Top 20 Hospitality Startup Investors in Denmark in January 2025
A list of 20 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Hospitality startups based in Denmark. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Hospitality companies from Denmark. We update this investor list every month.Top 20 Hospitality Startup Investors in Denmark in January 2025
Investor | Hospitality Denmark investments |
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Seed Capital | 5 |
Vaekstfonden | 2 |
PSV | 2 |
Björn Lindberg | 2 |
Michael Conyers | 2 |
Atomico | 1 |
Kinnevik | 1 |
Thomas Juhl | 1 |
byFounders | 1 |
Oxlund Holding | 1 |
Tao Tao | 1 |
Jesper Johansen | 1 |
VF Venture | 1 |
The Nordic Web Ventures | 1 |
CAPNOVA | 1 |
Vaekstfonden | 1 |
Bang Olsen Holding | 1 |
Preben Damgaard | 1 |
Knight Capital | 1 |
Delivery Hero | 1 |
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
- Tembi — Market Intelligence platform with deep market data, insights and predictions for B2B companies that look for a competitive edge.
- Landfolk — Landfolk is the new marketplace for the special holiday homes that are hidden around the country. We have hand-picked every single cottage, where there are proud and passionate hosts, who love their holiday homes, but also like to share it with others.
- Embankment Group — Embankment Group is a recruitment consultancy specialising in candidate short markets. We pride ourselves on matching the best talent to the right companies.
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.
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
- Cellugy — Biomaterial to Replace Plastic
- ZTLment — We empower online platforms and marketplaces to seamlessly hold, manage, and distribute funds in real-time, with full automation and compliance.
- Dynelectro — Dynelectro is a green energy technology company that focuses on reducing CO2 emissions by transforming fossil fuels into green fuels.
Former CCO TradeDoubler and iZettle
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Software, Hospitality
- Angel, Series A
- Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- Superb — Superb is the first global platform that collects all your restaurant tools. All you need to make every guest become a regular - in one place
Founder and former CEO Resdiary
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Software, Hospitality
- Angel, Series A
- Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- Superb — Superb is the first global platform that collects all your restaurant tools. All you need to make every guest become a regular - in one place
Atomico invests in innovative technology companies around the world.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- R.grid — Research Grid is the automation engine for admin-free clinical trials. Research Grid has developed two industry-leading products that leverage its AI-powered automation engine.
- Raycast — A collection of powerful productivity tools all within an extendable launcher.
- Dexory — BotsAndUs is a London-based startup that develops robotics and AI solutions. They combine social sciences with human-centered design and cutting edge engineering and make sure robots seamlessly integrate into day to day life.
Kinnevik is an industry-focused investment company with an entrepreneurial spirit. Its purpose is to build digital consumer businesses that provide more and better choices. The company does this by working in partnership with talented founders and management teams to create, invest in, and lead fast-growing businesses in developed and emergingmarkets.Kinnevik believes in delivering both shareholder and social value by building well-governed companies that contribute positively to society. Kinnevik was founded in 1936 by the Stenbeck, Klingspor, and von Horn families. Kinnevik's shares are listed on Nasdaq Stockholm's list for large-cap companies under the ticker codes KINV A and KINV B.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Health Care, Internet
- Series B, Series C, Funding Round
- United States, Germany, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- TravelPerk — TravelPerk offers the freedom travelers want, and the control companies need. Enjoy an industry-leading travel inventory, 24/7 support and easy booking.
- Mews — Cloud-native, Mews PMS is an innovative hospitality management system that enables automation to boost revenue and empowers remarkable guest experiences.
- Enveda Biosciences — Enveda Biosciences is a biotechnology company building new medicines from plants. It harnesses the complexity of the natural world to tackle today’s biggest healthcare challenges. With the help of the advancements in knowledge graphs, machine learning, and metabolomics, they discover the next generation of small molecules. Its technologiessystematize the discovery of small molecules and novel targets for complex diseases. By probing novel chemical space and mechanisms of action, they are breaking the status quo for challenging diseases with a need for effective treatments, such as fibrosis or neurodegeneration.Enveda, launched in 2019, is based in San Francisco, California.
Thomas Juhl - Chairman of the board @ UnitPal
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Investment focus
- B2B, SaaS, Hospitality
- Seed
- Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- UnitPal — The complexity of hotel property management & revenue management made simple.UnitPal works for all accommodation, whether you have a few or more rooms, never used a hotel management system before or tried them all. No installations needed, no manuals to read. Create your beds, rooms, prices and packages, and you’re all set to makereservations, send confirmations, check-in guests and issue invoices. UnitPal systematizes and organises the activities of the hotel, and provides management overview of activities at any time, from anywhere.UnitPal tracks and displays past, present and future data of your hotel, needed for making decisions to ensure selling the right product to the right customer, at the right time to the right price.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Denmark, United States, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- DREM — Simplifying distributed energy saving solutions
- Meine Erde — Meine Erde is a provider of ecological burial option in Europe.
- DataCrunch.io — DataCrunch is a cloud service provider which facilitates utilization and integration of state of the art AI/ML models
Holding for Oxlund
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Investment focus
- B2B, SaaS, Hospitality
- Seed
- Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- UnitPal — The complexity of hotel property management & revenue management made simple.UnitPal works for all accommodation, whether you have a few or more rooms, never used a hotel management system before or tried them all. No installations needed, no manuals to read. Create your beds, rooms, prices and packages, and you’re all set to makereservations, send confirmations, check-in guests and issue invoices. UnitPal systematizes and organises the activities of the hotel, and provides management overview of activities at any time, from anywhere.UnitPal tracks and displays past, present and future data of your hotel, needed for making decisions to ensure selling the right product to the right customer, at the right time to the right price.
Tao Tao is Co-Founder & COO at GetYourGuide.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Hospitality, Apps
- Pre-Seed, Angel, Convertible Note
- Germany, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- anna — anna makes restaurant hiring a little easier. We're replacing e-mail as the standard hiring interface for the restaurant industry.
- GetYourGuide — Find, compare, and book sightseeing tours, attractions, excursions, things to do and fun activities from around the world. Save money and book directly from local suppliers.
- Passionfroot — A workspace where you can manage your creator business and organise your finances so that you can optimise your creator-work-life balance.
Jesper Johansen - Partner @ DKA Capital
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Hospitality, Restaurants
- Series A, Funding Round
- Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- OrderYoyo — Our focus is to help take-aways and restaurants make more money. We offer you your OWN platform, which includes: iPhone App, Android App and a Web-based ordering module. Through the app we enable you to communicate directly with your regular customers about great offers and new menus and to receive orders. Use takeaway portals like Just-Eat to getnew customers – and once you’ve got them, convert them to order take-away directly from YOUR ordering platform.
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
- Kollektiv — Unleash your best self with tailored training plans, learning and support for running, swimming and cycling - from world-class-coaches and ex-athletes.
- Performativ — Performativ develops modern solutions for the asset and wealth management industry. Our clients span from small investment advisors to enterprise banks.
- 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.
The Nordic Web Ventures is an Angel Fund run by Neil S W Murray, backed by 50+ community builders, entrepreneurs and investors passionate about supporting early-stage Nordic startups.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Denmark, Norway, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Steep — Business intelligence for modern companies. Steep lets anyone on your team stay on top of your data.
- All Gravy — Butter gives you happier employees, by reducing their financial stress and giving them an understanding of their salary and financial situation
- Valuebeat — Grow your culture. Backed by data. Platypus is the HR and recruitment tool that measures cultural drivers of people across the organization to help you qualify decisions on hiring and managing your culture.
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.
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.
Holding for Bang Olsen
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Investment focus
- B2B, SaaS, Hospitality
- Seed
- Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- UnitPal — The complexity of hotel property management & revenue management made simple.UnitPal works for all accommodation, whether you have a few or more rooms, never used a hotel management system before or tried them all. No installations needed, no manuals to read. Create your beds, rooms, prices and packages, and you’re all set to makereservations, send confirmations, check-in guests and issue invoices. UnitPal systematizes and organises the activities of the hotel, and provides management overview of activities at any time, from anywhere.UnitPal tracks and displays past, present and future data of your hotel, needed for making decisions to ensure selling the right product to the right customer, at the right time to the right price.
Preben Damgaard - Director @ Axcess A/S
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Software, Food and Beverage
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Denmark, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Paperflow — Paperflow is a company that developed a cloud-based system that, using artificial intelligence, scans and handles vouchers such as receipts or invoices so that the manual posting is done automatically.
- Configit —
- Too Good To Go — The app that lets customers rescue unsold food from shops and restaurants to save it from going to waste. Try it today.
Knight Capital is helping founders from series A to series B and beyond.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, China, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- iDWELL — iDWELL (www.idwell.com) is a revolutionary CRM cloud software and tenant app, especially designed for the next generation of real estate management. It enables the automation of routine processes, and bundles as well as optimizes all communication between the stakeholders of a property, including service providers, asset managers, landlords,tenants and property managers. Currently, more than 750,000 apartment units are managed with the assistance of iDWELL.The iDWELL ticketing system and the connected tenant app automates routine maintenance tasks with regards to handling and reporting damages. This allows iDWELL customers to focus on more important and revenue-generating tasks. The iDWELL marketplace provides further opportunities to service tenants and landlords while generating revenue.
- Paiger — Enable recruiters to market candidates, jobs, and themselves. Win new business, attract candidates, and build personal brand with Paiger. Book a demo now.
- Ambrus Studio — Ambrus Studio develops games and a metaverse to connect player communities from all over the world.
Delivery Hero is the world's leading local delivery company. We are on a mission to deliver an amazing experience - fast, easy, and to your door.
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Investment focus
- Food Delivery, E-Commerce, Delivery
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- Germany, Colombia, India
Portfolio highlights
- LAIKA — LAIKA is an e-commerce platform for pets that offers a variety of products and services. LAIKA is like a dog with two tails right now. Its platform for pet products and services has been growing in recent months and it’s drawn the necessary investment to keep up its momentum.LAIKA built a digital platform where users don’t have to go anywhereelse to meet said needs. With two main sections; products and services. In the products section, we have more than 4,000 references (among which you can find most of the brands of food, snacks, medicines, accessories, and others). In the services section, we have more than 17 services, all the healthcare, beauty, and entertainment services. All of the above is delivered straight to your home and with the flexibility of choosing the date and time on and at which you wish to receive the order, including same-day deliveries for the main cities and accepting all payment methods, both online and cash on delivery.
- Buo — Buo is a social commerce app.
- OlaClick (YC W21) — Create electronic menu boards for your restaurant or store. It is totally free. QR codes menu or digital menu boards. Digitalize your menu in an instant and start receiving orders !
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