Top 50 Manufacturing Startup Investors in Finland (June 2026)

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• Wirepas — Wirepas offers a standards-based, ultra-reliable mesh connectivity for infrastructure-grade IoT. Proven in millions of devices worldwide.
• Kide Science — Kide Science supports young children's scientific thinking through play-based learning, which predicts better learning outcomes in school.
• MaaS Global — Whim combines all the transportation you need: Public transport, shared cars, bikes, e-scooters, taxis, and more! One app to plan, book, and pay.

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• ARAUCO — ARAUCO is a diversified global company in the forestry industry. They use world-class technologies and processes throughout the value chain. They are present in the forestry, pulp, timber, panels and renewable energy businesses.
• Volare — Refining food industry side streams into sustainable protein, oil and fertilizers.
• CHAOS — CHAOS is an urban forecasting company for real estate investors and city developers. Our AI platform processes urban data and crowd insights to forecast investment and development for creating liveable cities.

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• Atium — Clean water is one of the largest future challenges we stand before, and toxic pollutants are a large contributing factor. Heavy metals are some of the most toxic chemicals to human health and it is our goal, through our innovation, to contribute to a world where water treatment is more environmentally friendly and effective. Atium exists to helpensure clean water, for everyone.
• Reactional Music — Reactional Music is creating a new commercial layer for the global games industry that uses premium, licensed music to drive both user acquisition and player engagement. The company’s technology allows developers and publishers to integrate commercial music at two critical points in the player lifecycle:- Music in User Acquisition – improvingconversion, ROI, and campaign lifespan in playable ads and performance marketing.- Music in Games – increasing retention, session length, and monetization through adaptive, personalized music experiences.Reactional’s platform combines a patented rule-based adaptive music engine, a licensed catalog of more than six million tracks, and an automated rights and royalty system. The technology is already integrated with Unity and Unreal and is deployed across live projects with leading publishers and studios.
• Popit — Popit makes medication connected with a unique, medical grade solution. It tracks medication use automatically and reminds ONLY if you miss. Developed together with healthcare professionals.

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• Finch — Optimize building design with AI and graph technology. Get immediate feedback on performance, detect errors and find optimal solutions.
• Reveel — Say goodbye to paper maps, brochures, and outdated audio guides. Reveel offers digital solutions for destinations such as UNESCO sites, sights, museums, cities, hotels and parks, taking the visitor experience to the next level. Become part of the smart destination movement, enhance the visitor experience, and discover the future of travel.
• ONEiO — ONEiO is a cloud-native integration service provider connecting people, processes, and tools – enabling seamless collaboration without traditional integration hassle. Provided as a turn-key solution, as self-service, or something in between. You choose.

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• Realm — Realm is a search engine for the workplace reimagined with AI. Designed to help fast-moving teams better leverage their collective knowledge.
• Thor Dynamics — Headquartered in Orlando, Florida, with a European base in Finland, Thor Dynamics specializes in directed energy systems for defense against drones and drone swarms. The company’s innovative solutions are available worldwide to protect critical infrastructure and enhance national security. Laser Armor™ is a complete directed energy counter-dronesolution. Utilizing advanced radar and optical systems it can detect, track, and target hostile targets. High-power directed energy from Thor’s Laser Engines then eliminates the threat in seconds. Multiple safety systems ensure accurate target identification and minimal collateral damage.
• Everywear Games — Metacore is a wearable game studio. The company was founded in 2014 by industry veterans from Remedy, Digital Chocolate and Rovio and it is the pioneer of smartwatch gaming. It’s award-winning Apple Watch launch title, Runeblade, has received worldwide recognition from press, fans and industry heavyweights and it’s games are consistently on top ofglobal charts.

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• Agileday — Connect your business elements in one tool and manage your entire operations with Agileday. Match sales, projects, and talent together and optimize your business.
• Marginum — Pioneering the next-generation quantitative surgical techniques.
• Valio — We are Valio Group: the most innovative dairy and food company in the world.

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• UpHill — Clinical algorithms, medical events, scientific evidence and a simulation software in one place
• ALLSIDES — Covision Media specializes in creating high-quality, relightable 3D models using their industrial 3D scanners. These scanners capture detailed surface information and PBR textures, and are designed for easy integration into virtual environments.
• Multiverse Computing — World leaders in quantum computing for the financial industry. The first quantum & quantum-inspired toolbox for finance.

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• Innomost — Innomost develops and produces high-value bioactive ingredients from forest industry side streams that enable customers to make innovations in the cosmetic beauty industry. Its current product portfolio consists of birch charcoal powder, birch bark powder, betulin, suberin, and azelaic acid, which can trigger innovation in all cosmetic productcategories including skincare, haircare, body care, decorative cosmetics, and oral care.
• Bahn Express — Bahn Express is a global car transportation company that supports independent contractors while offering quick and easy auto shipping throughout Europe.
• Teitur Trophics — Teitur Trophics is a biotech company developing circular peptides for neurodegenerative diseases. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Aarhus, Denmark.

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• MÖ Foods — MÖ Kaurajogu is domestic, completely herbal and above all delicious. All our products are manufactured in Central Ostrobothnia, Lohtaja.
• React & Share — High volume, high quality feedback directly from your customers. React & Share helps digital comms teams improve their websites and satisfy their customers.
• Plain Complex — VUOROX IS AN AI-POWERED ROSTER SCHEDULING APP FOR HEALTHCARE

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• Dispelix — See-through, full color waveguide combiners for a wide range of XR applications. From near-eye to head-up.
• Solar Foods — The Finnish company Solar Foods Oy produces an entirely new kind of nutrient-rich protein using only air and electricity as the main resources. The goal of the company is to start commercial production of the environmentally revolutionary protein in 2020.Solar Foods’ concept redefines the basics of food production, as it is not dependent onagriculture, the weather, or the climate. The price of the protein product is also competitive compared to sources such as soy protein.
• Infinited Fiber Company — Infinited Fiber Company is a Finnish biotech founded in 2016 to commercialize a breakthrough recycling technology that can turn cellulose-rich raw materials – like cotton-rich textile waste, used cardboard, or wheat or rice straw – into high-quality textile fibers with the look and feel of cotton. The patented technology has been validated byleading brands and is ready to be scaled. Infinited Fiber Company won the Europas 2020 Hottest Sustainability Tech Award, and was listed on the Global 50 to Watch by Cleantech Group in 2019. In 2016 Infinited Fiber Company was selected into WWF’s Climate Solver network. The company is headquartered in Espoo, Finland.

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• Film Finances — Discover Film Finances Inc., the global leader in film completion guarantees, ensuring on-schedule and on-budget delivery for over seven decades. Explore our services and industry expertise.
• LiveMusicStage — We're a live music venue online. We let you to actually take part in the shows and interact with the bands while they're playing. You're always in the front row
• Verto Analytics — Verto Analytics (Verto) operates a passive metering panel that provides researchers, advertisers, and publishers the data they need to keep up with the rapid and changing pace of consumer media consumption on every app, device, service, and platform. This ongoing, longitudinal panel captures a wide breadth of behaviors—all enriched to clients’behavioral analysis or custom survey studies. Our single-source, passive metering data sets provide the information needed to understand the full digital footprint of the U.S. population. Our Data Labs are located in the US, and in Helsinki, Finland. http://www.vertoanalytics.com.

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• Visedo — Danfoss Editron specializes in hybrid and electric powertrain systems for off-highway and marine markets.
• WeSustain — WeSustain develops and sells web-based software for enterprise sustainability management. The company’s ESM software is a management support system that helps companies go green and manage products, processes, and technologies in an environment-friendly manner.WeSustain’s ESM software enables the clients to establish a software-supported ESMsolution, as well as manage, improve, and report their ESM performance on a global basis while mitigating sustainability risks. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Buxtehude, Germany.
• Cajo Technologies — Laser Marking - Cajo turnkey solutions for traceability & product markings. Easy to use & optimized for industrial production processes.

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• ADESANTE — SurgeryVision is a Virtual Reality solution for Surgeons. Product is intended to be used for planning surgical procedures.
• Maire — Maire - AI co-pilot for industry leading B2C E-commerce brands. From Industry Trends to Market Research and Search Intent Analysis
• Finnadvance — Finnadvance is an Organ-On-Chip company developing high throughput biological barriers on chips to mimic human biology such as vascular, lung and the Blood-Brain-Barriers for small molecule, micro-nano-formulation permeability and toxicity testing with in-vivo like dynamic cell cultures.

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• Crobox — Crobox's next generation guided selling solution humanizes your product data and discovery experience with product finders and product data enrichment.
• Antidot — Antidot is a software vendor that leverages 20 years of advanced research in semantic search and content enrichment to develop its content delivery platform (CDP). The company’s products multiply the value of content by delivering dynamic information in a personalized and contextualized form. Antidot helps more than 150 customers around the worldimprove their operational efficiency.
• Custom Surgical — Custom Surgical is democratizing hardware and software to record microscope procedures easily and quickly without any professional engineer to attach or cables to share live.

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• Adsorbi — Adsorbi use cellulose from the Nordic forest to help air purification companies to capture gaseous air pollutants.
• FineCell — FineCell is a sustainable cellulose microfibers provider that enables manufacturers to make new products with reduced carbon footprints and differentiated properties.The company's cellulose microfibers possess physical and chemical properties that differ from competing products and provide differentiated benefits for the users. It has beensupported by Vinnova (Sweden’s innovation agency) and EIT InnoEnergy.The Linköping, Ostergotlands Lan-based company was established in 2015 by Jonatan Henschen, Jonas Engstrand, Monica Ek, and Kloce Dongfang Li.
• Woodio — Woodio is a digital designing agency.

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• Notpla — We are a combination of designers and chemists, engineers and entrepreneurs. We’re hard to define because what we’re doing hasn’t been done before. We create advanced packaging solutions that disappear, naturally.
• Paptic — Paptic is manufacturing company that revolutionizes environmental new material, wood-based renewable and recyclable products replacing paper and plastic. Paptic Ltd was April 2015. The company is based in Espoo, Finland and employs today 10 persons.
• Nordtreat — Nordtreat is a producer of bio-based flame retardants for the global construction products industry. Nordtreat's NORFLAM® flame retardants for wood protect over 2000 buildings around the world.

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• 3DBear — 3DBear combines immersive technologies and education for the best learning results Augmented reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), 360-photos & 3D printing.

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• Cellfion — Cellfion provides sustainable materials for next level clean energy storage and conversion devices.​
• Kuva Space — Kuva Space improves life on Earth through daily, space-borne hyperspectral imaging and AI. We offer Earth observation solutions for more sustainable business.
• Sofi Filtration — Innovation in Industrial Liquid Filtration

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• 3DBear — 3DBear combines immersive technologies and education for the best learning results Augmented reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), 360-photos & 3D printing.

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• Yaak Technologies ApS — Safety in urban self-driving is currently an afterthought. At Yaak, we distill safety from driving experts for the next generation of human and autonomous driving.
• IXI — Discover adaptive glasses with autofocus lenses that adjust to your viewing needs, providing seamless clarity at any distance.
• Quanscient — We are building next generation simulation software-as-a-service utilizing Quantum computing algorithms. Our specialty domain of simulations is Computational Electromagnetics.

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• Naava — Naava helps you to make safer and healthier indoor spaces - experience Naava green wall, a striking combination of nature and high-end technology.
• Cargofy — Cargofy it's a mobile assistant, kind of a "Siri" but for truck drivers. We help truckers access to high paying loads through our app, and receive discounts on fuel, maintenance, and truck parts.
• Picosun — Picosun is the leading manufacturer of Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) reactors for micro- and nanotechnology applications. Picosun provides the customers with versatile, reliable, and user-friendly ALD process tools, which offer world leading process quality and unique scalability from basic research to fully automated high throughput industrialproduction. Picosun is based in Espoo, Finland, its production facilities are located in Masala (Kirkkonummi), Finland, its US headquarters in Detroit, Michigan, and its Asian headquarters in Singapore. PICOSUN™ ALD process tools have been installed in various prominent industries and high-level reasearch organizations across Europe, USA, Asia and Australia. Picosun has world-wide sales and support network with distributors and representatives in over 30 countries.

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• Haltian — We solve the challenges of a sustainable future, one IoT innovation at a time
• SensorFu — SensorFu detects new network leak paths before they are exploited. If you're required to operate isolated networking environments, SensorFu helps you to anwer question: is my network isolation working as intended? Leaks from isolated network segments can be a result of human error or malice, and they may violate security policies orcontractual obligations. SensorFu automates previously manual audit checks, and it empowers IT- and IT security ops to ensure continuous network, and network segment isolation that meets their mission specific policies and regulatory requirements. SensorFu Beacon is available as virtual appliance, software application and as hardware appliance.
• Brightplus — Brightplus is an innovative renewable materials manufacturing company from Finland. We specialise in design and development of new functional properties for industrial biomaterial solutions. We cater for industries like packaging, construction, cosmetics and consumer goods. Our expertise is based on developing solutions to multiple industries andproviding fast prototyping and full fit for customers’ production lines. Our deep chemical BrightBio® technology creates an optimal fit between coatings, barriers and plastic replacing materials to help you in raising your material functionality to the next level.

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• Verda (formerly DataCrunch) — DataCrunch is a cloud service provider which facilitates utilization and integration of state of the art AI/ML models
• Steady Energy — Steady Energy aims to decarbonize the energy-intensive heating industry starting with residential and district heating.
• Aspocomp Group — Aspocomp offer products, includes digital pcb, hdi pcbs, high layer count multilayer pcbs, pcbs with component cooling features for thermal management, high frequency pcbs. Thier services include QTA pcbs, design support services, logistics solutions, and working with supply services.

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• Saarni Cloud — Saarni Cloud operates as a software group providing SaaS services in the field of HR. Its services cover work management, digital learning, financial management, and analytics.
• All NRG Group —

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• Betolar — Betolar is a new materials startup specialized in new geopolymer-based carbon-neutral construction materials for the construction industry and circular economy.
• eMabler — We accelerate our customers' business growth by convenience in eMobility with our API-first platform
• TactoTek — Set your imagination free and create user experiences with the help of sustainable smart molded structures.

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• AlixLabs — AlixLabs is a Swedish semiconductor startup, founded in 2019.
• Cronvall —
• Freepress.ai — Freepress operates with an AI-driven virtual news editor that analyzes hundreds of thousands of publicly available and licensed articles from different countries.

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• Myrspoven — Transform your building with Myrspoven's AI-driven solutions. Reduce energy costs, enhance sustainability, and lower emissions with advanced technology.
• Virta — The Virta platform for electric vehicle charging gives you an accelerated and cost-effective channel to launch, operate, and grow an EV charging business.
• Carbonaide — Carbonaide offers the most effective and robust carbonization technology for pre-cast concrete manufacturers.

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• Elea & Lili — Elea & Lili is a deep-tech biomaterials company that uses unique cellulose technology to create superabsorbent materials free of microplastics.
• Hailia Oy — We mainstream seafood sidestreams with technology that upcycles them into tasty food products.
• Carbonaide — Carbonaide offers the most effective and robust carbonization technology for pre-cast concrete manufacturers.

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• Silecs — PiBond manufactures materials used in electronic devices, including patterning materials for semiconductors and optical materials. We also develop complete solutions that allow our clients to focus on creating innovative products.
• SantoSolve — SantoSolve is developing topical analgesic products based on non-radioactive strontium as the active substance. The Development program was initiated based on experimental clinical use of strontium-based products showing evidence of strong local analgesic effects on several localized pain conditions of both nociceptive and neuropatic origin. Nosignificant adverse effects associated with the treatment was reported.The company’s lead product, 2PX, is topically administered, utilizing dermal penetration enhancers for delivery of the active agent to its subdermal site of action. Phase I safety and pharmacology studies showed the active agent to have low systemic bioavailability, and only few and minor adverse effects were observed at the site of administration. In open label Phase II clinical trials, the product has shown strong analgesic effect in both nociceptive and neuropatic pain conditions. In follow up, placebo controlled trials, the analgesic effect of the product has been further documented. In the company’s most advanced pain indication under study, osteoarthritis, the company has recently completed the Phase II program.These trials supports the open label results and document statistically that the analgesic effect in patients treated with 2PX is superior to that observed with placebo treatment.
• Action Pharma — Providing a surprisingly human shopping experience. Trusted and secure. Millions of domains to choose from.

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• Smart Heating — Smart Heating focus on hybrid heating systems for real estates. Smart Heating implements energy-efficient heating solutions for more than 100 buildings.
• Soletair Power — Soletair Power is a Finnish startup founded in 2016, operating in the fields of Direct Air Capture and power-to-X technology. The company captures CO2 from the air by retrofitting buildings' ventilation systems with carbon capture technology, resulting in low building emissions. Captured carbon dioxide can be mineralized into concrete, storedas pressurized gas or liquid, transported, and used as raw materials to produce synthetic products. In 2020, Wärtsilä, together with Soletair Power and Q-Power, created their first enclosed Power-to-X unit in the world which can produce synthetic methane from air-captured CO2 straight from the Finland pavilion in Expo 2020 Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The company has delivered multiple carbon dioxide capturing units since then to Germany, Finland, and Denmark.

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• Nonna Group Oy — Nonna Group develops new types of housing for the elderly.
• Kuntokeskus Liikku — Kuntokeskus Liikku is a fitness club that provides multidisciplinary services like gym, aquatics, and sports training.
• Suomen Avustajapalvelut —

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• vitrealab — Enlighten. Your perspective. Light Engines for AR glasses.
• Maieutical Labs — I Maieutical Labs sono un insieme di piattaforme ispirate al Mastery Learning, immersive e mobile-oriented, dedicate allo studio nella scuola secondaria
• RAAAM Memory Technologies Ltd. — RAAAM provides a unique on-chip memory technology that offers the highest-density embedded memory solution in any standard CMOS process.RAAAM develops a high-density memory technology that allows for up to 50% higher on-chip memory density with no cost, complexity, or performance-penalty.

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• Rens Original — RENS Original is the World's First Sneaker made from recycled coffee and plastic. We know you've been drinking it, now it is time to wear it.
• Verto Analytics — Verto Analytics (Verto) operates a passive metering panel that provides researchers, advertisers, and publishers the data they need to keep up with the rapid and changing pace of consumer media consumption on every app, device, service, and platform. This ongoing, longitudinal panel captures a wide breadth of behaviors—all enriched to clients’behavioral analysis or custom survey studies. Our single-source, passive metering data sets provide the information needed to understand the full digital footprint of the U.S. population. Our Data Labs are located in the US, and in Helsinki, Finland. http://www.vertoanalytics.com.
• Armada Interactive — We are a Helsinki-based gaming startup that develops PvP mobile games

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• Visedo — Danfoss Editron specializes in hybrid and electric powertrain systems for off-highway and marine markets.
• Akkurate — Sandvik Battery Electric Loaders and Trucks TH550B LH518B Mobile Charging Station Battery as a Service
• Soletair Power — Soletair Power is a Finnish startup founded in 2016, operating in the fields of Direct Air Capture and power-to-X technology. The company captures CO2 from the air by retrofitting buildings' ventilation systems with carbon capture technology, resulting in low building emissions. Captured carbon dioxide can be mineralized into concrete, storedas pressurized gas or liquid, transported, and used as raw materials to produce synthetic products. In 2020, Wärtsilä, together with Soletair Power and Q-Power, created their first enclosed Power-to-X unit in the world which can produce synthetic methane from air-captured CO2 straight from the Finland pavilion in Expo 2020 Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The company has delivered multiple carbon dioxide capturing units since then to Germany, Finland, and Denmark.

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• Mocaverse — Mocaverse is the Animoca Brands membership NFT collection of 8,888 unique beings: The Mocas. Join the Mocas in the realms to Learn, Play, Do Good, and Build together as we champion our Web3 values!
• Pixels — Pixels is a play-to-earn MMO game built around the NFT assets you already own. Build your NFT a home in the metaverse and get farming.
• Sequence — Horizon is building a New Dimension where Internet economies are fun, accessible, and for the benefit of all participants. We have two amazing products to make this real:Sequence, which consists of i) a friendly crypto, NFT + Web3 smart wallet, and ii) a seamless developer platform for Ethereum, NFTs, Web3, DeFi and Dapps. Sequence makes it easyfor users to access and for developers to build the next generation of Internet economies and experiences.Skyweaver, a digital trading card game—powered by Sequence + blockchain—where players actually own the game items they win and purchase. For the first time, gamers can easily and securely sell and trade their items.

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• Clearstory.build — Construction's leading Change Order Communication Platform. We help Subs, GCs, and Owners communicate T&M Tags and Change Order Requests in real-time.
• Station A — Station A helps real estate owners and long-term tenants rapidly identify and install solar, battery, and EV charging projects.
• SmartPM Technologies — SmartPM is an automated construction project controls platform. Access the construction schedule control you need for smarter project management.

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• Wuwen Zhike — Wuwen Zhixing is an intelligent driving service provider dedicated to offering professional and cutting-edge integrated solutions for AI data and simulation verification, as well as developing AI data infrastructure and accelerators.
• Lingxin Qiaoshou — Lingxin Qiaoshou focuses on the research and development and production of embodied intelligent platforms with "dexterous hands + cloud-based intelligent brain" as the core.
• Qiu Shui Semiconductor — Qiu Shui Semiconductor is a semiconductor company that specialized on Micro-LED display technology.Qiu Shui Semiconductor's core products are Micro-LED micro display chips and modules, which are widely utilized in digital car lighting, micro projection, and augmented reality displays.

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• Woamy — Woamy produces edible, non-toxic, recyclable cellulose-based foam with a directional strength that mimics wood. Based on a decade of scientific research, we make sustainable foam in Espoo Finland.

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• Marathon Fusion — The fuel cycle for fusion energy.
• Companion.energy — Companion.energy provides energy management, forecasting and flexibility software to bridge the gap between energy procurement and operations.
• Open Forest Protocol — With Open Forest Protocol (OFP), measure, report, verify and fund forestation projects with digital transparency

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• Visedo — Danfoss Editron specializes in hybrid and electric powertrain systems for off-highway and marine markets.

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• Gradium — Gradium.ai provides audio language models that enable natural, expressive, ultra-low latency voice interactions at scale, unifying speech generation, transcription, voice transformation, and dialogue in a single neural architecture.The platform acts as an audio-native counterpart to text-based large language models, processing tasks like real-timespeech-to-speech with delays under 200 milliseconds through optimized architectures, efficient tokenization, and hardware-aware deployments. It supports multilingual capabilities in English, French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese, with plans for expansion.
• IXI — Discover adaptive glasses with autofocus lenses that adjust to your viewing needs, providing seamless clarity at any distance.
• Lovable — Lovable is an AI app and website builder that turns ideas into production-ready software without coding. Launch faster with AI.

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• Asqella — Asqella sells passive submillimetre-wave video cameras for loss prevention and physical security applications. With its innovative sensor technology, Asqella’s products provide customers with a solution capable of far superior performance compared to other technologies at a competitive unit cost.

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• CollectiveCrunch — CollectiveCrunch is an AI leader in the forestry industry. We collect and analyze a wide range of information, including climate, geo and process data, to bring best-in-class forest inventories and accurate carbon storage calculations to our customers. The largest forest owners the Nordics and Baltics are already using using our solution, LindaForest.With Linda Forest, our customers gain actionable insights, leading to improved forest management, informed forest investments and up-to-date carbon storage analytics. Overall, Linda Forest can reduce forest planning costs while increasing accuracy. We are currently focused on the Nordic and Baltic countries but are soon adopting the solution to Northern America, Russia and other forestry markets. Moreover, we are working with insurance companies to apply our expert analytics to new opportunities such as prediction of forest risk.

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• Vytal — Start the Packaging Revolution! We are offering smart & reusable To-Go Packaging-as-a-Service to gastronomy clients & consumers.In Germany the consumption of take-away, convenience and delivery food & drinks is responsible for about 281 kilotons of single-use packaging waste for immediate consumption and is growing at double digitrates. Most of the time, To-Go food containers, snack boxes or coffee cups have a very short life-span of only 30 minutes after which they are tossed into trash (or litter parks, beaches & the ocean). This is not only a giant waste of economic resources as each single use costs between 15 and up to 0,60€ for a stable bowl/box with a lid. It is a horrendous waste of environmental resources (wood, water, crude oil, metals & energy) that are used to produce this packaging. Therefore, a single use packaging not weighing more than 30 grams can easily come with an ecological backpack of more than 8 kilograms when taking into account all the resources used in production (material intensities taken from Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy). Looking at GHG emissions, the picture is similarly bleak: Using CO2 emission factors and the detailed material mix of the single-use packaging waste analyzed by NABU (German Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union), the 281 thousand tons waste from To-Go consumption generated around 556 thousand tons of CO2 or the equivalent of 195k passenger cars per year (assuming an average distance travelled of 15,000km). With the expected rise of take-away, convenience and delivery food, the related emissions are expected to increase at double digit rates as waste volume is expected to increase and as we saw a shift to plastics relative to cardboard or other materials. While there is a growing awareness of the problem, especially in Germany, there is no scalable solution yet and the commonly used alternative of nature-based & ‘biodegradable’ materials like bagasse or PLA also require many resources for production & transport, and have to be incinerated or go to landfill after use as there is currently no way to compost them.
• StormHarvester — The leading provider of analytics for wastewater utilities. Combining hyperlocal rainfall with AI to prevent pollution and flooding.
• NLM Photonics — Data centers consume enormous amounts of power; our faster, energy-efficient electro-optic modulation solution moves data across the internet.

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• GravitHy — We produce low-carbon iron from hydrogen to offer a new value chain and accelerate the decarbonization of the steel industry.
• Membrion — Remove Problematic Ions to Expand Capacity, Ensure Compliance, and Eliminate Costs with Electro-Ceramic Desalination
• The Water & Carbon Group — The Water & Carbon Group is a contractor that designs, builds, and operates wastewater treatment and ecological infrastructure solutions.

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• Visedo — Danfoss Editron specializes in hybrid and electric powertrain systems for off-highway and marine markets.
• Haltian — End-to-end IoT solutions and world-glass product design services from Haltian
• Fennoa Oy — Fennoa Oy specializes in catering financial management solution for accounting firms equipped with cloud services.

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• Rester — Rester is a Finnish company enabling the recovery of business textiles into a new textile fibre and quality raw material.

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• Valmet Automotive — Valmet Automotive, a Uusikaupunki, Finland-based electric vehicle developer and manufacturer. Valmet Automotive provides engineering, manufacturing and business services for the automotive industry. In 2009, the company generated net sales of €56m and employed some 800 people. It manufactures Porsche Cayman sports cars, electric Garia golf carsand THINK City urban cars in Uusikaupunki, Finland. Cuca
• Blueprint Genetics — We offer complete genetic testing and genetic diagnostics to medical professionals worldwide. Learn more about our winning clinical-grade NGS offering!

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• Foodiq — Foodiq is a one-of-a-kind food manufacturer that can both develop and manufacture plant-based products.
• Kavall — Kavall is a grocery delivery startup.
• JULIENNE BRUNO — Julienne Bruno made with naturally plant-based ingredients like fermented legumes & slow roasted vegetables.

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• Collo — Collo Liquid Analyzer - Advanced process control
• Meo — The NewBanking Identity platform makes it easy for businesses to handle personal data and perform PEP checks for those subject to AML laws. Learn more here.
• Players 1st — Join 3000 golf clubs using Players 1st to boost your business with pre-made surveys, smart analytics, and benchmarks, capturing real-time golfer feedback!