NORDIC GLOBAL FINALISTS 2021
Sting
Sweden
Best Accelerator Incubator
People’s Choice
Website
Sting is the leading ecosystem for tech startups in the Nordics. They are an independent, founder-centric player that always acts based on what’s best for your startup.
Saga robotics
Norway
Best Green Tech Startup
Best Vertical Startup (originally from Best Climate Startup)Website
Saga Robotics develops robotic solutions that address the growing labour shortages in agriculture, and makes farming more sustainable and energy efficient.
Mesh Nationaltheatret
Norway
Best Co-working
Website
Mesh Nationaltheatret gather individuals, startups, and growth companies with an entrepreneurial mindset – who want to make a positive impact on the future.
Particle3D
Denmark
Best Vertical Startup (originally from Best Health Tech Startup)
Website
Particle3D is founded on proprietary technology to 3D print patient specific, natural, and degradable bone implants.
Lucinity
Iceland
Best Newcomer
Website
Lucinity is an AML software startup that uses its Human AI technology to make money good.
Henna Keränen
Sweden
Ecosystem Hero of the Year
Website
Henna has been an active person within the Nordic ecosystem. At Sting, she is leading the strategic partnerships and community, and a Project Manager of Test Drive Climate Action.
Elina Berglund Scherwitzl
Sweden
Founder of the Year
Website
Elina is the Co-founder and CEO of Natural Cycles which is the first and only digital birth control, cleared by the FDA in the US and CE marked in Europe as a medical device.
Voi Technology 🌱
Sweden
Best Green Tech Startup
Startup of the Year
Website
Europe's leading micro-mobility provider, founded in 2018 in Sweden and operating in more than 70 cities across 12 European markets. Voi has won more than 40% of licensed market share in Europe – more than twice its closest competitor.
Icebreaker
Finland
Investor of the Year
Website
Venture capital and community for pre-founders and founders. They help domain experts to take their startup ideas and themselves to the next level. They invest €150k – 800k in Finnish, Swedish and Estonian software-driven companies in idea, angel and early seed stages.
EcoTree 🌱
Denmark
Best Green Tech Startup
Website
EcoTree is a simple, ground-breaking way to reward individuals and businesses supporting sustainable forestry in Europe. They own and maintain forests but transfer ownership of the trees to ordinary people, who receive 100% of the profit when their tree’s eventually cut for timber.
Nordic Harvest 🌱
Denmark
Best Green Tech Startup
Website
Nordic Harvest is a Vertical Farm and grow crops indoors, utilized the area optimally by placing the plants in floors. By having full control over the environment the best conditions is created. Therefore, we can deliver delicious, tasteful and nutrient-rich produce year round
CENTRAL EUROPEAN GLOBAL FINALISTS 2021
Startup Wise Guys
Estonia
Best Accelerator/Incubator Program
Website
Startup Wise Guys is Europe’s most international startup accelerator and top 3 in terms of portfolio size. Their unique approach to full time acceleration, 100+ active mentors per batch and a values driven management team has ensured a startup survival rate above 77% since 2012.
Impact Hub Bucharest (Ropot Development as a legal entity)
Romania
Best Co-working Space
Website
Impact Hub Bucharest is a dynamic space where professionals and entrepreneurs work in developing projects and business initiatives. Being the first coworking space in Romania, with a growing community of 2000 members, they are present in 3 central locations in Bucharest.
ABC Hub
Slovenia
People's Choice
Website
Spread across more than 2.000 m2, the ABC hub offers everything a young company needs for a successful start. We are building a community that, in combination with state-of-the-art infrastructure, offers you everything you need in order to grow successfully.
Crassula
Latvia
Best Vertical Startup (originally from Best FinTech Startup)
Website
Powerful and flexible engine in a cloud. Crassula provides White Label Core Banking platform that allows to launch PSPs, NEObanks, Wallets, FX services and other FinTech products in a cloud in days, not months.
Pixofarm
Austria
Best Newcomer
Website
Pixofarm is a mobile application that helps apple producers optimize their harvest by measuring and forecasting fruit size and providing reliable data.
CastPrint
Latvia
Best Vertical Startup (originally from Best Social Impact Startup)
Website
CastPrint brings fracture treatment to the 21st century.
Bunnyshell
Romania
Best Vertical Startup (originally from Virtual Team Work)
Website
Bunnyshell is a DevOps platform as Service company, whose commercial grade solution enables developers to focus on creating great applications, instead of managing platform and infrastructure operations.
Patrik Juránek
Czechia
Ecosystem Hero of the Year
Website
Startup Disrupt is a platform designed to provide knowledge, inspiration, connection to entrepreneurs, startup founders, technology innovators and other startup enthusiats. Let’s disrupt the old ways of thinking!
Martin Behrens
Austria
Founder of the Year
Website
Presono leads presentations into the 21st century and enables teams and companies to easily create professional presentations and analyse their usage: Present, collaborate & manage – all in one.
LAUNCHub Ventures
Bulgaria
Investor of the Year
Website
LAUNCHub Ventures is a leading early-stage venture capital fund, investing in technology startups in the Seed and Series A funding stages.
BOOKR Kids
Hungary
Startup of the Year
Website
Evegreen 🌱
Slovenia
Best Green Tech Startup Website
VermiGo 🌱
Hungary
Best Green Tech Startup
Website
BOOKR Kids is a unique reading-based edutainment tool, designed to engage and delight the youngest learners in reading.
Evegreen creates advanced, eco-friendly products for a sustainable future. Through relentless research & development, our products are pushing the limits of bio-degradable polymers - at high quality, amazing performance and truly low costs.
VermiGo ~ Your Urban Oasis
Brette Haus 🌱
Latvia
Best Green Tech Startup
Website
Circular Change 🌱
Slovenia
Best Green Tech Startup
Website
Brette Haus creates accessible, truly portable homes that unfold the freedom of movement while seamlessly blending in with the environment. Unfold your home anywhere! Prefabricated folding houses designed and manufactured in Latvia.
Circular Change are thinkers and doers. They INSPIRE, ENGAGE, CONNECT and ACT. They co-create Circular Economy Roadmaps. Together, they can jointly make a positive circular impact.
SOUTH EUROPE GLOBAL FINALISTS 2021
Impact Hub Madrid
Spain
Best Coworking Space
Website
Impact Hub Madrid is the largest global network of innovation and entrepreneurship communities with impact, made up of an impressing 17.000 professionals and present in more than 100 cities!
Didimo
Portugal
Best Vertical Startup (originally from Virtual Team Work)
Website
Didimo is the leading creator of high-fidelity digital humans. Their 3D technology brings authencity to virtual interactions. Didimo was created with a beautiful goal, which is for everyone in the world to be able to tell their story, be connected and never fall into digital isolation!
Flomics Biotech
Spain
Best Newcomer
Website
Flomics Biotech is developing novel blood-based diagnostic tools for a broad range of complex diseases. With a highly skilled team that understands deep learning algorithms they are able to identify RNA changes associated with disease states in a faster, cheaper and non-invasive way!
Business Factory Auto
Spain
Best Accelerator or Incubator Program
Website
Business Factory Auto offers entrepreneurs a workspace, financial support, training, and a unique ecosystem made up of tutors, mentors and partners, all related to the automotive and business sectors, which enables aspiring entrepreneurs to start their own business in the automotive industry
Pablo Santaeufemia | Bridge for Billions
Spain
Ecosystem Hero of the Year
Website
Pablo is the Co-Founder and CEO of BridgeForBillions. BridgeForBillions is a global digital ecosystem of entrepreneurship programs that help early-stage entrepreneurs worldwide to structure, develop and refine their businesses.
Erika De Santi | WeRoad
Italy
Founder of the Year
Website
Erika De Santi is the co-founder and managing director of WeRoad. WeRoad is a disruptive travel agency, which designs tours for groups of people that share the same interests and lifestyle.
Bynd Venture Capital
Portugal
Investor of the Year
Website
Partner and Executive Director of Bynd Venture Capital, a Portuguese VC focused in Iberian related seed tech startups and currently with 30+ investments in the portfolio.
BrainTrip
Malta
Startup of the Year
Website
BrainTrip teamed up with electrical engineers, designers, and medical experts to create an affordable, easy to use, and mobile EEG-based (electroencephalogram) method of dementia diagnosis. They developed the first scalable biological screening test for dementia.
Luca La Mesa
Italy
People's Choice
Website
Luca is a social media strategist, professor, and entrepreneur.
As he noted, every day he is learning something new and he learns from his mistakes.
CorkBrick 🌱
Portugal
Best Green Tech Startup
Website
Imagine a Lego like system, where you can build any structure, wall or furniture, inside or outside, with no tools, no screws, no glue - that's CORKBRICK!
Smartex 🌱
Portugal
Best Green Tech Startup Website
Ecopence 🌱
Malta
Best Green Tech Startup Website
Using cutting-edge AI, Machine Learning and Computer Vision, Smartex is able to detect defects and intervening the machines during the production stage avoiding the defective production to go unnoticed through the supply chain resulting in a waste of resources and high costs.
A new Earth Friendly Label of Trust introducing a circular economy revolving around support for our Environment.
Clever Solar Devices SL 🌱
Spain
Best Green Tech Startup
Website
CLEVER Dx, Artificial Intelligence platform for O&M operators of solar PV plants that enables automatic, remote, real time failure detection and diagnosis performed at “PV module level” without interrupting production.
EUROASIAN GLOBAL FINALISTS 2021
Elena Petrakova
Russia
Ecosystem Hero of the Year
Website
Elena is an innovator, young scientist, astropreneur. CEO at Easar and PhD Student at Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology. Grantee of Scientific Council of MAI (National Research University) and of Russian Government (2016 & 2017).
İTÜ Çekirdek Incubation Center
Turkey
Best Accelerator or Incubator Program
Website
ITU Çekirdek Incubation Center is the right address for all start-ups which have technological and innovative business ideas and think that their ideas can be turned into innovative and commercial activities.
iDialogue
Russia
Best Newcomer
Best Vertical Startup (originally from The Digital Transformers)
Website
iDialogue takes its roots in the educational initiative www.ubuntumail.com through which they connected over 80,000 students in 60 countries for learning activities. Today iDialogue is an educational system which uses the idea of co-learning and corresponds to the global trends.
EcoPrint
Azerbaijan
Best Green Tech Startup 🌱
Best Vertical Startup (originally from Virtual Team Work)
Some of their funds are spent on the maintenance costs of the villagers, part of the cost of the tree, and some of the technical costs. This project pays 8 of the 17 goals of the United Nations.
Terminal
Georgia
Best Coworking Space
Website
Pablo is the Co-Founder and CEO of BridgeForBillions. BridgeForBillions is a global digital ecosystem of entrepreneurship programs that help early-stage entrepreneurs worldwide to structure, develop and refine their businesses.
Sheyla Alakbarova
Azerbaijan
Founder of the Year
Website
Sheyla has been involved in social entrepreneurship for about four years. Currently, she and her business partner are running 3 enterprises. Sheyla also has an experience on leading and organizing more than 100 events and programs. Additionally, she was chosen as a MOOC Leader by the American Council and U.S.Embassy
Inventures
Turkey
Investor of the Year
Website
Inventures is the leading early stage internet business accelerator in Istanbul, with a proven track record of successful exits.
Raccoon.World
Ukraine
Startup of the Year
Website
Raccoon.World is a MedTech startup that provides rehabilitation centers with software and devices for telerehabilitation to treat people after injuries and neurological diseases.
Biolive 🌱
Turkey
Best Green Tech Startup
Website
Biolive Biological and Chemical Technology Industry and Trade Inc. is a biotechnology company that produces and sells biopolymer from olive seeds; also designs and develops the technical production process.
Minorpreneurs
Turkey
Best Vertical Startup (originally from Best EduTech Startup)
Website
Minorpreneurs educate children & youth ones as tenacious social entrepreneurs with personalizable entrepreneurship education models based on their learning style, ability and curiosity
MOST Business Incubator
Kazakhstan
People's choice
Website
Business incubator MOST is a community of startups, mentors, agents and experts in start-up ecosystems in Central Asia. The best business incubator in Kazakhstan according to QazTech Ventures.
ENLIL 🌱
Turkey
Best Green Tech Startup
Website
MEGA 🌱
Moldova
Best Green Tech Startup
Website
The first vertical smart wind turbine designed to harvest both the energy from the natural wind, as well as that created by passing vehicles!
MEGA works as a collaborative platform for delivering innovative solutions to environmental and social issues in the world. Their latest product is the GreenTech Rangers platform for supporting and tracking the development of startups with environmental and social impact.
SAARC GLOBAL FINALISTS 2021
YGAP Bangladesh
Bangladesh
Best Accelerator or Incubator Program
Website
YGAP Bangladesh in the largest and only for-profit accelerator company in Bangladesh. Currently, they are supporting 85+ enterprises with entrepreneurs aging from 18 to 46 (40% being women), who have impacted more than 450,000 lives in Bangladesh.
Hatch Works
Sri Lanka
Best Coworking Space
Website
Hatch a space for innovation, growth and collaboration, the center of gravity for all thing’s startup, and is the only hub in Sri Lanka providing a 360 degree solution for entrepreneurs to grow.
Niftron
Sri Lanka
Best Newcomer
Website
Niftron is a Blockchain as a Service platform that allows businesses and organizations to integrate blockchain with their products or projects easily and efficiently to improve trust by providing transparency, security and ownership.
Zermelo Technologies
India
Best Vertical Startup (originally from Virtual Team Work)
People’s Choice
Zermelo Technologies offers a wide range of services including software consulting services, development services and software maintenance services, that deliver real business value,solve problems,join organizations together and enable digital transformation and business change.
Nevindaree Premarathne
Sri Lanka
Ecosystem Hero of the Year
Website
Nevindaree currently running the government incubator/accelerator “Spiralation”, Disrupt Asia – Sri Lanka’s Premier Startup Conference, and StartupSL initiative – the single largest online platform for technology startups in Sri Lanka.
Supriya Paul
India
Founder of the Year
Website
Josh is an ecosystem which gives youth in India, from low-income households, access to role models through ‘Josh Talks’, equips them with the right skills to succeed in life through ‘Josh Skills’ and stands with them through the entire journey of doing more and being more.
Team Ventures
Nepal
Investor of the Year
Website
Team Ventures is an alternative investment firm with a diversified portfolio in sectors such as merchant banking, food tech, hydropower projects, auto servicing centers, large scale agro warehousing, electric vehicles, real-estate, Nepal stock market, and solar power projects.
CamCom
India
Startup of the Year
Website
CamCom is a future-driven brand offering AI automation for Enterprise Quality Control. They harness computer vision and deep learning to automate quality checks across the product lifecycle using machine-vision cameras and mobile phones
HVA Chemical Solution 🌱
India
Best Green Tech Startup
Website
HVA Energy's mission is to reduce the impact of plastic waste, carbon emission and deforestation by converting single-use waste plastics into low-carbon emitting fuel.
Maithri Aquatech 🌱
India
Best Green Tech Startup
Website
Maithri Aquatech is an Indian startup who have developed MEGHDOOT, a sustainable solution capable of generating clean water from air, to aid in mitigating global water scarcity and contamination issues. MEGHDOOT was developed as part of the Make-In-India initiative.
Garbageman 🌱
Bangladesh
Best Green Tech Startup
Website
GARBAGEMAN LIMITED strives to work for the betterment of both the environment and the socio-economic status of waste-pickers in Bangladesh by introducing scientific approaches to the waste management system and converting organic & inorganic wastes into resources.
Krishi Shwapno 🌱
Bangladesh
Best Green Tech Startup
Website
Krishi Shwapno is Bangladesh’s first B2B & B2C (Block Chain) technology-based Agri. Supply Chain platform offering end-to-end agricultural services to farmers also ONE-STOP solution platform for farmers and consumers. They ensure fair price for farmer and safe food for consumer.
ASEAN GLOBAL FINALISTS 2021
Antler
Singapore
Best Accelerator or Incubator Program
Website
Antler is a global early-stage VC enabling and investing in the world’s most exceptional people, founded by a team of experienced entrepreneurs, investors and company builders. They have offices across six continents and most major entrepreneurial hubs.
True Digital Park (TDPK)
Thailand
Best Coworking Space
Website
True Digital Park (TDPK) is Southeast Asia’s largest tech and startup hub located in the heart of Bangkok CyberTech District, bringing together multinational tech companies, startups and entrepreneurs, incubators and accelerators, VCs and investors, and government agencies.
MoveUP
Vietnam
Best Newcomer
Website
Move Up facilitates training, onboarding, continuous development, and individual learning using a micro-learning approach and gamification.
Kata.ai
Indonesia
Best Vertical Startup (originally from Virtual Team Work)
Website
Kata.ai is an Indonesian Conversational Artificial Intelligence company, focused on understanding human conversation so they can empower the way humans collaborate with technology.
Melanie Mossard
Cambodia
Ecosystem Hero of the Year
Website
Impact Hub Phnom Penh supports entrepreneurs through their incubation programs, and inspire and engage the local community with their weekly events, creative space, and online learning platform. They are building a thriving ecosystem of impact-driven businesses and young leaders.
Kelvin Teo
Singapore
Founder of the Year
Website
Funding Societies | Modalku is the largest SME digital financing platform in Southeast Asia. It provides business financing to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which is crowdfunded by individual and institutional investors.
Gobi Partners
Malaysia
Investor of the Year
Website
Gobi is one of the longest-standing VC firms with a Pan-Asian presence across North Asia, South Asia, and ASEAN with over US$1.1 billion in assets under management (AUM). Founded in 2002, Gobi has raised 13 funds to date, invested in 270 startups, and grown to 13 locations.
Funding Societies
Singapore
Startup of the Year
Website
Funding Societies | Modalku is the largest SME digital financing platform in Southeast Asia. It provides business financing to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which is crowdfunded by individual and institutional investors.
FHMoms
Philippines
People's Choice
Website
The first and the biggest parenting, freelancing, and entrepreneurship group for Pinay moms! FHMoms is a social enterprise that empowers home-based Filipina moms to pursue their passion through an online platform that provides training, job opportunities, and community support.
I-Farm 🌱
Malaysia
Best Green Tech Startup
Website
I-Farm, a group of environment friendly member dedicated to establish indoor farming in urban areas providing for local communities while working closely with micro farmers in generating fresh, pesticide-free vegetables for consumers.
Jala Tech 🌱
Indonesia
Best Green Tech Startup
Website
Jala is a SaaS application that helps shrimp farmers manage their farms, increase production and create a sustainable farm.
RecyGlo 🌱
Myanmar
Best Green Tech Startup
Website
RecyGlo is a waste management platform that provides circular economy zero waste management, traceability, monitoring and analytics. Their mission is to process your materials in a safe, non-hazardous manner with an aim to keep the world environmentally clean.