Aarhus Investor Summit

This year's event will take place in beautiful surroundings at Aarhus City Hall, including inspiring keynotes, fundraising startups pitching, an exclusive networking dinner and networking.

As part of the program we will be announcing the winners of the INCUBA Award: Investor of the Year and Startup of the Year.

If you invest in startups - whether it be as a VC, corporate VC, family office, or angel investor - then join us for the biggest investor meet-up in the Central Denmark Region!

*Please note, the event is for active investors only.

PROGRAM

12.30: Arrival & registration

12.35: Matchmaking lunch & informal networking

13.30: Welcome to Aarhus Investor Summit & welcome to Aarhus /Jacob Doktor Mogensen, INCUBA & Søren Boel, Business Aarhus

Part 1 - Setting the scene

13.40: Keynote 'The startup perspective' by Geeta Schmidt, co-founder of Humio & partner at Seed Capital. Experiences and learnings from leading companies into industry defining global organisations including Humio’s journey from a European seed startup to $400M acquisition by CrowdStrike within 5 years. What were the barriers when scaling?

14.05: Keynote 'The investor perspective' by Peter Hede, partner in Nordic Eye Growth & Venture Capital. Buying and selling secondaries in mature and early-stage companies offers crucial flexibility for both investors and founders. It allows early investors, founder and key employees to gain liquidity, mitigating their risk exposure, while bringing in new investors with fresh capital and expertise to drive the startup’s scaling efforts. This creates a win-win dynamic that supports growth, success, and helps democratize the investment ecosystem by providing broader access to opportunities.

14.30: One minute madness - short pitches of Aarhus startups: Never Another, Multibiopsy, Team Driver, O-Robotics, Relift, Vebu & Re-claim

14.45: Networking break

Part 2 - Identification of the problem

15.10: Panel discussion on dilemmas in scaling right. Do’s & don’ts, tips & tricks. Moderated by Stine Mølgaard Sørensen, partner at Alliance VC. The panel consists of Stefan Rosenlund from Dreamers Collective, Thomas Marschall from DanBan, Anders Thorup-Jensen from EIFO, Christian Vinther from Founderment, Louise Lachmann from Ugly Duckling Ventures and Magnus Stagsted from People Ventures.

16.00: Startup pitches by Kripthonite Therapeutics, Cernel, Attender & Phonestamp

16.35: Networking break

16:55: Startup pitches by Fauna, Grow Grounds, Zeta Diagnostics & MedicQuant

17.30: The INCUBA Awards: 

Check-in with the 2023-winners, Kvantify & Claus Hansen

Announcement of the winners of Startup & Investor of the year 2024

17.50: Bubbles

18.00: Thank you for today

18.05: Informal networking dinner 

20.00: Goodnight 

- Plenty of time to network 1:1 amongst investors and with startups

- Participation list will be shared a couple of days before, so you can plan your networking in advance

Please note that when signing up to this event you accept to appear on a list of participants that may be shared in connection to the summit.

We would also like to declare that a photographer will take photos during the summit which may be used in future marketing material.

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