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Dreamcraft Ventures

We are a Copenhagen-based venture capital manager investing in early-stage, tech-driven startups, primarily at seed stage in the Nordics and Germany, where we have a solid brand and network. Based on our own experiences, we believe companies reach their highest potential with diverse founding teams of high-quality dreamers and crafters as reflected in portfolio companies such as: ● Organic Basics, a sustainable-first essentials brand selling direct-to-consumer. ● Fuelsave, a German CleanTech company reducing emissions of the world’s largest combustion engines. ● Hiber, an open metaverse platform enabling anyone to create virtual worlds in apps and web browsers. The founders of Dreamcraft are also the founders as well still the dreamer (CEO) and crafter (COO) of what is now a +1bn USD global and listed company. Inspired by their journey, mission and DNA, we are hands-on venture engineers supporting similar teams through engagements that go deeper than just advice, guided by our core values: • Progressive e.g. in the way we build companies. • Proper e.g. in the way we make investment decisions. • Down to earth e.g. in the way we engage founders and others stakeholders. This is our style. We like t-shirts, not suits. We value advice and know there are always ways to improve. That is how we work, who we are and what we value - being casual and approachable.

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!

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.

Quantified Impacts ApS

Quantified Impacts is a Danish sustainability consultancy and software company founded in late 2022. We help companies build the digital foundation for product-level sustainability data through a combination of specialist advisory services and AI-driven software. Our primary focus is supporting manufacturing companies with product carbon footprints, EPDs and the sustainability data required to meet growing customer and regulatory demands. Rather than treating each calculation as a standalone exercise, we help companies establish a connected data infrastructure that enables ESG reporting, regulatory compliance and sustainability documentation to be generated from the same trusted data foundation. Our mission is to make sustainability data trustworthy, accessible and actionable. By bringing together environmental engineers, production engineers and software developers, we combine specialist expertise with digital innovation to automate data collection, simplify compliance and help companies turn sustainability into a competitive advantage. Today, we work with both ambitious SMEs and internationally recognised manufacturers from our offices in Valby and Viborg.

Incremental Maritime A/S

Incremental Maritime is developing a digital compliance solution that helps shipowners and operators navigate complex decarbonization regulations; transforming compliance into lower emissions and higher margins. Our deep regulatory expertise, data-driven models, and hands-on client support are what set us apart. Global shipping faces an accelerating tide of climate regulation, from the IMO’s GHG Fuel Intensity targets to FuelEU Maritime and EU ETS. These rules impact everything: fuel costs, asset values, and day-to-day operations. Yet most market players lack the tools and insights to respond; let alone turn compliance into an advantage. This leaves shipowners and operators asking: - What decarbonization investments make financial sense? - How do I reduce risk and avoid penalties? - Can I stay compliant across multiple regimes without extra complexity? - Without smart tools, these questions are hard to answer - and costly to get wrong. Our solution has two core parts: Advisory with immediate impact: We help clients assess regulatory costs, model emissions, evaluate investment cases, and support decision-making from planning to operations. A digital compliance agent (in development): Built on real client work, this tool will combine - Real-time emissions tracking - Cross-jurisdictional compliance logic - Commercial impact analysis - Support from pre-fixture to post-voyage We’re building the go-to compliance engine for modern shipping: one that simplifies decisions, protects margins, and scales with regulation. We launched Incremental Maritime because we saw a blind spot: climate regulation was outpacing the industry’s ability to respond and the result was confusion, cost, and missed opportunity. With experience spanning maritime operations and regulatory systems, we knew we could help. We believe that smarter compliance is not a burden, it’s a pathway to performance. We're here to equip shipping with the tools to decarbonize profitably, one fixture, one voyage, one regulation at a time.

Envo

At Envo, we simplify energy optimization for real estate by helping property owners, banks, and advisors reduce CO₂ emissions and lower operational costs. We’re a young, agile startup based in Copenhagen, where creativity, independence, and collaboration are at the heart of our work. Our mission is to empower our clients with smart, user-friendly tools that guide them in making their buildings more energy efficient. We’re committed to sustainability and innovation, and every team member has the opportunity to shape our products and company culture.

theo.ai

We're an ambitious early-stage startup revolutionizing Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) compliance. Founded by serial entrepreneurs and domain experts, we're gaining rapid traction by offering a cutting-edge platform that simplifies and streamlines CSRD workflows. At Theo.ai, we're dedicated to making sustainability reporting easier to grasp and work with leveraging our expertise and innovative product. As part of our dynamic team, you'll contribute to a solution that shapes a more sustainable future for businesses worldwide. Discover more about our mission and how you can make an impact at theo.ai.

IoT Fabrikken

IoT Fabrikken was founded in 2018 by Mikkel Fischer and Jon Wichmann. However, the foundation of the company was laid long before that. The founding partners brought with them a strong track record, having previously built two highly successful tech enterprises: DIBS, a pioneer in secure online payments, which is today owned by Nets, and eSmiley, the leading provider of digital food safety solutions for professional kitchens, canteens, and hospitals across the Nordic region. Together, they share more than 25 years of in-depth expertise in developing software designed to make daily operations simpler. This experience forms the very core of IoT Fabrikken. As our name suggests, we harness the power of the Internet of Things (IoT) to remove complexity. We believe that securing vital data should be as simple as mounting a sensor that automatically finds the network and starts delivering insights. Our guiding principle is that technology must always support your daily work – it should be precise, entirely dependable, and accessible to everyone, regardless of their level of IT proficiency. Today, IoT Fabrikken operates from two offices in Denmark, located in Roskilde in the east and Hørning in the west. We also collaborate closely with dedicated partners across several countries, with Germany and Sweden standing out as two of our most significant growth markets. What started as a vision between two men has grown into a highly successful enterprise that makes a tangible difference every day. Currently, we deliver our solutions to 70 Danish municipalities, alongside a wealth of private businesses, housing associations, museums, churches, and industry advisors. We are incredibly proud that thousands of customers now rely on our system daily to support and elevate their work within facility management, space management, and cultural preservation.

PhaseTree

PhaseTree is a pioneering deep-tech startup from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), founded in 2021 with a mission to revolutionize materials discovery for the energy industry. Traditional development of new materials—such as advanced battery technologies and catalysts for hydrogen production—can take decades, creating a significant bottleneck in the global effort to combat climate change. PhaseTree aims to change that. By combining cutting-edge computer simulations, lab automation, and artificial intelligence, PhaseTree dramatically accelerates the research and development process, unlocking breakthrough materials at unprecedented speeds. Our innovative approach not only helps build a more sustainable future but also creates unique business opportunities in the rapidly evolving clean energy sector. With a team of world-class scientists and engineers, PhaseTree stands at the forefront of AI-driven materials discovery, ensuring that the next generation of energy technologies arrives faster, more efficiently, and at lower costs.

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. 🙌

Trebo

Trebo is a cleantech startup that develops and manufactures a novel fluid-mechanical based plastic sorting technology. The sorting technology enables the plastic industry to sort large-scale plastic-type mixtures and transform the industry’s production waste into valuable resources. The Procurement costs on virgin materials are reduced and the environmental impact from incinerating or dumping plastic waste is eliminated. The annual global production of plastic has in 2019 exceeded more than 300,000,000,000 kg and even though the majority of plastic waste is suited for recycling purposes, more than 90% of the global production of plastic is either incinerated, deposited or dumped in nature. As the production of one kilogram of virgin plastic on average requires three kilograms of natural oil, the plastic industry is a global large-scale consumer of fossil fuels and therefore an important intrant in the green and sustainable changeover of the industry. Due to the wide palette of applications and physical characteristics of plastics, many end-user plastic products consist of one or more different types of plastic. As the quality and application performance of mixed plastic is decreased critically compared to the pure counterpart, plastic mixes are often considered as waste and therefore incinerated or sold to a price significantly lower than the price of the virgin plastic. Industrial waste streams of mixed plastic constitute approximately 60% of the total plastic waste stream. We believe it is critical to develop technologies that effectively sorts and restores the value and physical properties of the virgin plastic. At Trebo, we are environmentalists and our vision is to make the global plastic industry more sustainable and renewable. We hope that you will join us on our adventure.

KhaosGuard

KhaosGuard is making greenhouse gas emissions visible. KhaosGuard is developing a new generation of laser and optical technology that can measure, map and quantify greenhouse gas emissions across large areas in real time. By combining advanced mid-infrared laser spectroscopy, optical sensor networks and wind-field data, we can turn complex emission plumes into accurate, quantitative measurements of where emissions come from and how much is being released. Our technology brings together advanced spectroscopy and atmospheric modelling in a robust field system — creating a level of spatial and real-time emissions intelligence that has not previously been available. Starting with wastewater treatment Our first focus is wastewater treatment plants, where we are helping operators detect, localise and quantify nitrous oxide (N₂O) emissions — commonly known as laughing gas and a highly potent greenhouse gas. By making these emissions visible, we give wastewater operators the intelligence they need to understand what is happening across their plants, identify emission hotspots and optimise their processes for greater efficiency and lower emissions. Ultimately, our goal is simple: you cannot optimise what you cannot measure.

KAKTI

KAKTI is on a mission to accelerate the transition toward affordable and intelligent energy systems. Our AI-powered energy management platform optimizes the operations of district heating plants, making energy production more efficient, responsive, and climate-friendly. We work with forward-thinking utilities and plant operators to orchestrate complex thermal systems in real-time, leveraging machine learning, optimization, and forecasting technologies. At our core, we're a collaborative, impact-driven, and technically ambitious team dedicated to transforming how heat and power are produced and consumed.

1KOMMA5 DK A/S

1KOMMA5° Denmark (formerly Viasol, one of the earliest and largest solar providers in Denmark) is a climate tech company revolutionizing how homeowners transition to green energy. We offer fully integrated solutions for solar panels, heat pumps, and energy storage, all connected via our proprietary energy management system, Heartbeat. We are solving the complexity and inefficiency in the green energy transition. Homeowners today face fragmented offerings, lack of transparency, and poor service when trying to make their homes climate neutral. 1KOMMA5° solves this by offering a seamless, one-stop-shop experience with smart tech, premium installation, and ongoing optimization—all under one roof. With deep market experience as Viasol and now part of the 1KOMMA5° group, our mission is to make every home in Denmark energy independent, affordable, and climate-friendly—contributing to a healthier planet and future-proof energy economy.

ENZIDIA

Enabling the bioindustrial revolution with the fastest enzymes. Many of the hardest climate and environmental problems can be solved through synthetic biology. But biosolutions are held back by the enzyme efficiency bottleneck. The ENZIDIA Enzyme Engineering Platform will address this with 10^4 to 10^7 times higher efficiency than current technologies.