From boosting global crop health with AI to enabling the next generation of CPU performance, Finnish innovations is proving that brilliant solutions come in all shapes and sizes. Check out the standout startups from the Finnish ecosystem at the Web Summit 2025 in Lisbon.
🌾 Agritech & Foodtech
Finnish innovation in sustainable production, from leveraging AI to boost global crop health and productivity to creating personalised, community-driven marketplaces that redefine how we experience food delivery and cooking.
- Agrionix.AI is a Finland-based precision agriculture startup developing AI-driven solutions to boost crop productivity and sustainability. They tackle key challenges in crop health, soil fertility, and irrigation management, offering tailored insights for both agricultural and urban farming environments. Learn more: agrionix.ai
- Kokit is a personalised food creator and consumer marketplace redefining how food delivery is experienced. It’s a platform where creators can offer one-time or curated personalised meals, build subscriptions and community menus, chat, consult, and act as personal chefs, share recipes and teach, host live-stream cooking sessions, and even organise pop-up dining experiences with their own set prices. Learn more: kokit.fi
🎓 Education
Startups that are tackling the future of learning, focusing on tools that enhance long-term retention and platforms that ensure students develop critical thinking skills in the age of generative AI by emphasising verbal and conceptual assessment.
- By Kids To Kids is a modern and engaging tool that enhances learning and improves content retention. Used in schools across Finland, Spain, Germany, Denmark, Ukraine, and Brazil. Learn more: bykidstokids.com
- better-ed strives to reimagine education in the age of genAI. Their platform uses voice conversation to assess students with their knowledge and learnings, addressing the problem of students’ over-reliance on AI without developing critical thinking skills. With voice conversation and oral assessments, students are truly thinking and not copying and pasting. Learn more: better-ed.ai
- Chameleo reimagines cultural learning, helping people decode cultural differences through interactive quizzes, empathy-driven insights, and a country-matching tool. It reduces bias and subtle racism by enabling users to learn through experience, build empathy, and develop real-world cultural intelligence—empowering expats, teams, and global professionals alike. Learn more: www.chameleo.world
🛠️ Hardware, Robotics & IoT
Deep tech breakthroughs, including revolutionary new processing units designed to empower the next generation of CPUs by drastically improving performance and efficiency, a key step forward for high-performance computing globally.
- Flow Computing was founded in 2024 as a spin-off from VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland to empower the next generation of CPUs. Flow develops Parallel Processing Unit (PPU), which significantly boosts CPU performance. PPU is a licensable IP block that integrates directly into a CPU chip or a chiplet. PPU enables the next generation CPU performance. Learn more: flow-computing.com
🩺 Healthtech & Wellness
Finnish innovations at Web Summit 2025 focused on streamlining complex medical pathways, ensuring patients receive care for long-term health.
- Barifix is a new-generation platform reshaping the bariatric care pathway — for both patients and clinics. Learn more: barifix.app
🌐 Marketing, entertainment and consumer platforms
- Hi Chat Oy an AI agent platform that helps businesses automate customer support workflows. With multilingual, omnichannel support, deep API integrations, and smart escalation, Hilios reduces costs and boosts retention – ideal for e-commerce, SaaS, and mid-market enterprises. Learn more: hilios.ai
- Vesko empowers local retailers to join the digital economy without changing how they operate. Its plug-and-play operating system turns any physical store into an online-to-offline (O2O) shopping destination within days, showing live in-store stock online and unifying payments, logistics, and inventory, helping retailers reach the 90% of Nordic shoppers who start their purchase journey online. Learn more: vesko.fi
- Videobot offers engagement like never before! It transforms customer journeys with interactive video that captivates, converts, and inspires. Videobot’s Video Experience Platform modernizes how you manage, schedule, and optimise video across websites, apps, and beyond—driving engagement, boosting conversions, and delighting customers. Learn more: videobot.com
- Omega Point is genre-defining, skill-based mobile esports platform with real rewards. Reinventing the economics of mobile gaming. Learn more: omegapoint.pro
🚀 Mobility & Transport
- Skick is a three-wheeled electric kick sled designed and manufactured in Finland, enabling year-round mobility in all conditions. Skick enhances logistics and personal transport affordably and quickly compared to cars. It offers up to 80 km range, scalable cargo capacity, and versatile applications from deliveries to experiences. Learn more: skick.fi
💻 SaaS and enterprise solutions
Finnish innovations at Web Summit 2025 that deliver essential tools for businesses.
- LastBot ONE is the AI-powered CCaaS for SME that combines smart automation and live human oversight, offering omnichannel support, real-time analytics, and seamless issue resolution. Learn more: lastbotone.com
- Inven enables teams to source deals 10× faster using proprietary data on 21 million companies and advanced algorithms.
🛡️ Security and insurance
Finnish innovations focused on trust and data security at Web Summit 2025.
- Hovi is the Stripe of digital trust. A B2B SaaS for EU and non-EU digital identity. It allows to issue and verify digital credentials, eIDAS 2.0 compliant for EU Digital Identity Wallets. Learn more: hovi.id
♻️ Sustainability, Cleantech and Impact
Finnish innovations tackling environmental challenges for future generations at Web Summit 2025.
- Halia® warming surfaces is a deep tech spinout from VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, established in 2022. Heating of living spaces accounts for 64% of energy use in EU homes producing up to 20% of all CO2 emissions in Europe, +9% of EU citizens live in energy poverty. Halia® digital warming surfaces technology improves the lives and health of people & our planet through more efficient heating. Learn more: halia.fi
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