Top 15 Retail VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Denmark in January 2026
A list of 15 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Retail startups based in Denmark. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Retail companies from Denmark. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Retail VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Denmark in January 2026
| Investor | Retail Denmark investments |
|---|---|
| PSV | 2 |
| People Ventures | 2 |
| Vaekstfonden | 1 |
| Vaekstfonden | 1 |
| Bestseller | 1 |
| Eutopia VC | 1 |
| Dreamcraft Ventures | 1 |
| Nordic Foodtech VC | 1 |
| Export and Investment Fund | 1 |
| Nordic Eye Venture Capital | 1 |
| Burda Principal Investments | 1 |
| Unico Partners | 1 |
| Seed Capital | 1 |
| Dawn Capital | 1 |
| The Aventures | 1 |
PreSeed Ventures are the preferred travel companion for trailblazing founders when they set out on the journey of transforming startup dreams to successful businesses. Founded in 2000 they have an exceptional track record of spotting, fostering and financing tomorrow’s winners in syndication with top-tier investors locally and globally. As the namesuggests, PreSeed Ventures operates at the earliest stages, where founders need the professional, operational & systematic support of a VC, but the risks are still too high for most VCs in seed stages. Yet to the powerhouse of experts behind PreSeed Ventures, who have experience from hundreds of startup journey in the pre-seed stage, it is an opportunity to support and nurture the growth of promising startups on the rise, minimizing the time and risk to the next investment round.PreSeed Ventures has grown out of the technological research environment at Denmark’s Technical University, DTU. In 2020 they launch their first full blown commercial venture fund, yet continuing to be a subsidiary company to the university.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Denmark, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- ZTLment — We empower online platforms and marketplaces to seamlessly hold, manage, and distribute funds in real-time, with full automation and compliance.
- Dynelectro — Dynelectro is a green energy technology company that focuses on reducing CO2 emissions by transforming fossil fuels into green fuels.
- Interhuman — AI should understand people, not just their words. Our mission is to humanize artificial intelligence by building the social intelligence layer that bridges the gap between AI systems and human interaction.
People Ventures are your dreamcast team of co-founders, investors, executives, engineers, academics and industry experts.
Together with talented entrepreneurs — We shape fantastic businesses through operational and commercial execution.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Internet of Things, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Denmark, Sweden, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Tiimo — Tiimo helps you manage your daily life and improve your wellbeing. Visualize your day. Improve your routines. Stress less.
- proemial — Proem is open sourcing all our AI tools for science. After serving 100k+ users, we're making our research-grounded AI tools available to the community.
- Version Lens — Meet your new Product Management Co-Pilot. Reduce overhead for your product team so you can focus on what truly matters, building outstanding products.
Vaekstfonden – The Danish Growth Fund – is the Danish state's investment fund. We strive to improve access to risk capital to enable Danish businesses to innovate, and to generate growth and new jobs. In close collaboration with banks and domestic and international private investors, we finance companies from all sectors nation-wide. We canaccompany you for the entire journey – from your company’s infancy through growth phases to expansion abroad and even to an initial public offering.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Denmark, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Wedio — Buy & Rent professional film equipment from trusted creators near you. Buy & rent cameras, lenses, drones with Global Coverage. Explore
- Keepit — The Keepit Cloud is the most cost-effective solution on the market with 20+ years of experience. Learn more about our next-level data protection services
- kleen hub — Kleen hub is Denmark's first digital return system for reusable coffee cups and food packaging.
Vaekstfonden – The Danish Growth Fund – is the Danish state's investment fund. We strive to improve access to risk capital to enable Danish businesses to innovate, and to generate growth and new jobs. In close collaboration with banks and domestic and international private investors, we finance companies from all sectors nation-wide. We canaccompany you for the entire journey – from your company’s infancy through growth phases to expansion abroad and even to an initial public offering.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Denmark, United States, Norway
Portfolio highlights
- Wedio — Buy & Rent professional film equipment from trusted creators near you. Buy & rent cameras, lenses, drones with Global Coverage. Explore
- Keepit — The Keepit Cloud is the most cost-effective solution on the market with 20+ years of experience. Learn more about our next-level data protection services
- kleen hub — Kleen hub is Denmark's first digital return system for reusable coffee cups and food packaging.
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Investment focus
- Fashion, E-Commerce, Retail
- Series B, Funding Round, Series D
- Denmark, Kenya, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- ASOS — Discover the latest fashion trends with ASOS. Shop the new collection of clothing, footwear, accessories, beauty products and more. Order today from ASOS.
- Mr. Green Africa — Mr. Green Africa - Recycling company that sells pre-processed recycling materials with a traceable social and environmental impact - fairly traded plastic.
- Infinited Fiber Company — Infinited Fiber Company is a Finnish biotech founded in 2016 to commercialize a breakthrough recycling technology that can turn cellulose-rich raw materials – like cotton-rich textile waste, used cardboard, or wheat or rice straw – into high-quality textile fibers with the look and feel of cotton. The patented technology has been validated byleading brands and is ready to be scaled. Infinited Fiber Company won the Europas 2020 Hottest Sustainability Tech Award, and was listed on the Global 50 to Watch by Cleantech Group in 2019. In 2016 Infinited Fiber Company was selected into WWF’s Climate Solver network. The company is headquartered in Espoo, Finland.
Eutopia is a fund for consumer startups. We back founders who are rethinking the way we eat, shop, sleep and feel. We are backing 26 startups
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Investment focus
- Retail, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- France, Belgium, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- GOURMEY — We create sustainable cultivated meat delights for an uncompromising and conscious generation.
- Bastille — Bastille is a brand of urban bicycles. The Astir brand is synonymous with folding bicycles. The primary quality constraint Bastille, a British designer, aims to create a folding motorcycle with standard wheels rather than the mini 16-inch wheels that are traditionally associated with folding bikes.
- SPRiNG Collective — SPRiNG is a consumer goods company that offers clean and efficient laundry and cleaning products, delivered in a 100% plastic-free box and directly in the mailbox. The company is headquartered in Paris, Ile-de-France, France by Philippe Cantet, Laure Favre, and Ben Guerville in 2017.
Seed-to-A engineers.
We invest in techdriven companies in the Nordics and Europe.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Denmark, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Kvantify — Quantum computing will revolutionize many aspects of computing. We can help your business harness the full potential of Quantum Computing and High-Performance Computing today.
- Miru Labs — Miru Labs offers tailored solutions to spot, rank, and halt crypto threats for enterprises and retail users.
- Dragonfly Technology Limited — Software moves fast, and businesses are losing out. They’re using outdated tools, while watching competitors make strides with AI-first tech. But the fact is, the way teams discover and choose software has been broken for years. Dragonfly is a platform designed to simplify the process of software discovery with clarity, objectivity, and speed.With Dragonfly's proprietary AI-driven technology, businesses can make smarter, faster decisions by connecting their existing tech stack to a dynamic, curated dataset of the world’s most performant tools, to instantly provides contextual, personalised recommendations tailored to your unique challenges, goals, and stage of growth.Dragonfly is built to eliminate the confusion and bias from software selection. No more spreadsheets, vendor hype, or guesswork. With Dragonfly, your team can stay aligned, cut waste, and fast-track research. Whether you're scaling fast or looking for an AI-driven tool to enhance productivity, Dragonfly has you covered today and tomorrow.
We are investing in #FutureFood. Nordic FoodTech VC is the first fund in the Nordics investing explicitly in the future of food
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Life Science, Water
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Finland, Sweden, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- EvodiaBio — Mirroring nature with pioneering bioscience for natural flavors
- Endless Food — Endless Food Co is a food innovation firm focusing on the junction of pleasure and sustainability. Endless Food Co was pulled together by a common idea that the transition to a greener and more egalitarian future food system will be driven by flavor, and having spent the last decade pioneering sustainable gastronomy
- Happy Plant Protein — Revolutionize plant protein production with Happy Plant Protein's innovative technology, transforming local ingredients into high-quality, sustainable solutions for the food industry.
Denmark's Export and Investment Fund (EIFO) serves as a single point of contact for Danish firms seeking risk-tolerant government finance. We aspire to help successful enterprises that can expand the Danish economy and green the world on a daily basis, guided by professionalism and an international perspective.
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Investment focus
- Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Denmark, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Kvantify — Quantum computing will revolutionize many aspects of computing. We can help your business harness the full potential of Quantum Computing and High-Performance Computing today.
- Propane — Propane is an AI-powered operating system for customer intelligence, built for modern product and GTM teams. It automates continuous customer and user research through embedded AI agents, integrated workflows, and real-time analysis—turning feedback into a scalable system, not a one-off task.
- Akson Robotics — Akson Robotics is a developer of AI and robotics-based products that focus on greener and efficient agriculture through precision farming.
International venture capital firm based in Copenhagen. We come from the North, but we work in the world. We are Fiftyfive Capital.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Denmark, India
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- Provenance — Provenance is a software solution for sustainability communications and supply chain transparency.
- Coinify — Coinify offers a plug'n'play solution for your business to accept crypto currency payments and have it settled in your local currency (or in crypto). We also offer a widget which enables your customers to buy and sell crypto seamlessly. We even take care of everything backstage like liquidity, ch
- Underlining — Underlining a beauty and wellness company that creats innovative products across multiple beauty verticals.
Burda Principal Investments (BPI) is a division of Hubert Burda Media which provides long term growth equity for fast growing digital technology and media companies.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Retail
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
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- Planet A Foods — The chocolate revolution is here. 100% cocoa-free and unbelievably delicious. We call it QOA. You need to try it!
- BillEase — No credit card? No problem. Buy now, pay later at your favorite stores with Billease and avail monthly installment plans with 0% interest. Split your purchase in 4 payments or pay only 1/3 upfront and the rest up to 12 months. No hidden fees. No surprises. Learn more here.
- Aleph Alpha — Aleph Alpha develops AI systems for modern security challenges.
Unico takes equity stakes in start-ups or SMEs with high potential and makes available to investees the trans-disciplinary expertise of its founders (operations, technology , digital, busdev, financial engineering, HR, ...).
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Retail, Fashion
- Seed
- France, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- Sitowie — Sitowie develops SaaS technology and tools to understand the degradation of buildings.
- Capsule — CAPSULE wardrobe app I rediscover your wardrobe I style and create outfits I follow wardrobes for styling inspiration
- Tresorio — The Fog Computing platform providing VPS and cloud computing services, based on a proprietary and sustainable distributed infrastructure.
Seed Capital invests in Danish tech businesses with global ambitions. We are focused on "late seed"-stage companies, typically investing 1-3 MEUR in rounds of 1-6 MEUR. Proud backers of Trustpilot, Vivino, Lunar, Templafy, Dixa, Forecast, and many other great companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, SaaS
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Denmark, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Tembi — Market Intelligence platform with deep market data, insights and predictions for B2B companies that look for a competitive edge.
- Fortiv — Fortiv is an AI business continuity platform designed to build resilience, put compliance on autopilot and demonstrate reliability.
- Embankment Group — Specializing in environmental recruitment, we connect top talent with exciting projects. Contact us to find your ideal candidate today!
We are a family of investors, entrepreneurs, strategists and operational specialists, drawn together by our passion for helping B2B founders build category-defining companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United Kingdom, United States, Denmark
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- Harbr — The Harbr data commerce platform powers high-margin data businesses by enabling customized data product design and delivery at scale to drive significant revenue
- BRYTER — BRYTER is the AI productivity suite for legal work, made actionable through rule-based workflows.
- Inforcer — Standardize Microsoft 365 security policies across multiple tenants with ease using inforcer. Gain visibility, upsell security offerings, increase compliance and reduce risk. Book a demo now!
The team comes from heavy tech oriented background such as Cloud Infrastructure, Data Science, Theoretical Physics, Machine Learning, Software Development and Business development. We like to brand ourselves as "the nerds" in the tech space. We speak the same technical language as the founders and like to be an active part in the venturewe enter, depending on the needs of the founders. Our thesis is that we are building bridge spanning over the knowledge gap between deeptech founders and traditional investors.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Denmark, United States, Norway
Portfolio highlights
- Capsule — CAPSULE wardrobe app I rediscover your wardrobe I style and create outfits I follow wardrobes for styling inspiration
- Kin, Personal AI — Get inspired, talk things through, navigate situations or get personalized guidance with Kin. Built for privacy, security, and with memory in mind.
- Hyphen - Personal AI made private — Get inspired, talk things through, navigate situations or get personalized guidance with Kin. Built for privacy, security, and with memory in mind.
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