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Welcome to the Batch #5 Demo Day

The Danish Industry Foundation

The Go Grow Accelerator

The Digital Growth Path

Our Batch #5 companies

Hooves

Jagder

Main & Partners

OfficeHub

PurCity

Ticketbutler

ToGoTryk

Work Balance Institute

YES CPH CO.

Digital Growth Path companies

Blue Workforce

Byland

Krizo

NoviPel

Octavic

Operator Systems

Partners

About Copenhagen School of Entrepreneurship

Apply for the next batchCONTENT

WELCOME TO THE GO GROW ACCELERATOR BATCH #5 DEMO DAY

We are delighted to present to you the startup companies in Batch

#5 selected amongst Danish university student entrepreneurs, Alumni

and young growth-oriented startup companies.

Our 5th Batch includes early-stage startup companies within Health,

sharing economy platforms, SaaS, ICT, Robotics, Greentech, Apps,

service and e-commerce. The batch is characterized by being inter-

disciplinary, multi-cultural and diverse.

The Accelerator has, in five growth trajectories between 2014-

2018, inspired and challenged selected companies with a potential

for international growth, to think innovatively, set ambitious growth

targets, create sustainable networks and think international growth

from the start. The programme has accelerated 93 companies and

graduated 81 of the start-up ventures, in the 5 rounds since the

launch. The programme has created more than 175 jobs for the Danish

economy and achieved more than DKK 55 mio. in revenue during the

programme.

Go Grow Accelerator programme has supported the 5th Batch of

startup companies through the free experience-based educational

programme, which is driven by mentorship, access to financing

sources, to CSE and CBS extended network of entrepreneurs, business

executives, experts and scholars, helping the early stage startup

companies from Denmark grow their companies towards international

scale.

What’s ahead for Go Grow? The Go Grow Accelerator continue to aim

for best practice within venture growth and entrepreneurial education

programming, that accelerates student ventures and plays a vital role

in the training of students capable of contributing with innovation

and entrepreneurship to high level employment, as laid out in the CBS

strategy for 2017-2020, which has Entrepreneurship and innovation

at the center.

We hope you enjoy the lookbook. Our thanks and best wishes,

Dorthea Haldrup Nielsen - Head of Acceleration, CSE

dhn.edu@cbs.dk4

Small and medium-sized enterprises in Denmark are the source of a

significant share of economic growth and key to ensuring innovation

and job creation. A long entrepreneurial tradition and an ambitious

business environment has supported entrepreneurs in putting their

ideas into practice and turning them into growing companies. Denmark

ranks seventh in the ”World Competitiveness Yearbook 2017”, but to

make it to the top we must continue to create conditions that spawn

new companies, generating growth and new jobs.

Therefore, the Danish Industry Foundation in 2017 decided to support

Digital Growth Path, an industry vertical in the existing Go Grow

Startup Accelerator programme, initiated in 2013 by the Foundation

and Copenhagen School of Entrepreneurship. Digital Growth Path has

established a series of educational courses for growth entrepreneurs

specifically addressing the industry-specific needs of Industry

4.0 startups within areas such as robotics, 3D print, IoT, Artificial

Intelligence, and Augmented Reality.

Digital Growth Path thus aims to support and accelerate the growth

potential of Industry 4.0 entrepreneurs through measures such as

providing an industry-oriented, module-based business development

program, bringing industry experts to mentor the startup companies,

and facilitating interaction within the wider Industry 4.0 ecosystem.

The ambition is that the program will help startups reach international

growth with a specific focus on Industry 4.0 and modern production

technologies, with the aim of strengthening Danish competitiveness

and job creation.

The Danish Industry Foundation is pleased to release this lookbook from

the Digital Growth Path program in collaboration with Copenhagen

School of Entrepreneurship and Danish industry partners.

SUPPORTED BY THE DANISH INDUSTRY FOUNDATION

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Go Grow Accelerator is a 16-week programme to support growth

in startup companies.

The equity-free and industry-agnostic accelerator, offers four months

of rigorous guidance, training and resources from mentors, partners

and investors. The supportive alumni network continues into the

startups’ post-Go Grow Accelerator lifespan. During Go Grow, startups

refine their business model, solidify target market and work one-on-

one with experienced entrepreneurs, mentors, angel investors and

business executives. Startup teams will be guided through a venture

growth programme, and matched with selected mentors to assist

teams reach milestones for their startup and share resources in the

industry and areas of need.

The programme offers:

Access to our community: Space to grow in our free office space

for up to 4 team members in our inter-disciplinary and multi-cultural

co-working space at the CSE, networking and social events, and

membership of our community of entrepreneurs and partners.

Expert Mentorship: One-to-one with a group of mentors in a simulated

advisory board within technology, innovation, leadership, coaching,

creativity and investment, as well as workshops within customer

development, sales, go-to-market planning, leadership, investment

readiness, funding and legal, pitching and networking.

Entry-Bootcamp: The chance to practice go-to-market plan and

develop leadership skills, as an entrepreneur or beyond, through

foreign market investigation and immersion, international mentorship,

as well as networking at an Entry-Bootcamp in Berlin.

Funding: The opportunity to pitch to a room of investors on Demo Day.

Alumni: Post-programme Go Grow Alumni follow-on service, coaching

and investor/lead support.

GO GROW ACCELERATOR SUPPORTS GROWTH IN COMPANIES

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ABOUTTHE DIGITAL GROWTH PATH

Digital Growth Path (DGP) is a public-private acceleration path within

the Go Grow programme, supported by The Danish Industry Foundation

and partners. It focuses on Industry 4.0 startup companies involved in

big data, additive manufacturing, artificial vision, cloud computing,

augmented reality, cybersecurity, cyber-physical systems and/or

collaborative robotics.

The purpose of DGP is specifically to support companies working with

Industry 4.0 technologies to progress their businesses and successfully

face the challenges of digital transformation within Industry 4.0.

The target audience is BOTH student entrepreneurs from universities

AND younger, established, growth-oriented companies with an

international scalable business model; and both groups will participate

equally in the program. The intention is, with international growth as

the focal point, to continue to tap into the synergy effect between

the two groups and leverage this, creating new networks, exchange

of experiences and generate new knowledge and perspectives in

the meeting between young and established growth companies and

entrepreneurs from universities.

For the Go Grow winter 2017/2018 Batch, a number of interesting

companies were selected to join, including companies active within

robotics, sensor technologies, IoT and collection and rendering

of equipment- and user generated data, as well as production

optimization and management software and apps. The companies are

at different maturity stages, some in the process of defining the exact

business model, some with an already on-going business.

DGP supported the companies in DGP by bringing in specialist mentors

to assist the companies, covering areas of legal and technical

compliance, technical sales, marketing of industrial solutions,

business modelling, and pitching technical solutions for a non-

technical, commercially-minded audience.

For more information, please contact:

Claus Birkedal - Project Manager Digital Growth Path

cb.edu@cbs.dk7

OUR BATCH #5 COMPANIES

Hooves

Owning a horse can easily cost 9000kr. a month only in maintenance –

that’s double the average apartment rent in Copenhagen. A horse also

needs to be taken care of every single day. These expenditures place

extreme barriers of entry on who is actually able to own a horse.

The vision of Hooves is to push down these barriers by encouraging

and helping riders to share horses. The long-term vision is to disrupt

the market by lowering costs, as well as becoming the leader of dig-

italization within the industry. With a €50 billion market in Europe

alone, Hooves is tapping into a target group loaded with money, and

driven by passion.

Suvi Kaario | suvi@hooves.dk

Alina Engel | alina@hooves.dk

hoovesapp.com hooves.official hooves_app

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JAGDER

Among the Danish hunters, 76% wants to go hunting more than they

do today. However, due to the process of booking hunts being time-

consuming, complicated and intransparent, the hunters find it hard

to do more often. Furthermore, long-term contracts or expensive

agencies are other options for finding hunt.

JAGDER is a marketplace that connects hunters and landowners.

JAGDER provides an end-to-end solution that makes the process

of booking, paying and administrating hunts simple and easily

manageable. JAGDER builds trust between landowners and hunters

via a rating- and reviewing system while letting them save time and

money by simplifying the, nowadays complicated, way of booking and

administrate hunts. JAGDER makes it easy to go hunting.

Mathias Haubjerg | mathias@jagder.com | +45 51803550

Rune Brødbæk Rasmussen | rune@jagder.com | +45 30704582

jagder.com huntwithjagder jagder_official

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Main & Partners

Companies need to constantly innovate and launch new products to

survive. But established companies often have difficulties to reinvent

or introduce radical concepts to shape their own future.

Main & Partners is a startup-minded Future Lab that helps technology

brands push the limits of their imagination and the boundaries of their

products.

The Future Lab combines cross-disciplinary talents from the futurists,

industrial designers, engineers to philosophers.

We thoroughly research current trends, science and dynamics in

society to develop concepts, create photo-realistic pictures and 3D

visualizations. Until today we have among others helped Widex, MIT,

and SpaceX to push the edge of future thinking.

We are looking for our next challenge and help your company develop

the product you have never thought about.

mainandpartners.com mainandpartners mainandpartners

Alexander Main | alexander.main@mainandpartners.com | +45 91842211

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OfficeHub

OfficeHub is Denmark’s leading platform for coworking spaces. Last

year we have helped 1000+ companies find flexible office space in

Copenhagen.

On top of our platform we have a real estate agent service to help

our customers choose the right space, however our viewings are

completely digitized through 3D and VR. Currently coworking spaces

represent 0,7% of commercial real estate in the world. But according

to the newest studies coworking spaces will represent 30% of

commercial real estate portfolios in 2025. We have currently secured

funding for our expansion in Denmark, but will look for funding in the

future to grow the company internationally.

Jannis Littmann | jannis@officehub.dk | +45 53891408

Marc Falk | marc@officehub.dk | +45 61755905

Alex Dagil | alex@officehub.dk | +45 31222788

officehub.dk officehubDK

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PurCity

PurCity is a Danish based company founded on March 2016, aiming

to improve the human’s life quality by purifying AIR & WATER. Offering

smart, innovative, affordable and high quality solutions to help change

the world to a better place.

During the past years, PurCity has developed the outdoor air

purification product (GapS panels) several times and they have made

lab test analyses in collaboration with Denmark’s Technical University

(DTU). Results came out amazing, 3 to 4 times more efficient than any

product available in the market.

Following the great results, PurCity has developed several related

products such as SAPU (Smart Air Purification Unit), AP Indoor Air

Purifiers series etc.

Morteza Ghorbani Eftekhar | info@purcity.com | +45 42444226

PurCity.com Purcity.4all purcity1

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Dit billetsys tem, i dit brand

ticketbutler.io

ticketbutler

Ticketbutler is an online ticketing platform tailor-made to fit your

brand. We take care of the customer support, money matters and

platform maintenance, meanwhile you run the show as an organizer

by setting the ticket prices, decide how the tickets look and you get

all the data collected during the process. With the data, you reach

more of your customers with newsletters and special offers and get a

better understanding of the demand for your events. Use the service

fully hosted or simply integrated with your platform. The choices are

yours.

ticketbutler.io

Reach out if you are our next investor, intern, partner, office dog or

something completely else. We are always open for a chat!

Mads Kjer | mads@ticketbutler.io | +45 89801280

Ticketbutler

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ToGoTryk

We are a Danish company specializing in to go packaging with

individual print. We source from the best manufacturers all over

Europe to provide our customers with the best products at the best

prices. By sourcing only from Europe we can provide incredible short

lead times and low minimum order quantities.

We are present in Denmark under the brand ToGoTryk. We are at the

breach of launching our new brand Limepack in the rest of Europe. Our

purpose is to connect the best manufacturers of to go packaging with

print to the end customers in all of Europe.

Steffen Krogsgaard Andersen | steffen@togotryk.dk | +45 30692189

Mads Toft Enevoldsen | mads@togotryk.dk | +45 60163040

togotryk.dk ToGoTryk togotryk

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Work Balance Institute

Work Balance Institute is a Danish start-up who has developed the

B2B-platform Woba to solve the biggest health issue of modern

businesses – work related sick leaves! The founders of our company

has a background in work psychology and they concluded in their

thesis that: the reason behind the increasing level of sick leaves

in todays business is, that the majority of the existing solutions in

the market are “reactive” – in other words they use old data so the

management only have the opportunity to react after the sick leave

has occurred.

workbalanceinstitute.com

The results are a high staff turnover, lack of productivity and reduction

in profits (the costs due sick leaves in Europe was 31 billion dollars).

After their thesis they where then clear about one thing – change is

needed – and therefore they build the proative platform Woba.

Malene Madsen | mm@workbalanceinstitute.com | +45 30492821

Mikkel Bindesbøl | mb@workbalanceinstitute.com | +45 26837834

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YES CPH CO.

Facility service jobs are done by awesome refugees.

YES is an impact startup founded on the understanding that, just

because refugees left their home, family, friends, job, country etc. it

does not mean they also left their hopes, talents, creativity, dignity or

their dedication to having a meaningful life behind. YES’ mission is to

enable a higher quality of life and self-sufficiency for refugees.

YES provides an affordable and high-quality facility service, such as

cleaning, catering, dish-washing for businesses, by employing well

trained, motivated and friendly refugees. By doing this, YES gives

businesses the opportunity to incorporate social responsibility into

their daily operations without any extra cost.

If you give a damn about this make sure to get in touch with:

Riad Arefin | riad@yescph.dk | +45 53655850

Martin Gry Pedersen | martin@yescph.dk | +45 22899932

yescph.co yescphco yescphco

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Blue Workforce

Blue Workforce (BWF) is a family-business founded in 2012 with

a vision of moving food production towards more sustainable

manufacturing by automation. A packaging solution from BWF includes

a RAGNAR Robot using our own affordable and flexible robotics-

platform, huginEYE vison camera, open-source MIMER control board,

and biometric designed grippers. BWF acquired Coppelia Robotics

GmbH (2016) producing robotics simulation software V-REP. We now

offer Blue Reality, a digital twin for the whole packaging system.

Automation is eased significantly with 3D visual aids, real-time input

and parametric settings (no coding!). BWF is active in Asia Pacific

with Chinese partners and investors (2017) and in North American by

end of 2018. BWF cooperates with academic institutions to create

e-learning robotics courses and an international community platform

enabling production line staff to switch from dull, dirty and dangerous

jobs to robot operators or designers.

Anders Hjørnet | ah@blueworkforce.com | +45 60733197

Carl Erik Skjølstrup | ces@blueworkforce.com | +45 40838569

blueworkforce.com

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Aqumi is an IoT-connected smart maintenance system for urban

nature combining sensor technology with rainwater management. By

replacing fixed scheduled watering trips with data driven insights we

are saving water, labour cost and reducing car emissions.

The company was founded by two landscape architects, who were

in search for a solution to harvest and monitor rainwater in their

green spaces. Realising no such product existed, they teamed up with

Frederiksberg Municipality to prototype a solution, and quickly saw

bylandstudio.dk

the potential for further commercialization. Through sensor monitoring

and an intuitive cloud-based dashboard, Aqumi is drastically reducing

the need for maintenance and enables us to build greener, lusher and

more livable cities, for a growing urban population worldwide.

Lars Hartmann | lars@byland.nu | +45 26240950

Karsten Been | karsten@byland.nu | +45 40274805

BylandBy Byland

Krizo

Crises are here to stay and Krizo structures your response when you

face the unwanted.

Emil, our CEO, got the idea and saw the market opportunity when

he was approached by a couple security specialists in 2016, who

asked him to make the software. It took him more than 6 months to

find Mikkel, who gave up his solid salary as a back-end programmer

with more than 20 years of experience. In early 2017, Peter, ex-

head of communications and investor relations of different blue-

chip companies, joined the team. During 2017, it was all about

programming. In the autumn, we were so fortunate to join Go Grow

and learn from other start-ups. Today, it’s all about organising pilot-

projects with different organisations. Thanks to input from our first

signed-on reseller, we now focus on building the ultimate crisis

management tool for harbours.

Emil Pfeiffer Stenbøg | emil@krizo.dk | +45 25787670

Peter Kruse | peter@krizo.dk | +45 41104897

krizo.dk

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NoviPel

NoviPels first product VisU, provides a sensor for examining and

storing reliable data during pelvic floor exams. Today data collection

is done primarily via digital palpation (fingers), which is inexpensive,

but is hard to replicate as objective data. Objective data is key to

understanding the pathological traits of incontinence, a condition

which is a massive taboo and cost for consumers and governments.

novipel.com

Alexander Hennings | ah@novipel.com | +45 26859992

By NoviPel

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Octavic

When compared to similar systems currently available on the market,

you immediately notice that Octavic system offers a holistic approach

to the entire manufacturing process, whereas other systems address

these issues only partially. For Life Sciences industries we offer

assistance in digitalising the paper-based system that is required in

order to be GMP compliant. The system in 4 simple steps:

1. Building the bespoke hardware & software. We start by customising

the hardware & software settings according to your specific needs.

Together with you, we choose the relevant data to track, as well as

other features that can make your production process faster and

safer.

2. Super simple, Lego-like data annotations. The device used for data

annotations has a user interface similar to the Lego bricks. Wondering

why? Its simplicity allows us to quickly and accurately develop a new

flow of processes for a specific industry.

3. Fast installation time. 4. Cost efficient.

Felix Blaga | felix.blaga@octavic.dk | +45 31311934

octavic.dk

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Operator Systems

At Operator Systems we have a mission – we deliver visibility and

continuous improvements to manufacturing companies aiming to

improve effectiveness and competitiveness.

We offer a full suite of products and services to help you meet your

mission. If you are looking for Industry 4.0 including IoT and Big Data

– Operator is your choice! All data in Operator come from external

systems. We offer integration to all major ERP systems and OPC/PLC

tags from machines, sensors, scales, barcode readers, IoT and other

data collection devices.

Operator Systems has a well experienced staff and established

customer base of nearly 100 installations in Scandinavia and rest

of Europe with +10,000 daily users. Our competitive and effective

solutions meet local to global requirements. Customer examples are:

Ardo, Arovit Petfood, Amcor, Vald. Birn, OSTP, Anglo Beef Processors

Ltd, Continental, Exhausto, Lantmännen Schulstad and IKEA Industry.

operatorsystems.com

Henrik Jacobsen | henrik.jacobsen@operatorsystems.com | +45 31233065

Tommy V. Larsen | tommy.v.larsen@operatorsystems.com | +45 31680444

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PARTNERS

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Karina Rothoff Brix- Head of CSE

Copenhagen School of Entrepreneurship (CSE) is the unit at

CBS, focusing on practical entrepreneurship. CSE has had

more than 700 student driven companies since 2007, in

different programs from basic startup, to scale and growth

programs.

CSE is also the student incubator at Copenhagen Business School,

where more than 130 cross-disciplinary startups, with students

from more than 90 different countries, are turning their ideas

into businesses each year. CSE is the largest student incubator,

and student startup environment in Denmark, housing ambitious

early-stage startups within 13 diverse industries. Students from all

Danish universities, are in close collaboration with the corporate

world, growing their companies from CSE.

Our most important role is to support aspiring student

entrepreneurs in Denmark in gaining practical business

knowledge, which improves their employability, and prepares

them for a society undergoing rapid change and development.

The students learn to merge academic and practical

competencies within the field of entrepreneurship, positioning

themselves as innovative leaders of the future.

Office Space 24/7/365

Mentoring

Business Development Sessions

Legal & Accounting Advice

Workshops & Events

Accelerator Programmes

Learn more and apply at cse.cbs.dk

For more information, please contact us at info.cse@cbs.dk

TURN YOUR IDEAINTO A BUSINESS

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www.go-grow.dk

Deadline April 9th, 2018

Kick-off May 8-9th, 2018

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