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Copenhagen Fintech puts a bank within talking distance
A Danish nonprofit has built a business around getting founders, financiers and researchers into the same conversation. Ten years in, the interesting part is what happens after the introduction.
Startup Guide puts a city’s startup scene between two covers
Sissel Hansen turned the frustration of starting over in Berlin into a publishing business. Now Startup Guide sells books, maps local networks and helps cities make their case to entrepreneurs.
Bertram Thorslund Built Lenus by Learning When to Scale
The Lenus founder turned a Copenhagen startup into a transatlantic software company by pairing patient groundwork with unusually fast expansion. His harder assignment has been making the operating culture travel with it.
Templafy
The Danish software firm spent a decade fixing the world's messy corporate documents. Now it wants to keep the AI writing them honest.
Dixa
The agentic CS platform behind exceptional ecommerce brands.
Corti
Corti is a Copenhagen-based healthcare AI company that builds clinical-grade models and APIs helping developers and health systems automate medical conversations. Its Symphony model powers speech-to-text, medical coding, clinical note generation, and agentic workflows, serving roughly 100 million patient interactions a year across providers, insurers, EHR vendors, and public-safety dispatch centers - including the NHS. Corti positions itself as privacy-compliant, healthcare-specialized infrastructure that outperforms general-purpose models on medical tasks.
Leise Sandeman
Leise Sandeman is the CEO and co-founder of Pathways, a climate-tech startup building the data layer for sustainable manufacturing. Pathways uses AI to automate the creation of Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) and Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) for building-material makers - concrete, steel, cement, glass - turning a months-long consultant slog into a process that takes weeks. A Copenhagen native and former McKinsey sustainability consultant who scaled a recycling venture before studying at Harvard and MIT, Leise co-founded Pathways in 2022 with Alex Cooper after meeting in an MIT entrepreneurship class. The company raised an oversubscribed $2.5M seed round in February 2024 and now serves manufacturers across hundreds of plants.
Siteimprove
Siteimprove is a Danish-founded SaaS company that helps organizations build accessible, high-performing, and compliant digital experiences. Its platform unifies digital accessibility, web analytics, SEO/AEO, content quality, and governance into a single suite, increasingly powered by the Siteimprove.ai agentic content intelligence engine. Used by thousands of enterprises, governments, universities, and healthcare and financial institutions worldwide, Siteimprove turns sprawling, hard-to-audit websites into measurable, standards-compliant assets.