The Home Guard

What The Home Guard does

The Home Guard (Hjemmeværnet, hjv.dk) is a Danish voluntary military organization founded in 1949 and headquartered in Vordingborg, Denmark. It is classified as a non-profit entity and operates as a volunteer defense auxiliary supplementing the Danish Armed Forces, with a stated membership of over 10,000 volunteers. Its core function is supporting national defense through voluntary personnel rather than producing commercial goods or services.

The organization has no disclosed commercial product or service portfolio, no proprietary technology stack, and no AI/ML capabilities in the source data. Its public web presence consists of a Microsoft SharePoint/ADFS authentication portal (visible at logon.hjv.dk) for member and staff access, with no consumer-facing commercial interface. No technology integrations, APIs, patents, certifications, app offerings, or AI modalities are documented in the available sources. The input material confirms the absence of an API and the absence of any technology information across other data blocks.

There is no disclosed revenue model, pricing structure, customer base, go-to-market motion, partnership portfolio, funding history, leadership roster, M&A activity, or commercial segmentation in the input. As a non-profit voluntary defense organization, the entity is structurally distinct from a commercial enterprise: it is not a venture-backed or PE-relevant investment target in conventional terms, and any financial activity would derive from Danish government appropriation rather than commercial contracts. Source attribution for the basic organizational facts rests on the company's own website (hjv.dk) as the primary public identifier, as no third-party WX-tagged source in the input corroborates the Denmark-specific firmographic data.

Name

The Home Guard

Website

https://hjv.dk

Company type

Private

Founded year

1949

Headcount range

5,001–10,000 employees

Short description

The Home Guard is a Danish voluntary military organization founded in 1949, headquartered in Vordingborg, with over 10,000 volunteer members supplementing Denmark's national defense as a non-profit.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Defense Services

NAICS

National Security (928110), National Security and International Affairs (9281)

akta.pro primary industry

Veterans Affairs & Military Family Services (BPAIAHAL)

akta.pro secondary industry

Veterans & Military Family Benefits Administration (BPAIAKAI)

Keywords

• Voluntary military defense
• National defense services
• Civil defense forces
• Military reserve forces
• Homeland defense

Headquarters

HQ city

Vordingborg

HQ country

Denmark

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure

Core offering

The Home Guard is a voluntary military organization that provides part-time military service, civil defense, and homeland security support as an auxiliary force to Denmark's regular armed forces. It is supported by a member portal (hjv.dk) accessed via Active Directory and NemLog-in authentication for internal coordination and member management.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Direct peers

• Norwegian Home Guard (Heimevernet): Norway's volunteer military force, organized under the Norwegian Armed Forces with similar territorial defense and rapid-response mandate. Closest structural and doctrinal peer to the Danish Home Guard, operating in a comparable Nordic defense context.
• Swedish Home Guard (Hemvärnet): Sweden's voluntary defense organization, part of the Swedish Armed Forces, with similar local defense, surveillance, and auxiliary support tasks. Highly comparable in mission, structure, and volunteer composition.
• Estonian Defence League (Kaitseliit): Estonian volunteer-based paramilitary organization with territorial defense and national resilience tasks. Smaller and more actively engaged in Baltic deterrence than the Danish Home Guard, but structurally and doctrinally analogous.
• Finnish Defence Forces Local Defence Units: Finnish territorial volunteer units operating under the Finnish Defence Forces. Comparable volunteer-based auxiliary structure with homeland defense and territorial tasks.

Broad incumbents

• UK Reserve Forces: UK's broader reserve and volunteer forces (including Army Reserve, Royal Naval Reserve, Royal Air Force Reserve) provide part-time military capacity supplementing regular forces. Larger and more institutionalized than the Danish Home Guard but serves comparable auxiliary functions.
• German Reserve Forces: Germany's reserve forces under the Bundeswehr, providing voluntary reserve capacity with territorial defense and reinforcement roles. Comparable in mission but operating within a much larger standing force structure.
• US National Guard: US reserve component with both state and federal missions, providing trained forces available for domestic and overseas deployment. Operates at vastly greater scale but comparable in serving as a part-time military reserve force supplementing regular armed forces.

Others

• UP Home Guard (India): Uttar Pradesh Home Guard is a state-level volunteer auxiliary force in India used for civil defense and supplementary policing. Listed only because source data conflates this entity with the Danish Home Guard; not a true operational peer.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat1 record

Key risks6 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/hjemmevaernet
• Facebookfacebook.com/hjemmevaernet
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/hjemmevernet

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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