The Danish Startup Ecosystem Guide - Magasin - Side 27
TechStation, a former postal building, is today an incubator and entrepreneurial community with highly specialised spaces for innovation and
development for hard tech startups.
aard, showing around the floor, where
there are only a few steps between the
workshop and the computer.
The heart of the house
The man behind TechStation is Jens Peter Bredholt, who 22 years ago founded
the R&D engineering consultancy Kapacitet. Today, the company is headquartered at TechStation and is the heart
of the house. It is through Kapacitet
that startups get access to professional prototyping, testing and production
facilities and a wealth of experience in
hard tech.
Clean tech startup Ambient Carbon
has benefited from this. Since 2020, they
have been collaborating with Kapacitet
on the development of an invention that
eliminates methane emissions from cow
and pig stables, among other places. Last
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year, the startup moved into TechStation
to turbocharge its growth journey.
“It’s a huge advantage for us to be so
close to the engineers who help us with
product design and drawings. It makes it
easy to focus on our product development.
In addition, it makes sense to be close to
the other companies in the house - some
of which we may even collaborate with
over the coming years,” explains David S.
Miller, CEO of Ambient Carbon.
Synergy throughout the house
The idea of synergy runs throughout the
house. That is why TechStation Invest
was established in 2019; an evergreen
fund and investment group that invests
in hard tech startups with high professional capacity and smart money.
“The investors are not people who just
want a return on their money. They are
genuinely interested in getting the product off the ground. Therefore, their most
important contribution is the capital as
much as the professional sparring, the
network and the feedback they can provide in the product development phase,”
says Mikkel Mørkegaard.
Today, TechStation Invest has invested
around DKK 10 million in five startups,
some of which have had or have offices
in the building. And that type of synergy
is growing.
“We hope that one day the building
will be full of people we have also invested in. The dream is to turn TechStation
into a social and professional startup
hub. A place everyone knows and has
been, and where some fantastic innovative solutions and products have been
developed over time,” explains Mikkel
Mørkegaard.
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