# Top 50 Startup Investors in Denmark in June 2026 ## Vaekstfonden - Type: VC Fund - Location: Hellerup, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 117 - 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. ## PSV - Type: VC Fund - Location: Lyngby, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 110 - 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. ## Seed Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 109 - 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. ## Export and Investment Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Hellerup, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 58 - 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. ## Novo Holdings - Type: VC Fund - Location: Hellerup, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 45 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C - Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical Novo Holdings is a world-leading life science investor with a focus on creating long-term value. ## byFounders - Type: VC Fund - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 31 - 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. ## BioInnovation Institute - Type: VC Fund - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 30 - 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. ## People Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Taastrup, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 22 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Health Care, Internet of Things Backing founders with people, money and presence | People Ventures ## Heartcore Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 22 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech Heartcore Capital invests in companies re-enchanting the world through technology. ## VF Venture - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 20 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Biotechnology 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. ## Innovation Fund Denmark - Type: VC Fund - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 19 - 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. ## The Footprint Firm - Type: VC Fund - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 19 - 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. ## Dreamcraft Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 19 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet Seed-to-A engineers. We invest in techdriven companies in the Nordics and Europe. ## West Hill Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 15 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Software, Health Care, Financial Services West Hill Corporate Finance is a leading private equity venture capital firm providing EIS qualifying high-growth investments to private individuals. ## CAPNOVA - Type: VC Fund - Location: Aarhus, Midtjylland, Denmark - Relevant deals: 13 - 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. ## Nordic Makers - Type: VC Fund - Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 13 - 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. ## Antler - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 12 - 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! ## Ugly Duckling Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 11 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence 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. ## Klaus Nyengaard - Type: Angel - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 11 - 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. ## David Helgason - Type: Angel - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 11 - 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. ## Headline - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 10 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology Headline is a Venture Capital firm actively on the ground in 7 cities around the world. We invest across categories and geographies, leading rounds at every stage. Once we commit to a team, we go to the ends of the earth to make their success global. ## The Nordic Web Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 10 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology 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. ## Seedcamp - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 10 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, FinTech, SaaS Seedcamp is Europe's seed fund, identifying and investing early in world-class founders attacking large, global markets and solving real problems using technology. The Seedcamp Nation includes over 400 startups building breakout businesses that change the way people live, interact and buy and includes publicly listed UiPath, Wise, and unicornsRevolut, Hopin, Sorare, Pleo, and wefox along with fast-growing businesses such as Grover, viz.ai and Ezra. Seedcamp fast-tracks a founder's vision and creates value through immediate access to smart capital, a lifelong community of support and a global network built upon more than a decade's experience backing exceptional talent.Seedcamp fast-tracks a founder's vision and creates value through immediate access to smart capital, a lifelong community of support, and a global network built upon more than a decade's experience backing exceptional talent. ## Creandum - Type: VC Fund - Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 10 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence We support early-stage founders in building global, category-defining companies. From Seed to IPO and beyond. ## Sune Alstrup - Type: Angel - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 10 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence Tech Investor and Entrepreneur, former Founder & CEO at The Eye Tribe ## Christian Jantzen - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 10 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology Danish angel investor, based in London. ## Crowberry Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Reykjavík, Gullbringusysla, Iceland - Relevant deals: 9 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Gaming, Health Care Crowberry Capital invests at seed and early stage in emerging technology ventures in the Nordics. Our mission is to back people that are good for companies and build companies that are good for people. We have a strong follow-through philosophy and commit to putting your company first. ## Jesper Buch - Type: Angel - Location: Marbella, Andalucia, Spain - Relevant deals: 9 - Stages: Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Internet, Software, E-Commerce Jesper book is the Seed Investor at DIBB Design. ## Morph Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 9 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Financial Services Co-creating and investing in companies whose founders we believe in, to help them reach the next level faster. ## Nordic Eye Venture Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 8 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, SaaS International venture capital firm based in Copenhagen. We come from the North, but we work in the world. We are Fiftyfive Capital. ## Peter Sandberg - Type: Angel - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 8 - Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed, Secondary Market - Focus: Internet, SaaS, FinTech Peter Sandberg is a Co-Founder of Nordic Secondary Fund, and a venture partner at Startup Wise Guys. He has extensive experience as a Business Angel, Asset Management and Wealth Management ## Kasper Grundtvig Knokgaard - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 8 - 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 ## Sunstone Life Science Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 8 - Stages: Series B, Series A - Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical Sunstone Life Science Ventures is an independent European venture capital investment firm. We enable and empower life science therapeutics innovations. ## North-East Venture - Type: VC Fund - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 8 - 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. ## Nicolaj Nielsen - Type: Angel - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 8 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Angel, Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence Nicolaj nielsen is an investor at IDUN audio. attended INSEAD MBA, General Management. ## Northcap - Type: VC Fund - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Series B, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Mobile We are Northcap A team of experienced professionals with operational backgrounds building companies and comprehensive venture capital experience. We invest in ICT B2B and B2B2C start-ups in Northern Europe. Meet our Team and learn ## Jeppe Rindom - Type: Angel - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services Jeppe Carøe Rindom is based out of Copenhagen, Hovedstaden and is the co-founder & CEO of Pleo. Jeppe previously worked at Nodes as a CEO & co-owner. Jeppe Carøe Rindom attended the Copenhagen Business School. ## Alexander Aghassipour - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: SaaS, Information Technology, Software Founder at Zendesk. ## Delphinus Venture Capital - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Health Care, Food and Beverage, Hospital Delphinus Venture Capital is a venture investment management firm. ## Chris Murphy - Type: Angel - Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology Chris Murphy is a Venture Partner at MS&AD Ventures. He previously cofounded SaaStock and was an early Web Summit employee. ## Founderment Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Aarhus, Midtjylland, Denmark - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Travel Founderment Ventures is an investment firm. ## Cherry Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services Cherry Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm led by a team of entrepreneurs with experience building fast-scaling companies such as Zalando and Spotify. The firm backs Europe's boldest founders, usually as their first institutional investor, and supports them in everything from their go-to-market strategy and the scaling of theirbusinesses. Cherry Ventures has previously invested in the seed stage of over 50 companies across Europe, including FlixBus, Auto1 Group, Infarm, Rows, Forto, and TourRadar. Cherry Ventures is based in Berlin and invests across Europe with operations in London, Paris, and Stockholm. ## Scale Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 7 - 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. ## Nordic Foodtech VC - Type: VC Fund - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Biotechnology, Life Science, Water We are investing in #FutureFood. Nordic FoodTech VC is the first fund in the Nordics investing explicitly in the future of food ## Bjarke Staun-Olsen - Type: Angel - Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech Bjarke Klinge Staun is a Principal at Creandum, a leading European early stage venture capital firm with a portfolio that includes Spotify, iZettle and Vivino.After starting his career at Goldman Sachs, Bjarke co-founded Alipes in 2008. Alipes is a technology company that never left stealth, as it became profitable very fast, has grownorganically and has a very specialized product. The company uses machine learning and natural language processing to automatically read financial news and generate insights about the stock market. The company has about 20 employees in Copenhagen, most of them machine learning, physics and computer science PhDs.After running Alipes for 6 years, Bjarke left active management to his two co-founders in 2014, and is now a proud board member and shareholder. He then ran Vaniday in Berlin, a Rocket Internet funded global beauty and wellness marketplace, before joining Creandum.At Creandum, Bjarke spends a lot of time on the machine learning and AI space, as well as on Fintech. ## Tommy Ahlers - Type: Angel - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Analytics, Social Media, SaaS Tommy Ahlers is a Danish serial entrepreneur and CEO of the Danish software startup, Podio, which Tommy joined Podio as CEO and angel investor in August 2010. Podio connects work processes and interactions in an online environment, Prior to joining Podio, Tommy Ahlers founded the networking and mobile backup site ZYB in 2005 and sold it toVodafone Europe BV for nearly $50m in May 2008. Ahlers holds a masters degree in law from the University of Copenhagen, graduating in 2000 and was previously with McKinsey & Company for more than four years, where he served as an engagement manager.Ahlers is a regular on the technology startup conference circuit, speaking at the likes of Mobile 2.0 Europe, DLD, the European Directory Marketplace Conference and TheNextWeb. ## Danske Bank - Type: VC Fund - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Post-IPO Debt, Debt Financing - Focus: Manufacturing, Energy, Biotechnology 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. ## Thomas Visti - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Angel, Grant - Focus: Robotics, Software, Manufacturing Thomas Visti - CEO @ Mobile Industrial Robots ## Nordic Alpha Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Hellerup, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 6 - 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 ## HOWZAT Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Travel, E-Commerce, SaaS Howzat Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in incubation, seed, start up, growth capital, early stage, and mid venture investments. The firm seeks to invest in digital businesses with a focus on internet, digital media, e-commerce companies. It invests globally. It acts as as sounding board. The firm also makes co-investments. HowzatPartners was founded in 2006 and is based in Luxembourg and London.