# Johan Lorenzen

> Johan Lorenzen is a seed investor backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: May 2024
- Lead investor: 9%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johanlorenzen
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/j0hanL
- Website: https://x.com/j0hanL

Johan Lorenzen is a seed investor in Copenhagen focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Johan brings more than a decade of experience with high growth internet companies, both from the founder and investor side. Johan joined Holvi from the venture capital firm Sunstone, to change the future of banking first hand. Prior to that Johan has also worked on both, the technology and infrastructure, sides of traditional banking, as welladvising and investing in #fintech companies. Holvi | Holvi provides small businesses, freelancers, sole traders and contractors a pan-European business platform of the digital age as well as a full replacement for the traditional bank account. Holvi is built completely separately from any existing banks allowing the company to have full flexibility on choosing partnerships and bringing services with most added value to the customer. Holvi's vision on the future of banking is a fully customisable financial hub where people can plug in the channels and services they actually need. Holvi's mantra? Stay human.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $360k–$10M |
| Pre-Seed | $1.2M–$1.3M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 8 | 73% |
| Financial Services | 4 | 36% |
| Banking | 2 | 18% |
| Finance | 2 | 18% |
| Internet | 2 | 18% |

20 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 8 | 73% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 9% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Denmark | 3 | 27% |
| United States | 2 | 18% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 18% |
| Finland | 1 | 9% |
| Nigeria | 1 | 9% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ZTLment | ZTLment offers fintech tools to help businesses and B2B platforms unlock cash flows, and save costs. | $1.2M | Pre-Seed | May 28, 2024 |  |
| Odin | Odin enables seamless fundraising from your network in just a few clicks, taking care of all legal and administrative tasks. The platform collaborates with founders, angel syndicates, and emerging fund managers worldwide. It supports investors from almost any location, manages SPVs, handles complex carried interest arrangements, and more. Futureplans include enabling users to raise entire funds on Odin (not just deal-by-deal SPVs) and providing a feature for discovering and joining investment clubs directly through the platform. | $3.1M | Seed | Dec 31, 2023 |  |
| ZTLment | ZTLment offers fintech tools to help businesses and B2B platforms unlock cash flows, and save costs. | $1.3M | Pre-Seed | Oct 19, 2022 |  |
| LiveFlow | Meet your finance team's new superpower: LiveFlow eliminates the endless hours of manual financial reporting that keep CFOs and their teams stuck instead of driving strategic value. By automating your month-end close process from days to minutes, LiveFlow acts like your highest-performing analyst who works 24/7 with perfect accuracy. Notonly does this free your team from the monthly close chaos, but it also means you can finally focus on what you actually became a CFO for – delivering insights that move your business forward. | $3.5M | Seed | Dec 21, 2021 |  |
| Kuda | Kuda is a full service digital only bank with a mission to bank every African on the planet. Kuda was founded in 2019 by Babs Ogundeyi and Musty Mustapha and is Headquartered in London | $10M | Seed | Nov 10, 2020 |  |
| Willa | Willa is a fintech startup solving freelancers' biggest pain: getting paid on time, every time. | $3M | Seed | Jun 30, 2020 |  |
| Grandhood | We want to create new standards for the workplace pension industry that has not renewed itself for years by making a digital self service pension solution. We offer digital onboarding and advisory service at a low cost, our customers receive support within minutes and our goal is to constantly innovate our product to fulfill our consumers'ever changing needs. Grandhood is the next generation workplace pension solution for all companies embracing the digital age. |  | Seed | Dec 18, 2017 |  |
| The Many | The Many is an award-winning investment platform providing real people with access to investments in properties and solar and wind energy. | $1.5M | Seed | Dec 10, 2017 |  |
| Castle | Castle enables online businesses of all sizes to detect and prevent user account fraud, a technology previously only available to banks and large financial institutions. Whether you’re building a bitcoin service, e-commerce store, mobile app, or any other customer-facing application, Castle's API's lets you add account hijack protection.Castle tracks fraudsters based on device fingerprint, keystrokes, site browsing history, and hundreds of other signals. Whenever something suspicious occurs, both the administrator and account owner are alerted and can immediately take appropriate action. | $2M | Seed | Nov 09, 2016 |  |
| Castle | Castle enables online businesses of all sizes to detect and prevent user account fraud, a technology previously only available to banks and large financial institutions. Whether you’re building a bitcoin service, e-commerce store, mobile app, or any other customer-facing application, Castle's API's lets you add account hijack protection.Castle tracks fraudsters based on device fingerprint, keystrokes, site browsing history, and hundreds of other signals. Whenever something suspicious occurs, both the administrator and account owner are alerted and can immediately take appropriate action. | $360K | Seed | Feb 12, 2015 |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

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- [PSV](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/preseed-innovation) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
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- [Seed Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/seed-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does Johan Lorenzen invest in?

Johan Lorenzen invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Banking startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 11 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Denmark. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Johan Lorenzen's check size?

Johan Lorenzen typically joins rounds of $360k–$10M at Seed and $1.2M–$1.3M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Johan Lorenzen participates in.

### How do I contact Johan Lorenzen?

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### When did Johan Lorenzen last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Johan Lorenzen closed in May 2024. Shizune tracks 11 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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