UpFood is a tech startup that develops sustainable solutions to up-cycle the food, that otherwise get wasted throughout the food value chain, into different value-added food ingredients.  Besides, we will also provide our low cost and efficient technologies to smallholder farmers, producing 80%  of food in the world but facing significant food loss challenges. Our patent pending solutions address UN SDGs 1, 2, 6, 7 and 12. We envision a successful business with huge impact in the world.

Founded in Copenhagen, NorthQ is a leading-edge manufacturer and service provider of Energy Management devices. Based on extensive expertise with connected devices, we pioneer in retrofit meter reading solutions for the industrial and domestic sectors. Powered by innovation and effectiveness, both the hardware and the software of our cloud-based solutions are developed internally. This enables us to provide rapid development of tailor-made industrial metering and energy management solutions for a wide variety of business clients. Our mission is to deliver valuable business insights for energy, indoor climate and predictive maintenance, in order to inspire our customers to improve operational efficiency. In this way, we aim to help our customers use their resources more responsibly, towards their business, communities and the environment.

At Hybird, we operate at the intersection of hardware and software where we are bringing the electrical panel online and transforming it into a data platform. This gives us an opportunity to improve tooling for installers and facility managers, as well as surface actionable insights to a variety of stakeholders. The objective for us is to increase our understanding of power consumption and use that to help curb consumption.

Stiesdal is a young and fast-growing climate technology company. The main purpose of Stiesdal is to develop and commercialize technologies with high impact on climate change mitigation. This purpose is fundamentally rooted in a conviction that more needs to be done to avert catastrophic climate change. We take great pride in our work and in the fact that our solutions make a real difference on a global scale. Currently we have activities in Power-to-X hydrogen production, carbon capture and storage combined with green fuel production, floating offshore wind, and energy storage. We are equally ambitious when it comes to our company as a workplace. While our mission is critical and requires hard work, we want our work culture to be safe, sustainable, and rewarding. Simply put, we want our company to offer the best possible working environment.

We specialize in the entire value chain of your data journey and make Machine Learning solutions within predictive maintenance, anomaly detection, image recognition, and forecasting. Neurospace believes that Machine Learning will be the technology that will revolutionize the industry the most in our lifetime. This meant that Neurospace in 2019 was founded in Aarhus. Since then, Neurospace has helped companies in supply and production proactively utilize data for decision making, automate processes, and predict future events. We make sure that you can quickly make decisions and gain insight into your company, with data as a foundation.

MoveByBike is an urban logistics company. We deliver products by electric cargo bikes, focused on 'last mile logistics.' We specialise in the food and subscription sectors, however with our large bikes we can move many products within any industry. Our goal is to remove as many trucks and vans from the city as possible. We are growing fast, so committed individuals are always welcome to apply for driver and internship positions. Look out for our bikes around the city!

Aerial Tools is a hardware and software startup that develops a heavy duty modular drone. The unmanned aircraft system will allow the user to extract data from multiple sensors, while facilitating the integration of ML & AI tools. Our primary target markets are the monitoring and inspection of the renewable energy and agriculture sectors. There, we can contribute towards a cleaner environment and more sustainable water use.

APX10 is a leading SaaS company providing advanced solutions to utilities and municipalities. APX10 helps utilities become more data-driven, and our mission is to support infrastructure optimization and sustainability through our digital analytics platform. Our company has offices in Aarhus, just 1 min walk from the Central Station, Aalborg and Milwaukee, USA. We are currently 15 employees and expect to grow steadily over the following years as we enter more international markets in Europe and North America. APX10 is a portfolio company of Cimbria Capital, a private equity investment firm based in the United States and Denmark conducting growth and expansion capital investments in the Water Economy.

We help entrepreneurs succeed. It has been our mission from day one. We challenge existing paradigms of how things are done in the normal VC world. Our experience of actually being in the thick of the action day in, day out with Founders and their companies, actively pushing them towards their end game - wherever it might be - has taught us it pays off. To be active. To be present. To be hands on.

Backed by the Confederation of Danish Industries, Green Tech Challenge looks for businesses with environmental ambitions for their competition. A 5-10 days rapid growth program for 16 selected green companies.Access to NETWORK, PARTNERSHIPS, and possibly FUNDING. We help you to fast-track your company to new heights through our intensive growth sprint. Here you will be taught and mentored by your industry’s finest. Participation is free of charge.​

Nordsense is on a mission to make the world more sustainable through efficient waste, reuse, and recycling management. With an end-to-end solution based on IoT smart sensors, Nordsense provides the technology and data needed to transition to cost- and carbon efficient waste and resource operations.

Plastic waste and single-use packaging is one of the great unsolved problems for our planet. In Denmark, we produce 844KG of household waste annually per person. Most of this packaging is used for food and beverage products and it is an increasingly large environmental challenge. At Cirqle we are driven by our mission to make single-use a thing of the past and make reuse packaging the norm. Reusing packaging reduces the impact, and greatly minimizes the natural resource use of packaging. With our pioneering reuse packaging service and technology platform, we make reuse a reality for companies in the food and beverage industry. We are already breaking new ground with our meal-kit service, but the sky's the limit when it comes to reuse packaging. With partners we cover the full supply chain from packaging production and software development to sanitation and logistics making sustainability the easy choice for our customers.

Tepui Agentic Labs is Europe’s first AI-native agentic data platform , built in Denmark from the ground up on EU-sovereign infrastructure for mid-market businesses trapped on legacy systems. Most mid-market companies across Europe are sitting on years of valuable business data locked inside outdated databases, spreadsheets, and disconnected systems. They have no data team to fix it, and enterprise solutions are priced for companies ten times their size. The result: critical business decisions made on gut feel, manual reports that take days to assemble, and institutional knowledge trapped in files nobody dares to touch. Tepui solves this with three product lines. Datarcon modernises legacy data, extracting, cleaning, and transforming it into a modern analytics layer the business actually owns. Our Sovereign SaaS platform lets companies run AI-powered tools on EU infrastructure with no data leaving European soil ,fully compliant, fully controlled. And Tonin, our autonomous 24/7 AI agent, monitors the business continuously, triggers alerts, generates reports, and answers operational questions in plain language. Tonin is not a chatbot , it is an always-on intelligence layer that works while the team sleeps. A standout feature of our AI agents is the Consciousness Core , an integrated ethics layer ensuring responsible AI behaviour and compliance with the EU AI Act from inception. Every agent decision is traceable, auditable, and explainable by design. The platform is built on an enterprise-grade 7-layer security architecture, fully EU-sovereign with no data leaving European soil. We serve multiple industry verticals across Denmark hospitality (restaurant groups, hotels), construction (mid-market contractors), social housing (almene boligorganisationer), investment funds (PE, VC, family offices), food suppliers, automotive (parts distributors, dealer groups), and law firms with additional verticals in development. Every vertical has the same problem: years of data locked in systems that never talk to each other. Same core product, different industry configuration. We are pre-seed, incubated at ITU NextGen Incubator 2026, and actively pursuing first pilot clients in Denmark.-sovereign deployment on European infrastructure as standard. Made in Denmark. Built for Europe.

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.

NitroVolt is decarbonizing nitrogen-based fertilizer production and making the agricultural sector more resilient with a novel production process. Commercial ammonia production supports 40-50% of the agricultural industry as a nitrogen-based fertilizer. But current ammonia production is not sustainable, releasing over 1% of global greenhouse gas emissions during production facilities and further emissions during transportation to the end user, farmers. NitroVolt offers a local ammonia production solution that gives farmers the ability to produce their own nitrogen-based fertilizer. The only inputs required by NitroVolt’s container-sized systems are air, water, and electricity, enabling production of sustainable ammonia directly at farms. NitroVolt’s patented electrochemical Nitrolyzer unit can make ammonia on-demand with intermittent renewable energy sources. With their technology, NitroVolt aims to decarbonize nitrogen-based fertilizer production one farm at a time, cut the logistic costs of distributing fertilizer, and make the agricultural sector more resilient to external factors.