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The Startup Hub – Where Ideas Become Reality

Visit the Exhibition area at Norrlands nation: The Startup Hub! This is the beating heart of Innovation Night. Here, cutting-edge startups showcase their solutions alongside key actors from Uppsala’s innovation support system and selected sponsors. It’s a place to discover groundbreaking ideas, connect with entrepreneurs, explore opportunities, and get guidance on how to turn your own innovative business idea into reality.

This is where creativity meets collaboration.

Innovation Night 2025:

Startup Exhibition & Networking Space

Discover The Startup Hub at Innovation Night 2025 in Uppsala – a unique expo where startups, investors and innovators connect, showcase and collaborate.

The Startup Hub is open all day and offers a vibrant atmosphere filled with opportunities to connect, explore and grow. Here, startups showcase their innovations in the exhibition area, while visitors can engage in spontaneous conversations or take part in matchmaking possibilities.
It’s also the place to meet the innovation support system and discover new ideas, partnerships and perspectives. Network, get inspired and explore the energy of the ecosystem – there’s something for everyone.

Connect with Founders, Partners & Innovators

The Startup Hub is your go-to space throughout the event. Groundbreaking startups and fast-growing scaleups showcase their ideas, products, and technologies together with sponsors.

Network with visionary founders, researchers, investors and other valuable contacts, and explore the latest in entrepreneurship and innovation. Whether you’re seeking inspiration, investment opportunities, or new collaborations.

Innovative startups

  • Abstract – A social, AI-driven platform that connects researchers with the right collaborators, mentors, and resources, making it faster and easier to launch impactful projects.
  • Airis Garden – Making urban farming e-compatible -> thru soil-free cuttings with oversized roots that can handle the stress of being shipped from A to B.
  • Acorai – Developing the world’s first non-invasive cardiac and pulmonary pressure monitoring system, designated as an FDA Breakthrough Device, to transform heart failure management.
  • AmmoniQ Solutions – Has a process for local ammonia production. Water, air, and electricity are combined to produce ammonia and heat.
  • BioCell Analytica – Offering effect-based analyses in cells to detect health and environmentally hazardous contaminants in water, soil and sediment.
  • Cellda – Develops a software for image analysis of tissue samples, focusing on prostate cancer, leading to a safe, fast and objective computerized diagnosis.
  • COMAS Medical – Solves the huge global problem of chronic ulcers by using a patented method and by combining new technologies.
  • Deliplants – Developing a groundbreaking and cost-effective technology for indoor vertical farming that combines automation and efficient resource use.
  • Enaiblers – Empowers low and middle income countries with innovative technology to fight global health challenges.
  • Flights for Biodiversity – We deliver biodiversity monitoring and data ownership solutions that create nature-positive economic value. Landing environmental Action.
  • Funki – Makes smart inclusive musical instruments, making music playing together accessible for everyone.
  • Hydroyal – Develops next-generation components for electrolysers, eliminating scarce materials and enabling low-cost, scalable green hydrogen and CO₂ electrolysis. With a globally unique, patent-pending technology and scalable roll-to-roll production, we make large-scale electrolysis affordable and sustainable.
  • Inossia – Develops a bone cement with greater elasticity. Lowers the risk of complications and tailored for pain relief and stabilization of fractures in osteoporosis patients.
  • Lea Cares – Develops a groundbreaking solution with a patented technology, BAM, which has successfully unlocked the secret to boosting collagen production through localized delivery of bioactive compounds on hair, skin and nails.

 

 

  • Magstrom – Delivers UMPZERO, the state of the art in excitation equipment. With patented technology, generators achieve unprecedented performance.
  • Mesenkia Therapeutics – Develops new therapy focused on prolonging progression free survival for patients with aggressive primary and recurrent glioblastoma.
  • MyCural Therapeutics – pioneering anti-MYC therapy to unlock the “holy grail” of cancer care, creating disruptive opportunities to treat previously untargetable tumors.
  • Readily – Develops a next generation point-of-care diagnostics for respiratory disease.
  • Re-creo – The digital marketplace that gives construction materials and equipment a second life, cutting costs while driving sustainability. From furniture and tools to drywall and appliances, we make circularity simple, scalable, and profitable for businesses and homeowners alike.
  • Pixlbio – Developing a discovery platform with AI and automation to accelerate drug discovery.
  • SampleFacts – Develops a new approach to dried blood spot sampling, addressing a rapidly growing demand for remote sampling for biobanking and monitoring of donors’ health.
  • Samplimy – A KTH spin-off, develops painless microneedle devices for self-sampling of blood and interstitial fluid from the skin. By enabling easy and cost-efficient collection, we unlock access to bioinformation at population scale, for research and clinical applications.
  • Sortina Pharma – Developing first-in-class small-molecule therapeutics targeting sortilin to address life-threatening diseases, starting with brain cancer.
  • Traktorarvid – Manufactures Drever – a fossil-free, battery-powered, autonomous agricultural machine which is smaller than today’s machines, but large enough for large-scale crop cultivation.
  • Vimotek – provides solutions that are enablers for spacecraft to interact autonomously with other objects to perform new kinds of in-space services missions.
  • Xplir – Offering a Software-as-a-Service solution that streamlines production of listed companies’ financial reports with increased information security.

Partners & Co-organizers

  • Grant Thornton – Leading business advisers within audit, tax and advisory.
  • LF – Banking, insurance, investments.
  • Teknikföretagen – (Technology Industries of Sweden) The primary representative for Swedish industry.
  • UNT/NTM media – Regional Swedish media and communications group.
  • Uppsala international Hub – Initiative to attract, welcome and support skilled internationals to our county.
  • VJU – Digital marketing agency

 

Uppsala innovation support system

  • Almi
  • Connect
  • Drivhuset
  • Uppsala University Invest
  • Uppsala University Innovation
  • SLU Holding
  • Stockholm chamber of commerce
  • STUNS
  • Uppsala municipality
  • Region Uppsala
  • UIC – Uppsala Innovetion Centre

Be inspired, mingle, connect