The innovation ecosystem plays a crucial role in the success of startups, but these ecosystems are facing operational and strategic obstacles that limit their potential. The operational difficulties include an inability to effectively support startups leading to high failure rates, low engagement from startups, and resource-intensive reporting processes. On the strategic front, innovation ecosystems face intense competition and struggle to scale their efforts and establish sustainable business models, which often rely heavily on government funding. These challenges impact a wide range of players in the ecosystem, including incubators, accelerators, universities, and enterprise innovation departments. Addressing these challenges can lead to a thriving startup ecosystem, boosting economic growth and driving progress. By investing in the solution of these significant problems, the innovation ecosystem has the potential to unleash its full potential and drive positive change.

Centrally located in Copenhagen, Flowering is developing bouquets with a reduced CO2 output to help environmentally conscious customers reduce waste and promote sustainability with beautifully crafted, eco-friendly floral arrangements. Flowering addresses the significant issue of flower waste in the floral industry. This problem affects both the environment and flower producers, contributing to unnecessary carbon footprints. The widespread waste impacts growers, retailers, and consumers who seek sustainable alternatives. Our team at Flowering sources surplus flowers that would otherwise be discarded and repurposes them into beautiful, high-quality bouquets in combination with local and certified flowers. By implementing efficient logistics and innovative design processes, we ensure these flowers reach customers fresh and vibrant, reducing waste and promoting sustainability without any intermediaries. The inspiration for Flowering came from witnessing the vast amounts of perfectly good flowers being discarded daily. Motivated by a passion for sustainability and a desire to make a positive environmental impact, we left our jobs and studies to focus on creating a business that not only delivers beauty but also champions environmental responsibility.

We are producing super food in everyday formats. With our unique technology we have developed a method to up-cycle Brewer's Spent Grains to new healthy and delicious food. Brewer's Spent Grains are the malted and mashed grains used to brew beer and whisky. We sell our products both in retail and Industry formats. Up-cycling side stream ressources from the food & beverage industry is one of the most effective ways to increase the output we get from raw materials, decrease the CO2 emissions from the food industry, and hereby secure a much more sustainable future of food.

Northvolt makes green batteries for a blue planet. Affordable cells and high-quality battery systems. All manufactured with a record-low carbon footprint. Purposely built to provide Europe with the opportunity to switch to renewable energy – efficiently and entirely. To accomplish this, we do things differently. We design, manufacture, and recycle everything under one roof. We even build our own factories. All this is incredibly challenging and requires us to think in unconventional ways. We’re constantly experimenting, learning and adapting to make batteries so great – they will one day make oil history. Northvolt is growing fast. We’re staffing our international office in Stockholm, our R&D facility, Northvolt Labs, in Västerås, as well as our Gdansk facility for production of battery systems. We're also hiring for our two gigafactories: Northvolt Ett in Skellefteå, Sweden, and Northvolt Zwei in Salzgitter, Germany. We want to work with smart individuals from all disciplines. Strong individuals that truly want to make a positive impact on the future. Those of us already on board share a passion for our mission. We’re prepared to work hard in pursuit of excellence. We enjoy the ride and our main drive is to make a difference for real. As a team, we’re dedicated to thinking new, working hard and having fun.

Aline is an EdTech platform validating informal learning and enabling data-driven development for organisations and individuals by providing a real-time overview of interests, knowledge, and progress. We are a team of people all passionate about the same thing: no one is ever done learning, and knowledge is one of the most powerful tools one can have; something we should all have the right to. Founded at the end of 2020, we have been developing our products, onboarding customers, and taking in investment at full speed ever since. If you work with us you will be given full responsibility from day one, we learn, we adapt, and we grow fast. We work out of Stockholm but we are remote from day one so if you are in another city then that's no problem. We ensure to have transparency, openness to ideas, and most of all Aline-ment with the team, which happens every Friday at our 'Aline & Wine'.

Paragit Solutions is an early-stage medical device startup working to develop and market a novel solution to support early diagnosis and personalized treatment of neurological disorders – starting with Parkinson’s. Based in Copenhagen, the company has won several innovation challenges in Scandinavia and Silicon Valley and the development has largely been funded by EIT Health, Innovation Fund Denmark, and other innovation environments. We are working with leading clinical partners to test and validate the solution, and recently closed our seed round of 12 million DKK from prominent investors. We are a small team of 5 full-time employees and 7 part-time/freelancers working with high flexibility from our office in Frederiksberg. We are developing a solution consisting of both hardware and software. The patented Paragit Sleeve collects high-resolution data on muscle activity, movement, and grip force from patients during daily life. The data is transferred to the software suite, where it is modeled and correlated to clinical measurements of disease severity. This provides clinicians with a holistic overview of patients’ symptoms and treatment responses during daily life, which, in turn, fosters optimized treatment and better care.

Howdy ApS er en healthtech virksomhed, der har udviklet en innovativ og effektiv service, der forebygger sygdom inden for mental- og fysisk sundhed. Howdy anvendes dagligt af mange kunder i Danmark og Sverige og tusindvis af medarbejdere i hele verden. Gennem en unik metode giver vi virksomheden løbende indsigt i både medarbejdernes og organisationens trivsel, og vi griber proaktivt ind ved opringning til vores kunders medarbejdere og ledere gennem med team af psykologer og fysioterapeuter, der hurtigt reagerer på kritisk eller negativ udvikling i trivslen.

We are on a mission to decarbonise food production. Climate change is a global challenge and is being accelerated by the vast emission caused by food production systems. But in-depth understanding of the climate impact of food products is still very limited. To solve this challenge we are building the required online services for food industry companies to calculate, track and report the carbon footprint of food products utilising farm-level data.

People living with diabetes and the healthcare sector currently spend billions on continuous glucose measurement (CGM) sensors. Despite the ease and convenience of use, patients and their caregivers are currently drowning in data generated by CGM since we still lack digital tools to generate automated analyses and interpretations. Digital Diabetes Analytics ( DD Analytics) provides a state of the art automated digital solution which analyzes CGM data and generates systematic interpretations to truly transform diabetes care – Diabetes 3.0. We are developing a never before seen digital tool for people with insulin-treated diabetes and the healthcare sector. Our decision support tool generates automated analysis including root-cause interpretations of CGM based on machine learning algorithms. Recent technical advances with CGM make it possible to map all glucose fluctuations. However, there are currently no tools available for analyzing all the data which constitute a major challenge for both the affected individual and the healthcare sector. For the individual, the amount and continuous nature of the data make it nearly impossible to systematically make adequate adjustments of the insulin treatment. For the healthcare sector, the introduction of CGM has resulted in an avalanche of data to interpret which can consist of 50.000 data points for each patient at each visit. Our ambition is to solve this major hurdle and provide the digital tools needed to truly transform diabetes care. Our product is a software as a service and our long-term ambition is to make it available to everyone living with insulin-treated diabetes and their healthcare providers.

The world is getting urbanized and we need more and more resources to build and develop our cities. With this growth comes an increased pressure on natural resources. At the same time we have already have an impressive ''bank of materials'' available in the cities, namely in our buildings. By mapping and understanding the amount, quality and accessibility of these materials we can better plan for the future. We can decrease the pressure on new materials and create a circular building industry. AGAIN X provides a top down approach to mapping existing buildings, their content and status, by using aggregated data and machine learning. Our SaaS platform will give better KPIs(Key Performance Indicators) to real estate investors and managers. The KPIs will help them make more sustainable long-term decisions; better for their wallet and better for the planet.

Best in Copenhagen since 2014. What we focus on is premium services only. Regular Hot Yoga classes throughout the week and weekends, experienced teachers, 3 prime locations, best facilities, and only high ratings make us the best Yoga studio in Copenhagen since 2014. We are aiming for expansion throughout Scandinivia and Nordics by 2023.

MIOO is a Stockholm based startup reinventing the concept of bicycle service. Through ambitious infrastructure initiatives and the desire to live healthier lives with smaller carbon footprints, commuting by bike is increasing in popularity rapidly across the world. The importance of having a well functioning bicycle is more important than ever and MIOO is here to make that task easier! Through a subscription, customers get bike insurance and bike service at their home or work. By building a platform of mechanics, MIOO enables bike service to come to customers. We are a strong team backed up by investors to expand MIOO into new cities and countries. Each of us have a strong relation to cycling that drives us to make bicycle maintenance easy and accessible for everyone.

P3 Financial Group is a young, dynamic company headquartered in Helsinki with offices globally that has developed digital platforms for national resource management and financial payment systems. Our national resource management system is being used by the Thailand government for digitising water assets, water scarcity and sustainable water allocation, flood and drought forecasting and multi-agency decision support. This is a one of a kind platform that is relevant for government agencies and other organisations involved in any aspect of the water cycle from upstream collection and storage to downstream distribution within cities and municipalities. Our P3 payment system technology helps create national scale payment ecosystems with all the necessary tools from end user applications, devices to transaction processing, settlement and re-conciliation.

Vi är ett av de mest snabbväxande ed-tech-företagen som innoverar och digitaliserar körkortsbranschen. Vi på Trafiko vill bygga en enklare och mer tillgänglig körkortsutbildning genom att tillhandahålla tjänster som ger körkortstagare den bästa möjliga upplevelsen. Vi hjälper över 35 000 körkortstagare årligen.

We are FOLKS. An independent, self-funded company built on a bit more than just a vision. You see, we are on a mission. Mutual appreciation, human care, and happy work life are what make our butterflies tickle. We are colorful individuals with errors, emotions, personalities, beliefs, culture, doing our best to keep folks happy at work!!