Partner with AI Gothenburg

The people redesigning your industry are here.

The founders building in AI Gothenburg are building real companies — and many of them are working on problems that sit at the heart of established industries.

The hardest problems in your business are exactly what they want to work on. Founders need real customers, real data and real operational complexity to build something that works. Your domain expertise is their raw material — and their speed is your early warning system.

That exchange happens through concrete mechanisms. In Challenge Sprints, partners submit a defined problem and a focused founder team works on it — time-boxed, voluntary, real output. In Founder Office Hours, active founders share what they are building and what they are learning, on their own terms. The access is direct and unfiltered — not packaged into a quarterly innovation report.

In most organizations, the people who truly understand what AI means for the business are outnumbered. They are often alone in their conviction. The hub gives them a room full of people working at the same frontier — and a firsthand view of what is actually being built, not filtered through articles or podcasts. That is the context they bring back to the rest of the organization.

You can also place your internal innovators directly in the environment — working alongside founders, not in a corporate sandbox.

AI Gothenburg is where that connection happens. Naturally, on equal terms, and without the overhead of a formal innovation program.

This is not a sponsorship. It is a working relationship.

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.

Start the conversation

Partnership begins with a meeting. Tell us what your organization is working on and we will show you what is happening inside the hub.