Maritime Stars is an accelerator program for Danish startups with innovative solutions for the maritime industry. Each year, the maritime industry selects ten of Denmark's best startups, which pitch their businesses for a chance to join the program. With only five available spots, only the five highest-rated startups among the ten pitching candidates are admitted to Maritime Stars each year. The pitch event will take place on June 11 in Aalborg.Since the industry itself decides, based on the pitches on the day of the event, which five startups will join this year's cohort, applicants only need to complete a short application form in advance to be considered among the ten startups selected to pitch. The application deadline for the Maritime Stars pitch event is May 21, 2025, at 12:00 PM. – Send the application form to Allan Hejslet, Project Manager, at ahe@ehnj.dk. Want to know more about the program, and if it is relevant for your company? Let's get in touch for a coffee or virtual meeting! Telephone: + 45 30 13 30 43 Mail: ahe@ehnj.dk

About Innofounder The Innofounder Program is owned and financed by Innovation Fund Denmark. The incubator is operated by Second Foundation and Danish Design Centre. The Innofounder incubator has more than 120 participating startups joining in 2022. Innofounder startups get close mentoring, access to a huge network of the very best experts and partners, workshops and masterclasses, and great benefits & offers on everything from software to coworking spaces and professional services. About Second Foundation At Second Foundation we are experts in supporting early startups helping them grow into great businesses. We draw on our experience from running the predecessor of this incubator – the Innofounder Graduate incubator for the past five years. We conceptualize and drive high-value incubator and accelerator programs, providing startups with essential tools, network and mindsets to solidify their foundation for building a profitable and scalable business.

We are on the mission to reinvent civil engineering for a sustainable future. We are building a one-stop shop for the design and engineering of structural assets. We are leveraging AI, cloud technologies, parametric modelling, geotechnologies, structural engineering, remote sensing (wind and terrain data) and big data to reduce the cost and time of structural design and analysis. We strive to optimize engineering structures to reduce carbon footprint and have identified strong reduction potentials. Our ambition is to build a B2B SaaS product house for structural engineering within several industries such as telecom, wind, solar and power. Our founding team possesses world-leading expertise within the telecommunication industry, therefore we are starting off by targeting this field. We believe that we have identified a niche with a truly global potential. We have launched the first version of our software that we have sold and delivered to customers represented by Europe’s largest telecommunication provider (Vantage Towers) as well as completed an integration with one of the largest asset management platforms (Atrebo). We have attracted international VC investors, established a strong advisory board, and are now looking for team members! Check out: shapemaker.io

Circular Innovation Lab is a research and policy think tank, based in Denmark and India, accelerating the transition to a circular economy, through its for-profit arm, Circular Innovation Lab ApS, and non-profit arm, CIL Foundation MTU. We collaborate with national governments, UN agencies, and international organisations to create circular economy solutions that drive the transition to a circular economy forward. ​We work closely with these stakeholders to help them gain a deeper understanding of the potential of a circular economy transition. Together, we develop solutions that assist them in adopting circular principles and actions. We support them in the entire process from the ideation, research, and analysis phase up to implementation and monitoring.

PowerCon Embedded A/S is a consulting company specializing in converter control, power electronics and embedded development. Throughout the years, we have worked with large wind turbine OEM's, as well as several product manufacturers in Denmark. We are a company that also looks into the future and are currently investigating projects and solutions within Cloud and Internet of Things development. Join our journey and learn from our team of seasoned experts along the way. We are always open for unsolicited applications.

Maintenance in the property management world is still pretty analogue. Soundsensing aims to change that. At Soundsensing, we are building a platform for providing intelligence and insights to customers in the property management market, through sensors and machine learning. We gather data from any source: our own sensors developed in-house, existing sensors, and other data streams, before we turn the data into actionable insights through condition monitoring and predictive maintenance. We are developing technologies using machine learning, IoT and cloud computing. These are not buzzwords to us, and we need people capable of- and interested in building good solutions for these technologies. We are dedicated to solving hard problems - and we are growing rapidly.

At Damn Good Coffee Company, we’re on a mission to change the coffee industry. The waste from coffee consumption is a major contributor to the trillion ton CO2 problem from the food and beverage category. We are creating a sustainable system that makes it easy to turn coffee net zero at scale. We have successfully turned many thousand coffee users climate-neutral, but we are only getting started, obsessed with the impact we can make for the many.

Voima Ventures helps founders to accelerate the growth of deep technology ventures to global markets. We shed light on the ideas and technology which require time and courage to build.The way we work is simple: we combine science-driven innovation together with the Nordic serial entrepreneurial experience and a global mindset. Voima Ventures helps founders to accelerate the growth of deep technology ventures to global markets. Voima Ventures is the 50M€ truly deep tech fund launched in spring 2019. We are aiming to make appx 25-30 new investments from the fund. We invest across all stages starting from a spin-off and seed, up to series A and growth. We primarily invest in Finland, Nordics, and Baltics.

We make being a dentist easier - we are the digital partner for dentists. Dentli was founded on the idea of enhancing the lives of the practitioners and patients in the field of dentistry. Our team consists of 25+ experienced members, who work together with dentists, patients, software developers and practice management systems providers to create the best framework for dentists, so that the dentist can do what they do best – caring for their patients.

Copenhagen Fintech is an association built on the vision to be one of the leading Fintech Hubs in the global financial services industry by supporting and catalyzing the next era of technology-led corporate and startup innovators. We combine the visionary ideas of fintech entrepreneurs, the experience of the established financial sector, the desire for societal benefits of the public sector and the research from the universities with the overarching purpose of building a thriving fintech ecosystem for the benefit of all stakeholders.

Unruly gets videos seen, shared and loved across the open web for brands that want to move people, not just reach people.By bringing emotional intelligence to digital advertising, we help 91% of Ad Age 100 brands inform and inspire 1.44bn people around the world, using polite outstream formats on sites that people love. UnrulyX, the viewable video SSP, creates better ad experiences for consumers, improved brand outcomes for advertisers and increased revenues for top-flight publishers.Emotion matters in marketing. Emotion creates values and sets preferences. Inspires action. Drives sales. Unruly has a decade's data of consumer responses to video and uses that to hone content, model audiences and deploy ad dollars in ways that heighten emotional response and maximise brand impact.

Tikkio er en løsning for enkel, billig og trygg håndtering av små og store arrangement, inkludert kjøp og salg av billetter, mat, drikke og andre varer, samt organisering av ansatte og frivillige. Det er gratis å ta i bruk Tikkio både for arrangører og kunder. Arrangører betaler kun en avtalt provisjon (vanligvis 4%) på oppnådd omsetning.Tikkio.com eller mobilapp brukes av både arrangør og kunde. Det er ingen faste kostnader ved å bruke systemet og ingen oppstartskostnader. Systemet passer for alle som vil arrangere noe - store og små - og som arbeider med frivillighet - festivaler, idrettslag, musikkorps og turistforeninger.

Arctic Coliving is a coworking lodge and adventure club with first location in the mountains of Voss, Norway! 🇳🇴 Set above the majestic fjords of western Norway, Arctic Coliving Voss blends mountain lodge living with a practical, community-first basecamp for adventure sports. The original lodge was built in 1939 by students from 20 nations and offers both private and shared rooms, a sauna, shared kitchen, heated pool, and cafe with a real pizza oven, as well as on-site coffee roasting and gear storage. A new coworking space is in the works for when we open the doors this spring. We have our own train stop between Bergen and Oslo, making it ideal for digital nomads, remote teams, and adventure-seekers to conveniently work and play in the epic mountains of Norway. Our Lofoten lodge is opening September, 2026 in Henningsvær! 🏔️

Kleen Hub is a Copenhagen-based circular tech company building Tap & Reuse™ — a frictionless reuse system that makes reusable packaging work at scale. Our platform combines simple hardware with a lightweight software layer to enable fast, reliable reuse without the usual barriers: no app, no user registration, and no deposit handling required. We help venues and operators (cafés, campuses, stadiums, airports, corporate sites and more) replace single-use packaging with reusable cups and containers through an operationally simple setup. Tap & Reuse™ supports multiple return flows (smart return stations, return bins, handheld scanning and washing-site verification), delivers high return rates in closed and semi-closed environments, and provides clear reporting for operations and ESG. Kleen Hub works with leading partners and distributors across Europe and has deployed systems in high-volume environments, proving that reuse can be convenient for users and manageable for staff. Our mission is to remove friction from reuse and accelerate the transition away from single-use packaging — by making reuse as easy as tapping a card.

Wawa is a high-growth health-tech SaaS startup transforming how fertility clinics operate and care for patients. Our platform is used by leading clinics across the world to streamline clinical workflows, improve team efficiency, and deliver a better patient experience. qqWe are backed by top-tier venture investors and are scaling quickly.