About Innofounder The Innofounder Program is owned and financed by Innovation Fund Denmark. The incubator is operated by Second Foundation and Danish Design Centre. The Innofounder incubator has more than 120 participating startups joining in 2022. Innofounder startups get close mentoring, access to a huge network of the very best experts and partners, workshops and masterclasses, and great benefits & offers on everything from software to coworking spaces and professional services. About Second Foundation At Second Foundation we are experts in supporting early startups helping them grow into great businesses. We draw on our experience from running the predecessor of this incubator – the Innofounder Graduate incubator for the past five years. We conceptualize and drive high-value incubator and accelerator programs, providing startups with essential tools, network and mindsets to solidify their foundation for building a profitable and scalable business.

Web security is becoming a bigger and bigger problem and the number of data leaks and ransomware attacks has increased exponentially in 2020 and 2021. Heyhack helps software companies improve the security of web applications by conducting automated penetration tests and offering advice on how to patch found vulnerabilities. We're a team of security-minded experts who have been working in information security for more than 20 years. We're on a mission to make the web a safer and more secure place and we're looking for talented people to join us on our journey.

Newsec Maps is developing a web-based SaaS platform to help the Nordic commercial real estate (CRE) industry turn data into opportunities. Digitalization is a new term in the CRE industry, even though it's one of the world's largest asset class. The fact that it's such a big industry with huge value being transacted and managed, makes information and the speed of information extremely valuable. But today, most companies are subscribing to multiple different public sources, agency brokers, manual processes and personal networks to receive information used in decision-making. Newsec Maps collects, merge and enrich data from legal, property and commercial sources and makes it accessible in a modern map-based user interface. The platform saves countless hours of manual labour and makes it easy for CRE companies to discover opportunities and manage assets. The CRE industry physically shapes the cities we live and breath in. It's a conservative industry, all though not resistant to change. The potential for more efficient urban development and infrastructure is huge and achievable through digitalizing the industry. Meaning we can help shape cities by making information available and developing solutions that provides insights hidden in the data. This is what motivated us to start this company and develop Newsec Maps. At the time of posting, we are a team of 6 in Oslo and 12 consultants located in Europe. We are now growing the Oslo team and are actively searching for talented and motivated members. All our employees receive the same benefits and here's some of them: – Fast-paced startup environment backed by Europe’s largest full-service property house – High-end office facilities in Central Business District, Oslo – Subsidized gourmet lunch programme in Restaurant Haakon – Access to gym with towel service and spa showers – Top notch health and travel insurance – Competitive pension plan – Flat company structure – freedom with responsibility – Young and vibrant culture

AQRisk is a danish fintech start-up - we bring new innovative fintech applications to market – that help solve fundamental analytical challenges in banking. We rethink optimized banking in close cooperation with customers and offer solutions for the future of banking by effectively utilizing data, quantitative methodology and fintech. Our solutions have received great validation in the Danish market and are now looking to scale internationally.

Ethan Partners is one of the few truly global executive search companies that focuses on startups and scaleups. Our team across Europe partners with hyper-growth technology businesses and their investors to find, attract and retain the best senior talent that will enable them to expand internationally and reach their full potential. After opening our Copenhagen office, we have gained significant traction in the Nordics and experienced fantastic growth last year – in our Copenhagen office alone the team grew from 4 to 10. In January 2022 we have already realized a 3x growth compared to last year, so we are looking to expand the team with even more great people, to join us in delivering the absolute best in class executive search across all our exciting international projects.

Hi, We are blankt - a fledgling art-tech startup from Stockholm, Sweden. The trend towards more personalization and customization is everywhere you look today. That's where blankt comes in. The vision is to be the platform where people, without any design experience, can create the art they want. It is then up to them to choose whether they want the art printed as a physical product or whether they want it digitally, e.g. in the form of an NFT.

Validproof is a SaaS solution that enables Pharmaceutical manufacturers and brands to easily comply with authentication and track-and-trace regulations. We offer the latest technology without needing technical expertise. Our platform is full service and offers real-time data of how pharma products are performing in the market. By partnering with manufacturers and other Pharmaceutical stakeholders, our Track-and-Trace solution helps to solve the $200 Billion problem of counterfeit medicines and protect consumers beyond-the-Pill.

We are a full-service interior design company based in Copenhagen and with Showroom on Islands Brygge. We help our clients with everything from curtains to furniture, wardrobes and custom designed kitchens. We guide on colors, textile, materials and the latest trends within interior design. We also offer complete home styling and mounting by our handymen. We have more than 25 years of experience and is in the process of expanding out business in Copenhagen.

Hireproof is a recruitment SaaS that helps companies make better hiring decisions, decrease bias in interview situations, and give candidates a human-centric interview experience. Based on organizational psychology best practices, Hireproof makes anyone a world-class interviewer just by clicking a link. The one constant in every company's recruitment is the employment interview. Unfortunately, the commonly used unstructured interview style is notoriously prone to bias and a poor predictor of job performance. The current trend in the recruitment industry is adding more tools, skill assessments, personality tests, and prerecorded interviews, all of which only increase recruitment complexity and dehumanize candidate experience while providing little increase to hiring validity. Hireproof takes the opposite approach. We aim to simplify recruitment and make interviews so reliable that companies won't need anything else to reach the best possible hiring decision.

Ambitious.Africa is about bringing people together, empowering young people, and collaborating to create an unstoppable stream of actions towards the change and transformation we want to see in the world. We are young people from two continents who learn together and work together - towards a better sustainable future. Ambitious Africa is transforming the collaboration between Africa and the Nordics by focusing on what they call ‘the three Es’ - Education, Entrepreneurship, and Entertainment. We connect, inspire, and empower young people in all African and Nordic countries to work together, lead the change, and create transformation. Our values are based on the shared Nordic values that actually are not that Nordic, but global values translated into one functioning model that allows teamwork, trust, and equality for global welfare and sustainable development. Ambitious.Africa Denmark is a chapter of Ambitious Africa that aims to develop strong Danish-African relationships and unite Danish and African youth willing to create a positive impact in both regions. Ambitious.Africa Denmark has joined forces with the Danish African Business Association to engage players from the business sector, find potential synergies and accelerate the collaboration between the young and the established. Along with Sweden, Denmark is the first European country outside the global team based in Finland to join the Ambitious Africa network.

We're on a journey to introduce seaweed as a natural part of nordic food - first by way of a sustainable, nutritious, ready-to-eat snack product. Each bite begins with a crispy lightness followed by a wholesome, satisfying crunch, crafted in a selection of familiar flavors - done a little differently. The Why: By 2050, the world is required to produce at least 50% more food and do so while achieving 'Net Zero' carbon emission according to the UN. Seaweed has unique properties in that it can be grown on lines of rope in the ocean, with no requirement for artificial inputs (fertiliser, fresh water, light). The output is nutritious seaweed that is stock full of essential vitamins (A, D, E, B1, B2), Iron, Calcium, and Omega-3 fat - usually only found in fish. And there's more - seaweed also sequesters about 5x as much CO2 as land-based plants. In short, seaweed can be part of the solution for some of the world's largest issues. Our dream, is to create local demand, for locally produced seaweed, to support foods of the future and Danish companies.

Squire is a service marketplace that facilitates the connection between freelancers providing their services and customers in need of service help. If you want to work on Squire, you can experience true freedom and flexibility as you can choose when you work, what services you provide, and how much you charge. For customers looking for service help, Squire offers a variety of categories to choose from. Here they can find freelancers and businesses ready to offer their services. We have experienced that many people around us have lost their jobs. We want to build a solution to this, providing people who have lost their income a means to earn a living. Efficient access to services is something we believe the danish economy lacks, by facilitating new demand and supply for service jobs, we hope to stimulate the economy by creating a platform that encourages spending and income generation opportunities during a time of suppressed economic growth.

The only thing more important than your time is what you spend it on! Our mission is to allow small and medium-sized business owners to save time and focus on what is truly important: growing their business. Instead of spending their time on day-to-day administration and management work. We do this through digital transformation and process automation. A lot of businesses have amazing potential that is not being utilized because day-to-day operations are taking up most of the time that otherwise could’ve been invested in developing new business ideas and income opportunities. In a large part, the reason for this rising potential is the technological advancement we have seen over the past few years. Although it is creating opportunities, a lot of companies have a hard time adapting their operational and administrative processes to this new way of doing business. As mentioned our whole reason for existence is to help companies go through digital transformation, to set themselves free of their old inefficient processes. We use a combination of different frameworks from the fields of Business Process Management and Software Development to tailor digital processes 100% to our client´s workflows, management and operations. The nature of our work can described as two integrated phases that each brings a unique value to our client. The first phase is all about in-depth analysis of current processes, painpoints, operation dynamics and redesign of these from a digital perspective adding the technological aspects. The second phase is related to developing the actual automation software, scripts, integrations and business logic using the technologies. There is a catch though: in the second phase, the first phase is actually repeated – the closer we work with the technical development the more opportunities arise along the way, which usually allows us to optimize the processes even more than expected. How and why did it start? “The only thing more important than your time is what you spend it on.” I realized this when I was 16, working a boring data entry job. At that time, I had already moved out and really had to learn how to prioritize my time. My main goal and dream was to become a professional basketball player and this repetitive, boring job was just taking away my valuable time, which I could otherwise be spending at the gym. For the first time in my life, I had too many goals but too little time. So I decided to change that. What started as a few formulas and scripts to automate my data entry, quickly turned into an app, which turned into 5 apps, and by the time I was 18 turned into my own company. I realized how small and medium-sized business owners face the same issue I was facing – too many goals, but too little time. And the solution: process automation and digital transformation. 2 years later and counting, I am running a company of process specialists, analysts, consultants, developers, and technical writers to help companies and business owners create more time for what is truly important. The journey has been awesome, but to be honest it is not all about the success. Just like I see companies as a bunch of processes, I also see life as a process – a learning process! Most importantly, this journey has brought me amazing knowledge and experience, which I would never give up for anything, and it shaped into the fearless person I am today. For me, life is about challenging yourself and learning from it – throw yourself into the deep end yet learn to survive! I will say it one more time: "The only thing more important than your time is what you spend it on!" Feel free to connect and get a cool conversation started!

At CoreSeer, we aim to future-proof our users’ skill sets, preparing them for the job market through an AI-driven professional development platform and intelligent education and career coaching service. We are working hard to help people learn the skills that they need to make themselves future-proof and more marketable and change their lives for the better. We know that there are skills that will remain in-demand and marketable, and we want to afford people easier access to those skills, empowering them to learn what they need to learn in a way that is encouraging, fun, efficient, and effective. The ideal future of CoreSeer is one in which the users are growing both personally and professionally. At the heart of the CoreSeer platform is the recommendation engine, which guides people toward the occupations, skills, jobs, online-courses, lessons, and other opportunities that suit them best. We are drawing upon information about people’s needs, where they see their education or career path headed, and what will serve their futures best – accounting for all of these variables as we match people to the content that is available through CoreSeer. This means that, unlike other platforms that force users to make decisions about their education or career choices, we are offering a form of automated mentoring for our users, encouraging them to follow one path or another based on the results that they want to see.

We are TRIBE. A political party and software solution promoting active democracy in Norway and the world. TRIBE is a combination between a political party and a software solution enabling more direct democracy and transparency for political parties. We are a startup based in Oslo and are currently planning our crowdfunding campaign. The founder team have a long experience from the startup ecosystem and companies such as P&G, Accenture, Microsoft etc.