“Jesper Bevensee Jensen, co-founder and CTO of the start-up company Bifrost Communications, was recently presented with the Danish Industry Foundation Entrepreneur Award of DKK 500,000 by HRH Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark. In its motivation for the award, the jury stressed, among other things, that the team behind Bifrost had developed a technology with ‘global potential’ which, by its very nature, was ideally suited for scaling and mass production. The company is ready to find investors who wish to inject money into Bifrost’s ground-breaking optical transceiver (contraction of the English words ‘transmitter’ and ‘receiver’, ed.). The technology will be able to improve fibre network range and increase the number of users. From being a demonstration model the size of a bread bin, the transceiver is to be developed into something akin to a USB stick which the team can test on the telecom operators’ existing fibre network. The aim is to secure billions of kroner in savings for the telecom sector, create economic growth and jobs, and faster internet connections. In recent years, the former assistant professor at DTU Fotonik published scientific articles and beat world records with lightning-fast wireless networks. However, he became increasingly interested in solving the industry’s need for cheap broadband solutions that could provide users with good, stable, and fast internet access. Jesper Bevensee Jensen therefore decided to simplify things, do away with costly complicated steps, and use new technologies. To that end, he registered two patents through DTU. In 2015, Jesper Bevensee Jensen was contacted by Bo Pedersen, formerly with DTU Fotonik and the man behind several telecommunications and nanotechnology start-ups. After just ten minutes, Jesper decided to become an entrepreneur instead of a DTU researcher. The two men rented the office next door to Jesper’s and started the company with help of ‘proof of concept’ funding from DTU. Gradually, the project saw several experienced entrepreneurs join the team.”