Blazar Capital is a Copenhagen-based venture studio that builds and invests in digitally-native consumer brands. Founded in 2017, Blazar provides its 20+ portfolio companies — including Nordgreen, Moonboon, and Scandinavian Biolabs — with shared infrastructure across tech, paid media, and operations to help founders scale fast.

Brandog is developing an AI-powered counterfeit detection and enforcement platform to help brand owners solve the problem of online counterfeiting with autonomous scanning agents that find, verify, and take down fakes across 500+ marketplaces — in minutes, not months. Online counterfeiting is a $2 trillion problem. Every brand with a digital presence — from luxury fashion to consumer electronics — faces an endless stream of counterfeit listings across Amazon, AliExpress, eBay, Shopify stores, social media, and thousands of independent websites. Today, brand protection is manual, slow, and expensive. Companies either hire law firms charging $300/hour to file takedowns one by one, or they pay enterprise platforms $50K+/year that still require human analysts to review every detection. Small and mid-size brands simply can't afford protection, and even large brands can't keep up with the volume. The counterfeits multiply faster than humans can find them. Brandog deploys autonomous AI agents that work around the clock. The Scan Agent crawls billions of pages and uses reverse image search across 500+ marketplaces to find listings that match a brand's protected assets. The Vision Agent then uses AI image comparison to score each match with precise visual similarity percentages — not rough guesses. Listings that cross the threshold are automatically escalated. The Enforcement Agent generates and submits takedown requests to platforms. The entire pipeline runs without human intervention. Brand owners upload their product images, set their scan frequency, and the system handles everything — from detection to takedown verification. A dashboard shows real-time results, match scores, seller intelligence, and revenue-at-risk estimates so brands can prioritize what matters most. We watched a friend's small consumer brand get destroyed by counterfeit sellers on Amazon. They spent months manually searching for fakes, filing DMCA complaints, and watching the same sellers pop back up under new names. They couldn't afford the enterprise brand protection tools, and the cheap alternatives were just glorified Google Alerts. We realized that the technology to solve this — computer vision, large language models, automated web crawling — already existed, but nobody had assembled it into something affordable, autonomous, and accessible to brands of any size. That gap between what's technologically possible and what's actually available to brand owners is what drives us. Every day a counterfeit stays live, a brand loses revenue, reputation, and customer trust. We're building the tool we wish existed.

BreatheWise is a wearable device that helps people manage stress and anxiety through guided breathing. It uses subtle haptic feedback to lead clinically backed breathing exercises, offering a simple, screen-free way to calm the body and regain focus. Designed for everyday use, it can be worn discreetly and used anywhere—at work, during travel, or at home. Users follow steady breathing patterns through touch, without needing to look at a screen or listen to audio. By translating proven techniques into physical guidance, BreatheWise makes it easier to build healthy habits and respond early to rising stress. It’s a practical tool that fits into daily life and supports both quick relief and long-term wellbeing.

Qallio is an AI-powered receptionist platform built for small and medium-sized businesses. We help businesses never miss a customer call by providing a 24/7 multilingual AI phone agent that answers calls, books appointments, handles customer inquiries, and sends follow-up reminders via SMS and email — all without hiring extra staff. Most SMEs lose significant revenue because they miss up to 40% of incoming calls, especially outside working hours or during peak periods. Qallio solves this problem by replacing manual call handling with a smart, always-available AI receptionist. Customers hear natural, friendly voices in their own language, making every interaction feel personal and professional. Key features include: - 24/7 inbound and outbound call handling - Automated appointment booking, confirmations, and rescheduling - Multilingual support (English and Swedish, and many more languages) - SMS and email reminders to reduce no-shows - Google Calendar and Google Sheets integrations - A simple dashboard to track all calls, bookings, and customer interactions - Full GDPR compliance with data hosted on secure EU servers Qallio works for any business that relies on phone bookings — including clinics, salons, car repair shops, law firms, restaurants, and education centers. Setup takes less than 30 minutes with no hardware required; businesses can forward their existing number or get a new one instantly. Founded by Rafi Mohammad, Johannes Gontrum, and Mattias Karlsson, Qallio is on a mission to make world-class customer service accessible to every small business in Europe. Qallio is part of the Bling Incubator and is headquartered in Uppsala, Sweden.

Studio Nadine is an art photography brand creating high-quality prints for people who want visually striking, timeless artwork in their spaces. The company focuses on producing and curating photography with a strong, recognizable aesthetic, offering premium prints that combine artistic expression with modern design. Studio Nadine was started from a passion for photography and a desire to share meaningful visual art in a simple, accessible way.

Outdoor Voyage is a platform that helps travelers discover, customize, and book adventure travel with fully verified local operators around the world. Instead of choosing rigid, pre-packaged tours, travelers can connect directly with trusted local guides, collaborate with friends, and design trips that match their interests, budget, and schedule. Outdoor Voyage was created by the team behind the award-winning adventure magazine Outdoor Journal, a group of journalists and explorers who spent years traveling the world documenting unique outdoor experiences and the people who make them possible. Through their work, they discovered that many of the best local adventure operators were difficult for travelers to find online, while travelers themselves struggled with fragmented trip planning across multiple platforms, emails, and booking systems. Outdoor Voyage was built to solve this problem. The platform brings inspiration, communication, customization, and booking into one place. Travelers can discover unique experiences, create a shared “Voyage” to organize their trip ideas, invite friends to plan together, chat directly with verified operators, customize the experience, and book with confidence. By connecting travelers directly with trusted local experts, Outdoor Voyage makes it easier to plan meaningful adventures while supporting local operators and guides who deliver authentic experiences on the ground. Our mission is to make adventure travel more accessible, collaborative, and personalized for explorers everywhere.

Up & Up er et stort Call Center med base i Rødovre. Vi er specialister i opsøgende salg, fundraising, mødebooking og kundeservice. Vi bygger vores arbejde på tre grundlæggende værdier: ærlighed, tillid og gennemsigtighed. Med dedikerede medarbejdere og fokus på langsigtede relationer skaber vi værdi for både vores kunder og deres kunder. Job hos os Vi er altid på udkig efter ambitiøse nye talenter. Hos os får du løbende udvikling og provision uden loft

Many start-ups and scale-ups underestimate the strategic importance of marketing. As a result, marketing often becomes a tactical discipline and short-term sales support, focused on lead generation rather than long-term value creation. envester consult helps growth companies make marketing a strategic and commercial driver from day one – closely aligned with company direction, priorities, and business objectives. Through flexible, fractional and project-based support, companies gain access to senior marketing expertise without building a full in-house function. envester works across three focus areas: • Marketing Strategy – positioning, target audiences and go-to-market, anchored in leadership and board-level priorities • Marketing Execution – focused execution with a clear link between activities, pipeline contribution and ROI • Leadership, Coaching & Capacity – strategic sparring with leadership and boards, combined with coaching, career advisory and interim/outsourced engagements to ensure the right capabilities at the right time The purpose is to ensure that marketing creates direction, supports growth and delivers measurable business value – not just activity.

Propida, är ett användarvänligt webbaserat system som både förenklar och förbättrar hela processen kring fastighetsärenden. Propida kopplar ihop fastighetsägare, entreprenörer och hyresgäster med varandra och ersätter mail, telefonsamtal samt post-it lappar med en extremt användarvänlig digital process. Vi ersätter även leta, jaga, vänta och inte veta med trygghet, effektivitet, spårbarhet och återkoppling. Propida startades 2019 och har genom åren fått stöd från både KTH Innovation och innovationsmyndigheten Vinnova.

Our mission is to make commerce and its suppliers more efficient and data-driven. Our services are used by some of the largest brands in the Nordic countries, and we are proud to serve over 100 customers. What we do Our tools and expertise are based on combining quality-assured data with interactive maps. In our cloud-based platform, it’s easy to visualize data and work in a map and/or table environment to identify where business opportunities, potential, and target groups exist. How we work We offer a unique combination of data and powerful map tools. In our platform, relevant data and documentation are analyzed for quick and precise decisions. We provide tools for establishment, analysis, target group insights, prospecting, and optimization of sales forces and sales districts.

We are developing a system intended to replace fixed interfaces with software that adapts in real time. Current products still depend on predefined UI paths that fail when underlying models behave in new ways. This gap limits how far teams can push advanced automation. The platform is being designed as a runtime that can generate interface elements dynamically. It aims to let products reorganize themselves around model output and user context without manual UI wiring. The goal is to enable applications that won’t rely on static interaction surfaces once the system is fully realized.

We’re SpacelyLabs, and our mission is simple but ambitious: remove the physical friction that quietly drains revenue from the built world. The Problem: Spaces aren’t broken. They’re wasting money. Most buildings, stores, and travel hubs are designed with small, invisible barriers that push customers away without a sound. A door that’s too heavy. A layout that creates bottlenecks. A missing handrail that makes someone choose another venue. These aren’t just accessibility issues. They are abandoned revenue streams hiding in plain sight. A massive share of consumer spending power sits with people whose mobility is changing. When their experience feels hard, they don’t complain. They just don’t return. The result is a silent leak that operators never measure but feel in their balance sheets. We’re here to give businesses the superpower they’ve never had: the ability to see, measure, and fix friction before it kills throughput. The Solution: A performance engine for the physical world SpacelyLabs is a B2B SaaS platform that turns buildings into measurable, optimizable systems. Think of it as the analytics layer the physical world has been missing. We create Digital Twins of real spaces, analyze how people actually move and interact, and pinpoint exactly where friction blocks flow and revenue. Clear insights. Clear ROI. For Real Estate: We show how removing a tiny barrier can unlock a disproportionate boost in customer movement and spending. For Transport: We surface the critical interface problems that break seamless travel and cost operators loyalty. Our Unfair Advantage We’re building a ground truth dataset no one else has. Today: We collect verified, engineering-grade data through a specialized scout network. Tomorrow: It will be autonomous. We’re training computer vision models so a simple walkthrough video can generate a full friction map and commercial recommendation set instantly. This is where the product becomes magic. Why join now? We’re early, ambitious, and moving fast. We already have strong market signals and pilot discussions with major operators. The pain is obvious, the demand is real, and the opportunity is huge. If you want to build something technically challenging that changes how millions of people move through the world while opening a market worth tens of billions, this is the moment to jump in.

Kihleo is a medtech startup developing an early warning system for urinary tract infections in older people with incontinence receiving care at home or in nursing homes. UTIs are one of the most common reasons for acute deterioration, confusion, and hospitalisation in this group. They are challenging to detect early, because symptoms are often vague, many older people cannot clearly communicate discomfort, and home care staff and nurses have minimal time. Today, detection is primarily reactive. Staff notice that something is wrong, then order urine tests and start treatment when the infection is already well underway. This leads to unnecessary suffering, avoidable admissions, and a high use of antibiotics. Kihleo’s solution is a small sensor placed in the diaper that measures biomarkers in the urine every time the person voids. When the diaper is changed, the sensor is read, and data is sent to a secure backend. Algorithms and predictive models analyse patterns over time and provide early, trustworthy indications that an infection may be developing, days before clinical symptoms are usually recognised. The system is not a diagnostic tool. It is a decision-support and early-warning system that integrates into existing workflows and helps staff decide when to look more closely, consult a nurse or doctor, and perform standard diagnostic tests. The value is threefold. For older people, it means faster and more targeted treatment, fewer severe infections, less confusion, and a better day-to-day quality of life. For relatives and care staff, it provides reassurance, objective data, and more time for actual care rather than crisis management. For the public sector, it helps prevent avoidable hospitalisations and complications that are both expensive and resource-intensive. Kihleo is working with a hardware partner on sensor development and is already in dialogue with Danish municipalities about pilot projects. The long-term vision is to create a scalable, data-driven platform for early detection of infections and other complications in elderly care, using everyday materials like diapers as non-invasive data sources.

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🚀 Startup Overview Astra is an AI-powered online brand protection platform that automatically detects and removes digital threats such as phishing sites, scam shops, and brand impersonation in real time. It combines continuous internet-scale monitoring, machine learning–driven analysis, and automated enforcement to protect brands at the speed of the internet. ❗ The Problem Brands today face a rapidly growing wave of online impersonation and fraud: - Fake websites and phishing pages steal customer data and trust - Scam stores divert revenue and damage brand reputation - Threats appear at massive scale (thousands of new domains daily) - Traditional solutions are too slow, manual, and expensive Existing approaches—legal disputes, analyst teams, and takedown processes—can take days to months, while attackers operate in minutes. 💡 The Solution Astra solves this by delivering end-to-end automated brand protection: - Continuous monitoring: Tracks domains, subdomains, DNS signals, and web content in real time - AI-powered detection: Identifies likely threats and prioritizes them automatically - Human-in-the-loop control: Users approve actions with one click - Instant enforcement: Enforcements are executed immediately after approval This reduces response time from days or weeks to seconds, preventing damage before it spreads. 🎯 Why Astra Exists Astra was built on a simple insight: “Brand threats move at internet speed—protection must move faster.” The company exists to replace outdated, reactive workflows with a scalable, automated system that: - Protects customer trust before harm occurs - Prevents revenue loss from fraudulent actors - Eliminates manual workload and high operational costs - Gives brands full visibility and control over enforcement