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Responsibly

Responsibly is a sustainability tech start-up with vision of making every purchase in the world responsible 🌍 There's no bigger problem out there than the climate, and procurement represents a big part of the solution - when purchase decisions are made on the background of responsible data like CO2 footprint, suppliers have a huge incentive to change. However, procurement is becoming overloaded with complexity. Different frameworks, different data sources, different coverage, making it difficult to make purchase decisions to improve your responsibility profile and scope 3 emissions. At Responsibly, we're trying to solve this issue by using leading technologies and data science, to build a supplier data platform that makes it easier to source responsibly. We're founded by two serial entrepreneurs with previous successes like Dixa and Ofload, and have received pre-seed funding from some of Europe's top VCs and angels. We're now building a top-tier team to tackle this big thing called climate, and have fun while we're doing it 🤘

Ento

Ento brings AI-native automation to energy and facility managers. With one of the largest networks of buildings and real documented savings, we have a unique opportunity to bring energy management into the AI era at unprecedented speed and scale. Ento works with organisations across Europe, including municipalities, retail chains, social housing providers, and asset and property managers. Our customers range from large municipalities and some of Europe's largest cities to international retail chains and real estate portfolios in Denmark, Italy, France and the UK. Over 70,000 buildings is currently monitored by Ento, helping customers save more than 25,000 tons of CO₂. Our team consists of experienced energy engineers, builders and operators across 4 countries, with offices in Aarhus and Copenhagen, Denmark, and Barcelona, Spain. We work in a hybrid setup where some of us are in the office regularly, others join occasionally, and some work fully remote across Europe. We come together in person when it adds value, but our day-to-day way of working is built on trust rather than strict rules, giving everyone a high degree of autonomy. In return, we expect ownership, accountability, and intrinsic motivation.

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.

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.

byFounders VC

🌟byFounders is the community-powered early-stage venture fund investing in globally ambitious teams. With our unique Collective of experienced founders and operators, we support our portfolio companies with operational expertise and a global network. 1. We're founders at heart We invest in founders and the relationship between us. Our compassion for founders permeates our every interaction, where we strive for transparency and candor. 2. Our community is global We operate together with a tight-knit community of founders and operators through which you can access a world-class network and operational expertise. 3. We care about Tomorrow We believe in the future and recognize the power we hold in shaping it. We, therefore, take an impact-aware approach to investing and help companies on their journey to make a positive impact on the world.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

Behold

Behold helps animals change people. Our technology turns everyday wildlife encounters into moments of discovery. It meets people where they are, whether at home, on their devices, or in their communities. It shifts how they see nature and their role in it. It is entertainment with a purpose, designed to inspire and influence behaviour in subtle but meaningful ways. But we are not just here to tell stories. We are building a network of thousands of garden cameras, creating the largest database of residential wildlife sightings. A powerful tool for conservation, citizen science, and understanding the changing natural world. Our first product, Behold Cam-1, became a massive success on Kickstarter – hitting its funding goal in under 2 hours, and raising almost $400k in pre-orders. We're now bringing that product to market. It’s an opportunity to join at the earliest stages—with all the challenges and rewards that come with it.