Odin Award is Odense's largest entrepreneurial event, held as an event during the Odense Entrepreneur festival. In 2021, the Odin Award was arranged in a collaboration between Coworking Plus & Odense Iværksætterservice.
Odin Award 2021 was by far the largest award-winning event for the entrepreneurs in Odense, and was held in the delicious premises at DOK5000, with 500 seats and 100% sold out.
It should also be mentioned that the Odin Award could not have been possible without our generous sponsors. Through their contribution to the event, the sponsors have ensured that the entrepreneurial community in Odense could meet, network and celebrate the most talented startups. Our main sponsors are BDO, Focus Advokater, Danske Bank, and GF Forsikring.
Morten Resen Hosts Odin Award 2021
We were so lucky that Morten Resen agreed to host the Odin Award 2021, and he will take the entire audience through the celebration of Odense's most talented entrepreneurs. He is known as Denmark's most morning fresh man, and has a good 10 years behind him as host of Go ’Morgen Danmark. In 2016, he chose to retire as a radio and TV host, and become an entrepreneur with the company GoLittle - an app that guides families to the best, child-friendly places and experiences. In addition, Morten is also a co-founder of the popular meal plan and recipe app, Mambeno.
Keynote Speaker Andreas Dirksen
- 1# International Bestselling Author
- Founder og CEO
- Business Angel
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The Jury of Odin Award 2021
This year, the jury consists of a number of large business people with many years of experience from a number of industries. The jury has sole power over which startups must have laws to run with the victory at the Odin Award. The jury for the Odin Award 2021 consisted of:
Anne Dyrehauge – CEO Media City Odense
Anne Scheel Nordestgaard Dyrehauge is a trained journalist from the Danish School of Media and Journalism in Aarhus. She has worked as an editor on TV 2 Nyhederne's early evening broadcasts and was later appointed editor-in-chief of TV 2 PLAY Nyhederne. Today, she heads Denmark's first media tech cluster, as director of Media City Odense.
Brian Djernes – CEO Cane-Line
Brian Djernes has spent most of his life as director and co-owner of the furniture companies Cane-Line and Sika-Design in Rynkeby, which he has helped to make a huge international success. At the same time, he has twice as chairman led H.C. Andersen Festivals through successful and festive weeks in the center of Odense.
Søren Kristensen – CEO Athenas
Søren Kristensen started the lecture company Athenas during his studies, which today has become an international company with offices in several countries with many different activities - both lecture distribution, ticket sales and much more. The company's head office is located in Odense. In addition, he acts as an investor in several companies.
Torben Frigaard – Business Angel
Torben Frigaard Rasmussen is a former director and co-owner of Retail Internet, which in the early 00's was one of the first companies to introduce performance based online marketing.
The company was sold to a listed French company in 2006. Later, Torben became CEO and co-owner of e-conomic, which under Torben's leadership became the Nordic region's leading supplier of Saa's based accounting systems for small and medium-sized companies. E-conomic is dd. market leader in Denmark and used by more than 100,000 companies. Economic is today owned by VISMA.
The nominated startups from Odense
In the month before the event, Odense's entrepreneurial environment and other stakeholders had the opportunity to nominate startups from Odense for 3 different categories: Odin Tech, Oden Concept, and Odin Award.
There were a total of 30 nominated startups of which only 9 could go on in the process, ie 3 startups per category.An external jury was used for this selection. The first category was Odin Concept, and you can read much more about the nominated companies below.
Which startups were nominated for Odin Concept?
The nominated companies should be based on a unique, smart or innovative service, service concept or service. The jury was looking for innovative and new concepts with potential. The winner of the prize received a cash prize of DKK 20,000. The nominees in the Odin Concept category were:
Mewalii
The Organic Crave
CrateIt
Which startups were nominated for Odin Tech?
The companies nominated for the Odin Tech Award should be based on a technological, digital or data-driven solution. The jury was looking for startups with software, web, digital concepts or technology as a crucial element in products or services. The winner of the award received a cash prize of DKK 20,000. The nominees in the Odin Tech category were:
REPPY.dk
Abdirahman Jama er den 1. kandidat, som er nomineret i kategorien Odin Tech med sin virksomhed Reppy.dk. I Danmark har en smartphone en gennemsnitlig levetid på 18 måneder. Hvis uheldet er ude, så køber vi en ny, da det er for dyrt og besværligt at få den repareret. Dette er med til at belaste klimaet, da der går 75 kilo råstoffer til produktionen af en enkel smartphone.
The answer to this is Reppy.dk! Reppy.dk is an online platform that connects the consumer with an IT workshop. It should make it easy and simple for the consumer to have their smartphone, tablet or computer repaired if the product breaks down. The platform provides an overview of price, quality, repair time, ratings, etc. easily and quickly.
Read the whole article on ErhvervPlus here..
Vleppo
Australian Helen and Peter Coco are with their company Vleppo the 2nd candidate, which is nominated in the category Odin Tech!
Helen and Peter Coco have previously worked with blockchain technology, and came past the Funen robot environment on a family adventure, and it was an obvious opportunity to get the right workforce to bring their plans to life.
Vleppo works with blockchain technology, which makes it possible to enter into contracts where you can deposit money as part of the document. This is especially interesting for freelancers who work with clients around the world and where you may not trust each other.
Read the whole article on ErhvervPlus here..
ARIS Robotics
The 3rd candidate in the Odin Tech category is ARIS Robotics, created by Sina Pour Soltani CEO, Ann-Mia Ambjerg CBO and Christian J. Eberhardt CTO.
Today, there are several different bins for different types of waste. ARIS ROBOTICS has developed a self-sorting rubbish bin, which uses artificial intelligence to sort the waste correctly. In this way, ARIS ROBOTICS has turned waste sorting upside down.
Read the whole article on ErhvervPlus here..
Which startups were nominated for Odin Award?
The Odin Award, which is the main prize given to a start-up company that has done exceptionally well, and has shown that they can execute, and achieve incredible goals. The winner of the prize receives a cash prize of DKK 40,000. The nominees for the Odin Award were:
Kobots
Kobots APS is the 1st candidate to be nominated for an Odin Award! Kobots makes voice-controlled robots for the construction industry and right now has two versions of their robot Amigo, which can cut plates. Kobots is in the process of developing new products and is at the same time expanding into the Norwegian market and perhaps the German market, which they have in their sights.
Kobots has gained a foothold in the market, but now lacks capital to be able to increase their production. This capital they will achieve through crowdfunding, where they hope to get many smaller shareholders with great interest in Kobots. This will also be able to create a large, valuable international network for Kobots, which can help the company enter the international market.
Particle3D
Particle3D is the 2nd candidate to be nominated for an Odin Award! Casper Slot and Martin Bonde wrote their Bachelor project together in 2015 and subsequently founded Particle3D in 2017.
Particle3D's implants are natural and degradable, and utilize the body's own ability to regenerate itself. The implant is the missing part and shape, which the body itself breaks down and subsequently rebuilds from bone mass. Particle3D is currently conducting studies in the United States and China by independent experts who need to validate their implants prior to the US approval procedure.
Read the whole article on ErhvervPlus here..
UniControl
Who won Odin Award 2021?
We have had a lot of pictures of the event taken by our partner Creative Content Agency. You can see the entire gallery below.
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