The app developer WatchItGolf is ready to simplify the work of all the world's golf coaches through the industry's best analysis tool, directly on the phone. "A problem for us has been to get people to believe that it actually works, because this works just as well as the expensive stuff," says Patric Hörnsten Nilsson. For entrepreneurs Patrik Hörnsten Nilsson and Nicklas Boström ... Read more
Start-up company Original Creation is taking big steps forward with its digital traceability system. With funding from Vinnova and new contacts from BizMakers Forest Business Accelerator, the company is approaching its first pilot. In December, Original Creation was granted just over SEK 1 million in support from Vinnova through the research and innovation program Advanced Digitalization. The money will be used to develop a working product during the first ... Read more
Safer workplaces are the goal of DIRI Safety Solutions, which is developing a system for digital risk cards based on its own experience. The company is now leaving the pilot phase with several customer agreements - and is preparing to scale up. - Whatever the industry and product, people are needed to work, service and maintain it. We are the ones who keep people safe, ... Read more
With environmentally smart production and bikes in the premium segment, Eker Bikes aims to change the market both in its home country Sweden, the production country Uganda and in the rest of the world. The bamboo bikes can now be seen in the hands of ambassadors such as Anja Pärson. "We want to increase brand awareness. Digital presence and visibility have been in focus recently, says co-owner Johan ... Read more
Using a combination of AI and robotics, FLOX Robotics has developed a technology that is completely revolutionary. Four years after the idea was born, the company has customers in a range of industries where the common denominator is that they somehow have to deal with or relate to wildlife. - Through our participation in Forest Business ... Read more
Innovation development is part of BizMaker's DNA. So says business developer Cecilia Nordlund, who was recently approved as a certified innovation manager by the research institute RISE. "This quality assures the support we provide in systematic innovation work," she says. Contributing to strengthening the innovative power of companies in Västernorrland's business community and developing the ability of start-up companies to work strategically with innovations is ... Read more
The main driving force for the founders of the start-up company Bright Day Graphenes is to contribute to a better and more environmentally friendly world. Now they have found the location for their first facility to produce the material graphene - Ånge in Västernorrland, Sweden. "For us, Västernorrland is an interesting region because there are both suppliers and customers here. We choose ... Read more
Energy start-up ZIGRID's technology for extracting electricity from waste heat turns industries into their own electricity producers and reduces their carbon footprint. March 1 marks the start of a two-year EU project with 28 million in funding to get Zigrid ready for the market. In September 2023, ZIGRID's unique technology was launched for the first time at a foundry in Västmanland. The company ... Read more
For two days, participating startups and partners had a closing ceremony in Sundsvall. The companies have evaluated their time in the program and discussed plans for the future - "It has been so much fun to be part of this. I sometimes feel like I'm standing still, but when I look back now, I see ... Read more
New niche and improved self-confidence. Participation in the Business Scaleup growth program has meant a major shift for the Örnsköldsvik company Kinab. - "We have always known that we can do it, but we have gone from being a silent northerner to taking the initiative and explaining that our skills are needed," says Annica Jonsson, CEO of Kinab. Kinab is a ... Read more
Traditional approaches to managing waste streams are often not flexible or innovative enough for the environmental challenges we face. BizMaker, through the Innovation Power for Green Transition project, has therefore developed a simple structure to help industrial companies identify and sort valuable residual streams that can pave the way for new circular business models, collaborations and an increased ... Read more
Anette Andersson, creator of the quirky shoe horn WALLi, has had an inspiring journey. Since the idea stage in 2020, she has created a prototype and finished product, pitched in Draknästet and Paris, found retailers and created an online shop. The practical WALLi shoehorn - which is impossible to lose - can now be found in design and interior design stores, hotel rooms, ... Read more
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