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CouturAI is the AI-native platform for creating, growing, and launching the next generation of fashion brands. Today, talented designers and aspiring founders face high barriers to turning ideas into viable businesses, from costly product development and limited industry access to fragmented tools and difficulty validating demand. CouturAI brings the journey into one platform, enabling creators to turn ideas into collections, build their brand, test market demand, connect with customers, and move toward commercialisation. Our mission is to make building a fashion brand faster, more accessible, and less dependent on capital, connections, or traditional industry gatekeepers.

WOOF is an ambitious Danish edtech company on a mission to create better conditions for learning by improving student well-being, engagement, and classroom relationships. Founded by teachers, WOOF was created in response to a challenge experienced in classrooms everywhere: educators need simple and meaningful ways to understand how their students are doing—and practical tools that help them act on those insights. Through short, anonymous student check-ins, WOOF gives every student a voice while providing teachers and school leaders with a clear, real-time picture of classroom well-being. But WOOF is much more than a measurement tool. The platform turns insights into action through engaging activities, structured conversations, and practical resources that help teachers strengthen relationships and build positive learning environments. By making well-being visible and actionable, WOOF enables schools to address challenges early and create classrooms where students feel seen, supported, and ready to learn. Today, WOOF is used by educators and schools across several international markets, including Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and the United States. From its Copenhagen base, the company brings together education, technology, and a strong sense of purpose. WOOF is a growing, collaborative organisation where ideas move quickly, individual contributions matter, and the team shares a clear ambition: to improve everyday school life for teachers and students around the world.

Aino is an e-commerce design and technology agency in Gothenburg, Sweden. We build headless storefronts for fashion and lifestyle brands, most of them on Centra or Shopify with Storyblok as the content layer. Editors get visual editing and live preview, and engineers get a content model that survives redesigns. We have shipped Storyblok builds for Samsøe Samsøe, Icebug, Beyond Medals and Forsman & Bodenfors, and we have been a Centra Pro Partner since 2015. Design and engineering sit in one team, from first sketch to the years after launch.

Maranics builds a platform that digitalizes operational workflows in complex, regulated industries. Where data was previously lost, scattered across silos, or trapped in manual processes, Maranics creates a single connected layer capturing what matters, routing it in real time, and delivering accurate, contextual data directly to the systems that need it.

normify is an engineering-documentation technology company modernizing how technical documents are checked and maintained — "docs-as-code" for engineering. Its graph-based compliance engine checks technical deliverables against the norms and project requirements they must comply with — clause by clause, with every finding cited back to its exact source, in minutes instead of days of manual review. Instead of an engineer cross-checking a document against a standard with a highlighter, normify returns every non-conformance with a traceable audit trail for QA and client review. The graph-based method — not a raw LLM wrapper — is what lets normify reach 96.1% labelled recall across 10+ standards. It is norm-agnostic (customers bring the standards and requirements their projects are bound to), portable across LLM providers, and available self-hosted so sensitive engineering data never leaves the customer's environment. normify is extending from compliance checking into version-aware change intelligence — tracking what changed between document revisions and whether it still complies. Target users: discipline leads, technical authorities, QA/QC and document-control teams at operators, EPCs, and engineering consultancies.

Enkelthed, Tilgængelighed, Kærlighed Fundamentet for din succes er dig. Du har bygget en virksomhed, du elsker, og det har vi den absolut største respekt for. Vi har været, hvor du er, og med vores baggrund fra iværksætteri og digital optimering, ved vi, hvad det koster at bygge og drifte. Derfor har vi skabt Loyal. Som din trofaste digitale førerhund, finder vi de steder i din drift, der kan optimeres ved hjælp af tech, og fornyer og forøger dine ressourcer, så du får mere tid. Tid til at gøre det, du gør bedst. Tid til dig, så du fortsat kan forme din virksomhed, som det menneske du er.

AnankeLabs is developing KAIROS Substrate, a real-time deterministic safety engine, to help organizations operating AI, cybersecurity, and autonomous systems solve structural exposure to novel, zero-day threats with a proactive physics engine that mathematically calculates exact breaking points before execution. We are tackling the fundamental failure of reactive, probabilistic defenses. Today, AI, cybersecurity, and robotics rely on known historical data—like threat signatures or mapped environments—to predict safety. This creates a permanent, widespread synchronization lag across modern infrastructure, leaving systems structurally exposed to novel, zero-day catastrophes and unpredictable "distribution shifts." This problem deeply affects operators across multiple high-stakes domains: AI Safety: Operators rely on post-generation statistical classifiers, forcing them to anticipate every adversarial path. This leaves systems highly exposed between vulnerability discovery and classifier updates. Cybersecurity: Current defenses depend on pattern-matching that requires a known signature. This creates a dangerous reality where defenders are forced to absorb the initial zero-day breach just to extract the signature needed to stop future attacks. Robotics: Systems use neural policies optimized for statistical averages. When encountering novel environments, they lack a physical safety substrate, resulting in hardware executing a "software hallucination at full mechanical torque" and causing kinetic collisions. AnankeLabs is creating an entirely new category of safety by shifting away from guessing if an action is safe based on past data, and moving toward a deterministic engine built on first principles. We built KAIROS Substrate, a real-time safety physics engine that acts as an automatic brake. Instead of relying on pattern-matching, it evaluates actions before execution, instantly detecting and blocking structurally unsound actions across AI, cyber, and robotics by calculating exact mathematical breaking points. Crucially, we made auditability a structural property of the engine itself. Because KAIROS is perfectly deterministic (identical inputs produce identical outputs at ε=10⁻⁶), it automatically generates an immutable, byte-identically replayable trace of every gate decision as a side effect. This eliminates subjective incident reporting and natively satisfies strict regulatory regimes like the EU AI Act, Machinery Regulation 2023/1230, DORA, and NIS2. The spark that fired our mission was the realization that relying on statistics to secure critical infrastructure is a dead-end. Watching security teams permanently synchronize their defenses to yesterday's attack surface highlighted an unacceptable structural flaw in modern technology. We saw the same unacceptable risks in autonomous systems, where a simple distribution shift could cause heavy machinery to hallucinate and collide with its environment. We realized that true safety couldn't be bolted on as an afterthought or solved with better guesswork; it had to be deterministic and mathematical. We set out to build AnankeLabs because organizations deserve a proactive safeguard that prevents failures from unseen threats from the ground up, rather than just mitigating the damage after the fact.

Pelea is the peer-to-peer prediction platform that makes watching sport more fun, and turns fan communities into thriving ecosystems. We let anyone become a "Game Creator." Influencers, Facebook group admins, sports bars, and fan clubs build Game Cards with simple football questions, invite their people, and run the action. No odds. No spreads. No jargon. Just react, play, and settle who actually knows their football. It is genuinely peer-to-peer. Players compete against each other, not the house. In private games you play among friends, and in public games you play against other people in the community. For Creators and Community leaders you get a turnkey solution to monetize the audience and create amazingly engaging content. We (currently) operate exclusively for residents of Denmark, require MitID verification, enforce an 18+ minimum age, and are committed to responsible play. Sport is better when everyone engages.

Loyalty is the former TM division of Bring Dialog Norge and originally started its operations in 1995. Today, Loyalty is a Nordic provider of customer service, appointment setting, and call center services, with more than 400 employees across its offices in Oslo, Drammen, and Stockholm. To deliver the best possible solutions to its customers, the company is guided by three core values that define everything they do: integrity, reliability, and structure. Since 2018, Loyalty has been certified as a Great Place to Work and has several times been recognized as one of the best workplaces in Norway within its category.

Copenhagen Health Week brings together science, experiences, community, and everyday health. Across seven days, the city becomes a living platform for connection, learning, and exploration - grounded in real-world practices and guided by leading voices in well-being, longevity, performance, women’s health, and mind–body integration. Our mission is to make preventive health accessible, relatable, and part of daily life - for individuals, professionals, and companies.

Ankerias is building an AI-powered software platform to improve how chronic neuropathic pain is treated. We help clinicians make better treatment decisions in complex conditions where outcomes are often driven by trial and error. Neuropathic pain affects hundreds of millions of people globally, yet matching the right patient with the right treatment remains a major challenge. We combine clinical expertise with AI and data-driven methods to enable more precise and personalized care. We build data-driven patient models (“digital twins”) from clinical and physiological data to support better diagnosis and treatment decisions. Our goal is to bring better decision-making into everyday clinical practice. We work closely with clinicians, universities, and AI researchers, and bring together expertise in pain research, healthcare, and technology. We are a team with strong backgrounds in pain research, clinical collaboration, and AI-driven technology. We collaborate closely with clinicians, universities, and AI researchers.

Most companies know they need to move on AI. The challenge isn’t awareness - it’s knowing where and how to start and keep momentum. That’s the kind of problems we work on at Kompose. Working at Kompose means being part of a small, highly focused team that builds side by side. We combine deep technical expertise with hands-on delivery, helping professional services firms and larger enterprises move from complexity to working, production-ready AI solutions. No slide decks for the sake of it. No pseudo-work. We focus on real use cases and ship solutions that deliver visible results. We move fast and prioritise momentum. If something doesn’t create value for the customer, we don’t do it. Good ideas win - regardless of title. Feedback is direct and constructive. Mistakes are fine; carelessness and unnecessary complexity are not. Our days are collaborative. We start each morning with a short check-in and spend most of our time working closely together in the office in Christianshavn. There’s space for deep focus and space for discussion. Transparency is the norm - about challenges, trade-offs, and decisions. We experiment constantly and apply AI in our own workflows. We test new tools, refine how we build, and continuously evolve our delivery framework so we get sharper with every project. You’re trusted to own your work and see it through - from idea to production. We’re ambitious and growing organically, but we believe good work requires balance. Some weeks are intense, others lighter. We swim in the canals every week (even in winter) and during summer we hold meetings on a rented boat. Lean team. High trust. Real responsibility. Real impact.

Compli is a compliance operating system that transforms laws and regulatory requirements into structured, operational workflows inside a company. Instead of delivering static reports or raw risk data, Compli identifies gaps between regulations and a company’s existing procedures, and turns them into concrete actions, documented decisions, and continuous follow-up. It integrates regulatory updates, supplier risk, internal routines, and ESG reporting into one unified execution engine. Our vision is to build the infrastructure layer for regulatory intelligence in Europe — where compliance is no longer manual, reactive work, but an automated system that strengthens businesses every day.

EquaFish is a company developing the only complete decision-making tool for fish farm operation. The AquaCulture industry is facing mass mortality and decreased yields as a result of knowledge and data being fragmented througout the farm. One facility usually have 10-15 different systems, Excell sheets and notes where only 10-15% of the functionality is actually used. EquaFish streamlines, process and visualize the data so that every employee, no matter role, understand the plan, status and future of the production. This $140B problem is faced by salmon farmers, telapia, halibut, shellfish and char farmers all alike. The tech is the same, even though the species is not. EquaFish has a SaaS solution bringing all growth, water quality, mortality and feed data into one, exploiting mathematical and statistical data processing to find causes and effects, which the fish farmer can act upon. The result is higher yield with reduced risks in the production, increased effiency, knowledge sharing and learning with the employees. Finally fish produced in more stable environments with less risk of death and non-friendly conditions. EquaFish was startet on the belief that one of the biggest industries deserve the newest and best tools. The time of post-it notes, Excell and systems from the 90s died 15years ago and the AquaCulture industry didnt get the memo. So if you want to create real change for a sustainable, profitable and animal friendly industry, EquaFish is the place that gets that done.