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 create impact by providing affordable rapid diagnostics for snakebite envenoming. Each year more than five million people are bitten by venomous snakes. Snakebite envenoming calls for rapid diagnosis and correct treatment to avoid death and disability. VenomAid presents a solution to this problem: An affordable, easy-to-use, point-of-care device that provides a reliable diagnostic result within minutes. We provide a fast and reliable diagnostic tool, ensuring that the required treatment can start at once. This will minimize both fatalities and permanent sequelae that victims suffer from, especially in the poor rural parts of the world.

FrejaTECH (former Salvatio Push) is an IoT based system, comprised of an Emergency Button and App that can potentially save the lives of up to many females and elderly. This is a revolutionary new way to ensure rapid responses to enable women and elderly people to feel safe in vulnerable situations. The emergency alerts can help to save lives by sending timely notifications to family, friends, or medical institutions, which can drastically reduce the waiting time to receive assistance or medical attention. Our founder built this product based on the personal experience of sexual assault and understanding of the product that could save me from the dangerous situations and inform people who care about me where they can find me. We are in an electronics devices branch and creasy about. Our team is a group of creative people who want to make a difference. And We can do it.

We’re a Copenhagen-based fintech company with an office located in the heart of Copenhagen, and our international team counts people from England, Scotland, South Africa, France, Brazil and Denmark. We value thoughtfulness and transparency, as well as ambition and innovation, and strive to encourage this in each other, as well as in our practices and products. We want you to feel as a part of the journey, to share ideas and concerns freely, and invite you to join our company trips, Friday bars and other collective endeavors. We support flexibility, so you’re able to combine working at Matter with the demands of family life, an interest in horses, or kite surfing. We do. Our journey is backed by a range of Danish and international investors, and we are increasingly facing new opportunities that go beyond the pension market in Denmark. We hope to go there with you.

Saxo is Denmark's first and largest online bookstore with millions of title. We are a bookshop, a publishing platform and a learning portal. Ever since we opened the doors to the bookstore on Østerbrogade in 1961 we have worked to bring authors and readers closer together. In Saxo we have redefined the way we write, publish, read, discuss, recommend and meet literature. We believe that the way to learning and experiences should be easy and straightforward. For readers, authors, society and you.

We’re a passionate team of music techies on a mission to make music consumption easier for fans, labels and artists. Linkfire was founded as a response to the increasingly complex nature of digital music marketing. Listeners the world over are streaming through different services—so how do you connect to all of them at once, simply and smartly? Our technology links fans directly to the content they love in their favorite app. At the same time, we empower everyone from major labels to independent artists with unparalleled audience insights. Since we started, we’ve become a trusted partner to the music industry’s biggest names, as well as thousands of soon-to-be biggest names. We’re headquartered in Copenhagen, with offices in Lisbon, NYC and LA. Every day we help artists we adore to realizing their potential through the power of music data. Underpinning our culture is collaborative, agile processes, and something we like to call the ‘Nordic spirit.’ It means working together with transparency, respect, and honesty. And that goes for the way we do business too. What you should consider joining us for: - The opportunity to create the must-have product for the music industry and ensure that every month over 150+ million music fans get the best experience - An open, informal entrepreneurial startup working environment - A truly international spirit, with 5 global locations and over 26 different nationalities focused on collaborations. The meaning of together matters to us. - We offer a pension scheme and employee health benefits - Enjoy paid daily lunches with your colleagues What we consider for anyone that joins us: Music has the unique power to unite us all. It transcends cultures, languages, and borders. Every day, we help artists from around the world connect with their fans, and we’re immensely proud to count such a diverse range of creators as our users. We embrace this diversity inside our offices too. At Linkfire, we want you to find a place to belong and feel encouraged to be your authentic self. We, therefore, do not tolerate discrimination in employment on the basis of race, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, disability, ethnicity, national origin, marital status, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected classification or status.

LENEO is a FinTech company founded in 2016 in Denmark with the aim of delivering financial technology and services that fuels an Asset-as-a-Service, rental, leasing or subscription business. Our Mission is to support companies in the movement from Ownership to Usership and enable new circular business models. We offer advisory, an Asset-as-a-Service management platform and complementing services that enable North European Corporate Clients to successfully add circular Business models and services which will increase their profitability, competitiveness and added value to their end-customers. Based on an intuitive SaaS platform. Our SaaS solution can easy can be configurated and integrate with other platform to meet different requirement. With option to add different components for a fully Outsourced Managed solution including the platform and all necessary features and services.

Phonestamp gives physical stores the same digital advantages that online shops enjoy today. With their own loyalty app, physical stores gain the ability to send direct messages to their customers via their own marketing channel. When having their own channel, they ensure that they reach the customers who already love them, and they don't have to take the SoMe channels' algorithms into account.

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.

Danish founder and CEO Jannik Lawaetz started LuggageHero in 2016 in Copenhagen with 50 drop off-points. In 2017 the company expanded to London and New York with more than 350 storage locations. In 2019 LuggageHero expanded to +36 new cities and currently has more than 1000 storage partners globally spread across Europe and North America. Despite being slowed down during the pandemic, in 2021+2022 the company has plans to expand additionally and get further funding.

FIBERNEX develops next-generation porous materials combining engineered nanofiber substrates with thin, uniform metallic coatings - delivering significantly higher active surface area than conventional alternatives. Applied to green hydrogen: a patent- protected 3D nanofiber mat coated with a thin nickel layer via low-cost electroless plating replaces bulky nickel-foam electrodes, cutting nickel use by up to 97%, boosting efficiency by up to 10%, and lowering production cost by up to 75%.

Sekorti is AI-native trust center platform for modern SaaS companies. Create a customer-ready Trust Center in minutes and automate security questionnaires like SIG, CAIQ, and VSAQ with AI. Prove SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, ISO 42001, and EU AI Act readiness without spreadsheet chaos. The target audience for Sekorti are B2B SaaS founders stuck in Enterprise deals.

Legal can be a bit... much. Shareholder agreements. Questions from stakeholders. Basic compliance. And so on. It's a lot to handle for a single person, especially when you're trying to build a company. Much proactively helps you stay on top of your legal operations by understanding your business and working where you are, without the chaos of multiple tools or systems. Every time you think "this is too much"... well, you know where to go. We're a pre-seed startup with 4 founders, building something genuinely useful for founders and legal teams who are drowning in operational complexity.

I Adtool er vi i gang med at bygge en ny måde at arbejde med betalt annoncering på. I stedet for at mennesker skal sidde og klikke sig igennem Meta Ads Manager, bygger vi et system, der kan håndtere hundredvis af annoncer, konti og markeder på én gang. Vi har en kultur, hvor vi giver den gas og faktisk får ting til at ske. Hvis du kan lide at tage ejerskab, bygge ting der kommer ud at leve hos rigtige brugere, og være en central del af rejsen, så vil du sandsynligvis trives rigtig godt hos os.

Denmark records what most countries can only estimate. Every company files its ownership, its capital changes, its management and its accounts in the public registers, continuously and by law. The registers are records, not answers. More than 825,000 companies own one another, up to nineteen levels deep. One business appears as many legal entities, and its investors sit several tiers above it. Venture Insights builds and operates Bifrost, the model that resolves that network into one structure: every firm, founder, investor and transaction, dated to the legal transaction date and traceable to the filing it came from. Focused deliberately on Denmark, it identifies roughly ten times as many priced investment deals as the leading international platforms. Institutions use it where the numbers have to hold, among them the Danish Business Authority, the Confederation of Danish Industry, EIFO and Copenhagen Fintech. Filed, not announced. Population, not sample. Exact, not estimated. ventureinsights.dk