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Top 50 Biotechnology VC Funds in Denmark

A list of 50 VC funds that invest in Biotechnology startups based in Denmark. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Biotechnology companies from Denmark. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Biotechnology VC Funds in Denmark

Investor Biotechnology Denmark investments
Novo Holdings 28
BioInnovation Institute 22
Vaekstfonden 15
Vaekstfonden 12
Seed Capital 9
Sunstone Life Science Ventures 9
PSV 7
Nordic Foodtech VC 6
Gilde Healthcare 5
Ysios Capital 4
Oskare Capital 4
VF Venture 4
RA Capital Management 4
DSM Venturing 3
Thia Ventures 3
West Hill Capital 3
ACME Capital 3
HealthCap 3
EIR Ventures 3
Sofinnova Partners 3
Atlantic Labs 3
Innovations Kapital 2
CAPNOVA 2
Northzone 2
Novo Nordisk 2
Industrifonden 2
Lundbeckfonden Ventures 2
Newtree Impact 2
Export and Investment Fund 2
SOSV 2
Wellcome Trust 2
Aescap Venture 2
Balderton Capital 2
The Yield Lab Europe 2
Blue Horizon Corporation 2
FundersClub 2
Innovation Fund Denmark 2
+ND Capital 2
Novo Ventures 2
Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation 2
Verve Ventures 2
M Ventures 2
Wellington Partners 2
Karolinska 2
Symrise 2
PINC 2
EQT life science 1
Ferd 1
GGV Capital 1
NOON Ventures 1
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Novo Holdings VC Fund · Hellerup, Hovedstaden, Denmark · 17 investments in the past 12 months
Novo Holdings is a world-leading life science investor with a focus on creating long-term value.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
  • Series A, Series B, Series C
  • United States, Denmark, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • ADCendo — ADCendo ApS is a biotech company dedicated to developing new types of anti-cancer drugs. We focus on antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) directed at novel targets, that have been found to be overexpressed by several cancer forms, that are all characterized by a significant unmet need for novel treatment.
  • Asceneuron — Asceneuron develops effective therapeutics for orphan tauopathies and Alzheimer’s disease. By focusing on areas of high unmet medical need, Asceneuron aspires to become a leading biotech company specialized in small molecule drug discovery for neurodegenerative diseases.Tauopathies are currently untreatable neurodegenerative diseases thatrapidly progress towards debilitating conditions. The appearance of deposits of the microtubule-associated tau protein as e.g. neurofibrillary tangles in neurons of the brain is a common feature of tauopathies that is shared with Alzheimer’s disease. Neuronal tau deposits are known to be a major contributor to neurodegeneration and mutations in the tau gene are causative of the tauopathy fronto-temporal dementia and parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17 (FTDP-17).Due to increasing life expectancy, Alzheimer’s disease is viewed as one of the largest healthcare problems of this century, imposing a major economic burden on societies in the Western and developing world. Current treatment options provide limited benefits supporting the urgent need for more efficacious and better tolerated medicines that address symptomatic relief as well as disease progression.
  • Myricx Bio — Myricx Pharma is a small molecule drug discovery company engaged in developing novel proprietary inhibitors of human N-myristoyltransferases (NMT), with a primary focus in oncology but also exploring potential applications across other diseases.
BioInnovation Institute VC Fund · Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark · 17 investments in the past 12 months
BioInnovation Institute is a biotechnology startup that offers entrepreneurs and researchers in life science. Early-stage life science start-ups are supported with up to 10 million DKK in funding, business acceleration, network, labs, and office space. It helps to early-stage start-ups within human health and planetary health. The startup'smission is to use its knowledge, network, funding, and infrastructure to incubate world-class life science and catalyze the commercialization of new solutions through start-ups.BioInnovation Institute was founded in 2018 and is based in Denmark.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Medical, Health Care
  • Convertible Note, Pre-Seed, Debt Financing
  • Denmark, Germany, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • NorFalk — NorFalk rethinks the way to produce surfactants: the active and stabilizing ingredients in household care and personal care consumer products.
  • TriptoBIO — TriptoBIO is developing a platform for producing natural plant compounds that will support the health of our planet. Our goal is to create a future where everyone can benefit from the power of plants, without depleting natural resources. Our first compound will liberate the world from rat poison
  • HHC Medical — HHC Medical is a health tech company developing targeted non-invasive drug delivery devices through electroporation to transfect a large number of cells. It was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Hillerød, Denmark.
Vaekstfonden VC Fund · Hellerup, Hovedstaden, Denmark
Vaekstfonden – The Danish Growth Fund – is the Danish state's investment fund. We strive to improve access to risk capital to enable Danish businesses to innovate, and to generate growth and new jobs. In close collaboration with banks and domestic and international private investors, we finance companies from all sectors nation-wide. We canaccompany you for the entire journey – from your company’s infancy through growth phases to expansion abroad and even to an initial public offering.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Denmark, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Wedio — Buy & Rent professional film equipment from trusted creators near you. Buy & rent cameras, lenses, drones with Global Coverage. Explore
  • Keepit — The Keepit Cloud is the most cost-effective solution on the market with 20+ years of experience. Learn more about our next-level data protection services
  • kleen hub — Kleen hub is Denmark's first digital return system for reusable coffee cups and food packaging.
Vaekstfonden VC Fund · Hellerup, Hovedstaden, Denmark
Vaekstfonden – The Danish Growth Fund – is the Danish state's investment fund. We strive to improve access to risk capital to enable Danish businesses to innovate, and to generate growth and new jobs. In close collaboration with banks and domestic and international private investors, we finance companies from all sectors nation-wide. We canaccompany you for the entire journey – from your company’s infancy through growth phases to expansion abroad and even to an initial public offering.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Denmark, United States, Norway
Portfolio highlights
  • Wedio — Buy & Rent professional film equipment from trusted creators near you. Buy & rent cameras, lenses, drones with Global Coverage. Explore
  • Keepit — The Keepit Cloud is the most cost-effective solution on the market with 20+ years of experience. Learn more about our next-level data protection services
  • kleen hub — Kleen hub is Denmark's first digital return system for reusable coffee cups and food packaging.
Seed Capital VC Fund · Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Seed Capital invests in Danish tech businesses with global ambitions. We are focused on "late seed"-stage companies, typically investing 1-3 MEUR in rounds of 1-6 MEUR. Proud backers of Trustpilot, Vivino, Lunar, Templafy, Dixa, Forecast, and many other great companies.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, SaaS
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Denmark, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Flatpay — Flatpay's fair, flat-rate pricing simplifies payments & cuts costs. Benefit from our comprehensive solution & superior customer service. Join us now!
  • Mesh Bio — Mesh Bio is a digital health startup that is transforming chronic disease management through predictive analytics. Mesh Bio works with healthcare providers and stakeholders to provide innovative solutions that transform health screening and disease management. They translate clinical data and numbers into actionable insights that help patientsbetter manage their health, lifestyle and disease risks.
  • Embla — Embla provides an online medical weight loss treatment using prescription drugs and coaching. The company provides patients with evidence-based treatments, digital tools, medication, and coaching to facilitate sustainable weight loss. Embla was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Sunstone Life Science Ventures VC Fund · Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
Sunstone Life Science Ventures is an independent European venture capital investment firm. We enable and empower life science therapeutics innovations.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Funding Round, Series B, Series A
  • Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Kynexis — Kynexis is leading the way in precision medicine, focusing on the treatment of cognitive impairment associated with schizophrenia (CIAS). Explore our innovative approach and our dedication to improving the lives of millions globally.
  • Teitur Trophics — Teitur Trophics is a biotech company developing circular peptides for neurodegenerative diseases. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Aarhus, Denmark.
  • Rewind Therapeutics — Rewind Therapeutics is a developer of novel therapeutics intended to facilitate the treatment for neurological diseases.The company's first-in-class remyelinating therapeutics block inhibitory signals that prevent the expansion and migration of oligodendrocyte stem cells in order to promote effective remyelination, enabling medicalpractitioners to treat patients suffering from multiple sclerosis and other myelin-related diseases with efficacy.
PSV VC Fund · Lyngby, Hovedstaden, Denmark · 5 investments in the past 12 months
PreSeed Ventures are the preferred travel companion for trailblazing founders when they set out on the journey of transforming startup dreams to successful businesses. Founded in 2000 they have an exceptional track record of spotting, fostering and financing tomorrow’s winners in syndication with top-tier investors locally and globally. As the namesuggests, PreSeed Ventures operates at the earliest stages, where founders need the professional, operational & systematic support of a VC, but the risks are still too high for most VCs in seed stages. Yet to the powerhouse of experts behind PreSeed Ventures, who have experience from hundreds of startup journey in the pre-seed stage, it is an opportunity to support and nurture the growth of promising startups on the rise, minimizing the time and risk to the next investment round.PreSeed Ventures has grown out of the technological research environment at Denmark’s Technical University, DTU. In 2020 they launch their first full blown commercial venture fund, yet continuing to be a subsidiary company to the university.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Denmark, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • spektr — Explore spektr's tailored compliance automation solutions for KYB monitoring, AML compliance, risk management, and more. Try our no-code, customizable platform for free today!
  • UltiHash — Data powers breakthroughs. UltiHash is the storage foundation to accelerate them: blazing fast, highly efficient, and built for sustainable long-term growth.
  • Yacheng Network — Yacheng Network is a provider of information technology and software services that specializes in offering these services.
Nordic Foodtech VC VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 7 investments in the past 12 months
We are investing in #FutureFood. Nordic FoodTech VC is the first fund in the Nordics investing explicitly in the future of food
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Life Science, Water
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Finland, Sweden, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
  • Enifer — Enifer Bio is an expert at squeezing every last drop of value from biorefining operations. The solution is built on decades of Finnish expertise to allow the production of valuable protein-rich feed from streams previously considered worthless. The company has developed a new, sustainable production process for high-quality fish feed raw material.The company's method enables the efficient production of a single cell protein from fish by-products as a raw material for fish feed. The protein can replace soy, which is commonly used in fish feed and whose cultivation poses ecological challenges, such as deforestation in South America.
  • EvodiaBio — EvodiaBio is a bio-industrial firm that creates natural, sustainable scents for the food and beverage industries. Founded in 2021 and is based in Copenhagen, Capital Region.
  • NPHarvest — NPHarvest is a company with expertise in organic waste management, wastewater treatment, and nutrient recovery. NPHarvest is a research project aiming to enable efficient and profitable nitrogen recycling from waste flows to the fertilizer market, utilizing energy-efficient hydrophobic membrane stripping and ballasted sedimentation of phosphoruswith lime.
Gilde Healthcare VC Fund · Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Gilde Healthcare is a specialized European healthcare investor managing two business lines: a lower mid-market buy-out fund and a venture & growth capital fund. It has over €800 million ($900 million) under management and is actively looking to lead new investments in digital health, diagnostics, medical devices, therapeutics and healthcareservices. Gilde successfully builds healthcare businesses across Europe and US, investing up to €35 million in a single portfolio company.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Series C, Series B, Series A
  • United States, The Netherlands, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Karius — Karius is a life sciences company focused on generating genomic insights for infectious diseases with a non-invasive Karius Test that helps clinicians make rapid, treatment decisions. By mapping each patient’s microbial landscape from a single blood draw, Karius moves closer to a vision of a world where infectious disease is no longer a majorthreat to human health. The Karius laboratory is CLIA-certified and CAP-accredited to perform high-complexity clinical laboratory testing.
  • ADCendo — ADCendo ApS is a biotech company dedicated to developing new types of anti-cancer drugs. We focus on antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) directed at novel targets, that have been found to be overexpressed by several cancer forms, that are all characterized by a significant unmet need for novel treatment.
  • Argá Medtech — Developing the next generation of Pulsed Field Ablation and Irreversible Electroporation Venture-capital backed company
Ysios Capital VC Fund · San Sebastian, Pais Vasco, Spain · 6 investments in the past 12 months
Leading #lifesciences #venturecapital firm financing highly #innovative #biotechnology companies #worlwide.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Spain, United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • ADCendo — ADCendo ApS is a biotech company dedicated to developing new types of anti-cancer drugs. We focus on antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) directed at novel targets, that have been found to be overexpressed by several cancer forms, that are all characterized by a significant unmet need for novel treatment.
  • Memo Therapeutics — Memo Therapeutics AG (MEMO) is an innovator in the field of antibody discovery and immune repertoire analysis.Its MemoMAB™ platform creates a recombinant in vitro copy of an individual’s B cell / antibody repertoire, which is then banked as a library. The resulting unique, large and relevant antibody libraries represent the individual’simmune repertoire and are expected to contain an unprecedented number of relevant and rare antibodies. This leads to entirely new possibilities in immune repertoire analysis and antibody discovery.MemoMAB™ is deployed in proprietary antibody lead discovery programs and is made available in collaborations.
  • Engrail Therapeutics — Engrail delivers transformational therapies that improve the lives of patients with devastating neurologic, neuropsychiatric, and neurodevelopmental disorders.
Oskare Capital VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Oskare Capital is a venture capital firm.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Italy, Denmark, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Leva Clinic — Leva Clinic offers health care services for people with chronic pain. Their medical services include back pain, cancer pain, endometriosis, facial pain, fibromyalgia, joint pain, knee pain, multiple sclerosis, sciatica, and so on.
  • 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.
  • Herbolea Biotech — Unique bio-processing technologies NATURAL, SOLVENT-LESS Botanical extraction Learn more
VF Venture VC Fund
Vaekstfonden makes equity investments in Danish companies with a track record as well as in young entrepreneurial, innovative enterprises with an ambition for global growth.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Biotechnology, SaaS
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Denmark, United Kingdom, Iceland
Portfolio highlights
  • Performativ — Performativ develops modern solutions for the asset and wealth management industry. Our clients span from small investment advisors to enterprise banks.
  • 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.
  • Onomondo — Onomondo is a global IoT network. Our IoT SIM and cloud platform future proof your devices with full data transparency, freedom to leave, and no third parties.
RA Capital Management VC Fund · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 71 investments in the past 12 months
RA Capital Management is an investment advisor based in Boston specializing in the life-sciences and drug development sectors. The company's team has been investing since 2002 and is comprised of professionals with training in biology, chemistry, and medicine and also has industry and business development experience at the executive and boardlevels. The company invests in companies with promising technologies and products.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
  • Series B, Series C, Series A
  • United States, United Kingdom, China
Portfolio highlights
  • Idrx — IDRx is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to transforming cancer care with intelligently designed precision combination therapies.
  • MBX Biosciences — Homepage - MBX Biosciences
  • Bright Peak Therapeutics — Bright Peak is a biotech company that develops a portfolio of immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases. At Bright Peak, they are creating innovative cytokine therapeutics that are uniquely engineered to precisely control and expand desired biological properties.
DSM Venturing VC Fund · Heerlen, Limburg, The Netherlands · 3 investments in the past 12 months
DSM Venturing provides start-up funding, coaching and support for start-up companies that share our purpose of creating brighter lives for all.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Manufacturing
  • Series A, Funding Round, Series B
  • United States, Canada, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Vivici — Our mission is to meet the world's growing need for sustainable, nutritious and great tasting animal-free proteins.
  • NutriLeads — NutriLeads is an innovative startup that develops nutritional ingredients with demonstrated health effects. NutriLeads aims to catalyze nutritional health innovation in the food industry by partnering with relevant companies to identify promising lead ingredients, develop sustainable and commercially viable production processes, and initiatescientific & clinical programs to substantiate the health effects of these ingredients. Together we will bring the benefits of the proprietary ingredients to patients and consumers.
  • 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.
Thia Ventures VC Fund · Genève, Geneve, Switzerland · 4 investments in the past 12 months
WE ARE AN EARLY-STAGE INVESTOR IN ONE OF THE MOST DYNAMIC AND ESSENTIAL FIELDS OF CURRENT HUMAN ENDEAVOR WE BRING ROBUST INVESTOR MUSCLE TO EARLY-STAGE VENTURES INVESTOR A specialized and focused investor Resources Powerful industry, substance and business resources Experience Wide networks and longstanding experience Team Yet, adaptability and speed of a lean, self-financed team
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Food and Beverage
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, France, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
  • EvodiaBio — EvodiaBio is a bio-industrial firm that creates natural, sustainable scents for the food and beverage industries. Founded in 2021 and is based in Copenhagen, Capital Region.
  • Protealis — Sustainable plant proteins for Europe​
  • Clever Carnivore — Clever Carnivore is a cell-cultured meat startup that uses stem cell biology, recombinant protein, and bioengineering to create cost-effective lab grown meats. With the company's high-efficiency model, cruelty-free, environmentally friendly, and cost-competitive technology it aims to produce sausage, burgers, and chicken nuggets.
West Hill Capital VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom
West Hill Corporate Finance is a leading private equity venture capital firm providing EIS qualifying high-growth investments to private individuals.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Health Care
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United Kingdom, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
  • Bioomix — Bioomix is a biotechnology company that develops all-natural microbial products that can help farmers achieve a higher and better yield. It was founded in 2021 and its headquarters is located in Odense, Denmark.
  • ATLANT 3D Nanosystems — Micro and nanodevices are built and tested within days instead of months or years.
  • Formalize — A Whistleblower Software system made for accountants and lawyers that have clients, the whistleblower software system helps businesses implement a compliant solution that is both secure and transparent. their products are reporting links, case management, partner account they have designed a journey that makes feel safe about the process. AWS ishandling the physical security of the infrastructure, whistleblower software takes the shared responsibility of security between our cloud infrastructure and application seriously.
ACME Capital VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 5 investments in the past 12 months
ACME is a venture capital firm investing in iconic founders disrupting massive markets.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Denmark, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Muon Space — Earth intelligence for a Safe and Resilient World.
  • Again — SecondCircle makes carbon negative chemicals for a cleaner future. We are the first carbon negative chemical manufacturer that can scale to meet global demand. The best thing about it: we use carbon dioxide as a feedstock.
  • Reshape Biotech — Fully digital microbiology developed by Reshape Biotech
HealthCap VC Fund · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
HealthCap, a life science investor and company creator. Our motivation is to find innovative ideas and invest that could impact healthcare and society.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Series B, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Sweden, France
Portfolio highlights
  • ADCendo — ADCendo ApS is a biotech company dedicated to developing new types of anti-cancer drugs. We focus on antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) directed at novel targets, that have been found to be overexpressed by several cancer forms, that are all characterized by a significant unmet need for novel treatment.
  • Vicore Pharma — Vicore Pharma is a pharmaceutical company dedicated to developing innovative medicines for severe lung disorders. It develops drugs that act through the AT2 receptor. The company’s drug candidate C21 aims to improve the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a rare disease for which C21 has been granted orphan drug designation both in the EUand the US. In addition, C21 is explored pre-clinically in a number of rare diseases where the AT2 receptor plays an important role. The company is based in Astra Zeneca’s Bioventurehub in Mölndal.
  • Rampart Bioscience — Rampart Bioscience develops gene medicines to provide long-lasting treatments for a wide range of diseases. It also offers proprietary development and delivery platforms, which together, create optimized therapeutics in a revocable, non-viral format. It also assists patients with genetically driven diseases by integrating capabilities from avariety of key scientific disciplines including gene delivery, protein sciences, and clinical translation.
EIR Ventures VC Fund · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden · 2 investments in the past 12 months
EIR Ventures is a new Life Science Venture Group in the Nordics.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
  • Series A, Seed, Funding Round
  • Denmark, Sweden, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Henlez — Henlez is a Danish startup company.
  • ArgusEye — ArgusEye - Innovative Sensor Solutions - Real-time monitoring and control of biological systems and processes - Patented sensor technology
  • Moleculent — Moleculent is adding a functional layer of biology to pave the way for unparalleled advancements in biological research.
Sofinnova Partners VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 25 investments in the past 12 months
Sofinnova Partners is a leading European venture capital firm in life sciences, specializing in healthcare and sustainability. Based in Paris, London and Milan, the firm brings together a team of professionals from all over the world with strong scientific, medical and business expertise.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Series A, Series B, Series C
  • France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • deepc — The Radiology AI Platform - Your effortless access to AI
  • Asceneuron — Asceneuron develops effective therapeutics for orphan tauopathies and Alzheimer’s disease. By focusing on areas of high unmet medical need, Asceneuron aspires to become a leading biotech company specialized in small molecule drug discovery for neurodegenerative diseases.Tauopathies are currently untreatable neurodegenerative diseases thatrapidly progress towards debilitating conditions. The appearance of deposits of the microtubule-associated tau protein as e.g. neurofibrillary tangles in neurons of the brain is a common feature of tauopathies that is shared with Alzheimer’s disease. Neuronal tau deposits are known to be a major contributor to neurodegeneration and mutations in the tau gene are causative of the tauopathy fronto-temporal dementia and parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17 (FTDP-17).Due to increasing life expectancy, Alzheimer’s disease is viewed as one of the largest healthcare problems of this century, imposing a major economic burden on societies in the Western and developing world. Current treatment options provide limited benefits supporting the urgent need for more efficacious and better tolerated medicines that address symptomatic relief as well as disease progression.
  • Micropep Technologies — Micropep Technologies developes a non-GMO new generation of bioherbicides and biostimulants. Micropep, founded in 2016 in Toulouse, focuses on bioherbicides and biostimulants. The company uses plants’ natural molecules, called “micro-peptides”, to temporarily control expression of their genes and regulate plant growth but leaving their DNA intact.The company currently works on four development programs: germination, flowering, growth, and weed control.
Atlantic Labs VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 13 investments in the past 12 months
Atlantic Labs supports and invests in mission-driven founders working on transformative technology ventures.&nbsp;<br><br>We partner with founders early, providing the capital, tools and network necessary to growing their companies and accompanying them on their entrepreneurial journey. We are currently active in areas including Digital Health, Future of Work, Machine Learning, Decentralized Networks, Mobility and Industrial Applications.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Germany, Switzerland, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Again — SecondCircle makes carbon negative chemicals for a cleaner future. We are the first carbon negative chemical manufacturer that can scale to meet global demand. The best thing about it: we use carbon dioxide as a feedstock.
  • SynthFlow AI — Forget lengthy development cycles and expensive machine learning teams. With Synthflow you can build sophisticated, tailored AI agents without technical skills or coding - just bring your data and ideas.
  • SCRYPT Digital — Your trusted partner for crypto assets
Innovations Kapital VC Fund · Göteborg, Vastra Gotaland, Sweden
InnovationsKapital was founded in 1994 and is a leading independent venture capital firm for innovative growth companies in the Nordic region. The business, carried out from offices in and Stockholm, Gothenburg and New York, is focused on investments within ICT and Healthcare & Life Sciences, dynamic sectors that are rapidly expanding and whereNordic research plays an important role. The capital is provided by highly reputable Swedish and international institutional investors.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
  • Funding Round, Series B, Series C
  • Sweden, Denmark, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Silecs — PiBond manufactures materials used in electronic devices, including patterning materials for semiconductors and optical materials. We also develop complete solutions that allow our clients to focus on creating innovative products.
  • SantoSolve — SantoSolve is developing topical analgesic products based on non-radioactive strontium as the active substance. The Development program was initiated based on experimental clinical use of strontium-based products showing evidence of strong local analgesic effects on several localized pain conditions of both nociceptive and neuropatic origin. Nosignificant adverse effects associated with the treatment was reported.The company’s lead product, 2PX, is topically administered, utilizing dermal penetration enhancers for delivery of the active agent to its subdermal site of action. Phase I safety and pharmacology studies showed the active agent to have low systemic bioavailability, and only few and minor adverse effects were observed at the site of administration. In open label Phase II clinical trials, the product has shown strong analgesic effect in both nociceptive and neuropatic pain conditions. In follow up, placebo controlled trials, the analgesic effect of the product has been further documented. In the company’s most advanced pain indication under study, osteoarthritis, the company has recently completed the Phase II program.These trials supports the open label results and document statistically that the analgesic effect in patients treated with 2PX is superior to that observed with placebo treatment.
  • Action Pharma — Action Pharma A/S operates as a research and development focused biotechnology company. It discovers and develops new drugs and treatment concepts to treat cardiovascular disease and inflammatory diseases, as well as metabolic diseases, such as type-II diabetes and obesity. The company's product pipeline includes AP214, a modifiedÐMSH-peptide analogue for the treatment of post-surgical kidney injury associated with cardiac surgery; and AP1030 and AP11 series, oral anti-diabetic (OAD) for the treatment of type-II diabetes associated with overweight/obesity. Its product pipeline also comprise AP1189, an oral anti-inflammatory compound for the treatment of inflammatory diseases, such as inflammatory bowel disease and rheumatoid arthritis; and AP405, a modified MSH peptide analogue for the treatment of inflammatory skin diseases, such as atopic dermatitis. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Holte, Denmark.
CAPNOVA VC Fund · Aarhus, Midtjylland, Denmark
They are an investment and development company providing capital, solid business experience and a strong network in order to turn innovative ideas into successful businesses. They cover all of Denmark from their offices in Aarhus, Roskilde, Copenhagen, Viborg and Kalundborg.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Denmark, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Ulobby — Ulobby is an automated tool for stakeholder management and political monitoring
  • Mechanic Miner — Mechanic Miner is a 2D construction/survival game with mechanical steam-powered machines. You are stranded on a strange and forbidding planet, where survival is made difficult by hostile animals and plant life. From your home world you did bring a multitool, which is able to craft any kind of machine part - provided the requisite rawmaterials can be found. Relying solely on the technology you brought, you set out to explore a whole world. You can progress through the game by acquiring new types of steam-powered technology elements, that are necessary to delve deeper into the diverse biomes of the planet, and perhaps, ultimately, discover the means to escape. You can construct any kind of machine of your own design - and any kind of machine can be simulated by the game's physics engine - and of course, designs can be shared with your friends.
  • ResoTher Pharma — ResoTher Pharma is a privately held biotechnology company located in Copenhagen, Denmark. The company is focused on developing peptide-based drugs derived from the endogenous immunomodulator Annexin 1A as resolution therapy for diseases where neutrophil-driven inflammation plays a key pathological role.
Northzone VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 22 investments in the past 12 months
Northzone is a multi-stage venture capital fund that seeks to invest in the healthcare, semiconductors, software, hardware, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and gaming industries.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, Sweden, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • CuspAI — CuspAI is a revolutionary AI startup that is developing a platform for next-generation materials to address global sustainability and renewable energy concerns. CuspAI uses cutting-edge generative AI, deep learning, and molecular simulation to accelerate the material design process. Their platform works similarly to a search engine for materials,allowing users to request certain properties for new materials on demand.
  • Faircado — Stop wasting time and money - faircado helps you find the best pre-owned deals for your wallet and the planet.
  • Tandem Health — Focus on providing care, while Tandem helps you easily write medical notes directly after the patient consultation.
Novo Nordisk VC Fund · Bagsværd, Hovedstaden, Denmark
Novo Nordisk is a leading global healthcare company, founded in 1923 and headquartered in Denmark. Our purpose is to drive change to defeat diabetes and other serious chronic diseases.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Therapeutics, Health Care
  • Series A, Series C, Seed
  • United States, Denmark, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Sundew — Targeting water-borne pests and diseases
  • The Sabi — Holistic, all natural skincare and herbal remedies for hormonal balancing. SABI represents a path to feeling well and beautiful, a place for key knowledge transfer and the essential self-care rituals to navigate the female hormonal journey.
  • ElevateBio — We provide the tools, time, and environment to innovate and accelerate development of life-saving Cell and gene therapies.
Industrifonden VC Fund · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden · 6 investments in the past 12 months
Industrifonden is a Nordic evergreen venture capital firm with a fund size of $600m, that focuses on early-stage technology and life science companies with international potential. The company works long term with the entrepreneurs we invest in, and have a strong track record of building game changing companies. Industrifonden-backed companiesinclude tech companies Qlik, Arcam, Soundtrack Your Brand, Fishbrain, and life science companies CellaVision, Oncopeptides and AMRA.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Series A, Seed
  • Sweden, United States, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
  • Arevo — Arevo offers liquid and granular amino acid fertilizer technologies for faster and better plant establishment.
  • Telness Tech — We help telcos maximize customer happiness and minimize OPEX through automation. Our proprietary, cloud-based, end-to-end BSS/OSS platform is connectivity ready in 64 countries.
  • ZeroPoint Technologies — ZeroPoint Technologies AB was created in 2016 as a spinout from Chalmers University of Technology. The Intellectual Property Portfolio related to computer memory management was the acquired from the University and transferred into a new startup.The Technology, ideas and many of the people behind and with ZeroPoint comes from Professor PerStenströms research group, which is internationally recognized for excellence within high-performance Computing. Since its creation, ZeroPoint has attracted skilled people from industry, finance and the startup community and raised its’ first round of Venture Capital in 2016.
Lundbeckfonden Ventures VC Fund · Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
Lundbeckfond Ventures is an evergreen life science venture fund established in the autumn of 2009 and wholly owned by the Lundbeck Foundation. The structure as an evergreen fund allows flexibility in the investment approach and the possibility, when appropriate, to take a long-term perspective in the investments. On an annual basis, LundbeckfondVentures invests up to € 50 million.Lundbeckfond Ventures is a financially driven venture fund generating returns to support the group's activities and operating independently from the Lundbeck Foundation’s controlling ownerships in H. Lundbeck A/S, ALK-Abelló and Falck.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
  • Series B, Series A, Series C
  • United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
  • VarmX — VarmX is a pharmaceutical spin-off from the Leiden University Medical Center. The mission of VarmX is to develop and manufacture therapeutic proteins to instantaneously restore blood clotting in bleeding patients. The lead product in the pipeline of VarmX is PseudoXa. PseudoXa is a modified recombinant human coagulation factor X which is capable ofimmediately restoring blood clotting in the presence of direct factor Xa anticoagulants (DOACS) such as rivaroxaban, apixaban, and edoxaban.These factor Xa coagulants are taken by millions of patients world-wide for the prevention and treatment of thrombosis and stroke, but as a side effect severe bleeding often occurs. PseudoXa is capable of stopping and preventing such bleedings thus making the usage of DOACS much safer.
  • Kvantify — Quantum computing will revolutionize many aspects of computing. We can help your business harness the full potential of Quantum Computing and High-Performance Computing today.
  • LEXEO Therapeutics — LEXEO Therapeutics is a fully integrated biotechnology company. LEXEO Therapeutics’ pipeline consists of adeno-associated virus (AAV)-mediated therapies primarily developed at Weill Cornell Medicine’s Department of Genetic Medicine. Beyond LEXEO Therapeutics’ lead programs – which are focused on both rare and non-rare monogenic (singlegenemutation) diseases – the company’s preclinical pipeline spans monogenic diseases, as well as hereditary and acquired diseases across a spectrum of patient population sizes and a range of unmet medical needs. Importantly, LEXEO Therapeutics will focus on advancing clinical programs through to commercialization, with the goal of maintaining an ongoing research collaboration with Weill Cornell Medicine’s Department of Genetic Medicine to help advance the company’s pre-clinical pipeline.
Newtree Impact VC Fund · Belgium, Wisconsin, United States
We invest in disruptive and encouraging Agri-Food tech and Food Loss companies, reshaping our food systems in order to solve the current & future problems of production.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology
  • Seed
  • Denmark
Portfolio highlights
  • EvodiaBio — EvodiaBio is a bio-industrial firm that creates natural, sustainable scents for the food and beverage industries. Founded in 2021 and is based in Copenhagen, Capital Region.
Export and Investment Fund VC Fund · Hellerup, Hovedstaden, Denmark · 14 investments in the past 12 months
Denmark's Export and Investment Fund (EIFO) serves as a single point of contact for Danish firms seeking risk-tolerant government finance. We aspire to help successful enterprises that can expand the Danish economy and green the world on a daily basis, guided by professionalism and an international perspective.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, SaaS
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Denmark, Ukraine, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Kvantify — Quantum computing will revolutionize many aspects of computing. We can help your business harness the full potential of Quantum Computing and High-Performance Computing today.
  • EvodiaBio — EvodiaBio is a bio-industrial firm that creates natural, sustainable scents for the food and beverage industries. Founded in 2021 and is based in Copenhagen, Capital Region.
  • Again — SecondCircle makes carbon negative chemicals for a cleaner future. We are the first carbon negative chemical manufacturer that can scale to meet global demand. The best thing about it: we use carbon dioxide as a feedstock.
SOSV VC Fund · Princeton, New Jersey, United States · 95 investments in the past 12 months
SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates. HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
  • Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
  • United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
  • NovoNutrients — NovoNutrients is working to turn waste CO2 into high-value, low-cost proteins and additives for food and feed by developing proprietary microbes and advanced gas fermentation systems.
  • Sodex Innovations — Sodex Innovations is a company which is specialized in developing assistance-systems and automating-kits for excavators
Wellcome Trust VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom
Wellcome Trust is a medical research charity that funds research that aims to protect and improving human and animal health. It focuses on the fields of public engagement, investments, innovation, humanities, and social science. It was founded in 1936 and headquartered in London, England.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
  • Grant, Series C, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Vaxxas — Vaxxas develops and commercializes needle-free vaccine delivery system. Vaxxas was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Brisbane, Australia.
  • DataDotOrg — data.org brings together philanthropy, technology, academia, and social impact organizations to build the field of data science for social impact.
  • Feinstein Institute for Medical Research — Feinstein Institute For Medical Research is the research arm of Northwell Health, the largest health care provider and private employer in New York State. Home to 50 research labs, 3,000 clinical research studies and 5,000 researchers and staff, the Feinstein Institutes raises the standard of medical innovation through its five institutes ofbehavioral science, bioelectronic medicine, cancer, health innovations and outcomes, and molecular medicine. We make breakthroughs in genetics, oncology, brain research, mental health, autoimmunity, and are the global scientific leader in bioelectronic medicine – a new field of science that has the potential to revolutionize medicine.
Aescap Venture VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
The Aescap funds invest in highly innovative publicly traded biotech/life sciences companies. We're able to select the promising companies
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Chemical
  • Series A, Series B, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, Austria, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
  • Orphazyme — Orphazyme develops innovative new therapies for the treatment of a family of serious genetic disordes called lysosomal storage diseases, and is based on discoveries emerging from the academic laboratory of its scientific founders: Professor Marja Jäättela and Thomas Kirkegaard Jensen from the Danish Cancer Society (Kræftens Bekæmpelse).Orphazyme is based in Copenhagen and has established collaborations with top-tier academic institutions in Europe and USA.
  • Avantium — Avantium is a leading technology company specialized in advanced high-throughput R&D for applications in the energy, chemicals and pharmaceutical industries. The company's headquarters and laboratories are located in Amsterdam, in the Netherlands.Avantium's proprietary high-throughput technology enables a faster and morecost-effective development of new and improved products and production processes. Using its unique rational approach towards the design of experiments and data analysis, Avantium is capable of accomplishing innovations with superior success rate. Avantium has demonstrated the validity and commercial viability of its technology by successfully providing research services and tools to more than 70 companies worldwide, including many industry leaders. The company's mission is to increase the success rate and economics of product and process development.Building on its expertise and track record in the energy, chemicals and pharmaceutical industries, Avantium focuses on developing products in two fields:new biofuels and bio-based chemicals, and new crystal forms of marketed drugs under patent.Avantium's strategy is to progress its development programs and exploit the commercial value of its expanding patent portfolio by securing value-adding partnerships during the coming years. Avantium seeks continuous expansion of its profitable services and tools business.Avantium has assembled a team of highly educated professionals who are experts in catalysis, crystallography, organic chemistry, engineering of robotic systems, process engineering, statistics, cheminformatics and software development. Its teams collaborate closely with partner R&D organizations.
  • F-Star Therapeutics — F-star is a clinical stage biotech developing next generation immunotherapies to transform the lives of patients with cancer. We are developing transformational cancer immunotherapies for patients who have few remaining options.
Balderton Capital VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 18 investments in the past 12 months
In the two decades since our founding, we have worked with hundreds of extraordinary European founders, and have raised eight funds totalling more than $3bn.
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Series B, Series A, Series C
  • United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Healx — At Healx we use AI drug discovery to develop new treatments for rare diseases. We bring treatments from prediction to patient.
  • Tinybird — Tinybird helps data teams build real-time Data Products at scale through SQL-based API endpoints. It ingests millions of rows per second and serves low latency, high concurrency analytical queries over any amount of data.
  • ZOE — ZOE analyzes your unique gut, blood fat and blood sugar responses. So you can take back control of your health & weight
The Yield Lab Europe VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 3 investments in the past 12 months
The Yield Lab Europe is a €50m early stage Agrifood and Ag Tech fund which comprises an accelerator and a larger follow-on fund, investing in high tech companies with the potential to significant disrupt and improve our current systems of global food production, and to improve the environmental sustainability of the industry. The main fund invests€1m each into 10-12 companies over several follow on rounds, with the strongest accelerator companies expected to progress to the main fund. The Yield Lab Europe is also part of a global network of Agrifood Tech funds, with global headquarters in St Louis USA, and sister funds in LATAM and Singapore.
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Investment focus
  • AgTech, Agriculture, Biotechnology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Ireland, France, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Oligofeed — We developed a supplement boosting bee immunity. Our non-toxic bee-feeding product reduces bee mortality and improves the production of the hives.
  • Marama Labs — Marama Labs provides an integrated chemical analysis platform that empowers customers to optimize their production processes and match their products and brands to customer needs, with ease.
  • Micron AgriTech — Micron Agritech, driving the future of sustainable animal health. Run a FEC worm or fluke test with your phone and get results in minutes.
Blue Horizon Corporation VC Fund · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Blue Horizon is accelerating the transition to a sustainable food system that delivers outstanding returns for the planet and people.
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Investment focus
  • Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Biotechnology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
  • WOW EARN — WOW EARN connects users to the blockchain, enabling them to mine, earn, and trade via decentralised mining, earning, and trading systems.
  • New School Foods — Whole-muscle, plant-based seafood
  • Basecamp Research — Novel proteins from nature. We sample the most extreme and exciting places on the planet to build the world's largest knowledge graph of natural biodiversity.
FundersClub VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 7 investments in the past 12 months
FundersClub focuses on Seed and early stage investments. Investments include Coinbase, Instacart, Flexport, Le Tote, Teespring, Memebox, GitLab.FundersClub is the world's first online venture capital platform. Backed by Y Combinator, First Round Capital, Spark Capital, Intel Capital, Draper, Andreessen Horowitz, Felicis Ventures, and more;FundersClub Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in the United States.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Canada, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Malibou — Malibou is developing the first all-in-one payroll and HR software for all French startups and SMBs. Malibou is committed to simplifying complex processes so that you can focus on your business.
  • Quindar — Satellite Mission Management for startups. Operate faster than your competition.
  • Toku — Toku helps companies to automate collections and facilitate payment processes. Toku enables companies to optimize the collection of recurring payments.
Innovation Fund Denmark VC Fund · Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
Innovation Fund Denmark invests in the development of new knowledge and technology creating growth and employment in Denmark. The Fund focuses on societal challenges, strengthens research, and increases innovation commitment within private companies.The Fund provides risk capital that enables cutting-edge initiatives to achieve resultssubstantially impacting the Danish society. Innovation Fund Denmark is also responsible for the future societal partnerships, where companies, universities, and public authorities will work together on challenges facing the society today.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Grant, Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Denmark, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Artelize — Discover events, performers and works within classical music, opera, musical, ballet & dance and drama. 174248 events, and 59606 artists and creators.
  • Tryp.com — There is always a reason to go! We use artificial intelligence to find the best travel deals at the lowest price. The algorithm compares and connects flights, trains, and buses to create the perfect multidestination trips with matching hotel offers.
  • Curvature AI — Grow your revenue with discounts and special offers selected and optimized by AI.
+ND Capital VC Fund · San Mateo, California, United States · 7 investments in the past 12 months
+ND Capital (NanoDimension) is a venture capital firm founded in 2002 that invests in disruptive technologies across the life, physical, and data sciences.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Series B, Series C, Series A
  • United States, Switzerland, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
  • Vandria — At the vanguard of Mitochondrial research
  • Partillion Bioscience — Unlock your research today with the word's first functional single-cell biology reagent platform. Next generation assay kits for single-cell secretion analysis and more.
  • PulseSight Therapeutics — PulseSight is an ophthalmology drug development company creating novel, non-viral gene therapies with minimally invasive delivery technology to address the unmet need for treatments against severe retinal diseases leading to blindness.
Novo Ventures VC Fund · Bagsværd, Hovedstaden, Denmark
Novo A/S is a Danish private limited liability company wholly owned by the Novo Nordisk Foundation, and the holding company of the Novo Group and as such the majority shareholder in the publicly listed companies Novo Nordisk A/S and Novozymes A/S.Novo A/S was established in 1999 prior to the demerger of Novo NordiskA/S, where Novozymes A/S was established as a stand-alone publicly listed company. Novo's purpose and objectives are to manage the Foundation's financial assets and to ensure the Foundation sufficient dividends to cover its grant obligations for medical and scientific research etc. in Scandinavia.Novo A/S attains these objectives through:compliance with the rules and principles which are set out in the Articles of Association of the Novo Nordisk Foundation regarding exercise of the voting rights of A and B shares in Novo Nordisk A/S and Novozymes A/S, respectively, assurance that all companies in which the company has a material influence actively contribute to the development of the Novo Group and operate their business in accordance with the visions and values of the Novo Group, maintenance of a material influence on Novo Nordisk A/S and Novozymes A/S, and investment and financing business including placing of capital in companies and real property domestically and abroad.Novo’s overall investment strategy is thus to maintain ownership of Novo Nordisk’ and Novozymes’ shares at a level just above 25% and to invest dividends from these companies and other income in the life science area as well as in a broad portfolio of financial assets.Novo A/S has since 1999 established itself as an international venture capital partner in the life science area and has invested in over 50 companies in Denmark, Europe and North America. Through its financial investment activities Novo A/S seeks to spread the company’s total financial risk and at the same time to ensure a high return taking into consideration the chosen risk profile. In 2007 Novo A/S together with the Novo Nordisk Foundation established ‘Novo Seeds’. The new program (split into two sub-programs) is aimed at supporting early stage applied research in the life science area in Scandinavia. At the beginning of 2009 Novo A/S launched a new initiative, investing 'growth equity' into promising later stage/commercial stage life science companies. Novo A/S represents the interests of the Novo Nordisk Foundation through participation on the boards of the companies in the Novo Group.The companies in the Novo Group are members of a 'family of companies', independently managed, but sharing a set of common values as set out in the 'Charter for Companies in the Novo Group'. In the Charter these core values, commitments and management principles that companies in the Novo Group should live up to are described.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Series B, Series A, Series C
  • United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • INBRACE — Swift Health Systems is a stealth stage medical device company developing INBRACE: a revolutionary, easy to use, wide indication, personalized orthodontic system hidden behind the teeth. Our patented self-guiding technology uses light and continuous forces to gently correct your smile with less pain and fewer doctor visits. INBRACE is FDAregistered and a catalyst for disruption in orthodontics. INBRACE increases the number of people who will seek orthodontic treatment by addressing the top concerns for patients while driving practice growth for clinicians. Our platform leverages digital treatment planning, computer modeling, and direct digital manufacturing to create a scalable, patient customized solution that delivers the standard of care across the entire range of orthodontic cases.
  • Theraxyte — Theraxyte is an innovative nano-drug developer. It focuses on the R&D and application of new nano-drugs, especially innovative drugs.
  • Amolyt Pharma — We are building on our team's established expertise in therapeutic peptides to deliver life-changing treatments to patients suffering from rare endocrine and metabolic diseases.
Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation VC Fund · New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States
JJDC, Inc. is the strategic venture capital arm of Johnson & Johnson Innovation. Learn more about our equity investment strategy.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
  • Series C, Series B, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • CVRx — CVRx is a medical device company that develops implantable technology for the treatment of high blood pressure. Its products include Rheos implantable pulse generator that provides control and delivery of the activation energy; and Rheos carotid sinus leads, which conducts activation energy from the Rheos implantable pulse generator to the left andright carotid arteries. The company also offers a Rheos programmer system that communicates with the Rheos pulse generator. CVRx was founded in 2001 and is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
  • Binx Health — Binx Health is creating new categories of healthcare solutions that deliver on-demand testing to people where they need it most. With its proprietary, desktop, PCR-based point-of-care testing platforms and consumer mobile offerings, the company is redefining “convenient care” for the modern consumer
  • Osteal Therapeutics — Osteal Therapeutics is a privately-held, clinical-stage pharmaceutical company developing novel musculoskeletal therapeutics to treat orthopedic infections and their consequences.
Verve Ventures VC Fund · Zug, Zug, Switzerland · 23 investments in the past 12 months
Verve Ventures has invested in more than 140 science and technology startups. We support visionary and resilient entrepreneurs from day one and are a reliable partner for the entire journey. We typically invest EUR 1-3m in early as well as later stage rounds of European high tech startups.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Switzerland, Germany, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Cubbit — Cubbit is secure encrypted cloud storage with a difference. A distributed cloud that is 100% private and green. Join the Swarm.
  • Axelera AI — To accelerate computer vision in edge devices, we offer a powerful, energy-efficient, cost-effective, user-friendly AI hardware and software platform.
  • Neustark ag — Neustark enables zero-emissions concrete by capturing concrete production emissions from the atmosphere and permanently converting them to limestone. This climate positive limestone replaces cement and sand which are major cost drivers for concrete production.
M Ventures VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 15 investments in the past 12 months
Merck Ventures is the strategic, corporate venture capital arm of Merck. Its mandate is to invest in innovative technologies and products with the potential to significantly impact Merck‘s core business areas. From its headquarters in Amsterdam and offices in the US and Israel we invest globally in transformational ideas driven by greatentrepreneurs. Merck Ventures takes an active role in its portfolio companies and teams up with entrepreneurs and co-investors to translate innovation towards commercial success. Merck Ventures has a significant focus on early-stage investing and company creation including the creation of spin-offs to leverage Merck‘s science and technology base.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • LabGenius — Finding the next generation of drugs with machine learning, synthetic biology and laboratory automation
  • Outrun TX — Outrun TX develops a platform for the identification of therapeutics that selectively target the protein degradation pathway.
  • Asceneuron — Asceneuron develops effective therapeutics for orphan tauopathies and Alzheimer’s disease. By focusing on areas of high unmet medical need, Asceneuron aspires to become a leading biotech company specialized in small molecule drug discovery for neurodegenerative diseases.Tauopathies are currently untreatable neurodegenerative diseases thatrapidly progress towards debilitating conditions. The appearance of deposits of the microtubule-associated tau protein as e.g. neurofibrillary tangles in neurons of the brain is a common feature of tauopathies that is shared with Alzheimer’s disease. Neuronal tau deposits are known to be a major contributor to neurodegeneration and mutations in the tau gene are causative of the tauopathy fronto-temporal dementia and parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17 (FTDP-17).Due to increasing life expectancy, Alzheimer’s disease is viewed as one of the largest healthcare problems of this century, imposing a major economic burden on societies in the Western and developing world. Current treatment options provide limited benefits supporting the urgent need for more efficacious and better tolerated medicines that address symptomatic relief as well as disease progression.
Wellington Partners VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Wellington Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in technology and life sciences companies, focusing on Digital Media, Software, Electronics & Photonics, Resource Efficiency, and Biotech/Life Sciences. It is committed to providing outstanding entrepreneurs with the necessary resources to fund their strategies. We typically leadfinancing rounds ranging from € 0.5 million to € 20 million. Depending on the maturity of the company, its own commitment can go as high as € 15 million.Wellington was established in 1998 and has offices in Munich, London, and Zurich.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
  • Series A, Series B, Funding Round
  • Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • UroMems — The device is developing an active implantable medical device based on the cutting edge technologyl in the field of embedded systems and micro-technologies for the development of its products.
  • Minervax — We are MinervaX. A clinical stage biotech company focused on making a global impact by developing state-of-the-art vaccines.
  • Onward — Working to restore movement, independence, and health in people with spinal cord injury.
Karolinska VC Fund · Solna, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
Karolinska Development aims to create value for patients, researchers, investors and society by developing innovations from world class science into products that can be sold or out-licensed with high returns. The business model is to: SELECT the most commercially attractive medical innovations; DEVELOP innovations to the stage where the greatestreturn on investment can be achieved; and COMMERCIALIZE the innovations through the sale of companies or out-licensing of products.Karolinska Development has developed a well-structured selection process to identify the most commercially attractive medical innovations screened by KIAB. Pharmaceutical development is a high-risk enterprise. In most cases, development projects fail because of side effects or insufficient efficacy. Successful selection of innovations is fundamental to Karolinska Development’s business model, which makes the inflow of new projects crucial. One key to success lies in selecting those innovations that can be developed from scientific findings to products and have significant commercial potential. To date, over 1,300 projects have been screened by KIAB.The portfolio companies are often founded together with the innovators and are initially operated as virtual companies with few or no employees. During the first six to twelve months, the companies normally have minimal fixed costs and technological development is outsourced.The innovator, who is often employed at an academic institution, normally participates as a board member and scientific advisor. The CEO of a portfolio company cooperates closely with a representative of Karolinska Development, who in most cases is also a board member of the company. The companies are capitalized to reach their next milestone, usually within a period of six to eighteen months. Development projects are continuously monitored, and those that do not meet their stipulated targets are discontinued. In the first three to four years, a portfolio company’s operating expenses are often limited to a few million Swedish kronor per year, which cover the cost of external studies and the salary of the staff. In subsequent years, Karolinska Development and other investors play an important role recruiting key expertise to the companiesKarolinska Development intends to realize value by exiting portfolio companies or through out-licensing of projects. Such transactions (especially out-licensing) are often structured as single upfront payments followed by payments based on predetermined milestones and royalties on sales. Although Karolinska Development has a flexible exit strategy, pharmaceutical products are, for two reasons, preferably exited at Phase II. First a successful Phase II study indicates that the pharmaceutical has an effect on patients, which is an important value-enhancing factor when negotiating out-licensing or sales. Secondly, finalizing product development and undertaking Phase III clinical trials frequently requires very large patient populations. In many cases this requires much greater resources than those available at Karolinska Development but these can be found in established pharmaceutical companies. Several licensing deals were closed in 2011 involving projects with a similar focus and development phase to Karolinska Development's projects.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Sweden, Denmark, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • PharmNovo — Latest News from PharmNovo. Learn more about pain, neuropathic pain, chronic pain. Treatment with our lead candidate PN6047. Therapy market, our networks. There is a huge unmet medical need for people suffering from chronic pain.
  • OssDsign AB — Giving patients back the life they deserve, Catalyst nanosynthetic bone graft, orthobiologics
  • Modus Therapeutics — Modus Therapeutics is a Swedish drug development company developing sevuparin – a novel drug to treat people suffering from Sickle Cell Disease – a painful, inherited blood disorder affecting millions of people around the globe.
Symrise VC Fund · Holzminden, Niedersachsen, Germany
About 30,000 products - 6,000 customers in roughly 160 countries. First synthesis of vanillin in 1874.
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Investment focus
  • Beauty, Internet, Cosmetics
  • Series A, Seed
  • United States, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
  • Phlur — Phlur brings you fine fragrances created by world-class perfumers, our fragrances are meticulously crafted with modern sensibility and radical transparency.
  • EvodiaBio — EvodiaBio is a bio-industrial firm that creates natural, sustainable scents for the food and beverage industries. Founded in 2021 and is based in Copenhagen, Capital Region.
  • Sunday2Sunday — A haircare brand created for active women that provides quality products to cleanse and refresh textured hair pre- and post-workout.
PINC VC Fund · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden · 2 investments in the past 12 months
PINC invests in attractive start-ups leveraging four major consumer trends: Conscious Consumption, Holistic Health, Personalized Convenience, and Authentic Experiences.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Cooking, Children
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Sweden, France, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
  • Amatera — Amatera is a biotechnology research company that leverages the latest techniques in biotechnology, to create coffee varieties. Amatera urges to make coffee varieties more sustainable and climate resistant to fill that massive demand. Founded by Omar Dekkiche and Lucie Kriegshauser in 2022 and is located in Paris, France.
  • Improvin' — Improvin' is a sustainability performance platform that helps agri-food companies measure, report and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in their own value chain.
  • EvodiaBio — EvodiaBio is a bio-industrial firm that creates natural, sustainable scents for the food and beverage industries. Founded in 2021 and is based in Copenhagen, Capital Region.
EQT life science VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 7 investments in the past 12 months
EQT life science develops innovative medicines, devices, and tools to address the single important thing that matters to the preservation of health. The organization believes that such opportunities add value to all stakeholders.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
  • Series A, Series B, Series C
  • United States, The Netherlands, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • VarmX — VarmX is a pharmaceutical spin-off from the Leiden University Medical Center. The mission of VarmX is to develop and manufacture therapeutic proteins to instantaneously restore blood clotting in bleeding patients. The lead product in the pipeline of VarmX is PseudoXa. PseudoXa is a modified recombinant human coagulation factor X which is capable ofimmediately restoring blood clotting in the presence of direct factor Xa anticoagulants (DOACS) such as rivaroxaban, apixaban, and edoxaban.These factor Xa coagulants are taken by millions of patients world-wide for the prevention and treatment of thrombosis and stroke, but as a side effect severe bleeding often occurs. PseudoXa is capable of stopping and preventing such bleedings thus making the usage of DOACS much safer.
  • Xeltis — Xeltis is pioneering a restorative approach in cardiovascular therapy.
  • AgomAb Therapeutics — AgomAb is developing molecular therapies for the regeneration of damaged tissues. Their unique agonistic monoclonal antibody molecules (“agomAbs”) stimulate molecular and cellular repair mechanisms that have the potential to restore organ function in patients with fibrotic, inflammatory, autoimmune and degenerative diseases.
Ferd VC Fund · Lysaker, Akershus, Norway
Ferd er et familieeid investeringsselskap som er eid av femte og sjette generasjon Andresen.
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Investment focus
  • Energy, Software, Manufacturing
  • Funding Round, Private Equity, Post-IPO Equity
  • Norway, Sweden, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Ludenso — Ludenso is a software developer of AR solutions for the education industry. To make education more creative and engaging, we are giving editors, authors, and teachers the power to bring their learning resources to life through 3D models, animations, videos, and audio support. This is made possible through the Ludenso Studio, where they can createinclusive learning experiences that enables students to learn in their own way.
  • wheel.me — The first and only autonomous wheel in the world. The innovation transforms anything into an autonomous mobile robot with minimal effort and without the need to alter its design or form. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Oslo, Norway.
  • Nofence — Nofence is a system virtual fencing for grazing animals. Virtual fencing of livestock has been a concept long discussed in academia. The Norwegian ag-tech startup Nofence has since 2011 developed and patented a solution for virtual fencing that has proven to work. The customers say that this will become a real gamechanger for livestock managementsince pastures can easily be defined by a few clicks on a tablet/smartphone. The herd is then safely fenced in and can be monitored. The system will send notifications if something happens. From the global food security perspective, this solution will make it much easier to utilize the uncultivated land for varied and healthy pasture, and make it possible to produce more food on cultivated land.
GGV Capital VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 36 investments in the past 12 months
We believe the talent to build great companies comes from anywhere. A global venture capital firm that invests in local founders. As a multi-stage, sector-focused firm, GGV focuses on seed- to growth-stage investments across Social/Internet, Enterprise Tech, and Smart Tech sectors.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Series B, Series A, Series C
  • United States, China, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Neon — Postgres made for developers. Easy to Use, Scalable, Cost efficient solution for your next project.
  • Ronovo Surgical — Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Shanghai, Ronovo Surgical is founded by industry veterans from global leaders in surgical and industrial robotics, such as Intuitive Surgical, Johnson & Johnson, Medtronic and KUKA. Aiming to transform how surgery is performed in China, Ronovo is leveraging robust R&D capabilities and strategicpartnerships globally to accelerate the development of a broad portfolio of MIS and digital surgery solutions that exemplifies the core themes of simplicity, precision, and intelligence.
  • Beep Technologies — Beep is creating a universal, modular platform bridging the physical and digital divide, powering smart, contextual & interoperable connectivity across physical touchpoints whilst ensuring true customer privacy by leveraging on decentralised technology.
NOON Ventures VC Fund · Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
Noon Ventures is a Copenhagen-based, early-stage venture investor established in 2020. We invest in proven transformative technologies with the potential to impact environmental or climate challenges.
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Investment focus
  • Electronics, Biotechnology, Semiconductor
  • Seed
  • Denmark
Portfolio highlights
  • SpectroInlets — Our EC-MS differs from traditional solutions through exceptional sensitivity, unparalleled time response and fully integrated software
  • Enduro Genetics — Bioproduction can be difficult to scale to large cultivation volumes while keeping titers high. By applying game-changing synthetic biology technology, Enduro Genetics empowers our partner companies to maximize performance of all cells cultivated from their production strains.
  • Lotus Microsystems — Lotus Microsystems offers miniaturized highly integrated point of load power converters. The devices are engineered for portable electronics manufacturers ready for usage whenever tiny power supply units are needed. Our devices offer up to 72% reduction in footprint compared to existing solutions with higher efficiency and reliability. Our plug andplay solutions enable our customers to innovate their electronics without worrying about power supply units.
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