Venture Cup statistics and achievements

Each year Venture Cup is in contact with more than 8000 students interested in entrepreneurship from the Danish universities. We work to inspire, encourage and empower students to become entrepreneurs and in 2008/2009 more than 700 students participated in Venture Cup.

 

Record participation rates

The graph demonstrates a very positive development in number of participants in Venture Cup from 2004 till 2009. Venture Cup has managed to each year attract increasing number of students that want to become entrepreneurs.

Note: A team typically consists of 2-3 students. Idea Proposals indicate participation in the regional phase, Business Plans in the national phase or both.

 

Cross-disciplinary synergies

Venture Cup is successful in getting students and researchers from different universities and faculties to work together and bringing students together from different universities and faculties produces important synergy effects.

We track all alumni companies that have been created post participation in Venture Cup and have found that the companies with a cross-disciplinary team perform better and are better equipped to meet the challenges of an ever-changing businessworld. Especially teams consisting of both technical and business students are successful. For these reasons, Venture Cup is highly focused on creating and encouraging cross-disciplinary collaboration.

This data is gathered from participants of the spring national final.

 

 

 

More Women in Venture Cup

Venture Cup has seen an increasing number of female participants in Venture Cup over the years.

 

Companies created by Venture Cup

Venture Cup has been instrumental in the development of more than 70 new companies, which you can find below. By 2008 Venture Cup alumni companies had created around 400 jobs, raised 100m dkk in investment capital and were contributing with more than 35m dkk a year to the Danish economy.

• 2FRESH 2FOLLOW

• 2cent Interactive

• 3Shape A/S

• Advalight

• AlCo Company

• ArtCompaz ApS

• Axon7

• BAKOBA

• basechat.com

• BrainReader

• ByPilot

• Cartopol~

• Cepa Mobility Aps

• DampTech

• D-FRAC

• Dormicor Aps

• Dragon Talent Network

• Dupont LightStone

• Dynaton Aps

• EuroMedicin

• FlexAcoustics

• FreePhoneNames A/S

• Freeprint

• FRIDRIX

• FutureMatch.dk

• Gi Den Gas Palads Aps

• Hardcore Processing

• Health Equipment Denmark Aps

• Hoist Now

• Holtech Medical

• HøreService

• ICU-Lite (The Revolutionary Personal Safety Light)

• IMMUTELL

• iMotions

• INAGEN

• InMold Biosystems

• Intertisement.com

• Invacc

• Kontraframe ApS

• Kuneco

• LoveFilm.dk

• Mangospot

• Medichanical Innovation

• Medineering

• MESH Technologies

• MicroChemix

• MinReklame ApS

• Mobile Weaver ApS

• MPSOFTWARE

• Mybanker.dk A/S

• Netamia I/S

• NIL Technology

• Oddlabs ApS

• 42Tools ApS 

• OptionDirect 

• Pot8oz

• Quality Entertainment

• Quantumwise A/S, tidl. Atomistix ApS

• Radical Innovation Consulting

• Regnskabskompagniet

• RequirementOne

• RSP Systems A/S

• SafeVote

• SafeVote

• Sapio Systems ApS

• Scape Technologies A/S

• SmartShare

• Sonderborg Student Foundation

• Sund på Job ApS

• SUTWELL: The Hygeinic Suckling/Drinking Device.

• TEO

• The Antibody Project ApS

• Ugly Duckli 

• Unity Technology

• ViroGates A/S

• Vistachild

• YELLOWMAN I/S

• ZGene