Startups in Danish Tech Challenge
Groundbreaking innovation in hardware.
Get to know the companies
Learn more about all the participating startups in the Danish Tech Challenge. Their solutions and technologies represent a broad portfolio of products within hardware.
2025
Anorit Medical
Anorit Medical is on a mission to increase survival from Cardiac Arrest, by empowering bystanders to deliver air effectively. The solution is a hygienic, easy-to-use and automatic ventilation device, to replace the complex and intimate task of mouth-to-mouth rescue breaths. High quality ventilation has been shown to triple the chances of survival.
Biio
Biio is developing the lowest-power edge-AI chips. Starting with health devices, the company’s chip enables on-device AI and supports health applications (e.g., cardiac, gait, neurology) without relying on the cloud, thereby removing a major bottleneck.
BÆTA Carbon Solutions
BÆTA Carbon Solutions transforms dispersed plastic waste into an opportunity for decentralized CO₂ capture. They upcycle PET into robust sorbents that capture CO₂ from flue gas and air. Produced under mild, scalable conditions, these sorbents are thermally stable, low-cost, reusable, and even recyclable back into plastic—offering a versatile and circular approach to carbon capture.
Celloop
Celloop is a biotech start-up developing next-generation organ-on-chip systems to replicate human organs with high physiological relevance. Their platform helps the pharmaceutical industry discover effective drugs faster, safer, and at a lower cost, while reducing reliance on animal testing. Guided by its mission, “Placing human organs within your reach,” Celloop is transforming the future of drug development.
CETO Innovation
CETO Innovation develops predictive maintenance solutions for district heating. Using in-pipe probe technology and advanced data analytics, they deliver precise condition assessments and leak detection without excavation. Their solution helps utilities reduce failures, extend pipeline life, cut maintenance costs, and minimize environmental impact.
Copenhagen Medical Cryo
Copenhagen Medical Cryo is developing an N₂O-based cryoneurolysis platform for pain and spasticity treatment. Their probe reaches –80°C within seconds, enabling precise, affordable, and ambulant procedures. With strong clinical partnerships at Hvidovre Hospital and Copenhagen Cryo Center, and a multidisciplinary team, Copenhagen Medical Cryo is accelerating toward CE marking to improve patients’ lives without opioids.
Ecoblaq
ecoblaq™ is developing a highly scalable, plastic- and toxin-free colouring technology for wood products, using a process that alters the natural wood colour at the molecular level. They are creating an automated industrial solution to scale up the proven ecoblaq™ method, aiming to offer a bio-based alternative that replaces fossil-derived raw materials and toxic additives used in paint.
ERLEtek
ERLEtek is a technology provider delivering automation equipment to the construction industry. The company’s first product, a mobile 3D concrete printer equipped with multi-material printing technology, constructs walls using only 40% of the typical workforce and reduces costs by 30%. Starting with landscape elements such as park walls, benches, and kerbs, ERLEtek is advancing the technology in collaboration with its construction partners.
GLYON
GLYON transforms textile waste into valuable recycled raw materials for fiber production through its patented recycling process. The company helps brands address the regulatory and environmental challenges posed by more than 100 million tons of textile waste generated each year, while reducing the overall environmental impact of clothing production.
Godwit Systems
Godwit Systems develops heavy-lift, long-range VTOL drones that create autonomous airbridges. Their drones pick up and deliver standardized crates between zones, operate for over 100 hours with a hybrid powertrain and automated refueling, and navigate without GPS. From Ukraine to offshore logistics, they are making supply lines safer, cheaper, and fully autonomous.
MultiBiopsy
MultiBiopsy develops advanced biopsy technology for safer, more cost-efficient, and accurate cancer diagnostics. Current tools require multiple insertions to obtain enough tissue. Their solution is the first Single-Insertion Multi-Biopsy device for soft tissue—enabling three samples in one step, reducing risk and improving diagnostic precision.
NAMODAN
ChatGPT sagde: NAMODAN ApS is a Danish deep-tech company developing AI-LMH, an airborne ground-penetrating radar system for drones. Their solution detects metal and non-metal objects and buried threats up to 2 meters below ground from a 3-meter altitude, enabling faster, safer, and terrain-independent demining. AI-LMH integrates advanced radio hardware, neural networks, and real-time 3D mapping for humanitarian and defense applications.
NDURE
NDURE is creating the world’s first continuous lactate tracker. They are changing the way athletes train by replacing pulse as the golden standard of endurance with lactate. Lactate is a clear indicator of endurance and, unlike pulse, is not affected by stress, temperature, or other external factors. Their sensor is an enzyme-based electrochemical device that, like the CGMs used by diabetics, is inserted just a few millimeters under the skin, providing minimally invasive and pain-free data.
PureMilk
Human milk is liquid gold. However, early separation due to work, breastfeeding challenges, and reliance on pumping can lead to contamination from impractical cleaning environments and prolonged storage in non-optimal conditions. PureMilk offers the world’s first home test for milk contamination, ensuring food safety for the most vulnerable. Their solution combines a paper-based test with an app that delivers results in minutes, usable anywhere by anyone.
Solstice
Solstice is revolutionizing energy storage with the missing link for 100% renewable grids. By combining concentrated solar mirrors and sand storage with their breakthrough transfer innovation, Solstice cuts electricity storage costs by up to 89%. Their system delivers power and heat on demand, making renewable energy truly scalable and affordable worldwide.
Alumni companies
2024
2023
2022
2021
B-test
Innotrach
Kaldi AI
Tergy Sagava
Yngvik
Acembee
Ausculto
Voxel
Colofact
Flowpoint
EmpTech
Hyspec Medtech
Insight Chips
Odrone
OasiCare
Droplet IV
SpiroMann
TG Dampers
Tinyfarms
T-Trikes
Unwired Things
Uvisa Health
Yuman
Aerial Tools
AQFeed
Blue Atlas Robotics
BRØG
CEUS
EXO365
Gripwiq
HEMBOO
Hydrosafe
Kubell Audio
NAUST Robotics
People’s Robots
Sensae
Simplewire
Sincere Aquaculture
StaySeat
StepUp Horse
VenomAID Diagnostics
Viking Drone
WOHN
Danish Tech Challenge is supported by Jyske Bank
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