Welcome to Partisia as the first company in INCUBA Next

In the summer of 2022, about two years before the extension is completed, the first company has just signed for a domicile in INCUBA Next. And what a first company! We are incredibly excited to welcome Partisia. Or rather, and more precisely: we are looking forward to welcoming the company "back", as Partisia is already and since 2018 located in INCUBA Katrinebjerg.

Partisia is an IT company that is both a pioneer and a world leader in the commercial use of Secure Multi-Party Computation (MPC). Founded by some of the world's leading cryptographers, the IT company has delivered state-of-the-art security solutions based on MPC across industrial and financial solutions since 2008.

But Partisia is growing. The IT company is growing and therefore facing an expansion, and at the same time Partisia wants to stay in the environment at INCUBA Katrinebjerg. That's why they're moving into the INCUBA Next extension, where the company will live nice and high on the 12th floor when the building is ready in late summer 2024. Today, Partisia has 35 employees, who are currently busy working with Statistics Denmark to virtually connect Danish registers for better and more efficient analysis work:

"This kind of confidentiality opens up some completely new possibilities, and it also allows us to expand the business. For the same reason, we have signed an agreement to rent the 12th floor of INCUBA Next," says CEO of Partisia, Kurt Nielsen.

Partisia secures the future in INCUBA Next

For more than 30 years, INCUBA has been the meeting place for ambitious and knowledge-intensive entrepreneurs, and the addition of INCUBA Next is a natural next step in supporting the growth layer.

For CTO Peter Frandsen, the environment at INCUBA and the proximity to Aarhus University are crucial for Partisia. It is therefore a wish that comes true when the company expands its square meters in INCUBA Next and thus stays at Katrinebjerg: "It is important for us in the future to have one office community where we can meet and exchange ideas. We will do this in a place that is very close to Aarhus University's IT environment at Katrinebjerg, where we work closely with many researchers," he says.

In INCUBA Next, the largest companies can remain part of the environment, while INCUBA creates an ideal framework for growth companies that benefit from being close to other entrepreneurial companies and the entire research environment:

"We are very happy to get the signature from Partisia. It is a testimony that there is a need for an even bigger environment to embrace the tech startups that we see growing bigger and turning into scaleups that need an even bigger framework," says CEO of INCUBA, Mai Louise Agerskov and elaborates:

"The signature from Partisia also testifies to the general need among scaleups to stay in the environment with other like-minded companies and close to the university. INCUBA has an important task in embracing this need, both with a physical framework, but also to a large extent with community, networking and matchmaking within the environment," she concludes.

INCUBA Next comprises 22,000 sq ft. spread over 18 floors, 4,000 sq. underground parking and a 4,500 sqm side building. The extension will also have 1,400 sqm of roof terraces, a restaurant, a café, large common areas and, finally, with its height of 76 metres, one of the best views of the whole bay in the city.