Top 15 Biotech Angel Investors in Denmark (September 2026)

A passion and vision for chemistry and biotechnology led Per (born 1958) to Novo A/S, where he started his career as a research chemist. He subsequently held several managerial positions developing products for the detergent industry and rose to Director for Application Technology in the company’s new enzyme development division in 1995.Hemoved to Raleigh, N.C., to head the company’s U.S. application technology unit in 1997, returning to Denmark three years later as Corporate Vice President of the Enzyme Development and Application division. In April 2000, Per merged the Research and Development division into the newly formed Enzyme Business R&D.Per assumed his current position following Novozymes’ demerger from Novo Nordisk in 2000. As chief science officer, he has helped Novozymes develop a unique industrial biotechnology platform which delivers solutions to meet customer needs and support growth.Per holds a M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from Technical University of Denmark (DTU). Committed to promoting education and research within the sciences, he was appointed Honorary Professor at DTU’s Institute for Systems Biology in 2010 and became Chairman of the Board in 2013. He is also Chairman of the Young Scientists association in Denmark.Per’s current external positions also include Chairman, DTU, board member of DHI Group, board member of ARTs Biologics A/S, and member of the Danish Council for Research Policy.

Investment focus

Industry: Biotechnology, Robotics, Biopharma
Stage:Pre-Seed, Series A, Seed
Geography: Denmark

Investor stats

Total investments: 5
Round size: Series A $5.9M–$20M
Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

Visibuilt — Visibuilt develops sustainable, bio-based asphalt binders made from mycelium. Replace fossil bitumen with visiBIT.
Octarine Bio — Octarine Bio is a world leading synthetic biology platform with a core mission to drive bio-based, sustainable solutions to address the most pressing planetary issues through innovation & exploration. Inspired by nature, to protect nature.
Synamics Therapeutics — Synamics Therapeutics uses AI and predictive modeling for precision oncology and improved drug discovery. Our adaptive medicine approach helps prolong drug effectiveness and improves outcomes for patients with intractable cancers. Learn more about Synamics Therapeutics and how we leverage AI for personalized, adaptive cancer therapies.

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Nicholas Francis is based out of Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, and is the Founder of Francis Family Funds. Nicholas previously worked at framebunker as a Co-Founder.

Investment focus

Industry: SaaS, Robotics, Software
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: Denmark, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 4
Round size: Seed $983k–$8.1M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Waterplan — Waterplan creates a water resilience planning platform for managing water availability in facilities. The company employs artificial intelligence to automatically collect operational data from businesses and combine it with local water satellite imagery to provide a real-time financial assessment of water risk and to offer modified mitigation andadaptation options.
Reshape Biotech — Fully digital microbiology developed by Reshape Biotech

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Giampaolo’s aim has always been to apply a disruptive approach to functional food ingredients and that’s how he founded Italiana Ingredienti in ’89 and Campus in ’05. Both companies have been acquired, Italiana Ingredienti by Chr. Hansen in ‘99 and Campus by Firmenich in ’18. Today he serves as Founder and Chairman at Hi-Food, an Italian companyproviding key functional ingredients to food companies, and as a business Angel Investor in several startups.

Investment focus

Industry: Chemical, Biotechnology, Food and Beverage
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
Geography: Italy, Denmark

Investor stats

Total investments: 3
Round size: Seed $4.9M–$7.6M
Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

Chromologics — Chromologics produce natural sustainable colors. Our flagship product is ChromoRed which performs better than existing natural, red colorants. ChromoRed is also applicable with vegan, kosher and halal diets.
Dreamfarm — We are a team of food-lovers 100% made in Italy! We dreamt of a better, tastier, more sustainable future and decided to join forces to create something special.

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Steen Riisgaard

Investment focus

Industry: Biotechnology, Biopharma, Wholesale
Stage:Pre-Seed, Series A
Geography: Denmark

Investor stats

Total investments: 3
Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

Visibuilt — Visibuilt develops sustainable, bio-based asphalt binders made from mycelium. Replace fossil bitumen with visiBIT.
Octarine Bio — Octarine Bio is a world leading synthetic biology platform with a core mission to drive bio-based, sustainable solutions to address the most pressing planetary issues through innovation & exploration. Inspired by nature, to protect nature.
Synamics Therapeutics — Synamics Therapeutics uses AI and predictive modeling for precision oncology and improved drug discovery. Our adaptive medicine approach helps prolong drug effectiveness and improves outcomes for patients with intractable cancers. Learn more about Synamics Therapeutics and how we leverage AI for personalized, adaptive cancer therapies.

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Mr. Linton is the founder of Canopy Growth Corporation (CGC) and co-founder of Tweed Marijuana Inc.Bruce’s primary focus has been to position cannabis brands in a competitive market and to raise the capital necessary to fund such operations. Bruce’s experience as a founder, CEO, and Board member across a wide variety of enterprises has influencedthe positive start of Canopy Growth, which to date has enjoyed market support for capital raises of over $150 million and the distinction of being the first company in the industry to be offered debt instruments by a federal lender. Bruce has led three M&A transactions valued over $500 million total since founding CGC. In addition to his leadership responsibility at Canopy Growth, Bruce is the CEO of communications company Martello Technologies. After beginning his career at Newbridge Networks Corporation, he has since held positions that include General Manager and Re-Founder of Computerland.ca, President and Co-Founder of webHancer Corp, and part of the establishing team at CrossKeys Systems Corporation. He was also part of the leadership team for the NASDAQ/TSX initial public offering at CrossKeys. Bruce has been responsible for the acquisition and/or disposition of over $600 million in business assets, and has established regular engagement with the World Bank and Asia Development Bank while focused on markets in India, Philippines, China, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan. He is the past Chairman of the Ottawa Community Loan Foundation, past Board Member and Treasurer of Canada World Youth past Board of Governor for Carleton University, past President of the Nepean Skating Club and past President of the Carleton University Students Association.

Investment focus

Industry: Cannabis, Health Care, Biotechnology
Stage:Post-IPO Equity, Seed, Pre-Seed
Geography: Canada, United States, Denmark

Investor stats

Total investments: 8
Round size: Seed $1.8M–$5M; Post-IPO Equity $40k–$53M
Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

SynBiotic — SYNBIOTIC SE is a leading European corporate group operating in the dynamic environment of the industrial hemp and cannabis market.
Octarine Bio — Octarine Bio is a world leading synthetic biology platform with a core mission to drive bio-based, sustainable solutions to address the most pressing planetary issues through innovation & exploration. Inspired by nature, to protect nature.
Martello Technologies — Prioritize and resolve performance problems and optimize the Microsoft 365 and Teams user experience with Martello Vantage DX.

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David is a technologist, the founder of Unity Technologies, non-exec director to others, and a restless entrepreneur with a passion for creating feedback loops between innovation and teams and products, applying new and old business models to changing industries, and pushing people to do the very best they can do.David's background is inprogramming, an assortment of university dabbling, creating companies, and helping entrepreneurs. He served as CEO of Unity Technologies since co-founding it in 2003 and until October 2014, with an unflinching vision to democratize game development, and to develop technology and business models for the next phase of the games industry. David Helgason attended the University of Copenhagen.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Gaming, Artificial Intelligence
Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Geography: United States, Denmark, Finland

Investor stats

Total investments: 81
Round size: Seed $1M–$8.3M; Pre-Seed $242k–$2.4M; Series A $5.4M–$30M
Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

ScyAI — Risk intelligence that thinks with you.
Noah — API-first stablecoin payments, enterprise-grade compliance and real-time settlements, powered by stablecoin technology.
Flow Engineering — Requirements management, made collaborative

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Mads Ingwar is the Co-Founder at Invert. He attended DTU - Technical University of Denmark.

Investment focus

Industry: Robotics, Biotechnology, Machine Learning
Stage:Seed
Geography: Denmark

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Reshape Biotech — Fully digital microbiology developed by Reshape Biotech

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Roland Berger is a Founder of Roland Berger, Munich and has been the Roland Berger GmbH's Honorary Chairman since 2010. Today, Roland Berger has grown to become one of the world's top five strategy consulting firms with 50 offices in 36 countries. The company has a workforce of 2,400 and advises leading international industrial andservice enterprises, as well as public institutions. From the company's foundation in 1967 until 2003, Roland was Chief Executive Officer of the firm, and until 2010 Chairman of the Supervisory Board. Prior to founding his strategy consultancy, Roland was employed as a consultant and ultimately partner at a leading American consulting firm based in Milan and Boston. Roland has been appointed to various expert commissions by several German state governments and the federal government. From 2007 to its dissolution in 2014, Roland was a Member of the High Level Group on Administrative Burdens under the leadership of former Bavarian State Premier Dr. Edmund Stoiber, appointed by the European Commission. Roland is a member of several supervisory boards and advisory councils of national and international companies, foundations and organizations, including Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA (Chairman of the Audit Committee), Bad Homburg; Prime Office REIT-AG, Munich (Chairman of the Supervisory Board); RCS Mediagroup S.p.A.(Vice-President), Milan, Italy. Roland also serves on several international advisory boards, including those of Deutsche Bank AG in Frankfurt, MillerBuckfire in New York and The Blackstone Group in New York. Since 1996 Roland has been a Lecturer and Visiting Professor and since 2000 Honorary Professor for Business Administration and Management Consulting at the Brandenburg Technical University in Cottbus. Furthermore, Roland was appointed a member of the Oxford Martin Commission for Future Generations in 2012. Since 2002, Roland has been on the Business Advisory Council of the State Premier of Saxony-Anhalt and was appointed to the Globalization Council Portugal by the Portuguese President Aníbal Cavaco Silva. Previously, German President Roman Herzog had appointed Roland to the President's Advisory Council for Innovation. Roland has also actively participated in over 20 federal government commissions under Helmut Kohl and Gerhard Schröder. Roland is a member of several supervisory boards and advisory councils of national and international companies, foundations and organizations and invests in many private and listed companies as well as startups. Roland was Honorary Consul General of the Republic of Finland in Bavaria and Thuringia from 1996 to 2015. Roland is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Roland Berger Foundation, which he set up personally with an endowment of EUR 50 million. The Roland Berger Foundation is dedicated to the global protection of human dignity and human rights. Each year it confers the Roland Berger Award for Human Dignity. The Foundation also helps gifted children and young people from underprivileged families across Germany and Italy to gain access to the best possible primary and secondary education. Outside work, Roland pursues his interest in modern art and owns a large collection of artworks, mainly by contemporary artists from Europe, the US, South America and China. Roland also loves classical music and supports the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Bavarian State Opera, among others. Roland loves hiking and cross-country skiing, especially in the Swiss region of Engadin. Roland studied business administration in Munich and Hamburg. (MBA from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich).

Investment focus

Industry: Financial Services, Information Services, Apps
Stage:Series A, Series B
Geography: Germany, Denmark, Switzerland

Investor stats

Total investments: 8
Round size: Series A $5.1M–$30M
Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

Flip — The AI employee experience platform for frontline workers without a company email. Flip unites comms, HR, identity and AI in one app. Book a demo.
ALOHA — Healthy plant-based foods, snacks & meal replacements. Best organic plant based protein bars, shakes and powders. Nothing artificial. Welcome to ALOHA!
Balance Re — Scaling the power of ALM

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Charles Songhurst is a founding partner of Katana Capital, a long-short equity hedge fund. He also runs the Songhurst Group, which holds assets in a variety of private companies.Charles ran corporate strategy for Microsoft and focused on partnering and M&A. He was involved in the Yahoo acquisition and commercial deal, and the Skypeacquisition. Before running corporate strategy, Charles was focused on the emergence of Google and the growth of the search industry.Prior, Charles was an analyst at McKinsey & Company in London. Charles received a bachelor’s degree from Oxford University in politics, philosophy, and economics.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

Total investments: 253
Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8M; Pre-Seed $500k–$5.1M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Zeit AI — Zeit AI, founded by former Palantir engineers, generates a structured data base atop your tabular data files which you can query using natural language. For example, you suspect an efficiency in your organisation and you have a bunch of data files, instead of reading through all of them one by one in excel, you explore them in Zeit AI. Theycurrently offer a two-week pilot program where their engineers develop tailored solutions for data challenges involving CSV, Excel, or PDF files.
Uncovr — Surgical video is the biggest dark data in medicine. We turn it into operative reports, billing codes, and clinical intelligence automatically
Structured AI — Construction AI QA/QC software that automatically reviews drawing packages and catches errors, code issues, and coordination clashes before they reach the field.

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Danish angel investor, based in London.

Investment focus

Industry: SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Geography: Denmark, Sweden, Finland

Investor stats

Total investments: 31
Round size: Seed $500k–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $246k–$1.6M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Heyhack — Automated web application security testing, protection, and reporting for software-as-a-service businesses.
LiveFlow — The easiest way to bring financial data into your spreadsheet. Automate your finances, consolidate your accounts and collaborate in real-time. Try LiveFlow for free today!
Fullview — Fullview let's you instantly monitor, control and analyze user sessions for faster real time customer support. No downloads. Easy to integrate.

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Peter Sandberg is a Co-Founder of Nordic Secondary Fund, and a venture partner at Startup Wise Guys. He has extensive experience as a Business Angel, Asset Management and Wealth Management

Investment focus

Industry: Internet, SaaS, FinTech
Stage:Angel, Pre-Seed, Secondary Market
Geography: Denmark, Kenya, Estonia

Investor stats

Total investments: 18
Round size: Angel $260k–$1.1M; Pre-Seed $150k–$226k
Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

Simporter — Make better products with more confidence, in just a fraction of the time.
Cavea — CAVEA.IO is providing AI based sponsorship and advertising measurement for esports and brands. We help companies make better and more informed decisions based on insights by analyzing the impact of marketing in streaming and social media. We offer authentic and lightning-fast customer support smoother than you ever expected. Working with giantslike FNATIC, ASTRALIS, and DREAMHACK - we continuously strive to become better and deliver more than anyone expects.
Hive.id — Proactively prevent fraud, build secure experiences for your customers and drive your revenue growth.

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Founder Acrobator Ventures, Tech Investment Fund. Founder Acrobator.com, growth hack and marketing advisory firm. Co-Founder Netherlands for Ukraine Foundation (NL4UA.org) supporting Ukrainians affected by the war since 2022. Digital Dutchman, entrepreneur-turned-investor. eCommerce expert, growth hacker and marketeer since 2000. Assisted 100+companies worldwide as CMO, MD, board advisor, consultant. Ranked #1 Foreign Angel Investor in Russia (EWDN); Top 10 Angel Investor (Firrma.ru/SLON), Crunchbase: #1 Dutch (2019) & Top 50 EU angel investor. Techcrunch / Crunchbase: "Bas Godska is one of the most prolific Western investors in Eastern Europe." Bas' Angel Fund (>EUR 100mn AUM) ranked by PitchBook as #2 in success by IRR (2021). Top 50 SuperAngel worldwide (Arete Index, 2024-25)Roles Europe/Russia/CIS (2003-2019): CMO lastminute.com ; Country Manager Sportingbet ; CMO Europe Ebookers.com / Orbitz.com ; MD Gogol Media. CMO / dep. CEO Ozon.ru ; VP Marketing Gloria Jeans ; CMO Lamoda.ru (Rocket Internet) ; CMO Digital KupiVIP.ru ; eCommerce Director a.i. Enter | Svyaznoi ; MD myThings.com ; Guest Lecturer Digital Marketing at Skolkovo MSM MBA (2013), Guest lecturer Stanford IGC Exec MBAAngel investor in decacorn Miro, Harver (exit to Rubicon PE), Chocofamily, Piano. Bas' angel investments (~50) have helped founders raise over $1 billion from investors like Iconiq, Accel, Insight, Salesforce, Google, YC, and Techstars. The combined market cap of these companies, based on their latest funding rounds, is ~$20 billion. As a VC/LP Bas invested in 400+ companies including 20+ unicorns.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Geography: United States, The Netherlands, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 56
Round size: Seed $300k–$2M; Angel $90k–$110k; Pre-Seed $90k–$2M
Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow

Portfolio highlights

Helio AI — Automated AI-powered recruiting platform with ATS and gamified personality test. Reduce daily workload by 60% and hire top talents in a few clicks.
Crosscheck — Crosscheck's AI agents automate document workflows and ensure 100% requirement-to-evidence traceability across your supply chain, backed by vetted auditors and industry-leading Certification Bodies.
JobHire.AI — JobHire.AI for job search. Your AI Career Assistant that helps you land an interview 10 times faster, match with top employers, and boost your career growth.

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Morten brings to Zendesk a refined focus on the technical details. He’s involved on all technical levels – from the application to the infrastructure components and databases.Prior to co-founding Zendesk, Morten consulted on a number of technology projects, ranging from helping startups establish a technical platform, to doing heavy dutyconsulting for online banking systems.Morten earned a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Copenhagen.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Apps, Fuel
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Geography: Denmark, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 8
Round size: Seed $487k–$2.5M
Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

Tame — ABOUT With Tame you can fully customise your virtual events, and make them fun, engaging & exciting to attend.- Apply your branding: Customise your virtual event completely - Personalised Welcome: Personal welcome message when attendees enter - Multiple stages: Broadcast content across multiple stages. - Live streaming: Stream live via anybroadcasting software - Pre-recorded videos: Broadcast pre-recorded videos as if it was live - Breakout sessions: Enable public or private breakout sessions. - Virtual Sponsor booths: Allow attendees to engage with sponsors live. - Customise Chat: Allow for 1:1 chat, group chat or session chat. - 1:1 Video Meetings: Empower social networking virtually.OUR COMPANY We are an experience-centric company, and we believe in the power of great experiences.   Our international group of dreamers, creators and rule-breakers passionate about merging design and technology together, enables us to transform that into one truly amazing event platform.OUR PEOPLE The team behind Tame has an aggregated decades long experience of creating events and building products that solve real problems for real people. So, what got us here? Our ambition to change a broken event industry through innovation, customer obsession and a relentless focus on the great experience.
Sumary — Autonomous finance. From month-end close to insights, from cash flow to reporting, Sumary handles it all.
Mash Makes — MASH Makes specializes in taking biowaste resources and turning them into valuable and sustainable commodities such as electricity, biofuels, hydrogen and biochar. Our unique approach to dealing with supply chain- and technology development enables us to provide these commodities at a price similar to that of the unsustainable competing products.Read more about our unique approach to creating value from waste on our website.

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Christian Bjerre Kusk is the CEO and Owner of Kusk Ejendomme.

Investment focus

Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Software
Stage:Angel, Seed
Geography: Denmark

Investor stats

Total investments: 3
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Biva — On Biva.dk you will find a huge selection of sofas , coffee tables , dining tables , chairs , beds , lamps , furniture and much, much more. They specialize in sofas and now offers over 200 different models, we develop regularly new sofas, all with a focus on comfort, quality and price. If you need a cheap bed as not to look like a tramp, or sofabed which can sleep well at? So explore one of the largest selection of cheap quality furniture. The concept is simple, with BIVA are design, quality and service, included in the prices.
Reshopper — Reshopper is an application for buying and selling used kids items. The compamy was founded by Jonas Funk Johannessen, Anders Dahl Pape, Anders Munk, and Nicolai Denmark Johannesen. In 2016 former AirBnB country manager Aja Guldhammer Henderson joined Reshopper as CEO and now she is leading the ambitious international expansion.
Plantcarb Aps — Get this domain name before someone else does. Quick and painless shopping. Affordable payment options available.

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