CommuKaroliina Kauhanen
Commu is a cure to social cancers, such as loneliness and burnout. Commu is a platform of helping, a digital doorbell, which makes it easy and safe to ask for help and give help in your neighborhoods. Every second adult suffers from loneliness and burnout, making it the next global epidemic according to WHO. Helping as an action is the best way to form strong social connections and reduce these social cancers. In a year, we've established Commu as the fastest growing community platform in Finland, with 20,000 registered users and first paying customers as well as celebrity and international investors.
SCALINQ AB Lisa Rooth
At SCALINQ, they create solutions that simplify the scaling of quantum computers for research teams and quantum computer manufacturers. With their first product, LINQER, they enable quantum processors with up to 300 microwave lines whilst other commercially available solutions offer only 25. Simply put, LINQER is a “motherboard” but for quantum computers. Their patent-pending solution does not only save time and thousands of euros compared to in-house development but also provides a validated, high-performing product and allows their customers to focus on their core research.
Dora Nordic ApSSidsel Høyer Knudsen
DORA is a B2B SaaS product breaking with legacy systems and analog processes in the road freight transportation industry. They aim to reduce the industry's overall carbon footprint by giving carriers and freight forwarders the right tools to improve their workflows and make quick data-driven decisions. DORA TMS is an intuitive dispatching platform with key integrations, designed for the fast workflows of a dispatcher. The user gets one central system to run order management, collaborate, invoice clients, and engage with suppliers.
SustieGabriella Bossman
At Sustie, they are building an online tool to empower, educate and inspire people to reimagine the future of fashion by making sustainable decisions when shopping online. They provide instant sustainability data on any item online. But more than that, they provide live and personalised sustainable alternatives in rental, second hand, repair and sustainable brand options. The market is exploding with secondhand platforms, rental options and everything in-between; they are the ones to bring them all together. This is a layer on top of users' online shopping journeys meaning it can be used on any fashion e-commerce site from day one!
RekonnectBrandy Xu
Rekonnect is a B2B SaaS platform that helps MedTech companies achieve post-market success by combing both device and user success in one platform. Rekonnect is building an ecosystem for all stakeholders involved in a medical device in the post-market. With Rekonnect you can: Digitalise and centralise all device knowledge and data, offer hybrid device training - both remote and in-person learning and provide customer ticket support and report adverse events.
Asker Technologies ABAnna Åslund
Asker is a platform that turns anyone into an interviewing professional. Asker helps companies recruit the right person for the job by supporting them in 3 phases of their job interviews: preparation, actual interviewing, and post-interview analysis and comparison. Asker helps companies build non-discriminatory and inclusive interviewing processes in line with modern HR research and technology. Asker was founded to help recruiters conduct better, more effective, and fair job interviews. Asker is the first company to focus on improving the entire interview process, from evaluating your candidates to selling them the job.
ARIS Robotics Ann-Mia Ambjerg
ARIS Robotics Developments state-of-the-art AI and Robot technology that can automatically sort waste. Improving data and quality of recycling.
At ARIS Robotics, they automate the sorting process, and shift the responsibility of sorting waste from people to machines. They have developed an AI using deep learning that can recognize and sort waste using images. Instead of you having to sort your waste into multiple categories, you can simply put all the waste into their container. Which utilizes their AI and a mechanical component to sort your waste into the right containers for you.
KonvojTilda Lundgren
Konvoj is building an AI-powered and human-centered scheduling optimization platform, tailor-made to meet the staffing challenges of the health and long-term care sectors, using cutting-edge mathematical optimization. Their offer is unique and novel. Thanks to Konvoj's proprietary and innovative optimization algorithm, their scheduling optimization platform automatically generates staff schedules that are sustainable, fair, human-centered, resource efficient, and meet the needs of both staff and patients.
Sightic Analytics (fd Eyescanner)Jenny Johansson & Stefanie Najafi
Eyescanner was founded in 2019, and is an AI-based software that detects the influence of drugs and alcohol through image analysis of the eye area and eye movements. The software finds and analyzes a number of scientifically proven measurement values in the eye area that are significant for alcohol and drug influence. The Eyescanner solution is based on filming a short video sequence from a person's eye area, the result comes immediately and the whole process takes 15 seconds.
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Cecilia HulténCo-founder, CFO at CBio A/S & Angel Investor
Cecilia is a strategic leader with more than two decades of experience in the financial industry. She has led large international sales teams for institutions like UBS and Nordea. She brings a solid financial skill set with an in-depth understanding of funding, risk management and capital markets.
Inspired by an extended stay in Silicon Valley, Cecilia became an entrepreneur, investor and board member leveraging technology and behavioural design to meet real needs focusing on fintech and healthcare. She has co-founded two companies, a biotech company to enable cancer cure and a data management company commercializing a project out of MIT's Fintech program.
Moreover, Cecilia is an Executive Coach at the Stanford Graduate School of Business in Corporate Innovation. She holds a BSc at Gothenburg School of Economics and studied in the Stern School of Business MBA program at NYU.
Gwen SandbergInvestment Director, Inventure
Gwen has 20 years of operator experience from both North America and Europe. She comes most recently from the Swedish fintech Tink where she was employee #30 and helped grow the company through it’s $2.2 billion sale to Visa this spring. She is passionate about young children's education. Gwen is a mentor to several young women, participates actively in Mentor Sweden and is president of her daughter's preschool. Eventually Gwen wants to start her own school for young girls in underprivilaged areas.
Alberte Schmidt KoefoedInvestment Manager, PreSeed Ventures
As an Investment Manager with PreSeed Ventures (and early-stage VC fund based in Denmark) Alberte brings a whole new level of expertise to the table when it comes to turning thinking into doing. She brings years of consulting experience, a passion for transforming grand ideas into reality, and a heart for doing things right, with her everywhere she goes. Always on the lookout for new ways to grow a business, and a love for action, she’s a pro at helping startups get in position to crank up the gas (and maybe even go fast enough to catch her on her bike).
Virginia E. VegasManaging Director at VC Challenge
Graduate in Law and Business Administration and Management with over 5 years of operational experience and business development in both private and public sector. Virginia is a community builder, engaged in the development of ecosystem, new technologies and the next generation of businesses and entrepreneurs. She has a broad tech investor competence after having educated more than 300 business angels and over 30 fund managers in the Nordics and has experience in both direct investments and funds of funds investments. She is currently focused in developing the VC Challenge, the first pan-Nordic program that prepares emerging fund managers to raise their first fund.
All you need to know
The pitching part of the event starts at 10:00 and ends at 12:00.
During the day you will get a chance to meet the investors and book meetings with them via the Brella app.
The event takes place at Malmö's Town Hall, Kompanigatan 5, 21213 Malmö.
There will be 10 amazing companies pitching representing each Nordic country.
In the afternoon we will present the winner, Nordic Fe:male Founder of the Year!
Application timeline:
- 18th Sep ⇒ The last date to apply
- 18th - 23rd Sep ⇒ Choosing companies for the final 10
- 26th Sep - 10th Oct ⇒ Interviews and preparation with the companies that got into the top 10
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Nordic Fe:male Founders
Are you a female or non-binary founder or co-founder running a high-potential startup? Then take the opportunity to pitch at Nordic Fe:male Invest Summit and win 100.000 SEK* in October 2022. Nordic Fe:male Founders is a pitching event held by Minc in conjunction with the highly appreciated conference Nordic Fe:male Invest Summit with the aim to inspire more women to go into entrepreneurship and investing.
The pitching event is open for
- Nordic startups with at least 30% female ownership in the company
- Innovative startups with high ambitions and growth potential
- Preferably have raised some investments before the pitch, but not mandatory
Would you like to pitch? Application is now closed! If you're a Fe:male founder from the Nordics and would like to attend, contact dzenis@minc.se
APPLICATION CLOSED
The selection process starts at the beginning of September and, if selected, you will be contacted for an interview starting September 26th.
*Prize sponsored by Tassaka AB, Nudging Capital AB, Grenspecialisten AB, Skabholmen Invest AB.
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