As we look towards 2050, a staggering projection looms: more than 70% of the global population will be urban dwellers. The way we develop and manage our cities and their infrastructures in the next few decades will be critical. Governments globally are called to transform cities into inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable habitats by 2030. The clock is ticking, and the role of cities as primary energy consumers and greenhouse gas emitters only amplifies the need for rapid, transformative action. We recognize the power of cities to shape the future, and that's why we have dedicated ourselves to the cause. By building bridges between business, public sectors, academia, and citizens, Impact The Future catalyse the implementation of sustainable solutions, vital for our urban futures.

WHAT WE DO ALGIECEL is a BioSolutions company on a mission to deliver sustainable, high-quality ingredients at scale – meeting the growing global demand without pressuring our planet’s ecosystem. Harnessing nature’s own way and putting it to use at industrial scale, we grow microalgae using light and CO2 in modular photobioreactors. Our microalgae-based ingredients are rich in protein, omega-3 and bioactives. We are building a reliable, scalable source of marine nutrients for food, feed and cosmetic markets – without exploiting nature. WHY WE DO IT With the way we feed to world today, we are overexploiting planetary boundaries. There is a critical need for reliable partners who can translate innovation into industrial capacity for sustainable ingredients at scale. ALGIECEL exists to provide an alternative with low CO2, water and land use, to customers that want to decarbonize their value chain. WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT 1.Ingredient Value: We offer premium-quality, microalgae-based ingredients with consistent functionality and full traceability—designed to meet the rigorous standards of modern supply chains. 2. Sustainability: Our production process minimizes CO₂ emissions, water use, and land footprint—replacing resource-intensive ingredients like fish oil and fish meal.. 3. Modular System: Our compact, modular photobioreactor system enables low-risk, flexible scaling with strong unit economics—making sustainable growth achievable, one module at a time.

We create building materials for modern sustainable and toxic-free buildings combining hundreds of years of knowledge and tradition with modern production- and building techniques. Our aim is to make sustainable building commercially viable. Our first product is Lundby Pladen - a strong and fireproof building board made of unburned clay and woodfiber, designet for classic dry-wall construction. In the sustainable building industry there has been a long anticipation for this product. Unburned clay is the optimal material for inner walls in vapor diffusionon open building techniques as preferred in biobased sustainable building. With a strong and light building board we have solved the problem of unburned clay solutions being either too slow, heavy, fragile or expensive for commercial building. The building industry is responsible for between 17-40% of the worlds Co2 emissions. With Lundby Pladen it will be possible to fireprove biobased buildings with a low-emmission, toxic-free and environmentally harmless high quality material, and thus help making our buildings a genuine Co2-storrage instead of as now, a major Co2 polluter. In the coming years the building industry is facing new environmental laws, and will be increasingly depending on products like Lundby Pladen. We experience a major pull from the marked. Building supply markets, architects, craftsmen, standart house developers and entrepreneurs are waiting impatiently for our product to hit the marked.

Målbar has created a highly advanced digital tool to measure the climate impact of products. The uniquely user-friendly tool allows companies to screen products on three precision levels, making it possible to obtain useful results without completing the traditional resource heavy life cycle assessment. Thereby, Målbar is helping companies in the furniture and design industries measure the carbon footprint of their products and use the results as a point of departure for making more responsible design and production choices.

We all need to eat more fruits an vegetables for the sake of environment, climate and health. But the good, green stuff takes up a lot more space in the fridge - especially if you have meal boxes delivered. The result is a lack of overview (what's the slimy stuff at the back of the veggie drawer??), less practical ways to store the food and in the end food waste. We cannot defend production of even more refrigerators, nor is it clever to setup an old, less energy efficient fridge in the garage. GreenSafe is the solution: a new way to store fruit and veggies just outside you door. Designed with respect for the environment, resources and you.

MIA Innovation DK Non-Governmental Organisation is a voluntary citizen association established by students in Denmark, focusing on international development cooperation and raising awareness of human rights, sustainable development goals, environmental issues and clean energy, especially solar lease - providing affordable green energy microfinancing to NGOs in developing countries. Our goal is to contribute to the society with innovative sustainable solutions to contemporary issues.

We are a growing SaaS scale-up 📣 CO2HERO is the world-leading app for taking climate action and a recognized industry standard among Fortune 500 companies. 🌍 We empower companies to drive employee engagement in sustainability. We offer companies to integrate sustainability into their organisational culture by engaging their workforces in a fun and interactive way. 🚀 Enable your workforce to become eco-champions by building a more sustainable future with our Employee Lifestyle Challenges. Our solution combines science and gamification to inspire positive behaviour change, making sustainability a fun and rewarding experience for all. 💚 Our social sustainability platform measures employee carbon emissions and climate actions in real-time, empowering companies to make informed decisions. Why? To achieve Scope 3 workforce goals in your organisation, a change in behaviour is necessary. Raise awareness among your employees and encourage them to integrate sustainability into their daily habits. 🌳 Let’s unite for a better world and cut down today.

We are a startup in the early stage that is developing a platform of vehicle-recyclingOur goal is to recycle the vehicles that are in disuse and put them available to anyone who needs one. This is for the purpose of contributing to the creation of smart cities, as well as to protect the environment since our philosophy is based on the Sustainable Development Goals.We are currently in a stage of fundraising and we are also looking for the right team to make our mission a reality. We are a startup with an office in Nykobing Falster, but we believe that you can work from anywhere, whether you are in Copenhagen, Aarhus, or traveling.We are motivated to know that we are doing something that will change the world to improve it since we believe that nobody needs to buy a new vehicle, but rather, recycle it.We are currently looking for great humans who want to accompany us on this trip and who want to join the team. Designers UX/UI and Programmers. If you think you should be part of something big that changes the world, then contact us.

We`ve been organising Startup Weekends in Copenhagen for 4 years, educating and inspiring hundreds of people to become entrepreneurs. We were lucky to see it from the first row how #CPHSW helped people get into the entrepreneur mindset and to try new challenges. We always believed that one of strongest forces were the network of people you created during those crazy weekends. This is why we created Startup Weekend Mega: The biggest Startup Weekend ever organised in Europe.  We´re an awesome group of volunteers coming from a wide variety of backgrounds. All of us have their own stories about how we ended up joining the #CPHSW family.  We are proud that we`re 100% voluntarily run organisation and that we created a culture where everybody feels safe to experiment and make their own decisions. And we`re always there to support each other outside Startup Weekends.  We think being part of the organiser family is an excellent opportunity to try out craziest ideas in your field. A playground where we can have a lot of fun and learn a ton. After years of experimentation now we`re organising our biggest event, Startup Weekend Mega, and we would like to involve new people on this journey. If this makes you excited then please feel free to reach out copenhagen@startupweekend.org  or directly at the job posts. Fun guaranteed!;)

Keima is a climate tech startup making renewable energy a better and more reliable investment. We're building tools that boost ROI on solar and wind assets across Europe, while making both the investments and the energy produced accessible for any type of consumer, big or small. To begin with we are doing this by being the first vendor able to enable energy sharing communities in Denmark.

El Drive is a deep tech company founded in 2019 with a vision to shift to the next level of mobility freedom with synergetic electrical trailer. El Drive has developed an additional electrical traction trailer system that drastically expands travel range for electric and conventional vehicles, reduces electricity / fuel consumption, provides recharging during the ride and enhancing driving experience with more stability with smart stabilization system.

Sortedam Ventures is supporting ambitious founders with technical expertise, capital and execution power. We are a group of experienced technical co-founders and investors who have built startups from A-Z in industries such as Energy, Maritime, Health, Data Infrastructure, Market Research, and more. We help accelerate your startup's growth by providing leadership, drive innovation, manage technical projects, streamlining development process and align technology with business objectives. We reduce the risk of making wrong technical choices, being slow to market, creating unnecessary technical debt and hiring the wrong people. We provides flexible investment models without compromising your equity or financial flexibility. We are your technical co-founder.

The world is changing and we have to move towards more sustainability. ClimEdU works for this change. We help businesses to optimize their: - Production - Value chain - Internal recruitment - Leadership - Green profile How do we do it? We research and calculate their carbon footprint for the above and suggest ways to improve this. That way companies can become more sustainable as well as more preferred by investors and clients who choose green profiles more and more. The EU has voted for a directive that is called CSRD, which in danish is equivalent to ESG (Environment, Social and Governance) But we don't just do that. We also help architects and others in the construction industry with LCA's (Life Cycle Analysis) And we offer a marketing strategy and a plan to fulfill the goals in the ESG plan. Finally, we're making a platform, that is going to revolutionize the industry. We want to automate as much of the processes as possible. So we are always looking for the best candidates to help us on our journey. Almost all companies will need this service sooner or later (Check out the plan from the CSRD directive) so we need to make ourselves as visible as possible and if you can help us with that, let's have a talk.

In the European Union alone, more than 1.5 million paint buckets are discarded daily, constituting a disposal of 340 tons of single-use plastic that is incinerated each day. Starting from early 2023 (2025 in Denmark and Slovenia), manufacturers are obligated to cover the disposal costs of their packaging based on sustainability criteria. In Denmark, this translates to an estimated 15% fee on paint buckets. Furthermore, the conventional round shape of packaging has proven suboptimal for logistics and transportation. Beyond its environmental impact, the traditional paint bucket poses challenges for professional painters. These challenges encompass ergonomic issues during handling, such as the strain of lifting two buckets simultaneously, which exceeds recommended weight limits according to the Working Environment Authority. Painters also find themselves in awkward positions when pouring paint into a roller bucket for wall application. The demanding physical nature of the painting profession in Denmark results in accelerated fatigue and early retirement for painters. Additionally, issues like lid leakage due to dried paint and the use of fragile, porous plastic contribute to unexpected spills, particularly during abrupt vehicle stops. Our innovative solution involves a cardboard box housing two patent-pending plastic bags, each containing 5 liters of paint. This packaging not only enhances the workflow for professional painters but also reduces costs and lowers carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) emissions by approximately 65% per unit. The box's design facilitates easy and ergonomic transportation, allowing for a 45% increase in units per pallet. The box is opened, and one of the bags is inserted into a standard roller bucket used by painters. The bag effortlessly opens and seamlessly fits into the roller bucket, wrapping around the edges, and enabling the painter to begin work promptly. This functionality is made possible through an innovative patented design and specific plastic welding techniques.

PurCity's patent pending solution (GapS), consists of novel industrial facade panels that are great substitutes for exterior facades/flat surfaces of any New/Existing buildings. Leveraging from chimney effect/natural ventilation, polluted air is naturally sucked into the panels and forced to pass through a harmless chemical process that traps CO2, particulate matter PM2.5/10 & inorganic gases. Then clean air will be delivered into the building through the Air conditioning (HVAC) system. GapS utilizes smart monitoring and control solutions, to optimize its performance. The collected polluted liquid is continuously recycled, generating valuable byproducts like Hydrogen, pure O2 and CO2 that are sellable in the market, benefiting sectors such as food, cement and agriculture.