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I<\/span>n the deep depths of the corona spring of 2020, you would not have bet on the survival of any business idea or venture from student entrepreneurs. But as the world\u2019s economy ground to a halt, some start-ups made their way through, and some took off.<\/p>\n

With customers avoiding physical contact and spending, and businesses trimmed back to bare essentials, the successful student start-ups that the University Post surveyed have been plain lucky. But they have also turned the fact that they are newcomers in the world of business to their advantage.<\/p>\n

Your crisis, our product<\/h3>\n

Take Pleaz for example, a platform that promotes active breaks for staff<\/a> that was founded by Matias Welsien Thomasen, Micki Kold Nagel and Pernille Snitkj\u00e6r who as students represent sports science, business administration and psychology at the Copenhagen Business School and the University of Copenhagen respectively.<\/p>\n

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Pleaz<\/p>\n

What does it do?<\/strong> Platform for staff \u2018active breaks\u2019<\/p>\n

Founded:<\/strong> Product January 2020. Company 2020<\/p>\n

Founders:<\/strong> Mathias, sports science student at UCPH, Micki Kold Nagel, business administration and psychology student at CBS, and Pernille Snitkj\u00e6r sports science student at UCPH.<\/p>\n

Biggest challenge:<\/strong> To keep up with demand. Scaling the business.<\/p>\n

University-affiliated hub or network:<\/strong> SUNDhub<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

With the onset of corona we had a lot of deals fall though. Everyone was on in panic mode. We had a deal for half a million kroner that fell to the floor.<\/p>\n

Carl-Emil Gr\u00f8n Christensen, Reshape Biotech<\/p>\n

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They had a finished product in January 2020, just before the corona crisis hit Europe.<\/p>\n

Now, according to Matias Thomasen, their biggest challenge is \u00bbto follow the demand from the corona crisis. When corona hit, we found that the problem we were trying to solve just got a whole lot bigger,\u00ab adding that \u00bbour biggest challenge was not having a business model that could quickly grow at scale.\u00ab<\/p>\n

Pleaz has now signed the global food giant Nestl\u00e9 for Nordic locations. This was the moment Matias Welsien Thomasen realised Pleaz was a success:<\/p>\n

\u00bbThat final confirmation was a proof of concept, and we knew we had one happy customer but also the chance to sign a lot of happy customers,\u00ab he says.<\/p>\n

For many, the start-up businesses\u2019 products and services had been set to be signed and sealed. Now they were suddenly cancelled with corona.
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Reshape Biotech<\/p>\n

What does it do?<\/strong> Automates the laboratory work associated with solid media analysis\u00a0in biotech<\/p>\n

Founded:<\/strong> 2018<\/p>\n

Founders:<\/strong> Carl-Emil Gr\u00f8n Christensen, Daniel Storgaard, Magnus Madsen<\/p>\n

How many people:<\/strong> 5 full time, 3 part time<\/p>\n

Biggest challenge so far:<\/strong> The onset of corona<\/p>\n

That moment you realised Reshape Biotech was a success:<\/strong> \u00bbWhen we realised that the customers were willing to pay for the solution to their problems\u00ab<\/p>\n

University-affiliated hub or network:<\/strong> DTU Skylab.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Like Reshape Biotech<\/a>. It is a company that automates the work with petri dishes and microtiter plates in laboratories, and was spawned in 2018 out of the entrepreneurial community at the Technical University of Denmark\u2019s (DTU) Skylab.<\/p>\n

Reshape Biotech’s customers are big companies, and the corona crisis had these customers cut back on new research and development spending.<\/p>\n

As Carl-Emil Gr\u00f8n Christensen of Reshape Biotech put it, with \u00bbthe onset of corona we had a lot of deals fall though. Everyone was in panic mode. We had a deal for half a million kroner that fell to the floor,\u00ab he says, but adds that \u00bbluckily we have got past this now.\u00ab<\/p>\n

When you start getting leads that are requesting to purchase your product with no prior dialogue, that\u2019s when you really start feeling that this is going to be a huge success.<\/p>\n

Casper Groot, Turis<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

While the corona crisis brought on a unique set of challenges for aspiring entrepreneurs, other hurdles remained the same. Like getting the first paying customer.<\/p>\n

Catch-22<\/h3>\n

Like Turis, for example, an ecommerce platform<\/a> for business-to-business transactions that was started up by Casper Groot and Dan Christoffersen from the Copenhagen Business School and University of Copenhagen respectively.<\/p>\n

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Turis<\/p>\n

What does it do?<\/strong> Easy business-to-business transactions (eCommerce)<\/p>\n

Founded:<\/strong> 2019<\/p>\n

Founder:<\/strong> Casper Groot (CBS, E-Business) and Dan Christoffersen (Agricultural Economics)<\/p>\n

How many people:<\/strong> 10<\/p>\n

Biggest challenge:<\/strong> \u00bbLaunching any product is tough. One thing is timing and the big question of ‘when is the product ready?’. The answer, for most founders, is ‘it’s almost ready!!\u2019 That ‘almost’ can really go for a long time and you end up launching much later than you actually should.\u00ab Casper Groot<\/p>\n

That moment you realised Turis was a success:<\/strong> Getting the first customer and seeing that the service you created solves a real life pain for the target group<\/p>\n

University-affiliated hub or network:<\/strong> Science Innovation Hub<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u00bbAs we develop and sell software, a huge challenge is getting your first customer. In software, most customers will only buy into a product that has a significant amount of users that they can relate to. It’s really a catch-22 situation for quite some time when you launch your product or service and the only thing you can do is to convince your potential customers that your new product is much better than what’s generally available on the market,\u00ab he says.<\/p>\n

But then, suddenly, for the most fortunate of the entrepreneurs, the spell is broken and the customers are reeled in.<\/p>\n

\u00bbWhen you start getting leads that are requesting to purchase your product with no prior dialogue, that’s when you really start feeling that this is going to be a huge success. We’ve been fortunate enough to experience that quite early,\u00ab says Casper Groot.<\/p>\n

As Turis offers a tool that digitalises work processes, the general outlook for the company is good at a time when companies are being forced to lay off staff, he adds.<\/p>\n

 
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\nBlue Lobster is a sustainable fish marketplace that was set up in 2018 by Christine Hebert and Nima Tisdall from the University of Copenhagen and Copenhagen Business School respectively.<\/p>\n

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Blue Lobster<\/p>\n

What does it do?<\/strong> Matches fishermen with chefs and consumers<\/p>\n

Founded:<\/strong> 2018<\/p>\n

Founder:<\/strong> Christine Hebert and Nima Tisdall<\/p>\n

How many people:<\/strong> 12<\/p>\n

Biggest challenge:<\/strong> \u00bbAs a marketplace connecting low impact fishermen with sustainably minded chefs, our biggest challenge is making sure that we grow supply and demand simultaneously. In order to be accessible to larger buyers like canteens and help the fishermen sell everything they land, we are continuously working towards finding a scaleable way to process some of the fish into fillets,\u00ab Christine Hebert, cofounder of Blue Lobster<\/p>\n

That moment you realised Blue Lobster was a success: <\/strong>When fishermen started checking orders on the app.<\/p>\n

University-affiliated hub or network:<\/strong> CSE (Copenhagen School of Entrepreneurship)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

One of our fishermen got onto the app and started actively checking what orders were coming in from nearby restaurants and claiming and fulfilling those orders on his own \u2013 without any prompting from our side. That was really exciting.<\/p>\n

Christine Hebert, Blue Lobster<\/p>\n

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Their Blue Lobster app<\/a> already has 12 staff and helps get fresh fish directly from individual fishermen to restaurants.<\/p>\n

Christine Hebert from Blue Lobster also points to the first customer as something that she remembers as a point of no return:<\/p>\n

\u00bbThe chefs were relatively easy to get on board to the platform once they saw the quality of the fish that was brought directly from the harbour to their kitchen. The fishermen were much more sceptical, and at the beginning, we communicated with them via text or calling\u00ab.<\/p>\n

\u00bbThe fishermen saw the value of working with us because they could earn much more by selling directly to the end consumer and cutting out the usual middlemen, but they were resistant to using an app,\u00ab she remembers.<\/p>\n

Fish-ruption<\/h3>\n

But something happened that had Christine Hebert and Nima Tisdall knowing that their concept worked:<\/p>\n

\u00bbOne of our fishermen got onto the app and started actively checking what orders were coming in from nearby restaurants and claiming and fulfilling those orders on his own \u2013 without any prompting from our side. That was really exciting,\u00ab she says.<\/p>\n

Blue Lobster is an example of something that many of the new student start-ups have in common. Even, or especially, during times of economic uncertainty. Their business idea has to do with using technology for disintermediation or cutting out the middlemen in a supply chain or between a producer and a consumer.<\/p>\n

If we had had access to experienced ressources in the early stages of our venture, it would have dramatically accelerated our trajectory,<\/p>\n

Oscar Almstrup, LegalHero, on university hubs<\/p>\n

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A bit like LegalHero<\/a>, a company started by two law students from the University of Copenhagen that matches legal counsellors with clients.<\/p>\n

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LegalHero<\/p>\n

What does it do?<\/strong> Matches legal counsellors with clients<\/p>\n

Founded:<\/strong> 2016<\/p>\n

Founders:<\/strong> Kristian Anker (law) and Oscar Almstrup (law)<\/p>\n

Biggest challenges:<\/strong> To build solid technology. Find and hire great software developers. Establish themselves as a credible player.<\/p>\n

University-affiliated hub or network:<\/strong> None<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

As students abroad and at home, Oscar Almstrup and Kristian Anker were exposed to how technology could be used to make the legal industry better for clients and lawyers.<\/p>\n

\u00bbThe first thing we did was to build a chat bot that knew almost everything about consumer regulation. Fast forward to today, LegalHero is a ‘neo law firm’ with over 150 specialized legal professionals and a platform on its way in the UK,\u00ab says Oscar Almstrup.<\/p>\n

The goal of the business has less to do with their own personal success, and more about transforming the whole legal industry. Nothing less, according to Oscar Almstup:<\/p>\n

\u00bbWe don\u2019t see success as a number, metric, or a key point indicator, but rather as to which degree LegalHero has actually made an impact in the legal industry across all of Europe. Our primary goal has always been to create a digital platform that would transform and better the worklife for both lawyers and clients. It has been our goal since the beginning and we are extremely dedicated to fulfill that one ambition\u00ab.<\/p>\n

LegalHero is exceptional among the student start-ups that the University Post surveyed in that it was not hosted by any university-affiliated hub, incubator, network for start-ups.<\/p>\n

Using the hubs<\/h3>\n
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Hubs, incubators, networks<\/p>\n

The university institutions in the city of Copenhagen are affiliated with hubs that offer\u00a0 communities, workshops, and office space for new entrepreneurs to develop.<\/p>\n

University of Copenhagen:<\/strong> Sund Hub, Science hub, and Human and Legal Innovation<\/a><\/p>\n

Copenhagen Business School:<\/strong> the Copenhagen School of Entrepreneurship<\/a> at\u00a0 the Copenhagen Business School.<\/p>\n

DTU:<\/strong> Stardust DTU<\/a>, and Skylab DTU<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u00bbWe have never been associated with any innovation hubs at the universities. However, it is clear to me that if we had had access to experienced ressources in the early stages of our venture, it would have dramatically accelerated our trajectory,\u00ab says Oscar Almstrup.<\/p>\n

The university institutions in the city of Copenhagen are affiliated with a criss-cross of entrepreneurial hubs that offer networks, communities, workshops, and office space for new entrepreneurs to develop.<\/p>\n

To name just a few, Sund Hub, Science hub, and Human and Legal Innovation<\/a> at the University of Copenhagen, and the Copenhagen School of Entrepreneurship<\/a> at\u00a0 the Copenhagen Business School. Other entrepreneurs mention the help they have got from Stardust DTU<\/a>, Danish Tech Challenge<\/a>, Accelerace<\/a>, and Skylab DTU<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Start-up communities and innovation districts include Copenhagen Science City<\/a>, Frederiksberg Science City<\/a> and \u00d8restad Innovation City Copenhagen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Services like what we deliver could speed up vaccination programmes<\/p>\n

Adam Hartmann, Eupry<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

As Casper Groot of Turis puts it.<\/p>\n

\u00bbAfter working in the evening at various campuses at UCPH, we came across the hub and got a space that had the facilities of an actual office and where we could work side by side other startups and get the vibe that most people are looking for in a coworking space. It made the start of the company so much simpler and we had more or less everything we needed to get started on this journey.\u00ab<\/p>\n

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EUPRY<\/p>\n

What does it do?<\/strong> Data logs temperature and humidity<\/p>\n

Founded:<\/strong> 2014<\/p>\n

Founders:<\/strong> Adam Hartmann, Christian Jacobsen, Jakob Konradsen, Noam Ritov, Sigurd Hansen<\/p>\n

How many people:<\/strong> 18<\/p>\n

Biggest challenge:<\/strong> \u00bbTo make proof of business.\u201d Adam Hartmann, Eupry.<\/p>\n

That moment you realised Eupry was a success:<\/strong> When Eupry landed large clients. Product getting verified. Winning over budgets.<\/p>\n

University-affiliated hub or network:<\/strong> DTU Skylab, DTU Stardust, CSE Entrepreneurship, SUNDhub, Danish Tech Challenge, Venture Cup and Accelerace.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Eupry, a company whose product logs temperature and humidity data,<\/a> was started by students back in 2014 and now has 18 staff. But it still hopes to use incubator networks.<\/p>\n

\u00bbAs our products very much relate to a certain set of challenges when the new covid-vaccines are reaching the market, we are not done using incubation as this is going to be a huge opportunity for us,\u00ab says Adam Hartmann, who is one of the founders of Eupry.<\/p>\n

\u00bbServices like what we deliver could speed up vaccination programmes, he adds. Company networks, university hubs, and incubators can help connect with new expertise and get your product out fast,\u00ab he says.<\/p>\n

The power of doing good<\/h3>\n

Having a goal that goes beyond personal success and the company\u2019s survival is something that is key to many of the student start-ups surveyed by the University Post.
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SBT Instruments<\/p>\n

What does it do?<\/strong> Counts bacteria fast<\/p>\n

Founded:<\/strong> 2014. \u00bbThe company name SBT first appeared in 2013 when we participated in, and won, the Venture Cup Startup Competition.\u00ab<\/p>\n

Founders:<\/strong> Gustav Skands, Christian Bertelsen, Frederik Aalund<\/p>\n

How many people:<\/strong> 13<\/p>\n

Biggest challenge:<\/strong> No comparison with other measurement methods<\/p>\n

That moment you realised SBT instruments was a success:<\/strong> Still to come! When their technology is widespread<\/p>\n

University-affiliated hub or network:<\/strong> Stardust DTU, Danish Tech Challenge, Accelerace.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Like SBT Instruments, a company whose core product is a benchtop device that counts bacteria<\/a>, founded by Gustav Skands, Christian Bertelsen and Frederik Aalund from DTU. Faster bacteria measurement is a good thing for the world at large as faster bacteria measurements result in increased safety. Today’s bacteria measurements take days, while SBT can do it in minutes. This is critical in quality control of a lot of different products and procedures.<\/p>\n

\u00bbWe believe that the technology leap we are working on can move society forward, and the day we see widespread implementation of our fast bacteria measurement technology is also the day where the company can be considered a true success,\u00ab says Gustav Skands.<\/p>\n

Being at the forefront of the field can also be a motivation in itself.<\/p>\n

\u00bbOne of our biggest challenges is that we actually have no other measurement method to directly compare us against. All methods that exist today for counting bacteria are in some way approximations of the actual true bacteria count,\u00ab he explains.<\/p>\n

 
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Injurymap<\/p>\n

What does it do?<\/strong> Helps you recover from muscle or joint pain<\/p>\n

Founded:<\/strong> Idea 2015, App 2017.<\/p>\n

Founder:<\/strong> Ulrik Borch, Mathias Bang, Sebastian Schock, Finn Johannsen and Pierre Schydlowsky<\/p>\n

How many people:<\/strong> 10<\/p>\n

Biggest challenge:<\/strong> \u00bbGetting people to do something that they’re not really interested in doing, even though it’s good for them\u201d Ulrik Borch, Injurymap<\/p>\n

That moment you realised Injurymap was a success:<\/strong> Every time someone is helped to recover<\/p>\n

University-affiliated hub or network:\u00a0<\/strong> SUND Hub, Health Tech Hub Copenhagen<\/p>\n

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Another example is Injurymap, an app that helps people recover from muscle or joint pain<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The app was launched in 2017 and its popularity is growing fast. But for one of the founders of Injurymap Ulrik Borch, it is not only about achieving business success.<\/p>\n

\u00bbEvery time I talk to someone who we’ve helped get through their recovery it makes me really proud. That shows me that we’re having a real impact on people’s lives,\u00ab he says.<\/p>\n

Injurymap lost one big co-branding partner in connection with the corona crisis, Copenhagen\u2019s running club Sparta, after all mass sports events were cancelled. But the pandemic has underscored just how much digital health and virtual counselling from doctors treating injuries at home has a future, Ulrik Borch adds.<\/p>\n

Doing some good in the world is the primary motivation for many of the start-ups. For some it is the only motivation.
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For A Wiser Africa<\/p>\n

What does it do?<\/strong>\u00a0 Charity project to collects donations for an orphanage in Tanzania<\/p>\n

Founded:<\/strong> 2015.<\/p>\n

Founder:<\/strong> Christine Manich Bech: Student of medicine<\/p>\n

How many people:<\/strong> 3<\/p>\n

Biggest challenge:<\/strong> Raise enough money to pay school fees for all orphanage children, every year.<\/p>\n

That moment Christine realised her company was a success:<\/strong>\u00a0 When the children told her about their educational dreams.<\/p>\n

University-affiliated hub or network:<\/strong> Sundhub.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

For A Wiser Africa<\/a> is a start-up project from 2015 that collects donations for an orphanage in Tanzania. It is not a business, but an association where all the proceeds go to helping the education of children.<\/p>\n

The founder Christine Manich Bech, who was featured on the University Post here<\/a>, considers her project a success when the orphaned children do well on their exams.<\/p>\n

\u00bbThe first time I went back to Tanzania to pay school fees for the coming year. I got the results from some of the children’s examinations, and they did really well. They told me about their educational dreams for the future, and I knew then that was a success, because they now dared to have dreams.<\/p>\n

But for some start-up projects, the 2020 corona environment has made it more complicated to do good even though it may be needed more than ever.<\/p>\n

\u00bbThe children could not go to school, but they could not have teaching at home. I expect to go to Tanzania in January, but this is unpredictable also,\u00ab says Christine Manich Bech, who adds that her university’s innovation hub Sundhub has been great \u00bbin terms of feedback, new perspectives and have also put me in contact to great pro bono lawyers and accountants.\u00ab<\/p>\n

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Idr\u00e6tsf\u00e6lleskabet<\/p>\n

What does it do?<\/strong> Organises sports for vulnerable citizens<\/p>\n

Founded:<\/strong> 2019\/20<\/p>\n

Founders: <\/strong>Mads Koch, Andreas Krogh Henriksen, Morten Hansted<\/p>\n

Biggest challenge:<\/strong> Getting to know who our main customers are.<\/p>\n

That moment you realised Idr\u00e6tsf\u00e6llesskabet was a success:<\/strong> \u00bbWhen we got our first funding in Christmas 2019.\u00ab Mads Koch, co-founder<\/p>\n

University-affiliated hub or network:<\/strong> Rainmaking Loft (K\u00f8benhavns Kommune), AKA Startup program, SundHub at UCPH.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Idr\u00e6tsf\u00e6lleskabet, a recent start-up project that organises sports for vulnerable citizens<\/a> got funding for their project at the end of 2019, only to have corona make it harder to carry out the activities they organise, and make new collaborations with local governments, according to founder Mads Koch.<\/p>\n

While for some companies and projects, the corona emergency has opened established markets to the kind of disruption that, they hope, will allow them a foothold. For others, it has been all about using the flexibility of being new and small to focus on core products.<\/p>\n

As many of our meetings, both over the phone and in person, were cancelled or postponed, we took advantage of the remote-friendly nature of software development and focused on our core product.<\/p>\n

Frederik K. Schjerning, founder Panopti<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Like Panopti, a 2020 start-up by three UCPH and DTU students that offers cybersecurity to small companies. Co-founder Frederik K. Schjerning had planned to work the spring of 2020 finding new customers.<\/p>\n

\u00bbBut as many of our meetings, both over the phone and in person, were cancelled or postponed, we took advantage of the remote-friendly nature of software development and focused on our core product,\u00ab he says. Now, as the country gets used to the crisis, his confidence is buoyed by the fact that investors want to join their team.<\/p>\n

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Panopti<\/p>\n

What does it do?<\/strong> Cybersecurity for smaller companies.<\/p>\n

Founded:<\/strong> September 2020 (in its present form).<\/p>\n

Founder:<\/strong> Frederik Kirkeby Schjerning (DTU), Mikkel Goldschmidt (DTU) and Markus Krabbe Larsen (UCPH).<\/p>\n

How many people:<\/strong> 3<\/p>\n

Biggest challenge:<\/strong> Communicating the value of their product.<\/p>\n

That moment you realised Panopti was a success:<\/strong> Early business angels\/partners keen to join them. First full time employee<\/p>\n

University-affiliated hub or network:<\/strong> Science Innovation Hub at UCPH, DTU Skylab, Skylab Ignite<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The challenge that they have, corona or no corona, according to Frederik K. Schjerning is getting customers to realise how valuable Panopti’s products are:<\/p>\n

\u00bbEffectively communicating our value proposition to our customers as our product is very technical – and we are sure that it won\u2019t change for quite a while either\u00ab.
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Biotech automates work processes in laboratories"}]},{"acf_fc_layout":"Content","content":"<div class=\"factbox\">\n<p class=\"factbox-header feature-color\">Reshape Biotech<\/p>\n<p><strong>What does it do?<\/strong> Automates the laboratory work associated with solid media analysis\u00a0in biotech<\/p>\n<p><strong>Founded:<\/strong> 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>Founders:<\/strong> Carl-Emil Gr\u00f8n Christensen, Daniel Storgaard, Magnus Madsen<\/p>\n<p><strong>How many people:<\/strong> 5 full time, 3 part time<\/p>\n<p><strong>Biggest challenge so far:<\/strong> The onset of corona<\/p>\n<p><strong>That moment you realised Reshape Biotech was a success:<\/strong> \u00bbWhen we realised that the customers were willing to pay for the solution to their problems\u00ab<\/p>\n<p><strong>University-affiliated hub or network:<\/strong> DTU Skylab.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Like <a href=\"https:\/\/reshapebiotech.com\/\">Reshape Biotech<\/a>. It is a company that automates the work with petri dishes and microtiter plates in laboratories, and was spawned in 2018 out of the entrepreneurial community at the Technical University of Denmark\u2019s (DTU) Skylab.<\/p>\n<p>Reshape Biotech’s customers are big companies, and the corona crisis had these customers cut back on new research and development spending.<\/p>\n<p>As Carl-Emil Gr\u00f8n Christensen of Reshape Biotech put it, with \u00bbthe onset of corona we had a lot of deals fall though. Everyone was in panic mode. We had a deal for half a million kroner that fell to the floor,\u00ab he says, but adds that \u00bbluckily we have got past this now.\u00ab<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When you start getting leads that are requesting to purchase your product with no prior dialogue, that\u2019s when you really start feeling that this is going to be a huge success.<\/p>\n<p class=\"quotee\">Casper Groot, Turis<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While the corona crisis brought on a unique set of challenges for aspiring entrepreneurs, other hurdles remained the same. Like getting the first paying customer.<\/p>\n<h3>Catch-22<\/h3>\n<p>Like Turis, for example, <a href=\"https:\/\/turis.app\">an ecommerce platform<\/a> for business-to-business transactions that was started up by Casper Groot and Dan Christoffersen from the Copenhagen Business School and University of Copenhagen respectively.<\/p>\n<div class=\"factbox\">\n<p class=\"factbox-header feature-color\">Turis<\/p>\n<p><strong>What does it do?<\/strong> Easy business-to-business transactions (eCommerce)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Founded:<\/strong> 2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>Founder:<\/strong> Casper Groot (CBS, E-Business) and Dan Christoffersen (Agricultural Economics)<\/p>\n<p><strong>How many people:<\/strong> 10<\/p>\n<p><strong>Biggest challenge:<\/strong> \u00bbLaunching any product is tough. One thing is timing and the big question of ‘when is the product ready?’. The answer, for most founders, is ‘it’s almost ready!!\u2019 That ‘almost’ can really go for a long time and you end up launching much later than you actually should.\u00ab Casper Groot<\/p>\n<p><strong>That moment you realised Turis was a success:<\/strong> Getting the first customer and seeing that the service you created solves a real life pain for the target group<\/p>\n<p><strong>University-affiliated hub or network:<\/strong> Science Innovation Hub<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00bbAs we develop and sell software, a huge challenge is getting your first customer. In software, most customers will only buy into a product that has a significant amount of users that they can relate to. It’s really a catch-22 situation for quite some time when you launch your product or service and the only thing you can do is to convince your potential customers that your new product is much better than what’s generally available on the market,\u00ab he says.<\/p>\n<p>But then, suddenly, for the most fortunate of the entrepreneurs, the spell is broken and the customers are reeled in.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbWhen you start getting leads that are requesting to purchase your product with no prior dialogue, that’s when you really start feeling that this is going to be a huge success. We’ve been fortunate enough to experience that quite early,\u00ab says Casper Groot.<\/p>\n<p>As Turis offers a tool that digitalises work processes, the general outlook for the company is good at a time when companies are being forced to lay off staff, he adds.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"MultiImage","images":[{"image":{"ID":112843,"id":112843,"title":"Turis2","filename":"turis2.jpg","filesize":575064,"url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/turis2.jpg","link":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/these-11-copenhagen-based-student-start-ups-are-crushing-it\/turis2-2\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"turis2-2","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":112674,"date":"2020-11-09 12:51:02","modified":"2020-11-09 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Tisdall and Christine Hebert of Blue Lobster out promoting their sustainable fish marketplace app with fishermen"}]},{"acf_fc_layout":"Content","content":"<p>Blue Lobster is a sustainable fish marketplace that was set up in 2018 by Christine Hebert and Nima Tisdall from the University of Copenhagen and Copenhagen Business School respectively.<\/p>\n<div class=\"factbox\">\n<p class=\"factbox-header feature-color\">Blue Lobster<\/p>\n<p><strong>What does it do?<\/strong> Matches fishermen with chefs and consumers<\/p>\n<p><strong>Founded:<\/strong> 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>Founder:<\/strong> Christine Hebert and Nima Tisdall<\/p>\n<p><strong>How many people:<\/strong> 12<\/p>\n<p><strong>Biggest challenge:<\/strong> \u00bbAs a marketplace connecting low impact fishermen with sustainably minded chefs, our biggest challenge is making sure that we grow supply and demand simultaneously. In order to be accessible to larger buyers like canteens and help the fishermen sell everything they land, we are continuously working towards finding a scaleable way to process some of the fish into fillets,\u00ab Christine Hebert, cofounder of Blue Lobster<\/p>\n<p><strong>That moment you realised Blue Lobster was a success: <\/strong>When fishermen started checking orders on the app.<\/p>\n<p><strong>University-affiliated hub or network:<\/strong> CSE (Copenhagen School of Entrepreneurship)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p>One of our fishermen got onto the app and started actively checking what orders were coming in from nearby restaurants and claiming and fulfilling those orders on his own \u2013 without any prompting from our side. That was really exciting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"quotee\">Christine Hebert, Blue Lobster<\/p>\n<p> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Their <a href=\"https:\/\/bluelobster.app\/da\/hjem\/\">Blue Lobster app<\/a> already has 12 staff and helps get fresh fish directly from individual fishermen to restaurants.<\/p>\n<p>Christine Hebert from Blue Lobster also points to the first customer as something that she remembers as a point of no return:<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbThe chefs were relatively easy to get on board to the platform once they saw the quality of the fish that was brought directly from the harbour to their kitchen. The fishermen were much more sceptical, and at the beginning, we communicated with them via text or calling\u00ab.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbThe fishermen saw the value of working with us because they could earn much more by selling directly to the end consumer and cutting out the usual middlemen, but they were resistant to using an app,\u00ab she remembers.<\/p>\n<h3>Fish-ruption<\/h3>\n<p>But something happened that had Christine Hebert and Nima Tisdall knowing that their concept worked:<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbOne of our fishermen got onto the app and started actively checking what orders were coming in from nearby restaurants and claiming and fulfilling those orders on his own \u2013 without any prompting from our side. That was really exciting,\u00ab she says.<\/p>\n<p>Blue Lobster is an example of something that many of the new student start-ups have in common. Even, or especially, during times of economic uncertainty. Their business idea has to do with using technology for disintermediation or cutting out the middlemen in a supply chain or between a producer and a consumer.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If we had had access to experienced ressources in the early stages of our venture, it would have dramatically accelerated our trajectory,<\/p>\n<p class=\"quotee\">Oscar Almstrup, LegalHero, on university hubs<\/p>\n<p> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A bit like <a href=\"https:\/\/legalhero.dk\/\">LegalHero<\/a>, a company started by two law students from the University of Copenhagen that matches legal counsellors with clients.<\/p>\n<div class=\"factbox\">\n<p class=\"factbox-header feature-color\">LegalHero<\/p>\n<p><strong>What does it do?<\/strong> Matches legal counsellors with clients<\/p>\n<p><strong>Founded:<\/strong> 2016<\/p>\n<p><strong>Founders:<\/strong> Kristian Anker (law) and Oscar Almstrup (law)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Biggest challenges:<\/strong> To build solid technology. Find and hire great software developers. Establish themselves as a credible player.<\/p>\n<p><strong>University-affiliated hub or network:<\/strong> None<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>As students abroad and at home, Oscar Almstrup and Kristian Anker were exposed to how technology could be used to make the legal industry better for clients and lawyers.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbThe first thing we did was to build a chat bot that knew almost everything about consumer regulation. Fast forward to today, LegalHero is a ‘neo law firm’ with over 150 specialized legal professionals and a platform on its way in the UK,\u00ab says Oscar Almstrup.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of the business has less to do with their own personal success, and more about transforming the whole legal industry. Nothing less, according to Oscar Almstup:<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbWe don\u2019t see success as a number, metric, or a key point indicator, but rather as to which degree LegalHero has actually made an impact in the legal industry across all of Europe. Our primary goal has always been to create a digital platform that would transform and better the worklife for both lawyers and clients. It has been our goal since the beginning and we are extremely dedicated to fulfill that one ambition\u00ab.<\/p>\n<p>LegalHero is exceptional among the student start-ups that the University Post surveyed in that it was not hosted by any university-affiliated hub, incubator, network for start-ups.<\/p>\n<h3>Using the hubs<\/h3>\n<div class=\"factbox\">\n<p class=\"factbox-header feature-color\">Hubs, incubators, networks<\/p>\n<p>The university institutions in the city of Copenhagen are affiliated with hubs that offer\u00a0 communities, workshops, and office space for new entrepreneurs to develop.<\/p>\n<p><strong>University of Copenhagen:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/ie.ku.dk\/english\/\">Sund Hub, Science hub, and Human and Legal Innovation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Copenhagen Business School:<\/strong> the <a href=\"https:\/\/cse.cbs.dk\/about-us\/\">Copenhagen School of Entrepreneurship<\/a> at\u00a0 the Copenhagen Business School.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DTU:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DTUstardust\/\">Stardust DTU<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skylab.dtu.dk\/\">Skylab DTU<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00bbWe have never been associated with any innovation hubs at the universities. However, it is clear to me that if we had had access to experienced ressources in the early stages of our venture, it would have dramatically accelerated our trajectory,\u00ab says Oscar Almstrup.<\/p>\n<p>The university institutions in the city of Copenhagen are affiliated with a criss-cross of entrepreneurial hubs that offer networks, communities, workshops, and office space for new entrepreneurs to develop.<\/p>\n<p>To name just a few, <a href=\"https:\/\/ie.ku.dk\/english\/\">Sund Hub, Science hub, and Human and Legal Innovation<\/a> at the University of Copenhagen, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/cse.cbs.dk\/about-us\/\">Copenhagen School of Entrepreneurship<\/a> at\u00a0 the Copenhagen Business School. Other entrepreneurs mention the help they have got from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DTUstardust\/\">Stardust DTU<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/dtusciencepark.com\/futurebox\/danish-tech-challenge\/about\/\">Danish Tech Challenge<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accelerace.io\/\">Accelerace<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skylab.dtu.dk\/\">Skylab DTU<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Start-up communities and innovation districts include <a href=\"https:\/\/copenhagensciencecity.dk\/\">Copenhagen Science City<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/frederiksbergsciencecity.dk\/en\/\">Frederiksberg Science City<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/oicc.dk\/\">\u00d8restad Innovation City Copenhagen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Services like what we deliver could speed up vaccination programmes<\/p>\n<p class=\"quotee\">Adam Hartmann, Eupry<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As Casper Groot of Turis puts it.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbAfter working in the evening at various campuses at UCPH, we came across the hub and got a space that had the facilities of an actual office and where we could work side by side other startups and get the vibe that most people are looking for in a coworking space. It made the start of the company so much simpler and we had more or less everything we needed to get started on this journey.\u00ab<\/p>\n<div class=\"factbox\">\n<p class=\"factbox-header feature-color\">EUPRY<\/p>\n<p><strong>What does it do?<\/strong> Data logs temperature and humidity<\/p>\n<p><strong>Founded:<\/strong> 2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>Founders:<\/strong> Adam Hartmann, Christian Jacobsen, Jakob Konradsen, Noam Ritov, Sigurd Hansen<\/p>\n<p><strong>How many people:<\/strong> 18<\/p>\n<p><strong>Biggest challenge:<\/strong> \u00bbTo make proof of business.\u201d Adam Hartmann, Eupry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>That moment you realised Eupry was a success:<\/strong> When Eupry landed large clients. Product getting verified. Winning over budgets.<\/p>\n<p><strong>University-affiliated hub or network:<\/strong> DTU Skylab, DTU Stardust, CSE Entrepreneurship, SUNDhub, Danish Tech Challenge, Venture Cup and Accelerace.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eupry.com\/\">Eupry, a company whose product logs temperature and humidity data,<\/a> was started by students back in 2014 and now has 18 staff. But it still hopes to use incubator networks.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbAs our products very much relate to a certain set of challenges when the new covid-vaccines are reaching the market, we are not done using incubation as this is going to be a huge opportunity for us,\u00ab says Adam Hartmann, who is one of the founders of Eupry.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbServices like what we deliver could speed up vaccination programmes, he adds. Company networks, university hubs, and incubators can help connect with new expertise and get your product out fast,\u00ab he says.<\/p>\n<h3>The power of doing good<\/h3>\n<p>Having a goal that goes beyond personal success and the company\u2019s survival is something that is key to many of the student start-ups surveyed by the University Post.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Image","image":{"ID":112768,"id":112768,"title":"Eupry","filename":"eupry-scaled.jpg","filesize":425774,"url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/eupry-scaled.jpg","link":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/these-11-copenhagen-based-student-start-ups-are-crushing-it\/eupry\/","alt":"","author":"9","description":"","caption":"","name":"eupry","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":112674,"date":"2020-11-09 09:48:58","modified":"2020-11-09 09:48:58","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":2560,"height":1707,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/eupry-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/eupry-480x320.jpg","medium-width":480,"medium-height":320,"medium_large":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/eupry-768x512.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":512,"large":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/eupry-1280x853.jpg","large-width":1280,"large-height":853,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/eupry-1536x1024.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1024,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/eupry-2048x1365.jpg","2048x2048-width":2048,"2048x2048-height":1365,"featured-soft":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/eupry-290x193.jpg","featured-soft-width":290,"featured-soft-height":193,"featured-hard":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/eupry-290x180.jpg","featured-hard-width":290,"featured-hard-height":180,"narrow":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/eupry-700x467.jpg","narrow-width":700,"narrow-height":467,"extended":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/eupry-990x660.jpg","extended-width":990,"extended-height":660}},"style":"screen","text_placement":"metadata-below","image_link_url":"","image_link_title":"","caption_prefix":"","enable_alternative_caption":true,"alternative_caption":"Eupry logs temperature and humidity data, was started by students back in 2014, and now has 18 staff"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Content","content":"<div class=\"factbox\">\n<p class=\"factbox-header feature-color\">SBT Instruments<\/p>\n<p><strong>What does it do?<\/strong> Counts bacteria fast<\/p>\n<p><strong>Founded:<\/strong> 2014. \u00bbThe company name SBT first appeared in 2013 when we participated in, and won, the Venture Cup Startup Competition.\u00ab<\/p>\n<p><strong>Founders:<\/strong> Gustav Skands, Christian Bertelsen, Frederik Aalund<\/p>\n<p><strong>How many people:<\/strong> 13<\/p>\n<p><strong>Biggest challenge:<\/strong> No comparison with other measurement methods<\/p>\n<p><strong>That moment you realised SBT instruments was a success:<\/strong> Still to come! When their technology is widespread<\/p>\n<p><strong>University-affiliated hub or network:<\/strong> Stardust DTU, Danish Tech Challenge, Accelerace.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Like <a href=\"https:\/\/sbtinstruments.com\/\">SBT Instruments, a company whose core product is a benchtop device that counts bacteria<\/a>, founded by Gustav Skands, Christian Bertelsen and Frederik Aalund from DTU. Faster bacteria measurement is a good thing for the world at large as faster bacteria measurements result in increased safety. Today’s bacteria measurements take days, while SBT can do it in minutes. This is critical in quality control of a lot of different products and procedures.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbWe believe that the technology leap we are working on can move society forward, and the day we see widespread implementation of our fast bacteria measurement technology is also the day where the company can be considered a true success,\u00ab says Gustav Skands.<\/p>\n<p>Being at the forefront of the field can also be a motivation in itself.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbOne of our biggest challenges is that we actually have no other measurement method to directly compare us against. All methods that exist today for counting bacteria are in some way approximations of the actual true bacteria count,\u00ab he explains.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Image","image":{"ID":112789,"id":112789,"title":"a0104-(002)","filename":"a0104002-scaled.jpg","filesize":957853,"url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/a0104002-scaled.jpg","link":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/these-11-copenhagen-based-student-start-ups-are-crushing-it\/a0104-002\/","alt":"","author":"9","description":"","caption":"","name":"a0104-002","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":112674,"date":"2020-11-09 10:01:06","modified":"2020-11-09 10:01:06","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":2560,"height":1707,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/a0104002-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/a0104002-480x320.jpg","medium-width":480,"medium-height":320,"medium_large":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/a0104002-768x512.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":512,"large":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/a0104002-1280x853.jpg","large-width":1280,"large-height":853,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/a0104002-1536x1024.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1024,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/a0104002-2048x1365.jpg","2048x2048-width":2048,"2048x2048-height":1365,"featured-soft":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/a0104002-290x193.jpg","featured-soft-width":290,"featured-soft-height":193,"featured-hard":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/a0104002-290x180.jpg","featured-hard-width":290,"featured-hard-height":180,"narrow":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/a0104002-700x467.jpg","narrow-width":700,"narrow-height":467,"extended":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/a0104002-990x660.jpg","extended-width":990,"extended-height":660}},"style":"screen","text_placement":"metadata-below","image_link_url":"","image_link_title":"","caption_prefix":"","enable_alternative_caption":true,"alternative_caption":"For Ulrik Borch of Injurymap (right), their company's biggest challenge has been to get people to do something that they're not really interested in doing, even though it's good for them"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Content","content":"<div class=\"factbox\">\n<p class=\"factbox-header feature-color\">Injurymap<\/p>\n<p><strong>What does it do?<\/strong> Helps you recover from muscle or joint pain<\/p>\n<p><strong>Founded:<\/strong> Idea 2015, App 2017.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Founder:<\/strong> Ulrik Borch, Mathias Bang, Sebastian Schock, Finn Johannsen and Pierre Schydlowsky<\/p>\n<p><strong>How many people:<\/strong> 10<\/p>\n<p><strong>Biggest challenge:<\/strong> \u00bbGetting people to do something that they’re not really interested in doing, even though it’s good for them\u201d Ulrik Borch, Injurymap<\/p>\n<p><strong>That moment you realised Injurymap was a success:<\/strong> Every time someone is helped to recover<\/p>\n<p><strong>University-affiliated hub or network:\u00a0<\/strong> SUND Hub, Health Tech Hub Copenhagen<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Another example is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.injurymap.com\/\">Injurymap, an app that helps people recover from muscle or joint pain<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The app was launched in 2017 and its popularity is growing fast. But for one of the founders of Injurymap Ulrik Borch, it is not only about achieving business success.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbEvery time I talk to someone who we’ve helped get through their recovery it makes me really proud. That shows me that we’re having a real impact on people’s lives,\u00ab he says.<\/p>\n<p>Injurymap lost one big co-branding partner in connection with the corona crisis, Copenhagen\u2019s running club Sparta, after all mass sports events were cancelled. But the pandemic has underscored just how much digital health and virtual counselling from doctors treating injuries at home has a future, Ulrik Borch adds.<\/p>\n<p>Doing some good in the world is the primary motivation for many of the start-ups. For some it is the only motivation.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Image","image":{"ID":112946,"id":112946,"title":"For A Wiser Africa","filename":"forawiserafrica.jpg","filesize":259977,"url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/forawiserafrica.jpg","link":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/these-11-copenhagen-based-student-start-ups-are-crushing-it\/for-a-wiser-africa\/","alt":"","author":"9","description":"","caption":"","name":"for-a-wiser-africa","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":112674,"date":"2020-11-10 08:09:14","modified":"2020-11-10 08:09:14","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1280,"height":853,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/forawiserafrica-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/forawiserafrica-480x320.jpg","medium-width":480,"medium-height":320,"medium_large":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/forawiserafrica-768x512.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":512,"large":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/forawiserafrica.jpg","large-width":1280,"large-height":853,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/forawiserafrica.jpg","1536x1536-width":1280,"1536x1536-height":853,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/forawiserafrica.jpg","2048x2048-width":1280,"2048x2048-height":853,"featured-soft":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/forawiserafrica-290x193.jpg","featured-soft-width":290,"featured-soft-height":193,"featured-hard":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/forawiserafrica-290x180.jpg","featured-hard-width":290,"featured-hard-height":180,"narrow":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/forawiserafrica-700x466.jpg","narrow-width":700,"narrow-height":466,"extended":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/forawiserafrica-990x660.jpg","extended-width":990,"extended-height":660}},"style":"narrow","text_placement":"metadata-below","image_link_url":"","image_link_title":"","caption_prefix":"","enable_alternative_caption":false,"alternative_caption":"For A Wiser Africa"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Content","content":"<div class=\"factbox\">\n<p class=\"factbox-header feature-color\">For A Wiser Africa<\/p>\n<p><strong>What does it do?<\/strong>\u00a0 Charity project to collects donations for an orphanage in Tanzania<\/p>\n<p><strong>Founded:<\/strong> 2015.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Founder:<\/strong> Christine Manich Bech: Student of medicine<\/p>\n<p><strong>How many people:<\/strong> 3<\/p>\n<p><strong>Biggest challenge:<\/strong> Raise enough money to pay school fees for all orphanage children, every year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>That moment Christine realised her company was a success:<\/strong>\u00a0 When the children told her about their educational dreams.<\/p>\n<p><strong>University-affiliated hub or network:<\/strong> Sundhub.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/forawiserafrica.dk\/\">For A Wiser Africa<\/a> is a start-up project from 2015 that collects donations for an orphanage in Tanzania. It is not a business, but an association where all the proceeds go to helping the education of children.<\/p>\n<p>The founder Christine Manich Bech, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/i-can-make-a-difference\/\">featured on the University Post here<\/a>, considers her project a success when the orphaned children do well on their exams.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbThe first time I went back to Tanzania to pay school fees for the coming year. I got the results from some of the children’s examinations, and they did really well. They told me about their educational dreams for the future, and I knew then that was a success, because they now dared to have dreams.<\/p>\n<p>But for some start-up projects, the 2020 corona environment has made it more complicated to do good even though it may be needed more than ever.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbThe children could not go to school, but they could not have teaching at home. I expect to go to Tanzania in January, but this is unpredictable also,\u00ab says Christine Manich Bech, who adds that her university’s innovation hub Sundhub has been great \u00bbin terms of feedback, new perspectives and have also put me in contact to great pro bono lawyers and accountants.\u00ab<\/p>\n<div class=\"factbox\">\n<p class=\"factbox-header feature-color\">Idr\u00e6tsf\u00e6lleskabet<\/p>\n<p><strong>What does it do?<\/strong> Organises sports for vulnerable citizens<\/p>\n<p><strong>Founded:<\/strong> 2019\/20<\/p>\n<p><strong>Founders: <\/strong>Mads Koch, Andreas Krogh Henriksen, Morten Hansted<\/p>\n<p><strong>Biggest challenge:<\/strong> Getting to know who our main customers are.<\/p>\n<p><strong>That moment you realised Idr\u00e6tsf\u00e6llesskabet was a success:<\/strong> \u00bbWhen we got our first funding in Christmas 2019.\u00ab Mads Koch, co-founder<\/p>\n<p><strong>University-affiliated hub or network:<\/strong> Rainmaking Loft (K\u00f8benhavns Kommune), AKA Startup program, SundHub at UCPH.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/idraetsfaellesskabet\/\">Idr\u00e6tsf\u00e6lleskabet, a recent start-up project that organises sports for vulnerable citizens<\/a> got funding for their project at the end of 2019, only to have corona make it harder to carry out the activities they organise, and make new collaborations with local governments, according to founder Mads Koch.<\/p>\n<p>While for some companies and projects, the corona emergency has opened established markets to the kind of disruption that, they hope, will allow them a foothold. For others, it has been all about using the flexibility of being new and small to focus on core products.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As many of our meetings, both over the phone and in person, were cancelled or postponed, we took advantage of the remote-friendly nature of software development and focused on our core product.<\/p>\n<p class=\"quotee\">Frederik K. Schjerning, founder Panopti<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Like Panopti, a 2020 start-up by three UCPH and DTU students that offers cybersecurity to small companies. Co-founder Frederik K. Schjerning had planned to work the spring of 2020 finding new customers.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbBut as many of our meetings, both over the phone and in person, were cancelled or postponed, we took advantage of the remote-friendly nature of software development and focused on our core product,\u00ab he says. Now, as the country gets used to the crisis, his confidence is buoyed by the fact that investors want to join their team.<\/p>\n<div class=\"factbox\">\n<p class=\"factbox-header feature-color\">Panopti<\/p>\n<p><strong>What does it do?<\/strong> Cybersecurity for smaller companies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Founded:<\/strong> September 2020 (in its present form).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Founder:<\/strong> Frederik Kirkeby Schjerning (DTU), Mikkel Goldschmidt (DTU) and Markus Krabbe Larsen (UCPH).<\/p>\n<p><strong>How many people:<\/strong> 3<\/p>\n<p><strong>Biggest challenge:<\/strong> Communicating the value of their product.<\/p>\n<p><strong>That moment you realised Panopti was a success:<\/strong> Early business angels\/partners keen to join them. First full time employee<\/p>\n<p><strong>University-affiliated hub or network:<\/strong> Science Innovation Hub at UCPH, DTU Skylab, Skylab Ignite<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The challenge that they have, corona or no corona, according to Frederik K. 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