Copenhagen startup directory
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EBAday 2026
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.
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EIFO
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.
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Flatpay
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.
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Freek Van der Herten
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.
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Future Product Days 2026
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.
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GAN Integrity
GAN Integrity is a compliance and ethics software company, originally founded in Denmark by the Global Advice Network (GAN) through a partnership among six European countries, that now operates from offices in Copenhagen, New York, and London. Its Integrity Platform covers third-party risk management, AI-driven due diligence, conflicts of interest, incident and whistleblowing case management, policy management, and gifts, donations and sponsorship tracking for corporate ethics and compliance teams. The company's CTO, Casper Guldberg, is based in its Copenhagen office.
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Gojko Adzic
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.
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GOTO Copenhagen 2026 (September 2026)
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.
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Heartcore 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).
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Hemab Therapeutics
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.
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Innovation District Copenhagen
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.
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Innovationsfonden
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.
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Jimmy Fussing Nielsen
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.
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Jonas Dupont
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.
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Katharine Jarmul
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.
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Kent Beck
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.
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Kevin Dalgaard
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.
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Labster
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.
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Laravel Denmark
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.
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Laravel Live Denmark 2026 (August 2026)
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.
