Byrd is a platform for verified user-generated content. In other words, we’re making a web- and smartphone app where private people can sell their photos and videos to news organizations. Our users can respond to assignments from media or upload content they consider newsworthy. Our vision is to innovate and empower storytelling by providing photographers and media outlets with powerful tools in order to get the best truthful news coverage possible.

BUK Studio is a young Danish furniture brand creating handcrafted solid oak furniture with a calm Nordic expression. The brand started from a wish to make furniture that feels more honest, more personal and more lasting than much of what is available today. The problem we are solving is that many people want quality furniture with character, but the market is often split between expensive design classics and mass produced furniture that does not always feel unique or built to last. BUK Studio focuses on solid materials, clean design and long lasting pieces that can become part of a home for many years. We want to make furniture where the craftsmanship, wood and details are easy to understand and where customers feel they are buying something with real value and personality.

Free To Use is a royalty-free music platform that gives content creators high-quality background music for free, without the copyright risks that come with most "free" music online. The problem: every creator who publishes video or audio needs music, but the safe options are a mess. Most "free" libraries simply host tracks uploaded by producers who keep the rights, so a song can be pulled later or hit with a copyright claim that demonetizes or blocks the creator's video. Licensing terms are buried in legalese and often restricted by platform or region. And a growing share of libraries are filling up with AI-generated music that can't be properly copyrighted or protected. The result: creators waste time, lose ad revenue to false claims, and never quite know if the music in their video is safe. Our solution: Free To Use owns every track in its catalogue outright. Artists transfer the exclusive rights to us, so the music stays free forever, the terms stay stable, and we can resolve false copyright claims directly on a creator's behalf. Every track is made by a real human artist, never AI, and reviewed and curated by hand for consistent quality. Creators browse by mood and genre, download unlimited tracks with no sign-up, and publish safely across YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Twitch and podcasts. Why we built it: we are a team of content creators who felt this pain ourselves. Free use comes with a simple attribution; we fund the platform through affordable Personal and Commercial subscriptions plus single-track Pro and Broadcast licences, which keeps the core library free for everyone. Founded in 2016 and based in Denmark, Free To Use is building the music layer for the creator economy: music creators can actually trust.

Gyro is an autonomous GRC workforce that continuously executes governance, risk, and compliance operations — while giving executives and board members the visibility and intelligence needed to make informed decisions and ensure accountability. Automate your governance, risk and compliance Stay ahead of regulatory change Turn compliance into better decisions for your business

BLS HAFNIA is a Copenhagen-based clothing brand established in 2011. The brand started as a minimalistic contemporary label with a focus on headwear. Since then, BLS HAFNIA has evolved into a complete clothing brand rooted in Scandinavian minimalism, utilitarianism, and Italian sportswear influences. Our goal has always been to create products with exceptional fit, comfort, and timeless appeal. Today, the BLS HAFNIA collection includes a full range of apparel, developed through seasonal collections, capsules, and collaborations with both Scandinavian and international brands. Our garments have been worn by influential figures across fashion, music, and sports, helping establish BLS HAFNIA as a recognized name within contemporary streetwear culture.

Nordic Waves Group is a Danish climate-tech and education startup building digital tools and learning experiences that help people better understand climate change, sustainability, and their own impact on the world around them. We believe one of the biggest barriers to climate action is not a lack of information, but a lack of understanding. Climate science is often complex, fragmented, and difficult to translate into everyday decisions. At the same time, traditional learning formats struggle to engage younger generations in meaningful ways. Our mission is to make climate literacy accessible, engaging, and actionable. We are currently focused on two core product areas: Greenhouse Calculator (GHC) – an AI-powered carbon footprint platform that helps users understand their emissions through intuitive calculations, personalized insights, and practical recommendations. The platform is designed to make climate impact understandable in minutes rather than hours. Educational Gaming Universe – a science-based learning platform that combines educational games, interactive experiences, and immersive technologies to teach climate and sustainability concepts. Rather than building games for entertainment alone, we are creating learning experiences with clear educational objectives, developed in collaboration with educators, game designers, developers, and climate scientists. What makes Nordic Waves unique is our interdisciplinary approach. Our team brings together professionals and volunteers from technology, climate science, education, game development, design, communications, and business development. We work closely with a Climate Scientist Board and a growing Teacher Community to ensure that our products are both scientifically credible and educationally relevant. Today, Nordic Waves is an international team of passionate contributors working across Europe and beyond. Together, we are building the tools, experiences, and learning ecosystems needed to strengthen climate literacy and empower informed decision-making in a rapidly changing world. Our long-term vision is to become a leading platform for climate learning, combining digital tools, educational content, and game-based experiences into one connected ecosystem that helps individuals, schools, organizations, and communities better understand and navigate sustainability challenges.

NUORI was founded by Jasmi Bonnén in Copenhagen in 2015, driven by a simple dissatisfaction with skincare industry standards - and a belief that freshness is what makes skincare truly work. We small-batch produce and freshness-date every product, which allows us to make formulas exclusively with all-natural ingredients at the highest level of efficacy - and to offer a genuine alternative to traditional chemical-preservative skincare. Today, NUORI is trusted by leading international spas and skincare therapists worldwide. Our founding mission has always been the same: You should never have to choose between all-natural skincare and visible results. That belief has shaped everything about how we work.

Cendo is a leading Danish AI voice company helping businesses in Denmark and Norway automate customer conversations with AI voice agents. We build voice AI for customer support, booking, and lead qualification, enabling companies to handle large call volumes with better availability and efficiency. Cendo was selected for the Innofounder programme by the Danish Innovation Fund.

NeuroQuant är ett beslutstöd för aktieinvesterare som vill fatta bättre beslut på börsen – med stöd av analys, strategier, modellportföljer och datadrivna verktyg. Vi hjälper självständiga investerare att investera mer metodiskt, minska känslostyrda beslut och behålla kontrollen över sitt kapital. I NeuroQuant får du tillgång till marknadsanalys, färdiga modellportföljer, utbildning och analysverktyg som gör det enklare att förstå marknadsläget, hitta intressanta aktier och följa en tydlig investeringsprocess. Vår filosofi är enkel: framgång på börsen handlar inte om att gissa rätt – utan om att följa strukturerade modeller som fungerar över tid. NeuroQuant kombinerar kvantitativ analys, teknisk analys, fundamental data och marknadstolkning i en plattform skapad för investerare som vill fatta egna beslut, men med ett professionellt beslutsstöd i ryggen. För dig som vill investera med mer struktur, disciplin och datadriven klarhet. Process före känsla. Data före åsikt.

LoyaltyPlays in brief: Problem: Each year, everyday consumers lose over €100B in expiring loyalty points. Programs are designed to reward the 5% of members with the highest balances, who can afford free flights and hotel stays. The remaining 95%, ordinary consumers who travel a few times a year and earn a few thousand points, have no meaningful rewards available to them. Solution: The LoyaltyPlays anyplay platform opens redemption for this excluded 95%. Members can redeem premium digital entertainment gift cards, including Apple App Store, Google Play, PlayStation, Spotify, and Steam, starting from €5 (roughly 5,000 points). Why digital entertainment: The category has over 85% penetration across all consumer segments and over 90% among digital natives, particularly Gen Z. Our team's previous platform in this space achieved a 24.2% visitor-to-redemption conversion rate with a €23 average redemption value. Why us: The LoyaltyPlays team has over a decade of presence in the international loyalty industry, with direct relationships to loyalty programs ranging from 20M to 250M members. The team has received three international awards, including Red Herring's Most Innovative Companies and The Loyalty Awards' Best Loyalty Partnership. There is active, current demand for this solution across Western and emerging markets.

Ode is building the world’s simplest solution for therapeutic music. We combine a smart speaker with a single-knob interface and AI-driven curation to reduce anxiety, agitation, and depression in people living with dementia. Founded after CEO Guttorm saw music’s impact through his grandmother’s dementia, Ode exists to remove the time, technology, and cost barriers that keep personalised music out of everyday care. Today, getting it right typically means specialist mapping, hours of playlist work, and daily device hassle, which caregivers and families can’t sustain. Ode makes it practical: curate in minutes, then play instantly with one knob—so the right music is there when it’s needed, without adding workload.

CircuCity is a circular e-commerce platform built to make sustainable consumption easier, more practical, and honestly, more appealing in everyday life. At its core, it is a marketplace where people can buy and sell second-hand items alongside new sustainable products, all within one ecosystem designed to extend product life cycles. But it’s not just about transactions. It’s about shifting habits. The problem we are addressing is rooted in the linear economy — the “take, make, dispose” model that still dominates global consumption patterns. Products are manufactured, purchased, used briefly, and discarded, often long before their functional life ends. This cycle drives resource depletion, carbon emissions, and growing waste streams. At the same time, consumers are becoming more aware of environmental challenges. Many want to make better choices, but the systems around them are fragmented and inconvenient. Second-hand markets exist, of course. But they are often scattered across multiple platforms, inconsistent in quality, and sometimes lacking trust. Sustainable alternatives, on the other hand, can be expensive or difficult to find. As a result, the intention to consume responsibly frequently clashes with convenience, price, and habit. People default to what is easiest — and that often means buying new, fast, and disposable. CircuCity bridges this gap. We provide a unified, user-friendly platform where circular choices are not an afterthought but the default. By integrating resale, reuse, and sustainable new products into one marketplace, we reduce friction in the decision-making process. Users can extend the life of items they no longer need, discover quality second-hand goods, and support more responsible brands — all in one place. Beyond functionality, we are building incentives into the system. Through mechanisms such as reward points, engagement challenges, and community features, CircuCity makes sustainable behavior visible and rewarding. The goal is not to lecture or guilt consumers into better habits. It is to design a system where circular consumption feels natural, economically sensible, and even motivating. Why does this matter? Because structural change requires behavioral change, and behavioral change requires better infrastructure. People cannot be expected to consistently choose sustainability if the systems around them prioritize speed and disposability. By making circular options more accessible, trustworthy, and engaging, we aim to shift consumption patterns at scale. CircuCity is not claiming to solve overconsumption overnight. But we believe that by extending product lifespans, reducing unnecessary waste, and empowering conscious consumers, we can contribute to a more regenerative economic model. In the long run, small individual decisions — when supported by the right platform — can accumulate into meaningful systemic impact. That is the space we operate in: practical sustainability, built into everyday commerce.

Marketer.com is a leading marketing and sales intelligence solution that empowers e-commerce brands - primarily within the Shopify ecosystem - to optimize marketing spend through AI-driven insights and automation. With over 1 million ads automated, 5x ROAS, and up to 13.5x marketing ROI, Marketer.com removes the need for internal marketing teams or external agencies by delivering one-click simplicity powered by AI. Our commercial focus is on the US market, with rapid growth across Canada, the UK, Australia, and the Nordics. As part of the Vergence Group, we benefit from over a decade of expertise across MarTech, real estate, health tech, recruitment, and advanced visualization.

We have invented a device that can deliver boiling water on any water tap just by turning on the water 3 times. We produce the device - a Boilr - ourselves and have a workshop in Copenhagen., Denmark. We have applied for a patent on the idea and, have all relevant approvals and have started selling the unit. Now we ware in early stages of a Marketing push and wants to explore the many ways.

At noon, we serve lunch at the highest level — and we’re confident saying so. Our menus are created by some of the world’s best chefs, handpicked from across the globe. From our kitchen in Nordhavn, we prepare food with a strong focus on sustainability, quality, and the joy of great food 🍊🌱 Each week, a new guest chef leaves their mark on your lunch experience. What all menus have in common is bold flavour and organic ingredients, featuring a selection of both cold and hot dishes — always accompanied by sourdough bread from our own bakery. Is your company based in Copenhagen?