Copenhagen startup directory
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2150
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.
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Accelerace
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.
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Ageras
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.
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BioInnovation Institute (BII)
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.
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BLOXHUB
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.
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Boozt
Boozt is a Nordic technology group selling fashion and lifestyle products online through its multi-brand webstore Boozt.com and its Nordic outlet Booztlet.com, offering a curated selection of over 1,600 brands. The company is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, with a major operational hub in Malmo, Sweden, and it builds its own in-house e-commerce platform and logistics infrastructure to control the customer experience. Boozt reported SEK 8,244 million in revenue in 2024 and serves a base of over 3.5 million active customers across the Nordic region.
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byFounders
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.
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Chainalysis
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.
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Christian Lindegaard Jepsen
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.
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Coinify
Coinify is a Copenhagen-based crypto payments and trading company, legally Coinify ApS, whose management team has worked with virtual currencies since 2014. It helps merchants accept crypto payments with a financially compliant, easy-to-implement solution across 180 markets. Its products include trade and payment solutions, corporate trading, and an OTC broker service (Coinify+) for individuals, merchants, and corporate traders. The company has secured a MiCA licence under the EU's crypto-asset regulation framework.
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Copenhagen Fintech
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.
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Corti
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.
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DANTE Fusion
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.
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Dave Thomas
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.
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Dawn Health
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.
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DevOpsDays Copenhagen 2026
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.
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Digital Tech Summit 2026
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.
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Dixa
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.
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Dreamplan
Dreamplan is a Copenhagen-based digital financial planning platform, legally Dreamplan.io ApS, that gives consumers independent advice on pensions, investments, insurance, and home financing to help them find hidden savings in their finances. Users get a personalised financial overview and recommendations digitally, with the option to book 1:1 sessions with human financial advisors for complex situations such as home purchases or inheritance. The company is registered with the Danish Financial Supervisory Authority (Finanstilsynet) and also builds advisory software for independent financial advisers and banks under the brand Wizflow.
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Driving IT 2026
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.
