Symbion is a startup ecosystem and community in Copenhagen, Denmark. The community has four locations, Symbion at Østerbro, Univate at (

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) Islands Brygge, Creaters Floor at (

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) Frederiksberg and COBIS at Nørrebro. Symbion is organized as a private

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owned by the Symbion foundation,

and a number of private investors. It houses around 450 independent and innovative startups and businesses, with 260 located at Symbion, 120 located at Univate, 20 located at Creators Floor and 50 located at COBIS. Symbion at Østerbro comprise 20,000 m². Moreover, Univate comprise 5,500 m², Creators Floor 600 m² and COBIS 12,000 m². The startup community offers a growth programme, Accelerace, and the companies of the community mainly work within the fields of

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, AI, hardware,

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, agrifood,

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, healthtech and

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. The name of "Symbion" is derived from the word "

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" which is the core thought behind the science park; mixing business and science in a symbiotic way.

Symbion facilitates

* Coworking * Joint offices * Smaller private offices * Meeting rooms * Professional sparring * Professional workshops and meetups *

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* Network groups etc.

History

Founded in 1986 by six scientists as a science and research park. Symbion was approved "an innovation environment" by the Danish Ministry of Science. This status implies that the company of Symbion is managing an unspecified amount of money on behalf of the ministry. Since then, several sub-company funds has been established by Symbion, it has been awarded several more official approvals and are now engaged in entrepreneuring across Denmark. In 2006 for example, Symbion established GazelleGrowth, a sub-company intended for internationalizing Danish companies, managing more than 32 million DKK on behalf of the Danish Ministry of Science. In 2009, Symbion established

Copenhagen Bio Science Park Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan ar ...

(COBIS) in a partnership with

Scion DTU DTU Science Park (previously Scion DTU) is a science park in Hørsholm north of Copenhagen, Denmark. The park is administratively part of the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) in Kongens Lyngby, and it also comprise premises at DTU's main ca ...

and

Incuba Science Park INCUBA Science Park is a research park in Aarhus, Denmark with four departments in Skejby, Katrinebjerg, Aarhus University and Aarhus Docklands. INCUBA was created as a merger of three former research institutions in 2007, and is an amalgamati ...

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Sources

* https://symbion.dk

References

External links

*
Accelerace

SEED Capital Denmark
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