XES is Haaga Helia's entrepreneurship society (ry). We are a Helsinki-based community for entrepreneurially-minded people. We encourage diversity and are proud of our international members. We strive to build networks that spread across borders and we aim to connect people with a mindset to grow both professionally and personally. 
 
 XES is located in one of the world’s hotspots for entrepreneurship. Finnish startups attract the most venture capital in Europe, and the startup scene in Helsinki is ranked #1 in the world for local connectedness by the Global Startup Ecosystem.

Light only where it should be. NorthLED is a LED Technology company founded in 2016 that design and produce high-performance LED solutions. Our patented technology is built on high-end brand components, optical modulation, and customization. We are moving into the IoT world and are looking to expand into IoT development, device management etc.

Wolt is a technology company that makes it incredibly easy to discover and get the best restaurants, grocery stores and other local shops delivered to your home or office. Wolt is not just a delivery app – we’re a technology company building a commerce platform to seamlessly connect our millions of customers with thousands of merchant and courier partners, in real-time across 23 countries and 250+ cities. Our apps (iOS and Android) have the industry’s highest ratings, largely thanks to our customer-first-mindset, which shows in how we build products and run operations. In June 2022 we officially joined forces with DoorDash. Combined, we have a presence in 27 countries, 23 of which operate with the Wolt brand and app. Wolt and DoorDash continue largely independently, with Wolt’s name, brand, product, technology and team.

Looking back at Pleo’s journey, there’s one thing that has stayed the same, and that’s ‘going beyond’. That’s why today our customers don’t just expense, reimburse, report, submit, or close the books. They Pleo it. All of it. Company spending should be delegated to all employees and teams, be as automated as possible, and drive a culture of responsible spending. Finance teams shouldn’t be siloed from the rest of the organisation – they should work in unity with marketing, sales, IT and everyone else. www.pleo.io

"By 2050, there'll be two billion additional city dwellers − sustainable urbanisation will be a major construction challenge and the industry must strive to find innovative new products and solutions, to contribute to building better cities"   PWC report - Global Construction 2030 Spacemaker tackles this challenge head on. With the power of the cloud and artificial intelligence Spacemaker explores and draws with the speed and knowledge of one billion architects per hour. Spacemaker consists of a multi-disciplinary team, working side by side solving complex tasks every week. What we all have in common is a strong belief that we can make a difference by improving the way we design our cities. Our team has been growing fast since the beginning and is now counting more than 80 people in Oslo, Boston, Gothenburg, Cambridge, and Barcelona.

Singa spreads joy of singing to the world by modernizing karaoke — the last analog bastion of the entertainment industry. Since 2015, the Finnish company has launched its karaoke streaming service in 34 countries, helping 2000 hospitality venues and 2 million registered home singers experience the new era of singing. Singa is the first karaoke service to partner with a major record label, allowing the distribution of original master recordings for an unparalleled karaoke experience. Singa Business helps bars and entertainment venues attract new customers, boost revenue, and create unforgettable memories for every guest. For consumers, the Singa karaoke app gives access to the largest licensed karaoke catalogue today on any device. You can sing on your own, make it a party with friends, or use the finder feature to spot the nearest Singa-powered karaoke venue and hit the stage. Singa has been named No. 10 in the Music category on Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies of 2026. We’re incredibly proud to be recognized among such inspiring companies shaping the future of music. This acknowledgment is the passion, creativity, and dedication of our team, and to the singers and venues who bring Singa to life every day.

Monthio is a fully funded tech company within the financial industry, which has built and launched an innovative financial platform for financial credit services. We are on an ambitious mission to create: "Smarter financial decisions with less effort" on an international scale. Put simply, we want to enable businesses and people across Europe to achieve a healthier financial situation with less hassle, saving both time and money. Monthio is on an ambitious mission in the growing industry of technological solutions for banks and credit providers. We are a passionate and skilled team representing multiple age groups, and we have deep industry knowledge. Our experienced management team has strong knowledge within finance, entrepreneurship and software development, and our young team members keeps everyone on their toes. Our office is located in Parken, Østerbro in Copenhagen, Denmark. Here we have our own office with a great view to the Parken Football pitch as well as the green park: "Fælledparken"

Syncable — The Cloud OS for the Agentic Era AI now generates code faster than teams can understand, deploy, or govern it. That's the new bottleneck — and it widens every sprint. Three crises hit simultaneously as AI coding adoption accelerated: 1) The Understanding Gap. 50% of all code is now AI-generated. 2) 1 in 4 AI samples contain a confirmed vulnerability — 2.74× more than human-written code. 3) 75% of developers say reviewing AI code is harder. Comprehension debt compounds every sprint. The Governance Gap. Static analysis sees code. Observability sees runtime. Cloud tools see infra. Nothing connects all three. 82% of companies have accumulated security debt; 80% of tech debt will be architectural by 2026 (Gartner). The Deployment Gap. 50%+ of code is AI-generated, but ~0% is deployed autonomously. Teams choose between PaaS lock-in or DIY complexity — at a cost of €450k+ per year in platform engineering alone. Syncable closes all three gaps with one platform: Deploy. Operate. Understand. 1) Deploy any cloud in 20 minutes. One command, zero YAML, BYOC — your cloud, your keys, EU sovereign. 2) Operate with MTTR reduced from 60 minutes to under 5. A knowledge graph links alert → commit → config change in under 30 seconds. 3) Understand your entire system through a Temporal Knowledge Graph — a living, graph-native record of every service, change, dependency, and deployment event, queryable at any point in history. No single competitor provides all three layers with a temporal knowledge graph underneath. That graph is the data moat: it compounds with every repo, every deployment, every incident. What Cursor did for coding, Syncable does for deployment — plus the world model that governs it all.

Superside revolutionizes the global design industry by building new tech and data science-driven processes that enable distributed teams to work together much more efficiently and robust. We deliver high-velocity on-demand design to enterprises, with a data-driven and meritocratic mindset unlike any other platform or service. Superside is pioneering the future of remote work with a tech-enabled platform that creates super efficiencies and advantages workers by way of fostering community and greater income predictability with flexible work and stable wages. Our mission is to shape the global labor market; by having a fair and transparent labor platform that is great for both remote workers and enterprise customers. We currently have more than 100 creatives spanning six continents, 58 countries, and 19 timezones, and we work mainly with major US-based brands, including Tiffany & Co, Amazon, Cisco, L’Oreal and others. We have hub offices in Oslo, Toronto and Cape Town but are essentially based nowhere. We are remote-first with team members spread across the world. Superside was founded in late 2015 and became the first Norwegian company to join the Y Combinator accelerator in Palo Alto, California. We have since received funding from reputable Silicon Valley investors Freestyle Venture, High Alpha, Slack Fund, Sam Altman, Alliance Venture, and others. We're always-on and chase the sun to deliver the moon!

Silo AI is the largest private AI lab in the Nordics – a trusted AI partner that brings competitive advantage to product R&D. We build AI-driven solutions and products to enable autonomous vehicles, industry 4.0, and smart devices, networks, and cities. Silo AI provides its customers unique access to world-class AI expertise, as well as the Silo OS infrastructure to speed up AI development and deployment. Established in 2017, Silo AI is on its path to becoming the European flagship AI company, with offices currently in Helsinki, Turku, Oulu, Stockholm, London and Palo Alto.

Contimo is building a closed, publisher-controlled native advertising platform that helps premium Nordic publishers and brand advertisers run end-to-end native and affiliate campaigns. Native advertising has stayed out of the programmatic race to the bottom. That's the good news - it's still the publishers' premium on-site offering, with the margins and brand-safety story to match. The bad news is that native has remained almost entirely manual. Campaigns are hand-built, sold direct, and optimized by humans - operationally expensive on both sides of the deal. The format works, but it doesn't scale. A premium product ends up under-earning relative to its potential, and the operational drag is increasingly the reason publishers can't grow it. Contimo runs the full chain: the teaser on the publisher's front page, the advertorial it links to, and the cross-publisher distribution and yield optimization underneath. We integrate at DNS level and host advertorials server-side, so the ad lives on the publisher's own domain. AI assists advertorial content production at scale. A closed marketplace connects premium publishers directly with brand demand. Publishers see every campaign in real time and retain veto.

At Bonzer we work 100% with SEO. In other words; we work hard everyday to help our clients rank as high as possible in Google’s Organic search results. If you want to work with Facebook, Instagram, Google Ads or e-mail marketing - we are probably not the right match for you. Do you on the other hand dream about building sustainable solutions for your clients while focusing on communication, strategy and data, you have landed in the right place!

Thirsty is a fun-to-use mobile platform that enables people to bring the bar experience at home. Discover, learn and get the best recommendations for enjoying a well-made drink! Finding something that fits your tastes is most of the time a gamble! Discovering and experimenting with your preferences can be a fun learning experience when you’re not holding the line behind you at a busy bar. Our goal is to normalize the world of cocktails and to make it more accessible towards people who are interested in enjoying drinks. We want to shake people together through the shared experience of cocktails. We help people to discover what cocktails fit their individual tastes and learn how to impress their guests by making fancy drinks at home (or at your garden party!). By giving people the tools to learn what they like to drink and enable them to discover new sides of themselves, we educate consumers by making the complex world of mixology simpler and more accessible to people who are interested in enjoying drinks. Follow your favorite bartenders, save recipes or publish your own take on a drink you love!

Smartplan was created with the goal of designing a user-friendly shift planning system while providing you with the best customer service. Our customers often start by creating their rotas in Excel or Word. We exist to help free them from Excel. We want to make it easy for those "who aren't so great with computers" to create their rotas online and put them in the pockets of their employees. Small businesses inspire us. We believe in David, not Goliath. That small is good and less is better. We believe in one day at a time, one step at a time. We are focused on our customers, not on investors or endless growth, growth, growth. We believe that small businesses can make a big difference by simply taking one step at a time. By taking one shift at a time. And slowly, but surely, moving forward. Every day, thousands of people go to work to make a difference for others. We are passionate about making that everyday life a little better and, slowly but surely, making a difference for our customers. One shift at a time.

Our mission is to help architects bring their vision to life. We’re building a web-based application for architects that speed up their design workflows and makes high-quality visualization accessible to a wider audience. We have experienced rapid growth in recent months and we are hiring to further scale the company. We have customers in over 120 different countries, including leading offices such as Nordic, Leo A Daly, and S+A, who collectively have generated over 6 million visualizations on our platform since the company was established in 2023.