# Nikolaj Nyholm

> Nikolaj Nyholm is a seed investor at Heartcore Capital backing Gaming. See 18 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Heartcore Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/heartcore-capital)
- Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
- Total investments: 18
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 28%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/nikolajn
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/nikolaj
- Website: http://radar.oreilly.com/nikolaj/
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nikolajn

Nikolaj Nyholm is a seed investor at Heartcore Capital in Copenhagen focused on Gaming and Software. Nikolaj Nyholm - Founder & CEO @ Scattershot

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $106k–$1.2M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Gaming | 5 | 28% |
| Software | 3 | 17% |
| Mobile | 2 | 11% |
| Video Games | 2 | 11% |
| Online Games | 2 | 11% |

35 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 8 | 44% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 17% |
| Angel | 2 | 11% |
| Series A | 2 | 11% |
| Series D | 1 | 6% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Finland | 4 | 22% |
| Denmark | 3 | 17% |
| United States | 2 | 11% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 11% |
| Sweden | 1 | 6% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Aksel | Aksel transfers the real estate agent model to the car market and securing better prices for private sellers. | $787.9K | Seed | May 07, 2026 | https://aksel.nu/ |
| Keypitt | Keypitt's technology offers useful data insights in addition to basic digitalization. allowing the venues to monitor critical parameters like revenue, wardrobe capacity, and guest peak hours. |  | Angel | Mar 05, 2026 | https://keypitt.com/en/ |
| Elby. | Elby focused on accelerating the green transition in personal transportation with smart charging for urban areas. |  | Angel | Mar 27, 2025 | https://www.elby.dk/ |
| TrapLight Games | Traplight creates ultra approachable and deep F2P games. From the first seconds their games offer you fun, effortless gameplay and a deep, empowering progression. They focus on creating entertainment that lasts for years and is always fresh. Players are the ones they create their games for, not us. This drives us to make fun, empowering andcoherent gaming experiences that their players truly want.Founded in 2010 and based in Tampere, Finland, Traplight currently has a 28 strong team working on several games. Traplight’s team and vision have been backed up by renowned game investors such as Initial Capital, Korea Investment Partners, Sunstone Capital and Finnvera Venture Capital. Traplight’s Big Bang Racing was chosen as Best of 2016 in AppStore, and currently the company is preparing to soft launch their next big hit soon. | $9M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 09, 2020 | http://traplightgames.com |
| Fast Travel Games | Fast Travel Games is a new game development studio located in Stockholm, Sweden, building virtual reality games. Founded by game development veterans with years behind us at studios like EA DICE, Rovio and Avalanche, we want to change the way you play. We're gamers by heart, and believe VR is the ultimate platform for deep, engrossing gameuniverses.Our mission is to build games where players are free to explore their surroundings, where they will experience rich narratives and interact with others in new and interesting ways. | $2.1M | Series A | Sep 05, 2017 | http://fasttravelgames.com/ |
| TrapLight Games | Traplight creates ultra approachable and deep F2P games. From the first seconds their games offer you fun, effortless gameplay and a deep, empowering progression. They focus on creating entertainment that lasts for years and is always fresh. Players are the ones they create their games for, not us. This drives us to make fun, empowering andcoherent gaming experiences that their players truly want.Founded in 2010 and based in Tampere, Finland, Traplight currently has a 28 strong team working on several games. Traplight’s team and vision have been backed up by renowned game investors such as Initial Capital, Korea Investment Partners, Sunstone Capital and Finnvera Venture Capital. Traplight’s Big Bang Racing was chosen as Best of 2016 in AppStore, and currently the company is preparing to soft launch their next big hit soon. | $2.7M |  | Mar 23, 2017 | http://traplightgames.com |
| Mojiworks | Mojiworks pioneers ‘hypersocial’ games: designed social-first and distributed using instant-play technology to be played with friends and family on the largest chat and social apps across the world.Mojiworks’ development ethos is to help Mojiworkers do the best work of their careers through values of inclusivity, collaboration, and learning.Mojiworks strives to have an exceptionally progressive culture, receiving GamesIndustry.biz’s ‘Best Places To Work’ awards in 2018 and 2019, and winning the 2018 Diversity Award which recognises companies that encourage a diverse workforce in games.Based in Guildford UK and founded in 2016, Mojiworks is one of the highest-profile startups in the chat and instant games space. The founders have a previous exit in games through acquisition of Wonderland Software Limited by Zynga Inc. Mojiworks’ investors are among the most successful games VCs: Balderton Capital (BigFish, NaturalMotion, Wooga), Heartcore Capital (Seriously) and Lifeline Ventures (Supercell). | $637K | Seed | Nov 29, 2016 | https://www.mojiworks.com |
| Neo4j | Neo4j, the Graph Database & Analytics leader, helps organizations find hidden patterns and relationships across billions of data connections deeply, easily, and quickly. Customers leverage the structure of their connected data to reveal new ways of solving their most pressing business problems, from fraud detection, customer 360, knowledgegraphs, supply chain, personalization, IoT, network management, and more – even as their data grows. Neo4j’s full graph stack delivers powerful native graph storage with native vector search capability, data science, advanced analytics, and visualization, with enterprise-grade security controls, scalable architecture,e and ACID compliance. Neo4j’s dynamic open-source community brings together over 250,000 developers, data scientists, and architects across hundreds of Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and NGOs. Visit neo4j.com. | $36M | Series D | Nov 10, 2016 | https://www.neo4j.com/ |
| Futureplay Games | Futureplay, founded in 2015 by a group of professionals with 60+ years of total experience from the gaming industry and from companies such as EA, Rovio, Remedy, Boomlagoon and Reaktor are set to build the new future foundation and standard for mobile games.2015A new era of mobile gaming is upon us and we passionately believe we can create thefuture of games for new and old players alike. We are set to build the next big delightful and engaging experiences for the new generation of gamers on both phones and tablets.Our focus is on creating a new category of “view-to-play” games – broadly accessible gameplay with a natural integration and rewarding ad-based monetization. We believe in F2P and ads – both done right can be great, you will see. We want to develop fast and have fun launching multiple games per year and not work multiple years per game. | $2.5M |  | Aug 25, 2016 | http://www.futureplaygames.com/ |
| TrapLight Games | Traplight creates ultra approachable and deep F2P games. From the first seconds their games offer you fun, effortless gameplay and a deep, empowering progression. They focus on creating entertainment that lasts for years and is always fresh. Players are the ones they create their games for, not us. This drives us to make fun, empowering andcoherent gaming experiences that their players truly want.Founded in 2010 and based in Tampere, Finland, Traplight currently has a 28 strong team working on several games. Traplight’s team and vision have been backed up by renowned game investors such as Initial Capital, Korea Investment Partners, Sunstone Capital and Finnvera Venture Capital. Traplight’s Big Bang Racing was chosen as Best of 2016 in AppStore, and currently the company is preparing to soft launch their next big hit soon. | $1.4M |  | Dec 02, 2015 | http://traplightgames.com |

10 of 18 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Initial Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/initial-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Finnvera Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/finnvera-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Creandum](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/creandum) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Index Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/index-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Korea Investment Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/korea-investment-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Lifeline Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lifeline-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Heartcore Capital

VC Fund · Copenhagen, Denmark

Heartcore Capital is an early stage venture capital fund founded in 2007 in Denmark, with offices in Copenhagen, Stockholm, Berlin and Paris. They are a multi-product fund with 5 early-stage funds, 2 growth-opportunity funds and 1 web3 fund under management - with a cumulative committed capital of approximately €770M. They are European by originbut global in outlook, with a team spans nine nationalities and speaks ten languages. So far they have invested in over 100 exceptional founding teams from 13 countries. Heartcore has backed some of Europe’s biggest category-defining companies, such as Tink, Neo4j, Boozt, Seriously and TravelPerk.

5 contacts available at Heartcore Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Christian Jepsen | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christian-lindegrd-jepsen |
| Jimmy Nielsen | Partner & Co-founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jimmy-fussing-nielsen |
| Levin Bunz | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/levin-bunz |
| Max Niederhofer | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/max-niederhofer |
| Soren Tange | Finance Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sren-tange |

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## FAQ

### What does Nikolaj Nyholm invest in?

Nikolaj Nyholm invests primarily in Gaming, Software and Mobile startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 18 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Finland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Nikolaj Nyholm's check size?

Nikolaj Nyholm typically joins rounds of $106k–$1.2M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Nikolaj Nyholm participates in.

### How do I contact Nikolaj Nyholm?

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### When did Nikolaj Nyholm last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Nikolaj Nyholm closed in May 2026. Shizune tracks 18 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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