TechBBQ is the quintessential and largest startup and innovation summit in Denmark and Greater Copenhagen in September. Meet your future customer, investor, co-founder, employer or employee. Explore new technologies and the companies that make them a reality and give yourself the opportunity to get that one special meeting, the one you did not know you needed.We're a Danish non-profit organisation established in 2012.

Activity Stream is a marketing platform that live entertainment organizations can use to sell more tickets and identify, understand and activate their fans or audiences. By exploring their data and using segmentation tools, like building intent-based campaigns, the platform can help organizations easily enhance their marketing and communication abilities.

About five years ago, four tech entrepreneurs spotted a huge interest in yarn; Our growth journey started back in 2016 and consisted of four young guys and a pallet of yarn. They started to supply yarn and inspiration to knitting and crocheting enthusiasts around the world, and we haven’t looked back since. That developed into an adventure which so far has led us to the prestigious Børsen Gazelle award as Denmark's fastest growing company in 2020! 🥇 The recipe behind all of this is about us having fun and delivering results - often in that order!

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 55,000 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.

Docendo is developing tools to help schools worldwide scheduling and plan their resources. Schools currently work in ad-hoc, centralized manner on resource planning which leads to suboptimal solutions and errors. At Docendo we build solutions that help delegate the work and make the numbers add up so no resources go wasted. At Docendo we strive to improve education for children worldwide.

Queue-it is a tech scale-up that helps the world’s biggest brands manage their busiest days. Our virtual waiting rooms prevent website crashes and bot abuse to create a smoother, fairer online experience for billions of users. Queue-it is a place where you can do what you are naturally best at to positively maintain your performance. We’re a diverse team coming from 50+ countries with offices in Denmark, the U.S., and Australia.

Pluto empowers municipalities with a cost-effective asset management platform empowered by AI. By automating the data collection through computer vision, municipalities are able to save millions on smarter maintenance decisions, limit their overall carbon-emmission, adhere to the legally required documentation, and subsequently offer a well-operating infrastructure for all their citizens. For all available roles please visit https://plutowiki.notion.site/open-positions

Playable is the gamification platform for marketers. We transform engagement into action, data into insight, and brand moments into measurable impact, with interactive marketing experiences that captivate and convert. Our flexible Saas platform allows marketers to create, tailor and deploy marketing gamification campaigns at scale to deliver results at every touchpoint. Powering the playable marketing of 650+ brands globally, 15 games are played every second from our platform. Founded in 2017 in Denmark, our expert teams in Aarhus, Copenhagen, Helsinki, and London inspire marketing where play means business, every day. Step inside Playable, and you’ll find energy, ambition and a team that’s all-in. From Sales, Marketing and Customer Success, to Product and Operations, our teams work closely across our European offices; each bringing their expertise to help brands engage, perform, and deliver real impact. We move fast, think big, and collaborate across roles. You’ll find sky-high ambitions and a down-to-earth atmosphere – where ideas flow freely and impact matters. We care about meaning and metrics, and we strive for both every day. At Playable, you won’t just be part of the team. You’ll be part of the momentum. We are powered by play, and driven by people. It’s the way we work, not just what we’re building that matters. We believe trust and transparency are the foundations for doing great work. That means managers who lead from the front, and teammates who have got your back. It means flexibility, common sense, and treating people like people – not job titles. We care deeply about outcomes, and the experience of getting there. We’re serious about delivering results, but we know that ambition, creativity, and collaboration are what get us there. Because at Playable, play means business – and our people bring that to life every day.

LEGO Ventures is the venture capital arm of the LEGO® brand, focusing on the future of learning, creativity, and play. In our Venture Incubation Studio we work with founders to build start-ups that extend the LEGO Idea of learning-through-play. We believe that great ideas are born from bringing different perspectives together and giving them a safe space to challenge and inspire each other. This is exactly the space that the Incubation Studio creates. By bringing together LEGO colleagues and external entrepreneurs, we're taking a hands-on approach to exploring venture opportunities that sit at the intersection of creativity, learning, and play.

Humans are made up of atoms and software of bits. When the two come together in the right constellation, magic happens. This is the central belief on which Atobi is founded. Engaging, human-centered design continues to be our guiding star when helping our customers succeed through simple and aligned execution. We believe in making things simpler while engaging employees at the same time. That is why we have created ONE platform meeting ALL needs when interacting with employees.

Wintra is a Danish software and consultancy agency specialized in performance measurement, content management, digital strategy implementation, and governance of the digital workplace. Since 2008, we have provided analytics and reporting software for some of the largest Scandinavian companies, including A.P. Moller – Maersk, Novo Nordisk & Nordea. Wintra is working towards becoming the preferred choice within digital workplace analytics for the largest organizations in Europe. We work with a structured approach, which is valuable in solving complex tasks. To our customers, we contribute with direction when too many questions start to blur the aim. We engage easily with our customers whilst being firm in what value our product shall provide. We are analytical in our approach to tasks and build repositories of research which we use to ensure that people we are working for is using a factual base in context of the problem to be solved. Making sure what we do is rooted in solid research and good decision process is important to us. Hence, we often assume the role as decision catalyst to our customers. We also have a competitive nature, which shows in our motivation to work with the best in class when it comes to digital workplace performance. Working together with people that value integrity is of highly importance to us as well. Our ProductWeb Performance Indicator (WPI) is the outcome of 8 years of studies of the development of content management systems and 4 years of software development. The objective of WPI is to “make intranets work”, which in other words enables customers to “take control of their content” and “lead by numbers”. WPI provides detailed analytics and performance indication on views and visitors, traffic patterns, content life cycles, target groups, and engagement.

Digital Ops ApS is building an autonomous AI platform that acts as a company's digital grant manager, automating the full lifecycle of public and private grant applications from identifying relevant funding opportunities to preparing and submitting applications, to project management, documentation, and reporting afterward. The problem we're solving is that grant applications today are a heavy, manual, and time-consuming process. This pulls focus away from a company's core business, which is why many businesses either outsource the work to expensive consultants or skip applying altogether, missing out on substantial funding that could support their growth. We're solving this because we believe access to funding shouldn't depend on having the time or budget for consultants; small and medium-sized enterprises deserve the same professional-grade funding management that larger companies can afford. Our platform is already in its first working version and being tested with real companies. Since our founding, we've built strong in-house expertise in software development, AI, and automation, giving us a solid foundation to scale this into a SaaS platform with international potential.

CM Navigator A/S – part of Copenhagen Merchants Group - is the company behind the digital platform for market intelligence and decision support in the agri-commodity and freight sectors – CM Navigator. Founded by Copenhagen Merchants Group, CM Navigator was initially developed in-house (starting around 2018) to aggregate the wealth of tacit market knowledge held by the group’s brokers and shipping experts. It was subsequently launched as a commercial SaaS platform in 2022 and later incorporated as an independent company in 2023 (while remaining majority-owned by CM Group). What it offers: CM Navigator provides real-time data and analytics tools to track commodity markets and logistics: • Live Prices & Global Benchmarks: Users get daily updated prices from major export regions (North America, South America, Europe, Black Sea, Australia, etc.) and a global CFR price matrix covering 600+ destinations, allowing easy comparison of origin competitiveness. This helps traders see, for example, how US corn fob prices plus freight compare to Brazilian corn into a given import market. • Freight Forecasting: The platform includes advanced freight tools that let users search among 250,000+ bulk freight routes with up to 12-month forward curves. This essentially functions as an instant freight rate calculator: a trader can input a specific load port and discharge port (or even a combination for multi-leg trades) and get current freight cost estimates and future rates. Such capability, drawn from Navi Merchants’ data, simplifies evaluating the delivered cost of commodities. • Supply/Demand & Trade Flows: CM Navigator continuously updates global supply and demand balances for key crops, and tracks trade flows. It integrates official data with on-the-ground insights (e.g., port line-up information) to give an up-to-date picture of export/import volumes and stock levels. This dynamic data can alert users to changes (such as a sudden surge in Ukrainian wheat exports or a drought cutting Argentine soy supply) much faster than traditional reports. • News & Insights: The platform delivers relevant news flashes and in-house analysis. For instance, it might highlight policy changes, weather events, or logistical issues affecting markets, along with commentary from CM’s analysts. Users also receive reports like grain export summaries or freight market outlooks, helping them stay ahead in volatile markets. Strategic purpose: The creation of CM Navigator reflects the group’s goal to “empower traders of all sizes in all countries” by democratizing access to high-quality market data. It takes the tacit knowledge that Copenhagen Merchants accumulated (through decades of brokerage and logistics operations) and scales it via technology. Internally, the platform ensures CM’s own teams and key clients operate with the same up-to-date information. Externally, it has become a new revenue stream and value proposition, attracting subscribers from the wider industry. By providing transparency and decision-support, CM Navigator strengthens Copenhagen Merchants Group’s role as an information broker. Its strategic goal is to be the go-to platform for anyone looking for integrated data on grains and freight, thereby enhancing market efficiency and extending the group’s influence in the digital domain.

Thirsty is a fun-to-use mobile platform that enables people to bring the bar experience at home. Discover, learn and get the best recommendations for enjoying a well-made drink! Finding something that fits your tastes is most of the time a gamble! Discovering and experimenting with your preferences can be a fun learning experience when you’re not holding the line behind you at a busy bar. Our goal is to normalize the world of cocktails and to make it more accessible towards people who are interested in enjoying drinks. We want to shake people together through the shared experience of cocktails. We help people to discover what cocktails fit their individual tastes and learn how to impress their guests by making fancy drinks at home (or at your garden party!). By giving people the tools to learn what they like to drink and enable them to discover new sides of themselves, we educate consumers by making the complex world of mixology simpler and more accessible to people who are interested in enjoying drinks. Follow your favorite bartenders, save recipes or publish your own take on a drink you love!

EcoTree is a green-tech company specializing in sustainability. Our goal is to promote environmental awareness and engage individuals and businesses in eco-friendly behaviour by offering simple, concrete, and financially viable solutions to becoming a tree or even forest owner. Every single day 3.4 billion tons of CO2 is released into the atmosphere worldwide. In Europe, we are among the worst polluters in the world. While we can do a lot to reduce our emissions, it is impossible to stay completely CO2 neutral. You can, in turn, offset your carbon footprint by planting trees. As a matter of fact, the forest is one of our best means to fight global warming, as trees absorb CO2 through the process of photosynthesis. EcoTree has democratized and digitalized forestry. With EcoTree, it is easy and accessible both for individuals and businesses to contribute to the reforestation and preservation of our common green heritage. EcoTree enables everybody to become a tree owner. EcoTree has a team of forest experts that take care of planting and maintaining the forests in which your trees are located. You, being the owner of the trees, are entitled to receive 100% of the revenue generated from the wood sale when your trees have reached maturity, cut, and the forest is renewed. EcoTree implements a “close to nature” forestry management plan in which the preservation of the biodiversity in the forest is kept at the heart of our activities, and for every tree that is cut, EcoTree plants three new ones. The idea behind EcoTree came up when a group of French childhood friends went to Copenhagen on a trip in 2014. There were many things that the group of friends adored about the Scandinavian lifestyle, but one thing that especially struck them was the well-functioning bottle deposit system. On each can, glass, or plastic bottle you purchase in Denmark you pay a small premium as a deposit that you get back when returning the empty bottles and cans to the supermarket. Consequently, the cities are clean and society more sustainable. This simple idea of rewarding sustainability led to the foundation of EcoTree. Approximately 600,000 newly planted trees later, the idea that was born in Scandinavia returns to its place of origin, as EcoTree has opened its new international office in Copenhagen in September 2019.