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

GRØD is a café and restaurant concept that opened in Nørrebro, Copenhagen in 2011, with a nerdy focus on everything related to "grød", including porridge, smoothie bowls, daal, congee, risotto and bowls. Most countries have a unique "porridge"-culture that explores different ingredients, grains and spices. And when it's made right, it tastes absolutely fantastic – and it’s naturally healthy and sustainable. We also highly value community among our colleagues and our guests, and love working with people who understand that their energy has a big impact on their surroundings. GRØD has restaurants in Copenhagen, Aarhus and Oslo, as well as a series of retail products available in the most major supermarket brands.

We're the Danish sperm bank with higher standards, but we're so much more. With a team of visionaries and builders, we're on the road to rethinking the entire structure of the fertility industry. Better connected, smoother processes. Higher standards. Nordic sperm bank with IQ screening, criminal background checks and fertility staff approvals. Software-as-a-service and process-as-a-service provider for fertility clinics and producing sperm banks. Support team providing personalized and comprehensive guidance to match individual family needs.

The importance of bacteria in both industrial and medical applications is expanding exponentially. SBT Instruments provides fast and accurate bacteria-counting equipment to facilitate the bacto-revolution. Commercial success and pushing state-of-the-art technology to the market are the cornerstones of our company. SBT was established in 2014 as a spin-out from the Technical University of Denmark. Today, the company employs 15 people, has acquired two patents (recently filed for a third), has one product on the market and another product that is soon to be launched. Bacteria measurements are relevant in many different applications, but our current main market is found within the biopharma and biotech industries, where we sell our first product, BactoBox. We are partly owned by the Ellab-Fonden, a Danish commercial foundation that supports important and impactful social, humanitarian, and research projects.

South Pole has been at the forefront of decarbonization since 2006, developing and implementing comprehensive strategies that turn climate action into long-term business opportunities for Fortune 500 companies, governments and organizations around the world. South Pole is more than a leading consultancy, its team of 600+ experts have developed projects, as well as designed innovative tools across finance, climate neutral APIs, and carbon offset solutions to help clients reach their carbon mitigation and Net Zero goals. To date South Pole has worked with over 1,000 clients, and will soon have developed 700 offset projects across 23 offices globally. Our solutions have created tens of thousands of jobs in developing countries, hundreds of millions of dollars for business, improved brand value and better living and working conditions for countless people in vulnerable communities around the world.

hiveonline is a fintech startup headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, with subsidiaries in Stockholm, Sweden and Kigali, Rwanda, where our development team is located. We give communities of unbanked businesses, primarily women led, access to formal finance through a digital reputation. We are supporting village savings groups with blockchain technology with our MVP accounting app, and building on this to help cooperatives, agricultural associations and their members create more sustainable farming communities. We are expanding from Niger into Mozambique and other African countries.

Futurebox is the leading hardware and deep tech startup incubator and accelerator, helping new technology to future industries. We are dedicated to helping deep tech startups bridge the gap from idea, over prototyping, to market entry and established business. Our incubator and acceleration programs are developed to help founders make the leap from early startup to established business, through a targeted and structured program where we supply a dedicated business coach, toolbox workshops, access to mentor program and business support.

We make being a dentist easier - we are the digital partner for dentists. Dentli was founded on the idea of enhancing the lives of the practitioners and patients in the field of dentistry. Our team consists of 25+ experienced members, who work together with dentists, patients, software developers and practice management systems providers to create the best framework for dentists, so that the dentist can do what they do best – caring for their patients.

Airlabs is an organisation with foundations in atmospheric chemistry and airflow engineering that has been established out of a desire to tackle the huge social problem of air quality in cities across the world. Our work is the result of active collaboration between our team and some of the world’s leading applied environmental research and engineering institutes. Our team brings together experts from widely varying disciplines: from atmospheric chemistry to pollution monitoring, from fluid dynamics to environmental health and from economics to engineering and design.

You invest significant resources every single day to bring visitors to your webshop. Unfortunately, the majority of them leave again without making a purchase because they cannot quickly find or get answers to exactly what they need. And that is a shame—especially when it can actually be solved relatively easily. At Userlink, we build your very own AI agent that is an expert in your specific products. This means your visitors can instantly get the answers they need, around the clock—even when your customer service is closed. But will my customers even want help from an AI agent? Yes. 73% of Danes do. In fact, most people prefer getting fast help from AI rather than waiting 3–5 minutes for a response from a human. Is using Userlink worth the investment? Of course, several parameters come into play here. However, our customers experience that, on average, 12% of those who chat with the bot also complete a purchase after they start using Userlink. To allow you to assess this yourself, you can try it completely free for 30 days. We set everything up for you, so the only thing you need to evaluate is whether it pays off or not. Are there other benefits to using Userlink? There are, of course, several advantages, but a significant one is that our customers experience, on average, 35% lower customer service costs because the AI agent handles many customer inquiries before they reach your support team.

Alipes is a proprietary high frequency trading company. We design and build advanced algorithms that use natural language processing, machine learning, and ultra-fast technology to react to new information in the markets. Since our inception in 2008, Alipes has been a trailblazer in automating financial markets, continuously growing and diversifying into new business areas through cutting-edge technology. In 2022 we entered the Energy sector, focusing on short-term physical power trading using machine learning to interpret fundamental and market data for our strategies.

Hakio was founded with a straightforward goal: to combat global waste through the development of advanced demand forecasting algorithms. Our team consists of highly skilled individuals from diverse backgrounds, all united by a common purpose to bring this vision to life. Within just 1.5 years, we've grown our team to 21 members. Our focus is on merging expertise in supply chain, data science, and software development to craft cutting-edge tools for data-driven decision-making. We offer a user-friendly SaaS solution that assists customers in optimizing their inventory levels using state-of-the-art forecasting algorithms, accessible through an interactive web platform. Together, we are committed to revolutionizing the field of demand forecasting and creating a lasting impact. Come join us on this exciting journey as we reshape the industry's norms!

The BioInnovation Institute Foundation (BII) is an international commercial foundation with a non-profit objective supported by the Novo Nordisk Foundation. BII operates an incubator to accelerate world-class life science innovation. Our vision is to support world-class life science innovation that drives development of new solutions by early life science start-ups for the benefit of people and society. With continued positive development, The Novo Nordisk Foundation can provide up to EUR 470 (3,5 mia. DKK) to BII over 10 years.

At Toptutors, we inspire students to reach their full potential - no matter where they live. We are an online platform offering 1-1 tutoring in all subjects for students from 6-20 years old. In an optimal world the perfect tutor lives right around the corner, but that’s simply not the case in real life. Right now, families in many places don’t have access to quality tutors. Especially since the best tutors usually live in the university cities, so many kids never receive the help they desperately need. Toptutors is creating a category for online tutoring, where geography and transportation no longer is a problem. We want to inspire the next generation of students to reach their full potential, because we believe that anyone can learn anything with an inspiring teacher. Student and tutor share an online digital whiteboard designed for educational purposes. Our students love us, because they get an ideal learning experience from the comfort of their home. Also, we are working on an AI platform, so students anywhere can access personalized learning. We are headquartered in Copenhagen, and we've launched in Spain. We are scaling rapidly and need to increase our team.

Chromologics is a Danish biotech spin-out from the Technical University of Denmark. We have developed a fungal biotech platform for the production of novel, natural colorants. Our proprietary fermentation process allows us to be first movers to introduce lab-grown food colorants to the market. Our production is sustainable, scalable and cost-competitive. Unlike other existing natural colors, our colorants are not extracted from high value raw materials like fruit and vegetables, but produced by our wild type cell factory. Our fungal strains are non-GMO and our pigments are compatible with most dietary needs, including kosher, halal, and vegan diets. We are in the R&D phase.