Top 50 Medical Startup Investors in Denmark in May 2025

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.

Novo Holdings is a world-leading life science investor with a focus on creating long-term value.

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.

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.

Sunstone Life Science Ventures is an independent European venture capital investment firm. We enable and empower life science therapeutics innovations.

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.

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.

Backing ambitious early-stage founders across Europe and MENA

People Ventures are your dreamcast team of co-founders, investors, executives, engineers, academics and industry experts. Together with talented entrepreneurs — We shape fantastic businesses through operational and commercial execution.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Impacting the future of medicine.

Providing capital plus strategic, clinical, operational, financial, and commercial support to deliver the added value inventors seek.

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.

Roland Berger is a Founder of Roland Berger, Munich and has been the Roland Berger GmbH's Honorary Chairman since 2010. Today, Roland Berger has grown to become one of the world's top five strategy consulting firms with 50 offices in 36 countries. The company has a workforce of 2,400 and advises leading international industrial andservice enterprises, as well as public institutions. From the company's foundation in 1967 until 2003, Roland was Chief Executive Officer of the firm, and until 2010 Chairman of the Supervisory Board. Prior to founding his strategy consultancy, Roland was employed as a consultant and ultimately partner at a leading American consulting firm based in Milan and Boston. Roland has been appointed to various expert commissions by several German state governments and the federal government. From 2007 to its dissolution in 2014, Roland was a Member of the High Level Group on Administrative Burdens under the leadership of former Bavarian State Premier Dr. Edmund Stoiber, appointed by the European Commission. Roland is a member of several supervisory boards and advisory councils of national and international companies, foundations and organizations, including Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA (Chairman of the Audit Committee), Bad Homburg; Prime Office REIT-AG, Munich (Chairman of the Supervisory Board); RCS Mediagroup S.p.A.(Vice-President), Milan, Italy. Roland also serves on several international advisory boards, including those of Deutsche Bank AG in Frankfurt, MillerBuckfire in New York and The Blackstone Group in New York. Since 1996 Roland has been a Lecturer and Visiting Professor and since 2000 Honorary Professor for Business Administration and Management Consulting at the Brandenburg Technical University in Cottbus. Furthermore, Roland was appointed a member of the Oxford Martin Commission for Future Generations in 2012. Since 2002, Roland has been on the Business Advisory Council of the State Premier of Saxony-Anhalt and was appointed to the Globalization Council Portugal by the Portuguese President Aníbal Cavaco Silva. Previously, German President Roman Herzog had appointed Roland to the President's Advisory Council for Innovation. Roland has also actively participated in over 20 federal government commissions under Helmut Kohl and Gerhard Schröder. Roland is a member of several supervisory boards and advisory councils of national and international companies, foundations and organizations and invests in many private and listed companies as well as startups. Roland was Honorary Consul General of the Republic of Finland in Bavaria and Thuringia from 1996 to 2015. Roland is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Roland Berger Foundation, which he set up personally with an endowment of EUR 50 million. The Roland Berger Foundation is dedicated to the global protection of human dignity and human rights. Each year it confers the Roland Berger Award for Human Dignity. The Foundation also helps gifted children and young people from underprivileged families across Germany and Italy to gain access to the best possible primary and secondary education. Outside work, Roland pursues his interest in modern art and owns a large collection of artworks, mainly by contemporary artists from Europe, the US, South America and China. Roland also loves classical music and supports the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Bavarian State Opera, among others. Roland loves hiking and cross-country skiing, especially in the Swiss region of Engadin. Roland studied business administration in Munich and Hamburg. (MBA from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich).

+ND Capital (NanoDimension) is a venture capital firm founded in 2002 that invests in disruptive technologies across the life, physical, and data sciences.

VC for the most ambitious founders in CEE

BankInvest Biomedical Venture makes investments in research-based biotechnology companies in Europe.

SEB Venture Capital is a Fintech investor that helps entrepreneurs and innovators launch and grow profitable businesses. They primarily serve as a strategic corporate venture focused on Fintech investments, with the option of partnering with SEB. They are also on the hunt for game-changing inventive solutions to new technologies that will make thefinancial industry smarter, safer, and more environmentally responsible, as well as more user-friendly. They also function as an evergreen fund, giving them the flexibility and staying strength to focus on long-term wealth development depending on what is best for the firm and its shareholders.

Noble Group is a global supply chain manager of energy, power & gas products, metals and carbon steel materials, with interests in key facilities that add value at various stages of its supply chains. Noble Group manages a diversified portfolio of essential natural resources, with integrated sourcing, marketing, processing, financing andtransportation operations. Noble Group's Energy segment encompasses a portfolio of oil liquids and coal products and continues to be a significant driver for the Group’s growth. Gas & Power segment includes their retail energy business Noble Americas Energy Solutions and Gas & Power wholesale operations. In Metals & Mining, Noble Group is one of the world’s leading suppliers with interests in iron ore, aluminium, special ores and alloys across key global locations. The Corporate segment incorporates the Logistics business as well as investments in their major associates. Noble Group (SGX: N21) manages a portfolio of global supply chains covering a range of industrial and energy products. Operating from over 60 locations, Noble facilitates the marketing, processing, financing and transportation of essential raw materials. Sourcing bulk commodities from low cost regions such as South America, South Africa, Australia and Indonesia, the Group supplies high growth demand markets, particularly in Asia and the Middle East. Noble Group is ranked number 77 in the 2015 Fortune Global 500. Noble moves essential resources from producers to consumer across the world. Noble Group's success relies on a rigorously managed balance sheet, effective partnerships and a deep understanding of customer needs. Noble’s core strategy is to be the best company in the world at moving the physical commodity from the producer to the consumer and managing the market, credit and operational risk associated with that. Noble Group's solid financial position comes from a rigorously managed balance sheet with exceptional liquidity and a carefully guided exposure to risk - underpinned by deep relationships with global capital providers. At Noble, they have forged some of the most productive and enterprising partnerships in the industry and they have always believed that as their partners grow, so do they. Noble Group put energy and focus into staying relevant and being valuable to their customers, keeping their interests firmly integrated into their DNA.

AdBio partners is a European Life Sciences Venture Capital firm dedicated to seeding healthcare’s step forward.We work with leading research institutions and well-established technology transfer offices, with a strong network of scientific and medical partners, exploring new territories to source breakthrough medical discoveries and driveinventive Life Sciences start-ups to success.We embrace European Life Sciences’ dynamic of innovation. Europe harbors a vibrant environment for medical and scientific investigation, with some of the most leading-edge academic and research centers. AdBio partners seizes the opportunity to highlight their undervalued research programs and assets and participate in structuring Europe’s biotechnology ecosystem.

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.

SLS Venture, a Scandinavian-based venture capital company, is the result of the merger of the life science team from The Sixth Swedish National Pension Fund, Medicon Valley Capital and Innoventus. The fund is one of the largest investment funds in Scandinavia in the life science sector with approx. € 270 M (USD 325 M) under management.

European Investment Bank (EIB) provides lending, borrowing, and treasury services primarily in the European Union.The company offers project loans for the public and private sectors; loans to banks and other intermediaries; structured finance products; guarantees and securitization instruments for senior and subordinated debts; project bonds;equity and fund investment products such as infrastructure equity and debt funds, and environmental funds; and venture capital funds and security packages for funds.The company also offers microfinance; risk sharing finance for research, development, and innovation projects; finance and technical expertise for sustainable energy projects; infrastructure project advisory services; support for urban development projects; guarantees for transport infrastructure; and funding for public-private partnerships and small- and medium-sized enterprises.EIB serves the transportation, global loans, energy, industry, health, education, water, sewerage, infrastructure, services, telecommunications, agriculture, and fisheries sectors.European Investment Bank was founded in 1958 and is based in Luxembourg.

Crista Galli Ventures invests in ambitious European healthtech companies at Seed and Series A. Our deep medical expertise, powerful network and agile approach enable founders to build important, world-class healthcare businesses.

Sanofi Ventures invests in top tier biotherapeutic and digital health entrepreneurs who focus on helping patients and transforming the healthcare system.

Volvere is an investment company that invests in or acquires companies which require growth capital. They may be profitable, under-performing or loss-making. We also acquire any company that is complementary to our existing portfolio or which is in a sector in which we have specialist knowledge. Our current trading businesses are organised intothree divisions: security solutions; food manufacturing; and automotive consultancy. Previous areas of investment have included online marketing, safety and risk consulting, transport planning and engineering, and testing and certification.

A life science venture capital fund - investing globally in exciting science to accelerate breakthrough therapies in patients.

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.

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.

Dansk Erhvervsinvestering is a company that assists individuals with investing.

BossaNova is the number one Brazilian Micro Venture Capital. We are the most active investor in the pre-seed stage in Latin America with more than 1200 investments in over 1000 Startups. We also invest in global companies, directly or through co-investment syndicates on AngelList.

Sound Bioventures is a venture capital fund investing in clinical stage companies.

Supporting purpose-driven founders solving systemic challenges to planetary health.

Amino Collective is an institutional venture capital firm investing at seed stage in health and bio companies. They help bring life-changing ideas to life by backing, connecting, and advancing our collective of entrepreneurs and scientists. The firm intends to invest in the sectors of biology, biotech, health tech, science, digital health, lifescience, and synthetic biology.

GoBeyond is a FinTech company transforming angel investing into a new scalable asset class for small and large, novice to experienced investors. It offers a unique deal platform, portfolio tools, syndication/pooling, due diligence, investment monitoring services, training and certified deal leaders.Its clients are individuals, familyoffices, professional groups and corporations. It is active in the EU, Switzerland and the US. GoBeyond also offers educational training modules for angel investors in 11 categories.

CBC Investment Group started in 2009 in the midst of the financial crisis. The banks were on their knees, start-ups of small and medium-sized companies - all of a sudden they saw their credit and credit promises turned into demands for quick repayment and empty words. Serious talented entrepreneurs' ideas and companies risked going completelyunnecessary. In response to this crisis, they started the CBC Investment Group.

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Novo Holdings is a world-leading life science investor with a focus on creating long-term value.

Eli Lilly engages in the discovery, development, manufacture, and sale of products in the pharmaceutical products business segment. The company manufactures and distributes products through owned or leased facilities in the United States, Puerto Rico, and 25 other countries. Its products are sold in approximately 135 countries. It also conductsresearch to find products to treat diseases in animals and to increase the efficiency of animal food production.

Supporting purpose-driven founders solving systemic challenges to planetary health.

The Midtjyske Ivaerksätterfond invests in entrepreneurial enterprises that are knowledge-intensive and innovative in order to produce growth, jobs, and value.

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Penny Schiffer - CEO & Co-founder @ Raized.ai

p53 identifies and invests in innovative healthcare companies, particularly in the fields of biotechnology and medical devices.

Bhavik Bajaj