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Kim Balle and the business of belonging
A Startup Weekend gave Kim Balle a community. He helped turn that feeling into Global Startup Awards, then kept looking for ways to make the introductions last.
Global Startup Awards makes local talent travel
A Danish awards programme turned regional nominations into a network spanning 156 countries. Its next bet: put startups directly in front of the investors who might back them.
Michael Blicher Sørensen and the Business of Giving AI Permission
From Danish defence to Meta to Velatir, Michael Blicher Sørensen has built a career around oversight. His next challenge is helping companies use AI while keeping people responsible for what happens.
Soeren Christensen and the business of making uncertainty behave
A partnership formed at Nomura became Finsoft, then Fincore. Across banking data and betting systems, Soeren Christensen built a career around a deceptively difficult task: getting complicated things to agree.
Peter Torstensen’s theory of the head start
Peter Torstensen has spent years helping founders borrow experience before they have earned their own. From Accelerace to a new AI initiative at BII, his recurring question is how to give a good idea somewhere to grow.
Simon Schou and the curious power of being on the map
A startup map became an invitation. For Copenhagen Fintech co-founder Simon Schou, it was one small example of a larger ambition: help people with new financial ideas find the people who can make them work.
Henrik Bennetsen and the distance between an idea and a business
From a Danish music career to virtual worlds, drywall robots and butter made without farming, Henrik Bennetsen keeps returning to the same problem: getting an invention into everyday life. The Savor co-founder now works on the business of physical AI at Formant.
Scan Global Logistics makes a business of Plan B
A Danish freight forwarder sells the art of finding another way. Its customer stories explain the appeal; its accounts reveal the price of becoming global.
DSV’s €14.3 billion bet on joining the dots
The Danish freight forwarder grew by buying other people’s networks. Its Schenker takeover tests whether fifty years of acquisition practice can turn a much bigger business into a better one.
The Danish Fund That Put a Price on a Second Chance
Den Sociale Kapitalfond does something unusually literal with impact investing: it buys companies, finances welfare programs and makes its own upside depend on measurable social results. The spreadsheets are the point - and also the complication.
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.
The Danish Earpiece Quietly Wired Into America's Security Details
A Copenhagen audio startup bet that cops and bodyguards deserved better than the earpiece that came in the box. Seven years and five patents later, its 360 sits in the ears of security details who can't afford to miss a word.
The Danish Company Betting That Microbes Can Do What Chemistry Can't
Novozymes and Chr. Hansen spent a century turning bacteria and enzymes into industrial ingredients. In 2024 they became one company - and quietly one of the biggest biotech businesses you have never heard of.
Dixa
The agentic CS platform behind exceptional ecommerce brands.
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.
Lars Birkholm Petersen
Lars Birkholm Petersen is the CEO and co-founder of Uniform, the composable Digital Experience Platform (DXP) he built to solve the age-old tension between marketers and developers. Born in Denmark, Lars spent two decades in the digital experience trenches - running a digital agency for 8 years (later acquired by Visma), then nearly a decade at Sitecore where he created the Sitecore Business Optimization Strategies (SBOS) team - before co-founding Uniform in 2019. The company raised a $28M Series A led by Insight Partners in December 2021, was named a Gartner Visionary in 2025, and counts Procter & Gamble, Triumph Motorcycles, and Cirque du Soleil among its clients. Lars is also co-author of the Wiley business book 'Connect: How to Use Data and Experience Marketing to Create Lifetime Customers' (2014).
Mathias Biilmann Christensen
Mathias (Matt) Biilmann Christensen is a Danish-born entrepreneur who went from music journalist to Silicon Valley CEO. He co-founded Netlify in 2014, coined the term 'Jamstack' that reshaped modern web development, and most recently introduced 'Agent Experience (AX)' — the idea that software must be designed not just for humans but for the AI agents that increasingly act on their behalf. Netlify now serves 35 million+ websites and raised $212M total including a $105M Series D in 2021.
Lars Pedersen
Lars Sneftrup Pedersen is the founder and CEO of Admin By Request, a cloud-based Privileged Access Management (PAM) platform headquartered in Aalborg, Denmark with U.S. operations in San Francisco. He built Admin By Request from the ground up starting in 2017, scaling it 900% over five years to serve enterprise clients including McLaren, the Red Cross, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Disney. A serial entrepreneur and software veteran with roots at Telenor Denmark and FastTrack Software, Lars has become one of Denmark's leading figures in endpoint security, earning the 2024 Regional Owner-Manager of the Year award for Digital Transformation in Northern Jutland. He is also a tech investor in Intellis and an unlikely sponsor of Formula 1 driver Kevin Magnussen.
Søren Abildgaard
Søren Abildgaard is the CEO of KeyShot, the industry-leading 3D visualization and rendering platform used by designers, engineers, and marketers worldwide. A Danish-born engineer-turned-executive, he brings two decades of engineering leadership from Zendesk, Avaya, Contentful, Adobe, Autodesk, and Microsoft to his mission of transforming KeyShot from a photorealistic rendering tool into a full-lifecycle visualization and realization platform. Having served on KeyShot's board since 2023, he stepped into the CEO role on May 1, 2025, backed by GRO Capital, with a sharp focus on AI integration, customer proximity, and strategic clarity.
Lars Dalgaard
Lars Dalgaard is a Danish-born tech entrepreneur who built SuccessFactors from scratch to a $3.4 billion SAP acquisition. Known for his philosophy of empathetic leadership and brutal authenticity, he served as General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz before founding Luv Ventures to invest in early-stage enterprise software and computational biology companies. A polyglot who speaks seven languages and teaches at Stanford Business School, Dalgaard has become Silicon Valley's most vocal advocate for bringing more humanity into the boardroom.
Simon Støvring
Simon Støvring is a Danish indie iOS developer and principal iOS engineer at Framna, best known for creating Scriptable — the app that lets anyone automate their iPhone with JavaScript. By day he architects mobile apps for a Nordic agency; by night he ships beloved tools like Runestone (a Tree-sitter-powered text editor), Data Jar, and Jayson. His work sits at the intersection of power-user utility and delightful craftsmanship, earning him a loyal following among iOS enthusiasts, automation nerds, and developers worldwide.