DTU X-Tech

"Meet Bill, he's tired of…" Today's interesting lecture was on Quantified Value Propositions 💡 It highlighted the importance of understanding your customer’s business and testing assumptions! Thomas J. Howard brought the fun example: "Meet Bill, he's tired of…" and he got us thinking about both users and customers—even in B2B. 🚀   We discussed previous keynote speakers Gridlinx, MASH Makes, and dewa, along with some great companies founded during DTU X-Tech: Tempty Foods – Innovating future foods with fungi proteins 🍄 Kombo Audio – Accessible pro audio equipment for all 🎧 Fishent – A digital nose to detect fish degradation 🐟   Curious? Reach out! Thomas J. Howard, Loris Spasojevic, Michael Kai Petersen, Troels Keldmann, Oliver Parrot, Luna Ramlyng, Sebastian Voinea, and Anna H.

What an inspiring Friday! 🚀 We had the pleasure of hosting Martina Vojtkova and Mikkel Olsen from Gridlinx. Hearing your journey from DTU X-Tech to transforming electric vehicles into home battery systems was truly motivating!⚡ Thank you for sharing your valuable insights with the new students! 🙌 Curious to learn more? Reach out to Gridlinx or the amazing team behind DTU X-Tech: Thomas J. Howard, Loris Spasojevic, Michael Kai Petersen, Troels Keldmann, Oliver Parrot, Luna Ramlyng, Sebastian Voinea, and Anna H..

We're excited to officially announce our new partnership with MindFuture, a venture building platform for early stage startups and entrepreneurs. As part of the collaboration, MindFuture will be sponsoring the 100,000 kr. main prize at DTU X-Tech+ and offering free office space to our top three teams. This collaboration is going to be a huge boost for our teams, giving them the space and support they need to develop their startups further. A big thanks to MindFuture for believing in the talent and potential coming out of DTU X-Tech and for backing the next generation of startups. Let’s build the future together. DTU Entrepreneurship - DTU Skylab

Always a pleasure to welcome X-Tech alumni to share their entrepreneurial journeys 🚀 and how far they've come since starting at DTU X-Tech 🎓 A big thank you to Lorenz Carl Flechtenmacher from dewa for your inspiring presentation 🙌. I’m sure it has left a lasting impact on our students! 💡

🚀 We're back! The Autumn semester started today at DTU Skylab, where we welcomed 104 enthusiastic students ready to embark on their 13-week startup journey. 🎓✨ A warm welcome to all our new faces – future entrepreneurs grouped into multidisciplinary teams of visionaries, innovators, and go-getters. 🌟💡 You're about to dive into the exciting world of startups, gaining real-world traction and mastering the art of pitching! 💼💥 During the first lecture, Thomas J. Howard shared his inspiring journey with MASH Makes, while also highlighting the crucial role of entrepreneurship in our society. 🌍💼 Stay tuned as we follow these driven entrepreneurs throughout the semester, sharing their stories, challenges, and triumphs along the way. Exciting times ahead! 🚀🔥 A big shoutout to the dedicated team behind this course: Thomas J. Howard, Loris Spasojevic, Michael Kai Petersen, Troels Keldmann, Sebastian Voinea, Oliver Parrot, Anna Maria Hess and Luna Ramlyng 🙌 Located at DTU - Technical University of Denmark, DTU Entrepreneurship, and DTU Skylab.

The X-Tech Finals are getting better and better each semester! Thank you all for making this event a fantastic wrap-up of the Spring '24 semester. Thanks to our wonderful lions who kept the Den awake throughout the afternoon: Hanne Breddam, Anders Kjær, Eva M. Holst-Andersen, Lasse Skovgaard Jensen, and Mads-Jakob Vad Kristensen. Congratulations to all the participating startups and to the winners at the X-Tech Awards. We can't wait to see what the next batch of hungry entrepreneurs has in store for us at the next DTU X-Tech Finals on December 12 at DTU Skylab.

BEST TECH DEMO GOES TO... CETO Innovation! 🏆🏆🏆🏆 We are excited to announce CETO Innovation as the winner of our Best Tech Demo prize at the DTU X-Tech Finals! A big congratulations to the hard-working team: Liza Babaieva, Hagai Ofer, Jonathan Klaffs, and Viktor Buch for their efforts and their tech development throughout their X-Tech+ journey. CETO Innovation advances district heating pipeline management through in-pipe condition assessments and precise underground mapping. They provide district heating companies with strategic advantages for planned maintenance and risk management. Their technology helps utility providers minimize environmental impact, optimize efficiency, and ensure proactive pipeline health management with precise location insights. A special thank you to the team's Advisory Board from DTU Board Education – Michael Schroder, Rasmus Borgstrøm, Amit Luthra, Morten Berg Arnoldus, and Marion Wismann - for their support throughout the semester. And yet again - a special thanks to everyone who contributed to making this edition of DTU X-Tech Finals a success, including Eva M. Holst-Andersen, Hanne Breddam, Anders Kjær, Mads-Jakob Vad Kristensen, Lasse Skovgaard Jensen, Thomas J. Howard, Michael Kai Petersen, Loris Spasojevic, Troels Keldmann and our wonderful Teaching Assistants! DTU Entrepreneurship - DTU Skylab

AND THE GRAND WINNER IS ... dewa! 🥇 We are thrilled to announce that dewa has secured the grand prize at yesterday's DTU X-Tech Finals, taking home 100,000 kr! This is a significant achievement and we couldn't be prouder. A big big round of applause to the brilliant team members: Lorenz Carl Flechtenmacher, Thomas Gammelby Lodberg, and Anis Puhovac. Your dedication, hard work, and constant improvement were very admirable. Congratulations! dewa offers a secure, streamlined solution for digital identity management, enabling seamless, hypersecure identifications while giving ownership of identity data back to the users. And a special thank you goes to Crispin Rolt, Lars Aaskov, Simon Kaas, Stefan Nadelmann, and Farhad Rasouli - the team's advisory board from DTU Board Education - for their support throughout the semester. We also extend our gratitude to Anton Boldrup Birn from last year's spring winner DemensAI, Nejc Novak from last fall's winner Anemo Robotics, and everyone who contributed to making this event a success, including our wonderful lions, Eva M. Holst-Andersen, Hanne Breddam, Anders Kjær, Mads-Jakob Vad Kristensen, and Lasse Skovgaard Jensen, our faculty, Thomas J. Howard, Michael Kai Petersen, Loris Spasojevic, Troels Keldmann and Danny Grydholt-Jantzen, and our wonderful TAs! A huge thanks as well to our great partners, PreSeed Ventures and Otto Bruuns Fonden, for helping us making this happen. We look forward to seeing you all again at the DTU X-Tech Finals: Fall 2024! DTU Entrepreneurship - DTU Skylab

SIGN UP FOR TOMORROW We're looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow! It's going to be one hell of a day - full of excitement and celebration 🎉 If you haven't signed up already - Go do it now! Sign-up link: https://lnkd.in/dn_sEgJ5 Thomas J. Howard, Danny Grydholt-Jantzen, Loris Spasojevic, Michael Kai Petersen, Troels Keldmann, Lasse Sigvert, Julie Rønnov, Katerina Yiannopoulou, Alper Nedimoğlu, Jes Broeng, Anne Malberg Horsager DTU - Technical University of Denmark, DTU Entrepreneurship, DTU Skylab

Book your calenders for the DTU X-Tech Finals on May 22nd! We are coming to the end of the Spring 2024 co-hort of DTU X-Tech. We will gather to celebrate the new learnings, new connections and potential new ventures made during the semester at the X-Tech Finals! Please sign up through the link below! 🚀 DTU - Technical University of Denmark - DTU Entrepreneurship - DTU Skylab