# Founders

> Founders is a VC fund backing Software and Information Technology. See 40 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
- Total investments: 40
- Last investment: Nov 2025
- Lead investor: 43%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/3199273
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/foundersas
- Website: http://founders.as/
- Facebook: http://facebook.com/foundersas

Founders is a startup studio that builds products and companies that radically improve how people and organizations work.It brings together different experiences and areas of expertise, combining business and product development skills to create businesses based on strong products and products that can turn into strong businesses. It has a strongand open culture, where everybody is expected to be and act as an entrepreneur.Its mission is to create winning and innovative technology-enabled companies that can significantly shape their respective industries.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Founders. Shizune tracks 12 team members at Founders. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/founders-2?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 7 | 18% |
| Information Technology | 6 | 15% |
| Financial Services | 5 | 13% |
| SaaS | 3 | 8% |
| FinTech | 3 | 8% |

62 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 15 | 38% |
| Pre-Seed | 12 | 30% |
| Series A | 3 | 8% |
| Series B | 2 | 5% |
| Angel | 1 | 3% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Denmark | 14 | 35% |
| United States | 5 | 13% |
| Germany | 2 | 5% |
| Switzerland | 2 | 5% |
| Italy | 1 | 3% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Dennis Moulin | Designer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dennis-moulin |
| Dixie Wikholm | CFO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dixie-wikholm |
| Eduardo Sorribas | Developer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eduardo-sorribas |
| Peter Heering | Co-Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/peter-heering |
| Sarah Gill | Brand & Community Building | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sarah-gill-2 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Motley | Motley is a sophisticated reporting tool for business teams. We begin by assisting Customer Success teams in speeding up the development of QBRs and data-driven communications with AI. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | Nov 06, 2025 |  |
| MecAgent | MecAgent offers engineering assistance to mechanical and CAD designing services. | $3M | Seed | May 16, 2025 |  |
| Tola | Tola combines accounts payable, accounts Tola combines accounts payable, receivable, and cash flow management with working capital. Its headquarters is located in San Francisco, California. Read more about Tola at www.usetola.com | $10.2M | Seed | Oct 31, 2024 |  |
| Sibill | Sibill is a platform that simplifies financial and administrative management for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), streamlining invoices, payments, and deadlines in a single place. The platform is designed to centralize, analyze, and manage cash flows, collecting data from various banks to keep track of finances effectively. Sibillutilizes AI to automate a majority of manual processes by merging banking cash flows with the Angenzia delle Entrate’s exchange system, offering real-time insights into cash flow. This aids businesses in saving time, maintaining organized accounts, and making swift, precise decisions. | $6.8M | Seed | Jun 03, 2024 |  |
| Embla | Embla provides an online medical weight loss treatment using prescription drugs and coaching. The company provides patients with evidence-based treatments, digital tools, medication, and coaching to facilitate sustainable weight loss. Embla was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark. | $10.9M | Series A | Aug 23, 2023 |  |
| Lexica | Lexica is a stable diffusion platform allowing users to search for images and create images from text. It operates as a search engine for images generated by artificial intelligence that features a simple interface with a search bar and the results preview below. | $5M | Seed | Sep 28, 2022 |  |
| buildspace | buildspace is place for people where they build the cool stuff The company is based in New York, New York. | $10M | Seed | Mar 15, 2022 |  |
| Adaptyv Biosystems | Adaptyv Biosystems developing a protein engineering platform using cell-free synthetic biology and nanofluidics. | $2.7M | Pre-Seed | Feb 14, 2022 |  |
| Zeet | Zeet is a developer-focused application platform that deploys any code or app to AWS, GCP, and other cloud providers. Zeet provides the greatest cloud-native DevOps configuration, that allows the client to concentrate on releasing products.  Founded in 2020, Zeet is based in San Francisco, California, United States. | $2M | Seed | Jan 03, 2022 |  |
| Pleo | Behind Pleo is the core belief to make everyone feel valued at work, driven by the mission to revolutionise business spending for forward-thinking teams everywhere - so things like a fun-to-use spend management app that automatically tracks work-related spending & generates expense reports, paired with the powerful tools businesses need tocreate full visibility and management of every penny spent.It was founded in 2015 by Jeppe Rindom and Niccolo Perra and is based in Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark. | $200M | Series C | Dec 09, 2021 |  |

10 of 40 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Creandum](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/creandum) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Stripes](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stripesco) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Bain Capital Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bain-capital-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Kinnevik](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/investment-ab-kinnevik) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Seedcamp](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/seedcamp) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Cherry Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cherry-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Founders invest in?

Founders invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 40 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Denmark. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Founders?

Public channels for Founders include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Founders?

The team at Founders includes Dennis Moulin (Designer), Dixie Wikholm (CFO) and Eduardo Sorribas (Developer), among 12 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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