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 work in our centrally located office in Helsinki downtown and around the globe together with our customers and partners. Our deep tech approach ensures that you get to work with the latest and greatest of new technology and business generation. We always work in teams that are defining their own way of working with the support of Product Owners, Coaches and Leaders. We do not have hierarchies and our ambition level is high: our vision for 2025 is that Rain is the leading Edge-to-Cloud data application platform touching at least 1 billion lives through our customers and business partners. We are optimistic and want to show a leading attitude towards colleagues, partners and customers. Our approach in day-to-day interactions is sincere, and we enjoy our encouraging atmosphere; it is motivational, self-organized and ambitious. With you as part of our team we will become a major enabler of augmented life in the world of tomorrow. Every day both people and things continue to become more and more connected. This results in mountains of data - more than the current networks can handle. We see a new way forward with RAIN, a platform for enterprise data applications across the Edge to Cloud continuum. Our purpose is to enable seamless augmented experiences, in all aspects of our lives. We build RAIN - a simple and visual platform for business and subject-matter experts, helping to map and plan dataflows, connect data sources and act on real time data without complex tools.

MAAB Group is an investment and trading company specialised in commercialising innovative healthcare products internationally. The company was founded by pharmaceutical industry veterans in 2011 and was originally incorporated in Hong Kong, China. Today, the company is headquartered in New Zealand, with operations in mainland China, the UK, and Denmark. ​

HISTORY: The idea came a year ago, after a few years of owning & running a successful women's designer vintage clothing store in Copenhagen. Observed how COVID19 affected consumer spending and surge in e-commerce. Inquiries about alternative payment solutions. Consistent increased sales, consumer excitement and interest focused on luxury branded bags. THE BUSINESS IDEA IN A NUTSHELL: Building a community-driven marketplace, facilitating buying and trading exclusive luxury designer bags, thus empowering members within a circular retail model, run by female entrepreneurs. PROBLEM, SOLUTIONS AND VALUE CREATION: People are looking for designer luxury bags, especially in Denmark. The consumer market for luxury bags is a 2.4 USD billion industry worldwide. However, current options for luxury bags can be expensive or “cheap”, low quality unverified or unqualified resellers. Alternatively, they are fakes or non-sustainable high street options. Sustainability awareness is forecast to increase in luxury fashion. Furthermore, there is an increased preference to trusted brands. Through our platform, we give access to luxury! Our goal is to amplify an existing & growing community. Key to success will be inclusivity and access, giving all income group consumers across Denmark a platform to buy, rent, sell and trade their luxury items. Through paid membership tiers, we provide early access to events, sales, discounts and financial incentives. We provide consumers from different income brackets access to luxury items via new financial incentives eg. rental, monthly instalments and exchange initiatives COVID has increased e-commerce spend. It has also decreased small brand sales and increased luxury brand focus. This change in mindset is accelerating the sustainable fashion trends. The market share for vintage and second hand industry has increased exponentially the last few years and expected to overtake consumer spending on new fashion in the next decade. We want to offer an affordable solution - new ways of shopping, giving access to luxury products and building a digital community.

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!

KOMBO AUDIO is a DTU based Audio startup, creating a modular, easy to use audio system empowering hobbyist musicians & upcoming artists. Our mission: Powering Live music for everyone! Through the last 10 years, the internet has enabled a revolution in the music industry, making it much easier for independent musicians to create and share their music on social platforms like soundcloud. This is however a completely different story when it comes to the artist's ability to perform live, and share their music with people in the real world. Here, the only available Live audio equipment is wired, complicated and extremely time consuming to use and set up - which works directly against the artists wishes of spontaneous creativity and independence of the musical industry. We are changing that with our Live music system - enabling small artists and musicians to set up their own live stages, whenever and wherever they please!

SustainLab is a SaaS Sustainability Management platform that automates collection, processing and visualization of sustainability data, to help companies spend less time on data-handling and more on accelerating change. Founded on the belief that data is the difference between making some changes and hoping for the best, and truly having an impact, SustainLab works with companies that share the vision of accelerating change for better business and a better planet. Our software helps sustainability professionals drive better decision-making based on data that actually matters.

LETZLEATHER create stylish quality interior that provides smart and sustainable solutions. We are passionate about our products always being of the highest quality, and it is important for us that the products gives good conscience all the way. We strive to consider the evironment in everything we do, and to be good at the earth that we have been given. As a combination of ecological leather and FCS-certified wood our products fit into the modern Nordic home. All products are designed and made by hand i Denmark.

Vaquita Technologies aims to revolutionize the current market of water quality measuring devices by introducing a modular device that can be adapted to different client needs (ex. setting different parameters, such as ‘pH’ or ‘turbidity’) worldwide. Since our device is constructed from durable and biodegradable materials, it can be applied everywhere - in lakes, rivers, or seaside - and does not pollute the environment. Our sensors are equipped with the newest optical sensor technology and are powered by renewable energy while remaining visual pollution-free, blending into the environment they are placed in.

Because no coach grows alone, we’ve built CoCoach to be the partner every coach deserves, helping them get clients, grow their brand, and run their business with confidence. The real secret to coaching success? Great support behind the scenes. That’s what we do. Backed by a number of the most prominent investors in Europe, we’re 20 passionate people sharing a magnetic ambition of helping as many coaches as possible building their businesses. We’re currently operating across 6 different markets being UK, NL, FI, NO, SE with our HQ in Copenhagen, Denmark, looking to expand into other markets over the next couple of years.

Barona has launched the most cost efficient and full service IT-recruitment partnership in DK providing international IT candidates through search, hire, relocation, housing, and settlement. When recruiting is not enough to solve the talent gap we design elevate programs in order to build new tech competences and secure future growth for our customers. Local talent recruitment and staffing is also part of our core business and close to our hearts, thus we can fill any short or long term position within IT through recruitment marketing, search and headhunting.

I am in cooperation with Dansk Golf Akademi starting up various interesting concepts in the golfbusiness. Dansk Golf Akademi is the leading golf teaching business in the country with facilities allover Denmark. We are taking the business from nothing and all the way to a functional business and keep running it.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

Who is Drupps? We want to lead the atmospheric water revolution. Drupps is a Swedish airwater innovation company providing tailor-made solutions for industrial-scale water production from ambient air or steam outlets. We help customers reduce water footprint and dependence on groundwater by turning airborne humidity into clean drinking water at very low running cost. Drupps is based in Uppsala, Sweden, and we sell to all continents either through our own channels or via partners established in local markets. We consider each customer case to be unique and we operate project-based meaning that we design each installation specifically for that location.

Åpenhet is a Norwegian GovTech company based in Oslo and Paris. We specialize in good governance & data driven policy making. We provide services to public administrations and organisations across Europe. Our primary goal is to foster international cooperation through knowledge and data sharing. We are growing our team.