The Grand Finale of the leading competition for the startup ecosystem of the Nordics took place on 30th October in the beautiful Østre Gasværk Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark.

The event had an impressive lineup with some of the best players of the startup ecosystems from the five participating countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden). Before Grand Finale, more than 2.500 nominees were going through a rigorous judging process in their home countries to win the national round. The winners from these rounds were then further ranked by an international jury, and their decision was eventually combined with over 35.000 individual public votes from each of the five Nordic countries.

“All countries have presented high quality candidates and there is a good balance between B2B and B2C companies, also characterised by being extremely scalable.” – Kim Balle, CEO of Global Startup Awards

Denmark, Norway, and Finland won four awards each, while Sweden got three, and Iceland got one. (Which means Iceland is again the ultimate winner – per capita) As few of these winners will have the chance to compete globally with the winners of some of the categories from other regions of Global Startup Awards in 2019.

The Winners:

Startup of the Year - Templafy (Denmark)

Investor of the Year - Hampus Jakobsson (Sweden)

Founder of the Year - Jan Erik Solem (Sweden)

Ecosystem Hero of the Year - Sissel Hansen (Denmark)

Best Social Impact Startup - Karma - Rädda mat (Sweden)

Best Newcomer - Varjo (Finland)

Best HealthTech Startup - Nightingale Health (Finland)

Best FoodTech/AgriTech Startup - SAGA Robotics (Norway)

Best Fintech Startup - Invesdor (Finland)

Best Coworking Space - 657 (Norway)

Best Bootstrapped Startup - Vainu.io (Finland)

Best Accelerator or Incubator - Accelerace (Denmark)

Best AI/Machine Learning Startup - Corti (Denmark)

People's Choice - Þorbjörg - Thorbjorg Helga (Iceland)

Best Entrepreneurial Artist - Josef Yohannes (Norway)

Brave Founder Beginnings - Olivier Mukuta (Norway)ŹródÅ‚o: eu-startups.com

Zdjęcie: Nordic Startup Awards (facebook)

Source: eu-startups.com

Photo: Nordic Startup Awards (facebook)