# Top 50 EdTech Startup Investors in Denmark in June 2026 ## Vaekstfonden - Type: VC Fund - Location: Hellerup, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS 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. ## David Helgason - Type: Angel - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Gaming, Information Technology 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. ## North-East Venture - Type: VC Fund - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Fashion, Software, E-Commerce North-East Venture is an international, multi-stage fund placed in Copenhagen, Denmark. The fund was launched December 1st 2013. ## Nordic Makers - Type: VC Fund - Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Education Nordic Makers invests in early-stage Nordic B2B software startups, offering capital and founder support to help them scale globally. ## Innovation Fund Denmark - Type: VC Fund - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Grant, Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Software, Biotechnology, SaaS 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. ## Anders Holch Povlsen - Type: Angel - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series B, Secondary Market - Focus: E-Commerce, Fashion, Education Anders Holch Povlsen is the CEO at Bestseller. ## Klaus Nyengaard - Type: Angel - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Apps Klaus Nyengaard is the co-founder and Chairman of GenieBelt, a SaaS-based platform that develops project management software. He is also co-founder of the investment club, Nordic Makers. He serves as the co-chairman of Treatwell, a beauty and wellness community marketplace. Nyengaard has previously been CEO & Chairman of Just-Eat pre-IPO, andbuild a number of tech companies. In 1994, Klaus Nyengaard graduated from Aarhus University with a specialized degree in economics and management. ## Sparkmind.vc - Type: VC Fund - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Education, E-Learning, EdTech Sparkmind.vc is the first Nordic venture capital company focused on the learning sector. The company invests in teams transforming early childhood, K12, higher, secondary and vocational education as well as corporate and lifelong learning. The investment sweet spot of the company is from seed to international growth phase with single investments upto €5m. ## Mia Wagner - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: EdTech, Finance, Women's Mia Wagner ## Kasper Grundtvig Knokgaard - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Angel, Secondary Market - Focus: Fashion, Education, E-Commerce Experienced investor with more than 20 years of experience: - 17 years doing large cap Private Equity investment with EQT. Have been part of completing >10 large-cap platform acquisitions and numerous add-ons, with a >$20 billion combined transaction value - 3 years as management consultant with McKinsey, primarily focused on Strategy andM&A - Private investor in startups since 2012, having participated in >40 equity financing rounds across 14 platform investments ## Greg Moga - Type: Angel - Location: Seattle, Washington, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: EdTech, Internet, Software Greg Moga is a Member of the Advisory Board at National Geographic. ## Alexander Aghassipour - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: SaaS, Information Technology, Software Founder at Zendesk. ## Emerge VC - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Education, EdTech, E-Learning Emerge is a $70m pre-seed fund backed by 100+ of the world’s best edtech and future of work founders and executives. Our vision is to democratise access to opportunity by being a catalytic partner for early-stage founders re-designing the future of learning and work. ## Learn Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Mateo, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Education, EdTech, E-Learning Learn Capital was founded in 2009 as the first venture capital firm dedicated to education and human capital development. Over the past 15 years, Learn Capital has raised $1B+ in AUM, backed 10 unicorns, and produced three IPOs and 27 M&A exits. With 176 portfolio companies across five funds, Learn Capital continues to drive innovation ineducation and workforce development. ## Thorvald Stigsen - Type: Angel - Location: Denmark, South Carolina, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: EdTech, Education, E-Learning Thorvald Stigsen has a background in software development and founded Skygate in 1992 to offer software solutions for the travel sector.With the development of Travel Management solutions and MIS tools he received the European Award in Information Technology for Excellence in converting results from information technology research to innovativeproducts for the marketplace.In 2006 he founded Momondo, a meta-search for flights that has received market recognition for its broad search and coverage.In 2010 Momondo was acquired by Cheapflights Media and Thorvald Stigsen joined the board. ## Blue Cloud Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series C, Series D, Series B - Focus: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software Blue Cloud Ventures (BCV) is a software-focused growth equity venture capital firm based in New York City. The fund targets investments in leading SaaS, infrastructure and open source software companies. BCV offers entrepreneurs an alternative to raising a traditional growth round by being flexible on amount invested, ownership requirements, boardrepresentation and exit horizon. BCV supports entrepreneurs in raising the optimal growth round and enables early-stage investors to double down on their most promising companies. ## Balderton Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C - Focus: Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence 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. ## Sune Alstrup - Type: Angel - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence Tech Investor and Entrepreneur, former Founder & CEO at The Eye Tribe ## Ugly Duckling Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Information Technology, Software, Social Media At Ugly Duckling Ventures, we make capital, know-how, and real-world application available to Nordic ventures at the seed & pre-seed stage. We are operational by nature and want to get in the grind as we excel at getting early-stage ventures ready for scale. ## Mediahuis - Type: VC Fund - Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Education, Human Resources, E-Learning Mediahuisis a venture capital arm of the independent publishing and media company is on a mission to support founders who are changing the way we learn and work. As a lead investor, MHV participates in European EdTech & HRTech companies, from Series A and beyond. ## Danske Bank - Type: VC Fund - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Post-IPO Debt, Debt Financing - Focus: Biotechnology, Apps, Payments Danske Bank is a Nordic universal bank offering a full range of banking services. It was founded 5 October 1871 as Den Danske Landmandsbank, Hypothek- og Vexelbank i Kjøbenhavn (The Danish Farmers' Bank, Mortgage and Exchange Bank of Copenhagen). It is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark and is one of the major retail banks in the northernEuropean region with over 5 million retail customers.Danske Bank was number 454 on the Fortune Global 500 list for 2011. ## Seed Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Health Care, SaaS 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. ## GGV Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Menlo Park, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence 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. ## Jakob Bendsen - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Apps, FinTech, Education Jakob Bendsen ## Kamet Capital Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series C - Focus: SaaS, EdTech, Hospital Kamet Capital Partners ## Ilya Katsnelson - Type: Angel - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: EdTech, Internet, Software Ilya Katsnelson ## Morten Møller Holst - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Apps, FinTech, Education Morten Møller Holst ## CAPNOVA - Type: VC Fund - Location: Aarhus, Midtjylland, Denmark - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, B2B 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. ## Thomas Visti - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel, Grant - Focus: Robotics, Software, Manufacturing Thomas Visti - CEO @ Mobile Industrial Robots ## Kennet Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS Kennet - We partner with Founders and teams of successful, capital efficient SaaS and tech-enabled services companies ready to take the next big jump. ## Daniel Laursen - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: EdTech, Tutoring, Education Daniel Laursen ## Susquehanna Growth Equity - Type: VC Fund - Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Private Equity, Series B, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology Susquehanna Growth Equity (SGE) is unlike the typical investment model: our firm is backed solely by bootstrapped entrepreneurs. This enables us to invest on. ## Index Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet Index Ventures is an international venture capital firm with dual headquarters in San Francisco and London, investing in technology-enabled companies with a focus on e-commerce, fintech, mobility, gaming, infrastructure/AI, and security. ## Green Visor Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software Green Visor Capital invests in, and works with, passionate entrepreneurs that use innovative technology to solve substantive issues in financial services and do so in a socially responsible manner, which we believe will generate large-scale shareholder value.Green Visor Capital was launched in late 2013 and its general partners include JoeSaunders, the former Chairman and CEO of Visa, Inc., the world's largest payments company. ## Hampus Jakobsson - Type: Angel - Location: Malmö, Skane Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Health Care, Software, Artificial Intelligence Hampus Jakobsson is a General Partner at early stage climate tech venture fund Pale Blue Dot.Prior to co-founding Pale Blue Dot, Hampus was a Venture Partner at science fund Blue Yard and a prolific angel investor with >100 angel investments. He co-founded of The Astonishing Tribe (acquired by Blackberry in 2010 for $150m). He left Blackberry2012 to found Brisk.io a sales productivity tool which folded 2016. ## Fiona Pathiraja - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: Health Care, Software, Wellness Fiona is Managing Partner at Crista Galli Ventures, an early stage healthtech VC fund based in London and Copenhagen. ## byFounders - Type: VC Fund - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care byFounders is the community-powered early-stage venture fund investing in globally ambitious teams connected to the Nordic and Baltic countries. With its unique Collective of founders and operators, byFounders offers its portfolio operational expertise and a global network. Believing in the power of tech to shape our future, byFounders takes an impact-aware approach to investing and working with the broader startup ecosystem. ## Kickass Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Sports, Content, Cooking Kickass Capital invests in extraordinary entrepreneurs with unique technologies that will define the next era of innovation. They go in at POC stage, with ca$h ($200k-2M), support and our extensive network. ## 10x Value Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software 10x Value Partners is a discretionary investment firm founded and owned by serial entrepreneur and investor Christian Schroeder. ## Project A Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence Project A is an early-stage venture capital firm, combining financial and operational support for technology companies. In addition to $1bn in assets under management, Project A provides its portfolio companies with a wide range of operational support services. This includes more than 100 experts from key areas such as software engineering,business intelligence, marketing, and recruiting. The portfolio includes companies such as Trade Republic, sennder, KRY, Catawiki, WorldRemit, Spryker, and Voi. ## Maj Invest Equity - Type: VC Fund - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series E, Series C - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance Maj Invest is one of Denmark’s leading asset management companies, managing assets for primarily institutional clients. The Maj Invest group was established in 2005 and is today owned by employees, management and Danish institutional investors PKA, Realdania and PBU.The group comprises six companies: Maj Invest Holding A/S,Fondsmæglerselskabet Maj Invest A/S, Maj Invest Equity A/S and three companies related to international private equity funds. Click here for more information about their legal structure.They have two main business areas: Asset Management and Private Equity.In Asset Management they provide advice on strategic asset allocation and asset management of securities listed on regulated markets for institutional clients and the mutual funds Investeringsforeningen Maj Invest in Denmark and Maj Invest Funds in Luxembourg. They also offer wealth management services to wealthy individuals, companies and funds.Their Investor Relations & Markets department primarily handles Fondsmæglerselskabet Maj Invest A/S' client relations and supplies distributors with information on Investeringsforeningen Maj Invest and Maj Invest Funds.In Private Equity they act as advisors to private equity funds on their investments in unlisted equities in Denmark and abroad. In Denmark they advise four private equity funds and provide discretionary investment advisory services to clients on private equity portfolios. In the international part of their private equity business they advise three private equity funds on their investments in Vietnam, within microfinance and within energy and fertilizers. ## True Growth Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Internet, Software, Financial Services True Growth is a Berlin-based group of founders who actively invest into outstanding entrepreneurs. Over the past two decades, we have built several internationally leading companies and sold them to global players. We leverage our operational experience and dedicate a significant amount of time to supporting our portfolio companies. ## PSV - Type: VC Fund - Location: Lyngby, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS PSV cares about a conscious future. As a venture house, our mission is to clear the path for founders who build companies that matter. Our hybrid setup, comprising PSV Foundry, PSV Lab, and two unique venture funds, PSV Tech and PSV Hafnium, sets us free from adhering to a singular method. Rather we rethink existing ways and models to maximise our impact beyond any individual firm or investment. Together, we can punch above our weight. ## Susanne Brønnum - Type: Angel - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: FinTech, Apps, Internet Susanne Brønnum (born 1969, Danish nationality) first joined Nets in 1990 and has been Group Executive Vice President (Financial & Network Services) since 2010. Susanne Brønnum holds an academy profession degree in Financial Management from Copenhagen Business School and has completed The General Manager Programme at Harvard BusinessSchool. ## Erik Byrenius - Type: Angel - Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Health Care, Security, Software Erik Byrenius is a founding partner of Mudcake, a microfund run by ex-founders dedicated to making the world a better place for the next generation. We invest in the strongest founders shaping the way we produce, distribute and consume food. Our typical ticket is $200k-$600k in pre-seed and seed rounds globally.Previously he was the CEO andco-founder of food delivery business OnlinePizza (exit to Delivery Hero), founder of StartupTools and co-founded the angel syndicate Nordic Makers. ## Tommy Andersen - Type: Angel - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, EdTech, Events Tommy Andersen is the founder and Managing Partner of byFounders. ## Northzone - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: Software, FinTech, Information Technology Northzone is a multi-stage venture capital firm operating across Europe and the US. Since 1996, it has backed more than 250 companies, including Spotify, Klarna, Spring Health, and Black Forest Labs. ## Scale Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology Scale Capital is an early-stage technology investor, helping Nordic, B2B, and tech founder teams scale and win in the US market. ## Ulrich Slothuus - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: EdTech, Tutoring, Education Ulrich Slothuus ## The Index Project - Type: VC Fund - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Chemical, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS Design to improve life is about solving real problems, small and large, simple and complex, systemic and emerging and is a life-long pursuit. The Index Project is a call to action. Are you in?