Copenhagen, Denmark · Venture Capital 2150 is a Copenhagen and London based climate fund focused on technology that makes cities more sustainable. Backed by real estate operator NREP, the fund invests in Construction Tech, Energy Efficiency, low carbon materials, and urban infrastructure startups. 2150 provides both capital and pilot access through its built environment network, helping startups validate solutions in real world projects. It is one of the most prominent climate tech funds headquartered in Denmark.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Accelerator Accelerace is Denmark's longest-running accelerator and pre-seed investor, founded in 2008 to help early-stage teams validate products, refine go-to-market strategy, and access investors. The program runs multiple tracks across general tech, life science, and sustainability, and pairs founders with a large mentor network. Accelerace also invests small tickets in selected teams and helps them prepare for follow-on funding. It has supported 800+ Nordic startups and remains a core launchpad in the Danish ecosystem.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Startup Ageras is a Copenhagen-based fintech company founded in 2012 that has assembled a comprehensive financial operating system for small businesses through a strategy of organic development and acquisitions. The platform combines banking, accounting software, payroll, invoicing, and tax tools into a single integrated experience, reducing the need for SMBs to juggle multiple vendors. Ageras has acquired companies including Billy, Kontist, and Tellow to build out its stack across Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands. The company aims to become the default financial backbone for European small businesses.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Incubator BioInnovation Institute is a life science incubator backed by the Novo Nordisk Foundation that helps researchers and founders turn biotech and health innovations into venture ready companies. Based in Copenhagen, BII provides lab space, grant funding, expert business support, and access to investors for projects in therapeutics, diagnostics, and industrial biotech. It runs programs for both idea stage research and early startups, de risking science heavy ventures before they seek larger capital. BII is a central node in the Danish life science startup pipeline.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Innovation Hub BLOXHUB is a Copenhagen innovation hub focused on sustainable cities, architecture, and the built environment. Located in the BLOX building on the waterfront, it brings together startups, corporates, researchers, and public agencies to develop solutions for urban challenges. BLOXHUB runs programs such as Urbantech and hosts collaborations that help startups pilot products with city partners. It is a flagship hub for urban tech and climate oriented innovation in Denmark.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Venture Capital byFounders is a Copenhagen-based venture fund built around the idea that early-stage founders benefit most from investors who have already built and scaled companies themselves. The firm is backed by a broad collective of Nordic and Baltic founders and operators, giving portfolio companies access not only to capital but also to practical advice on hiring, go-to-market, product development, and international expansion. That structure makes byFounders more than a conventional seed fund; it operates as a networked operating layer for startups emerging from the Nordic-Baltic region. Its importance in the directory is strategic because it fills the middle of the ecosystem pipeline: after founders are incubated by universities, venture builders, or accelerators, but before they are ready for large global growth funds, they need a seed investor that can professionalize the company and prepare it for the next round. byFounders has become one of the clearest examples of that role in Northern Europe. It also helps connect smaller regional startup communities into a shared capital network, which is especially relevant for Baltic and Nordic founders that need international reach early.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Startup Chainalysis was co-founded in 2014 by Danish entrepreneur Michael Gronager to bring transparency to crypto markets. The company builds blockchain analytics software used by exchanges, regulators, and law enforcement to trace illicit activity and manage compliance risk. Chainalysis grew into a global leader in crypto intelligence, raised major rounds, and built offices worldwide while keeping a Danish engineering footprint. It is one of the most valuable companies with Danish founding roots in the blockchain sector.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Person Partner and co-founder of Heartcore Capital. Based in Copenhagen, he invests in consumer technology and software founders across Europe and has been part of the firm since its 2007 origins as Sunstone Technology Ventures.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Innovation Hub Copenhagen Fintech is Denmark's national fintech cluster organisation and the operator of the Copenhagen Fintech Lab, established in 2016 as a joint initiative of the country's major financial institutions — Finans Danmark, Finansforbundet, Nets, SDC and the City of Copenhagen. From its co-working hub in Copenhagen's harbour district it has housed more than 1,500 fintech residents and incubated 630+ programme alumni over a decade, with around 45 companies in the Lab at any time and corporate partners spanning Danske Bank, Nordea, Nykredit, Mastercard and Visa.
Beyond co-working, Copenhagen Fintech acts as a system-level actor for the Nordic fintech ecosystem: it runs Nordic Fintech Week (2,500+ attendees from 50+ countries), stage-specific programmes from incubation to corporate fast-tracks, and international delegations. In 2025 it co-authored Denmark's first National Fintech Strategy and launched the Nordic Fintech Center with four Danish universities. The hub helped incubate unicorns including Chainalysis, Pleo, Lunar and Flatpay, cementing its role as connective tissue between Danish academia, financial incumbents and the startup ecosystem.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Event Distributed fintech festival across Copenhagen hosted by Copenhagen Fintech, with sessions at banks, fintech offices, and innovation hubs. Covers payments, open banking, green finance, and insurance innovation with a Nordic lens. 3,000+ participants across the week. Most sessions free.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Startup Corti is a Copenhagen-based AI company founded in 2016 that initially gained recognition for building real-time AI assistants for emergency call centers, helping dispatchers detect cardiac arrests and other critical conditions during 112/911 calls. The company has since expanded into broader healthcare AI infrastructure, providing clinical documentation, medical coding, and workflow automation tools for hospitals and health systems. Corti's models are trained on millions of patient interactions and support clinicians in making faster, more accurate decisions. The company is one of Denmark's most prominent healthcare AI startups.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Startup DANTE Fusion ApS is a Denmark-based fusion company developing compact tokamak systems as high-flux neutron sources for industrial and medical applications. The company targets near-term deployment to address critical shortages in medical isotope production and fusion-relevant materials testing. As a spinout from the Technical University of Denmark, DANTE Fusion focuses on engineering and system integration to deliver practical neutron infrastructure.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Person Programmer and author, co-author of The Pragmatic Programmer and a signatory of the Agile Manifesto, a longstanding influence on software craftsmanship and developer practice. He is a confirmed speaker at GOTO Copenhagen 2026, reflecting on pragmatic programming in the age of AI.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Startup Dawn Health develops regulated software-as-a-medical-device products with pharmaceutical and life-science partners. The company builds digital therapeutics and companion applications for adherence, remote monitoring, and real-world clinical data capture in regulated settings.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Event Community-led DevOps and software operations conference in Copenhagen, attracting 300-400 practitioners for talks, workshops, and open-space discussions. Tickets cost about EUR 300-400. Covers CI/CD, observability, and platform engineering. Valuable for developer-tool startups seeking early adopters and community-driven product feedback in the Nordics.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Event Denmark's largest digitalisation and deep-tech conference and expo at Øksnehallen, with 100+ sessions across multiple stages including startup pitches, drawing around 4,700 specialists, leaders, and researchers.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Startup Dixa is a Danish customer engagement platform that unifies phone, email, chat, and messaging into one support workspace. Founded in 2015, Dixa emphasizes a relationship driven approach called Customer Friendship and helps digital first brands manage omnichannel support at scale. The company expanded across Europe and the United States, raised large funding rounds, and acquired knowledge base and conversational AI products to broaden its suite. Dixa is a notable Copenhagen based SaaS scale up.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Event IDA's flagship annual IT conference at Kalvebod Brygge with approximately 38 presentations across multiple tracks including AI, security, privacy, UX, and green IT. Traditionally sells out and draws Denmark's leading software, project, and IT strategy practitioners.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Event Europe's premier payments and transaction banking summit, organised by the Euro Banking Association and Finextra at Bella Center Copenhagen. Brings together 1,400+ professionals and 100+ speakers across open banking, payments, digital identity, and cross-border innovation.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Support Organization EIFO, the Export and Investment Fund of Denmark, is the state backed institution that provides loans, guarantees, and equity to support Danish companies from early stage startups to export focused scale ups. Formed by merging Denmark's growth fund and export credit agencies, EIFO plays a central role in de risking innovation and attracting private capital. The organization co invests with venture funds, supports green transition projects, and helps companies expand internationally. EIFO is a cornerstone of Denmark's public support infrastructure for entrepreneurship.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Startup Flatpay is a Danish fintech founded in 2022 that provides card payment terminals, point-of-sale systems, and online payment solutions for small and medium-sized merchants. The company differentiates itself with a flat, transparent pricing model with no setup fees, no monthly subscriptions, and uniform rates across card types, alongside data-analytics dashboards for merchants. Headquartered in the greater Copenhagen area, it operates across several European markets including Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, and the UK. In November 2025 it raised a 145 million euro Series C round at a 1.5 billion euro valuation, reaching unicorn status.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Person Developer and partner at Belgian web agency Spatie, prolific open-source author of widely used Laravel packages and host of the Laravel and PHP community. He is a confirmed speaker at Laravel Live Denmark 2026 in Copenhagen, sharing practical Laravel and package-development insights.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Event A three-day AI-focused conference at Lokomotivværkstedet, Copenhagen, blending curated talks with hands-on masterclasses. Targets product designers, engineers, and data professionals building real-world AI products, emphasising practical insights over hype.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Person Software delivery consultant and author of books including Specification by Example and Impact Mapping, known for his work on collaborative requirements and product engineering. He is a confirmed speaker at GOTO Copenhagen 2026, focusing on human-centered software delivery in the age of AI.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Event A major software-engineering conference at TAP1 in Copenhagen under the 2026 theme of engineering for reality, covering distributed systems, testing and debugging, legacy modernization, resilience and observability, security, sustainable computing and agentic AI software development. It is one of the longest-running developer conferences in the Nordics.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Venture Capital Heartcore Capital is a Copenhagen-headquartered early-stage venture firm founded in 2007 as Sunstone Technology Ventures and rebranded to Heartcore in 2019 around a consumer-first thesis. Operating from Copenhagen, Berlin, Paris and London, it backs European founders from inception through Series A, deploying €250K–€6M as first institutional capital, and has become one of Europe's highest-ranked seed and Series A investors.
Across five early-stage funds, two growth vehicles and a Web3 fund, Heartcore manages roughly €800M; Fund V closed at €170M in December 2024, signalling a broadening from pure consumer into AI and software infrastructure, climate tech and synthetic biology while retaining consumer and travel exposure. The firm's track record includes Tink (acquired by Visa for €1.8bn, 2022), Peakon (Workday, ~$700M, 2021), Trustpilot (LSE IPO, 2021), Boozt (Nasdaq Stockholm, 2017) and Kaia Health (Sword Health, 2026), with a portfolio spanning GetYourGuide, TravelPerk, Podimo, Natural Cycles and Vivino. The partnership is led by co-founders Jimmy Fussing Nielsen and Christian Lindegaard Jepsen alongside Max Niederhofer (Berlin) and Yacine Ghalim (Paris).
Copenhagen, Denmark · Startup Hemab is a clinical-stage biotech company developing prophylactic therapies for severe bleeding and thrombotic disorders. Founded by biotech operators with Novo Nordisk roots, the company engineers antibody-based treatments aimed at preventing episodes before they occur in underserved rare-disease populations.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Event Organisator The organisation behind Copenhagen Science City that connects universities, research institutions and industry across the Danish capital. It organises the Nordic Innovation Fair, a deep-tech and research-commercialisation matchmaking event linking startups, researchers and industry across the Nordics.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Support Organization Innovationsfonden (Innovation Fund Denmark) is a public Danish foundation that finances research, technology development, and innovation projects across science, technology, and business. It distributes grants and co-financing to both companies and research institutions, bridging the gap between academia and commercial enterprise in Denmark. As a named partner at Ignite Odense 2026, Innovationsfonden engages directly with startups and scaleups seeking R&D funding and innovation co-financing support.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Person Partner and CEO of Heartcore Capital, the Copenhagen consumer-tech VC he co-founded in 2007 (as Sunstone Technology Ventures). He has backed European category leaders including Tink, Trustpilot and GetYourGuide and is one of the Nordics' most active early-stage investors.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Person Jonas Dupont is an investment professional at EIFO, Denmark's state-backed investment and export financing fund. At Ignite Odense 2026 he speaks on investment decision-making, covering how institutional investors evaluate innovation, growth potential, leadership teams, and strategic fit when deploying capital. His role at EIFO places him at the centre of Denmark's public startup financing infrastructure, making him a key ecosystem figure for Danish founders seeking growth capital.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Person Data scientist and privacy engineer, author of Practical Data Privacy, specialising in machine learning, data security and responsible AI systems. She is a confirmed speaker at GOTO Copenhagen 2026, where she presents on designing and running AI agents locally and securely.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Person Software engineer best known for creating Extreme Programming and Test-Driven Development and for his influence on agile software practices. He is a confirmed speaker at GOTO Copenhagen 2026, where he addresses software engineering, testing and developer productivity.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Person Kevin Dalgaard is Senior Principal at Lundbeckfonden BioCapital, the venture capital investment arm of the Lundbeck Foundation, one of Denmark's largest private foundations dedicated to advancing research in brain and neurological diseases. He evaluates and manages life science investments across the Nordic and global biotech ecosystems. Lundbeckfonden BioCapital is a key and highly respected institutional investor in the Scandinavian life science community.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Startup Labster builds virtual laboratory simulations for science education, letting students run experiments in a 3D environment and learn through interactive missions. Founded by researchers from the Technical University of Denmark, Labster works with universities and schools worldwide to expand access to lab learning and reduce costs. The platform integrates with learning management systems and has been used by hundreds of institutions. Labster became a global reference for VR and simulation based STEM education.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Event Organisator A non-profit community association behind Laravel Live Denmark, the Danish edition of the international Laravel and PHP developer conference circuit. It brings together hundreds of developers from around the world for learning, inspiration and networking around the Laravel framework and modern PHP.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Event A two-day Laravel and PHP developer conference at Werkstatt on Refshaleøen in Copenhagen, bringing together hundreds of enthusiasts from around the world for learning, inspiration and networking. It is the Danish edition of the international Laravel conference circuit, run by the local PHP and Laravel community with world-class speakers.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Startup Light is a Copenhagen-based AI-native finance platform that rebuilds the general ledger from scratch to replace legacy ERP and accounting systems. It automates core accounting functions including accounts receivable, accounts payable, bookkeeping, line-item coding, tax and VAT reporting, and multi-entity financial consolidation, while letting finance teams query their financial data in natural language. The platform integrates with CRMs, banking systems, and communication tools such as Slack and Microsoft Teams, and targets hypergrowth, multi-entity international companies. Founded by CEO Jonathan Sanders and CTO Filip Kozjak, Light exited stealth in June 2024 and later raised a Series A.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Event MoneyLIVE Nordic Banking 2026 is a two-day retail-banking and fintech leadership conference held 27-28 October 2026 at the Bella Center, Copenhagen, produced by MoneyLIVE (Marketforce Business Media). It gathers 800+ senior leaders — around 60% from banks — across four stages covering AI, digital identity, payments, fraud, risk, resilience, and lending, with 100+ speakers drawn from Nordea, SEB, Swedbank, Danske Bank, Lunar, Monzo and others. Nasdaq Verafin is the platinum sponsor.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Event A major Nordic fintech gathering at TAP1 with around 2,000 participants, 200 fintech startups, and 150 financial institutions across roughly 100 sessions. Strong startup-to-institution matchmaking.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Event A two-day Nordic deep-tech and research-commercialisation matchmaking fair at Industriens Hus in Copenhagen under the 2026 theme of defence, resilience and safety. Tracks cover quantum, AI and digital, greentech and food, biotech and pharma, and medtech and diagnostics, connecting startups, researchers and industry across the Nordics.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Angel Investor Nordic Makers is a Copenhagen-based collective of angel investors whose members are founders of companies including Just Eat, Zendesk, Momondo, Podio, Sitecore, Unity, and TAT. Formed to channel experienced founder capital and guidance into early-stage Nordic startups, the group invests in pre-seed and seed rounds and provides hands-on mentorship drawn from their own scaling and exit experience. Partners include Klaus Nyengaard (ex-CEO Just Eat) and Morten Nørregaard Andersen (co-founder of Zendesk), among others.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Event Annual awards ceremony and networking event celebrating the best startups, investors, and ecosystem builders across the Nordics and Baltics. Categories include Best Newcomer, Best Fintech, and Founder of the Year.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Venture Capital NorthCap (Northcap Partners) is a Copenhagen-based venture capital firm founded in 1999, focused on B2B and B2B2C technology companies across the Nordics, with a particular emphasis on SaaS, cloud computing, and mobile services. The firm invests from seed stage (Denmark only) through growth stage, with ticket sizes ranging from $1 million to $25 million, and draws on more than 100 investments of operational experience to support founders in scaling and internationalization. Notable investments include GAN Integrity and Visiopharm.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Person Czech software engineer and creator of PHPStan, the popular static analysis tool for PHP that helps developers find bugs before runtime. He is a confirmed speaker at Laravel Live Denmark 2026 in Copenhagen, where he discusses static analysis and code quality in modern PHP.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Person Software engineer working with MongoDB and an active voice in the Laravel and PHP developer community, focused on databases and backend engineering. She is a confirmed speaker at Laravel Live Denmark 2026 in Copenhagen, addressing data persistence and developer experience.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Startup Pleo is a Copenhagen-founded B2B spend-management unicorn that replaces paper expense claims with smart Mastercard-powered cards for employees and a real-time software platform for finance teams. Founded in 2015 by Jeppe Rindom and Niccolo Perra (former Tradeshift colleagues), it covers corporate cards, invoice management, vendor cards, multi-currency accounts and, since 2025, a full cash-management and treasury suite. As of mid-2025 Pleo serves 45,000+ businesses and over a million employees across 16 European markets, with the UK its largest.
Pleo reached unicorn status in 2021 and closed a $200M Series C extension led by Coatue in December 2021 at a $4.7bn valuation, then Denmark's most valuable private tech company. Total funding exceeds $476M, backed by European investors Kinnevik (Sweden), Creandum (Sweden), Founders (Denmark) and Seedcamp (UK) alongside US growth funds Stripes, Coatue and Thrive Capital. FY2025 net revenue was about €130M (up 25%), with break-even targeted for 2027 and a possible Copenhagen IPO under consideration.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Startup Podimo is a Copenhagen founded subscription platform for podcasts and audiobooks, focused on local language content and creator revenue sharing. Launched in 2019, the company built exclusive catalogs in markets such as Denmark, Germany, Spain, and the Netherlands, and later expanded to Latin America. Podimo uses a subscription model that pays creators based on listen time, giving podcasters an alternative to advertising. The company has raised significant funding to scale its content studio and international footprint.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Venture Capital PreSeed Ventures (PSV) is a Copenhagen-area venture house rooted in the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), and Denmark's most active pre-seed investor. It operates three vehicles: PSV Tech (early-stage software, AI and digital-infrastructure fund), PSV Hafnium (Denmark's first dedicated deep-tech fund) and PSV Foundry (DTU's investment and incubation arm). PSV provides the first institutional capital to university spin-outs and technical founders, typically at idea or prototype stage, writing tickets of roughly €0.1–1.5M.
PSV Tech's first independent fund closed at DKK 412M (~€55M) in 2022, backed by Denmark's ATP pension fund, EIFO and Vækstfonden, with a €70M Fund II in fundraising. PSV Hafnium closed an oversubscribed €60M in December 2025, anchored by the European Investment Fund and EIFO, to back around 25 science-rooted spin-outs across quantum computing, cleantech, new materials, biotech and new space. PSV has backed early Danish successes including Trustpilot (LSE IPO, 2021), Glycom (acquired by DSM), Vivino, Lunar and Labster, and remains a crucial bridge from Nordic research to venture.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Person Rasmus Errboe is CEO and Group President of Ørsted, the world's largest offshore wind developer headquartered in Fredericia, Denmark, with operations in Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the Americas. He became CEO in February 2025, succeeding Mads Nipper, having previously served as Deputy CEO, Chief Commercial Officer, and Interim CFO since joining Ørsted in 2012. He was responsible for Ørsted's 2016 IPO and the 2017 divestment of its oil and gas business, and is a member of the Confederation of Danish Industries' Main Board.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Venture Capital SEED Capital is Denmark's largest early stage venture fund and a first check investor for many of the country's most successful startups. The firm invests at seed and Series A and supports founders with hands on company building and follow on fundraising. SEED has backed Danish scale ups across SaaS, fintech, and consumer tech, with notable wins including Trustpilot, Vivino, Templafy, and Lunar. It is a key pillar of the Danish venture landscape.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Person Software engineer and co-founder of NativePHP, a framework for building native desktop and mobile applications with PHP and Laravel. He is a confirmed speaker at Laravel Live Denmark 2026 in Copenhagen, presenting on cross-platform application development with PHP.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Startup Siteimprove is a Copenhagen-based SaaS company founded in 2003 that provides a comprehensive website governance and digital experience platform covering accessibility compliance, SEO optimization, content quality, and analytics. The platform helps enterprises and public sector organizations ensure their websites meet WCAG accessibility standards, maintain brand consistency, and perform well in search rankings. With over 500 employees and thousands of customers worldwide, Siteimprove is a market leader in digital accessibility tooling and one of Denmark's most established B2B software companies.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Incubator Symbion is one of Denmark's oldest science parks and incubators, founded to support research driven startups in tech and life science. It provides office space, labs, business services, and community programs for hundreds of early stage companies, and it hosts accelerators and investor events on site. Symbion is located in Copenhagen's innovation district and acts as a bridge between universities, corporates, and founders. Many Danish startups begin their journey inside the Symbion campus.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Startup Tactile Games is a Copenhagen-based mobile gaming studio founded in 2008, known for hit casual puzzle titles including Lily’s Garden and Cookie Cats. The company has achieved hundreds of millions of downloads and generates strong recurring revenue through free-to-play mechanics and live ops. With over 360 employees, Tactile is one of the largest independent game studios in the Nordics and a key player in Denmark’s thriving gaming ecosystem alongside SYBO and Hugo Games. The company builds its games in-house and focuses on narrative-driven casual experiences that retain players over months.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Person Creator of the Laravel PHP framework and founder of the company behind it, one of the most widely used open-source web frameworks. He is a confirmed speaker at Laravel Live Denmark 2026 in Copenhagen, where he addresses the Laravel ecosystem and modern PHP development.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Event Organisator Copenhagen-based organizer behind the annual TechBBQ summit, the largest startup and innovation event in Scandinavia. Founded in 2013, TechBBQ draws over 6,000 Nordic and European founders, investors, and ecosystem builders each September for two days of keynotes, pitch competitions, and community-driven networking in Copenhagen.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Event The startup event of the Nordics: the 14th edition of TechBBQ moves to Bella Center Copenhagen on 26-27 August 2026, gathering 10,000+ founders, investors and builders from 50+ countries across two days. Programming spans AI, life sciences and deep tech, a startup pitch competition and AI-powered matchmaking. Backed by the Danish Industry Foundation, the Novo Nordisk Foundation and Realdania.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Event A unique festival exploring how technology shapes humanity, blending tech demos with art installations, workshops, and debates. Features 100+ sessions across Copenhagen venues with topics like ethical AI, climate tech, and digital democracy. Free and ticketed events attract 5,000+ attendees.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Startup Templafy is an enterprise content enablement platform that keeps documents, presentations, and emails on brand and compliant. Founded in Copenhagen in 2014, the company integrates with tools like Microsoft Office and Google Workspace to centralize templates, assets, and dynamic content. Templafy serves global enterprises with millions of users and automates governance for marketing, legal, and sales teams. It is one of Denmark's most successful B2B SaaS scale ups.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Person Thomas Madsen-Mygdal is a Danish entrepreneur, designer, and digital activist who co-founded Denmark's first internet company, Mondo, in 1995 and later created Podio, a widely-used workplace collaboration platform. He is co-founder and CEO of TwentyThree, a video marketing and communication platform, and the initiator of Techfestival Copenhagen, a major annual Nordic festival exploring technology's societal impact. He also serves as chairman of the Copenhagen startup community initiative #CPHFTW and co-founded Nordic Makers, an early-stage startup support network.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Startup Too Good To Go is a marketplace that helps consumers buy surplus food from restaurants, bakeries, and supermarkets at a discount, reducing food waste. Launched in Denmark in 2015, the app scaled across Europe, North America, and Australia, building a global community that has saved millions of meals. The company combines sustainability impact with a simple consumer pickup model and has become one of the best known Danish climate tech exports. It also runs programs that help businesses prevent waste and educate consumers about food labeling.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Startup Tradeshift was founded in Copenhagen in 2010 by veterans of Denmark's e-invoicing infrastructure and set out to modernize global trade workflows. Its cloud platform connects buyers and suppliers for e-invoicing, procurement, and supply chain finance, using open standards and a network model. Tradeshift scaled to a global footprint with headquarters in San Francisco and offices across Europe and Asia, and it achieved unicorn status after major funding rounds. The company is a flagship Danish fintech and B2B SaaS success.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Event Organisator Trifork organises the GOTO Conferences series, one of the longest-running software-engineering conference brands in the Nordics. GOTO Copenhagen convenes engineers and technology leaders around distributed systems, testing, resilience, security, sustainable computing and agentic AI software development.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Person Security researcher and creator of Have I Been Pwned, the widely used service that lets people check whether their accounts have been exposed in data breaches. He is a confirmed speaker at GOTO Copenhagen 2026, addressing web security and lessons from real-world breaches.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Startup Founded in 2007 by Peter Holten Muhlmann, Trustpilot is a Copenhagen-born consumer reviews platform that helps people share feedback about businesses and helps companies respond to and learn from customers. The platform operates a freemium model, pairing public reviews with paid tools for analytics, review invitations, and trust widgets. Trustpilot scaled internationally, opened major offices in London and New York, and went public on the London Stock Exchange in 2021. Today it hosts hundreds of millions of reviews and remains one of Denmark's best known global software successes.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Startup Unity Technologies was founded in Copenhagen in 2004 as a small game studio and evolved into the Unity game engine, a widely used platform for building 2D, 3D, and real time experiences. Unity helped democratize game development with a friendly pricing model, cross platform deployment, and a massive developer ecosystem. The company expanded into industries like automotive, architecture, and simulation, and it went public on the NYSE in 2020. Unity remains one of the most influential Danish founded technology companies in the global developer tools space.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Startup Vivino is a Copenhagen founded wine discovery app that lets consumers scan labels and access crowd sourced ratings, tasting notes, and pricing. Founded in 2010 by Heini Zachariassen and Theis Sondergaard, Vivino built the largest wine data community and later expanded into a full marketplace where users can buy wines directly. The company has grown to tens of millions of users and has raised significant venture funding to expand internationally. Vivino is a standout Danish consumer tech company that blended mobile, computer vision, and commerce.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Startup Zendesk was founded in Copenhagen in 2007 by Mikkel Svane, Morten Primdahl, and Alexander Aghassipour to make customer support software simpler and more usable. The company built a cloud helpdesk that unified email, chat, voice, and social support, then expanded rapidly after relocating headquarters to San Francisco while keeping Danish roots. Zendesk went public in 2014 and later returned to private ownership in 2022, but it continues to shape the global customer experience software market and remains a landmark Danish founded SaaS company.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Person Zoë Johnson heads Gubra Ventures as Head of Ventures at Gubra, a Danish bioscience company focused on metabolic diseases and CNS disorders. Gubra Ventures is the investment and partnering arm of Gubra, providing capital and expertise to early-stage biotech companies aligned with Gubra's scientific areas. She is an active investor and connector in the Nordic and European life science ecosystem.
