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DTU Startup Day is more than an event; it’s a testament to our vibrant innovation ecosystem. Here, we proudly present a diverse cohort of startups—each one having an impact. From AI solutions to sustainable foods of the future, these startups represent our culture of entrepreneurship and innovation that defines our community.
But DTU Startup Day is not just for us—it’s an invitation to the world. We open our doors to investors, industry leaders, and curious minds from near and far. Together, we explore what innovation ecosystems rooted in universities can achieve. We discuss, debate, and dream of translating bold ideas into sustainable business models that contribute to planetary health.
Thanks to all students, staff, mentors and collaborators who have made DTU Startup Day 2024 a reality. Let’s celebrate our close collaboration and the possibilities that lie ahead.
Marianne Thellersen Senior Vice President -Innovation and EntrepreneurshipAcodyne
AIRY
Better Choice
Circular Energy Systems
Cirqle
Eseba
Evewave
Insutex
KAKTI
Leakhunter
Maripure Meat Tomorrow
Nuterials
SenArch
Simply No Waste
Paint’R
Perplant
ROICO Solutions
The 0 Mission
Tempty Foods
Zupply
Mycoverse K-Ion
Biogas to Syngas
Sorption Booster
DockMe
Airy
Vermilion Racing
Agrirobot
Tinyfarms
Uvisa
YakRescue
CPH DanStarMedical Cryo
DanStar
RiAct
Aerial Tools
PARAL
Yngvik acckon
AquaPurify Solutions
DEEWash
OffGrid Photovoltaics
Polyceutix
Uterome Biomedical Celloop
Nanostics
DiaSense ApS
Gala LFD
Keybird Instruments ApS
Perma Padel ApS
LactElevate
CETO innovation
Spirolactone
HygeiaSense
Loretta qool
Terra Metrics
Feather Saga
ChatTutor
OptlC
MedPeek
Lucid
Social Mirror dewa
Itterno
Hodari Foundation
Triumvirate Food Ltd
PANOVITA LTD
Myt Remi
OceanWide
Seaweed ApS
Yngvik
acckon
AquaPurify Solutions
DEEWash
O Grid Photovoltaics
Polyceutix
Uterome
Biomedical
Celloop
Nanostics
DiaSense ApS
Gala LFD
Keybird Instruments ApS
Perma Padel ApS
LactElevate
CETO innovation
Spirolactone
HygeiaSense
Loretta
qool
10:00 - 10:15
10:15 - 10:30
Opening with Anders Bjarklev, president of DTU at Auditorium
Pitch Session #1: Software & services at Auditorium
Break 10:30 - 10:40
10:40 - 11:05
Celebrating the Journey: Getting investors and users to love your product with Ella Harris, CEO & Founder of Uvisa Health & Dr. Suzanne Andersen, CEO & Co-founder of NitroVolt at Auditorium
Break 11:05- 11:30
11:30 - 12:00
12:00 - 14:30
12:00 - 13:00
12:15 - 12:50
Pitch Session #2: GreenUP climate tech accelerator at Auditorium
GreenUP Climate Tech Accelerator: Open house & investment game at Arena
Lunch
Panel Discussion: Social impact in technology-based entrepreneurship with Laila Midgaard, CEO & Co-founder of Drinksaver; Andreas Børresen, Co-founder of Snapform; Anna-Louise Thon, Partner and co-founder of SDG Invest & Thomas Canguilhem, CEO & Co-Founder of EcoTree International at Social Impact Lounge in Skybox
Startup Exhibition at Open space, Foodlab, Develover Hall, Glass Hallway and Arena
13:00 - 13:15
13:15 - 13:30
13:30 - 14:05
Pitch Session #3: Life science & med tech. at Auditorium
Break
Tough Tech for Tough Problems: Scientific entrepreneurs’ role in solving the climate crisis with Connie Hedegaard, Chair of Concito and Former EU Commissioner & Troels Schönfeldt, Co-founder and Chair of Seaborg Technologies at Auditorium
14:05 - 14:30 Break
14:30 - 14:45
14:45 - 15:00
15:00 - 15:25
15:30 - 16.00
16:00 - 17:00
Pitch Session #4: Clean tech & Agriculture at Auditorium
Break
From Lab to Market: How do we build deep tech champions in Europe? with Anders Kjær, Fund Director, PSV DeepTech & Anna Lundin, investor, Norrsken VC at Auditorium
Award Show with Marianne Thellersen, senior vice president of innovation and entrepreneurship at DTU at Auditorium
Networking & Drinks at Auditorium & Open space
Speakers:
Ella Harris, CEO & Founder at Uvisa Health
Dr. Suzanne Andersen, CEO & Cofounder at NitroVolt
Moderator: Camilla Gilbro, Head of Community at DTU Science Park
Celebrating the journey: Getting investors and users to love your product Mainstage, Auditorium
An enlightening panel featuring the founders of Uvisa Health and NitroVolt! Learn how they’ve approached fundraising in a challenging market and how early engagement with customers has helped them in their product development.
Speakers:
Laila Sofie Midjord, CEO and Co-founder at Drinksaver
Thomas Canguilhem, CEO & Co-Founder at EcoTree International
Andreas Børresen, Co-founder atr Snapform
Anne-Louise Thon Partner and co-founder SDG Invest and Vår Ventures
Moderator: Ingrid Haug, Innovation Consultant at DTU Skylab
Panel discussion: Social Impact in Technology-based Entrepreneurship Social Impact Lounge, Skybox
Discover how technology startups can change society for the better. We’ll explore how these new businesses are vital in promoting inclusion, equality and social fairness, and how the startups can succeed while maintaining this agenda.
Connie Hedegaard
Former chair of (the green think tank) Concito and Former EU Commissioner
Troels Schönfeldt
Co-founder and Chair at Seaborg Technologies
Moderator: Jes Broeng, Professor & Director DTU Entrepreneurship
Tough tech for tough problems: Scientific entrepreneurs’ role in solving the climate crisis
Scaling of scientific breakthroughs will be paramount to solving the biggest planetary challenges. Connie Hedegaard, former EU Commissioner & Chair of Green Think Tank Concito joins forces with Troels Schönfeldt, founder & Chairman of nuclear energy startup in a discussion of the scientist’s role and responsibility in turning research into solutions and products that can live outside the lab.
Speakers:
Anders Kjær, Fund Director PSV DeepTech
Anna Lundin, Investor Norrsken VC
Moderator: Tommy Ahlers, Founding partner of Look Up Ventures
From lab to market: How do we build deep tech champions in Europe?
The myth of deep tech journeys being tougher to fund than other startup journeys is sturdy, despite data telling us otherwise. Is this blocking the potential of building deep tech champions out of Europe? This panel will dive into the power of ecosystems, and how we can collaborate across university, and venture capital as well as across borders to accelerate deep tech in Europe.
02 & 28
Revolutionizing manufacturing with FIBER DRIVE technology to help B2B customers advance the next generation of electric vehicles with leaner, greener solutions.
Industry Construction, Manufacturing & Logistics
Looking for funding opportunities
A blue impact startup whose vision is to contribute to the green transition of the maritime sector.
Industry Cleantech
Looking for funding opportunities
Building a sustainable high-speed, heavylift eVTOL drone system powered by electric ducted fans.
Industry Robotics
Looking for funding opportunities
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Ap and monitor the world with the next generation drones.
STAND 03
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Industry Manufacturing, Robotics & Software
Leveraging technology from self-driving cars adapted to an agricultural environment with plants, weeds and obstacles like livestock, and machine operators.
Industry Agriculture, AI & Robotics
Novel solution to eliminate PFAS in water
-by harnessing the novel photoactivation for greener and deeper destruction of PFAS under ambient conditions.
Industry Agriculture, Construction & Manufacturing
Looking for funding opportunities
A data-driven tool empowering sustainable behaviour for business and consumers.
Industry Cleantech
Looking for mentors
Biogas to Syngas
STAND 24
Realizing the full potential of biomass - we have developed a catalysts and technology that can convert CO2 and CH4 directly into syngas.
Industry Cleantech
Looking for members for an advisory board
STAND 54
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A technology that detects early signs of corrosion or defects, concrete geolocation of pipe system, which significantly enhancing the efficiency of pipe maintenance.
Industry Cleantech & Consultancy
Looking for funding opportunities
STAND 47
Revolutionizing drug discovery and personalized medicine through cutting-edge organ-on-chip technology.
Industry Biotech, Healthtech & Pharma
Looking for funding opportunities
STAND 61
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Personalised, an AI-driven intelligent tutoring system for universities, redefines the learning experience and supports educators through AI-assisted learning.
Industry AI & Educational
Looking for teachers to pilot our product in their courses
STAND 04
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Replacing fossil fuel-based industrial drying processes with innovative heat pump integration.
Industry Cleantech
Looking for mentors
STAND 05
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Reusable and circular packaging solution for the Food & Beverage industry using technology and a strong partner network.
Industry Cleantech & Service
Looking for funding opportunities
STAND 34
We freeze the pain away. By freezing nerves, called Cryoneurolysis, long-term pain relief is offered for most types of longterm and chronic pain.
Industry Healthtech & Medtech
Looking for funding opportunities, mentors and members
STAND 43
An innovative automated handwashing device specifically designed for use in hospital environments and public spaces.
Industry Healthtech
Looking for funding opportunities
A European student rocketry club actively launching and working with all aspects of bi-liquid rockets.
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Denmarks first decentralised digital identity wallet.
Industry Finance, Government & Software
Looking for funding opportunities
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Unlocking mysteries of the brain with quantum sensing- This will be applied in biomedical studies - say, for early diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases.
Industry Biotech, Healthtech & Medtech
Looking for members for an advisory board
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Digitalizes the recreational harbour with sensors and software, giving sailors and harbour masters a complete overview of the occupation of the harbour.
Industry IoT & Recreational
Looking for funding opportunities
STAND 06
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We turn textile waste into a sustainable plastic alternative through circular innovation.
Industry Biotech
Looking for funding opportunities
STAND 07
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Rethinking the global logistics system towards zero-waste of packaging.
Industry Transporation & Logistics
Looking for funding opportunities
STAND 60
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A interactive stories platform that sparks meaningful conversations between children and parents - where fun personalized stories meet emotional development.
Industry AI, Educational & Games/media
Looking for funding opportunities
STAND 50
Platform technology that can be used for any decentralized milk analysis in vet and human segments.
Industry Agriculture
Looking for funding opportunities
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Using mushrooms a sustainable solution for food, nutrition, and livelihoods for refugees and host community in Uganda.
Industry Agriculture, Foodtech & Non-profit
Looking for funding opportunities
STAND 56
Our cutting-edge technology allows governments, healthcare professionals, and public to detect airborne viruses and receive instantaneous outbreak alerts.
Industry AI & Biotech”
Looking for network opportunity
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Transforming textile waste into innovative insulation, promoting a traceable circular economy and inspiring positive change in the construction industry.
Industry Construction
Looking for funding opportunities
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Itterno bridges the gap between the physical and digital worlds at the end of life.
By providing a comprehensive, respectful solution for digital legacy management.
Industry Legal & Service
Looking for members for an advisory board
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Low-cost Batteries made from EarthAbundant Rocks.
STAND 09
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Industry Cleantech & Power
Looking for members for an advisory board
Transforming district heating companies with their AI-driven optimization tool predicting optimal production methods and schedules.
Industry Cleantech
Looking for funding opportunities
STAND 51
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A Lightweight Acoustic Piano.
Industry Arts, Consumer Goods & Recreational
Looking for funding opportunities
STAND 53
From intermittent to continuous monitoring of lactate levels - Enabling sports athletes to elevate performance through a state-ofthe-art data-driven technology.
Industry Healthtech, Medtech & Recreational
Looking for funding opportunities & new member
STAND 10
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Developing, producing, and selling an equipment to the building industry, that allows the user to preform preliminary and ongoing test of the buildings tightness.
Industry Construction
Looking for funding opportunities
STAND 57
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Skin analysis device with cellular precision for cosmetic and HealthTech application.
Industry AI & Medtech
Looking for funding opportunities
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Revolutionizing sleep health with an intuitive CBT-I therapy platform, connecting patients and therapists for personalized treatment and support outside the sessions.
Industry Healthtech, Service & Software
Looking for members for advisory board
Radically reducing the climate footprint of cattle with an advanced macroalgae feed.
STAND 11
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Industry Biotech
Looking for mentors
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We develop stem cell technolgies enabling the transition to sustainable meat production.
Industry Biotech
Looking for members for an advisory board
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Wireless arthroscopes for education and hospitals.
Industry loT, Medtech & Software
Looking for funding opportunities
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We develop active ingredients for agriculture - substituting chemical inputs like pesticides and fertilizers for biologicals.
Industry Agriculture & Biotech
Looking for funding opportunities
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A limate friendly blue mussels protein from the nordic oceans.
Industry Foodtech
Looking for mentor, networking & getting inspired
STAND 48
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We make a medical device that allows the user to measure their biomarkers wherever they are, without the use of a blood test, with the power of nanotechnology.
Industry Healthtech & Medtech
Looking for funding opportunities
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Nuterials are developing an innovative process to transform nutshell waste into durable and attractive packaging solutions.
Industry Manufacturing
Looking for funding opportunities
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We develop innovative growth modules and hatchery methods for the commercial scale cultivation of seaweed.
Industry Agriculture & Biotech
Looking for funding opportunities
STAND 44
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Semi-transparent solar thin films to sustainable power greenhouses.
Industry Agriculture
Looking for network opportunity
OptIC
STAND 62
Developing optimization tools for integrated circuit (IC) design to improve time-to-market and reliability of electronics.
Industry AI, Electronics & Software
Looking for funding opportunities
STAND 70
Producing fortified infants and children food, Maize flour. Targeting low income families, schools, hospitals, refugees camps and prisons in Rwanda and Easter AFRICA.
Industry Manufacturing
Looking for network opportunities
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STAND 16 GreenUP
Optimizing monitoring and care for chronic heart disease patients by linking them closer to healthcare system through continuous insight into patients’ datasets.
Industry Healthtech & Medtech
Looking for funding opportunities & partners WEBSITE
A more sustainable and user-friendly alternative to the packaging of paint.
Industry Cleantech
Looking for members for an advisory board
STAND 52
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Developing a fully recyclable padel racket which is manufactured at high efficiency in Denmark.
Industry Consumer Goods
Looking for funding opportunities
STAND 17
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On the go Camera systems for Input Efficiency in Agriculture.
Industry Agriculture
Looking for funding opportunities
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Polyceutix is transforming cancer treatment by unleashing the full power of the immune system - exactly where it is needed.
Industry Pharma
Looking for funding opportunities
STAND 58
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qool: Quantum-ready start-up, optimizes autonomous navigation—drones, autonomous cars, and more—saving millions of kilometers annually.
Industry AI & Space
Looking for funding opportunities
STAND 18
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Supports finishing tasks in construction with their collaborative painting robot.
Industry Robotics
Looking for funding opportunities
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‘Remi’ app is on a mission to enhance working conditions in restaurants, addressing stress and well-being, for the benefit and productivity of all involved.
Industry Foodtech
Looking for funding opportunities
STAND 36
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Removing the complexity of robot programming to accelerate setup, configuration and operation of industrial robots.
Industry Electronics, Robotics & Software
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Specializes in the development and provision of solar-powered, off-grid IoT network equipment.
Industry Cleantect & IoT
Looking for funding opportunities
STAND 15
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We use modern extraction technologies to extract nutrients from food industry side streams.
Industry Foodtech
Looking for funding opportunities
STAND 65
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STAND 25
Our concept consists of an interactive mirror and associated web app, which enables users to stream video and images to friends and family directly from the store.
Industry Electronics & Software
Looking for network opportunity
STAND 55
Looking for network opportunity Sorption
A device that allows separate ammonia at low pressure and is indifferent to the intermittent nature of renewable energy sources.
Industry Cleantech
Looking for funding opportunities
Novel class of antifungals for treatment of severe fungal infections in humans.
Industry Biotech & Pharma
STAND 20
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We are creating the foods of the future based on green proteins.
Industry Foodtech
Looking for funding opportunities
STAND 59
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A SaaS provider that empowers SMEs to achieve compliance with EU ESG regulations through an AI-driven platform.
Industry AI
A subscription service designed to decarbonize corporate power consumption.
STAND 19
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Industry Cleantech
Looking for funding opportunities
STAND 31
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Educational indoor farms to create climate curiosity in the classroom.
Industry Educational
Looking for network opportunities
STAND 69
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Affordable , accessible and efficient fish protein powder for children and mothers.
Industry Agriculture, Foodtech
Looking for funding opportunities
STAND 46
Uterome Biomedical: Empowering Women’s Health with a Cutting-Edge Diagnosis of Endometriosis.
Industry Biotech, Healthtech & Medtech
Looking for mentors
STAND 32
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A women’s health company dedicated to providing non-pharmacological solutions to intimate infections.
Industry Medtech
Looking for funding opportunities
STAND 29
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A Blue Dot student project at the Technical University of Denmark, creating and producing a fully functional electric Formula Student race car.
Industry Educational
Looking for funding opportunities
STAND 33
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The world’s first and only electric wheel designed to seamlessly attach to any stretcher, revolutionizing mountain rescues across diverse terrains.
Industry Electronics, Manufacturing & Transporation and Logistics
STAND 40
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Yngvik: A home-compostable and marinedegradable polymer packaging made using waste products from the food industry.
Industry Biotech, Cleantech & Funding
Looking for funding opportunities
STAND 21
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Enabling companies in the built environment to adopt circular economy models through AI-powered digital twins.
Industry Construction
Looking for funding opportunities
DTU www.dtu.dk
Founded in 1829 with the mission of creating value for the benefit of society, DTU is an international elite technical university where education, scientific advice, and innovation rest on a solid foundation of world-class research.
Innovation is in DTUs core mission. DTU helps students and employees translate inventions and discoveries into enterprising businesses and engage in innovative collaborations with society. Driven by a will to develop new, sustainable ideas that can help solve the world’s challenges, DTU has one of the most well-developed ecosystems for innovation and entrepreneurship among European technical universities. Several enablers help the welldeveloped innovation ecosystem reach a high level of success.
DTU Skylab www.skylab.dtu.dk
is an innovation hub – a meeting place for students, researchers, and external collaborators. DTU Skylab provides various resources and facilities to foster innovation among researchers and students across DTU in collaboration with companies, organizations, and other universities.
DTU Entrepreneurship www.entrepreneurship.dtu.dk
is a center where research and education in entrepreneurship are conducted. The center, in close collaboration with companies and the business community, develops practice-oriented education programs and courses in entrepreneurship.
DTU Science Park www.dtusciencepark.dk
is one of Europe’s most prominent and leading communities for deep tech companies. In DTU Science Park, internationally recognized growth programs for startups are conducted, and facilities and services are offered that create optimal conditions for growth.
PreSeed Ventures www.preseedventures.dk cares about a conscious future. As a venture house, their mission is to clear the path for founders who build companies that matter. Their hybrid setup, comprising PSV Foundry, PSV Lab, and two unique venture funds, PSV Tech, and PSV DeepTech, sets them free from adhering to a singular method.