Venture Connect - Deep Tech
Venture Connect is an exclusive one-day event where VCs meet emerging and established spinouts from Aarhus University.
These spinouts represent innovative early-stage startups seeking guidance and investment. For this edition, we present cases fromour deep-tech portfolio (excluding therapeutics), with a main focus on MedTech,GreenTech, FoodTech, Biotech and Digital Solutions. This invitation-only event will take place at Kitchen, Aarhus University (our new innovation hub) and focuses on fostering valuable connections between VCs, high-potential spinouts and AU.
WHY IT’S WORTH YOUR TIME
- Early access to established and emerging AU spinouts
- Curated matching - we will tailor your personal meeting plan aligned with your focus area
- Influence investment opportunities early, before strategy and market direction are locked in
- Expand your relationships with fellow investors and Aarhus University business developers
- Zero filler - the format is meeting-focused, not conference-style
FORMAT
- Your own private meeting room for the full day
- Up to 7 meetings of 45 minutes each
- Personal meeting plan and spinout material provided ahead of the event
- Discussions on a non-confidential level
OPTIONAL NETWORKING DINNER: APRIL 14
- Dinner in Aarhus city center
- Meet fellow VCs and the business developers from Aarhus University in a relaxed setting
- No presentations and no lengthy speeches
WHAT YOU GAIN
- First-look exposure: Aarhus University maintains a portfolio of 80 deep-tech spinouts and an additional pipeline of 60 emerging spinouts. You get access before they start formal fundraising in the open market.
- Building early relationships: You have the opportunity to establish connections with innovative researchers early on, gaining valuable insights into their technologies and long-term potential.
- Ability to shape outcomes: Your feedback can directly influence commercial framing, funding strategy, and go-to-market decisions.
- Efficient use of time: Get to know up to 7 investment opportunities in one day. We handle preparation, screening, selection, and scheduling.
WHAT WE EXPECT FROM YOU
- Be direct and investment-oriented: Share how you assess risk, milestones, commercial validation and fundraising.
- Highlight gaps and opportunities: Most cases are early. Point to what unlocks the next step - whether it concerns the business model, risk profile, IP pathway or funding strategy.
- Focus on readiness: Signal what would make a case investable for you in 6–18 months. The founders will act on it.
- Full-day presence: The format only works when you are available for the full schedule. We fill your calendar with relevant cases.
- Openness to curation: We tailor your meeting plan based onyour investment scope. We expect participating VCs to be open to these proposed meetings. If a case clearly falls outside your scope, we adjust.
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
- Date: April 15, 2026
- Time: 09:30 - 16:45
- Venue: Kitchen, Aarhus University, Universitetsbyen 76, DK-8000 Aarhus
- Participants: Investors + deep-tech spinouts (non-therapeutics) + Aarhus University business developers
- Lunch: 12:30 - 13:15, open networking
- Pre-event dinner: April 14 - information to be announced later
Contacts: Business Developer Morten Holmager, holmager@au.dk / +45 9350 8718 and Business Developer Otto Bjerg Hausgaard, obh@au.dk / +45 2559 0657
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Social Startup Workout
What is it?
Startup life is busy, and finding time to move your body isn’t always easy. That’s why Startup Aarhus, together with Sport X Tribe, is inviting founders and startup employees to a weekly social workout, where you train together, sweat together, and connect in a new setting.
This is a space to move your body, clear your head, and meet other people, who understand the realities of startup life, without it being another meeting or networking event.
Happening every Tuesday from February 3rd to beginning of July.
What to expect?
- Guided workout with a coach
- Open to all levels
- A relaxed, social atmosphere
- Time to hang out and connect afterwards in the clubhouse
- Private workout for founders and startup employees
Practical info
- Where: Sport X Aarhus Ø, Pakhus 77 (Hveensgade 5, 8000 Aarhus C)
- Start date: Tuesday, February 3
- Workouts: Every Tuesday, 08:30 - 09:30
- Price: 89 DKK / month per person
- Signup: Click sign up below and pay through the link
- Coffee & bread available after our workout (+10 DKK)
- Minimum 18 participants to start
No pressure. No expectations. Just movement, good energy, and good people.
Social Startup Workout
This is a space to move your body, clear your head, and meet other people who understand the realities of startup life.
Social Startup Workout
What is it?
Startup life is busy, and finding time to move your body isn’t always easy. That’s why Startup Aarhus, together with Sport X Tribe, is inviting founders and startup employees to a weekly social workout, where you train together, sweat together, and connect in a new setting.
This is a space to move your body, clear your head, and meet other people, who understand the realities of startup life, without it being another meeting or networking event.
Happening every Tuesday from February 3rd to beginning of July.
What to expect?
- Guided workout with a coach
- Open to all levels
- A relaxed, social atmosphere
- Time to hang out and connect afterwards in the clubhouse
- Private workout for founders and startup employees
Practical info
- Where: Sport X Aarhus Ø, Pakhus 77 (Hveensgade 5, 8000 Aarhus C)
- Start date: Tuesday, February 3
- Workouts: Every Tuesday, 08:30 - 09:30
- Price: 89 DKK / month per person
- Signup: Click sign up below and pay through the link
- Coffee & bread available after our workout (+10 DKK)
- Minimum 18 participants to start
No pressure. No expectations. Just movement, good energy, and good people.
Social Startup Workout
This is a space to move your body, clear your head, and meet other people who understand the realities of startup life.
Social Startup Workout
What is it?
Startup life is busy, and finding time to move your body isn’t always easy. That’s why Startup Aarhus, together with Sport X Tribe, is inviting founders and startup employees to a weekly social workout, where you train together, sweat together, and connect in a new setting.
This is a space to move your body, clear your head, and meet other people, who understand the realities of startup life, without it being another meeting or networking event.
Happening every Tuesday from February 3rd to beginning of July.
What to expect?
- Guided workout with a coach
- Open to all levels
- A relaxed, social atmosphere
- Time to hang out and connect afterwards in the clubhouse
- Private workout for founders and startup employees
Practical info
- Where: Sport X Aarhus Ø, Pakhus 77 (Hveensgade 5, 8000 Aarhus C)
- Start date: Tuesday, February 3
- Workouts: Every Tuesday, 08:30 - 09:30
- Price: 89 DKK / month per person
- Signup: Click sign up below and pay through the link
- Coffee & bread available after our workout (+10 DKK)
- Minimum 18 participants to start
No pressure. No expectations. Just movement, good energy, and good people.
Social Startup Workout
This is a space to move your body, clear your head, and meet other people who understand the realities of startup life.
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Imagining social and democratic entrepreneurship
This workshop invites participants to envision a positive future through foresight exercises and visualization. Over the two days, you will engage with democratic and social entrepreneurship by learning to build communities and investigate personal disharmonies as catalysts for new stories and project ideas. The program combines hands-on group work with inspiring talks from established social entrepreneurs, concluding with a final exhibition and networking session.
Program
Friday, April 17th
15:00-15:30: Introduction
15:30-18:00: Embodied future foresight exercise and visualization
18:00-20:00: Dinner
Saturday, April 18th
08:30-09:00: Breakfast
09:00-09:30: Short recap
09:30-10:30: Personal disharmonies and entrepreneurial stories
10:30-10:45: Coffee break
10:45-12:15: Democratic entrepreneurship: Starting a cooperative
12:15-13:00: Lunch
13:00-14:00: Social entrepreneurship: The role of communities
14:00-16:00: Group work
16:00-16:45: Talk: Making social and democratic projects evolve and exist over time
17:00-18:00: Final exhibition and feedback
18:30-19:00: Drinks and snacks
What you will gain:
- Future foresight skills: The ability to use future thinking and visualization exercises to imagine and plan for positive social outcomes
- Entrepreneurial inspiration: Gain an understanding of social and democratic entrepreneurship by exploring cooperatives and social business projects
- Community building: Techniques for leveraging the power of communities to ensure social and cultural projects remain resilient over time
- Expanded network: New connections with like-minded people and inspiring entrepreneurs over shared meals and networking sessions.
Is it for me?
We welcome students (bachelor's and master's level) and PhD students from all disciplines. You do not have to bring a concrete project or business idea to the workshop. We will explore project ideas and new forms of entrepreneurship together. The event will be held in English and it is free. Limited seats available.
Imagining social and democratic entrepreneurship
Join us for an inspiring and innovative two-day workshop where you can try out entrepreneurship in a playful and imaginative way.