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InTeleGen uses local AI to personalise pharmaceutical treatments for patients with learning and cognitive disorders, analysing smartphone usage for insights on efficacy, side effects, and tolerance buildup. Their solution works by aggregating transistent behavioural cues from smartphone users and their surrounding, relying solely on the smartphone's onboard hardware.
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In the hustle and bustle of corporate work, employee wellbeing is often sidelined and working hours and the mental toll of the work can be incredibly difficult - or even impossible to manage on one's own accord.
WELLS Finland provides a digital, evidence-based, feedback-oriented B2B program which builds and supports employee mental well-being and working skills within knowledge-intensive industries.
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Persey is an AI-powered assistant for scientific writing that supports writing and editing theses, publications and assignments, among other academic publications
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Creative AI is developing an AI-powered solution for creative facilitation, targeting organisations/teams who need facilitation to achieve more productive processes and results. Their software enhances team collaboration through visualisation and conversation analysis while enriching the exchange and generation of ideas by adding an AI powered creative facilitator to the conversation. The app is currently functional in English, Finnish and Dutch
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GreenTrails is developing a state-of-the-art indoor cycling system that integrates VR technology to offer users a captivating alternative to traditional stationary bikes. Users will don a VR headset and be transported to lush green environments, such as scenic trails or vibrant cityscapes, creating a realistic and engaging cycling experience.
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FuOHealth is on a mission to upskill the healthcare workforce in emerging technology areas through high-quality podcasts, courses, and thought leadership from industry experts. They work with health-tech companies, experts and universities deliver courses and build communities in key emerging care areas.
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Colors & Code is a creative lab designed to support small businesses looking to enhance their brand image and medium-sized businesses seeking new and creative ways to develop and evolve their brand identity, messaging, products, or services.
Their goal is to foster more engaging and meaningful relationships between brands and their customers. Colors & Code envisions collaborating with businesses that share our values of humanitarianism and environmental responsibility. Currently, their first client is a startup from Mexico focused on educating people about civil protection during the era of climate change and they're looking to expand into the Finnish local market by improving their infrastructure to accommodate more innovative client projects.
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GoldenAI is developing an AI-driven mobile application for senior citizens and healthcare professionals. Their comprehensive app will integrate cognitive training, health monitoring, social engagement and mental wellbeing
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In the working landscape of today, it is more common than ever to become alienated, depressed or burned out.
Happibyte is dedicated to revolutionising mental well-being through a platform for instant mental health support, that integrates artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and online therapy for anxiety, depression, and burnout.
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WorkGuard AI is developing a computer vision solution that seeks to help businesses in the construction industry who are faced with challenges regarding increase of their efficiency, reduce of security and safety risks around people, vehicles, objects at the construction site. Their solution is poised to help alleviate these challenges by monitoring movement, hazardous situations, productivity, and location.
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CirPa is developing a bio-based, lightweight foam materials for acoustic insulation. They're on a mission to provide low-cost, lightweight, and sustainable material with tuneable acoustic and mechanical properties. Initially, CirPa's primary focus is on creating indoor acoustic panels for customer segments such as furniture companies, hotels, offices, cinemas, public spaces, event planning companies and interior design companies.
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BonFom is developing affordable, biodegradable insoles from natural materials, mimicking the properties of Polyurethane (PU) and EVA foams.
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Online shopping has become increasingly popular by offering convenience and a wider selection of products than physical stores. However, one significant challenge in the online apparel industry is the inability for customers to try on clothes while shopping online. Customers often face uncertainty when purchasing clothing items because they cannot see how a specific piece will look on them or other specifics of clothes, like the vibrance of colour, condition and the general feel of the clothes. This leads to a high rate of returns and dissatisfaction with online purchases.
Lumu aims to address the problem of uncertainty in online clothing shopping by developing a virtual fitting room. Their solution leverages artificial intelligence and AR technology to create platform that allows users to virtually try on clothing items before making a purchase decision. Additionally, the platform has an AI-powered wardrobe reccomendation tool and allows for sustainability vetting.
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Kepos aims to address the disconnect of modern city dwellers from their local community and food production. Their solution is community managed, expertly guided urban gardens with a focus on food production. The main difference to existing practices is the guidance of citizens through the entire process, making urban farming easy and accessible to everyone regardless of their previous experience or time availability.
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Counter Speech aims to lessen the shadowy veil cast by hateful rhetoric and misinformation. The team offers practical consulting and problem-solving services for organisations and individuals alike in order for them to recognise hate speech and misinformation with the help of research-based counter speech techniques.
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84% of kids in Europe are learning English but current online solutions are not effective for preschoolers. Gagalingo is developing an online language learning platform for small children, offering personalised lessons with teachers and engaging gamified content. The best teachers, videos, educational games and learning materials: everything you need in just one place.
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HappyFam is an emerging tech startup working towards a shared dream of a more peaceful world within this century. On a mission to empower families with children on their journey to joy and resilience, they are dedicated to providing engaging and holistic education that enhances familial bonds and personal skills. From Nonviolent Communication to Happiness Neural Rewiring, Gratitude, and Emotional Mastery,
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Henna Paasonen offers healing and hope for tired people in working life who suffer from disorders in cognitive processes and emotion regulation. Their proposed solution is to offer books on well-being, culture welfare services with the help of virtual reality and exhibitions of meditation art. The company functions in the Orthodox Juliana Community in Heinola and uses medieval women's spirituality as a basic guiding principle. The company offers retreat, silence and a holistic approach to health.
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Due to stigma surrounding them, nearly all used and forgotten sex toys end up becoming waste. Currently, there are no marketplaces, that would be both socially and hygienically comfortable for selling used intimate products. Suula is building an anonymous second hand marketplace platform for used sex toys including a comprehensive sterilisation service, ensuring that products meet hygiene standards and safety.
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Nordman On Purpose is aiming to solve the problems in organisational culture that are causing low commitment, poor motivation and low efficacy, especially during times of change. They offer science-based knowledge and practices to form and cultivate personal and shared purpose within companies. This is done by one-on-one coaching sessions with leaders on how to lead from purpose and to a purpose, and by organisational training on how to form and cultivate a shared purpose and to build culture around it.
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Juniper is the "Airbnb for sustainable team building". They're developing a marketplace where companies can easily find and book diverse activities that strengthen teams and create positive social and environmental impact.
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Theory 4 Action has developed an academically researched, dialogue- based solution that translates social problems and cultural differences into strategic communication training for companies, non-governmental organisations, political groups and educational institutions to build constructive dialogue and collaboration with local and global partners, clients, constituents and communities.
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Current studies show that, despite attempts to raise awareness, many of the world citizens are unaware of the true scale of some of the biggest issues facing our planet right now. If more of the global population were more aware and educated about the data and its relevancy to our lives on planet Earth, they could be a greater part of the restorative solution.
TWE is developing a fun and engaging docuseries to educate people through entertainment about some of the Earth's most critical issues and the important data about issues such as biodiversity loss. With the help of the docuseries, TWE aims to highlight some of the people leading the charge against these issues with their novel solutions in an effort to galvanise collective momentum and inspire people into hopeful and rejuvenating action.
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Over six million passengers traverse the baltic sea between Finland and Sweden annually. The consumerist milieu of the cruise ship offers little stimulation for intellectually curious travelers. Where can passengers learn about the surrounding archipelago, island communities and local flora and wildlife? Currently, nowhere.
In the border zone between journalism and tourism information, Sea Stories aims to take sea voyages to the next level by providing geolocated and hyperlocal stories about the present marine environment for cruise ship and ferry passengers.
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The longing after someone no longer with us is one of the most painful feelings in the world. There are no real guidelines or all-encompassing pieces of advice regarding grieving, often leading to people feeling lost and alone in their mourning.
Good Grief ! is developing a safe space for handling and understanding death. It combines a café, bookstore and event space, complemented by a digital resource center to create community around death, loss and mourning - in all their forms. Including death and the procession of grief in an approachable and welcoming manner is a necessity to foster our communities' wellbeing.
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TargetEd enhances language learning with the help of personalisation. Their app integrates users' skills, interests and favourite content into the learning algorithm, ensuring a connected and engaging experience. Whether users want to watch "Harry Potter" or read a biology book, TargetEd allows them to use it as an opportunity to improve their language skills. They are planning to launch MVPs in English, Russian and Finnish within six months.
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Loneliness, division and societal polarisation are now at a level where they are threatening modern democracies. Without social interaction, fundamental relational needs are going unmet.
CAMPFIRE aims to repair these broken connections between people and groups of people by increasing trauma awareness within communities. The team is building an operating model to strengthen democratic dialogue and create societal change. Dialogue-, nature- and community art-based interventions are used to improve community mental health and wellbeing.
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Despite ample access to sports facilities, 55% of Helsinki city staff are overweight and 90% of Finnish youth does not exercise enough. Studies indicate that social isolation, rather than loneliness, drives motivation issues and even depression and even self-harm, still noteworthy issues in Finnish society.
Uniquely holistic and research-based, ‘Activate!’ tackles root causes of sedentary lifestyles to break vicious cycles of inactivity, fostering lasting positive changes by realistically encouraging social engagement, designing adaptive exercise support, promoting positive social interactions and mental health support, and fostering supportive networks for sustained well-being.
Team Members: Özgür Çakmak, Recep Erdoǧan, Burcu Čakmak
Farms and people working in agriculture often face difficult financial hurdles, when applying for bank loans and state- or EU-supported funds, grants or subsidiaries due to difficult and overcomplicated paperwork and low credit scores, represented by a rejection rate of 40% and 30% - respectively.
AGROFIN aims to simplify the process of getting a loan and boost farmers' credit scores, easing the financial burdens of the farmers. Their solution would present itself in the form of a freemium-modelled app, where users can monitor their credit score and cash flow in real time, manage different bank accounts, compare banking services and that would offer data analytics.
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With more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere than ever, there has been more outcry than ever for governments, companies and entire industries to do something about it, for the sake of our collective future as a species. Carbon collection has emerged a promising means for companies to mitigate their impact on the environment and it's only estimated to become even more prevalent in coming years. However, there is still a lot of space for innovation and finetuning within the space, especially focusing on sorbents, which are the materials used to bind carbon to in carbon collection
DeCO2 is aiming to gather funding and launch an independent sorbent design facility in India, leading the way to make carbon collection accessible to a broader demographic and aiding the word to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
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The modern skincare market is flooded with products, yet many lack effective ingredients, sustainable practices, and justifiable pricing for the quality provided. Kauno Group aims to redefine skincare by harnessing the power of Nordic nature. They are exploring the use of fermented blueberries and other natural ingredients sourced from pristine Finnish nature. A major part of their products would be blueberry pomace, which is a byproduct of juice production and high in antioxidants and nutrients.
Kauno Group aims to be a forerunner in the skincare industry by championing sustainability and waste reduction, embodied by the use of otherwise forgotten materials.
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As a consumer, you can be easily overwhelmed by the sheer volume of choices available and the difficulty of finding sustainable and climate-friendly options. Measuring the quality of food items can be a daunting task as reading customer reviews can yield inconclusive results even after hours of searching and calculating nutritional values is incredibly time-consuming. And with the global obesity epidemic, customers can have a hard time with making healthy choices for themselves when presented with all the choices you face when entering a grocery store.
Best Choice Groceries aims to alleviate this problem by creating an AI-powered e-commerce platform, which would allow people to review, counter-reference and compare purchased grocery store products and share their experiences with other people. It would tackle the increasing prevalence of obesity by recommending healthier alternative food items and offering guidance on how to change eating habits. It would also utilise AI to automatically enter items outlined in a recipe to a shopping cart.
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It's no secret how devastating oil spills are to marine life, bordering countries, and the environment at large. With oil exchanging hands and in terms of weight in tons, oil tankers accounting for 29% of all seaborne trade, there is bound to be accidents. 700+ million gallons of oil leak into the ocean every year and on average, there is an oil spill every 15 minutes. Currently, the cleanup of oil spills is done either manually by booming and skimming, chemically by burning or with the help of sorbents or completely ignored. These solutions are costly for the environment, and place people in hazardous environments.
OliOil.io has a patent-pending solution for an autonomous first aid kit for oil spills. In practice, their solution comprises of an AI oil spill simulator AI-powered robotic vessels, that clean up and collect oil spills sustainably with booms and skimmers. The simulator simulates the spread of oil and how much each vessel can collect, after which the vessels start automatically cleaning up the spill with booms and after the area is pronounced clean, OliOil saves details and shares the information relating to the spill.
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Online shopping has become increasingly popular by offering convenience and a wider selection of products than physical stores. However, one significant challenge in the online apparel industry is the inability for customers to try on clothes while shopping online. Customers often face uncertainty when purchasing clothing items because they cannot see how a specific piece will look on them or other specifics of clothes, like the vibrance of colour, condition and the feel of it. This leads to a high rate of returns and dissatisfaction with online purchases.
NexTry aims to address the problem of uncertainty in online clothing shopping by developing a virtual fitting room. By leveraging artificial intelligence and neural networks to develop a platform that allows users to virtually try on clothing items before making a purchase decision. NexTry is committed to developing a middle ground between traditional in-store shopping experiences and online purchases, enhancing convenience and confidence for customers.
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In today’s fast-paced business environment, traditional recruitment methods can be a significant drain on time and resources for companies.
Kadeli is developing an AI-powered HR system that revolutionises the hiring and onboarding processes. Their system is designed to be a flexible solution, tailorable to meet the unique needs of companies seeking efficiency and effectiveness in their strategies. The company functions with a subscription-based system in addition to providing expert consulting services.
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Alzheimer's is one of the most devastating diseases imaginable, as there is no cure and not even an efficient method to delay the disease progress. Families with family members suffering from Alzheimer's are plagues by costly examinations and unnecessary checkups. These checkups and examinations add up, with the average Alzheimer's patient or their families having to shill out upwards of 28 000€ a year to monitor the progression of the disease.
In a war, where Alzheimer's shrouds the cherished memory and independence of a loved one, NeuroSync stands as a beacon of hope. The team is developing a cutting-edge technology platform aimed at enhancing cognitive abilities and improving the lives of people suffering from Alzheimer's and related cognitive disorders. By utilising AR and VR technology, along with the metaverse, NeuroSync offers personalised training programmes and immersive experience, in order to facilitate memory recall, retrieval and retention.
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The transition to climate neutral society is one of the most pressing needs for the world during the next generations, in order to secure the longevity and vitality of our planet. Clean energy has been offered as a solution for this, however recent research has shown, that even that may not be enough, fostering the need for rapid deployment of decarbonisation strategies. Current carbon capturing technologies rely heavily on aqueous imines which have multiple problems such as the the degradation of the solvent and the coercive nature of imines which requires the use of heavy metals.
EcoGeo Materials is aiming to be a frontrunner in the battle against climate change with their solution, which incorporates scalable CO2 sorbent materials and carbon-capturing building materials. Their materials can be constructed from abundant resources such as natural clay or even industrial waste, such as industrial slags, mine tailings and ash. In practice, their materials could be placed on top of a carbon-emitting source, acting as a filter or applied as panels and rooftops at construction sites.
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As of late, there has been a noticeable increase in laboratory accidents at research institutions across the globe due to gaps in safety, such as lacking training, and insufficient or flawed communication with laboratory trainers or managers. Sometimes these accidents can cause serious harm or even death, as laboratories often handle corrosive or toxic chemicals.
SafeSustainSpace aims to address this problem by creating a mobile app and platform with comprehensive lab safety instructions set by the institution.
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The world of agriculture is plagued by low crop yields, unsustainable agricultural practices and the overuse of agricultural products, such as water, fertilisers and pesticides due to a lack of information on agri-tech, more sustainable practices and new technologies in addition to the ongoing labour shortage within the field.
Smartroot aims to address these issues by developing a precision farming solution. Powered by AI and IoT, their solution would monitor, analyse and deliver nutrients and water automatically to only the areas that would benefit from their addition, eliminating the overuse of agricultural products and lessening the need for manual labour.
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MapSeedling leverages advanced technology to create precise forest inventories at the early stages of growth. Utilising a combination of drone imagery and cutting-edge AI algorithms, our innovative platform is designed to accurately assess and monitor young forests. This approach not only enhances the accuracy of forest inventories but also supports sustainable management and conservation efforts from the outset.
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The transition to electric vehicles is one of the most important stepping stones when it comes to a truly sustainable future. However, most electric vehicle manufacturers often overlook the needs of transport professionals such as truck drivers, couriers and taxi drivers in their quest for widespread adoption. Industry professionals simply lack the infrastructure needed for long days on the road and charging electric vehicles can take a painfully long time just waiting around for the battery to fill up.
Pica Lataus aims to address this issue by developing fast charging stations, around convenience stores and service stations designed for professional drivers. Additionally the service stations would allow the drivers a comfortable and welcoming space in which to spend their breaks, and buy snacks or beverages.