The Problem: What problem are you attempting to solve, and how big is it? Children suffering from school refusal systematically fall out of the education system because traditional teaching methods fail to meet their individual learning needs. Today, 110,000 children have experienced school refusal—equivalent to one in five students. This target group becomes isolated at home during their school years, which later leads to difficulties in securing and maintaining employment, costing society 2.2 billion annually. Research shows that the most critical factor for these students is restoring their self-confidence regarding learning; they need to experience learning as a positive activity and process the traumas that led to their school refusal (The Back2School Modular Cognitive Behavioral Intervention, 2024). Therefore, before attempting to reintegrate students into the physical school environment, it is crucial to rebuild their confidence and bring them up to the academic level of their peers to reduce feelings of stigmatization. The Solution: What is your idea? Describe your product or service. GradeAid is an AI agent that creates personalized learning experiences. Students simply scan their homework or verbalize what they wish to learn. Our AI then generates tailored content derived from pedagogically validated materials, specifically designed for children who lack academic confidence or have fallen behind. The system continuously learns from the student's interactions and automatically adapts the curriculum. This helps restore the self-confidence and joy of learning that many of these students lack, while ensuring the process is both personalized and fun. The platform features a 24/7 AI tutor providing instant feedback. Through gamification, students earn coins for their virtual pets. This approach was selected because research has long established that gamification effectively builds confidence and helps children re-engage with learning (Impact of gamification on school engagement: a systematic review, 2024). Instead of forcing the child to fit the system, our technology adapts to the child's way of learning. Our intention is to build confidence so that children find it easier to return to school, equipped with the mental energy to focus on social reintegration. The platform supports both English and Danish. We are currently testing the Danish version.

FEESH...the feed for your fish Aquaculture is the fastest-growing food sector and is vital for meeting the protein needs of a growing global population. Yet, its growth is constrained by reliance on two unsustainable protein sources: fishmeal and soy protein concentrate (SPC). Fishmeal is produced from wild-caught fish, putting pressure on already fragile marine ecosystems, while soy production drives large-scale deforestation and carries a heavy carbon footprint. Both are also subject to volatile global markets, making aquafeed production environmentally damaging, expensive, and vulnerable. Insects, particularly Black Soldier Fly Larvae (BSFL), are an attractive and more sustainable alternative. They can be produced locally, upcycle organic waste streams into valuable protein, and have a low environmental footprint. However, despite this potential, insect meal remains a niche ingredient in aquafeeds. The main barrier is chitin, a fiber-like polymer in the insect exoskeleton that reduces digestibility and locks away valuable proteins. This limits inclusion rates of BSFL meal in aquafeeds to just 2–8%, far below the levels needed to meaningfully replace fishmeal and soy. At FEESH, we are solving this problem by applying a precision microbial fermentation platform, enhanced with ultrasonication pre-treatment, to upgrade BSFL meal into a high-performance protein ingredient. Our process disrupts the chitin-protein matrix, making proteins more bioavailable, reducing indigestible fiber, and enriching the lipid fraction with beneficial fatty acids such as EPA and DHA. Additionally, fermentation produces bioactive peptides and immunostimulatory compounds that improve gut health and disease resilience in fish. The result is a fermented insect meal with digestibility levels reaching 90–95%, enabling high inclusion rates of >20% in aquafeeds without compromising fish growth, palatability, or welfare. By combining biological and physical processing, FEESH unlocks the true nutritional potential of insects, transforming them from a niche supplement into a viable replacement for fishmeal and soy protein concentrate. This matters because the aquafeed industry needs scalable, circular, and climate-friendly solutions. Our innovation reduces dependence on environmentally destructive feed sources, cuts CO₂ emissions, and strengthens food system resilience. For insect producers, it creates new market opportunities with higher-value products. For aquafeed formulators and fish farmers, it delivers a sustainable, locally produced protein that supports both performance and animal health. And for society, it contributes to global food security and a more sustainable bioeconomy. FEESH is pioneering the next generation of aquafeed ingredients, designed not just to sustain aquaculture, but to make it thrive responsibly.

PayTjek is developing an AI-powered payroll verification platform that helps employees detect and resolve salary discrepancies through automated collective agreement analysis and intelligent error detection. Payroll errors are a widespread and costly problem, with billions lost each year because employees never uncover them. Payslips are often complex and difficult to understand without specialist knowledge of collective agreements and labor laws — expertise usually reserved for lawyers, union representatives, and HR professionals. This leaves everyday workers, from healthcare staff to teachers, at risk of losing money they are rightfully owed. PayTjek democratizes payroll expertise. Employees simply upload their payslip, and our AI analyzes salary data, cross-references it with relevant collective agreements, checks against work schedules and contracts, and flags discrepancies or missing payments. The results are delivered in clear, plain language, giving workers both understanding and actionable next steps. Our technology is built to interpret even the most complex Danish labor agreements, with a roadmap to expand across European markets. We are driven by a strong sense of fairness. Payroll verification has long been out of reach for the people who need it most. Without the right tools, employees have been left powerless in the face of errors. PayTjek exists to change that — to return knowledge, transparency, and financial control to workers, starting with healthcare employees in Denmark and expanding to empower workers across Europe.

Puzzel started in Norway in 1998 with a strong ambition: to become Europe's leading provider of CX solutions. From the beginning, we understood that companies want to make every customer interaction a great one. Because in the end, we're all customers looking for a great experience. Over time, our contact centre solution evolved into a powerful CX ecosystem that helps businesses like yours not only deliver great customer experiences but makes it simple for you to do so too. Fast forward to today, our mission is stronger than ever. We work every day to ensure organisations like yours can focus on what they do best – deliver first-class services to their customers, while empowering their agents at every turn.

Nordic Valley is a Scandinavian innovation hub focused on building, owning, and scaling AI-driven digital platforms. We create and manage technology ventures that address real structural challenges across talent, innovation, and organisational development. Our approach combines long-term ownership, disciplined execution, and close collaboration with founders, institutions, and ecosystem partners. Nordic Valley serves as the strategic and operational backbone behind our portfolio providing governance, capital structure, and product direction from early build to scale. Under the Nordic Valley umbrella, we develop and own AI-powered platforms including: - Nordly: Talent Hiring Platform - Automated Funding Discovery & Application Tool - Founder & Startup Collaboration Networks - Strategic Advisory & Venture Support

Axiom Novus is a specialised engineering firm focused on the energy and renewables sector. We provide expert advisory and technical solutions, helping clients navigate complex engineering challenges with clarity and precision. Our approach emphasises practical, professional communication without unnecessary jargon, ensuring that our clients receive clear, actionable insights tailored to their needs. Our focus is on enabling our societies to implement the green transition efficiently in a socially and commercially sustainable way.

Savery is developing an agentic staging tool for enterprises. Its agentic workflow management, agnostic to the choice of LLM, is able to handle complex development and workflow automatisations. Savery's aim is to build an enterprise class agentic management platform specific for use cases where enterprise requirements are core: segregated instances, private cloud or on-location hosting, no-data sharing etc. Savery's core is a proprietary agentic management tool. Each agent handles specific tasks—planning, coding, testing, or researching—ensuring seamless collaboration. This approach automates code creation, refactoring, and legacy code migration, enabling non-programmers to execute technical tasks through intuitive interfaces. The aim of savery is to be the ideal choice for enterprises that are not locked in to a specific cloud provider.

kapa.ai makes it easy for technical companies to build AI support and onboarding bots for their users. Teams at +200 leading startups and enterprises incl. OpenAI, Mixpanel, Mapbox, Docker, Next.js and Prisma use kapa to level up their developer experience and reduce support. We enable companies to use their existing technical knowledge sources incl. docs, tutorials, chat logs, and GitHub issues to generate AI bots that answers developer questions automatically. We’ve been fortunate to be funded by some of the greatest AI investors in Silicon Valley: Initialized Capital (Garry Tan, Alexis Ohanian), Y Combinator, Amjad Masad and Michele Catasta (Replit), and Douwe Kiela (RAG paper author and founder of Contextual AI), and other folks incl. angels at OpenAI.

Mission
 Reduce return rates and carbon emissions for fashion brands and online retailers with AI product images and Virtual Try On (VTO). Vision Become category leader for reducing returns and AI product images as an add on for fashion e–commerces, like Klarna for split payments. Simple for end users combined with a backend for e-commerces to monitor KPIs including savings in return rates and carbon emissons. About SWOP SWOP revolutionizes online shopping with a solution that combines AI-powered Virtual Try-On (VTO) with an extensive product image library. Our technology showcases clothing on diverse body types, ethnic backgrounds, and from multiple angles, addressing high return rates and customer dissatisfaction. This improved representation helps customers make better purchasing decisions, reducing returns, increasing conversion rates, and boosting average order values. SWOP provides a cost-effective, comprehensive solution that enhances customer satisfaction and e-commerce performance. SWOP's approach contributes to the green transition by reducing waste from returns and promoting sustainable consumption patterns.

We're here to help your restaurant achieve online success Our mission is simple. We're here to help restaurants grow sustainably. Restaurants have become lifestyle brands. With forward-thinking digital products, restaurateurs will create the same perfect experience online as they already do offline, resulting in a more valuable and sustainable business.

Treets was born from a desire to fix what’s broken in social media. Too many platforms focus on harvesting user data and delivering ads, leading to endless doomscrolling rather than real connection. We believe in building genuine human connection, not just collecting clicks. Our platform replaces intrusive advertising with a unique approach to private memberships, so people, businesses, and communities can form deeper connections on their own terms. By focusing on thoughtful sharing, we create a space where users and brands can truly thrive together – without the noise and addictive content that serves no purpose. That’s how we’re paving the way for a healthier, more engaging social experience. Are you ready to join our mission and achieve this moonshot idea for relationships? Then apply to this role and become part of the founding team backed by the succesfull founder of gaming gear unicorn SteelSeries, Jacob Wolff-Petersen.

Lime Go - a fast growing SaaS 'startup' without any financial or personal risk for you. Wait, what - how?🤔 We are an autonomous business unit within the Lime Technologies Group, giving us the awesome perks of being a Nasdaq-listed company as well as the freedom of a startup. Lime Technologies was founded in 1990 and is the market leader in the Nordics when it comes to CRM. We've had different CRM-products in our portfolio over the years and now it's time to let Lime Go, go big. 🚀 What is the story behind Lime Go?🍑 Lime Go is the ONLY CRM tool for sales and marketing departments with integrated company data. It is excellent for prospecting and filled with valuable company data to help users save time and increase revenue. We help users with their daily work through insights and educate them to be more proactive, providing an ROI from day 1. During 2021 we finished a product redesign to up our game in regard to tech stack, UI, modernity and power. We're now ready to step on the gas pedal and conquer Europe! Who are Lime Technologies and what is Lime Go?🍈 Publicly listed Lime Technologies have a turnover of approx. €40M with 400 employees in 7 countries, divided in 10 offices. We have a local presence in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, Germany and Poland. Lime Go is part of it and we're a team of 12 people running our own startup unit! The upcoming years will be full speed ahead to recruit and build a team to scale the product for our launch in Europe. Currently we have a strong market position in Sweden with recently launched campaigns in Norway & Denmark - but we have higher ambitions. We will become the most intuitive and user-friendly CRM system in all of Europe and be the obvious choice for ambitious companies. 🌍 Don't hesitate to apply for our open positions and join our team - as we embark on this unique journey!🎢

We are a tech startup, developing a B2B SaaS product: a AI-based software platform that can identify, classify, and evaluate external damages on cars. It is our ambition to provide reliable, simple, and decentralized car handover processes in order to enable a transition into a new paradigm of the rental and sharing economy! With our software we are leveraging machine learning to enable fleet owners, to automate repetitive work, avoid errors when inspecting cars and provide a standardized service across all branches. Simultaneously, we are helping customers to increase efficiency and cut costs.

At Frameo we are developing a software platform for WiFi photo frames that enables friends and family to share photos and videos with each other - right from their smartphones. Frameo is used by over 150 brands around the world and with more than 5 million app downloads and 400,000,000 photos shared - we’re the market leader in software for WiFi photo frames. Frameo lets users send photos and videos right from the smartphone app to a Frameo photo frame - anywhere in the world. Within seconds friends and family can enjoy happy moments on their frames. Frameo is a rethinking of the classic digital photo frame that combines easy photo sharing with social elements. Frameo was founded in 2015 in Aarhus, Denmark, with a mission to create a new kind of social platform for sharing photos that could be used by anyone. Our smartphones are filled with happy moments that we never really see but often just collect virtual-dust on cloud services. Frameo is a way to get all these moments out of your smartphone and into the home of yourself and your loved ones where they can be enjoyed. The succesful growth Frameo has exerienced has resulted in two Børsen Gazelle prizes the recent years, where our growth rate got us a 2nd place and a 4th place nationwide.

ParkShare is a sharing economy platform for parking spaces, where private people as well as companies, can rent out their parking spaces when they don’t need it and thereby earn an extra income. The parking spaces are easily accessible for drivers, who need parking . The drivers can book a parking space in advance or in the moment, when needed . With ParkShare, drivers no longer have to waste time, CO2 or get annoyed because of parking. With ParkShare parking will no longer be a problem! We match the two sides, by utilizing the parking spaces which are already there and create a win-win situation. ParkShare has a young and energetic team with the goal: to deliver the best service and product for our customers. We are driven by continuous improvements and problem solving. We always want to do better and make each other better. We value having fun while we work and are a strong believer of everyone contributing and having ideas with value. We want to implement ideas and see them come true and grow. Therefore, we also love people who want to execute and see their work become reality. ParkShare is a diverse team with people from many different backgrounds and countries, who are eager to grow the business and always strive to do better! ParkShare is located in The Kitchen, which is Aarhus’ biggest community for entrepreneurs. Here, we work alongside with many other amazing start-ups , where knowledge-sharing and fun is an essential part of the community. Teamwork, fun, and team spirit is very important in ParkShare. Therefore, we have at least one different social activity each month, where we spend a couple of hours just having fun together with boardgames, hygge and snacks. This makes up for a stronger and more connected team. We do believe it takes the general work to reach a higher level and makes all of us more efficient. So, if you want to become a part of a strong, work efficient team, we would love to hear from you. If you think that you would be a good fit into our team, please contact us.