Denmark startup ecosystem
Denmark's startup ecosystem benefits from a strong welfare state, world-class research institutions, and a culture of trust that lowers barriers to collaboration. Copenhagen is a leading hub for cleantech, biotech, and health innovation. Government backing through programs like the Innovation Fund Denmark and a growing roster of experienced angels keep the pipeline healthy. The directory currently lists 97 organisations across 8 cities.
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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.
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DTU Skylab
DTU Skylab is the innovation hub of the Technical University of Denmark, providing students and researchers with prototyping facilities, mentoring, and startup support. The space includes electronics labs, workshops, and maker facilities that help teams build hardware, robotics, and deep tech prototypes. Skylab runs courses, hackathons, and incubation programs that turn student projects into real ventures. It is one of the most important feeders of new engineering startups in Denmark.
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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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ELPIS Leadership Programme
Organizes executive education courses focused on leading the bio-revolution across life science sectors. Based in Lyngby, Denmark, ELPIS offers leadership development programs for biotech and pharma professionals, bringing together industry executives, researchers, and entrepreneurs to discuss commercialization strategies and emerging trends in biotechnology.
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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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Foreningen Ignite
Foreningen Ignite (CVR: 45839109) is a Danish non-profit association that organises Ignite Odense, described as Denmark's second-largest startup, scaleup, and investor event. The organisation operates on an un-conference philosophy that prioritises direct, meaningful connections between founders, investors, and operators over traditional stage-and-audience presentation formats. Held annually in Odense, the two-day event attracts participants from across Denmark and internationally, with success measured by investment introductions and partnerships formed rather than by headcount.
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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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Helle Uth
Co-founder and General Partner of PSV (PreSeed Ventures) Tech, Denmark's most active pre-seed fund. She invests in early-stage software, AI and digital-infrastructure founders across the Nordics, writing first institutional cheques into pre-product-market-fit companies.
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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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Ignite Odense 2026
An annual Odense startup festival and regional ecosystem gathering for founders, investors, and innovators on Funen.
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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.
