Global Startup Awards (GSA) was born out of the Danish startup ecosystem through the Nordic Startup Awards in 2012. What began as a regional initiative has grown into the world’s largest independent startup competition platform, now covering 154 countries across 19 regions. Through its competition framework and flagship events, GSA connects startups, investors, corporates, governments, and ecosystem enablers to showcase and accelerate innovation on both regional and global levels. GSA has offices in Copenhagen and Budapest and works closely with governments, investors, and business partners worldwide. Its model operates through a licensee-and-partnership structure, in which external organisations under the GSA framework lead several regional programs. Beyond competitions, GSA has evolved into a global innovation platform spanning multiple pillars — from events and content to data, insights, and venture partnerships — that drives collaboration between the public and private sectors to strengthen innovation ecosystems around the world.

We’re changing the way the church works. At ChurchDesk we believe the church needs great tools that can help them improve their work and meet people where they are. It’s church management software made beautifully simple. ChurchDesk is a SaaS company established in 2010 working +2,000 churches across Europe. We’re a diverse group of 30 people with 11 different nationalities. We have offices in Copenhagen, London and Berlin.

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

At Qarma we built the next generation supply chain tools. We work with the leading brands within fashion, furniture and lifestyle to help them step up on product quality and compliance by reducing administrative complexity and increasing transparency throughout the supply chain. We have offices in Århus, Copenhagen, Shanghai and Saigon. We are born international and our customer footprint is Europe and the US, but our users are spread across +70 countries and still counting.

We are building a patented security and authentication solution designed to protect products against fraud, counterfeiting, and misuse — across industries, not only textiles. Many industries struggle with the same core problems: • Fraudulent returns • Counterfeit products • Lack of reliable product authentication • High manual control and verification costs Existing solutions are often expensive, complex, or limited to specific product types. Our solution is a patent-protected security seal that can be applied to any physical product with a surface, not just garments. It enables fast and reliable authentication, prevents product tampering, and creates traceability throughout the product’s lifecycle. The technology is simple, scalable, and does not require changes to existing logistics or IT systems. It can be used in fashion, electronics, luxury goods, consumer products, and other industries where product authenticity and return control matter. We hold a granted European patent covering 39 countries, and the business is designed to scale globally through a licensing model. This allows partners to operate locally while we retain full ownership of the intellectual property. Our mission is to make product authentication and fraud prevention simple, scalable, and commercially viable, helping brands protect both revenue and trust.

About Game Analytics GameAnalytics is a leading analytics tool for anyone building a mobile game. Our platform helps everyone in the industry, from indie developers, to growing games studios, to global publishers. Our network includes more than 100k games, which are played by north of 2 billion people each month. That’s more than ⅓ of the world’s mobile gamers. What’s our mission? To help game developers make the right decisions based on data. And by joining our team, you’ll be working on new and innovative products to help tens of thousands of people in the industry do just that.

An AI-powered platform to identify and connect organizations to life science opinion leaders. This kind of service has been used by Investment Firms and Management Consultancies on a daily basis for over a decade, but unless you’re a consultant or have worked at an investment firm you are probably unfamiliar with expert consultations, and the enormous value it brings. Our vision is to take the somewhat opaque ‘Expert Network’-service to a broader market, specifically the life science industry, to realize massive value and make knowledge extraction by expert consultations a no-brainer as part of a growth strategy.

At Arkyn we are on a mission to change complex SAP processes into best-in-class mobile SAP experience for global enterprises. We provide an app suite for maintenance operations utilizing cutting-edge technology and a cloud solution that easily integrates with enterprise software market leader SAP. Arkyn was founded in 2020 to help enterprises get the best from SAP. We introduce user-centric solutions to enable everyone to work faster, easier, and smarter in SAP. We are incubated through Trifork labs and we are a part of the Trifork Group with more than 1200+ employees across Europe. The business model is SaaS and Arkyn is currently delivering user-friendly apps for planning, scheduling and mobile execution of maintenance operations at enterprise-sized companies across Europe. The Arkyn team currently consists of 17 talented and tech-loving people striving to build the most amazing company.

Keepit is a fast-growing IT scale-up with 22+ years of experience in software and data protection. Our mission is to help companies around the world protect and manage their cloud-based data. In 2020 Keepit raised $30 million in funding to fuel the growth and position Keepit as the category leader in the Backup-as-a-Service market. Keepit covers a broad client base of major corporations and institutions across all sectors and industries. Our team is both academically and culturally diverse, and we have more than thirty different nationalities working together to promote trust and security in a world transforming towards new levels of digitalization. At Keepit we’re all Keepers. Joining Keepit and becoming a Keeper also means joining a passionate and ambitious family, where entrepreneurial thinking is embraced in a caring environment. Can you see yourself at Keepit? We’re on the constant look for talented, ambitious, and caring people.

We’re building the next category-defining legal tech company with two products: Bind is our AI-powered platform for businesses. It drafts contracts, resolves comments and redlines, and answers legal questions — all grounded in the company’s own playbooks and contract history. Aatos is our consumer platform, used by over 200,000 people in Finland, Sweden, and Denmark to handle everyday legal matters entirely online. We’ve grown to $2M in annual revenue, and were ranked the 7th fastest-growing tech company in Finland by Deloitte in 2024.

We are a venture studio and we are a family of impact funds. We partner with incredible entrepreneurs & corporates to co-create solutions that have a positive impact on society and the planet. We have our own investment fund that enables us to execute fast and focused with co-founders and strategic partners.  We focus on building ventures within health & well-being or energy.  Our team is small and experienced and our network is big and powerful. We are a super ambitious bunch and perhaps some people would consider us crazy. We meditate with brain scanners, we discuss various tests for optimal health, and wonder why the human race is destroying the earth and if in the future an AI would put the human race under administration. However, we want to take part in ensuring that humans actually are a force for good, for each other, and toward this beautiful planet. We start with ourselves: We have weekly runs, CrossFit in the park, healthy eating, sustainable sessions, and of course also the normal casual talks and loads of fun.

Our products should be a natural part of every punter’s and gambler’s life, and serve as the hub for all betting activities, where users go before, under and/or after their betting and gambling. Our industry-leading products enrich the users’ overall betting and gambling experiences.Our culture is driven by an urge to accomplish, create and grow. We share a firm belief in cross-functional collaboration, short decision-cycles and a firm focus on execution.We work hard to create a working environment that ensures motivation and helps realize the potential of the employees.

Founded in Sweden in 2010, Scrive is a leading European provider of e-signature and identity solutions, trusted by 12,000+ customers across a wide range of industries. Backed by Vitruvian Partners, we're scaling fast across the EU, with team members based across Europe and offices in Stockholm (HQ), Copenhagen, Berlin, Munich, Amsterdam, Brno, Oslo and Brno. We offer the opportunity to be part of a company where your ideas matter and your contribution helps build the future of digital trust. 💫

Rackbeat is a cloud-based inventory management solution designed to make your life easier. If you sell, produce, distribute, or manage products, you need a smart system to keep track of your stock. With a product-centric design, Rackbeat minimizes administrative and manual tasks. This frees up time for profit-generating activities

Lentii is the most versatile social travel tool on the market. Through Lentii you can easily coordinate the journey from the comfort of your browser. We make it easy for you to store all the best ideas in one place. Like Pinterest, our browser extension can store content from any website.  Save and share inspiration and ideas. You can quickly agree on what you want to rent, buy or experience during the trip.Our vision is to make travel planning fun, by gathering the essential tools in one place. We are are a dedicated team that aspires to change the way that people and groups manage the travel-planning. Our vision is to make travel planning fun, by gathering the essential tools in one place. If you have ever had to plan a trip for a group, then you know how frustrating it can be – especially if people have several different opinions. There are millions of things to do on a trip, and the best ideas are most often found across many different websites. Usually, everyone have to meet up, to settle on what to do for the trip. Lentii turns this tedious process on its head and makes travel-planning a fun experience. Now, no one have to end up planning all the activities by themselves. Lentii makes it a collaborative and enjoyable experience.