# Klaus Nyengaard

> Klaus Nyengaard is a seed investor at LetsBuild (Copenhagen) backing E-Commerce and Software. See 19 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [LetsBuild](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/letsbuild)
- Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
- Total investments: 19
- Last investment: Aug 2025
- Lead investor: 5%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/klaus-nyengaard/7/bb2/184
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/KlausNyengaard
- Website: http://klausnyengaard.com

Klaus Nyengaard is a seed investor at LetsBuild in Copenhagen focused on E-Commerce and Software. 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.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $100k–$1.7M |
| Series A | $3.8M–$18M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| E-Commerce | 6 | 32% |
| Software | 4 | 21% |
| Marketplace | 4 | 21% |
| Apps | 3 | 16% |
| Fashion | 3 | 16% |

49 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 32% |
| Angel | 3 | 16% |
| Series A | 3 | 16% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 11% |
| Series B | 1 | 5% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Denmark | 9 | 47% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 16% |
| Spain | 1 | 5% |
| France | 1 | 5% |
| Sweden | 1 | 5% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Grand PMS | Grand PMS is an all-in-one property management system powered by AI, designed specifically for the hospitality industry. | $1.8M | Pre-Seed | Aug 15, 2025 |  |
| Famly | Famly is an Early Childhood Platform that gives all the adults involved in a child’s early life a place to connect, learn, and handle admin together. First built in Denmark in 2013, the platform is designed to help different grown-ups who care for young children either to collaborate or to take work out of their hands. This means more informationis shared between the families, early education providers, and all people involved in a child’s life so that everyone gets a better understanding of how to help them thrive. And on top of that, we help to save more educator time for the stuff that matters, and help providers grow their businesses. That is how we help to make little people a bigger deal. | $18M | Series A | Dec 14, 2021 |  |
| Panion | Panion is a community-building tool that helps companies, schools, and organizations facilitate more social interactions amongst its members. The platform is entirely keyword searchable and filterable so members are able to search for each other based on common interests, values, goals or experiences and even narrow their searches by location,gender, age, language and much more. Members and admins can propose spontaneous events within the network and form social groups around an interest. Community admins are given a dashboard of analytics to track trends in their community and send segmented messages based on interest and location. | $242K | Pre-Seed | Jun 01, 2019 |  |
| Spotahome | Spotahome is a mid- to long-term residential rentals platform that is reinventing the property market. It offers the most complete property and room listings for stays above 30 days, bookable exclusively through online viewings which saves tenants and property owners time and money. The company creates the listing at no cost to the landlord - aprofessional photographer ("Homechecker") visits the property and creates the audio-visual materials including high quality photos, HD video tours, detailed floor plans and honest property and neighbourhood descriptions. By offering the most complete property listings, it allows tenants to book their property from anywhere in the world without the need for in-person viewings. It also offers guarantees against default payments and damages. Spotahome is growing rapidly, fueled by a $40M Series B funding round led by Kleiner Perkins, the first leading Silicon Valley VC in a Spanish company. It is present in 11 cities across 8 countries in Europe.Spotahome was launched by Alejandro Artacho, Bryan McEire, Hugo Monteiro and Bruno Bianchi in March 2014 and has offices in both Madrid, Spain and London, UK. | $14.4M | Series A | Oct 17, 2017 |  |
| Monzo | Monzo (previously Mondo) is a bank for people who live their lives on their smartphones and is targeted at people who want to get things done in a click and who don’t see the need for branches and cheque books. The platform is focussed on building the best current account in the world and ultimately working with a range of other providers so thatMonzo can be an intelligent hub for your entire financial life. | $3.1M | Equity Crowdfunding | Mar 14, 2017 |  |
| Peergrade | Give students a better learning experience with faster and more thorough feedback while saving time and money. Peer grading offers a way to dramatically reduce the time spent on grading while increasing the quality of feedback. |  | Seed | Sep 01, 2016 |  |
| Famly | Famly is an Early Childhood Platform that gives all the adults involved in a child’s early life a place to connect, learn, and handle admin together. First built in Denmark in 2013, the platform is designed to help different grown-ups who care for young children either to collaborate or to take work out of their hands. This means more informationis shared between the families, early education providers, and all people involved in a child’s life so that everyone gets a better understanding of how to help them thrive. And on top of that, we help to save more educator time for the stuff that matters, and help providers grow their businesses. That is how we help to make little people a bigger deal. | $1.7M | Seed | Apr 01, 2016 |  |
| Planday | Planday bring down staff costs by 5%, reduce administration time by 75% and increase employee satisfaction by 20%. Planday is used by different sized companies in a variety of industries such as Restaurants, Hotels, Retailers, Call Centres, Fitness clubs, etc. Want to know more about Planday? Visit planday.com today. | $14M | Series B | Mar 29, 2016 |  |
| Cariboo | Cariboo connects you with enthusiastic local guides around the world for unique private tours across the cities you're willing to discover. Book a Cariboo guide and become a local everywhere in the world! | $180K | Seed | Jan 28, 2016 |  |
| ClickMechanic | ClickMechanic is the UK's market leading platform that connects car owners who need repairs, servicing and inspections to the UK's best mechanics. They match thousands of customers every month with trusted professional mechanics in cities across the UK. Their instant quoting functionality, fast booking and secure payment makes them thesimplest and most convenient way to book a car mechanic.ClickMechanic was founded in 2012 as a simple solution to the age-old problem of getting an honest, trustworthy and transparent mechanic for your car. While running a previous car parts aggregator business, Andrew found there was a problem with many customers not trusting their mechanics. After further investigation and a chat with his mechanic brother he realised there was just no easy way to book a trusted mechanic. He then decided to study a research masters in Manchester where he devoted himself to understanding these problems better. After writing an 85,000 word thesis on the space he moved to London to join accelerator EF where he met Felix who had identified these same problems. The pair decided to then team up and develop ClickMechanic with the goal of building the easiest and most transparent way for car owners to book trusted mechanics. | $408K | Seed | Apr 22, 2015 |  |

10 of 19 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Nordic Makers](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nordic-makers-vc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Creandum](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/creandum) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Seed Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/seed-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [14W](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/14-w) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Acurio Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acurio-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Acurio Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/all-iron-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About LetsBuild

VC Fund · Brussels, Belgium

An end-to-end digital platform for the construction phase. By combining GenieBelt and APROPLAN through LetsBuild, project teams and workers benefit from having critical information available at their fingertips and being able to view tasks, report and coordinate easily, in real time. At the same time, office-based managers maintain full insightinto progress and processes on the site, whilst building up a data foundation that enables them to make accurate decisions based on current information.

5 contacts available at LetsBuild.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Francisco Fernández | Operations Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/francisco-fern%C3%A1ndez-3 |
| Gari Nickson | Co-Founder & VP | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gari-nickson |
| Klaus Nyengaard | CEO, Co-Founder, Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/klaus-nyengaard |
| Nikolaj Berntsen | CTO, Co-founder & Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nikolaj-berntsen |
| Renauld Lacroix | Gandalf | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/renauld-lacroix |

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## FAQ

### What does Klaus Nyengaard invest in?

Klaus Nyengaard invests primarily in E-Commerce, Software and Marketplace startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 19 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Denmark. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Klaus Nyengaard's check size?

Klaus Nyengaard typically joins rounds of $100k–$1.7M at Seed and $3.8M–$18M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Klaus Nyengaard participates in.

### When did Klaus Nyengaard last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Klaus Nyengaard closed in Aug 2025. Shizune tracks 19 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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