The Hypercore Protocol is an open-source, peer-to-peer technology stack that allows people to connect and share data seamlessly across the planet, all without servers. For the past five years, we've been building toward a future where anyone can build scalable, data-intensive businesses, such as search engines, video chat apps, and social networks, directly from their homes and with minimal barriers to entry. We're a tiny, Copenhagen-based team, but you can be located anywhere!

The Nordic Impact Investment Network works to mobilise more capital into impact investing by supporting Nordic investors. It creates a trusted local and regional community to provide asset owners with support and inspiration for their impact investment journeys. With a very human centric and impact oriented approach, the NIIN helps its community increase the understanding for impact investing, build relationships and learn from one another to drive action and capital flows.

Nordic Strong ApS is a Copenhagen-based fitness company. The Nordic Strong fitness concept is inspired by the active outdoor, Nordic lifestyle, with the concept centered around the Nordic Trainer, a multi-functional training machine (formerly known as the ThoraxTrainer). The Nordic Trainer connects to an accompanying workout app, the Nordic Strong App, via Bluetooth. The app offers an increasingly wide range of online workouts, that will make your home training easy, fun, and effective. In November 2022, Nordic Strong opened its first flagship fitness studio in Nordhavn, Copenhagen. The studio has Nordic Trainer based classes, a spa with sauna and ice buckets, a regular fitness space and a cozy cafe. Nordic Strong was founded in 2021. For more information please contact us at contact@nordicstrong.com

We make comedy games! Triband is the award-winning studio behind the WHAT THE? comedy game series, which is played by millions worldwide. Up until now, we've launched four games to make people laugh: WHAT THE GOLF? WHAT THE CAR? WHAT THE BAT? WHAT THE CLASH? We're a team of 45+ people from 12 different nationalities, working together from our beautiful lake-view office in the heart of Copenhagen. At Triband, people come first, and we strive to foster a safe, creative, and supportive work environment where everyone can thrive. Personal growth and professional development are central to our work because we believe strong teams are built on individuals who are constantly learning and evolving. We also believe that teams, not individuals, make games and that diversity leads to better, more creative teams.

Biller - The next step in business payments We are an AI-powered “Buy Now, Pay Later” payment method that allows business buyers to order online and pay directly on invoice while performing real-time credit and fraud checks and a fully automated debtor management service. Thereby we reduce the operational burden and risk for the business seller while offering speed, flexibility and convenience for the business buyer e.g. by offering the buyer flexible payment terms. Biller may be brand new, but the brains behind it have been in the game for a long time. Our three founders earned their stripes at some of the biggest names in fintech. Now, they’re combining their expertise and energy to do something refreshingly new, and solve an age-old problem at the same time. We aim to be active in every EU country by 2024. That’s huge growth, but certainly within our reach. Shortly after we started Biller, a whole bunch of capital investors started beating down our door to get in. In the end, we partnered with Banking Circle, because they clearly see Biller’s potential to solve a real market challenge. We need talented people with the right skills to turn that potential into reality.

Zymoscope enables food processors to monitor and control fermentation easily, remotely, and in real-time. We develop a fermentation management platform, consisting of proprietary sensor technology, sophisticated algorithms, and a mobile app. Currently, our focus is to provide a robust platform for anaerobic fermentation, and more specifically the beer industry. We have been developing our solution together with leading breweries, and we have been conducting industrial pilots since May 2020. Breweries have been able to automate quality control, increase production capacity and be able to create innovative and flavorful products in an efficient and consistent way. Although fermentation is the most ancient food processing technique, it now presents a great potential to fundamentally change the way the world eats, and improve global human and environmental health and economy. We at Zymoscope have the vision to become an integrated part of the future of food, by making any fermentation easy and scalable with data. We are always in search of inspiring people, with a strong drive to change the future of food through fermentation. If you are interested in hearing more feel free to send us an email at contact@zymoscope.com.

Cookie Information’s mission is to help organizations specify and operate a professional Consent Management Platform (CMP) that makes them compliant with the privacy laws of the countries they operate in. At the same time enabling their commercial data strategy and even data ethical objectives in a way that builds their business. At Cookie Information we are equally used to working directly with the organizations that have websites needing a CMP as well as advisors, such as law firms, industry membership organizations, and even government agencies, and tech suppliers like web agencies and CMS platforms. We help more than 250.000 websites and collected billions of consents every month.

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.

Paytack is a Nordic start-up offering an affordable customer loyalty platform for local businesses for their customer in the form of cashbacks to retain them and increase customer loyalty. A simple loyalty platform that helps local businesses retain customers and boost their profits. No need for loyalty cards, coupons or offer codes, just direct engagement through the PayTack app

PNO Ventures is a small innovation hub within PNO Rental operating 11,000+ truck trailers across Europe. We build tech solutions that grow customer value in our core business while making sure we thrive longterm in the rapidly changing freight industry. We develop mobile apps for drivers, equip trailers with sensors (IoT) and integrate with a wide range of external services, to power our platform with relevant data and empower our customers and internal teams. We believe happy troops are productive troops. It's not like we're a constant happy-go-lucky ray of sunshine, but we bring our honest self to work every day. We're opinionated by experience but will listen and surrender to any qualified argument.

Wedio is the fastest-growing European camera-sharing community for Filmmakers and Photographers. We make it up to 50% cheaper to rent video equipment on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis — with global insurance. We help more than 7,000 filmmakers become better creators — together, and we currently experience extensive growth. Our mission is to keep great stories alive. We achieve this by offering the tools and services that benefit creators so that they can focus on their craft. We believe that visual content plays a crucial role in the future of communication, and thereby we have a vision of becoming the preferred global community for creators.

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 believe that it should be convenient to train in a quality gym even when you're away from home. Our global platform enables you to find and access training facilities no matter where you are. TrainAway offers pay as you go access to hundreds of gyms around the world, from LA and New York to Paris and Rome. We're a fast-growing company extremely focused on what we do. We're always on the look out for the best people to join our team and take us to the next level.

Uniqkey is Europe’s leading password and access manager. It simplifies employee security while empowering companies with enhanced control over their cloud infrastructure, access security, and employee management. Recognized as the easiest tool to use, Uniqkey removes friction from employees’ daily workflows by automating time-consuming authentication and security tasks, thereby increasing productivity. Its intuitive and user-friendly interface makes Uniqkey the perfect choice for employees. Uniqkey combats the most significant threats to company infrastructure by safeguarding critical systems and company credentials with state-of-the-art encryption. It also offers unique insights and a comprehensive view of IT infrastructure, employee access, and security scores, making it a valuable tool for IT teams to monitor security policies and assess the impact of awareness campaigns with confidence. With powerful integrations and synergies with existing infrastructure such as Microsoft, IT managers can quickly provision or de-provision users for seamless onboarding and offboarding, all while protecting their entire IT infrastructure with advanced encryption. Engineered by leading European security experts, we leverage the latest encryption methodologies and technology, including offline encryption of all our data. Our modern tech stack and servers, hosted locally in Denmark, ensure maximum security, data integrity, and compliance with European regulations, providing our customers with peace of mind. Trusted by 500+ European businesses and ranked as a Top 50 Global Security Solution by G2, our platform is becoming Europe's preferred business password and access management solution.

We're on a mission to revolutionize the way energy is handled in buildings. Energy Machines™ is a leader in the design, implementation, and operation of integrated energy systems for buildings. Buildings are a growing climate problem, accounting for over 28% of global CO2 emissions. We are working to transform them into climate solutions. By combining proven best-of-breed hardware with purpose-built software and simulation platforms, Energy Machines enables buildings to operate as “energy machines” or fully integrated systems that generate, store, and reuse their own energy. In order to revolutionize the way buildings are managed. We are developing a next generation computing platform. This platform will leverage cloud, IoT technologies and modern electronics to upgrade existing industrial systems. We envision a future in which buildings accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy. By turning every building into a high-performance energy machine, together we can achieve it.   *image source BLOX (Rasmus Hjortshøj)