In a short span of time, Upsound has become the leading platform for recording studio rental in Denmark, both on an hourly- and session basis. We facilitate a large number of crowdsourced studios throughout the country that rent out their studios through our platform, as well as a vast network of music producers, sound-engineers and songwriters. And in 2024, we changed our name from Juicebox to Upsound, re-branded ourselves at upsound.com, and are ready to take our first international steps! But why is there a need for a platform like ours? Countless musicians across all music industries does not have access to recording studios, which is both due to a lack of studios, that access to studios is often based on personal networks, as well as the fact that existing studios are often very expensive, and the common users therefore cannot afford to use them. But despite this, many studios are often empty, as most of them are rented on a monthly basis by only one or a few owners who does not use them full time, but finding renters for the available days and/or hours can be time consuming. At Upsound we try to solve both problems. With our crowdsourcing of existing studios across the country, we can highlight all the offers out there, thereby bringing the customers and the studio owners together. As of today, we have onboarded 40+ professional studios to our platform, have 1000+ users registered, and have facilitated over 800 bookings. But why us? Because we have experienced the problem ourselves as musicians. We, like many others who start making music, did not have a large network of friends in the industry, and we did not know any producers, sound engineers, or studios, and we certainly did not have money for what we could find on Google. We are therefore heavily dedicated to solving this issue, but have also seen the potential for a highly profitable business endeavor. This combination is why we went directly from university, to working full time on Upsound, to creating a team that have all the necessary skills to solve any problem we may encounter, to being adopted into Innfounder Graduate, to landing our first investment in December 2023, and our ambition is not only to solidify ourselves in Denmark, but to become the leading platform for recording studio rental in Europe.

The TEAM: Bright Star Studios started with just a few friends, their passion for gaming, and their desire to build the next big MMORPG. Although it might sound a little crazy ambitious, Ember Sword developed into a game-changer: a free to play, modern, and truly player-driven MMORPG game with a real economy powered by the Ethereum Blockchain, and in just 2 years, Bright Star became one of the most promising gaming studios in the world. Today we are a rapidly growing team. Spread across continents, yet united in our mission to build the ultimate MMORPG experience, gaming is the heart and soul of Bright Star Studios. The BSS team is determined, talented, hailing from diverse backgrounds and locations. Even though most of us met & worked online during the pandemic, we have forged great professional and interpersonal bonds. So if you want to work with an extremely talented team and rock the foundation of the gaming world together, we will welcome you with open arms.

P27 Nordic Payments is building the world’s first real-time, cross-border payment system in multiple currencies. P27 will enable real-time, batch, domestic and cross-border payments to be carried out quickly and at low cost on a secure and versatile platform. The platform will initially allow payments to flow instantly between people and businesses within the countries of Denmark, Finland, and Sweden, something that will benefit growth and development in the region. The platform will be designed to be expandable to allow for payments across the rest of the Nordics as well, which will contribute to the strengthening of the Nordic payment’s ecosystem. P27 is a joint initiative by Danske Bank, Handelsbanken, Nordea, OP Financial Group, SEB, and Swedbank.

SimplyPrint is cloud software for managing and monitoring 3D printers. 3D printing has grown quickly over the past decade, but the software infrastructure around it is still fragmented and often difficult to manage, especially when multiple printers are involved. Schools, makerspaces, companies, and print farms often run several printers at the same time, but lack a simple way to monitor them, manage print queues, track usage, or help users interact with the machines remotely. SimplyPrint was created to solve exactly that problem. Our platform connects directly to 3D printers and provides a centralized interface where users can monitor prints, manage printer fleets, organize users, and control printing activity. For organizations running many printers, this dramatically simplifies daily operations. Today SimplyPrint is used by more than 75,000 users worldwide, ranging from hobbyists with a single printer to universities, schools, businesses, and professional print farms running dozens of machines. The company started about 6 years ago, directly after the founder finished high school. The first years were spent experimenting, pivoting, and rebuilding the platform several times. The current version of the platform (SimplyPrint 2.0) has been in active development for the past few years and has seen strong adoption and growth. One of the unusual things about SimplyPrint is that most of the growth so far has been organic. The product has spread through the 3D printing community largely through word of mouth, SEO, and user recommendations. The company is 100% bootstrapped and runs as a small, lean team based in Denmark. Today the team consists of three full-time members and several part-time contributors, with the core team also holding equity in the company. Despite the small team size, the platform now generates roughly 200,000 DKK in monthly recurring revenue and has grown significantly over the past year. The majority of customers are located in the United States, followed by Europe, as the global 3D printing market continues to expand. As the technology becomes more widely adopted in education, manufacturing, and product development, the need for reliable management software is increasing rapidly. SimplyPrint aims to become the standard platform for managing 3D printer fleets, helping organizations run their printers more efficiently while making the technology easier to access and use. We believe the market for 3D printing software is still early, and that a focused, product-driven team can build a significant global company from Denmark.

StoryHunt is a new platform for interactive podcasts, promising a different kind of entertainment. We specialize in delivering truly immersive experiences that activate our users rather than immobilize them through a screen. Through our mobile app, we encourage urban discovery by delivering gamified and interactive experiences in the city. We partner with big players across industries to make our vision come true and are expanding both our team and partnership portfolio.

Why? We believe that in- game personalization should be accessible and safe. Digital outfits create a more fun and social experience. How? We do this by enabling gamers to securely trade and own the flavour of outfits, that reflect their personality. What? We make payment services for gamers, that make it possible to securely buy and sell outfits in a secondary market. Want to join?

Bodil is transforming the energy retrofitting industry from the outside in – we believe in a future where the homes we live in don't damage the planet we live on. Our mission is to make energy retrofitting digital, affordable, and consumer-friendly. The residential energy solutions of tomorrow are available to us today. We know how to radically reduce the emissions footprint and improve the livability of our customers’ homes, cost-effectively and at scale with products such as solar panels, batteries, heat pumps and ML-based intelligent controls, and better insulation. Bodil is on a mission to: • Reduce the environmental footprint of heating and energy consumption. • Improve the economics of homeownership by lowering monthly utility bills. • Provide market-leading information, quality, and customer service. We do this, through innovation spanning process, service design, financing, and the creation of digital tools to improve the efficiency of actors across the value chain, from lead-gen and sales to technical home analysis and installations to energy monitoring. Operationally, Bodil provides digitally-enabled energy retrofitting advice through our team of energy advisors where it adds value, and we automate and digitalize the rest. We are building the future platform and infrastructure for climate-friendly homes. We are a family of sustainable energy wonks, data scientists, businessy climate activists, and behavioral insights nerds on a shared mission - and we need you.

Vainu is building a Sales Intelligence platform that helps salespeople and marketers move forward. Powered by technology to collect, read and understand all company information ever written, Vainu makes these real-time company insights easily consumable directly in its customers' existing business systems. Headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, the company launched in 2013 and is now at €15 million in annual revenue with a team of 150, spread across Europe. Over 2,000 sales and marketing teams globally use Vainu’s data to personalize customer interactions at scale—ultimately leading to more sales.

WARM is the first large-scale airplay monitor, built solely for the purpose of giving transparency for music entrepreneurs. It uses audio fingerprinting, AI and music recognition technology, to identify when music is played on radio stations. Using WARM platform and app, anyone can monitor in real-time any song that is played on radio stations worldwide. Currently, we are monitoring more than 29.000 radio stations in more than 165 countries. This is by far the biggest and widest radio monitoring service on the market!

DESIGN LETTERS is a Danish design company founded in 2009 and one of the most successful startups in the design and interior business in Denmark. We develop and sell unique design products and lifestyle accessories featuring Arne Jacobsen's Vintage ABC from 1937. Since 2019 we are moving from a wholesale to D2C brand at high speed.

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.‍

Ziik is reinventing the intranet for the people who don't sit at a desk. We're the best-of-breed internal communication and information-sharing platform that frontline teams actually open, built for the 80% of the workforce that traditional intranets forget. From a single app, employees stay connected to their company, their colleagues and everything they need to do their job well. The results speak for themselves: 80% activation after the first month, and usage that more than doubles over the first year. Today Ziik powers communication for local heroes and global brands alike, including McDonald's, Sport24, Bastard Burgers, DFDS and Fleggaard, across retail, hospitality, transport, manufacturing and more, in eight languages and counting. We're a Copenhagen company growing fast across the Nordics and Europe. Ziik is a dense team of skilled people, each with real ownership of their work and the freedom to do it their way. We're profitable and built to last, not chasing the next round but compounding quietly year after year. We'd rather grow something that's still here in ten years than burn bright and disappear. We play the long game. Come build the platform the frontline deserves.

At CHAOS we provide a better understanding of cities’ complexity in an easy and lean way. Our AI-powered urban insights and forecasts enable fact-based decision-making for real estate investment and city development, which leads to the creation of more liveable cities around the world. By integrating data that different systems are creating with the data that people produce in their living environment we produce indexes that allows to measure the performance of cities today and simulate future scenarios.  Our ultimate purpose  is to create better and more sustainable cities for everyone around the world. We believe this should be achieved through data, technology and by including people. We are a multicultural team composed by exceptional talent leading in the tech and smart city industry. Business women and men, change-drivers, nerds, speakers, thinkers and doers. We value team work, progressive thinking, passion and grit. And we work in hybrid mode, half remote and half from our very cool office in the heart of Helsinki!

Sumondos mission is to help people with their day-to-day stress and performing better at their workplace and other health activities. They bring specialist knowledge, that has been used by researchers, space scientists and high performing athletes to their users by using scientifically proven methods.

Hebno is an AI platform for consultancies. Consultants use it for research, drafts and decks, working from their firm's own knowledge and approved sources. Most firms already use AI, but their people jump between separate tools. Readers can't tell which claims have a real source and which are guesses, so senior consultants check everything again. With Hebno, consultants work in one place. They see the evidence behind each draft before a senior reviews it, and they save good ways of working as reusable workflows. The firm picks which AI models people can use and sees the cost per team.