# Top 50 Impact Startup Investors in Denmark in June 2026

## The Footprint Firm
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 14
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Renewable Energy, Energy Management

The Footprint Firm is an advisory and investment company with a sole focus on sustainability. 

## Vaekstfonden
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hellerup, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 9
- 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.

## Export and Investment Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hellerup, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care

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.

## UVC Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

UVC Partners is a Munich- and Berlin-based early-stage venture capital firm that invests in technology-based startups in the areas of enterprise software, industrial technologies, and mobility. The fund typically invests between € 0.5 - 10m initially and up to € 20m in total per company.

## Antler
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now!

## Transition
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Sustainability, CleanTech

Transition, a new climate tech venture capital firm that focuses on Seed and Series A startups recently launched.

## Nupark Accelerace
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Holstebro, Midtjylland, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Solar, Energy, Mobile

Nupark Accelerace finances entrepreneurial businesses and is a Denmark-based investment company.

## Human Act
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Cooking, Software

Human Act is a world-wide development organization.

## PSV
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lyngby, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 3
- 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.

## Christian Bach
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Developer Tools

Christian Bach is the President & Co-founder of Netlify.

## Ulf Bech Christensen
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Women's, Sustainability, Industrial Manufacturing

Ulf Bech Christensen is a Biotech entrepreneur.

## Bo Wase
- Type: Angel
- Location: Skanderborg, Midtjylland, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Renewable Energy

Bo Wase is chairman of InCommodities.

## Nefco
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
- Focus: Energy, Sustainability, Energy Efficiency

Nefco accelerates the green transition by providing risk capital to small and medium-sized projects with positive impact on the environment and climate.

## Vsquared Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Semiconductor, Manufacturing

Vsquared Ventures invests in early-stage deep-tech companies that are tackling society's most pressing challenges, with a focus on quantum and novel computing, green energy, robotics, AI/ML, new space, synthetic biology, and healthcare. It is committed to a partnership and will go to any length to help accelerate and scale vision,unlocking all seemingly impossible possibilities.

## Jacob Wolff-Petersen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Renewable Energy, Environmental Consulting

Jacob Wolff-Petersen is the founder of SteelSeries, a leading manufacturer of peripherals for gaming and electronic sports (eSports), including headsets, keyboards, mice, mouse pads and mouse accessories. 

## Yara Growth Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Seed
- Focus: AgTech, Agriculture, FinTech

Yara Growth Ventures is the venture investment team within Yara International ASA. The Yara Growth Ventures team invests in disruptive startups in the agri-food industry globally in order to advance the mission of responsibly feeding the world and protecting the planet. Learn more at www.yaragrowthventures.com

## Juergen Mayerhofer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Renewable Energy

Juergen Mayerhofer is the CEO and Founder of Enspired and attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business in 2018. Previously he worked with Eurelectric as Platform Member.

## VÅR Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hellerup, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Manufacturing, Biomass Energy, Energy Storage

VÅR Ventures help founders create sustainable impact.

## North-East Family Office
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hellerup, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Food Processing

North-East Family Office was etablished in 2013 in Copenhagen by the founders of the global jewelry brand, Pandora. Today Winnie Liljeborg together with her

## BioInnovation Institute
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Convertible Note, Pre-Seed, Debt Financing
- Focus: Biotechnology, Medical, Health Care

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.

## Root Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

Root Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm that invests in technical teams working on deep tech. The firm specializes in the fields of financial services, venture capital, and investments.

It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

## Giant Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care

Giant backs purpose-driven founders building companies that matter.

## Rincon Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santa Barbara, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Analytics

Rincon Venture Partners seeks to partner with extraordinary entrepreneurs and support them as they build world-class businesses. Rincon is an early-stage venture capital firm that targets investment opportunities in Web-based businesses that are led by 'serial founding teams', have proven recurring revenue models and are pursuingcapital-efficient operating plans. They typically invest in companies where initial product or service development is largely complete, and the company's forward-looking focus is on market engagement and expansion. They take an active role in guiding and supporting portfolio companies by committing resources for such activities as Board representation, providing strategic and tactical guidance, filling key management positions, facilitating subsequent financings and achieving liquidity events.

## BackingMinds
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Agriculture

We help great minds unleash their full potential!

## Jeppe Rindom
- Type: Angel
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Mobile Apps, B2B

Jeppe Rindom is CEO & Co-founder of Pleo.Before starting Pleo, Jeppe was the CFO of the Danish startup success, Tradeshift and he has been involved as an advisor and investor in several startups and fintech companies.

## Eneco Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Renewable Energy, Energy, Energy Management

Eneco Ventures, the investment arm of Netherlands-based energy innovator, Eneco.

## Breakthrough Energy Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Energy, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing

Focused on developing and deploying the critical climate solutions our world needs to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.

## Maersk Growth
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Software

Integrated logistics company and global leader in container shipping.

## Notion Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Notion Capital is a VC firm focused on European SaaS and Cloud.

## Climentum Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: CleanTech, Clean Energy, Biotechnology

A Venture Capital firm investing into European early-stage tech companies attacking CO2 emissions

## Tamarack Global
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Aerospace, Clean Energy, CleanTech

Tamarack Global operates as an investment firm that invests in new markets and new economies. The frim specializes in the fields of finance, financial services, and hedge funds.

## EQt Foundation
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: AgTech, Farming, Agriculture

The EQT Foundation supports entrepreneurs, researchers, and agents of change to bring frontier innovation from lab to market.

## byFounders
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile Apps

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.

## Angular Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Machine Learning

Angular Ventures is a specialist venture capital firm committed to founders redefining global markets.

## Sune Alstrup
- Type: Angel
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision

Tech Investor and Entrepreneur, former Founder & CEO at The Eye Tribe

## Engine Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Chemical, Medical

We invest in Tough Tech founders.

## Thomas Buus Madsen
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Energy, Industrial, Power Grid

Thomas Buus Madsen - Partner & Founder @ Bookboon

## Starlight Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Biotechnology, Energy, Health Care

Starlight is a venture capital firm for founders addressing the world’s most pressing challenges & opportunities. We partner early with unstoppable entrepreneurs leveraging breakthrough science and technology to pursue progress at scale in four main areas: the energy transition, industrializing synthetic biology, space technology, and novelcomputing & communications platforms.Starlight was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Miami, Florida.

## KRING
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Sports, Fitness, Analytics

We build and invest in ventures with bold entrepreneurs and corporates, all dedicated to building a positive future. Become a founder / Submit your pitch!

## Spectrum Impact
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Environmental Consulting, Energy, Renewable Energy

Spectrum Impact is a family office committed to using its resources to help solve the problems of society by allocating its for profit and its not-for-profit pools of capital in a manner consistent with the objective of optimizing the total return on investments made.

## Korys
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Halle, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Biotechnology, Information Technology, Renewable Energy

Korys is the name chosen by the Colruyt family for their investment structure. The name Korys is derived from the Latin word for hazelnut tree – Corylus - which is at the origin of the Colruyt name.Their multi-disciplinary approach enables us to create a well-balanced, diversified portfolio of listed stocks and bonds, private equity funds, anddirect participations in small and medium-sized companies. Through their investments, they aim to make a positive impact on people and the planet, while generating attractive returns. A “three P” approach (People, Planet, Profit) forms the cornerstone of their investment strategy. They invest for the long term, as they realize that it takes time to achieve the sustainable impact they are aiming for. They focus their investments in sectors in which they have built substantial expertise as a team: Cleantech, consumer goods & retail and life sciences.

## North-East Venture
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Fashion

North-East Venture is an international, multi-stage fund placed in Copenhagen, Denmark. The fund was launched December 1st 2013.

## Oliver Rye
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Beauty, Cosmetics, E-Commerce

Investor & Partner at Likeminded.vc

## Anorak Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Virtual Reality, Information Technology

Anorak Ventures is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco investing in seed-stage technology companies.

## Bonfire Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Bonfire Ventures leads Seed rounds for business software solutions company founders transforming the industries they target.

## Mickey Switzer Schubert-Suell
- Type: Angel
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Energy, Industrial, Power Grid

Mickey Switzer Schubert-Suell - CPO @ Tame

## Kasper Knokgaard
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Seed, Secondary Market
- Focus: Software, Apps, SaaS

Kasper Grundtvig Knokgaard is based out of New York, New York and is on the Board of Directors at Arkyn. and also Founder of Compounding Capital. Kasper previously worked at United Talent Agency as a Board Member. He graduated from the Copenhagen Business School (CBS).

## David Helgason
- Type: Angel
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Nordic Alpha Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hellerup, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Energy, Energy Storage, Renewable Energy

Nordic Alpha Partners (NAP) is a growth fund founded in 2017. NAP target companies are typically locally or regionally established players with a revenue of DKK 10-150 mio. and with a global potential that can be fulfilled through new sustainable technologies such as energy storage and 3D print. The company is based in Hellerup, Denmark.We arelooking for:
• SME’s based in Northern Europe with 10-150 MDKK in turnover
• A proposition that either “enables” or “leverages” industrial, green or digital transformation.
• Ambitious teams, looking for capital and/or skills to fuel their growth journeyWe offer truly intelligent capital and partnership via:
• Our “hands on” fund management philosophy
• A vast “value creation framework” supporting rapid business acceleration
• Access to leaders and specialists within global Industry transformation
• A fund management team with extensive operational experience across startups, international business scaling, the industry/technology sector and corporate business

## 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.

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