Venture Cup Alumnis
We've had more than 17,000 university students through our programs.
Venture Cup has existed since 2000, and we've had more than 17,000 university students through our programs. Many no longer exist, many of the previous participants have become entrepreneurs or employees in different companies and some have managed to scale their ideas into scale-ups and large enterprises.
Common to them all: They're part of the Venture Cup family and many of them devote time to inspire and teach the new generation of university students about entrepreneurship. For us, the most important thing is that we're able to inspire and support entrepreneurship - in all shapes
Unity Technologies
Taking the pain out of game development.
3Shape
Dental Scanners & CAD/CAM Systems
Orphazyme
New treatment options for orphan protein-misfolding diseases
Mybanker
Compare banks, mortgage loans and consumer loans
Too Good To Go
Fight food waste, save great food
Particle3D
3D bone printing
Graduateland
Europe’s largest career portal for students and graduates
Lix
Upgrade the way you study
Roccamore
Possibly the most comfortable high heels in the world
Ruby Cup
The little menstrual cup that makes a big difference
Debito
Debt collection made easy
Sensohive
Wireless sensors and IoT solutions
Hooves
Matches horse owners & renters, creating communities both locally & globally.
MyMonii
Denmark’s best app for pocket money and payment
Matter
Previously (Penstable) Sustainable company pension
Circular Food Technology
Previously (Brewer’s Spent Grains) Release the full potential of brewer’s spent grains.
Baser
Previously (PLINTHIT) Revolutionary parasol bases
LetsBuild
Previously (GenieBelt) a real-time construction software
Snowminds Apparel
Ski instructor apparel
Harba
Digitalising and connecting the world’s marinas and boaters
DropBucket
Sustainable waste bins for festivals and events.
Biosyntia
Catalyze conversion from chemical to biological production of natural ingredients.
Baisikeli
Bikes for a better world
Deemly
Building trust within peer to peer transactions.
OSAA Innovation
Creators of IV-GO
Limelight Music
Where music finds you
Wholi Foods
Previously (Dare to Eat) natural, healthy snacks powered by Insects.
Klenergy
The future of hydrogen tech
Labster
Labster’s virtual labs engage students with science
RAB-Microfluidics
Permitting point-of-need analysis
Tidewave
Revolutionizing turning of patients
Gasgon Medical
Developing new products that aim to support medical staff and deliver improved patient outcomes.
HOOBOX Robotics
The world’s first face-controlled wheelchair.
Choose your Future
Enhancing integration of asylum seekers by utilizing digital innovation and social media.
Haiti : Hands on
Sustainable youth & community led development
Aryze
Say hello to digital cash that knows no borders.
Laava Tech
A technology to help indoor farmers.
Previous Startup Competition Winners
Overall Winner and Social Winner
humAId
At humAId we translate deaf peoples lives. By providing a digital AI based sign language translation service which can be used directly on the deaf persons smartphone.
Digital
Innolidix
Innolidix is innovating the mining industry drilling and blasting operations with the application of sensory technology in combination with machine learning.
Health
Yuman
We develop innovative robots to assist nurses as their own “transport buddy” by facilitating the delivery of food, laundry, and medicine in hospital wards.
Product
Hydrovertic
Tailor-made solutions for starting vertical farming, in rooms or greenhouses of all sizes.
Green
StaySeat ApS
Intelligent heated seats to replace the inefficient heating lamps at restaurants and cafes.
Overall Winner and Green Winner
AQfeed
AQfeed is able to convert unwanted sludge from aquacultures into a high-quality and sustainable fish feed.
Digital
DivERS
DivERS is a startup focusing on developing an integrated IT system to reduce the issues of biases during the recruitment process and successfully automate the shortlisting phase.
Health
Uvisa
Uvisa is an innovative startup belonging to the FemTech category. Uvisa’s main area of focus is tackling numerous issues in women’s health still considered a taboo.
Product
FLID tools
“Being handy has no gender.” FLID tools makes inclusive, aesthetic and sustainable handtools not just for handymen but for everyone.
Overall Winner and Digital Winner
SubReader
Subreader is a welfare tech platform that helps dyslexics by reading the subtitles out loud on movies and TV-shows, this allows them to participate in the world of movies on equal footings with everyone else.
Green
Climaider
Climaider helps you understand how much carbon you omit, where this carbon comes from and then they help you remove or avoid the same amount of carbon.
Health
Healper
Healper is the first booking platform where you are matched with a psychologist that fits your personality and mental health challenges.
Product
WeConsider
LifeBoard® by WeConsider is a safety solution with an innovative rescue equipment that ensures a fast and safe swimming rescue.
Overall Winner and Digital Winner
Blue Lobster
ServedOnSalt
Overall Winner and HealthTech
VulCur MedTech
Copenhagen University (KU)
VulCur MedTech is a medical device development company focusing on chronic wound healing.
GreenTech
Viridian Bio
Viridian Bio produces high-value plant-derived molecules ia yeast fermentation using renewable, non-petrochemical derived substrates, can be CO2 neutral, and produces molecules that are regarded as ‘natural’.
NextGen Logistics
Lynx Sight
Lynx Sight productises visual inspection solutions, changing this from being an expensive and labor-intensive consultancy-driven industry and lowering the cost, while maintaining profit margins.
Service Innovation
Swap Language
Swap Language is a peer-to-peer platform that offers personalised 1-on-1 language learning from native speakers.
Product & Devices
Inniti IVS
Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
Our solution is an IoT-based, distributed, modular system that allows you to customize your flow control system, and collect your measurements on the cloud.
Overall Winner and HealthTech
Particle3D
3D Bone Printing
GreenTech
Lyras
This invention relates to UV-reactor instrument for cold pasteurization of liquid food products.
FinTech
Penstable
We want to build Denmark’s first digitally native pension company exclusively based on sustainability and impact investments
Mobile & Web
Limelight Music
Limelight Music will make it easier for musicians and listeners to find each other – our algorithm automatically pairs them based on the listener’s music taste.
Product & Devices
PLINTHIT ApS
PLINTHIT creates base systems for any kind of vertical objects starting with our revolutionary parasol base, that uses our patented locking system which makes it possible to tightly fit any parasol size.
Overall Winner and GreenTech
Klenergy – DTU
An efficient & innovative “thermo-electrical” storage solution
Life Science & MedTech
Siren Care – CBS
Healthy lives start with healthy feet
Mobile & Web – Active stageArt Stream – DTU
ArtStream helps patients recover faster
Mobile & Web – Idea stage
Trucker – KU
Matching need for transportation with unused resources
Product & Technology – Active stage
MyGrow – AU
Scalable, IoT, cloud services, personal greenhouse structure
Product & Technology – Idea stage
Fresh Veggies – AAU
Computerized vertical farm using no soil
IndustryTech
OBi Plus – AAU
The HomeKit for cars
Social Media Award Winner
Golden Arc – KU
Robust food sensor detecting moisture and toxic compounds
Alumni Battle and Silicon Valley Trip Winner
LevelUp
Bringing Pro to every level of football
Overall Winner and Services
YoooWe – CBS
Online peer-to-peer and business-to-consumer surfing, skiing and snowboarding platform for equipment rental and teaching services.
Cleantech & Environment
Ecological Disposal Systems – DTU
EDS provides a way of using waste to lower costs dramatically in offshore facilities, by turning trash into treasure.
Life Science & MedTech
Clickflow – KU
ClickFlow has developed a low-tech medical device to reconnect injured blood vesselsend-to-end.
Social Entrepreneurship
TubusOne – AAU
TubusOne is a low-tech invention built solely to create an online bridge between disabled people and the rest of the world.
Mobile & Web
Bikematch – SDU
Bikematch is an online platform that makes it easy to find a new bike, while also helping local bike retailers strengthen their business.
Product & Technology
Sensohive – SDU/KU
Sensohive has developed a cheap, flexible and durable communication system that makes it possible to gather data that was previously very difficult to collect.
Overall Winner and Cleantech & Environment
TychoBio
TychoBio manufactures high-value biological compounds that are used in numerous products such as medicine, artificial sweeteners, perfumes etc.
Life Science & MedTech
MGM Bio
Metagenomic mining – novel molecules for the treatment of viral diseases.
Mobile & Web
LevelUP
LevelUP is an easy and affordable tool to collect statistical information about football players and prepare instant reports.
Services
SponsorBase
Online marketplace for sponsorships, helping the right sponsors and sponsees find each other.
Product & Technology
Velocatr
Velocatr is a cheap tracking device and bicycle light, powered by induction, creating and communicating through a “mesh network”.
Social Entrepreneurship
Roots Food
Providing the best nutritional superfood solution to the developed market, through a sustainable practice, creating livelihood and nutrition to poor farmers in the Philippines.
Overall Winner and Cleantech & Environment
SBT Aquatech
SBT Aquatech will develop and produce sensors that are able to continuously detect bacteria in drinking water to supply the water industry with an unprecedented quality control system.
Life Science & MedTech
BalancAir
BalancAir offers a drug free, fast acting and efficient treatment of seizures, hyperventilation and migraine through the use of a novel, lightweight, medical mask.
Mobile & Web
Quick Inspect
Quick Inspect is a professional site inspection tool on the iPad, for easier and more efficient inspection.
People & Society
Lendino
Lendino is a P2P lending platform that allow small businesses to finance themselves cheaper and easier.
Product & Technology
PLASMARC
The PLASMARC is a new type of coating treatment that cleans surfaces of engineering materials before applying paint, glue or coatings – improving the quality of coatings and paint.
Overall Winner and People & Society
Ruby Cup
Ruby Cup is a menstrual hygiene product for girls and women in developing countries, which is reusable for up to ten years.
Cleantech & Environment
Biosyntia
Biosyntia will enable the transformation of the chemical industry towards a bio-based future by providing high performance microorga-nisms to chemical manufacturers.
Life Science & MedTech
CTS Wristband
The CTS Wristband helps people with Carpal Tunnel Syndrome develop muscle memory for correct hand position.
Mobile & Web
WindSensor
The pocket-sized WindSensor and the application WindShare provides instant, shareable knowledge of the wind at a very competitive price.
Product & Technology
Optical Accelerometer
Optical Accelerometer has developed a cost-effective way to reduce wind turbine maintenance costs.
Previous Idea Competition Winners
Overall Winner and GreenTech
Brewer’s Spent Grain – DTU, KU
The company will ensure proper utilization of brewer’s spent grains as a novel food resource.
HealthTech
Sehat Labs – SDU
THEA is an intelligent, interactive platform with a modular software design, capable of decreasing the burden on the healthcare sector professionals while saving money and lives.
FinTech
Aryze – SDU, CBA
Our solutions will reduce the cost of money transfer between users and businesses by removing most traditional intermediaries from the payment equation.
Service Innovation
TimberNest Freemium – SDU
TimberNest Freemium is an interactive social furniture offered on subscription.
Product & Devices
ZenVocal – KU
ZenVocal develops a product that allows singers to practice at home or while traveling without disturbing others.
Overall Winner and HealthTech
OSAA Innovation – RUC, KU, DTU
We have developed a unique, fully patented, mobile IV solution that is 100 percent mechanical, safe and environmental as plastic is made out of reusable material. Instead of elevating and attaching the drip bag with fluids or drugs to one of hooks of the IV pole, you place the designated drip bag in our IV-GO box.
GreenTech
AirVita Global – KU
Air pollution is now the biggest environmental health risk (WHO). AirVita provides you with significantly cleaner air and a longer, healthier life.
IndustryTech
Hallex Exchange Systems – CBS, DTU
Hallex Exchange Systems enables decentralization of capital markets through blockchain technology by providing a trust-less trading system for digital assets with the speed of regular exchanges, but at much lower commission rates compared to those
offered by existing centralized brokers.
Product & Devices – Active stage
Male Fertility App – KU
Male Fertility App will empower men to take control of their sperm quality, to improve natural fertility rates world wide.
Product & Devices – Idea stage
BlackBoxEfx – AAU
BlackBoxEfx is an online programming environment that compiles PureData (Pd) code to our stand alone hardware device.
Mobile & Web – Active Stage
Harba – CBS, KU
We bring the freedom of the sea into the harbors. We do this by digitalizing marinas.
Mobile & Web – Idea stage
MatEase – DTU, AAU
A digital platform for industrial designers allowing them to make better and quicker materials selection for their products!
Overall Winner and LifeScience & MedTech
POC Solutions – DTU & KU
POC Solutions makes it possible to detect diseases better.
Product & Technology
SoundSense – DTU
We at SoundSense help people have the full acoustic experience of their favorite music without damaging their hearing for the long term.
Social Entrepreneurship
Mobilized Construction – AAU
Mobilize and employ thousands of individuals to improve local infrastructure at a fraction of the current cost.
Mobile & Web
DataMine – DTU & KU
DataMine streamlines data services and saves scientists time by using propriety conversion algorithms to provide all the data required.
FinTech
Trayce – CBS & DTU
Trayce – Simple expense management, just as it should be.
Cleantech & Environment
HP Now – DTU
Cost-efficient environmentally friendly biocide on-site, on-demand.
People’s Choice Award Winner
Tweep – AU
Tweep is a technology platform for reducing accidents between cyclists and heavy vehicles. It enhances the communication between truck drivers and cyclists through devices using radio communication.
People’s Choice Winner and Mobile & Web
Macellum.Dk – AAU
Statistical analysis and visualization of auction prices for use in the fishing industry.
Cleantech & Environment
CHARON Biotech – CBS/KU
CHARON Biotech uses a bio-transporter based technology that can help to retrieve biomolecules from biological factories.
Life Science & MedTech
Antag – KU
Antag has developed a novel anti-obesity treatment based on a highly potent inhibitor of a hormone involved in fat accumulation.
Services
Fishtrip – DTU/KU
Fishtrip are creating a “Hotels.com” for anglers, narrowing the gap between sport anglers and the range of products, which are and should be available to them.
Social Entrepreneurship
Donago – AAU
With Donago you can walk, run, bike or even clean your house to support charity. Connect with NGOs that matter to you, and get motivated, healthy, and help make the world a better place.
Product & Technology
Transparent World – DTU
Transparent World introduces a new transparent conductor material to substitute the expensive indium tin oxide used in displays, touchscreens and solar cells.
Overall Winner and Product & Technology
Velocatr (SDU/CBS)
The Velocatr is a bicycle light with integrated GPS and NASH7 based on the Mesh Networking concept.
Cleantech & Environment
Nordic Power Converters (DTU)
Nordic Power Converters has invented a cutting-edge power electronics technology enabling large scale penetration of LED lighting with high energy efficiency.
Life Science & MedTech
NEMdose (KU/CBS/DTU)
NEMdose is a complete pharmaceutical production platform providing automated compounding of personalized swellable dosage forms.
Mobile & Web
LevelUP (AAU)
LevelUP is an easy tool to collect statistical data during a football game.
People & Society
Debito (AAU)
Debito is an online platform for easy debt collection and debtor management, which eliminates the hassle of managing unsettled claims from clients.
Overall Winner and People & Society
Butiksiden.dk
Butiksiden.dk is a concept consisting of 2 apps and a website, which enables consumers to find all the best offers on foods, and which helps retail stores all over the country to reduce waste and improve revenue.
Cleantech & Environment
RoboWeedSupport
RoboWeedSupport will, in collaboration with Crop Protection Online, solve field weed classification in an efficient manner in favor for the farmer, society, and the environment in Europe.
Life Science & MedTech
BioRepeller
BioRepeller is a new simple-to-use coating that effectively prevents any protein and cell/bacterial adhesion on technical surfaces and devices.
Mobile & Web
Quick Inspect
Quick Inspect is a professional site inspection tool on the iPad, for easier and more efficient inspection.
Product & Technology
DANfur
An innovative approach based on state of the art genetics, enabling production of non-naturally occurring fur colours for the exclusive fashion industry.
Life Science & Medtech
NAVINAC
NAVINAC is a navigational system for the blind allowing accurate internal visualization of obstacles in the immediate environment, enabling users to navigate freely.
People’s Choice Award
RiboSelect
RiboSelect provides pharma companies with novel enzymes faster, cheaper and better.
Product & Technology
Senseye
Senseye makes it possible to activate and operate a mobile device just by looking at it.
People’s Choice Award
ZymeCoat
ZymeCoat Solutions develops a transparent enzyme-based coating for algae proofing aquariums and aquarium accessories.
People & Society
BioLab
BioLab wants to change science education by creating an online laboratory where the students can make tests that aren’t possible in school surroundings.
People’s Choice Award
Active:Copenhagen develops physical training and events that promotes general health.
Mobile & Web
Read It Loud
Read It Loud is a Smartphone app offering everyday reading for people with dyslexia, bad eyesight and poor reading skills in any given environment.
People’s Choice Award
Cast.li is a web-tool that allows you to highlight a specific part of an article and share it with your friends and followers.
Cleantech & Environment
Coolstep
CoolStep is an ultra-high efficiency converter for fuel cell applications.
People’s Choice Award
Re-charged has created a self-charging AA battery.
Applied Technology
Dane Reign
Dane Reign designs beautiful and practical rain clothes for women.
KMM (People’s Choice Award)
Trailer pull with built-in weight distribution mechanism.
Software
Fundr
Fundr makes it easy to donate money to developers and request fixes and features.
Graduateland (People’s Choice Award) · Europe’s largest career and education portal.
Services
CallCab
CallCab is a new and efficient way to get a cab by using your smartphone and the dedicated service.
Attivo (People’s Choice Award)
Learning tool for the individual student’s level of intelligence, style of learning, physical stimuli.
Life Science & Medtech
Bucky’o’Zun
Bucky’o’Zun is a new technology which can protect 99,99% against all UV-radiation making it able to prevent skin cancer and extend the lifespan of various materials.
WiMed (People’s Choice Award)
WiMed invents and develops wireless, diagnostic products to eliminate physicians’ headaches associated with wires and outdated technology.
Cleantech
Innogie
Innogie wants to develop a highly integrated, aesthetically attractive, and cost efficient roofing solution based on solar thermal power.
B-Toilet (People’s Choice Award)
No More Flushing Water.
University Awards
Voicefit (AAU Award)
VoiceFit is a voice training software that increases the awareness of the voice, using the voice as game control combined with audio-visual feedback.
Teori & Praksis (RUC Award)
Teori & Praksis is online/offline community for knowledge sharing and conferences in Copenhagen.
Tryg-puden (SDU Award)
Tryg-puden creates safety in the home of elderly.
Bucky’o’Zun (AU Award)
Bucky’o’Zun is a new technology which can protect 99,99% against all UV-radiation making it able to prevent skin cancer and extend the lifespan of various materials.
WiMed (KU)
WiMed invents and develops wireless, diagnostic products to eliminate physicians’ headaches associated with wires and outdated technology.
Stella Cancaris (DTU)
Stella Cancaris developes improved methods of marking tumors in colonic cancer.
Phospho-tag protein purification (CBS) · One step purification technology for recombinant protein drugs.
Applied Technology
Super Light Structures – CBS, DTU
Super Light Structures developed a weight reducing technology for load bearing building structures.
People’s Choice Award
IDM Hoods from SDU has developed a range hood which operated automatically, without the need for buttons or manual settings.
Services
Computerfriend.dk – AAU
Their concept is a website which facilitates IT support among ordinary people and their IT savvy friends.
People’s Choice Award
Ivoteshopping.dk is a portal where customers can meet and gain better prices by buying together.
Life Science & Medtech
MalariTect has developed a technology which can diagnose immunity towards malaria medicine.
People’s Choice Award
eQui has developed rehabilitative equipment for patients who have suffered brain hemorrhage.
Software
FutureCad is a digital software solution providing visual overview of building information.
People’s Choice Award
SocialzingU is a platform for interactive games.
Cleantech
Blue Power Technologies is a polypower wave technology, a power take-off system aimed for ocean wave energy.
People’s Choice Award
ISCR Company’s technology integrates DCCS solar panels directly into the roof tiles making it possible to sell an integrated solar cell tile.
Previous University Startup World Cup Winners
Early Stage Overall and Health Winner
PragmaClin Research Inc.
Since it was established in 2020, PragmaClin has helped patients with Parkinson’s disease. With its flagship software, PRIMS, the company provides a novel approach to managing neurological diseases in order to get the patients help faster with more accurate results.
Growth Stage Overall and Health Winner
E3A Healthcare Pte. Ltd.
E3A was established in March 2019 at the National University of Singapore and has rapidly developed into a leader in smart newborn and women’s health medical devices. E3A is redesigning the existing outdated medical devices in newborn and women’s health, producing sleek products that could be used at home.
Early Stage – Green category winner
StaySeat Aps
Electrically heated seats to replace inefficient heating lamps at restaurants
Early Stage – Digital category winner
Ventyr AS
Early Stage – Social category winner
HumAId
humAId develops an intelligent and easy to use translation service for deaf people.
Growth Stage – Social category winner
Hollo Limited
Hollo is a platform of research-backed Digital Therapeutics, that uses proprietary Behavioral Health AI to create sustainable health plans for chronically ill patients.
Growth Stage – Digital category winner
Synectify
National University of Singapore
Crysalis is value-capturing waste energy to help renewable energy transition. We help the world’s solar PV power grow by increasing the energy grid’s flexibility.
Growth Stage – Health category winner
Emay Gene
The company develops a platform of adenoassociated viruses that can efficiently target different types of cells and aims to treat hearing disorders, thereby improving the treatment of hearing and vision disorders by leveraging gene therapies.
Growth Stage – Green category winner
SALUBATA
Completely repurposed from plastic wastes, feathery shoes (only 0.5kg), extremely comfortable insole and now fitted with air bubbles.
Growth Stage – Green category winner
Asel Tech
Asel-Tech delivers a wide range of equipment, systems, operational safety, integrity management projects.
Early Stage Overall and Social Winner
Uman4Uman
We are a social enterprise that focuses on addressing the issue of period poverty among young girls in Sierra Leone. Using reusable pads reduces your menstrual footprint. It is not only good for your vagina and reproductive health, but the environment as well.
Growth Stage Overall and Health Winner
HiCura Medical
Hello to Smarter Care! HiCura Medical Pte Ltd is an NUS spin-off that was incorporated in Singapore in May 2019. We use Artificial Intelligence in healthcare to enable automatic image guidance for medical procedures.
Green Early Stage
AQFeed
We upcycle fish manure from aquacultures and use it as a growth bed for algae and aquatic insects in a fully circulated system.
Green Early Stage
Ebb and Flow Keg
Ebb & Flow Keg is a provider of sustainable packaging solutions in the beverage industry.
Green Growth Stage
KrillTech
Krilltech is developing nanotechnology-based solutions to increase crop productivity in an economical and sustainable way.
Health Early Stage
Elomia
An AI-powered therapy chatbot with human-level effectiveness. We are creating an AI-powered friend, to whom one can talk to get emotional support.
Health Growth Stage
Zhongke Endoscope
Zhongke is an endoscopic system for intelligent ENT (Ear, nose and throat) diagnosis
Digital Early Stage
PinPoint
Pinpoint is the most accurate and affordable Map API in Thailand. Cheaper than Google Map API, but providing more precise location data.
Digital Growth Stage
Ekkono
With Ekkono Machine Learning we turn things around – we learn the normal behavior of the individual unit, to detect when something deviates from that normal.
Social Growth Stage
SKOOP
SKOOP is a cloud-based digital billboard management software. SKOOP makes it easy to manage the complexities of monetizing billboard network.
Early Stage Overall and Smart City Winner
Epiclay
Epiclay makes urban areas more liveable and healthy for its inhabitants by creating a modular green wall system, which can be implemented easily on facades with as little maintenance as possible.
Growth Stage Overall and HealthTech Winner
Banff Biotech
They created two portable products used for qualitative and quantitative laboratory measurements on-site within 5 minutes. The products are able to quickly identify and quantify volatile organic compounds.
GreenTech Early Stage
Alt Tex
ALT TEX is a business-to-business biomaterials company, creating sustainable fabric solutions for eco-conscious fashion retailers and designers.
GreenTech Growth Stage
PlasticFri
A proprietary technology to make a plant-based biomaterial that looks and works like conventional (petroleum-based) plastics, but it’s 100% biodegradable, compostable & non-toxic.
HealthTech Early Stage
Safewheel
Safewheel has designed a mini three wheel ambulance that costs 1/10th of regular ones and can reach everywhere in the village. With the money needed to buy 1 regular ambulance, we can buy 10 Safewheel ambulances.
Smart City Growth Stage
Infinite Foundry
A 3D digital plant platform for improved production efficiency of any industrial sector. It hosts the precise 3D model of the plant obtained from laser scan to provide an easy 3D gamification experience that drives industrial operational efficiency.
ICT Early Stage
BAG Innovation
BAG is a digital platform that uses Gamification to offer a solution for students and recent graduates to access real-time experience-based learning.
ICT Growth Stage
Aurign
Aurign eliminates inefficiencies in the music publishing supply chain using A.I. and blockchain technology. The algorithms accurately generate publishing agreements and automate the filing process, while keeping a record on the blockchain ledger as a proof of record.
Overall and Social Winner
Health-Bridge
We tackle the language barrier in health care using technology
Environmental
Lupinta
A new, innovative alternative for soy-based food products
Health
Viobac
Preventing catheter associated urinary tract infections with UVC light
Economic
AmAPro
Empowering people to sustainably manufacture affordable prostheses for everyone.
Overall Winner and Products & Design
Laava Tech
Laava Tech develops artificial lighting systems for greenhouse operators to decrease energy consumption and increase yield. We have developed a combination of hardware and software, which gives each and every plant the perfect growing conditions.
GreenTech
Sunthetics
Sunthetics provides an alternative path to manufacture a chemical intermediate for nylon that is emission-free, more efficient, and cost-effective. There are current shortages in nylon intermediates due to increasing demand, complex reactions, and production interruptions. In consequence, there is an opportunity to significantly improve the chemical manufacturing industry with better, more sustainable and modern technology.
FinTech, AI, ICT
ImagiCase
imagiCase is working to inspire the next generation of female technologists and increase the proportion of women studying and working in the STEM fields. imagiCase is a phone case with embedded LED lights that can be programmed to display any text, design or color through programming with the imagiCase mobile platform. The platform also provides tutorials of coding concepts guiding the user through the journey of learning to code in a gamified way.
Health
VulCur MedTech
VulCur MedTech is a medical device development company focusing on wound healing, using a novel combination of existing technologies. Our method of treatment uses laser technology to kill bacteria within wounds, which is a treatment breakthrough.
Service Innovation
Choose Your Future
Choose Your Future is helping people (such as refugees, students and employees) find the best place to live and integrate them to their new home cities. Our award-winning digital tools enhance different stages of integration processes resulting in a better well-being and reducing costs of various organizations such as universities, cities and companies who are responsible for these new citizens.
NextGen Logistics
Tekuma
Tekuma has built a one-handed six-degrees-of-freedom tactile controller that is intuitive, universal and robust. It reduces the time, cost and personnel required to get the job done. We’ve tested it with over 600 users with drones but our controller also works with robots, submarines, rovers and other devices. We want to improve the way humans interact with technology.
Overall Winner and HighTech
RAB-Microfluidics
Scottish University startup RAB-Microfluidics won the University Startup World Cup 2017 and can now call themselves world champions! The two students have invented a chip which is able to foresee expensive breakdowns in ultra heavy machinery.
GreenTech
Ethico Foods
This gluten free, soy free 100% vegetarian substitute for meat could be the next very big thing in sustainable food protein. Looks and tastes almost exactly like minced beef.
Services
Salaatike
This Finnish team has succeeded in turning 500 grams of fresh vegetables into 75 grams of easily dissolvable powder, which can be put in sauces, smoothies or whatever you prefer. They claim they will change the way we all eat vegetables.
ICT
Recrew
They invented an app which enables entrepreneurs to quickly find a much-needed specialist. Ex: The electrician at a construction site fell sick, and as result 12 builders are waiting around. Three blocks down, an electrician sits in his car swearing, because the key wasn’t where it should be, and he can’t get into the house where he was supposed to work. Recrew’s app helps the two parties finding each other sawing everybody’s day and money.
HealthTech
Tidewave
Disabled and bed-ridden people all over the world suffer from terrible wounds that come from just lying down. In order to prevent it, professional staff has to turn them in bed every third hour 24/7/365. Tidewave has invented a clever mattress that does the turning automatically. This will potentially not only save millions of dollars in paying care assistants during the night hours. It will also save disabled people from having to wake up every third hour during their sleep.
Overall and Mobile & Web
Isara
Isara is a Deaf community-center platform that includes an open sign language learning application, an online sign interpreter service, and a crowdsourced Deaf-friendly video subtitle-making tool. Isara offers fair business model by liberating sign language learning so that everyone can easily – and at no charge – take a sign language course made and maintained by Deaf communities. In return, sign language learners with hearing capability can help deaf communities by subtitling videos to make online videos deaf-friendly. In an effort to be a sustainable business, Isara also enables its active users to become professional sign interpreters and/or teachers.
GreenTech
Klenergy
Klenergy Helios is an innovative battery which captures the excess production from renewable energy and stores it as the energy carrier of the future: hydrogen. In that way Klenergy wants to be a critical mass in the transformation of our current energy system and its transition to a decentralized, integrated & sustainable energy model for our future.
E-Services
Marine Nexus
Marine Nexus is an online maritime platform that connects vessel providers to vessel procurers. The main aim is to make it as cost efficient for vessel providers to market their vessels and vessel procurers to find the vessel they want.
IndustryTech & Robotics
Nara Space
NARA SPACE was founded by ambitious space engineers and business partners to fulfill their vision to revolutionize people’s daily life via its latest space technologies. NARA SPACE’s vision extends to the earth imagery market essential for humanity. Monitoring the earth from low orbit is crucial but there are some technical limitations which made conventional monitoring system obsolete. The conventional LEO satellite systems have fundamental limitation in observing the earth due to no visual lights or bad weather condition. Therefore, NARA is officially introducing its SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) Cube Satellite Constellation System to make invisible visible via latest technologies.
Lifescience & MedTech
CatheCare
CatheCare was created to address the shortcomings of current preventative and management strategies against bacterial contamination. Their easy-to-use, small, and attachable device eradicates 99.9% of bacteria, resulting in lowered infection rates, improved clinical outcomes, and faster hospital bed turnover rates.
Overall and LifeScience & MedTech
VesaliusMed
VesaliusMed LLC. designed and patented cancer-detection software that offers patients accurate, objective, rapid, inexpensive, minimally-invasive and universally-available screening for early diagnosis and improved survival rates. An innovative cancer detection software system invented by Aslan Maleki, 22, Caleb Kumar, 19, and Teun de Planque, 22, students of Stanford University in California, USA.
CleanTech & Environment
Ecological Disposal Systems
Ecological Disposal Systems has a patented solution for environmentally friendly offshore dumping, which is also a new way of using otherwise useless waste for offshore and coastline construction projects. Therefore, EDS provides a way of using waste to lower costs dramatically in offshore facilities by turning trash into treasure.
Social Entrepreneurship
Tubusone
TubusOne is an assistive technology for disabled people with mobility problems in hands or arms. The product is placed in the mouth, and air pressure actives a stick which works as a digital finger. TubusOne is a low-tech invention built solely to create an online bridge between disabled people and the rest of the world. Its main goal is to serve developing countries.
Product & Technology
Sensohive
Sensohive has developed a wireless sensor network for large greenhouses. The sensors increase data density and thereby increase air homogeneity to prevent product variations and unnecessary product handling processes. Internal memory enables full supply chain monitoring with automatic data upload after arrival.
Mobile & Web
EasyBox
EasyBox is from Brazil where the amount of cars can make it quite challenging to find a parking space. Therefore, EasyBox was invented. The site works as an AirBnB for cars and garages making it possible for people to rent or lease parking spaces.
2009 and older Winners
Winner of Venture Cup 2008-2009
1. Multiaerobics is an interactive platform developed for specialists in physical therapy. The software allows the specialists to treat their patients from afar using special sensors combined with physical activity.
2. Wölwa Group has developed software for project management costs estimates. The SaaS incorporates historical data to provide accurate estimates early in the project’s life cycle.
3. Immeasure has developed a technology capable of measuring multiple protein concentrations. The technology reduces the diagnosis process from hours to minutes lowering costs significantly and potentially saving lives.
Winner of Venture Cup 2007-2008
1. Immutell developed an innovative method for diagnosing infectious diseases. The team is a collaboration of ASB and researchers from Hvidovre Hospital.
2. Medichanical Innovation introduced a new measuring instrument to increase the success rate for hip prosthetic operations.
3. MP Software has introduced an integrated development environment which makes life easier for web developers working in PHP, HTML and CSS.
Winner of Venture Cup 2006-2007
1. Axon7 (Multicore Solutions) won first prize for their software library, called CSP.NET, aimed at computer programmers. The library makes it easy to program networks of machines and machines with multiple processors.
2. InMold Biosystems is a way to mold a specific pattern of biomolecules into a plastic surface e.g. a petri dish, culture flask or microwell plate. All of them are materials to grow cells onto in the Life Science industry.
3. Mooncean – Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is one of the most notorious infectious pathogens spreading in the hospitals. Mooncean is developing a MRSA detection device that will be accurate, real-time and inexpensive.
Winner of Venture Cup 2005-2006
1. RSP Systems won first prize for their unique needle-free glucose measuring method, which especially helps people with diabetes.
2. Vinzyme has developed a new method for controlling fungi and its byproducts in wine production, making the taste and bouquet of red wines easily adjustable.
3. Polycan is a nanotech project which have developed a method to determine the presence of an arbitrary virus in less than 10 seconds.
Winner of Venture Cup 2004-2005
- Flex Acoustics(AQStix) – Flex Acoustics has developed an inflatable panel that alters the acoustics in a concert hall to make it more suitable for Rock and pop music.
- NIL Technology(Nanomask) – Nanomask provides state of the art nanotechnology solutions for the manufacturers of integrated electronics.
- Health Equipment Denmark – The product HEDclip is simple, but solves an annoying problem; it fixes tubes and needles when patients is giving blood or is in dialysis.
Winner of Venture Cup 2003-2004
- INAGEN has created a novel method of developing new forms of therapies against viral diseases. The technology utilizes a “self targeting” capability that occurs in the natural defense mechanism of the specific disease to target and kill infected cells.
- Sapio Systems’ revolutionary patent pending Intellego technology takes computers to a higher level by enabling them to read and understand knowledge described in text. With Intellego’s comprehension of knowledge, Sapio Systems enables its customers to shorten their time to market and create new, useful products.
- Oddlabs produces games for an unutilized segment of the computer games market, by using in-house developed technology.
Winners of Venture Cup Øresund 2002-2003
1. Replisaurus (Swedish Team) – Advanced technology within semiconductors metallization.
2. MESH Technologies – MESH Technologies is developing a set of techniques encapsulated in software that allows for optimal utilization of cluster-type supercomputers achieving the best price/performance ratio for high-performance/scientific computing customers.
3. MedOx (Swedish Team)
Winners of Venture Cup Øresund 2001-2002
1. Sententia Medical AB (Swedish) – Founded to develop and market less invasive sutureless products for Mitral Repair and Replacement, based on its own proprietary technology. A technology that will facilitate fast, reliable and less invasive open chest mitral valve surgery as well as total endoscopic mitral repair and replacement.
2. Blindsight Aps – Blindsight has developed a technical device to help blind people by guiding them in their surroundings.
3. Pulmox (Swedish) – An individually customized system for increased safety in the diving industry.
Winner of Venture Cup Øresund 2000-2001
3Shape is a globally operating hi-tech company specializing in the development of integrated hard- and software solutions for the creation, processing, analysis and management of high-quality 3D data. Since partaking in Venture Cup, 3Shape has won several prizes and competitions, among them Innovation Prize at Ernst & Young and Denmark’s Entrepreneur of the Year.
NHHT Startups
VasDeBlock
Developing a new and innovative male contraception method for couples around the world. It doesn’t hold hormones, it doesn’t require surgery.
Polaris Proteins
Developed a new expression system, based on a cold-adapted bacterium, that offers simplified production of difficult-to-express proteins, including increased solubility and more active enzymes.
VenomAid Diagnostics
A solution for rapid diagnosis of victims bitten by medically relevant snakes.
VulCur MedTech
VulCur MedTech is a medical device development company focusing on chronic wound healing.
Provement
Provement is a digital evaluation and communication tool that helps clinicians individualize childhood obesity treatment.
SureCapture Technologies
SureCapture Technologies’ smart materials reveal previously invisible molecules.
ArionidaPro
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
Lugnoru
Lugnoru solves the stress management issues of customers by visualizing the stress and making them more stress conscious.
TresActio
TresActio makes biotechnology research faster and more efficient by digitizing early stages of the strain screening pipeline – adding automatic control and collecting data at
Selective Humans
Provides a solution to scan the barcode of pre-packed food and food supplements to identify and select or avoid selected ingredients in a fast and
Insight Academia
Insight Academia is a revolutionary search engine able to show what is hidden in the scientific panorama.
