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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.

Sustie

At Sustie, we are on a mission to help fashion brands take climate action at scale. We are building the Impact OS for fashion brands to measure, reduce, and compensate for their carbon footprint. We’ve developed a fully automated carbon accounting platform for navigating and empowering your business on a journey towards Taking climate action and building a path to net-zero emissions.

Tector

At Tector, we believe technology should make building protection effortless. We’re transforming construction with smart solutions, talented people, and a clear sense of purpose. Proactive alerts for healthier buildings Tector gives you timely notifications when moisture levels in flat roofs or timber structures indicate a potential problem. By alerting you before damage occurs, we help prevent costly repairs, reduce CO₂ impact, and keep buildings resilient for the long term. Empowering the construction community Our solutions support everyone in the construction value chain: Building owners looking to safeguard their properties. Contractors who want clear insights to act before issues escalate. Advisors ensuring they can recommend the best solutions for their clients. A growing team, a global reach From our Copenhagen and London offices, our tight-knit team supports projects in 15 countries and is building the foundation for future growth. With Tector, keeping buildings secure, dry, and resilient has never been easier.

Accelerace

Accelerace is one of the world’s Top 10 pre-seed accelerators helping startups scale in the field of ICT, foodtech, cleantech, life science & biotech and med tech & health care with the help from experienced serial entrepreneurs, camps and network. Accelerace has spotted, trained and invested in more than 700 promising Danish and international startups and scale-ups and has engaged partners e.g. Maersk, Novo Nordisk Fonden, Bang & Olufsen and SE to deliver access to world-class industry expertise.

Rock Flour Company

Rock Flour Company is a dynamic, mission-driven startup founded by Professor Minik Rosing, the world-renowned geologist and pioneer of utilizing Greenlandic Rock Flour (GRF) for carbon-negative agronomic applications. Our core mission is ambitious: to bring GRF to market, enabling sustainable agriculture, facilitating carbon removals at scale, and delivering tangible economic benefits to local communities in both Greenland and specific farming regions globally. Today, we’re a dynamic core team of five with a validated potential by top investors across the globe. In September this year, we raised our second financing round featuring major commitments from Danish & Greenlandic institutional investors like Novo Holdings, EIFO (Danish state venture fund), SISA, and Nalik Ventures.

Copenhagen Atomics A/S

We are changing the world! Copenhagen Atomics is building the next generation nuclear reactors for the world based on molten salt technology. This provides a cheap and clean energy source that aims to change the energy system in general. A thorium based molten salt reactor is small, efficient, safe and is burning the nuclear waste from current nuclear plants.

CPH Village

CPH Village is a Copenhagen based real estate start-up on a mission to create the best place to live for people and the planet through simple, communal living Our long-range vision is to export a new way of living to cities worldwide, and our goal for the next three years is to build and operate homes for 2.500 students. Our offices are located in our Villages on Refshaleøen and Vesterbro, and we work in the same kind of space as our residents live in. We are a young and action-oriented team in an exciting expansion phase as we are planning to quadruple our operations during the next year.

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.

PSV

PSV cares about a conscious future. As a venture house, our mission is to clear the path for founders who build companies that matter. Our hybrid setup, comprising PSV Foundry, PSV Lab, and two unique venture funds, PSV Tech and PSV DeepTech, sets us free from adhering to a singular method. Rather we rethink existing ways and models to maximise our impact beyond any individual firm or investment. Together, we can punch above our weight.

CLIMAID

At CLIMAID we handle sensor data and user feedback from your indoor climate and turn them into profit, health and well-being for you with AI-based indoor climate logic. It is our ambition to understand, what a good indoor climate is to you, better than anybody else, compare and combine this with factual advice and deliver personalized recommendations! In short, we turn your indoor climate into a valuable asset! At CLIMAID we think holistically and user-oriented. Indoor climate is as subjective as it is volatile. It is key to our success to understand, how to meet individual perceptions and expectations and nudge the user towards better well-being. We are passionate what we do and pro-active in our ambition to be experts in our field and first-movers in offering our users intuitive solutions, that add value for both occupants and building owners. As a team and as individuals we are open towards collaboration and new ideas, and we design our solutions to be accessible - in the technical interfaces we design as well as in the ease of use of our products. And we strive to be trustworthy and authentic in our approach to customers, partners and to each other.

180 Degrees Consulting Copenhagen

This is a Copenhagen branch of 180 Degrees Consulting, the world's largest student-led consultancy for non-profits and social enterprises. The management board consists of student volunteers who dedicate their free time to organise and lead for sustainable impact. 180 Degrees provides socially conscious organisations around the world with high quality and extremely affordable consulting services. We work with organisations to develop innovative, practical and sustainable solutions to whatever challenges they might be facing. Each semester, we have a carefully selected team of 30 highly motivated and engaged university students who possess a combination of expertise, creativity and problem-solving ability.

mellow designs ApS

mellow designs is a start-up focused on innovating living and working spaces utilizing sustainable approach and resources. our mission is to popularize zero waste philosophy and paradigm of circular economy by creating spaces for everyday use with upcycled and recycled materials. with our designs we want to help our customers who want to demonstrate an interest in sustainability by reusing waste materials and manifesting environmental concerns.

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.

Energy Machines

We're on a mission to revolutionize the way energy is handled in buildings. Energy Machines™ is a leader in the design, implementation, and operation of integrated energy systems for buildings. Buildings are a growing climate problem, accounting for over 28% of global CO2 emissions. We are working to transform them into climate solutions. By combining proven best-of-breed hardware with purpose-built software and simulation platforms, Energy Machines enables buildings to operate as “energy machines” or fully integrated systems that generate, store, and reuse their own energy. In order to revolutionize the way buildings are managed. We are developing a next generation computing platform. This platform will leverage cloud, IoT technologies and modern electronics to upgrade existing industrial systems. We envision a future in which buildings accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy. By turning every building into a high-performance energy machine, together we can achieve it.   *image source BLOX (Rasmus Hjortshøj)

Everimpact

Everimpact is dedicated to simplifying the measurement of greenhouse gas emissions for cities and businesses, facilitating emission reduction opportunities, and supporting essential climate investments. Our innovative climate monitoring system integrates satellite data, ground sensors, and AI into a robust software platform, enabling accurate determination of carbon footprints. By doing so, our clients can identify emission reduction opportunities and access funding for their climate initiatives.