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Unity founder & Venture Cup alumni David Helgason
We asked David Helgason a few questions about his childhood on Iceland, the years leading up to the creation of Unity and some of the challenges faced as CEO of a startup which has recently gone to Nasdaq and been valued more than 86B DKK.
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Sit down with Unity founder & Venture Cup alumni David Helgason
We asked David Helgason a few questions about his childhood on Iceland, the years leading up to the creation of Unity and some of the challenges faced as CEO of a startup which has recently gone to Nasdaq and been valued more than 86 billion DKK.
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Meet the National Startup Competition 2020 Winners
September 2nd was a night full of celebration. We celebrated Venture Cup’s 20 year anniversary, student entrepreneurship, and the winners of National Startup Competition 2020!
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USWC winner: HiCura Medical
HiCura Medical: A startup working for smarter and safer patient care “Technology shouldn’t stay in the lab. I think this competition is a great
USWC winner: Uman4Uman
Uman4Uman: A startup fighting period poverty in Sierra Leone. Winning the University Startup World Cup (USWC) in 2021 gave Uman4Uman confidence and the last push
An untraditional entrepreneurial mindset
From doctor to PhD to entrepreneur. Mads Terndrup has always dreamt of using his knowledge of orthopedics to make the world a better place, now
Empowerment, friendship and encouragement
Empowerment, friendship and encouragement. Those were the three biggest upsides for 2015 University Startup World Cup winner, Caleb Kumar in the process of building his own company.
Tips and tricks for startups and new founders
Tips and tricks for startups and new founders There are a lot of things to consider when you are building a startup. Here are
From first time founders to successful SaaS solution
In 2016, first time founders Malene Madsen (CEO) and Mikkel Bindesbøl (Head of Sales) developed the people intelligence platform WOBA, a software system designed to
Meet the National Startup Competition 2020 Winners
September 2nd was a night full of celebration. We celebrated Venture Cup’s 20 year anniversary, student entrepreneurship, and the winners of National Startup Competition 2020!
Partnership between Venture Cup Denmark and Innovation Centre Denmark
The strategic collaboration between Venture Cup and Innovation Centre Denmark originates from a joint vision of promoting, enhancing and internationalizing student entrepreneurship. We aim to
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Five questions to mentor Marianne Stemann Andersen
Marianne Stemann Andersen is a Postdoctoral researcher at KU’s Biotech Research and Innovation Centre (BRIC). She participated in Venture Cup’s Idea Competition in 2013 and
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Five questions to mentor and judge Paul Hargreaves
Paul Hargreaves is the Chief Development Officer at ResoTher Pharma ApS and has been a mentor in our Startup Mentors program and a judge at
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Five questions to Lea Würtz Kristensen, CFO of the startup Obtek
Lea Würtz Kristensen is a design engineer and the CFO of the startup Obtek which is an add-on that will make users spend more time
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Five questions to Max Glocke, CEO of PackitUp
Max Glocke is the CEO of the startup PackitUp – a social network for travellers. He’s been part of our Startup Mentors program… twice! And
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Five questions to mentor and judge Troels Keldmann
Troels Keldmann is the Business Development Interim at Keldmann Healthcare A/S who is helping companies innovate and commercialize. Troels has participated as a mentor in
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Developing Team Leadership skills in Iceland – Nordic HealthTech Talents
The Team Leadership workshop helped the Nordic HeatlhTech talents to discover their personality styles and become better team leaders. See what happened previously: Learn, Work,
Collaborate with the Public Health Sector Workshop in Finland – Nordic HealthTech Talents
The teams became familiar with the Finish public health ecosystem and learned about the existing opportunities for collaboration with startups. See what happened next: Developing
How would investors pitch? NHTT Connect With Sweden Workshop
Nordic HealthTech Talents’ 4th workshop in December 2018 is: Connect With Sweden! In this 2-day workshop, Nordic HealthTech Talents connect with local hubs, startups, and
Learn, Work, Practice and Repeat – Go To Market Workshop with Medica – Nordic HealthTech Talents in Medica
After two intense workshops of personal leadership and design thinking, the 11 startups and the facilitator came to Dusseldorf, Germany together to learn about Go
Learn design thinking from Post-It masters – See how HealthTech startups enhance ideas!
During the design Thinking workshop, the teams learned how to a variety of physical tools to put their ideas on paper to refine their business
What kind of leader are you? – a close look into the mindset of true HealthTech talents
The 12 startups participating in the Nordic HealthTech Talents program* were gathered in Copenhagen to learn about personal leadership, in September 2018. See what the
VenomAid Diagnostics -Nordic HealthTech Talents 2018
VenomAid Diagnostics – A solution for rapid diagnosis of victims bitten by medically relevant snakes. Aleksander Moldt Haack Co-Founder B. Sc. student in Human Life
SureCapture Technologies-Nordic HealthTech Talents 2018
SureCapture Technologies’ smart materials reveal previously invisible molecules. The patented and uniquely sensitive biomarker technology contributes to a significantly better understanding of disease progression
VasDeBlock Medical-Nordic HealthTech Talents 2018
VasDeBlock Medical ApS develops a new and innovative male contraception method for couples around the world. It doesn’t hold hormones, it doesn’t require surgery,
VulCur MedTech- Nordic HealthTech Talents 2018
VulCur MedTech is a medical device development company focusing on chronic wound healing. Janus Beierholm CEO of VulCur MedTech Janus has an MSc in Biochemistry
Selective Humans-Nordic HealthTech Talents 2018
Selective Humans provides a solution that enables users of the service to scan the barcode of pre-packed food and food supplements to identify and
TresActio – Nordic HealthTech Talents 2018
TresActio makes biotechnology research faster and more efficient by digitizing early stages of the strain screening pipeline – adding automatic control and collecting data at
Polaris Proteins -Nordic HealthTech Talents 2018
Polaris Proteins has developed a novel expression system, based on a cold-adapted bacterium, that offers simplified production of difficult-to-express proteins, including increased solubility and more
Provement – Nordic HealthTech Talents 2018
Provement is a digital evaluation and communication tool that helps clinicians individualize childhood obesity treatment and make it more effective while reducing the health care
Lugnoru – Nordic HealthTech Talents 2018
Lugnoru solves the stress management issues of customers by visualizing the stress and making them more stress conscious. Markus Alavaikko Markus Alavaikko is experienced
Insight Academia – Nordic HealthTech Talents 2018
Insight Academia is a revolutionary search engine able to show what is hidden in the scientific panorama.>> Parid Doksani Parid is an MSc student in
Arionida Pro – Nordic HealthTech Talents 2018
ArionidaPro AS is planning to extract the slug slime as a raw material for possible applications as medicinal patches, moisturizing and anti-aging creams, natural lubricants
