From AI and climate tech to digital health, robotics, gaming, and many more. The startups here are not in a specific ranking; rather, it is from the perspective of what the participants might find interesting and help them gain new insights into the region’s startup landscape. By highlighting these companies, this session aims to help people discover startups that are lesser known to the general public because most of them are mostly focused on B2B. 

25 interesting startups worth knowing

The startups here are listed in alphabetical order. You can find out more about them from the Öresund Startup Map’s database:

1. Acorai – Helsingborg

2. Again – Copenhagen

3. Agreena – Copenhagen

4. AlixLabs – Lund

5. Complir – Copenhagen

6. Dead Astronauts – Malmö

7. Ekolution – Malmö

8. Elonroad – Lund

9. Emulate Energy – Lund

10. Flatpay – Copenhagen

11. Garba – Malmö

12. Klang.ai – Helsingborg

13. Matr Foods – Copenhagen

14.  Monta – Copenhagen

15. Nimt.ai – Helsingborg

16. NobodyWho – Copenhagen

17. Nordic Forestry Automation – Lund

18. Omhu – Copenhagen

19. Paraglide – Malmö

20. Proplab – Helsingborg

21. RemotiveLabs – Malmö

22. Sevren – Copenhagen

23. Soop System – Helsingborg

24. Staer – Malmö

25. Yazen – Lund

You can read some more about the startups here: https://oresundstartupmap.com/top-25-hbgtechweek

Mapping the startup ecosystem

Two initiatives played a central role in the discussion: Øresund Startup News, where we cover the latest news of founders, startups, and innovation across the region, and the Öresund Startup Map, a platform designed to make the startup ecosystem easier to explore.

On their website, Öresund Startup Map comes with an actual map of startups in the region; not only that, they have updated events people can sign up for, and job opportunities across Skåne and Greater Copenhagen. By the time of its launch, the map already has 900+ organizations free to explore.

Whether you are a founder looking for connections, investors discovering companies, or organizations looking for collaborators, both of these initiatives help make the startup ecosystem more visible and accessible for everyone, 

One region, more opportunities to discover

This lunch talk at HETCH highlighted a simple but important challenge for the Øresund startup ecosystem, which is to connect people with opportunities that already exist nearby and to build awareness of what is happening in the region. 

For Øresund startups, the takeaway is clear. Building a stronger cross-border ecosystem is not only about creating more events, but it is also about helping people discover what is already happening across the cities and the other side of the bridge.

Find the startup database here: https://oresundstartups.com/startups/

Find the Öresund Startup Map here: https://oresundstartupmap.com/#map

Read the entire post here: Beyond the Bridge: 25 Startups Worth Knowing Across the Øresund

Prior to its acceptance into Y Combinator, Complir had already proven its commercial viability. Over the past six months, the company has experienced 45% month-on-month growth and recently opened an office in France as part of its European expansion. In December 2025, the company raised €1.7 million in pre-seed funding at a post-money valuation of €6.8 million. The round was led by Vendep Capital with participation from Likeminded, Plug and Play, F-Log Ventures and a strong group of business angels from the retail industry and tech startup scene – including former Coop Group CEO Kraen Østergaard Nielsen, Coop Trading chairman and GS1 board member Per Thau, and Neil S. W. Murray from The Nordic Web Ventures. 

With its acceptance into Y Combinator, Complir now accelerates its growth with access to Silicon Valley’s most connected network of investors, founders and tech companies.

From Flying Tiger Copenhagen to Silicon Valley

Complir is not a typical startup story. The company was founded in Copenhagen in 2024 by Gustav Bang and Tine Kühnel, born out of a concrete problem at Flying Tiger Copenhagen – one of retail’s most complex operators, managing over 500 new products per month across 44 markets while facing increasing EU requirements around product compliance and traceability.

Rather than building a product in a vacuum, Complir gained full access to Flying Tiger Copenhagen’s organisation and developed its AI-driven compliance platform in close collaboration with one of retail’s most demanding operators. The result was a solution that was battle-tested from day one – and a reference brand that opened doors internationally.

“We have proven that our solution works inside some of Europe’s most complex retail organisations. YC now gives us the tools and the network to prove the same to the rest of the world – and to do it faster than we could alone,” 

says Gustav Bang, CEO of Complir.

For Complir, acceptance into YC means access to something that is hard to buy: credibility and a network in the US market from day one. The YC stamp of approval is, in Silicon Valley and among global investors, a mark of quality that opens doors that would otherwise take years to knock on.

Read the entire post here: AI startup automating product compliance joins Y Combinator as regulation hits European retailers

By turning the regulatory burden into an invisible part of the workflow, Complir is enabling European retailers to sell physical products globally without scaling up their compliance teams.

“[T]he momentum is real. Retailers across Europe are already using our platform to launch products into new markets with clarity, speed, and confidence,”

said Gustav Bang, co-founder

From the beginning, the co-founders – Gustav Bang, Tine Kühnel, Marc Kaa Brejner and Rasmus Lind, built Complir from inside the problem. By working directly within their customers’ teams, they gained a deep understanding of their data, workflows, and daily challenges.

That work shaped Complir into the AI-first platform it is today: helping retailers launch more products, in more markets, with fewer resources.

The € 1.7 million pre-seed round is led by Vendep Capital, with participation from Likeminded, Plug and Play Tech Center, F-LOG Ventures and an group of business angels: Kraen Oestergaard Nielsen, Neil Murray, Per Thau, and Jonas Büttcher. This is the first investment of Vendep Capital’s Fund IV.

Retailers across Europe are already using Complir to replace scattered spreadsheets and PDFs with a connected, intelligent compliance engine. Our AI agents surface market-access requirements in seconds, helping teams scale confidently and avoid costly surprises.

The solution allows retailers, like Flying Tiger Copenhagen, to check market-access requirements in seconds, significantly accelerating new product launches and international expansion.

Read the entire post here: Complir lands €1.7M to tackle retail’s massive compliance bottleneck