In our co-lab we bring together people with diverse backgrounds to catalyze innovation through collaboration. Currently our Copenhagen co-lab hosts corporate innovation teams, entrepreneurs and venture investors using the unique setting to incubate and launch their next business.
Catalyzing innovation
We have gathered a unique group of entrepreneurs, investors and corporate teams to catalyze their innovations and build their ventures through collaboration.
The co-lab offers a free space for our corporate clients and by-invitation-only entrepreneurs and selected investors. Because the value of a thriving ecosystem is higher than the price of a desk.
Launching new busineeses
The co-lab is a sand-box for exploring and understanding how new technologies affect the world around us – and to collaborate while getting things done.
The collaborative work space is curated to the highest professional standards making it a perfect launch-pad for big bets and tomorrow’s winning businesses.
A collaborative workspace
Have a closer look at the melting pot of corporate innovation teams, founders and growth-stage investors situated at our Copenhagen location and makes the Co-lab a learning ground beyond the ordinary.
YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT
SimpleFeast works out of the co-lab to build and scale their food-tech company focused on the latest R&D within organic, plant based nutrition that sets out to improve the way we experience and conveniently consume fresh, delicious and healthy food. SimpleFeast current employs 12 people and was launch commercially in March 2017.
SimpleFeast is founded by a team headed by Jakob Jønck former co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Endomondo and Head of International Operations, MyFitnessPal, both exited to UnderArmour in 2015.
ENERGY TECH VENTURES
Magnesium Capital is a euro-centric private equity firm based in London focused on mid-market buy-outs and growth equity investments in technology and tech-enabled services for the energy sector.
Alfonso Vasquez drives the Nordic arena as a principal responsible for origination, structuring and execution of investments within the Power and Renewables team, focusing on Smart Grid, Energy Efficiency, Renewables and Power, Oilfield Technologies and Water and Waste.
FOR FOUNDERS BY FOUNDERS
The Nordics is the biggest unicorn factory per GDP in the world and the startup communities across the Nordic countries are some of the fastest growing worldwide. As more and more promising startups are incubated in the Nordics, the need not only for financing, but especially operational guidance and prior startup experience to address a global market is rapidly increasing.
First time fund; but years of experience Introducing byFounders; founded by Eric Lagier & Tommy Andersen ,two successful tech entrepreneurs with a decade of experience starting and building internationally renowned companies.
CULTURAL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Volcano is a cultural business development company. Volcano works with funds and donors to find new ways of supporting cultural and social projects and ensure solid exit strategies for the projects after the funding period.
Volcano is currently building a creative powerhouse in Los Angeles, where Nordic and US artists and creative business people connect, work and inspire each other. Co/Nord will provide the only creative soft-landing workspace in LA for citizens of Nordic countries, and will be a leading launchpad for Nordic art, music, fashion, food, design and businesses.
REPORTING THE UPSTARTS AND TECHIES
Trends Online has become TechSavvy. The preferred Nordic media for keeping track of what’s cooking in the startup scene, the corporate innovation community and not least the VC and angel environment.
TechSavvy’s corps of journalists are residents in our co-lab adding creating a direct line of sight to the startup action around us and helping other members of our growing community of new businesses reach the broader audience.
GETTING A HEADSTART IN ANY CITY
The Startup Guide is The Entrepreneur’s Handbook and essential reading for anyone interested in starting up a business, whether they’re new to a city, new to the startup scene, or seasoned business people starting all over again.
Today startup guides are available for great startup cities across Europe with more and more guides and tools being launched as the founders community becomes a evermore integrated part of the established business systems of larger cities.
