Top 50 Software Startup Investors in Denmark in April 2025
A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Software startups based in Denmark. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Software companies from Denmark. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Software Startup Investors in Denmark in April 2025
Investor | Software Denmark investments |
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Vaekstfonden | 66 |
PSV | 66 |
Seed Capital | 60 |
Vaekstfonden | 47 |
byFounders | 21 |
Export and Investment Fund | 15 |
North-East Venture | 12 |
Heartcore Capital | 10 |
Seedcamp | 10 |
Dreamcraft Ventures | 9 |
Sune Alstrup | 8 |
David Helgason | 8 |
Nordic Makers | 8 |
Innovation Fund Denmark | 8 |
Klaus Nyengaard | 8 |
CAPNOVA | 7 |
Headline | 7 |
People Ventures | 7 |
Christian Jantzen | 7 |
VF Venture | 6 |
Creandum | 6 |
Morph Capital | 6 |
Founderment Ventures | 6 |
The Nordic Web Ventures | 6 |
Thomas Visti | 6 |
Crowberry Capital | 6 |
Peter Sandberg | 5 |
Nordic Eye Venture Capital | 5 |
HOWZAT Partners | 5 |
Esben Gadsbøll | 4 |
Bjarke Staun-Olsen | 4 |
Balderton Capital | 4 |
Upfin | 4 |
AENU | 4 |
Thorbjorn Ronje | 4 |
Chris Murphy | 4 |
SEB Venture Capital | 4 |
The Footprint Firm | 4 |
Jesper Buch | 4 |
Hampus Jakobsson | 4 |
Kasper Grundtvig Knokgaard | 4 |
Ugly Duckling Ventures | 4 |
Preben Damgaard | 4 |
Inventure | 4 |
Crista Galli Ventures | 3 |
Conor Venture Partners | 3 |
Angular Ventures | 3 |
Phillip Chambers | 3 |
Wellington Partners | 3 |
Northcap | 3 |
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.
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
- Cellugy — Biomaterial to Replace Plastic
- 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 Danish solid oxide electrolyser equipment manufacturer with proprietary innovation to lower the total cost of hydrogen. Dynamic operation enables load-follow of fluctuating renewable energy, delivering over 85% electrical efficiency prior to integrating with industrial heat sources. With fully reversable operation, electricity generation adds substantial value and flexibility with grid ancillary services. Small-scale units begin at 40 kW with 12-month lead time. Large-scale systems start at 1 MW with project-based lead time.
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.
- Landfolk — Landfolk is the new marketplace for the special holiday homes that are hidden around the country. We have hand-picked every single cottage, where there are proud and passionate hosts, who love their holiday homes, but also like to share it with others.
- Embankment Group — Embankment Group is a recruitment consultancy specialising in candidate short markets. We pride ourselves on matching the best talent to the right companies.
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.
byFounders is the community-powered early-stage venture fund investing in globally ambitious teams connected to the Nordic and Baltic countries. With its unique Collective of founders and operators, byFounders offers its portfolio operational expertise and a global network. Believing in the power of tech to shape our future, byFounders takes an impact-aware approach to investing and working with the broader startup ecosystem.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Denmark, United States, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- DREM — Simplifying distributed energy saving solutions
- FocalX — FocalX develops AI-powered vehicle inspection technology for the automotive industry. The company's platform leverages image recognition, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to identify, classify, and evaluate external damages on cars. This technology helps businesses digitalize vehicle inspections, empowering inspectors with preciseand efficient tools. FocalX's solutions are used globally to enhance the accuracy and speed of vehicle assessments.
- Meine Erde — Meine Erde is a provider of ecological burial option in Europe.
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
- Orbex Space — Founded in 2015, Orbex is Europe’s leading private launch services company, focused entirely on supporting the needs of the small satellite industry.Orbex has developed one of the most advanced, low carbon, high performance micro-launch vehicles in the world. They launch customer satellites into polar and sun-synchronous low Earth orbits from aunique, modern launch location in the heart of the European continent.They offer a flexible core launch service and a wide suite of supporting services that make life easier for customers. Their European location means shorter supply lines, easier communications and reduced operational costs. Their advanced launch vehicle means higher reliability, more flexible mission profiles and a regular, scheduled launch service.
- Fuse Vectors — Fuse Vectors is disrupting the manufacturing process in order to provide universal access to gene therapy.
- Capra Robotics — Our Mobile Robot Platform is a versatile solution optimized for outdoor use in any terrain. Read more about how the CAPRA can work for you.
North-East Venture is an international, multi-stage fund placed in Copenhagen, Denmark. The fund was launched December 1st 2013.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Fashion
- Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Denmark, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Rokoko — Rokoko | Affordable high-end motion capture and animation tools for body, hand, and face capture + software with native integrations for all major animation software and game engines
- SynergyXR — SynergyXR is a no-code, cloud platform that lets companies design, onboard, sell, and support across all XR devices without writing a single line of code
- Hyme Energy — Making green heat for industry accessible. Always. Hyme's solution supports the decarbonisation of industrial heat at large-scale.
Heartcore Capital invests in companies re-enchanting the world through technology.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Denmark, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Luca — Luca's learning platform provides learning programs for primary and secondary school students. The learning platform offers pre-recorded K12 videos, gamified content and AI powered personalized study paths, covering the entire official academic curriculum and national exams prep. Luca is a VC backed startup with HQ in Madrid & MexicoCity
- Barter — Barter enables decentralized applications by ensuring efficient transaction routing and optimization.
- Superform Labs — THE UNIVERSAL INTERFACE FOR YIELD IS FORMING
Seedcamp is Europe's seed fund, identifying and investing early in world-class founders attacking large, global markets and solving real problems using technology. The Seedcamp Nation includes over 400 startups building breakout businesses that change the way people live, interact and buy and includes publicly listed UiPath, Wise, and unicornsRevolut, Hopin, Sorare, Pleo, and wefox along with fast-growing businesses such as Grover, viz.ai and Ezra. Seedcamp fast-tracks a founder's vision and creates value through immediate access to smart capital, a lifelong community of support and a global network built upon more than a decade's experience backing exceptional talent.Seedcamp fast-tracks a founder's vision and creates value through immediate access to smart capital, a lifelong community of support, and a global network built upon more than a decade's experience backing exceptional talent.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Sylvera — Sylvera Carbon offset ratings make offset quality and risks transparent. We make offsets auditable for offset sellers, intermediaries, buyers and investors.
- Outverse — A community platform that's easier to use, better organised and designed for real interaction.
- Dust — Dust is a platform for creating sophisticated processes based on large language models and semantic search.
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.
- Steerlab — Steerlab is an AI-first solution that automates your responses to RFPs and Security Questionnaires, elevates quality, and delivers insights on how to win.
- Tilta — Provide a financial service, drive your GMV, and add a new revenue stream without the hassle of being a financial servicer provider.
Tech Investor and Entrepreneur, former Founder & CEO at The Eye Tribe
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Denmark, Sweden, France
Portfolio highlights
- Rerun — Multimodal log handling and visualization for spatial and embodied AI. Managed infrastructure to ingest, store, analyze, and stream data at scale with built-in visual debugging. Fast, flexible, and easy to use.
- Hybird Energy — Discover how Hybird's intelligent electrical panels can save up to 30% in energy consumption. With source-level transparency and enhanced control, manage your electricity usage efficiently. Invest in Hybird for sustainable energy management.
- Doublepoint — Doublepoint provides smartwatches, wristbands, and other wearables with gesture recognition technology. This provides future computing platforms more comfortable, robust and intuitive interactions.
David is a technologist, the founder of Unity Technologies, non-exec director to others, and a restless entrepreneur with a passion for creating feedback loops between innovation and teams and products, applying new and old business models to changing industries, and pushing people to do the very best they can do.David's background is inprogramming, an assortment of university dabbling, creating companies, and helping entrepreneurs. He served as CEO of Unity Technologies since co-founding it in 2003 and until October 2014, with an unflinching vision to democratize game development, and to develop technology and business models for the next phase of the games industry. David Helgason attended the University of Copenhagen.
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Investment focus
- Software, Gaming, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United States, Denmark, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Isometric — Isometric is a carbon removal standard and registry.
- Slope — We handle the lending, underwriting, debt collection and fully pay out to you immediately once the product or service ships.
- Rocky Road — At Rocky Road, we are redefining social gaming with our social gaming network. We are hiring!
We know how much grit and luck it takes to build big companies. That’s why we invest our time and our children’s money in crazy, ambitious founders.Founded by a group of serial entrepreneurs that have built, scaled and exited some of the largest technology companies of the Nordics, Nordic Makers is a seed stage hands-on investor, workingactively with companies to take them to the next level.
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Investment focus
- Software, Education, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Denmark, United States, Norway
Portfolio highlights
- Munchfam — Munchfam is your next restaurant software package that covers everything from POS to Webshop to Ingredients.
- Hyme Energy — Making green heat for industry accessible. Always. Hyme's solution supports the decarbonisation of industrial heat at large-scale.
- Pluto.markets — Pluto is the modern investment app for the 100m Europeans living in countries without the EUR.
Innovation Fund Denmark invests in the development of new knowledge and technology creating growth and employment in Denmark. The Fund focuses on societal challenges, strengthens research, and increases innovation commitment within private companies.The Fund provides risk capital that enables cutting-edge initiatives to achieve resultssubstantially impacting the Danish society. Innovation Fund Denmark is also responsible for the future societal partnerships, where companies, universities, and public authorities will work together on challenges facing the society today.
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Investment focus
- Software, Biotechnology, SaaS
- Grant, Pre-Seed, Seed
- Denmark, United States
Portfolio highlights
- SureShot — SureShot empowers you and your audience to become video co-creators. With our cutting-edge AI, capture, edit, and share electrifying videos that amplify the essence of every event.
- FEESH — FEESH is a groundbreaking biotech company developing sustainable protein alternatives targeted at the aquaculture industry.
- Tailwind Biotech — AI-powered synthetic DNA design services for improved strain development. We use Artificial Intelligence to help biotech companies achieve more effective and more efficient bioproduction processes. Our technology designs best-in-class synthetic DNA Promoters and Terminators, and performs gene codon optimizations that help to maximise biomanufacturing yields while reducing development costs.
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.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Marketplace, Apps
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Denmark, United Kingdom, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Famly — Easy-to-use software for childcare providers. Our nursery management software makes administration, planning, and learning journals easy. Try it for free.
- 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.
- 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.
They are an investment and development company providing capital, solid business experience and a strong network in order to turn innovative ideas into successful businesses. They cover all of Denmark from their offices in Aarhus, Roskilde, Copenhagen, Viborg and Kalundborg.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Denmark, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- Ulobby — Ulobby is an automated tool for stakeholder management and political monitoring
- Mechanic Miner — Mechanic Miner is a 2D construction/survival game with mechanical steam-powered machines. You are stranded on a strange and forbidding planet, where survival is made difficult by hostile animals and plant life. From your home world you did bring a multitool, which is able to craft any kind of machine part - provided the requisite rawmaterials can be found. Relying solely on the technology you brought, you set out to explore a whole world. You can progress through the game by acquiring new types of steam-powered technology elements, that are necessary to delve deeper into the diverse biomes of the planet, and perhaps, ultimately, discover the means to escape. You can construct any kind of machine of your own design - and any kind of machine can be simulated by the game's physics engine - and of course, designs can be shared with your friends.
- ResoTher Pharma — ResoTher Pharma is a privately held biotechnology company located in Copenhagen, Denmark. The company is focused on developing peptide-based drugs derived from the endogenous immunomodulator Annexin 1A as resolution therapy for diseases where neutrophil-driven inflammation plays a key pathological role.
Headline is a Venture Capital firm actively on the ground in 7 cities around the world. We invest across categories and geographies, leading rounds at every stage. Once we commit to a team, we go to the ends of the earth to make their success global.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Heidi Health — Heidi Health is modernizing primary care with AI-powered technologies to improve care's quality and accessibility. its creators and engineers is to completely eradicate missed and sluggish diagnoses worldwide. They are committed to bridging the gap between the level of care that patients desire and the level of care that doctors can delivergiven their budget constraints. To create a platform where patients can quickly and easily get the treatment they require and to give every clinician the resources they need to deliver care that is secure, efficient,
- Closinglock — Closinglock is modernizing the real estate world’s way of transferring information to eliminate wire fraud & protect buyers.
- Cycles Nutrition — Cycles Nutrition provides science-backed, accessible nutritional strategies that empower health-conscious individuals to optimize longevity and enhance quality of life.
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 — Smart summaries. Instant answers. For everything your team shares in Slack.
- 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.
Danish angel investor, based in London.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Denmark, Sweden, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Medusa — The most popular ecommerce project on GitHub. Medusa provides the world's most flexible commerce platform for developers to handle specialized commerce cases.
- Heyhack — Automated web application security testing, protection, and reporting for software-as-a-service businesses.
- Fullview — Fullview let's you instantly monitor, control and analyze user sessions for faster real time customer support. No downloads. Easy to integrate.
Vaekstfonden makes equity investments in Danish companies with a track record as well as in young entrepreneurial, innovative enterprises with an ambition for global growth.
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Investment focus
- Software, Biotechnology, SaaS
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Denmark, United Kingdom, Iceland
Portfolio highlights
- Kollektiv — Unleash your best self with tailored training plans, learning and support for running, swimming and cycling - from world-class-coaches and ex-athletes.
- Performativ — Performativ develops modern solutions for the asset and wealth management industry. Our clients span from small investment advisors to enterprise banks.
- Onomondo — Onomondo is a global IoT network. Our IoT SIM and cloud platform future proof your devices with full data transparency, freedom to leave, and no third parties.
We support early-stage founders in building global, category-defining companies. From Seed to IPO and beyond.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Sweden, Germany, United States
Co-creating and investing in companies whose founders we believe in, to help them reach the next level faster.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Financial Services
- Pre-Seed, Funding Round, Seed
- Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- Cogo — All shared rides in one app with Cogo. Find shared electric scooters, e-scooters, bikes, e-bikes, cars and mopeds near you with Cogo from hundreds of shared mobility all over the world.
- NORTHSTAKE — Providing institutional investors with access to future economies through secure and trustworthy investment pathways for digital assets
- Gray Matter AI — Gray Matter, is a European born Startup Studio, that builds innovative B2B SaaS solutions enhanced by artificial intelligence.
Founderment Ventures is an investment firm.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Travel
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Denmark, Germany
The Nordic Web Ventures is an Angel Fund run by Neil S W Murray, backed by 50+ community builders, entrepreneurs and investors passionate about supporting early-stage Nordic startups.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Denmark, Norway, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Steep — Business intelligence for modern companies. Steep lets anyone on your team stay on top of your data.
- All Gravy — Butter gives you happier employees, by reducing their financial stress and giving them an understanding of their salary and financial situation
- Valuebeat — Grow your culture. Backed by data. Platypus is the HR and recruitment tool that measures cultural drivers of people across the organization to help you qualify decisions on hiring and managing your culture.
Thomas Visti - CEO @ Mobile Industrial Robots
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Investment focus
- Robotics, Software, Manufacturing
- Angel, Grant, Funding Round
- Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- Rokoko — Rokoko | Affordable high-end motion capture and animation tools for body, hand, and face capture + software with native integrations for all major animation software and game engines
- Unicontrol — Unicontrol is a developer of a 3D machine control system for all types of excavators. Unicontrol is a manufacturer of a simple 3D-GPS machine control system for all types of excavators. We are here to prove that machine control can be made simple.
- BlueKey — BlueKey is a software developer of a solution that aims to deliver, structure, and automate the world's shipping data, reliably and easily. The platform gathers valuable data in one place so that shipping companies and charterers in the dry cargo industry can hit the competitive price, quality, and speed of deliveries.
Crowberry Capital invests at seed and early stage in emerging technology ventures in the Nordics. Our mission is to back people that are good for companies and build companies that are good for people. We have a strong follow-through philosophy and commit to putting your company first.
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Investment focus
- Software, Gaming, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Iceland, Denmark, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Tiimo — Tiimo helps you manage your daily life and improve your wellbeing. Visualize your day. Improve your routines. Stress less.
- Quanscient — We are building next generation simulation software-as-a-service utilizing Quantum computing algorithms. Our specialty domain of simulations is Computational Electromagnetics.
- Porcelain Fortress — Porcelain Fortress was founded by a small band of romantics in the summer of 2016 in Reykjavik, Iceland.
Peter Sandberg is a Co-Founder of Nordic Secondary Fund, and a venture partner at Startup Wise Guys.
He has extensive experience as a Business Angel, Asset Management and Wealth Management
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Investment focus
- Internet, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Angel, Pre-Seed, Secondary Market
- Denmark, Kenya, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Simporter — Make better products with more confidence, in just a fraction of the time.
- Cavea — Your Ads In Live Streaming! Amplify your brand across every major platform with 100% in-view, high attention advertising.
- Hive.id — Proactively prevent fraud, build secure experiences for your customers and drive your revenue growth.
International venture capital firm based in Copenhagen. We come from the North, but we work in the world. We are Nordic Eye.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Denmark, India
Portfolio highlights
- Govly — Govly is building a market network for government contracting, like AngelList for government procurement.
- Freightify — Integrated platform for freight rate management, sailing schedules, and freight quotes. Easy rate search to customer management. All in one dashboard.
- Provenance — Provenance is a software solution for sustainability communications and supply chain transparency.
Howzat Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in incubation, seed, start up, growth capital, early stage, and mid venture investments. The firm seeks to invest in digital businesses with a focus on internet, digital media, e-commerce companies. It invests globally. It acts as as sounding board. The firm also makes co-investments. HowzatPartners was founded in 2006 and is based in Luxembourg and London.
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Investment focus
- Travel, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Wingly — Wingly is a flight sharing platform. Find pilots or passengers for your trip.
- Handiscover — Handiscover is the first community based Holiday accommodation-booking website, dedicated to people with special needs and disabilities. At the core of Handiscover lies a unique classification system which allows users to select accommodation based on their different levels of mobility/physical disability. It was founded by SebastienArchambeaud in 2014, a father to a boy with a muscle disease.
- Mymoria — MYMORIA offers an one-stop-online-shop for full configuration and complete commissioning of funerals. Mymoria is able to offer its services significantly cheaper than traditional mortician homes. The company is offering its services nationwide and work hard to organize our processes efficiently while maintaining thehigh service standards.
Esben Gadsbøll - Founder @ Woolspire
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Mobile Apps
- Angel
- Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- Certainly — Award-winning AI Chatbot Builder. Build your own chatbot with Certainly to provide instant, quality User Experiences through conversational interfaces.
- Reshopper — Reshopper is an application for buying and selling used kids items. The compamy was founded by Jonas Funk Johannessen, Anders Dahl Pape, Anders Munk, and Nicolai Denmark Johannesen. In 2016 former AirBnB country manager Aja Guldhammer Henderson joined Reshopper as CEO and now she is leading the ambitious international expansion.
Bjarke Klinge Staun is a Principal at Creandum, a leading European early stage venture capital firm with a portfolio that includes Spotify, iZettle and Vivino.After starting his career at Goldman Sachs, Bjarke co-founded Alipes in 2008. Alipes is a technology company that never left stealth, as it became profitable very fast, has grownorganically and has a very specialized product. The company uses machine learning and natural language processing to automatically read financial news and generate insights about the stock market. The company has about 20 employees in Copenhagen, most of them machine learning, physics and computer science PhDs.After running Alipes for 6 years, Bjarke left active management to his two co-founders in 2014, and is now a proud board member and shareholder. He then ran Vaniday in Berlin, a Rocket Internet funded global beauty and wellness marketplace, before joining Creandum.At Creandum, Bjarke spends a lot of time on the machine learning and AI space, as well as on Fintech.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Denmark, United Kingdom, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Kiku — Kiku using AI for scheduling, screening, and assessing applicants can help organizations manage large volumes of candidates efficiently.
- Realm — Realm is a search engine for the workplace reimagined with AI. Designed to help fast-moving teams better leverage their collective knowledge.
- Lovable — Build software products, using only a chat interface
In the two decades since our founding, we have worked with hundreds of extraordinary European founders, and have raised eight funds totalling more than $3bn.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Taktile — Taktile's no-code platform enables you to easily build automated decision flows and iterate on them in a data-driven way leveraging backtests and A/B testing.
- Grand Games — Grand Games is shaping the future of gaming by creating genre-defining games played by millions worldwide.
- Lindus Health — Lindus Health. From recruitment to delivery, we accelerate clinical trials. Our mission is to make health research accessible for everyone, everywhere.
Upfin is an early-stage Nordic Venture fund focusing on Fintech. We leverage a deep sector focus to help exceptional fintech founders open doors.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, FinTech
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Denmark, 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.
- Mimo — Access a cost-effective, unified payments platform with pre-approved credit. Built for SMEs, accountants and bookkeepers, money-in and money-out is effortless with Mimo.
- Palm — Cash Management for the Modern Treasury
AENU is an evergreen impact fund that focuses on stage-agnostic long-term investments in climate-tech and social impact companies.
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- Renewable Energy, Software, CleanTech
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Germany, United States, United Kingdom
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- EPYR — Turning renewable power into high-temperature heat with thermal energy storage
- OCELL — Building the Operating System of Sustainable Forestry
- ERS - Ecosystem Restoration Standard — Wildsense monitors forest health using satellite imagery to help foresters better adapt to climate change-related risks like insect outbreaks and drought.
Serial entrepreneur
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- Self-Storage, Cyber Security, Personalization
- Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Denmark, Hungary
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- Dealflow — Dealflow is the next-gen invoicing platform for ambitious business owners. Save transaction fees, get financed and automate every flow in one place. Send and pay invoices on your terms!
- 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.
Chris Murphy is a Venture Partner at MS&AD Ventures. He previously cofounded SaaStock and was an early Web Summit employee.
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- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
SEB Venture Capital is a Fintech investor that helps entrepreneurs and innovators launch and grow profitable businesses. They primarily serve as a strategic corporate venture focused on Fintech investments, with the option of partnering with SEB. They are also on the hunt for game-changing inventive solutions to new technologies that will make thefinancial industry smarter, safer, and more environmentally responsible, as well as more user-friendly. They also function as an evergreen fund, giving them the flexibility and staying strength to focus on long-term wealth development depending on what is best for the firm and its shareholders.
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- Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- Sweden, Denmark, United Kingdom
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- Airsonett — Research-based medical technology company which leads the way in the development of non-pharmaceutical treatment for allergic asthma.
- EnginZyme — EnginZyme is a biotechnology company that specializes in biocatalysis. It creates products for easy and cost-efficient implementation of biocatalytic processes and helps the chemical industry transition to a sustainable way of operating.The company is driven by a mission to make biocatalysis the first choice for chemical process designersworldwide.
- Qvantum — Qvantum is driven by a passion for a sustainable future and we are changing the way the cities of Europe are heated.
The Footprint Firm is an advisory and investment company with a sole focus on sustainability.
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- Software, Finance, Renewable Energy
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Denmark
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- Cellugy — Biomaterial to Replace Plastic
- Dynelectro — Dynelectro is a Danish solid oxide electrolyser equipment manufacturer with proprietary innovation to lower the total cost of hydrogen. Dynamic operation enables load-follow of fluctuating renewable energy, delivering over 85% electrical efficiency prior to integrating with industrial heat sources. With fully reversable operation, electricity generation adds substantial value and flexibility with grid ancillary services. Small-scale units begin at 40 kW with 12-month lead time. Large-scale systems start at 1 MW with project-based lead time.
- Kvasir Technologies — Imagine a world without fossil fuelsThis is where we come in! We have invented a solution that makes this possible already in 2050.
Jesper book is the Seed Investor at DIBB Design.
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- Mobile Apps, Internet, Software
- Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Denmark, United States
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- Jukeit — Jukeit is a B2B music streaming service including a jukebox app.Music is very close to our heart. That is why Jukeit has created an economically sustainable music streaming service for commercial use. With our innovative jukebox app, we can provide music lovers a brand new way of interacting with the music in public spaces. This will both benefitthe venues and the creators of the music that we all love.
- Reshopper — Reshopper is an application for buying and selling used kids items. The compamy was founded by Jonas Funk Johannessen, Anders Dahl Pape, Anders Munk, and Nicolai Denmark Johannesen. In 2016 former AirBnB country manager Aja Guldhammer Henderson joined Reshopper as CEO and now she is leading the ambitious international expansion.
- ZERV — ZERV is a Danish-owned company that produces and sells sports equipment for various sports.
Hampus Jakobsson is a General Partner at early stage climate tech venture fund Pale Blue Dot.Prior to co-founding Pale Blue Dot, Hampus was a Venture Partner at science fund Blue Yard and a prolific angel investor with >100 angel investments. He co-founded of The Astonishing Tribe (acquired by Blackberry in 2010 for $150m). He left Blackberry2012 to found Brisk.io a sales productivity tool which folded 2016.
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- Health Care, Software, Mobile
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Sweden, Denmark, United States
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- ClimateView — ClimateView is a Swedish climate action technology company that helps cities transform climate planning into progress. We combine data, agent-based modelling and interface design to help cities successfully manage the transition to zero carbon economies.
- Mojo — Clinical-grade, AI-powered sperm analysis from the comfort of home. Test your sperm count, motility, morphology and much more with the Mojo kit. Check your fertility from home at low cost - without the need for clinic visits and awkward waiting rooms.
- Volta Greentech — Battling global warming by reducing methane emissions from cows
Experienced investor with more than 20 years of experience:
- 17 years doing large cap Private Equity investment with EQT. Have been part of completing >10 large-cap platform acquisitions and numerous add-ons, with a >$20 billion combined transaction value
- 3 years as management consultant with McKinsey, primarily focused on Strategy andM&A
- Private investor in startups since 2012, having participated in >40 equity financing rounds across 14 platform investments
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- Fashion, Education, E-Commerce
- Angel, Secondary Market
- Denmark, United States
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- Plecto — Boost performance with real-time dashboards and motivate your employees to reach new limits
- Fenerum — Fenerum is operating as an individual solution for Saas clients who are looking for the optimal solution to manage their invoicing.
- Fishtrip — Fishtrip helps you find, book and pay for your fishing trip. We convey the contact between trip providers and anglers. It has never been easier arranging a fishing trip.Fishtrip is the easiest way to offer anglers a fishing trip with your boat, as a fishing guide or at a Put&Take lake. Let Fishtrip help you offer and manage your servicesonline.
At Ugly Duckling Ventures, we make capital, know-how, and real-world application available to Nordic ventures at the seed & pre-seed stage. We are operational by nature and want to get in the grind as we excel at getting early-stage ventures ready for scale.
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- Information Technology, Software, Cyber Security
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Denmark
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- Eupry — Be in full control of your temperature compliance at all times. Collect temperature monitoring, mapping, and calibration in one GxP-compliant solution.
- Moxso — Moxso aims to minimize human risk by providing specialized services to various sectors. Their managed service model combines automation with personalized human interaction to deliver customized, adaptive training solutions.
- Skyfora — Skyfora combines scientific understanding of tropical storms with computer vision, machine learning and IoT technologies.
Preben Damgaard - Director @ Axcess A/S
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- SaaS, Software, Food and Beverage
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Denmark, United Kingdom
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- Paperflow — Paperflow is a company that developed a cloud-based system that, using artificial intelligence, scans and handles vouchers such as receipts or invoices so that the manual posting is done automatically.
- Configit —
- Too Good To Go — Too Good To Go app is the world's largest surplus food marketplace. Download now and enjoy good food at 1/2 price or less, help the environment and reduce food waste.
Since 2005, Inventure has backed over 90 companies including Wolt, Swappie, Jobbatical, aiMotive, and more.
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- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Finland, Sweden, Denmark
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- Moncyte Health — Unique technology and novel data for personalized and optimal treatment of high cholesterol
- Biomatter — Biomatter Designs is pioneering the technologies for generative protein design at the intersection of synthetic biology and AI.
- Avenue Biosciences — From biotechnology tools to therapy discovery and development: Our platform enhances production yield and the quality of your end product.
Crista Galli Ventures invests in ambitious European healthtech companies at Seed and Series A. Our deep medical expertise, powerful network and agile approach enable founders to build important, world-class healthcare businesses.
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- Health Care, Wellness, Medical
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Sweden
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- Jude — Hey, we're Jude. A healthcare start-up on a mission is to bring bladder care into the mainstream.
- Vitrue Health — At Vitrue Health, our mission is to reduce or eliminate the impact that musculoskeletal health issues have on over 40% of the population using cutting edge technology. We believe that the foundation of successful outcomes in musculoskeletal health, at every stage of the pathway, is accurate assessment. Whether it's a desk worker with early stages of neck pain or a patient having a total knee replacement, Vitrue's technology can help.
- Collective Minds Radiology — Collective Minds® is the new radiology workspace. A cloud-based service for collaboration, consultation and access to new digital tools and expertise. We are building the largest global network of collective and artificial intelligence, with humans and machines.
Conor Venture Partners is a new breed technology venture capital fund and management company. Conor invests in early-stage companies originating from Nordic and Baltic countries. Investment areas include information and communications technology, embedded software, semiconductor technology, electronics, new materials and optics.
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- Software, Analytics, Semiconductor
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- Finland, United States, Sweden
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- TactoTek — Set your imagination free and create user experiences with the help of sustainable smart molded structures.
- Blackwood Seven | Part of Kantar Group — Attribute, predict and optimize the business outcome of marketing and media plans with Blackwood Seven's Unified Marketing Modeling platform.
- Verto Analytics — Verto Analytics (Verto) operates a passive metering panel that provides researchers, advertisers, and publishers the data they need to keep up with the rapid and changing pace of consumer media consumption on every app, device, service, and platform. This ongoing, longitudinal panel captures a wide breadth of behaviors—all enriched to clients’behavioral analysis or custom survey studies. Our single-source, passive metering data sets provide the information needed to understand the full digital footprint of the U.S. population. Our Data Labs are located in the US, and in Helsinki, Finland. http://www.vertoanalytics.com.
Angular Ventures is a specialist venture capital firm committed to founders redefining global markets.
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- Software, SaaS, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Israel, United States, United Kingdom
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- Beebop — Beebop is a software designed for power grid orchestration. Beebop's orchestration middleware enables utilities, grid operators, manufacturers, and VPP technology leaders to manage residential asset fleets, enhancing value delivery to end-customers.
- Root Signals — Root Signals lets you create, optimize and embed the needed evaluators into your code, so you can continuously monitor the behavior of LLM automations in production.
- Blue Energy — Blue Energy is a nuclear power plant company that provides reliable, clean, and abundant electricity.
Phillip Chambers is the GM, Peakon Employee Voice at Workday. He attended University of Manchester.
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- Software, Information Technology, Human Resources
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, Denmark, Germany
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- Marts — Discover Marts' innovative IT asset management platform for efficient procurement, tracking, and support. Equip your IT department with smart, centralized tools for complete lifecycle management - from acquisition to recycling. Request a demo today
- Strise — Strise is signaling a new era of enterprise software and organizational change, transforming how companies work and empowering individual growth through knowledge. We believe in the AI-enabled financial institution without data silos where users and data are working together to solve even the most complex business problems.
- Cello — Turn users into your most valuable growth channel. Cello is the easiest way to add a P2P referral program to any SaaS product in hours.
Wellington Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in technology and life sciences companies, focusing on Digital Media, Software, Electronics & Photonics, Resource Efficiency, and Biotech/Life Sciences. It is committed to providing outstanding entrepreneurs with the necessary resources to fund their strategies. We typically leadfinancing rounds ranging from € 0.5 million to € 20 million. Depending on the maturity of the company, its own commitment can go as high as € 15 million.Wellington was established in 1998 and has offices in Munich, London, and Zurich.
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- Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- Germany, United States, United Kingdom
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- Aignostics — Aignostics is an AI-powered precision diagnostics focused on pathology to assist with drug development and clinical research. Its “explainable” AI overcomes the “black-box” limitations of conventional AI. Based on their patented technology for reverse-engineering the black box, they render diagnostic results explainable in the form of preciseheatmaps and image overlays. These heatmaps allow pathologists to quickly verify the results of the AI, which is crucial, as the pathologist is ultimately responsible for the diagnosis.The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
- Sphingotec GmbH — Improving patient outcomes with innovative diagnostics for critical care: Actionable insights in real-time
- CorFlow Therapeutics AG — CorFlow Therapeutics is a medtech startup that develops proprietary technologies for diagnosis and treatment of microvascular obstructions in heart attack patients. The CorFlow technologies enable interventional cardiologists to diagnose and treat MVO in severe heart attack patients thereby potentially reducing the short- and long-term complicationrates in these patients.
We are Northcap
A team of experienced professionals with operational backgrounds building companies and comprehensive venture capital experience. We invest in ICT B2B and B2B2C start-ups in Northern Europe. Meet our Team and learn
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- Software, SaaS, Mobile
- Series B, Funding Round, Series A
- Denmark, United States, Sweden
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- Visiopharm — Visiopharm image analysis and stereology software has become the preferred Quantitative Digital Pathology solution for leading biopharmaceutical companies, contract research organizations (CRO), academic medical centers, research institutes, and hospitals all over the world. Recently, Visiopharm has expanded to include ONCOtopix™ Dx a robustsolution for cancer diagnostics with CE-IVD algorithms for the breast panel, integrated LIS driven workflow, and Virtual Double Staining. Their software is featured in over 800 scientific publications, and is compatible with leading slide scanner manufacturers, data management software, and a wide variety of microscopes and cameras.Visiopharm, a privately owned company, was founded in 2001 by the Managing Director, and Chief Executive Officer, Michael Grunkin and the Chief Technical officer, Johan Doré Hansen, who both have a strong scientific and practical background in image analysis.Their company has grown into an international business with over 500 licenses in more than 30 countries. Their growing network of authorized distributors and partners support the growth of Visiopharm solutions on several continents including North America, Europe and Asia. Their headquarters is located in the Medicon Valley of Denmark, with a branch office in the Netherlands, and a North America office in Broomfield, Colorado.
- Falcon.io — Falcon is your social media marketing platform built on social analytics, engagement and governance for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
- GAN Integrity — Streamline compliance with GAN Integrity's ethics and compliance management software. Ensure success with our comprehensive and configurable platform.
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