Reimagining how we create value in a changing world. Meaningful Entrepreneurship is an educational project by Startup Guide, which has supported 15k+ entrepreneurs and mapped 70+ ecosystems globally. This initiative began with a research report based on insights from 400 aspiring entrepreneurs across Denmark, revealing that traditional entrepreneurship education no longer resonates with the new generation of founders. Our purpose is to support founders in building ventures aligned with their values through tools and learning experiences socially and environmentally meaningful.

Denmark records what most countries can only estimate. Every company files its ownership, its capital changes, its management and its accounts in the public registers, continuously and by law. The registers are records, not answers. More than 825,000 companies own one another, up to nineteen levels deep. One business appears as many legal entities, and its investors sit several tiers above it. Venture Insights builds and operates Bifrost, the model that resolves that network into one structure: every firm, founder, investor and transaction, dated to the legal transaction date and traceable to the filing it came from. Focused deliberately on Denmark, it identifies roughly ten times as many priced investment deals as the leading international platforms. Institutions use it where the numbers have to hold, among them the Danish Business Authority, the Confederation of Danish Industry, EIFO and Copenhagen Fintech. Filed, not announced. Population, not sample. Exact, not estimated. ventureinsights.dk

Spacefinder is the marketplace for commercial property rentals in Norway. We gather vacant premises from the country's leading real estate companies, and our advisors help you find the space that fits your needs. We give you single point access to the entire market, always free for tenants. Find your next office, warehouse, or retail space at Spacefinder.no.

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!

Surfact turns ocean waste into smart sensors that give cargo a voice - saving food, medicine, and money. Our mission is to prevent the $1 trillion waste crisis in food and pharmaceuticals. Built in Norway with military-grade durability and sensor accuracy, our Emma tracker alerts companies before shipments go bad so action can be taken in time. We’re already protecting global brands like McDonald’s — cutting spoilage, costs, and waste worldwide.

Manuscript Manager is a B2B SaaS platform that enables research institutions, funding bodies, and scholarly journals to manage and streamline the peer review process for research articles, grant applications, and other forms of scientific content. Today, we serve over 500 journals worldwide – primarily in Science, Technology, and Medical research. As a provider of mission-critical infrastructure, we deliver flexible workflows, intuitive user experiences, and efficient process automation, allowing our customers to focus on what matters most: ensuring research quality. The volume of scholarly output is growing at an unprecedented rate, bringing with it significant challenges: fraudulent practices, disruptive technological advances, and shifting business and publishing models. We address these challenges with tools that strengthen trust in the scholarly record and bring transparency to the entire peer review process.

I’m building Nuviou — an AI-powered career assistant that helps people figure out what they truly want to do and gives them a clear, personalized plan to get hired. It's like having a personal strategist at a fraction of the cost for a career coach , from self-discovery to job offer. I’ve built this solo so far — MVP’s in alpha, backed by Innovasjon Norge, won a pitch competition, and there’s solid early traction. But it’s time to stop building alone. Most people care deeply about their careers. The real problem? Career reflection is slow, exhausting, and restarts every time. I’m building Nuviou so that you only have to do it once — and then you own it, forever.

Career Denmark is dedicated to helping the international community in Denmark succeed in the Danish job market, which requires a combination of different strategies such as networking, targeted applications, and LinkedIn. With extensive practical experience both living and working in the Danish labor market, our methodologies have helped many clients secure positions in Denmark. We offer personalized support and training beyond just CVs and cover letters.

FUSE is a Danish startup on a mission to reinvent how we consume energy. We combine caffeine and essential vitamins in small, great-tasting powder sticks that can be easily mixed with water anytime, anywhere. The idea behind FUSE came from a real need. As students and young professionals, we constantly found ourselves relying on energy drinks to stay focused and keep going. But the products available were either filled with sugar, came in bulky cans, or simply didn’t feel like something we wanted to put into our bodies. We created FUSE to offer a clean, portable and transparent alternative to traditional energy products. Each stick fits in your pocket and delivers a refreshing, sugar-free boost when mixed with water. No fridge needed, no crash afterward, and no guessing what’s inside. Just clean energy, wherever you are. Our target group is made up of young, active individuals who need focus and energy throughout the day during studies, workouts, events or long shifts at work. We aim to remove the friction of staying energized in a busy everyday life by offering a product that is both practical and trustworthy. At its core, FUSE solves three main problems: traditional energy products are inconvenient to carry, often packed with sugar and additives, and not transparent about their ingredients. We solve this by being light, clean and clear. As we continue to grow, our goal is to build a community of ambitious people who want to perform at their best without compromising on health or convenience.

In today’s market, scented candles come with pre-determined fragrances. As a customer, you’re limited to choosing from pre-made products and with little to no say in what scent truly fits you or your home. At Stemning Copenhagen, we’re here to change that. We offer a unique and creative experience where you take part in designing your own scented candle. With a carefully curated palette of exclusive fragrance oils, you’ll be guided to blend your very own personal scent combination. Whether you’re drawn to something fresh and uplifting, warm and calming, or complex and luxurious, we’ll help you find the perfect balance. Stemning Copenhagen is about more than just a candle, it’s about creating something personal and memorable. Take control of your scent experience and let us help you craft the perfect candle to be used as a gift, in your home, or for a special occasion.

GitHub made it easy for the world to build software together. SomebodyMakeIt does the same for physical products. SomebodyMakeIt is infrastructure for distributed production and licensing. We are rebuilding how physical products get made, and sold. Right now, getting something made means email threads, spreadsheets, a sourcing agent who knows a guy, and a ten thousand unit bet placed a year before anybody knows whether it sells. Software got world class infrastructure for building together two decades ago. Nothing you can hold ever did. So we're building it. A brand, a studio or an inventor publishes what they want made: what, where, and at what royalty. Our AI structures it into a real project in minutes and returns a ranked shortlist of producers matched on capability, capacity and delivery record rather than on who they happen to know. The licence, the brand rules, the approved files, the partners, the work and the money all live in one system, and everybody on the product line is paid from the same sale. What works travels: the same design and the same rules open the next product line, the next market and the next producer, close to the people who buy it. What it is like here. Two founders out of Norway. Tonje came from film and entertainment and has spent ten years building tech companies. Weronika trained as an architect, works as a full stack engineer and was at Spacemaker before Autodesk bought it. We are AI native by default, we ship in days rather than quarters, and everything we build is set up once and made to repeat.

🌍 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.

Gefjon Pharma ApS has developed a groundbreaking platform technology based on our unique hyper vesiculating outer membrane vesicle (OMV) technology. This combined with our unique extraction method enable high-yield cost-effective production of bio-industrials and therapeutics. ​ Our first product is a revolutionary broad-protective bacterial E. coli vaccine targeting poultry production. We have PoC for both the vaccine and an aerosol application method. ​ With E. coli being the single most important cause of mortality and infections in poultry, we will significantly reduce global consumption of antimicrobials, thereby minimizing the development of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), improve animal welfare, and reduce CO2 emissions and food waste, while increasing customer profits. ​ With our excellent customer relations and a strong demand for new vaccines, market entry barriers are low, and the potential is massive. ​ Vision: Saving lives through our platform technology, making cost-effective therapeutics available for everyone & everywhere​

Enorra, founded in 2023, is revolutionizing finance by developing SaaS tools that eliminate complexity and accelerate data-driven decisions using machine learning and AI. Our mission is to redefine industry best practices and enhance competitiveness in financial trade, focusing on data analytics, marketplace solutions, and ESG banking. As a B2B software company, we create intuitive and accessible solutions that aim to make financing seamless.

Chargitect is a startup based in Bergen, Norway. Through our fully integrated and intelligent charging management system, we are enabling the transition to electric heavy-duty road transportation. With our system, transportation companies maximizes the utilization of their vehicle fleet and charging infrastructure, by minimizing energy costs and charging related downtime.