# Thea Messel

> Thea Messel is a seed investor at Unconventional Ventures backing Health Care. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Unconventional Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/unconventional-ventures-0eb1)
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 57%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/theamessel/?originalSubdomain=dk

Thea Messel is a seed investor at Unconventional Ventures focused on Health Care and Biotechnology. Thea Messel

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Thea Messel: work email, personal email, work phone, personal phone and socials. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-email/thea-messel?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.9M–$5.2M |
| Series A | $4.7M–$5.9M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 2 | 29% |
| Biotechnology | 2 | 29% |
| Software | 1 | 14% |
| Biopharma | 1 | 14% |
| Wholesale | 1 | 14% |

16 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 57% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 14% |
| Series A | 1 | 14% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Denmark | 3 | 43% |
| Sweden | 2 | 29% |
| Spain | 1 | 14% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Visibuilt | Visibuilt is to pioneer sustainable road-building solutions by replacing standard asphalt with cutting-edge, environmentally friendly materials. | $3.8M | Seed | Jul 14, 2026 | https://visibuilt.com |
| Octarine Bio | Octarine Bio is a synthetic biology company that produces superior cannabinoids for the pharmaceutical industry. | $5.9M | Series A | Jan 22, 2026 | http://octarinebio.com/ |
| The Blue Box Biomedical Solutions | Women aged 20-45 cannot get screened for breast cancer because existing solutions are unreliable. However, 81% want to. At The Blue Box, we have built a pain-free, low-cost, sensitive, radiation-free device to detect breast cancer in urine with a sensitivity of 83%. In 2024, we’ll launch into the market, bringing The Blue Box to private gynecologyclinics with a Diagnostics-as-a-Service subscription model, and a pay-per-test revenue stream that we’ll share with doctors. | $3.8M | Seed | Nov 18, 2025 | https://thebluebox.ai/ |
| Cellugy | Cellugy is a biotech firm transforming industrial materials through biofabricated cellulose. With strong funding and a clear growth trajectory, they’re scaling EcoFLEXY across personal care, packaging, and beyond, advancing the green transition and the fight against plastic pollution. | $5.2M | Seed | May 21, 2024 | https://cellugy.com/ |
| Saveggy | Saveggy develops a bio-based edible vegan coating for fruit and vegetables eliminating plastic while keeping its protecting properties. | $1.9M | Seed | Apr 15, 2024 | https://saveggy.com/ |
| Octarine Bio | Octarine Bio is a synthetic biology company that produces superior cannabinoids for the pharmaceutical industry. | $4.7M | Series A | Nov 08, 2023 | http://octarinebio.com/ |
| 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 | https://panion.com |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [The Footprint Firm](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-footprint-firm) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [DSM Venturing](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dsm-venturing) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Export and Investment Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/export-and-investment-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Oskare Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/oskare-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Almi Invest GreenTech](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/almi-invest-greentech) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Asociación Española Contra el Cáncer](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/asociaci%C3%B3n-espa%C3%B1ola-contra-el-c%C3%A1ncer) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Unconventional Ventures

VC Fund · Copenhagen, Denmark

Unconventional Ventures is a Nordic early-stage investment firm that invest in: 1) Scalable impact tech 2) at the Pre-seed/seed stage, 3) Founded by underrepresented founders: women, LGBTQ, POC 4) Targeting global market opportunitiesWe believe that underrepresented founders represent one of the biggest market opportunities today, and bytargeting these founders we can access the following investment opportunities;

5 contacts available at Unconventional Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alexis Horowitz-Burdick | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexis-horowitz-burdick |
| Karoline Sjødal Olsen | Founders Collective | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/karoline-sj%C3%B8dal-olsen |
| Marie Mostad | Founder Collective, advisor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marie-mostad |
| Merete Nygaard | Founders Collective | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/merete-nygaard |
| Nora Bavey | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nora-bavey |

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## FAQ

### What does Thea Messel invest in?

Thea Messel invests primarily in Health Care, Biotechnology and Software startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Denmark. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Thea Messel's check size?

Thea Messel typically joins rounds of $1.9M–$5.2M at Seed and $4.7M–$5.9M 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 Thea Messel participates in.

### How do I contact Thea Messel?

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### When did Thea Messel last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Thea Messel closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 7 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?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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