Some founders have a startup and need a commercial cofounder. Others have strong skills — technical, sales, operations, design — and are looking for the right opportunity.

This mixer connects the two.

What can you expect?
Builders Aarhus Mixer is a themed networking event. We create meaningful conversations that bring your early sales and ops challenges. Solve them with an intimate group of peers and advisors. Help business builders connect and recognize who they could genuinely grow with.

This is part of the Builders Aarhus event series, where you'll meet others actively looking to build a business in a friendly, conversational environment. The events are run in English.

Other events in the series include:

• Founders Strategy Roundtable: Bring your early sales and ops challenges. Solve them with an intimate group of peers and advisors.
• Builder Feedback Night: Bring your MVP, prototype, landing page, or pitch for group feedback.

This month's topic: Business Idea Brainstorming Game

This fast-paced game fires off rounds of creativity and pitches to strangers — meet new friends through watching how they think, work, and collaborate.

No startup idea? No problem.

Half the room brings ideas. The other half brings execution. Starting a company alone is brutal – the right circle of influence brings leverage, perspective, and momentum.

Agenda
16.30: Meet & greet
17.00: Monthly topic and facilitated networking
18.00: Open networking

About today's host
Joyu Lin is a Founder Sales Advisor who partners with startups to set up their first revenue engine. Her background spans life sciences, enterprise SaaS, and regulated industries.

Get to know and connect with Jo here.

Hear from entrepreneurs, ecosystem leaders, and public stakeholders as we explore:

- From research to company in Life science

- Lessons learned from 30 years of biotech entrepreneurship

- The role of infrastructure in ecosystem growth

- What Aarhus needs to become an even stronger Life Science hub

2-part workshop series:

Sustainability is quickly becoming a competitive edge — especially when talking to investors, partners, and customers. Working with sustainability starts with having access to the right data about your company, services and products, and that’s what these workshops are helping you get access to.

In this practical, beginner-friendly workshop series, you’ll learn how to understand and calculate your startup’s greenhouse gas emissions — and turn it into real business value.

In this fully funded workshop series, you will create a climate account for your startup, saving you a lot of time, money and effort. Green Survey makes complex and hard work easier for you to overcome and benefit from.

No prior experience needed.

What you’ll get:

• A clear understanding of climate accounting & ESG
• Hands-on experience calculating your own greenhouse gas emissions
• Skills to repeat the calculations year after year
• Insight into how climate data strengthens:
  • funding & investor dialogue
  • communication (without greenwashing)
  • your competitive advantage  

Why join?

• Climate data is becoming a standard in funding, investment and partnerships
• It helps you make smarter decisions and reduce costs
• It can unlock new business opportunities and competitive advantages
• You’ll be able to communicate legally without greenwashing

Who can join?

• Startups and early-stage companies from Aarhus (0–10 employees)
• Students and researchers connected to Kitchen, Aarhus University

If you have any questions about the workshops, you can reach out to Karoline Valentin Ry at kry@au.dk

Program

Workshop 1: Understand Your Climate Impact

• 15 September, 13.00-15.00

Workshop 2: Build Your Climate Account

• 24 September, 13.00-15.00

Preparation

• Short intro material + simple data collection (~1 hour) before Workshop 1
• Light preparation in between workshop 1 and workshop 2

About Green Survey

Green Survey is an Aarhus-based consultancy helping companies turn climate data into action.

They specialize in:

• Climate accounting (GHG Protocol)
• ESG reporting and strategy
• Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Environmental Product Declarations (EPD)
• Digital Product Passport and Climate Transition Plans
• Green business development

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The programme features perspectives from leading voices in venture capital, discussions on current market trends, and opportunities to connect with business angels, venture funds, family offices, and other investors with an interest in startups and growth companies. (Full programme TBA, ending at 14.30)

This year, we are strengthening the investor focus even further with a curated audience and a programme designed to make Aarhus worth the trip, whether you are travelling from Copenhagen, elsewhere in Denmark, or abroad.

The day concludes with the INCUBA Awards, celebrating Startup of the Year and Investor of the Year for their contribution to growth, innovation, and the development of the Aarhus startup ecosystem.

‍Please note: Aarhus Investor Summit is exclusively for investors.

Townhall is our favourite excuse to get everyone together.

​It’s where you grab a beer, eat shawarma, meet people who speak “startup” fluently, and maybe even find that missing piece your company has been looking for.

​At Aarhus Townhall, the stage is kept short, sharp and done before your drink gets warm.

​Because this isn’t about listening for hours. It’s about actually meeting people.

​Expect music, surprises, shawarma and a room full of people building, backing and supporting startups from Aarhus.

​Bring a friend or come on your own.

​It’s chill, it’s free, and we promise you’ll fit right in 🖤

​And this year is special.

​For the first time, Startup Aarhus and INCUBA have teamed up to create Aarhus’ biggest day for investors and startups by hosting Aarhus Townhall and Aarhus Investor Summit on the same day.

​First Investor Summit. Then Townhall. That means more founders, more investors and more of the Aarhus startup ecosystem in town together.

​Interested in Aarhus Investor Summit? Register here.

​Hope to see you on October 8th!

​Startup Aarhus

​PS: We have a limited number of tickets, and it’s first come, first served. They usually disappear fast, so please only grab one if you know you can make it. Every no-show means someone else from the community misses out.

​Didn’t get one? Join our waitlist. We’ll contact you if anything opens up.