StartUpAward - entrepreneur event

Meet the new, upcoming food start-ups at Entrepreneur Awards.

About StartUpAward:

For StartUpAward, we salute the new, upcoming food producers.

Join us when 9 out of a total of 45 talented food start-ups from the Entrepreneur Area take on the StartUpStage. Here they get to pitch their products and business idea to a professional panel of judges, and each get only 3 minutes to sell their product and business concept to the 4 judges, who in return have 2 minutes to ask questions.

There will be 1 winner per mentor, and the contestants will be announced mid-March 2022.

Duration: 1,5 hour
Date: Sunday, March 27 from 13:00 -14:30

The judges are:

MIA WAGNER, INVESTOR AND ENTREPRENEUR

Mia Wagner is co-founder and director of the company Nordic Female Founders, which works to create equality and growth among female entrepreneurs. Mia is also known from the TV program "Dragons' Den" on DR1, as the only female investor in the panel.

Heine Max, Seaman Chips

In a very short time, Heine Max has achieved great success with his brand of seaweed-based chips, Seman Chips, and therefore knows what it takes to succeed as an entrepreneur in the food industry.

HannA schaldemose, coop

Hanna Schaldemose works as a Process Consultant at COOP, where she is responsible for getting more local products on the shelves at COOP stores. Hanna therefore knows what it takes before a product works in stores.

rené damkjer, THE DANISH innovation FUND

As chief consultant at The Danish Innovation Fund, René works daily with companies seeking funds. His focus is mainly on food companies. He evaluates applications on the Innobooster and Grand Solutions programs, and is therefore in close contact with the latest entrepreneurial ideas and major green community challenges.

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