Qbranch is one of Sweden’s leading consultancy firms in systems management and full-scale IT outsourcing. The company was founded in 1993 by Ulf Engerby and Rune Mossberg and today has offices in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö.

Qbranch ensures that customers’ modern information technology works. The goal is 100 percent functionality, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. To achieve this Qbranch offers a wide range of services:
• IT outsourcing – Qbranch assumes responsibility for all or parts of its customers’ IT operations and IT capacity.
• Competence consulting – Qbranch strengthens its customers’ projects through expertise and experience.
• Project & Concept –Qbranch has developed a number of concepts over the years which effectively migrate, upgrade and standardize the customers’ IT environment.

Diino’s offering includes online storage and backup solutions for private customers as well as system solutions for corporate customers who offer these solutions to their own customers under their own brand name. Diino was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Stockholm, with sales offices in the U.S. and Mexico.

The service offered by Diino is a combined software application and online service that enables customers to store, share, publish and back up their digital files simply and securely. These files can be reached anywhere, anytime, from a computer, mobile phone or handheld computer.

In 2008, Diino developed and launched a new platform that has a number of advantages over the old one. These include the ability to offer white label solutions, easier integration with partners’ own services and enhanced user-friendliness for the customer.

Netsurvey performs employee and customer surveys for international companies. The company was founded in 1996 by Peter Bolinder and is headquartered in Stockholm.

Netsurvey is the market leader in employee surveys in Sweden. The company’s process-driven systems operate across the entire organization down to a project/group level, contributing to faster achievement of the company’s overall business objectives. In recent years, Netsurvey has also started to implement quality-oriented customer surveys, for which the Netsurvey’s existing processes can be utilized.

Netsurvey’s systems have been implemented by customers in 50 countries and involve more than 250 000 people per year. The company has developed a proprietary technology platform which, according to the company, offers the fastest and most cost-efficient information collection on the market, while providing a detail-focused research tool.

WeSC is a brand with roots in the skateboarding culture that works with design, production, and sales of clothes and accessories in the street fashion sector. The company was founded in 2000 by Greger Hagelin and Mattias Hallencreutz, among others, both of whom are still active in the company. WeSC has offices in Stockholm and Los Angeles. Novestra invested in WeSC in 2008 and is represented in the company’s Board of Directors.

WeSC’s vision is to become the world’s leading brand in its sector. One of WeSC’s biggest success factors is its brand, which is based on credibility and a strong corporate culture. Another success factor is the company’s innovative and effective marketing methods, which WeSC communicates through ‘We activists’ – informal brand ambassadors. WeSC’s We activists include a wide range of individuals from actors, artists, skaters and snowboarders to photographers, musicians and artists, as well as other renowned or relatively unknown individuals recognized in their niche.

Strax develops, markets and sells a range of mobile phone accessories, primarily to mobile phone operators and retailers in Europe. Strax was founded in 1996 by Icelandic entrepreneurs and is headquartered in Cologne.

Strax is a distributor of mobile phone accessories and has distribution agreements with all major mobile phone manufacturers including Apple, Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson, as well as brands such as SanDisk, Parrot and Jabra. In December 2005, Strax acquired a German competitor and today the majority of the company’s sales and earnings are generated from sales of mobile phone accessories.

Today, the Strax product portfolio comprises over 4 500 different mobile phone accessories from several leading mobile phone manufacturers as well as from the product line of Strax’ proprietary brand Enjoy. The range of products offered by Strax is complemented by a wide array of add-on services, including logistics, marketing, POS management and e-commerce.

MyPublisher markets and sells personal photo albums online. The company was founded in 2004 by Carl Navarre, Jr., who has extensive experience in the printing industry. MyPublisher is headquartered in New York and has an in-house production facility in Valhalla, New Jersey.

MyPublisher offers a service enabling customers to organize their digital photos in a personal photo album which is then forwarded online in a digital file to the company. MyPublisher then prints individual bound or pocket-sized photo albums, calendars or presentations, which are ready for delivery to the customer within 24-48 hours. MyPublisher has developed its own software program BookMaker™, which can be downloaded free of charge from the company’s website. BookMaker™ has been downloaded more than six million times and during the past five years MyPublisher has printed more than 300 million digital photographs for customers.

Explorica is an operator of educational and student travel. The company was founded in 2000 by a team with extensive experience in the travel industry and educational travel. The company is headquartered in Boston, with operations in the U.S., Canada, China, Mexico and the U.K.

Explorica specializes in arranging educational travel for students in collaboration with teachers and schools. Today, Explorica offers international travel as well as domestic travel in the U.S. and Canada. The company’s international travel programs depart primarily from the U.S. and Canada to Europe during the summer months, the majority of which are sold eight to twelve months prior to the actual travel date. The company therefore has a good overview of its future business volume.

In 2009, some 40 000 American and Canadian students in the age group 13-18 travelled with Explorica and since its inception approximately 200 000 students have travelled with the company.