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Anemo Robotics

We're making innovations for assessing marine biodiversity, essentially building underwater cameras and using AI to count fish. We're in the midst of a biodiversity crisis, the wildlife population has shrunk by 73% in the last 50 years alone, and it is especially bad in marine environments. At Anemo we monitor the effect of man-made structures on the marine environment to help our clients comply, quantify impacts, and continually improve nature-positive outcomes.

Normative

Our Mission: Normative is here to make known and reduce the sustainability impact of all economic activities on the planet. We provide science-based carbon accounting software and tailored advice from net zero experts, enabling companies to reduce their carbon footprints. Our Story: Normative is rooted in climate research. In 2013, co-founder Kristian Rönn was working at Oxford University, simulating the consequences of climate change. The results showed that global warming would cause extreme human suffering, motivating Kristian to leave academia and take action. He joined forces with Adam Wamai Egesa and Robin Undall-Behrend, and in 2014 the world’s first carbon accounting engine was born to help humanity achieve net zero emissions and reverse the trajectory of climate change. We now have offices in Stockholm, Copenhagen, and London, and are actively hiring talent to join the mission. Today, companies from around the world trust our carbon accounting engine to help them reduce their carbon footprint. We partner with leading climate change organisations including the UN, to deliver actionable sustainability intelligence and have received a grant from Google. We are backed by some of the world’s most significant climate investors, and are the official software provider for the UN-backed SME Climate Hub initiative through which thousands of small businesses have committed to net zero. Our Team: We are a global team working to solve a global problem. We’re headquartered in Stockholm, with offices in Copenhagen and London as well as remote team members located all over the world. We have spoken at the World Economic Forum, consulted the European Commission, and worked with the United Nations to develop a new standard for emissions accounting. We come from many walks of life, but we’re united in one mission: to help humanity achieve net zero emissions. Every employee at Normative plays a valuable role in reducing business carbon emissions.

Real-Time LCA

Real-Time LCA is a powerful platform that enables companies to understand, reduce, and document the climate impact of their building projects during design and construction. 🏘️ By automating LCA calculations, it reduces the effort required for impact assessments by 50-90%. Users can perform collaborative, efficient, and accurate Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) that comply with international standards, certification schemes, and regulations. The platform streamlines LCA processes from BIM to reporting, allowing all stakeholders to visualize, track, and document carbon emissions to meet regulations, reported through our standard templates, or leverage your sustainability data in other applications through our API. 🙌

Antler Nordic

Apply to Antler Nordic to start your next company! As Europe's most active early-stage investor, we invest in the most driven founders working on groundbreaking ideas. No founder is too early for Antler. With a global platform and thriving community of 800+ portfolio companies, we support exceptional founders from day zero to greatness. Antler Nordic runs integrated offline/online residences in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden.

Pathways

Pathways is building the data-layer for sustainable manufacturing. AI to streamline the $350B spent on documentation in manufacturing starting with Life Cycle Assessments and Environmental Product Declarations. In the next 30 years, we'll be building more than we ever have in human history, Pathways is on a mission to decarbonize every brick, beam and window. Our customers are the actual manufacturers: Ready Mix Concrete, Cement and Steel.

Toco

Toco is on a mission to revolutionize the economic system by recognising our most valuable asset - our Home Planet. Through an innovative approach, Toco introduces a new digital currency backed by real-world climate projects that reduce and remove CO2 from the atmosphere and contribute to saving our Home Planet. With an easy-to-use payment app, Toco makes every transaction - from buying a plant-based burger to renting a city bike - a step forward towards solving climate change. OUR WHY: We are on a mission to solve climate change. We must protect our common resources that are vital to life on earth. We are uniting communities to make climate action simple. HOW: We have tested this concept in Stellenbosch, a small South African town, with 67% business adoption and 45% MoM Community growth. Individuals could live in a currency that values the environment instead of its destruction. We are now expanding in Zurich and Denmark. Toco is a new global currency backed by CO2 (Supported by https://www.thecarbonreserve.org/) Every toco represents one tonne of CO2 credibly mitigated from the atmosphere. We turn economic activity into climate action. CURRENTLY: This summer, Toco is launching in Copenhagen, offering a unique opportunity to join a climate-forward movement of talented individuals called the Custodians of the Common. Custodians are passionate about using their time and talents to protect the environment and solve the greatest challenge of our time - climate change. Custodians come together to create change NOW, driven by the realisation that time is running out for the planet’s finite resources and there is NO PLAN(ET) B! As a Custodian, you will be at the forefront of introducing Toco to Copenhagen, spreading the word, and onboarding businesses and individuals to join the movement and start using a currency that directly contributes to sustainable projects that remove or reduce carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, to combat climate change. Beyond the climate impact that each Custodian creates, Custodians volunteer their time and are financially rewarded based on the climate impact they create.

GLYON

GLYON is developing a CO₂-powered textile-to-textile recycling technology to help brands, fiber producers, and recyclers solve the growing textile waste crisis with a breakthrough chemical recycling process that turns waste into virgin-quality raw materials for new fibers—without fossil fuels. We address the massive problem of textile waste, a global crisis where over 92 million tonnes of textile waste are discarded each year—most of it ending up in landfills or incinerated. This contributes to major pollution issues but also forces the textile industry to continue its dependence on virgin fossil-based materials. Our solution targets fiber producers, brands, and recyclers who need circular raw material solutions. Our CO₂-based chemical recycling process breaks down polyester textiles into building blocks and leaves other fibers like cotton intact. Both PET building blocks and cotton can be used to produce new, high-quality fibers without the need for virgin oil and reducing water consumption and CO₂ emissions.

Rockstart

Rockstart is an early-stage investor that empowers purpose-driven founders across three domains: Energy, AgriFood, and Emerging Technologies. Rockstart invests in early-stage startups and provides access to capital, market, and expertise by connecting founders with co-investors, mentors, partners, corporates and the wider Rockstart network. Rockstart has invested in more than 300 startups and its alumni value to date is more than $1bn. Rockstart is an international team of 45+ professionals dedicated to empowering purpose-driven founders to become scalable and drive positive change on a global scale. The company has offices in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Copenhagen, Denmark and Bogota, Colombia.

Sagitta Family Office

Sagitta Family Office holds a significant ownership stake in 3Shape A/S, a company they co-founded. In addition to this, the office runs multiple internal R&D and engineering projects, driving innovation across its operations. The office also invests in diverse sectors such as robotics, med-tech, life sciences, sustainability, and healthcare, as well as in investment funds and public securities through its Sagitta Investments and Sagitta Ventures brands. Sagitta Family Office continues to implement a long-term ownership strategy aimed at providing a strong foundation for future generations.

Medley Venture Capital

Medley er en platform skabt af iværksættere, for iværksættere og til alle de erhvervstalenter der kan og vil. Medley befinder sig i sweetspottet mellem et traditionel Venture Capital firm og et Family Office, et founding team bestående af succesfulde og erfarne iværksættere såsom; Jørgen Hansen (NTG), Allan Flindt (Blue Energy m.fl.), Peter Grubert, Philip Flindt, Mathias Christensen og Abdalla Al-Ayrot er med til at sikre det økonomiske bagland, der i høj grad kan facilitere de høje ambitioner om at skabe morgendagens succeser i det nordiske marked, med et særligt fokus på tech.

DISIE - Danish Institute for Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship

DISIE support and scale sustainable entrepreneurs and their business solutions by developing and providing online and offline tools, action-based knowledge and networks across Denmark. We are at a tipping point within history, where we have to choose between ‘business as usual’ or a sustainable future. Our society calls for new knowledge and new solutions, and the key to this is found in the new generation of entrepreneurs. At DISIE we know how to grow, connect and support sustainable and social entrepreneurs with the ecosystem that surrounds them. Our headquarter is in Copenhagen (Enghavevej 80C) and we have a co-working office hub in Aarhus C (Grønnegade 56).

Emballage Indberetning

Emballage Indberetning er en kollektiv ordning, der håndterer producentansvaret for danske virksomheder. Med mere end 3.800 medlemmer er vi Danmarks største kollektive ordning, og vi er de eneste i landet, der dækker alle 8 produktområder. De fleste kollektive ordninger dækker kun ét eller to områder, så en virksomhed med flere produkttyper må være medlem tre forskellige steder, med tre kontrakter, tre sæt satser og tre indberetningsrytmer at holde styr på. Hos os er det ét medlemskab, der dækker hele producentansvaret, og vi bygger vores egen software for at understøtte vores medlemmer bedst muligt. Producentansvar er et miljøprincip: virksomheder får det juridiske og økonomiske ansvar for deres produkters miljøpåvirkning, især når produkterne bliver til affald. Det skubber til mere bæredygtigt design, mere genanvendelse og mindre affald. Godt for planeten, men svært for virksomhederne. De fleste har aldrig hørt om producentansvar, før de pludselig er omfattet, og så møder de et regelsæt skrevet af jurister til jurister. Hvert produktområde (emballage, elektronik, batterier, engangsplast og flere) har sine egne satser, sine egne materialefraktioner og sin egen indberetningsrytme. Det rammer tusindvis af danske virksomheder, og hvert år bliver flere omfattet. Bag hvert fysisk produkt, der bliver indberettet, gemmer der sig mange bevægelige dele. Der skal faktureres, laves stikprøver og indsamles data hver gang en affaldsspand bliver tømt: hvor meget kan genanvendes, og hvad skal brændes? En af vores største opgaver som kollektiv ordning er at indsamle og måle den data og indberette den videre til myndighederne. Derfor bygger vi vores egen software. Ikke for at sælge den, men fordi vores forpligtelser kan automatiseres, når de bliver til kode. Vi startede i januar 2025, fordi producentansvar giver god mening for miljøet, men er indrettet dårligt for de virksomheder, det rammer. Miljøet vinder kun, hvis virksomhederne rent faktisk kan finde ud af at leve op til reglerne. Vores mission er at gøre producentansvar så enkelt og tilgængeligt, at en virksomhed kan overholde det uden at forstå hvert komma i lovgivningen og komme tilbage til sin forretning. På 14 måneder er vi gået fra 2 til 15 medarbejdere.

Openframe

Openframe is a digital platform for managing portfolios in the construction and real-estate industry. We're connects process management, sustainability reporting, and certification systems in one place, turning sustainability goals into something concrete, measurable, and manageable. The construction and real estate industry accounts for a massive share of global emissions. We believe better tools are how that changes so we've building exactly that. Join us in making sustainability an integrated part of company strategy.

Weel & Sandvig

Weel & Sandvig delivers market leading solutions addressing some of the worlds most challenging problems in the green transition of the process industry. We are working within the industrial sector with a broad international experience in different disciplines. We are developing innovative solution based on deep industrial insight and strong core competences within software and process engineering. Our core product is WS.PEMS. WS.PEMS (Predictive Emission Monitoring System) is our in-house developed software solution which is used globally by large industrial corporations, to control their stack emissions. Our office is located in downtown Lyngby at the old Orgelfabrikken. We have a nice and homely office area and we are close to Lyngby Station, supermarkets etc in Lyngby.

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.