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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).

Founders

Founders is a startup studio. Together with exceptional entrepreneurs, we build companies from scratch and scale them as independent companies when they gain traction. Whether it’s a bank for freelancers, a way to kill the pain of doing expenses or reimagining life in cities, we are always on the lookout for opportunities to improve the way people work and live. We created Founders in 2012 because we strongly believed there was a better way to build tech companies. Our vision then and now is to refine a model that enables us to co-found successive companies on a single platform that gets smarter with each success and failure. We believe in launching early and iterating fast, knowing that failing is just part of the process on the road to success. Read more about how we work at Founders here: https://www.founders.as/handbook

Heka VR

HEKA VR is a medical software platform that enables Avatar-Therapy, a form of psychotherapy, to be conducted in a Virtual Reality or in a Telehealth setting. VR-based Avatar Therapy combines psychology and VR technology to provide transformative interventions for mental health disorders. Grounded in research, this therapy utilises virtual reality and avatars to create immersive experiences. Through the concept of embodiment, individuals psychologically connect with their avatars, leading to significant changes in thoughts and behaviours. In schizophrenia, Avatar Therapy helps patients gain control over auditory hallucinations, but Avatar Therapy holds promise for improving mental health outcomes among patients with Eating Disorders, PTSD, Bipolar disorder, Borderline disorder, Major Depressive Disorder and many more. Heka VR was born through a public-private partnership and research project called The Challenge Trial - initiated in 2019, funded by the Danish Innovation Fund and with the final research results published in The Lancet Psychiatry in July 2025. The results show that VR based Avatar-Therapy is a an effective new treatment method for 7/10 patients with treatment resistant Schizophrenia. Currently Heka VR is involved in 10+ clinical trials and studies around the world, from North America to APAC. Our mission is to scale Avatar-Therapy globally and bring clinically proven treatment methods to the patients that need it the most! Apart from the Danish Innovation Fund, we are funded by Bio Innovation Institute, EIT Health and Danish Life Science Cluster - Erhvervsfyrtårn. As a company we're a small multinational team with a can-do attitude and a big passion for what we do! We push ourselves to be better and do better, celebrate our wins and learn from our mistakes - for each other, our partners and our patients. Learn more about us at hekavr.com or visit our Linkedin page! https://www.linkedin.com/company/hekavr

Dianox

Dianox is a founder-led pharmatech startup with a computational drug platform for targeting undruggable proteins. Big opportunity as 85% of proteins are undruggable with small molecules and unreachable by antibodies. We are always on the lookout for passionate partners in the health space. If you are excited about the potential of our work, please reach out.

New Works

New Works was founded by Nikolaj Meier and Knut Bendik Humlevik from the desire to establish a design house where design comes to life with care and intent, and where there is room for creative experiments — a place for new works. While Nikolaj juggles numbers and daily operations as CEO, Knut Bendik is responsible for the particular look and feel as Creative Director. Together with a small, dedicated team, they set out to define a curated collection of elevated, yet accessible objects for living.

Bounce

Short term storage on every block of the city, hosted by local businesses Bounce is an app that lets you find a place to leave your bags or luggage when you’re on the go. We launched in 2019 on Product Hunt as #1 product of the day and have been growing 40% monthly since then. We're backed by top tier investors and are a small scrappy team with big plans. Read our story below and get in touch! Inspiration The founders have collectively lived in 15 cities and traveled to 60+ countries. We know how annoying it is to have your things dragging you down. I personally own less than 3 suitcases worth of belongings. Lightbulb Moment A few years ago, I was getting drinks with co-workers after work on a Friday. A friend said he’d join, but had to go all the way out of the way to drop his work bag at home. I thought “what a waste of time, there's got to be a better way.” Problem People spend so much time planning their days (and their lives) around the things that they own. The status quo when you land in a new city is to go straight to the airport just to drop your stuff off, even if it doesn’t make sense otherwise. Solution Tapping into local hotels and shops, we can open up storage space nearly everywhere in a city. Open the Bounce app and find a safe and secure place to leave your things (delivery back to where you’ll be later coming soon!). Key Features: * 24/7 storage locations * Secured and insured * Easy pricing: $6 / day * 24/7 customer support * Get to know your local shops! Vision: This is just the first step in creating what we hope will one day be a paradigm-shift product. Our end goal is for Bounce to be the interface between you and your physical things. Use Bounce to summon your things to you or away from you. We could talk your ear off for hours about what this can be long term.

FLEXECHARGE

FLEXECHARGE is a cleantech scale-up which offers a powerful load & energy management platform, as a SaaS, to help Charge Point Operators (ex: Clever, eOn, etc.) to optimise their charging operations & business. Our mission is accelerate green mobility through our Smart Charging solutions that make charging faster, greener and cheaper. Our vision is to integrate charging infrastructures better with the grid supply and the ever more volatile & growing production of renewable energy. We want to connect electric vehicles with the grid in a whole new way. By seeing electric vehicles not as a risk for our supply grid, but as a crucial asset for the transition towards 100% renewable energy. We do this through constant innovation of new smart charging features which will make us the preferred partner for EV infrastructure owners, developers, and operators.

2030 Builders

2030 Builders – Empowering People to Drive Sustainable Change At 2030 Builders, we believe sustainability isn’t just a target—it’s a mindset that reshapes how organisations grow, compete, and lead. Our mission is to help companies transform their workforce into a resilient, purpose-driven community capable of achieving ambitious strategic and ESG goals. Through our user-centric platform, we combine gamified learning, 200+ expert sustainability topics, and practical tools to embed sustainability into culture, strategy, and everyday decision-making. From decarbonization to ethical governance, we make complex topics clear, actionable, and inspiring—so people at every level can drive real change. Trusted by forward-thinking global enterprises, we empower employees to co-create solutions, build ownership, and turn risk into opportunity. By connecting knowledge with action, we help organisations accelerate the journey to net zero, strengthen their reputation, and attract the next generation of purpose-driven talent. At 2030 Builders, you won’t just work on a product—you’ll be part of a movement to reshape how businesses impact the world. Together, we’re building a greener, better, and more resilient future—one empowered employee at a time.

GOODIEBOX

GOODIEBOX is an innovative fast-growing beauty company based in Copenhagen. GOODIEBOX is an online business whose mission is to create relationships between beauty and cosmetics brands and consumers. We give both large international brands and smaller niche brands the opportunity to market their products directly to a specific target group interested in their products. Every month, we send thousands of members a sample of products in a GOODIEBOX, after which members test, evaluate and often repurchase the selected products.

Artland

Artland is a global online platform dedicated to connecting galleries with collectors worldwide. With the goal of making contemporary art more accessible, we offer a new way to discover, sell and buy art. In creating a unique virtual destination, Artland creates a place for collectors and galleries to meet, whilst unlocking new possibilities for the art world to expand.

Numina

Numina is the AI-first accounting platform for the Nordics. Our vision is to make accounting fully autonomous with our multi-agent system that can handle categorization, reconciliation, VAT, etc. Core accounting is a notoriously difficult market to enter, but we believe the time is now to re-build core accounting from scratch with AI.

Healper

Healper a game-changing booking platform that matches people with mental health issues such as depression, anxiety, and addiction with the psychologist who fits their needs. Problem: The cumbersome booking of the wrong psychologist In Denmark, mental disorders account for 25% of the disease burden and cost society 55 billion DKK annually with more than 2,000 people receiving therapy from a psychologist every day. Further, too many individuals do not receive timely help as they cannot cope with the draining 5-hour process it takes to find and book a psychologist. At the same time, U.S. experience shows that only 20-40% of people find a psychologist they trust and have 'chemistry' with. This is tragic, as just one bad experience can cause a client to completely drop out of or postpone his/her therapy. The ineffective booking process and the risk of a poor patient-therapist match mean that many people continue to struggle with mental illness who could otherwise be treated. This has major consequences for individuals whose mental illness markedly impairs their quality of life, but also largely affect their family and friends. Furthermore, this is a major problem for society, which is negatively impacted by lost labor and growth and must shoulder the high costs associated with mental illness. Solution: A simple approach to booking the right psychologist Healper is a friendly guide and a booking platform that matches clients with psychologists. We have designed a comfortable, simple, and transparent user journey, that takes the client by the hand and helps him/her through therapy to mental health. Clients fill out a short questionnaire and are then matched with the best results from our database of more than 1,700 psychologists. Here, we find the psychologist who can statistically give the best treatment. Clients are presented with a prioritized list of three psychologists along with the reasons for the match. From this list, clients can choose which psychologist they like best, book a session, and pay. The platform continuously facilitates feedback from clients and their psychologists to improve the processing and precision of the matches.

Zliide

At Zliide, we seek to reinvent the fashion industry by making physical retail stores more digital with our awesome solutions and features, enabling fast and smooth assisted-checkout, in-store ordering and much more when shopping through Zliide. We are funded by leading Danish VC funds and business angels such as Nordic Eye, PreSeed Ventures, and US and Danish-based family offices. Zliide was founded in 2016 and has built a scalable product currently implemented in 30 stores in Denmark and expanding both within Denmark and abroad soon. Our team consists of 16 people who work from our office in central Aarhus. We strive to create an international working environment and a strong relationship with the core team, which you would be a part of. Our goal is to become a world-leading platform for physical retail.‍

ØNSK

ØNSK er et kaffefirma som sætter en ære i at skabe en tæt relation mellem bønderne i Nicaragua og Peru og vores professionelle kunder i Danmark. Vi arbejder med at flere af pengene i kaffeindustrien ender i bøndernes egne lommer. Det synes vi er mest fair. Samtidig ønsker vi at bringe endnu bedre kaffeoplevelser ind i danskernes hverdag. Det gør vi ved et kvalitetsmæssigt solidt produkt kombineret med autentiske fortællinger fra kaffens oprindelse på kaffegårdene.

MindMind

According to WHO, 15% of all young people will get a mental health diagnosis before they turn 18. MindMind is a Danish startup developing tools for mental wellness. The first product launched is called BiBi (short for Breathing Buddy), and is a tool designed to guide users how to perform four specific evidence based breathing exercises to find calm, focus and mental balance. It is already today used in educational settings such as primary and secondary school, in hospitals, and by individuals suffereing from anxiety, stress, PTSD, and much much more. The company is located on the beautiful island Bornholm, in the Baltic Sea, from where all development and design takes place.