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weXelerate weXelerate

We are here to create and lead Austria's most impactful innovation ecosystem. We are here to create and lead Austria's most impactful innovation ecosystem. This means we provide space for innovators, facilitate collaboration and empower people and organizations to maximize their innovation potential. entrepreneurship, startups, innovation, banking, media, energy, infrastructure, insurance, AI & bots, blockchain, cybersecurity, internetofthings, mobility, iOT, innovationecosystem, ecosystem, and Corporate Innovation

Type: Incubators & VCs

30 8 16 20
The Silicon Cape Initiative The Silicon Cape Initiative

Catalyst for Tech in the Cape The Silicon Cape Initiative is a non-profit initiative. THE VISION The Silicon Cape vision is of an ecosystem in the Western Cape of South Africa, that serves to attract and bring together local and foreign investors, the brightest technical talent, and the most promising entrepreneurs, to foster the creation and growth of world-class IP start-up companies in an environment that competes with other similar hubs around the world against the backdrop of one of the most beautiful settings and pleasant places to live, work and play on the globe. THE CONCEPT The concept of …

Type: NGO, Think-tanks, Ed, & Culture Activities: it services

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The Europas 100 The Europas 100

Ranking the Hottest 100 European Tech Startups Founded in 2009 by Mike Butcher, editor-at-large at Techcrunch, The Europas was originally formed to recognize and celebrate the innovation emerging from Europe’s burgeoning tech startup scene. The Europas 2024 will be held on 11 November 2024 in Lisbon, Portugal. Today, we are in our sixteenth year identifying of Europe’s most ambitious and successful startups, including Spotify, Transferwise, Soundcloud, Deliveroo, Babylon Health and many others, The Europas has grown into the premier awards for Europe’s hottest tech startups. As the intersection of tech, business and society grows increasingly complex, it is our mission …

Type: Event Incubators & VCs

37 15 12 3
Innovation Norway Innovation Norway

We give local ideas global opportunities We're teaming up with the new Norway! Innovation Norway promotes nationwide industrial development to both the business economy and Norway's national economy, and helps release the potential of different districts and regions by contributing to innovation, internationalisation and promotion. Finance, start-up aid, consulting, and export

Type: Public

42 13 9 1,126
Khosla Ventures Khosla Ventures

We provide venture assistance to entrepreneurs working on breakthrough technologies. Khosla Ventures invests in companies that are bold, early and impactful. The firm was started in 2004 by Vinod Khosla, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, to provide venture assistance to entrepreneurs. Headquartered in Menlo Park, Calif., Khosla Ventures invests in a range of areas including AI, climate, sustainability, enterprise, consumer, fintech, digital health, medtech and diagnostics, therapeutics and frontier technology.

Type: Incubators & VCs

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Tech Tour Tech Tour

Tech Tour connects Europe's best tech entrepreneurs with active investors to secure funding and foster growth. Tech Tour is the largest tech entrepreneurship and investment community in Europe. It engages the most promising tech entrepreneurs selected by the most active investment experts to raise funding and grow through smart partnerships and strategies in collaborative programmes leading up to events. ​ Backstory It all started over 25 years ago by investors recognising the need to meet with companies from all over Europe. Volunteers organised the first tech tours. Imagine 40 investors getting on a bus and travelling for three days across …

Type: NGO, Think-tanks, Ed, & Culture Activities: it services

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Maki.vc Maki.vc

Making history? We champion the entrepreneurs rewriting the future. Maki.vc is a seed-stage VC firm dedicated to partnering with founders who never conform to category standards. From inception to series A and beyond, we partner with deep tech and brand driven companies obsessed in challenging category norms. venture capital, startups, deeptech, and brands

Type: Incubators & VCs

29 5 21 17
maze impact maze impact

Certified BCorp. We accelerate and invest in solutions solving for social and environmental challenges. maze is an impact investing company founded by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation created in 2013. maze offers financial and non-financial tools to everyone committed to delivering positive social and environmental outcomes. We will always post when hiring. In the meantime, if you would like to work for an impact-driven organisation, check our job board and join our talent pool. Job board: careers.msm.vc/ impact investing, capacity building, social impact bonds, social impact, vc, envrionmental impact, venture capital, growth programmes, impact advisory, platform, and outcomes-based comissioning

Type: NGO, Think-tanks, Ed, & Culture Activities: civictech fintech

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Alliance VC Alliance VC

We invest in Nordic startups with global ambitions. Alliance is a Nordic venture capital firm investing in exceptional early-stage tech companies and purpose-driven founders with global ambitions. Offices in Oslo, Stockholm and Helsinki.

Type: Incubators & VCs

11 1 8 19
Seed Capital Denmark Seed Capital Denmark

Seed Capital is Denmark's largest venture capital fund within the seed segment investing in technology companies Seed Capital has established itself as the most successful seed stage investor in Denmark – respected by winning entrepreneurs and top international syndication partners. Since Seed Capital was established in December 2004, the Seed team has identified, funded and helped many companies to commercial success, and some to profitable exits. Companies such as Trustpilot, Vivino, Templafy and Endomondo. Besides investments, Seed Capital assists portfolio companies with value-generating activities such as management support, business development, organizational and strategic planning, marketing, and ad hoc operational, financial, …

Type: Incubators & VCs

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IBB Ventures IBB Ventures

Startups - Made in Berlin IBB Ventures (www.ibbventures.de) has been providing venture capital to innovative Berlin-based companies since 1997 and has established itself as the market leader in early stage financing. The funds are primarily used for development and market launch of innovative products or services as well as for business concepts from creative industries. In addition to the two VC funds for technology and creative companies with a volume of EUR 90 million, an impact VC fund with a volume of EUR 30 million has been in the investment phase since 2022. All VC funds are financed by the …

Type: Incubators & VCs

13 4 11 26
Nordic Startup Awards Nordic Startup Awards

We gather the best from the Nordic startup community, with the ambition to recognise and celebrate all the achievements! An award show like none before, Nordic Startup Awards is a series of events in the Nordic countries with the mission to celebrate and unite the Nordic startup eco-systems. All the events lead up to the grand finale where the startup kings and queens of the entire Nordic region will be revealed. The main purpose behind the event is to consolidate the Nordic startup scene and place Scandinavian startup ecosystem on the map as a leading center for innovation in Europe. …

Type: Media

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iHub Nairobi iHub Nairobi

Nairobi's Innovation Hub. iHub is a place where the brightest young minds can work together in a productive collaborative environment. We offer A-class office environment with everything you need to start a business so that you can focus on building up your own business and turn your dreams into reality with the help from our international network of experienced experts, mentors, entrepreneurs and investors. Using our global network which spans over 40 countries. We help young startup companies find international partners and investors to propel their businesses further. iHub is a place where dreams really come true when it comes …

Type: Incubators & VCs

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The Nordic Web Ventures The Nordic Web Ventures

We invest in ambitious pre-seed Nordic startups. The Nordic Web Ventures is an Angel Fund run by Neil S W Murray, backed by 50+ community builders, entrepreneurs and investors passionate about supporting early-stage Nordic startups.

Type: Incubators & VCs

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TechFounders TechFounders

TechFounders fuels worldwide corporate-start-up partnerships through venture clienting 🚀 As part of UnternehmerTUM, Europe’s leading center for innovation and business creation, TechFounders specializes in connecting established companies with pioneering start-ups worldwide. We help businesses boost their operational efficiencies, cut expenses, find new product lines, or just become more innovative from the core through various venture clienting, targeted start-up scouting and acceleration services. Simultaneously, we support start-ups to achieve scalable growth and success through strategic partnerships with established companies, while leveraging various coaching, mentoring, and networking possibilities. Since 2015, we have fostered over 170 pilot projects between international start-ups and established …

Type: Incubators & VCs

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Danish Business Angels - DanBAN Danish Business Angels - DanBAN

Denmarks Business Angel network with +300 active investors. DanBAN (Danish Business Angels) is a network organization for business angels in Denmark, with affiliation to similar business angel networks globally. DanBAN is today Denmark's largest network of business angels with more than 300 members. Through DanBAN our members share insights and pool investment capital, as well as provide knowledge and advice to their portfolio companies. Investing both capital and knowledge, DanBAN business angel members invest in un-listed companies in exchange for convertible debt or equity. DanBAN members are today active with ownership in more than 233 companies, with a collective 5.000+ …

Type: Media

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Startup Extreme Startup Extreme

Book your tickets for Startup Extreme in Hemsedal, every year, last week of April 🔥 This is a one-way ticket out of The Comfort Zone. Once a year, the most impactful and influential figures in tech journey to the mountains of Norway to create Startup Extreme—a startup event dedicated to bridging new relationships and fostering the growth of entrepreneurship internationally. Leave your suit and tie behind and join us in the fjords of Norway. You’ll experience two days of outdoor activities, world-class speakers, thought-provoking conversations, performances, and much more. Join us at www.startupextreme.co Innovation, Technology, Nordics, Community, Investing, Impact investing, …

Type: Event

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SME Support Centre SME Support Centre

Scaling Up the SME Ecosystem in Africa with Simple, Localised & Sustainable Solutions. #MissionDriven #ImpactDriven The focus of the SME Support Centre is to ensure the growth and scale of SMEs in Africa by providing the necessary business advisory and mobilizing the investment capital required to support the growth of these companies. We aim to achieve our vision and mission by building long term partnerships with various players in the African ecosystem which includes funders, governments and other like-minded private sector players. Through our various programs and our robust range of services we believe we will impact thousands of SMEs …

Type: Incubators & VCs

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Enactus Enactus

We believe investing in students who take ENtrepreneurial ACTion for others creates a better world for US all. We are an international non-profit organization that believes investing in students who take ENTrepreneurial ACTion for others creates a better world for US all. For more information, visit enactus.org. Social Media Community Guidelines Enactus lives our values of integrity, passion, innovation, and, collaboration in all that we do. We use the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals (or Global Goals) as a framework to engage future NextGen Leaders to fulfill our vision of creating a better, more sustainable world. In that vein, …

Type: NGO, Think-tanks, Ed, & Culture Activities: civictech

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Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

A global law firm focused on serving the tech & innovation, energy & infrastructure and finance sectors. Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP is a global law firm focused on serving the Technology & Innovation, Energy & Infrastructure and Finance sectors. Leading companies and new entrants call on our teams in 25+ markets worldwide for forward-looking, pragmatic advice on transactions, litigation and compliance matters. We bring distinctive quality, teamwork, and value to the table – and innovate in everything we do. We’re especially focused on attracting and inspiring the best legal talent – and we’re proud to be named one of …

Type: Large company

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Startup Basecamp Startup Basecamp

Funding & supporting climate tech startups at scale. For #Investors, #Founders & #Experts fighting climate change💚🌎🚀 Startup Basecamp is a membership community powering solutions to climate change by driving investments in climate tech startups. We do this via: 💎 FUNDRAISING SUPPORT: Fund 4 The Future is a specialized investor matchmaking program for climate tech founders. Our goal is to provide high-quality deal flow to investors while simultaneously supporting climate tech startups. 🌟MEMBERSHIP PLATFORM: We offer an online community that helps international founders connect with investors and experts to build, finance, and scale their innovative solutions to climate change. ⚡️"GET VC …

Type: Incubators & VCs

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Startupticker.ch Startupticker.ch

The independent Swiss innovation news channel. Principal: Innosuisse Startupticker.ch (http://www.startupticker.ch) is the leading Swiss news portal for start-ups, supporters, innovators and investors. We are providing daily information on company results, launch of innovations, growth, financing, exits, support services, events and award tenders. The most important news and events of the week from the start-up community are sent out in a weekly newsletter. Innosuisse is the principal of startupticker.ch We are always looking for hot news and for partners interested in a cooperation. Start-ups, Venture Capital, Financing, Start-up Awards, CTI Start-up, Start-up Support, and Innovation

Type: Media

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Polar Bear Pitching Polar Bear Pitching

Literally the world's coolest pitching event, taking place in Oulu, Northern Finland. Polar Bear Pitching gathers the coolest startups and visionary talents together with investors, large audiences, and media. www.polarbearpitching.com Polar Bear Pitching is an event that brings the brightest startups and startuppers as well as sharpest audiences together. The entrepreneurs that are welcomed to pitch may present any business sector and can be either on pre-seed, seed, startup or growth stage. Naturally, we also wish to see many companies with an aspiration to grow and reach international business with a scalable business model. In the audience there's plenty of …

Type: Event NGO, Think-tanks, Ed, & Culture Activities: entrepreneurship

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Nordic Edge Nordic Edge

🌎 Advancing a smarter and greener tomorrow through our Smart City + Agritech Clusters, Innovation hub Innoasis & Expo Nordic Edge is a non-profit organization working in close cooperation with private companies, municipalities, academia and citizens towards smarter and more sustainable cities and communities. Our aim is to be a driving force for the development, testing and export of smart city technology and sustainable solutions on behalf of our cluster members. Built on the core philosophy “Smart with a Heart”, Nordic Edge strives to advance a smarter and greener tomorrow with a human-centric, inclusive, and collaborative approach. By sharing and …

Type: Event NGO, Think-tanks, Ed, & Culture Activities: smart city it services

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GRUNDFOS GRUNDFOS

We pioneer solutions to the world's water and climate challenges and improve quality of life for people.​ Pumps are our business. Every day, our energy efficient pumps provide comfort, deliver drinking water, remove wastewater, or help farmers water their crops all over the world. Just to mention some of our expertise. We set the standard within our work areas and keep raising the bar when it comes to energy efficiency and protecting the environment. Since 1945 we’ve honed our skills in order to produce the perfect pumps. Pumps which can move liquid to where it should be – using as …

Type: Large company

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Toniic Toniic

We are a global community of asset owners seeking deeper positive net impact across the spectrum of capital Toniic's vision is a global financial ecosystem which operates to create positive social and environmental impact. Its mission is to empower impact investors. In 2010, the Toniic community was established by pioneers in impact investing. Today the community continues to grow globally, bringing together over 400 investors from 25+ countries. Toniic members are business angels, individuals, families, family offices, fund managers, institutional investors and foundations who are investing in entrepreneurs, enterprises, funds, and bonds, striving to change the world for the better. …

Tags: H2020 Type: Incubators & VCs

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The Global Impact Investing Network The Global Impact Investing Network

The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) is the global champion of impact investing, dedicated to increasing the scale and effectiveness of impact investing around the world. Impact investments are investments made into companies, organizations, and funds with the intention to generate positive, measurable, social and environmental impact alongside a financial return. Impact investments can be made in both emerging and developed markets and target a range of returns from below market to market rate, depending upon investors’ objectives. The GIIN builds critical infrastructure and supports activities, education, and research that help accelerate the development of a coherent impact investing industry.

Tags: H2020 Type: Incubators & VCs

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FINCA International FINCA International

FINCA International is committed to ending global poverty through sustainable and scalable solutions, responsible financial services, and life-enhancing products that are driven by the insights and needs of the people we serve in communities around the world. We believe all people should have the opportunity to leverage their wisdom, talent and effort to determine their own destiny. For more information, visit www.FINCA.org or follow us on Facebook @FINCA.International, Twitter @FINCA, or Instagram @FINCAintl. FRAUD ALERT: It has come to our attention that scammers are impersonating our human resources team and encouraging potential applicants to submit personal information via telephone or …

Type: NGO, Think-tanks, Ed, & Culture Activities: civictech fintech

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TheFactory - Accelerator & VC TheFactory - Accelerator & VC

TheFactory is awarded as the best accelerator & incubator in the Nordics with focus on fintech, proptech & retailtech. How fast can you grow your company? At TheFactory we give entrepreneurs fuel to grow. Get investment from TheFactory of up to NOK 500.000 per company and access to free perks from our accelerator partner GAN worth roughly USD 1 Million. Read more about what you get here. Building on the successful FintechFactory pilot program, we take entrepreneurs to the next level. You will be guided by over 120 experienced mentors, including entrepreneurs, investors and industry expert from our partner network. …

Type: Event

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Authority Magazine Authority Magazine

Top Lessons. Top Authorities. Authority Magazine, a Medium publication, is devoted to sharing in-depth, and interesting interviews, featuring people who are authorities in Business, Pop Culture, Wellness, Social Impact, and Tech. We use interviews to draw out stories that are both empowering and actionable. We believe that good stories should feel beautiful to the mind, heart, and eyes. Most publications share great articles about a single topic. Authority Magazine distinguishes itself by producing large interview series with scores of experts and thought leaders, around a single empowering topic. Popular interview series include “Female Disruptors”, “Meet The Rising Stars of TV, …

Type: Media

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The Conduit The Conduit

A home for a diverse community of people passionate about positive impact. The Conduit is a global community of people passionate about social and environmental change. Our clubs in London and Oslo bring together social entrepreneurs, investors, creatives, business leaders, policy-makers and civil society. Sign up to RADICAL REALIST to discover new ways to change the world every week.

Type: NGO, Think-tanks, Ed, & Culture Activities: civictech

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Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation

We invest in social entrepreneurs who change the world. Started in 2002, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation (DRK) is a global venture philanthropy firm supporting early stage, high impact social enterprises. Borrowed from our venture capital legacy, DRK finds, funds and supports exceptional leaders building innovative solutions to some of the world’s most challenging problems. Since beginning this work over 20 years ago, DRK has invested in more than 225 organizations that have collectively impacted over 400 million lives to date. early stage, nonprofits, social entrepreneurship, board governance, venture philanthropy, foundation, and scale

Type: Incubators & VCs

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TechChill TechChill

TechChill 2025: Riga 📆 mark your calendars 5-7 February, 2025 TechChill celebrates the best of the Baltic startup community by annually bringing together 2300+ attendees, including over 300 of the fastest-growing startups, most innovative corporations, 200 investors active in the region, 100 media representatives, and talented tech enthusiasts. 🚀 Guess what's fresh? TechChill Riga 2024 is rocking the color green! 📅 Mark your calendars for April 17-19, 2024, and dive into three days of TechChill awesomeness - from pitch battles and investor day to mind-blowing stage talks and unforgettable parties! Don't miss out! See you at TechChill Riga 2024! Startups, …

Type: Event NGO, Think-tanks, Ed, & Culture Activities: it services

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Unreasonable Unreasonable

We build community between entrepreneurs, institutions, and investors to profitably solve pressing global problems. We are an international company that supports a Fellowship for growth-stage entrepreneurs, channels exclusive deal-flow to investors, and partners with institutions to discover profit in solving global problems. As a community, we exist to lead the transition to a more just and regenerative economy. The 400+ ventures in the Unreasonable Fellowship operate across more than 180 countries, have collectively generated $15 billion in revenue, raised $15.1 billion in financing, and are positively impacting the lives of more than 1.4 billion people. Sound Unreasonable? We hope so. …

Type: Incubators & VCs

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TechBBQ TechBBQ

TechBBQ's main goal is to support and strengthen the Nordic ecosystem. We foster growth for startups and scaleups. At TechBBQ, we bring together talent, capital, and knowledge to reach our common goals: support the Nordic startup ecosystem, celebrate our successes, and learn from our failures. We build communities and foster growth for startups and scaleups based on the distinctive Nordic traditions of openness, trust, and inclusion.

Type: Event NGO, Think-tanks, Ed, & Culture Activities: fintech

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Transformative Tech Lab Transformative Tech Lab

Tags: H2020 Type: NGO, Think-tanks, Ed, & Culture

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ICFA - International Climate Finance Accelerator ICFA - International Climate Finance Accelerator

Accelerating the climate impact finance leaders of tomorrow The International Climate Finance Accelerator (ICFA) supports emerging fund managers focused on climate action to develop the climate finance leaders of tomorrow. As part of our multi-year programme, we offer technical and financial support to the impact fund managers in their start-up phase who have strong, innovative climate investment strategies and are in process of fundraising. These fund managers are selected using a highly competitive process and, once selected, fund managers receive access to expert trainings, coaching, access to working capital, and much more. To date, supported fund managers have secured commitments …

Type: Incubators & VCs

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Aavishkaar Capital Aavishkaar Capital

We embolden entrepreneurs to chase large problems worth solving Aavishkaar started in the year 2001 with a vision to invest in entrepreneurs building sustainable enterprises that can catalyze development impact for excluded communities and remote geographies across the globe. Aavishkaar's initial focus was India and now is taking its learnings to countries in South and South East Asia. Over the years, Aavishkaar through its various initiatives in micro equity and micro finance space has pioneered the approach of building a financial ecosystem that would nurture entrepreneurs by providing risk capital for scalable rural focused enterprises. Our mission is to evolve …

Type: Incubators & VCs SMB Activities: fintech Technologies: Decarbonization

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Tripadvisor Tripadvisor

Helping travelers take better trips. Join us! Tripadvisor, the world's largest travel guidance platform*, helps hundreds of millions of people each month** become better travelers, from planning to booking to taking a trip. Travelers across the globe use the Tripadvisor site and app to discover where to stay, what to do and where to eat based on guidance from those who have been there before. With more than 1 billion reviews and opinions of nearly 8 million businesses, travelers turn to Tripadvisor to find deals on accommodations, book experiences, reserve tables at delicious restaurants and discover great places nearby. As …

Type: Large company

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Tony Blair Institute for Global Change Tony Blair Institute for Global Change

Working with political leaders to drive change 🌍 We are the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change. We work with political leaders around the world to drive change, helping governments deliver for their people by turning bold ideas into reality. We do it by advising on strategy, policy and delivery, unlocking the power of technology across all three. And by sharing what we learn on the ground, so everyone can benefit. We do it to build more open, inclusive and prosperous countries for people everywhere. If you believe politics done well has the power to transform lives, we invite you …

Type: NGO, Think-tanks, Ed, & Culture Activities: edtech

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EQT Group EQT Group

EQT is a purpose-driven global investment organization EQT is a purpose-driven global investment organization with close to three decades of consistent investment performance across multiple geographies, sectors, and strategies.

Type: Incubators & VCs

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SpareBank 1 SR-Bank SpareBank 1 SR-Bank

Vi skaper overlegne kundeopplevelser Vi har laget Norges mest brukte mobilbank, Nordens første klokkebank og vi var først ute med digital og automatisk helsevurdering. Vår Smarte bilforsikring er banebrytende og vi har Norges mest fornøyde kunder når det kommer til forsikringsoppgjør. Gårsdagens resultater betyr ikke så mye for morgendagens kundeopplevelser, men vi skal fortsatt sette kunden først. Bank og forsikringsbransjen er nemlig i kraftig endring. Ny teknologi, nye kundebehov og økt konkurranse tvinger frem innovasjon og vi kan ikke hvile på tidligere prestasjoner. Samtidig vet vi at teknologi som kunstig intelligens og maskinlæring blir verdiløs om vi ikke bruker det …

Type: Large company Activities: fintech

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