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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TechBBQ
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.
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TechBBQ 2026
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.
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Techfestival Copenhagen 2026
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.
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Templafy
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.
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Thomas Madsen-Mygdal
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.
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Too Good To Go
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.
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Tradeshift
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.
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Trifork (GOTO Conferences)
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.
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Troy Hunt
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.
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Trustpilot
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.
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Unity Technologies
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.
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Universal Robots
Universal Robots was founded in Odense in 2005 and pioneered collaborative robots that are safe, flexible, and easy to program for small and mid sized manufacturers. The company introduced affordable robotic arms like the UR5 and helped establish the global cobot category. After strong growth, Universal Robots was acquired by Teradyne and continued expanding its product line and ecosystem. It is a cornerstone of Denmark's robotics cluster and a global automation leader.
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Visiopharm
Visiopharm is a Hoersholm-based AI-driven precision pathology company, legally Visiopharm A/S, that builds image analysis software combining 20 years of pathology and research experience with AI. Its products span tissue image analysis for research (Discovery), spatial biology multiplexed image analysis (Phenoplex), and CE-IVD diagnostic apps used with digital pathology scanners and PACS-IMS integrations, serving pharma services, drug development, and diagnostics customers. The company holds Quality System Certification and is headquartered at Agern Alle 24, Hoersholm, Denmark.
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Vivino
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.
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WindEurope Annual Event 2027
WindEurope's Annual Event moves to Copenhagen for 2027, running 20-22 April, after being held in Amsterdam in late 2026. The event covers wind energy policy, technology and industry developments for the European wind sector.
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Zendesk
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.
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Zoë Johnson
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.
