We’re a community organisation aiming to build a world-class startup ecosystem in Aarhus backed by amazing stakeholders such as Aarhus University, Business Academy Aarhus, VIA University, The City Council of Aarhus, and Region Midtjylland. At Startup Aarhus we initiate programs and activities, that help solve our founder’s biggest challenges. Whether it’s securing funding, building networks, or gaining insights, we’re here to help you move forward, and make it easier for startups to change the world.

Maker is a member-based non-profit association founded in 2015 as a platform for the maker movement in Denmark and the Nordics. Since then, we've evolved from a traditional makerspace into an open lab and community central for physical entrepreneurs, startups and independent creatives. We develop, share and learn together with our members and across projects in the EU, in Denmark and in the Baltic Sea Region. Together with research institutions, companies, makerspaces and governments, we focus on sustainability and physical entrepreneurship; from open-source hardware to distributed design, aiming to transition makerspaces into circular spaces and develop sustainable practices for recycling materials, local production, and more.

Reveel is the leading all-in-one visitor experience platform for destinations and attractions. Through our software, attractions can turn their old paper maps into interactive digital guides in minutes, which open up in the visitors’ phones directly in their own languages. Reveel also provides attractions an opportunity to sell the visitors entrance tickets directly through global payment methods, making the visitor experience more accessible. The Reveel Studio allows attractions to maintain and update their guides seamlessly, as well as analyse valuable visitor data. All of this makes us the go-to solution for attractions and destinations looking to finally bring the visitor experience to the 21st century. Reveel is trusted by National Museums, capital cities and world-famous UNESCO-sites, but also small countryside historical sites and municipalities, from Lapland to Mexico. We believe that modern visitor experiences should be a no-brainer for all attractions. We’re looking to revolutionise traveltech, and we’re just getting started!

Actvyo is a newly registered company (enkeltmandsvirksomhed) based in Zealand, Denmark, focused on making fitness accessible to everyone, regardless of gender, location, or access to gym facilities. Our mission is to provide goal-oriented training and healthy living opportunities through personalized workout plans, nutrition guidance, and real-time coaching via an intuitive mobile application. We provide: Personalized workout plans tailored to individual fitness levels and goals, Comprehensive nutrition planning and supplement guidance, Direct communication with certified personal trainers, Advanced progress tracking with detailed analytics, Community-driven fitness support network to our users.

Crystal Alarm develops and supplies the market's most user-friendly personal alarm. An industry-leading solution used by many companies in various industries where employees work alone or in hazardous environments. Our goal is to provide people with a safer working environment through fast and reliable alarm handling. We are an innovative and entrepreneur-driven tech company where technology and social benefit go hand in hand. With us, you will be part of a team driven by safety, quality, and customer focus—and we are proud that our products make a difference in society.

Matriks is a value-adding IT solution and consulting company. We are driven by the ambition to make our customers successful. By understanding our customers business, we deliver the expertise and high-end solutions that creates business value for our customers. Our consultants are best in class and we put effort in fulfilling our customers’ expectations.

Our Mission Modern organizations are constrained not by a lack of intelligence, but by the way intelligence is applied. Decisions that should be systematic, auditable, and repeatable are instead handled through informal processes, institutional memory, and ad-hoc judgment. This creates inconsistency, opacity, and risk at scale. Our mission is to bureaucratize AI, not to add friction, but to add structure. We believe the next phase of artificial intelligence is not about replacing human judgment, but about formalizing it. By embedding AI into well-defined procedures, rules, and workflows, we aim to make complex decision-making reliable, transparent, and governable across organizations. Decision Support We build AI decision support systems that operate as institutional infrastructure rather than isolated tools. These systems do not issue commands; they surface options, trade-offs, and consequences in a way that aligns with organizational policy and accountability. By combining machine learning with explicit process design, our platforms augment human operators while preserving oversight and intent. Decisions become faster without becoming arbitrary, and scalable without becoming opaque. In doing so, we enable organizations to apply intelligence consistently at the speed and scale their operations require.

Vi är en start-up som brinner för att hjälpa ny- och gammalanlända att hitta sin egen röst och stil – och navigera vardagen i Sverige. Vi är en bra mix av erfarenhet och framtidstro, med en nypa “nu kör vi”-attityd. Följ oss för att höra mer! We are a start-up passionate about helping newcomers and long-time residents alike find their own voice and style – and navigate everyday life in Sweden. We are a great mix of experience and optimism for the future, with a dash of “let’s go for it” attitude. Follow us to hear more!

Vi hjælper Bid Managers med at vinde flere offentlige udbud, og gør det nemmere at samarbejde om at lave tilbud. Udbud fra starten indeholder often mange dokumenter, og det tager lang tid at lave tilbud. Bid Manager opgave er først og fremmest at lægge en strategi, men fokus blive ofte alt det administrative arbejde, det vil vi gerne hjælpe virksomheder med, så de kan fokusere på innovation.

CYKELKOKKEN creates gastronomic bike tours in and around Copenhagen. We specialize in offering guests a truly unique dining experience in the company of a cycling chef. During each tour, we serve a five-course meal at selected locations – all from our custom-designed kitchen bike, which also serves as the central hub of the tour. The rhythm of the city, combined with our passion for finding the best local ingredients, makes each of our tours a complete experience. We are now looking for two interns to join our team and help develop, plan, and carry out these experiences – both behind the scenes and out on the streets. From August to October, we offer two internship opportunities: one working with our chefs and one in our communications team.

MoneyStability is a creative-led AI startup on a mission to deliver an outstanding fintech product that enables financially illiterate users to stabilize their finances effortlessly—delivering a product that looks, feels, and functions in entirely new ways. Globally, 55–65% of people lack financial literacy, and over 81% feel unsupported by their banks. MoneyStability solves the underlying cause; widespread personalization gaps that exacerbates financial instability. Our solution is a Personalized AI-Automated Finance Stabilization Platform—one that is personally simplified in every wallet. *As an early-stage startup, detailed information about the company and our proprietary AI technology (know-how) is not yet publicly disclosed*

We are sustainability risk experts and help investors and companies understand their sustainability risks. We are now taking our deep proprietary process knowledge into an AI strengtened automated workflow. We use this for our internal research for our clients, but also propose clients to use our research process platform themselves.

Personal transportation is one of the greatest sources to Co2-emmission and air pollution. The change from a fossil fuel car to an EV is the lowest hanging fruits to decrease this emmission. Before you make this shift, you want to make sure that you can charge your car, which can be challenging if you live in a city, where you depend on a public roll out of EV charging infrastructure, which often lacks behind. This is what we want to change with Elby. Elby's solution enables an ubiquitous roll out on market conditions and at a marginal cost of the known solutions.

OM Health is an early-stage startup on a mission to improve pet wellbeing through preventative health insights. We’re building the next-generation wearable for dogs — a lightweight, long-battery-life device that helps pet owners optimize their dog’s daily health through tracking activity, sleep, and location. Our approach is inspired by wearables like WHOOP and Oura, but adapted for dogs — with a strong focus on health optimization, not just location tracking. We’re currently building our first working prototype and are looking for a talented hardware engineer/co-founder to help us bring it to life.

🌍 About Xbrandify Xbrandify is an AI-powered, white-label experiential travel platform that helps brands turn their audiences into communities—and their marketing into revenue. We empower lifestyle, sports, and media brands to launch their own travel platforms where they can offer everything from curated local activities to full-scale adventures—without needing to build any tech or operations themselves. 🚨 The Problem We're Solving In a world of banner blindness, short attention spans, and rising ad costs, traditional marketing is losing its impact. At the same time, experiential marketing—creating memorable, real-world brand moments—is outperforming static campaigns. But most brands lack the tools or infrastructure to deliver meaningful experiences at scale. Travel is one of the most powerful experiential touchpoints in the world—but it’s underused and difficult to execute. ✅ Our Solution Xbrandify turns travel into a scalable experiential marketing engine. We provide: - A white-label travel platform for brands to launch their own booking site - A library of curated experiential travel products (local and global) - A system to engage communities and drive conversions, loyalty, and content - An AI-driven backend (AgentOS) to automate customer journeys and support Result: Brands grow community, loyalty, and revenue—all through branded experiences that inspire action. 💡 Why It Matters - Consumers are demanding experiences over ads, and community over clicks - Brands are sitting on untapped audiences with massive travel potential - New tools in AI and fintech now make this model scalable and profitable - We're giving brands a new kind of growth engine—experiential, emotional, and revenue-generating. Instead of spending on ads, brands use travel to engage their audience, create loyalty, and generate profit. Powered by automation and embedded fintech, we make it scalable.