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    Partner with ai:gothenburg

    The formula for building great companies is well understood.

    Capital attracts capital. Density creates learning, inspiration and momentum. When founders build alongside each other they move faster than those who build alone. And when the first person in a room builds something real, it changes what everyone else believes is possible.

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    Stockholm figured this out. So did Helsinki, Paris and Amsterdam. The formula is not a secret, but it requires a dedicated environment to work. That environment has not existed in Gothenburg.

    Until now.

    Gothenburg has what many of those cities could only wish for: world-class industrial depth, more engineers per capita than anywhere else in Sweden, and decades of applied technology built into the fabric of the region. The raw material for a world-class company creation environment is here. What has been missing is the infrastructure to concentrate it.

    That is what we are building. And that infrastructure requires a different kind of commitment than venture capital: it requires organizations that take a long-term view of this city and are prepared to help build something that outlasts any single investment cycle.

    The pace of change means the window for building this kind of environment does not stay open indefinitely. The regions that act now will have a structural advantage that is very difficult to overcome later.

    The window is now.

    The companies being built in Gothenburg today will define the region's AI landscape for the next decade. The founders working here are not waiting: they are shipping, testing and learning at a pace that makes quarterly strategy cycles obsolete.

    Partnership with ai:gothenburg is not a sponsorship. It is proximity to the people building what comes next, before it is public, before it is obvious, and before the window closes.

    We are building this environment now. The partners who are part of it from the beginning shape the conditions under which it grows. Those who join later inherit those conditions.

    For enterprises and organizations

    The hardest problems in your business are exactly what the founders here want to work on. The window to engage them is not permanent.

    For organizations invested in Gothenburg's long-term development

    We are currently closing the Foundational Partner group for 2026. A limited cohort of organizations will help establish the long-term infrastructure of ai:gothenburg. That group is being finalized now.

    Organizations already in the room

    • NVIDIA
    • Aixia
    • Business Region Göteborg
    • AI Sweden
    • Chalmers
    • Göteborgs Universitet
    • IHM Business School
    • Qamcom

    Partnership is a business exchange, not philanthropy.

    All partners operate within the association framework, ensuring neutrality and long-term independence.

    For companies, organizations and public actors who want to engage actively with the ecosystem

    Institutional Partner

    • Access to founders and emerging AI talent through hub activities
    • Submit a real problem to the founder community: get early signal on what AI can actually do with it
    • Founder office hours: short, structured sessions where active founders share what they are building and what they are learning, on their own terms
    • Talent pipeline preview: early awareness of founders and AI talent moving out of the hub and into the market
    • A home base for your internal AI champion: the person driving transformation inside your organization, surrounded by people who actually understand what they are building toward
    • C-suite roundtable with peer organizations and hub leadership: a closed forum for exchanging perspectives on AI and organizational transformation
    • A front-row view of what is actually being built: which problems founders are tackling, which technologies are in active use, and where the field is moving
    • Regular updates on hub direction, portfolio development and ecosystem activity
    • Invitations to curated events, showcases and founder demos
    • Visibility as a partner in hub communications and activities

    Institutional partners contribute to the shared platform and gain close access to the hub's activities.

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    For organizations invested in Gothenburg's long-term development

    Foundational Partner

    With significant capacity to contribute and a strategic interest in building the conditions for company creation in Gothenburg.

    • Named brand presence at all ai:gothenburg events: on-site, digital and print
    • A partnership shaped around your strategic priorities: from placing internal innovators in the hub to co-designing challenge sprints with founders
    • Seat in the Partner Advisory Council: a formal forum for Foundational Partners to contribute perspectives on the hub's long-term ecosystem role
    • Priority invitations to closed-door dinners and sessions when world-class founders, investors or operators visit the hub
    • Build-in-public sessions: sit in on real working sessions where founders present work in progress, not polished demos. Subject to founder consent
    • Annual Foundational Partner dinner: a private gathering with hub leadership and selected founders
    • Regular closed-door sessions with hub leadership on strategy and direction
    • Private briefings on portfolio development, technology shifts and emerging trends, aggregated from inside the builder community, not adapted to any single partner's agenda
    • Early notice of significant portfolio milestones (when a company raises, launches or exits) before public announcement
    • Everything in Institutional Partner

    Foundational partners help establish the long-term infrastructure of ai:gothenburg.

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    Partner levels describe typical contributions. ai:gothenburg also collaborates with partners through projects, public funding and strategic initiatives.

    Structure and governance

    How partnership works

    ai:gothenburg is designed as neutral ecosystem infrastructure.

    The hub operates founder-first and independent from any single partner. The association structure ensures that governance follows the statutes and that the hub remains open, transparent and long-term sustainable.

    Membership in the association and partner participation are separate, but many partners also choose to become members.

    How partner contributions are used

    Partner contributions support the shared infrastructure of the hub, including:

    • Workspace and facilities
    • The founder environment
    • Events and ecosystem activities
    • Collaboration with industry, academia and public actors
    • International partnerships
    • Development of the regional AI ecosystem

    Partners get a clear return: proximity to the region's most active AI founders, structured access to the founder pipeline, and first-mover visibility into deal flow.

    The association structure ensures neutrality, no single partner can steer admission decisions or shape the builder community in their own interest.

    The goal is to build long-term capacity for AI entrepreneurship in Gothenburg, and partners are the ones who make that possible.

    Closing the Foundational Partner group for 2026

    Take a Stake in the Region's Resilience

    This is a call to the leaders who built this city to help us build its digital future. We are currently closing the Foundational Partner group for 2026, a limited cohort of organizations committed to securing Gothenburg's position as a global AI node.

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