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THE UPCYCL

THE UPCYCL connects your industrial waste streams with your neighbors supply chain. We make it possible to reduce our amounts of industrial waste, by turning waste material streams into business opportunities. Our material database displays leftover materials from production, giving developers easy access to reusable materials, also called "New Waste". Hereby, achieving a significantly lower CO₂ footprint than with virgin materials. When circulating New Waste materials with the THE UPCYCL, we also offer to monitor CO₂ savings. We work to accelerate the use of circular materials, worldwide. Because Waste is Everyone's Business!

Sustainary

At Sustainary, we believe that human development is deeply interconnected with the environment and is essential in the fight against climate change. That is why we are dedicated to building a more open, inclusive and sustainable Denmark for future generations, with young people at the heart of our efforts. Through capacity-building projects focused on youth, we empower individuals to shape a future where people and nature thrive together. Since 2018, we have been designing and implementing high-impact initiatives that address both human development and environmental challenges, strengthening communities, organizations, and society in the pursuit of a greener and inclusive Denmark. With collaboration at the core of our approach, we work closely with private companies, public organizations and NGOs to amplify our impact. By fostering strong partnerships, we create innovative solutions, drive systemic change, and ensure a more sustainable and inclusive future for all. We are always open to discuss projects and partnerships in these above domains, with ambition to scale our activities and measured impact.

Oktogrid

Oktogrid™ is helping electricity providers bring the grid online for higher reliability and a safer energy transition. The future will be electric, Oktogrid™ is giving the insights needed to keep the power flowing. We are a dedicated team working with industry heavyweights in optimising the usage of the electrical grid and making sure that the electrification of our society remains sustainable.

NOON Ventures

NOON Ventures is a Copenhagen-based early-stage investor established in 2020. We invest in proven transformative technologies with the potential to significantly impact environmental or climate challenges. Our aim is to become the preferred partner for green entrepreneurs, and we do so by limiting our investments to few companies and working day-to-day with each of them – a fundamentally different approach than traditional early-stage investors. We believe that it takes much more than capital for companies to succeed - commercial experience, execution power, access to the right talent, network, and partners to name a few. We typically engage ourselves in all aspects of the business and do real work together with the founders applying the experience of our team, investors, and specialist advisors across mission-critical disciplines from strategy to customer introductions, and financing activities. NOON Ventures aspires to be true co-developers of businesses alongside the entrepreneurs, and we dedicate the time required to build lasting businesses.

Danish Social Innovation Club (DANSIC)

Danish Social Innovation Club (DANSIC) is Denmark's largest platform for social innovation. It is a voluntary non-profit organization run by ambitious Danish and international students which aids and inspires different actors in society, with social innovation methods and interdisciplinary work. We work to solve some of the greatest current societal challenges. Our mission is to create a society that is socially, environmentally and economically sustainable. DANSIC is supported by an Advisory Board of leading individuals and organizations in the fields of social innovation and entrepreneurship, and receive aid from sponsors and funds. DANSIC holds an annual event where different actors participate, and social innovation and specific societal issues are on the agenda. Each year DANSIC focuses on a different aspect related to promote a social and sustainable change.

Rope Robotics

Rope Robotics is the developer and producer of an automatic BR-8 robot to be used as a unique repair solution for leading edges on turbine blades. Wind turbine blades need to be repaired to maintain their high performance. With manual labor turbine blades can only be repaired 20% of the time during a year due to the fact that it requires technicians to climb up with support from ropes. Using our robot to do the repair and maintenance work in the heights, we are going to expand this repair window and to improve the working environment for the technicians. We have several robot pilots in the pipeline in various places around the world and have received major funding from the EU and Danish Government.

Sustainia

Sustainia is a global sustainability advisory firm, headquartered in Copenhagen. Since 2009, the mission of Sustainia has been to simplify sustainability. As one of our signature projects, Sustainia operates with United Nations Global Compact the world's largest platform for vetted & verified sustainable solutions, the Global Opportunity Explorer. Armed with mindsets and methodologies, strategies and solutions, Sustainia advises organisations on how to create enduring sustainability transformations required in order to stay relevant in an ever-changing world.

Kaffe Bueno

Kaffe Bueno is a Danish bioscience company based in Copenhagen, we upcycle coffee by-products into active and functional ingredients for cosmetics, nutraceuticals and functional foods. Our vision is to change the world sees coffee - from a caffeinated beverage to a sustainable resource for health and wellbeing. Our mission is to unlock coffee's health and commercial potential by taking advantage of the whole spectrum of its bioactive compounds. Some of the things we do: - Produce KAFFOIL: an active cosmetic ingredient upcycled from coffee grounds. It's used for healthy ageing, hair care, moisturising, and improving the skin barrier. You can find it in over 15 brands worldwide, including NIVEA. KAFFOIL is also used as an ingredient in food & beverage. - Produce KAFFIBRE: upcycled defatted coffee fibre used as an ingredient in cosmetics and food & beverage. - Circular partnerships: we upcycle spent coffee grounds from local businesses in Denmark into toiletries (hand soaps, shampoos, lotions and creams) and have a private label brand for these. - New products coming soon, all derived from molecules from within coffee.

Bodil Energy

Bodil is transforming the energy retrofitting industry from the outside in – we believe in a future where the homes we live in don't damage the planet we live on. Our mission is to make energy retrofitting digital, affordable, and consumer-friendly. The residential energy solutions of tomorrow are available to us today. We know how to radically reduce the emissions footprint and improve the livability of our customers’ homes, cost-effectively and at scale with products such as solar panels, batteries, heat pumps and ML-based intelligent controls, and better insulation. Bodil is on a mission to: • Reduce the environmental footprint of heating and energy consumption. • Improve the economics of homeownership by lowering monthly utility bills. • Provide market-leading information, quality, and customer service. We do this, through innovation spanning process, service design, financing, and the creation of digital tools to improve the efficiency of actors across the value chain, from lead-gen and sales to technical home analysis and installations to energy monitoring. Operationally, Bodil provides digitally-enabled energy retrofitting advice through our team of energy advisors where it adds value, and we automate and digitalize the rest. We are building the future platform and infrastructure for climate-friendly homes. We are a family of sustainable energy wonks, data scientists, businessy climate activists, and behavioral insights nerds on a shared mission - and we need you.

Neucom

Neucom builds ultra-efficient hardware accelerators that combine minimal power consumption with maximum human oversight. We work towards a freer and fairer world with trustworthy technology, one chip at the time. Our hardware is informed by neuroscience to achieve minimal power consumption. Our headquarter is in Lyngby, just north of Copenhagen Denmark.

Futurebox

Futurebox is the leading hardware and deep tech startup incubator and accelerator, helping new technology to future industries. We are dedicated to helping deep tech startups bridge the gap from idea, over prototyping, to market entry and established business. Our incubator and acceleration programs are developed to help founders make the leap from early startup to established business, through a targeted and structured program where we supply a dedicated business coach, toolbox workshops, access to mentor program and business support.

Enduro Genetics

Enduro Genetics is a startup committed to improving large-scale fermentations, closing the scale-up gap to make bioproducts possible at any scale. We offer our proprietary platform Enduro Sense that enhances large-scale fermentation by optimising population heterogeneity. Enduro Sense is a seamlessly integrated, self-selecting technology that addicts microbial cells to production and therefore eliminates low-producing cells. We welcome inquiries to test our tech, unsolicited job applications and partnerships.

GoBoat

GoBoat is an experience company, which offers unique social experiences on the water to both locals and tourists, through sustainable boat rental. It was founded in Copenhagen in February 2014 by Anders, Carl and Kasper – three young entrepreneurs. Today the company operates boat rentals all over the world.

2030 Builders

2030 Builders – Empowering People to Drive Sustainable Change At 2030 Builders, we believe sustainability isn’t just a target—it’s a mindset that reshapes how organisations grow, compete, and lead. Our mission is to help companies transform their workforce into a resilient, purpose-driven community capable of achieving ambitious strategic and ESG goals. Through our user-centric platform, we combine gamified learning, 200+ expert sustainability topics, and practical tools to embed sustainability into culture, strategy, and everyday decision-making. From decarbonization to ethical governance, we make complex topics clear, actionable, and inspiring—so people at every level can drive real change. Trusted by forward-thinking global enterprises, we empower employees to co-create solutions, build ownership, and turn risk into opportunity. By connecting knowledge with action, we help organisations accelerate the journey to net zero, strengthen their reputation, and attract the next generation of purpose-driven talent. At 2030 Builders, you won’t just work on a product—you’ll be part of a movement to reshape how businesses impact the world. Together, we’re building a greener, better, and more resilient future—one empowered employee at a time.

Electricity Maps

Electricity Maps provides actionable electricity data for more than 200 regions. We help businesses more effectively reduce their emissions, and enable products and services to differentiate their offerings by empowering end-users to be more carbon-aware. As wind and solar production fluctuate throughout the day, this information needs to be dynamic and updated in real-time. As this real-time information about the physical origin of electricity will be scrutinized and challenged by many parties, the effort has to be collaborative, open, and transparent. This is what motivated the creation of Electricity Maps. It started as a simple real-time data visualization in June 2016 and turned into a comprehensive data platform with high scientific integrity. More than 40,000 people use our app on a daily basis and market leaders like Google and Microsoft, are using our API for extensive projects in order to reach their climate goals and help their users take action against climate change. Our goal: a truly decarbonized electricity system. To get there, we will organize the world's electricity information, and use it to drive the transition toward a truly decarbonized electricity system.