GRAD ApS is a Danish startup on a mission: to sustainably refine the global beverage cooling industry. Located on Vesterbro in Copenhagen and based on its patent pending technology and award winning design, GRAD has developed a portfolio of “Perfect Serve” cooling products for the global hospitality industry. The product has gained international traction and the company is currently scaling up fast on several markets globally. GRAD is an international team of 10 with backgrounds varying from engineering and design, to business and supply chain. It is an open, friendly, trusting and hardworking environment where coffee is always flowing, and (perfectly cooled) drinks can be enjoyed on a Friday at the home-built office bar.

FIBERNEX develops next-generation porous materials combining engineered nanofiber substrates with thin, uniform metallic coatings - delivering significantly higher active surface area than conventional alternatives. Applied to green hydrogen: a patent- protected 3D nanofiber mat coated with a thin nickel layer via low-cost electroless plating replaces bulky nickel-foam electrodes, cutting nickel use by up to 97%, boosting efficiency by up to 10%, and lowering production cost by up to 75%.

Real estate and the urban environment have a profound impact on all of us We spend 90% of our lives inside buildings. And by 2050 almost 70% of us will live in cities. The built environment enables life, community and culture. But at the same time, it fosters loneliness and health issues. It counts for almost 40% of global CO2 emissions. It is the biggest living expense for most people. And nowhere is growing inequality more visible than in how we live. To overcome the challenges of population growth, climate change, growing inequality and social unrest, we need to move to a more conscious and responsible version of capitalism. A version that is market-based, but with equal priority for all stakeholders and with long-lasting impact. We are a European real estate company setting out to develop urban communities with inclusivity, liveability and sustainability at its core. We do not have all the answers yet, but we aspire to join forces with likeminded investors and partners – we are a team with the motivation, experience and ambition to be a pathfinder on this journey. We are Home.Earth

Millions of products worldwide run on electricity, requiring different chargers, batteries, and plugs to work. Here at BYGGO Design, we are working to re-invision and universalise power supply. Our innovative solution with unrivalled efficiency can charge all electrical products, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and E-waste.

CWare is an independent research and consultancy SME conducting economic research, and providing strategic consulting services within Economics, Circular Economy, Sustainable Development, Resource Efficiency, Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) and Life Cycle Costing (LCC). CWare was founded in 2020 as a spin-off and continue the works and involvement in a number of EU research projects within circular economy, urban resilience and transition to a green economy. CWare is based in Copenhagen and we are part of the BLOXHUB, the Nordic Hub for sustainable urbanization.

Climaider is a rapidly growing startup, enabling Small and Medium sized Enterprises to measure and report their ESG and to take real climate action. ESG reporting is becoming a necessity if you want to stay competitive, retain your employees, get funding or financing and win customers and jobs. But SMEs have been left behind in a reporting environment that has been shaped first and foremost to accomodate very Large enterprises - leaving SMEs with an extremely complicated and tedious reporting job that often falls on employees or owners with a 1000 other responsibilities too. We help and guide SMEs, automate +95% of the work and instill in them the confidence that they can do this and that they have done it the right way. Our goal is to remove the headache of reporting, leaving room to focus on what is actually important: Reducing the carbon footprint of your company. We're set on becoming THE solution for SMEs all over Europe, making reporting easy, comparable and actionable. Join us!

Maker is a member-based non-profit association founded in 2015 as a platform for the maker movement in Denmark and the Nordics. Since then, we've evolved from a traditional makerspace into an open lab and community central for physical entrepreneurs, startups and independent creatives. We develop, share and learn together with our members and across projects in the EU, in Denmark and in the Baltic Sea Region. Together with research institutions, companies, makerspaces and governments, we focus on sustainability and physical entrepreneurship; from open-source hardware to distributed design, aiming to transition makerspaces into circular spaces and develop sustainable practices for recycling materials, local production, and more.

ESEBA, a deep tech startup from DTU, transforms low-quality textile waste into MDF boards without binders or formaldehyde. We offer a sustainable, non-toxic alternative to traditional wood-based panels. Textile waste is a massive and growing problem in Europe – less than 1% is recycled into new products, and most ends up incinerated. At the same time, formaldehyde regulations are tightening, and deforestation pressures are increasing demand for alternatives to virgin wood. ESEBA’s mission is to enable local, circular board production through a scalable, plug-and-produce production line for furniture manufacturers.

Axiom Novus is a specialised engineering firm focused on the energy and renewables sector. We provide expert advisory and technical solutions, helping clients navigate complex engineering challenges with clarity and precision. Our approach emphasises practical, professional communication without unnecessary jargon, ensuring that our clients receive clear, actionable insights tailored to their needs. Our focus is on enabling our societies to implement the green transition efficiently in a socially and commercially sustainable way.

At CVX, we invest in start-ups and growth companies together with a community of experienced business people with venture capital and knowledge that makes a difference to our portfolio companies. Since 2020, we’ve helped more than 100 companies through board recruitment and investment. Together with our partners, we have more than DKK 800 million available for investment.

About HPNow At HPNow (www.hpnow.eu) we are disrupting the multi-billion hydrogen peroxide industry and supply chain through breakthrough innovations and products enabling safe and green generation directly at the point of use. We are the first and only company worldwide to offer commercial on-site, on-demand hydrogen peroxide generation technology solutions across multiple markets and applications. By doing so, we contribute to advancing global climate and environment objectives while providing a strong positive impact on the bottom line of our customers.

ReFlow is on a mission to support the decarbonization of the maritime industry. We are building a brand-new platform from scratch, designed to empower stakeholders with the tools and insights needed to drive sustainable change. We have a fun and social atmosphere, with an amazing location in the center of Copenhagen—right next door to the King and Queen! We’re a small, transparent team that shares insights into everything—from customers to numbers, the good and the bad. While we love working together in the office and prefer to have most of the team on-site, we're also quite flexible when it comes to remote work when needed. And did we mention the legendary post-lunch beer at the bar below? It's something you don’t want to miss! As a team, we win together, supporting each other every step of the way.

Plastic waste and single-use packaging is one of the great unsolved problems for our planet. In Denmark, we produce 844KG of household waste annually per person. Most of this packaging is used for food and beverage products and it is an increasingly large environmental challenge. At Cirqle we are driven by our mission to make single-use a thing of the past and make reuse packaging the norm. Reusing packaging reduces the impact, and greatly minimizes the natural resource use of packaging. With our pioneering reuse packaging service and technology platform, we make reuse a reality for companies in the food and beverage industry. We are already breaking new ground with our meal-kit service, but the sky's the limit when it comes to reuse packaging. With partners we cover the full supply chain from packaging production and software development to sanitation and logistics making sustainability the easy choice for our customers.

We are devoted to accelerating the development and adoption of technologies that can help fight climate change by actively removing CO2 from the atmosphere. The challenge We are emitting 50 Gigatons of CO2 every year, and that needs to be reduced by at least 80%. However, that still leaves 10 Gigatons of CO2, and we need to get all the way to zero. Trees are great, but we need many more solutions as well if we are to get to zero. Currently, most of these are way too expensive (and limited in capacity) for companies to use. We've developed a platform that combines methods and makes it available to every company that wants to compensate their emissions. We work with cutting edge technologies, including Direct Air Capture, Bio char, Bio oil etc.

Copenhagen Fintech is an association built on the vision to be one of the leading Fintech Hubs in the global financial services industry by supporting and catalyzing the next era of technology-led corporate and startup innovators. We combine the visionary ideas of fintech entrepreneurs, the experience of the established financial sector, the desire for societal benefits of the public sector and the research from the universities with the overarching purpose of building a thriving fintech ecosystem for the benefit of all stakeholders.