In 2022, Nick Laursen and his wife moved to Billund, when she had found work in the city. Nick continued his work with entrepreneurship and commercialization within sustainable and innovative energy solutions as well as companies, and in this connection he contacted Billund Erhverv for help in finding an office community or similar, so that he did not have to work from home.
Contact was quickly established with GEV in Grindsted, who via their GEV Energy Hub offers office space to entrepreneurs within energy, sustainability or supply. GEV and Nick Laursen quickly found that they were a perfect match, and at the start of 2023 Nick moved into the GEV Energy Hub.
"It was fantastic to get the office space at GEV, because I now sit in an environment that has to do with energy," says Nick Laursen and continues: "I wanted to try my hand at entrepreneurship in Denmark and was offered to participate in an entrepreneurship program in Copenhagen, which, among other things, arranges company visits. I needed someone who could code and who was skilled, and on a company visit in Oslo I met Antonio Calderon, who then became a co-founder of the company KAKTI.”
KAKTI quickly got off to a good start, and in May 2023 the company received investment from a global venture capital fund and was awarded an InnoFounder under the Innovation Fund in July 2023, where the CVR number was also created. Things are going strong for the company, and KAKTI is in the process of scaling up.
Investment in the future
Nick Laursen explains: "We joined DTU's GreenUp Accelerator in May 2024, which takes in 15 companies a year and runs them through a scale-up over 20 months. In that context, the companies are being offered a convertible bond, which we intend to accept - and raise additional money from private investors."
"We have received a great deal of help so that the dominoes fell as they did, and therefore we would like to give something back - we can do that by first giving investors here in the municipality the opportunity to say no or yes," says Nick Laursen and continues: "So I contacted Billund Erhverv again, and they are helping to organize an event for their investor network - and then we hope that everything will fall into place. We are of course looking for other investors, but as I said, I would like to give the investors here in the municipality the opportunity first."
The future looks bright for KAKTI. The company is now faced with having to find the right employees, and the ambition is to quickly achieve a size so that they can do several projects per quarter and then scale up from there.
About CACTI
KAKTI develops advanced AI-driven optimization solutions for district heating systems. With a focus on sustainability and efficiency, KAKTI provides intelligent solutions that reduce energy waste, lower operating costs and promote a greener future.
If you are an entrepreneur and looking for an investor, you can contact business developer Paul-Erik Hensgen at peh@billunderhverv.dk and 9215 0109.
