. We have further enhanced our services and products by forming strategic partnerships with some of the most experienced and well-known IT companies in the world. These partnerships allow us to give our clients the type of personal support and hands-on customer service you expect while bringing the hardware and software selections, networking and security solutions, and special pricing that you need to succeed. Redeem Tech offer a wide range of IT solutions, including Digital Marketing, Online advertising, Search Engine Optimization, Social Media Marketing, Search Engine Marketing, Email Marketing, Facebook Marketing, Website Design and Development, Android Apps Development, Graphics, and Logo Design

Secondly is the future marketplace focusing on dedicated retailers of recycled and upcycled items, where consumers easily can discover and buy second hand of high quality. The Secondly marketplace is built as an app, where consumers get access to a clear overview of the recyclers' goods in real time. The app has been developed with the consumer experience in mind, which makes it easy to handle the online sales effort, and at the same time saves consumers time and effort when it comes to finding high-quality recycled goods.

We offer a unique investment experience for football enthusiasts by providing the most entertaining football stock market. A platform regulated by supply and demand where you can trade virtual shares in real professional football players. We want to promote mid and long term investment opportunities by allowing our users to apply stock market strategies on a subject they are passionate about: Football. In practice, our offer will enable our users to buy and sell virtual shares of real football players while guaranteeing them a new investing pleasure. Therefore, we like to call them "Sports Traders". Only the supply and demand will impact a footballer share price after he has been introduced to the market and traders have started speculating on him. Dividends will be released each week to the traders according to football players real performances on the pitch. Our business model is simple; we take commissions when a trader wants to resell the shares he owns.

Suigames Studios is a video game studio startup that aims to give independent and aspiring creators the opportunity to showcase their skills and break into the gaming industry! When working at Suigames Studios, you‘re not just another ''employee'', but an integral part of a clan that plans, creates, and moves together.

Maniva Digital is an IT-consultancy and digital product development company, helping businesses develop mobile apps, websites, and software: we make wire-frames, create prototypes, MVPs, validate, analyze, and code web and app solutions always striving to fulfill the requirements for ease of use and clarity. ​

Today we use systems to indicate freshness of products based on guesswork and estimation causing great losses throughout the value chain both in economic and environmental terms. About 10% of the total food waste can be traced to confusion and faulty use of best-before-dates which is the area we want to enhance. We develop sensor based analogue and digital indicators of real time food status to prolong shelf and consumption time, thereby reducing waste costs and food waste.

The Nordic-China Startup Forum is a non-profit NGO registered in Sweden that arranges recurring events in local startup communities alongside corporate and government partners. NCSF is operated by students and young professionals from the Nordics and China and has chapters in ten cities: Stockholm, Uppsala, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Oslo, Shenzhen-HK, Guangzhou, Shanghai and Beijing.