HeatCheck aims to develop a scalable, commercial-grade, open-source, AI-driven toolchain that merges meter data with ubiquitous wireless heat cost allocator data to optimize heating systems in apartment buildings. District heating operators have focused on supply temperatures and flows to satisfy various demand profiles. However, they typically overlook end-users and substations as beyond their control. Thus, buildings are bottlenecks in the transition to low-temperature district heating. The HeatCheck toolchain empowers building owners to operate apartment buildings with unprecedented efficiency, in turn, paving the path for low-risk, near-term investments in renewable energy sources and large-scale investments in heat pumps in district heating networks. Ista and Techem controls roughly two-thirds of the Danish market for allocating heat costs in apartments, and combined provide heat metering in 25 million apartments globally. HeatCheck seeks to leverage that massive data to detect and diagnose faulty heating systems automatically, optimize central controls to constrain heat losses and minimize harm from misuse, improve service offerings using digital-twin-based analytics and actively shift peak loads. The HeatCheck project provides a unique opportunity for heat cost allocation companies, district heating companies, building operators and research institutions to develop new services generating novel revenue streams and ensuring a cost-effective green transition.

AM-Farm will set up the first Danish photopolymerization based Additive Manufacturing (AM) Farm that will cater to agile intermediate-sized production (1000-100,000 components) that can surpass injection molding in agility, and volumetric specific energy consumption (kJ/cm3). While injection molding is highly efficient at scale (>MM components), the energy consumption and tooling costs make it unattractive for intermediate-sized production. AM-Farm is thus the establishment of an autonomous industrial AM facility with an unrivaled productivity, bespoke mass production capability and built on multiple cardinal sustainable innovations. Vat photopolymerization AM (VPP) is the method that is unsurpassed in its capability to produce plastic components at the highest geometrical fidelity. It has revolutionized how bespoke and miniaturized components such as hearing aid shells are manufactured. While in many aspects, an ideal next generation manufacturing process, the wide industrial implementation has been deterred due to considerate amounts of chemical waste generated. AM-Farm congregates a consortium, empowered by new technological advances spun out of academia to set up the world’s first environmentally conscious facility to fully exploit the potential of VPP. The industrial partners aim to exploit the AM-Farm, internally as a next-generation manufacturing method, and as a profitable service available to other Danish manufacturers for intermediate-sized bespoke production.

E-commerce is booming in the fashion industry with multi-billion dollar market value. 30% of shipped goods are returned with the primary reasons being either wrong size or wrong color, with colors perceived from pictures and videos on the e-commerce web sites. This leads to enormous waste due to unnecessary packaging, shipment and clothes destruction. Today, no software solutions exist for automated true and consistent color alignment across still pictures and videos for professional photographers. The size of this market is currently $1bn and the market is expected to double by 2028. The vision of the AICF project is to reduce the return rate in fashion industry e-commerce by 25% by 2030 due to color issues or 6% in total returns. The mission of AICF is to set new industrial standards by building novel AI-driven automated color-editing for photos and video for professional use. The project combines world class researchers in the fields of AI and photonics with the world leading Danish software company of the field, Capture One, thus providing a unique opportunity to develop new compression formats, UHD monitor support and coloring of moving objects to achieve the most natural colors. When successful, AICF will enable Capture One to defend and expand their current 2-3% market share of the still image color editing market worth 180 mio dkk in 2021 to 10% of the combined still & video market leading to a 1.200 mio dkk market share by 2028.

Microsoft estimates today that 30% of all IoT implementations fail. As IoT technology is a key factor in becoming more sustainable, optimised and data-driven, it is very important that we find a more stable solution. IoT implementations seem easy and simple from the outside, but that is far from the truth. The production and development of each type of IoT device is different and thus entails its own IoT project with its own design, test and deployment phase. The current solution is therefore to pay hundreds of thousands for a proof-of-concept product, that might not work or scale well with the business. Iotbee is creating an innovative electronic IoT device, where hundreds of different types of sensors can be connected. We combine that with a streamlined and fully automatic design tool for all types of sensors, so that companies can create their own IoT products and start projects independently without large costs for consultants and where the prototype phase is shortened from 1 - 2 years to 1 - 2 weeks. The company will be able to utilise their data from day 1, making the barrier to IoT insanely low.

EMWise is an analytical tool for all electrical and electronics designers helping them pass legally mandatory product tests. We are doing this by developing a very easy-to-use near-field scanner with a new pattern recognition system. With the green revolution, many sectors must be electrified, and, in addition, the world is looking into 5G and IoT increasing the risk of EMI. It is expected that the market for checking EMI will be $4.57 billion in 2022. The green revolution with its electrifying everything is one of the most important tasks for humanity these years. New transistors such as SiC and GaN have higher switching frequencies which make more noise at radio frequencies. Simultaneously, everything goes wireless. EMI is a major challenge for the green revolution, and Easy EMI Visualization aims to be one of the tools for SMEs to avoid failing mandatory tests. Support from InnoFounder will help us to achieve a complete, tested, and ready-to-ach product. Besides that, the financial help, mentoring sessions and courses offered by the InnoFounder program will be critical factors in the development, promotion and selling of the product. The company plans to hire three engineers: development, application, and sales by June 2024 hire an additional 3-5 engineers by 2028. The goal is to reach financial stability after the course with direct sales of at least 4.2 mln DKK per year (3 employees) increasing to 8 mln DKK per year in 2025.

MiniReview er en innovativ mobilspil games discovery platform der hjælper både spillere og spiludgivere. Vi udvælger, anmelder og kategoriserer de bedste spil ud fra 60+ parametre, så alle hurtigt kan finde deres næste favoritspil vha. smarte filtre, og intelligente forslagsalgoritmer. Da der i dag findes over 500.000 mobilspil er det stort set umuligt for spillere at finde frem til lige præcis de spil, de kunne være interesseret i, og ekstremt dyrt for spiludviklerne, der skal konkurrere mod en halv million andre spil om spillernes opmærksomhed. Det er her MiniReview kommer ind. Via vores innovative hjemmeside og app finder spillerne let frem til alle de spil, de aldrig ville have opdaget på Google Play og Apple's App Store vha. vores smarte filtre, discovery feeds, og forslagsalgoritmer. Samtidig udvikler vi et effektivt og målrettet system til spiludgivere, som tillader dem at få deres spil fremhævet overfor de spillere der i forvejen leder efter den type spil de har udviklet. Og det alt sammen uden at gå på kompromis med brugernes privatliv - hvilket er en samfundsudfordring, der har fyldt meget de sidste 3 år. Dette er muligt, fordi reklamerne målrettes ud fra hvilke filtre brugerne aktiverer, og ikke indsamling af data om deres genelle internetfærden. På lang sigt er målet at rangere på Google indenfor alle store områder i mobilspil industrien: spilanmeldelser, top-lister, video indhold, "lignende spil" sider osv.

Never Another skaber made-to-measure, bøjlefrie bh’er med fokus på pasform og komfort. Vi anvender kundens egne mål og en digital produktionsprocess, for at skabe det bedste, personlige fit. Egen data viser at: - 66-70% oplever udfordringer med at finde bh med god pasform. - 63-69% oplever udfordringer med størrelser i bøjlefri bh’er. Kvinder går på kompromis med komfort eller pasform, og det giver en følelse af at være forkert ift. udbuddet. Én respondent fortalte: ”Når man har stor omkreds og lille skål, er det nærmest umuligt at finde en bh. Det syntes jeg gør mig ubehagelig bevidst om min størrelse - Eller at jeg ”burde” have større bryster.” Made-to-measure bh’er giver kunden en oplevelse af, at deres kropstype er genkendt og anerkendt, og at de får en bh med den bedste pasform, som ikke irriterer i løbet af dagen. Never Another’s mission er, at få kvinder til at føle sig set og anerkendt, uanset størrelse og form. Kvinder fortjener undertøj som er behageligt, og som passer. Udover at løse det konkrete problem, fokuserer vi på beklædningsindustriens generelle og enorme overproduktion af tøj. Beklædningsindustrien producerer årligt 62 mio. ton tøj, og står for over 10% af verdens samlede Co2 udledning. Danskernes tøjforbrug ligger 35% højere end verdensgennemsnittet. Ved først at producere produktet efter bestilling, undgår vi overproduktion og tekstil spild.