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.

CustomiseMe is a social business aiming at providing personal hygienic products putting the customer at the core. Our vision is very simple: we intend to tailor personal hygienic goods through a unique concept - we want to put the customer at the center, giving them the opportunity to co-create with us the products from scratch. CustomiseMe produces items that are made 100% from organic plant based ingredients. With organic ingredients, the consumer uses a product which is not harmful to any of the physical and psychological body prepositions. It is actually the opposite - they enhance your health and well-being considering the well-chosen blend of ingredients matching the individual needs.

We are a subscription-based journalistic media outlet that works uncompromisingly to uncover important stories, expose abuses of power, and set agendas that would otherwise be overlooked—always with the individual citizen and society as a whole in mind. We believe in transparency, integrity, and the courage to say what needs to be said. We are not friends with anyone, and we reject media subsidies and advertisers, making us accountable only to our subscribers. Only in this way can we produce completely independent, critical journalism for the benefit of both the individual citizen and society as a whole. We were founded in June 2021 by, among others, Mads Brügger, and we currently operate in Denmark and the Faroe Islands, where we publish articles and podcasts on our own platforms (web and app), as well as on social media and via newsletters. In both countries, we have experienced significant growth in the number of paying members.

GRAD ApS is a Danish startup on a mission: to sustainably refine the global beverage cooling industry. Located on Vesterbro in Copenhagen and based on its patent pending technology and award winning design, GRAD has developed a portfolio of “Perfect Serve” cooling products for the global hospitality industry. The product has gained international traction and the company is currently scaling up fast on several markets globally. GRAD is an international team of 10 with backgrounds varying from engineering and design, to business and supply chain. It is an open, friendly, trusting and hardworking environment where coffee is always flowing, and (perfectly cooled) drinks can be enjoyed on a Friday at the home-built office bar.

DBtune (www.dbtune.com) is an innovative AI startup based in the vibrant Malmö area, a short train ride away from Copenhagen, Denmark, and Lund and Helsingborg, Sweden. Since our founding in 2020, our dedicated team of engineers and Ph.D. researchers has been on a mission to revolutionize cloud and database systems using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. DBtune's core technology is a fully automated service designed to optimize databases. Our optimizer, based on machine learning, tailors each optimization to the specific customer workload and hardware in use. This approach leads to improved key performance indicators, making the process of database tuning more efficient and scalable across hundreds of instances. By utilizing DBtune, users enhance their databases' performance while significantly reducing cloud costs and environmental impact. We have garnered support from institutional and angel investors in the EU and the US, along with pre-seed funding from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (KAW). With a growing customer base, DBtune is poised to expand its influence even further, scaling our operations to bring AI-driven database optimization to a broader audience.

Woomio is the leading 360 SaaS (Software as a Service) tool for agencies and brands by helping marketeers grow with social creators and enabling them to make data-driven decisions. Woomio is a platform for brands and agencies working with influencer marketing allowing them to search for creators, run their campaigns and analyze their results with awesome reports. We have built a quite unique organisation that values a fun and hardworking environment, where all support and help each other 💥

Viggo is electrifying urban mobility with ultra fast EV chargers and EV-based ride-hailing 🚕⚡️🔌 We're on a mission to make Europe's cities free from fossil fuels using renewable energy, rapid central charging hubs and electric ride-hailing. We're pushing urban mobility forward with convenient, electric rides and ultra fast charging. Currently active in Copenhagen and Aarhus. Join us in building better cities 🙌 #viggotogether

THE UPCYCL connects your industrial waste streams with your neighbors supply chain. We make it possible to reduce our amounts of industrial waste, by turning waste material streams into business opportunities. Our material database displays leftover materials from production, giving developers easy access to reusable materials, also called "New Waste". Hereby, achieving a significantly lower CO₂ footprint than with virgin materials. When circulating New Waste materials with the THE UPCYCL, we also offer to monitor CO₂ savings. We work to accelerate the use of circular materials, worldwide. Because Waste is Everyone's Business!

Accutics is a SaaS marketing data management platform that helps leading global brands such as Dyson, Coop, Nordea to streamline campaign tracking, combine campaign data, and assess campaign performance across sources in Adobe Analytics and Google Analytics. Core products: Tracking Code Creator, Cost Importer, Classification Importer

EasyPractice (Terapeut Booking in Denmark) is a Software as a Service company, that helps clinics and therapists worldwide manage their private practice.  Our system, EasyPractice, is used by more than 40.000 clinics worldwide and hundreds of thousands of patients. We are focused on growth through online marketing, growth hacking, and by providing a world-class product for our users. Sales strategy: Primarily online marketing Tech stack: PHP/Laravel/Vue.js.

Working for Valuer: The culture with Valuer is characterised by a flat and enabling organisation where every individual is leading, contributing and influencing our activities. We are sociable, passionate, fun-loving introverts and extroverts who believe in winning together. We put team and task over ego. We are a scale-up, and we work from the principle “nail it, then scale it”. About Valuer: Valuer was founded in 2017 and has been registered on Nasdaq First North Premier Growth Markets since 2021. Our head office is located in Copenhagen, Denmark, and we have colleagues working out of London, UK, Skopje, North-Macedonia and Beograd, Serbia. Our product is the brand. Valuer is the next generation tool for sourcing partners, investments, acquisitions, new technologies and new business models. Privacy notice to applicants: Your privacy is your right. We will process your personal data according to the rules set out in Valuer’s data protection policy, the GDPR and the EDPB guidelines. We value the ethical use of your personal data and strive to treat your personal data to a high standard of respect for your privacy. If you are contacted by us, your data will be processed in order to take steps prior to entering into an employment contract. If you are not contacted by us, your CV and personal data will be deleted from our database immediately after the start date of the selected candidate. If your application is not successful after the interview process, we will delete your CV and personal data from our database immediately after the start date of the selected candidate.

WakeupData was created to empower people so that they can make better decisions and use their resources more efficiently. Our What WakeupData is an online data integration platform, which helps e-commerce business and digital marketing agencies to automate, optimize and amplify product data through high-quality data integrations, maximizing ROI without the need for developers. WakeupData helps hundreds of clients to send the best possible product listings with the most effective content to hundreds of channels worldwide – i.e.: Amazon, Google Shopping and Facebook. Our technology and our team will help our clients reduce costs by advising them on best practices, including out-of-the-box solutions to standard and unforeseen challenges as well as incredibly fast implementations of data feed management solutions, so they can relax and get back precious time and resources. Our Story WakeupData is an IT company from Aarhus - founded in 2014. Although we are based in Denmark, we have a global soul. Our award winning team consists of a total of 8 nationalities - a mere representation of Aarhus' international landscape. While being one of the 6 finalists at IBM's Business Connect 2015, WakeupData proudly raised just above 4 million krones for future development efforts from initiatives such as Markedsmodningsfonden, Vækstfonden and Innovationsfonden.A member of FDIH, the Association of Danish E-commerce, we continuously grow our strategic partnership network through marketing & sales channels and agencies. If you would like to learn more about our company, products and services, drop us an email at info@wakeupdata.com or simply stop by for a cup of coffee at our office situated just by Aarhus' central shopping street.

Cheetah AI is a start-up born at the University of Berkeley which aims to build intelligent software to accelerate AI and optimize energy consumption in embedded applications such as drones, autonomous vehicles, and smart buildings. With 3 core values of Inclusivity, Research, and Accountability, we are looking for our future colleagues to join us on our growth adventure!

DANISH ENDURANCE is a Danish sports brand, born with the mission of sharing the Danish spirit of happiness through endurance. Thanks to the combination of Danish design, conscious manufacturing, and collaboration with Olympic Athletes, we are proud to provide you with high-quality products that are created with attention to detail in every aspect of production.

1 — The pitch Tactplan is developing a location-based scheduling and production control platform to help construction contractors solve the chronic problem of schedule chaos and workflow collisions on site — with a purpose-built planning method that combines Takt Time Planning, real-time progress tracking, and actionable production alarms into one connected tool. 2 — The what Construction projects don't fail because people stop trying. They fail because no one can see what's actually happening — until it's too late. The construction industry is one of the least productive sectors in the developed world, and the root cause is hiding in plain sight: scheduling. Traditional Gantt-based project plans are disconnected from the physical reality of building. They don't reflect how work actually flows through a building — floor by floor, zone by zone, trade by trade. The result is trades colliding, buffers eroding, foremen firefighting, and project managers spending their days in status meetings instead of solving real problems. This isn't a niche problem. It affects virtually every multi-trade construction project, from residential developments to hospitals and infrastructure — representing hundreds of billions of euros in lost productivity annually across Europe alone. 3 — The how Tactplan replaces the Gantt chart with a location-based schedule — a plan structured around where work happens, not just when. Using Takt Time Planning principles, project teams define a steady production rhythm across locations: the right trade in the right place at the right time, with no overlaps and no idle zones. The schedule becomes a live production system. As work progresses, Tactplan captures actual production rates, detects deviations early, and surfaces prioritised alarms so planners and site managers know exactly what to act on. Instead of a plan that gets outdated the moment it's printed, teams get a continuously valid picture of their project — with the tools to keep production moving and catch problems days before they become delays. 4 — The why The construction industry has tools for everything except the thing that matters most: keeping work flowing. The team behind Tactplan comes from civil engineering and construction project management. They've experienced firsthand the frustration of planning systems that look sophisticated on paper but fall apart on site — schedules that no one trusts, updates that never happen, and meetings where everyone knows there's a problem but nobody has the data to act on it. Location-based scheduling and Takt Time Planning have strong academic and practical evidence behind them, but the tooling has never matched the method. Tactplan exists to close that gap — to give construction teams a planning tool that actually reflects how buildings are built, and to make flow-based production control the new standard for the industry.