Top 50 Sustainability Startup Investors in Denmark in September 2025
A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Sustainability startups based in Denmark. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Sustainability companies from Denmark. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Sustainability Startup Investors in Denmark in September 2025
Investor | Sustainability Denmark investments |
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Vaekstfonden | 8 |
The Footprint Firm | 7 |
Vaekstfonden | 6 |
Export and Investment Fund | 5 |
UVC Partners | 3 |
Antler | 3 |
Nupark Accelerace | 3 |
Christian Bach | 3 |
Rincon Venture Partners | 2 |
Bo Wase | 2 |
Nordic Alpha Partners | 2 |
Transition | 2 |
Ulf Bech Christensen | 2 |
Juergen Mayerhofer | 2 |
BioInnovation Institute | 2 |
Human Act | 2 |
Nefco | 2 |
PSV | 2 |
North-East Family Office | 2 |
VÅR Ventures | 2 |
Giant Ventures | 2 |
Vsquared Ventures | 2 |
BackingMinds | 2 |
Root Ventures | 2 |
Klaus Oestermann | 1 |
Bonfire Ventures | 1 |
Thomas Buus Madsen | 1 |
Kinnevik | 1 |
ACME Capital | 1 |
Henrik Rosendahl | 1 |
Spectrum Impact | 1 |
Jon Erik Reinhardsen | 1 |
David Helgason | 1 |
Voyager Ventures | 1 |
EMD Fonden | 1 |
New Enterprise Associates | 1 |
Mette Fløe Nielsen | 1 |
Jonatan Hjortdal | 1 |
Propeller Investments | 1 |
Morten Baehrenz | 1 |
Elewit | 1 |
Jeppe Rindom | 1 |
Division Q | 1 |
North-East Venture | 1 |
Lars Nielsen | 1 |
Heartland | 1 |
KRING | 1 |
Ekaterina Gianelli | 1 |
EQt Foundation | 1 |
European Investment Bank | 1 |
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.
The Footprint Firm is an advisory and investment company with a sole focus on sustainability.
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Investment focus
- Software, Finance, Renewable Energy
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
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.
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.
- Interhuman — Interhuman is an artificial intelligence company that develops social-aware AI for real-time communication purposes.
UVC Partners is a Munich- and Berlin-based early-stage venture capital firm that invests in technology-based startups in the areas of enterprise software, industrial technologies, and mobility. The fund typically invests between € 0.5 - 10m initially and up to € 20m in total per company.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Germany, Switzerland, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- Q.ANT — Q.ANT develops photonic processors for AI and high-performance computing, utilizing light for information processing. The company also produces quantum sensors offering ultra-high magnetic field sensitivity in a compact form factor. These products aim to enable more intelligent and sustainable systems across various sectors like data centers,aerospace, and medical technology.
- Predium — Predium is the software platform for real estate owners to measure, manage and communicate their ESG performance.
- Enginsight — Enginsight GmbH was founded in August 2017. With a highly motivated team, they are working together on the vision of providing companies with a solution that will enable them to safely and confidently navigate the digital future. Enginsight helps leading companies autonomously monitor and secure their entire IT landscape. Certified and highlytrained employees form the heart of Enginsight, together with partner companies around the globe. They analyze and monitor complete IT landscapes – recognize the connections and dependencies between websites and servers up to IoT-devices. The innovative software platform acts autonomously and points out the critical paths, risks and threats.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Singapore, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- AIsphere — AIsphere focuses on visual multimodal large models and empowering content producers in many sectors and scenarios with AIGC technology.
- Saltfish — Saltfish enables teams to develop tailored video experiences that guide users through your entire funnel, from first visit to feature adoption.
- PlayMaker — PlayMaker is building the modern operating system for sponsorships—centralizing inventory, contracts, activations, and reporting in one place so commercial teams can move faster and prove ROI. Designed and built by industry insiders who sat in the seat of rights-holders and brands, PlayMaker combines intuitive workflows with AI to extract contractterms, surface under-utilized assets, streamline approvals, and generate executive-ready reporting.
Nupark Accelerace finances entrepreneurial businesses and is a Denmark-based investment company.
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Investment focus
- Solar, Wind Energy, Enterprise Software
- Seed
- Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- Vaavud — We are a crowdsourced weatherservice. Our mission is to provide high-resolution personalized weather information
- Delogue — Delogue PLM is a powerful fashion & apparel product development platform that connects brands and suppliers for data-driven decisions. Streamline workflows, ensure accountability, and stay compliant with integrated communication tools. Join over 3800+ brands and supercharge your sustainability agenda with Delogue.
- Yaneeda — Yaneeda is not like any other travel agent you know, in fact they are their worst nightmares. Yaneeda lets you request and buy your holidays from the same companies that travel agents normally buy from. This means you get advice and suggested itineraries from people actually on the destination, but with all the benefits of a regular travel agent.Yaneeda is a new kind of travel agent that lets you decide what you want, and gives you the tools that only travel agents used to have. They have the widest productrange, best prices and are fully bonded.
Christian Bach is the President & Co-founder of Netlify.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Developer Platform
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Denmark, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- MaxFense — MaxFense is a company that focuses on enhancing the security of the internet through their ethical products. Primary among their offerings is the MaxFense Endpoint Security, which enables clients to check, prevent, detect, and respond to potential information security threats, regardless of whether they originate from inside or outside theorganization. This approach aligns with contemporary security standards that have increasingly recognized the importance of robust endpoint security in the face of diversified threat vectors.
- Reel Energy — Reel empowers all companies to procure renewable electricity that makes a real difference for the climate.
- Daytona — Deploy Al code with confidence using Daytona's lightning-fast infrastructure. 90ms environment creation, stateful operations, and enterprise-grade security.
Rincon Venture Partners seeks to partner with extraordinary entrepreneurs and support them as they build world-class businesses. Rincon is an early-stage venture capital firm that targets investment opportunities in Web-based businesses that are led by 'serial founding teams', have proven recurring revenue models and are pursuingcapital-efficient operating plans. They typically invest in companies where initial product or service development is largely complete, and the company's forward-looking focus is on market engagement and expansion. They take an active role in guiding and supporting portfolio companies by committing resources for such activities as Board representation, providing strategic and tactical guidance, filling key management positions, facilitating subsequent financings and achieving liquidity events.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Analytics
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- Medallia Zingle — Zingle, a Medallia company (MDLA), is a software solution that helps businesses communicate with customers via texting and other mobile messaging channels.Zingle allows businesses to engage, support, and respond to customers in the new mobile messaging era. Zingle’s cloud-based platform works on any device and provides all the software tools todeliver an instant, actionable, and seamless customer service experience.By combining the immediacy of chat with the flexibility of mobile, Zingle is enabling businesses to provide the "instant gratification" service that their customers increasingly expect across a number of industries.Zingle pioneered the business messaging space in 2009 by being the first to offer business texting on its patented platform. Today over 2,000 businesses use Zingle, including Hyatt, Whole Foods, Marriott, and ZipCar. Zingle is the only company to offer simple yet powerful technology like messaging workflow, analytics, integrations, and automation. More info: http://www.zingle.com.
- Qordoba — Qordoba’s AI helps everyone at a company write with the same style, terminology, and brand voice. With Qordoba’s dynamic content guidelines, organizations can achieve consistency and clarity across all types of content — including communications and marketing, technical documentation, product, customer knowledge bases, HR and legal policies, andmore. Companies such as Intuit, Twitter, Braintree, Visa, and Marriott use Qordoba to empower their writers to create better content. We were named a CNBC Upstart 100 company in 2019 and one of Forbes’ Cloud 100 Rising Stars in 2018.Visit qordoba.com to learn more.
- mPulse Mobile — Discover how mPulse's health experience and insights products create consumer-centric journeys for better health outcomes.
Bo Wase is chairman of InCommodities.
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Investment focus
- Renewable Energy
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- Reel Energy — Reel empowers all companies to procure renewable electricity that makes a real difference for the climate.
Nordic Alpha Partners (NAP) is a growth fund founded in 2017. NAP target companies are typically locally or regionally established players with a revenue of DKK 10-150 mio. and with a global potential that can be fulfilled through new sustainable technologies such as energy storage and 3D print. The company is based in Hellerup, Denmark.We arelooking for:
• SME’s based in Northern Europe with 10-150 MDKK in turnover
• A proposition that either “enables” or “leverages” industrial, green or digital transformation.
• Ambitious teams, looking for capital and/or skills to fuel their growth journeyWe offer truly intelligent capital and partnership via:
• Our “hands on” fund management philosophy
• A vast “value creation framework” supporting rapid business acceleration
• Access to leaders and specialists within global Industry transformation
• A fund management team with extensive operational experience across startups, international business scaling, the industry/technology sector and corporate business
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Investment focus
- Energy, Energy Storage, Renewable Energy
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Denmark, Germany, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- SunRoof — Roof of the future
- Mater Design — Founded in Copenhagen in 2006, Mater was created to be the pioneering global brand with sustainability embedded in its core. From the very beginning the ambition was to inspire a global design audience and engage people into sustainable thinking.
- Stabl Energy — Scalable battery storage systems for energy storage in industry and commerce made by STABL Energy help to utilise the full potential of renewable energies.
Transition, a new climate tech venture capital firm that focuses on Seed and Series A startups recently launched.
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Investment focus
- Software, Environmental Consulting, CleanTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- UNIGRID — At UNIGRID, we are dedicated to exploring sodium chemistries that are safe, sustainable, and affordable, for stationary energy storage and e-mobility applications.
- Volter — Volter software offers a comprehensive solution for commercial and industrial property owners to deploy, manage, and improve solar assets.
- 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.
Ulf Bech Christensen is a Biotech entrepreneur.
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Investment focus
- Women's, Sustainability, Industrial Manufacturing
- Angel
- Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- Mewalii — Mewalii is a developer of sustainable disposable pads offering a hygienic life for women. The company manufactures sustainable sanitary napkins and tampons using biodegradable materials like plant fibers to help women have hygienic menstruation away from plastic and harmful chemicals.
Juergen Mayerhofer is the CEO and Founder of Enspired and attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business in 2018. Previously he worked with Eurelectric as Platform Member.
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Investment focus
- Renewable Energy
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- Reel Energy — Reel empowers all companies to procure renewable electricity that makes a real difference for the climate.
BioInnovation Institute is a biotechnology startup that offers entrepreneurs and researchers in life science. Early-stage life science start-ups are supported with up to 10 million DKK in funding, business acceleration, network, labs, and office space. It helps to early-stage start-ups within human health and planetary health. The startup'smission is to use its knowledge, network, funding, and infrastructure to incubate world-class life science and catalyze the commercialization of new solutions through start-ups.BioInnovation Institute was founded in 2018 and is based in Denmark.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Medical, Health Care
- Convertible Note, Pre-Seed, Debt Financing
- Denmark, Germany, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- NorFalk — Explore NorFalk and its new generation surfactants. Discover our specializations and subscribe to our newsletter today.
- ArcanaBio — ArcanaBio is developing realtime biosurveillance solutions that minimize workplace disruptions and support health & wellness
- Fuse Vectors — Fuse Vectors is disrupting the manufacturing process in order to provide universal access to gene therapy.
Human Act is a world-wide development organization.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Cooking, Software
- Pre-Seed
- Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- ChefMe — ChefMe is a peer to peer marketplace making it possible and easy to book private chefs and thus changing the way we host dinner parties and socialize over food
- Contribe.io — Next Generation Sustainability Management System
Nefco accelerates the green transition by providing risk capital to small and medium-sized projects with positive impact on the environment and climate.
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Investment focus
- Energy, Sustainability, Energy Efficiency
- Debt Financing, Funding Round, Post-IPO Debt
- Finland, Sweden, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- SolarLab — SolarLab designs and produces solar facades for new and existing buildings.
- Donkey Republic — Donkey Republic is leading bike share service in Europe with footprint in more than 10 key cities in Europe. We operate our locations with partners, and use custom-branded bikes. Our software backbone is developed by us with unique features that ensure we respect public space with our hub-centric service model. At the same time, we maximizepredictability of bike availability and convenience. We pride ourselves in service innovation.
- Baseload Capital — At Baseload Capital we dream of a planet in balance with resilient societies that run on renewable geothermal energy.
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 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.
- Interhuman — Interhuman is an artificial intelligence company that develops social-aware AI for real-time communication purposes.
North-East was etablished in 2013 in Copenhagen by the founders of the global jewelry brand, Pandora. Today Winnie Liljeborg together with her son, Christian
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Biotechnology, Food Processing
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Denmark, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Endless West — Endless West is a beverage startup using scientific production methods to create its own original blend of wines and spirits. Its winery uses molecules from plants, animals, and substances for taste, smell, and color and combines them to create sustainable wine without any grapes, yeast, or any kind of fermentation. The company's firstproduct, Glyph, is the first aged-style spirit made using flavor and aroma molecules extracted from more efficient sources in nature. Glyph is made without aging or barreling which means significantly less wood, water, and land is used in its production process.Endless West was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
- Reel Energy — Reel empowers all companies to procure renewable electricity that makes a real difference for the climate.
- SNIPR Biome — We are the CRISPR Microbiome Company; Our mission is to develop CRISPR-based medicines that give hope for effective and safe treatment of difficult-to-treat diseases in the future.
VÅR Ventures help founders create sustainable impact.
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Investment focus
- Manufacturing, Biomass Energy, Energy Storage
- Seed, Funding Round
- Denmark, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Hyme Energy — Making green heat for industry accessible. Always. Hyme's solution supports the decarbonisation of industrial heat at large-scale.
- Kvasir Technologies — Kvasir is a AI hedge fund set out to enable investors to benefit from the technological innovations in machine and deep learning.
- 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.
Giant backs purpose-driven founders building companies that matter.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- Pano — Pano offers hardware and software technology solutions for fire professionals to detect threats and respond faster.
- GridFree AI — GridFree AI is redefining computing infrastructure by integrating power generation and energy expertise with cutting-edge data center technology.
- Cosmic Robotics — Autonomous construction on Earth and beyond.
Vsquared Ventures invests in early-stage deep-tech companies that are tackling society's most pressing challenges, with a focus on quantum and novel computing, green energy, robotics, AI/ML, new space, synthetic biology, and healthcare. It is committed to a partnership and will go to any length to help accelerate and scale vision,unlocking all seemingly impossible possibilities.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Semiconductor, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Germany, United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
We help great minds unleash their full potential!
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Investment focus
- Medical Device, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Sweden, Denmark, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- NitroVolt — NitroVolt: the next generational step of sustainable ammonia.
- Serviceform — Welcome to future of communication - the truly all-in-one conversion and management software built for established businesses. Start now!
- Techarena — Since 2014 Techarena is the platform for innovation and Tech in the Nordics. From supporting startups and scaleups to bringing the Tech and Business world together at Scandinavia's Biggest Events.
Root Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm that invests in technical teams working on deep tech. The firm specializes in the fields of financial services, venture capital, and investments.
It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- AllSpice.io — Allspice is a collaboration platform for hardware developers, inspired by software principles. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
- Latent Technology — Latent Technology builds the next-generation animation technology for virtual worlds.
- Zed Industries — Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.
Klaus Oestermann is the CEO of BedRock Systems, an angel investor & Advisor and a former SVP & GM Delivery Networks Division at Citrix Systems.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Computer
- Angel, Seed, Funding Round
- Denmark, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Zigna —
- Nordsense — Nordsense offers a simple and affordable smart waste management solution that optimizes waste collection processes with IoT. Learn more here.
- CloudVolumes — Protect against the dangers of phishing, device vulnerabilities, web threats and more.
Bonfire Ventures leads Seed rounds for business software solutions company founders transforming the industries they target.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, France
Portfolio highlights
- Alvys — Alvys is a cloud-based transportation management system with high-tech automation. Specializing in workflow efficiency for small to mid-size carriers. Alvys stands out by saving carriers and freight brokers more time per load than any other TMS! Save up to 30 minutes per load, organize your operations in one place, scale with ease and integrateall your favorite tools. The proof is in the workflows and here's a sneak peek of our popular features:• Driver App • Tracking & Tracing • Source for Truck Capacity • End-to-End Visibility • One Click Accounting • Analytics & Reporting • Safety & Maintenance • Integrations • Benefits for BrokersTRY US FOR FREE! www.alvys.com
- Supio — Supio is a dependable and precise AI that assists attorneys in obtaining the vital information they require to secure greater settlements for their customers.An engaging AI chatbot to help clients receive the care they require by identifying undiagnosed or untreated symptoms.
- ZeroTier — ZeroTier is the best global networking solution and overlay for IoT infrastructure, SD-WAN, VPN, and remote access.
Thomas Buus Madsen - Partner & Founder @ Bookboon
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Investment focus
- Energy, Industrial, Power Grid
- Seed
- Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Kinnevik is an industry-focused investment company with an entrepreneurial spirit. Its purpose is to build digital consumer businesses that provide more and better choices. The company does this by working in partnership with talented founders and management teams to create, invest in, and lead fast-growing businesses in developed and emergingmarkets.Kinnevik believes in delivering both shareholder and social value by building well-governed companies that contribute positively to society. Kinnevik was founded in 1936 by the Stenbeck, Klingspor, and von Horn families. Kinnevik's shares are listed on Nasdaq Stockholm's list for large-cap companies under the ticker codes KINV A and KINV B.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Health Care, Internet
- Series B, Series C, Funding Round
- United States, Germany, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Aira — Aira operates as a clean energy-tech company.
- TravelPerk — TravelPerk offers the freedom travelers want, and the control companies need. Enjoy an industry-leading travel inventory, 24/7 support and easy booking.
- Mews — Cloud-native, Mews PMS is an innovative hospitality management system that enables automation to boost revenue and empowers remarkable guest experiences.
ACME is a venture capital firm investing in iconic founders disrupting massive markets.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Denmark, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- True Anomaly — True Anomaly Space
- Slync.io — Slync.io is a SaaS operating platform for global shippers and logistics services providers that deliver higher productivity and process efficiency through intelligent automation. Logistics Orchestration® is an end-to-end service offering that revolutionizes costly back-office processes in global logistics operations. Slync.io connects disparatesystems, ingests structured and unstructured datasets, orchestrates teams, and automates processes seamlessly together delivering unprecedented levels of efficiency for logisticians. Slync.io is a provider of process automation for enterprise supply chains and the global logistics industry. Slync.io is Intelligent Process Automation for Global Logistics.Get connected, visit www.slync.io.
- Conceivable Life Sciences — Conceivable Life Sciences is building the first fully automated IVF lab to democratize access to IVF.
Henrik Rosendahl is a serial high-tech entrepreneur living in Napa Valley north of San Francisco, California. He designed and built Napa County’s first permitted off-grid residence in 2010.Henrik served as founding investor and Chairman of CloudVolumes Inc. until the VMware acquisition in 2014. He was CEO of Pancetera acquired by Quantum in 2011.Previously, Rosendahl was director of Application Virtualization at VMware, Inc., and CEO of Thinstall, Inc., from 2006 until its acquisition by VMware in 2008.Earlier in his career, he held executive and senior leadership positions at several technology companies in the U.S. and Europe.
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Investment focus
- Enterprise Software, Internet of Things, Software
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- Nordsense — Nordsense offers a simple and affordable smart waste management solution that optimizes waste collection processes with IoT. Learn more here.
- byFounders — 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.
- Spiio, Inc. — A typical golf course in US uses 45 million gallons of water per year which currently equals to $200k yearly irrigation budget.Golf courses in Southwest US can use 3x that amount with water budgets exceeding $1m.USGA predicts soil moisture sensing can reduce the water consumption by 50-84% compared to the most sophisticated irrigationtechniques used today.70% of the world's water use is irrigation. Founded with sustainability in mind, Spiio aims to be the company with the greatest in-ground dataset in the world, to save water and resources in various agronomic verticals, including agriculture.
Spectrum Impact is a family office committed to using its resources to help solve the problems of society by allocating its for profit and its not-for-profit pools of capital in a manner consistent with the objective of optimizing the total return on investments made.
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Investment focus
- Environmental Consulting, Energy, Renewable Energy
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- India, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Volt14 — Volt14 Solutions develops ultra-high performance materials for Li-ion batteries - which will double the energy density of batteries mass-produced today.Volt14's anodes will boost battery energy density by upto 70% - and such a radical improvement would eliminate range anxiety and $/kWh storage costs by nearly 40%In comparison to otherbattery materials startups, Volt14 uses a wet chemistry approach - meaning a battery producer can use their existing production lines to mass produce our anodes, without any manufacturing bottlenecks.
- ZeroCircle — Zerocircle intend to use seaweed to create bio-alternatives to products that we use in our daily lives and enable organisations to create solutions that are perfectly circular, and leave nothing behind and make a zero waste lifestyle as easy as instant noodles.
- Mooev Technolgies — MOOEV Technologies provides a holistic System Engineering approach to solve key challenges of commercializing electrified heavy-duty vehicles
Jon Erik Reinhardsen is a Norwegian business executive currently holding positions including Chairman of the Board of Equinor ASA, board member of Telenor ASA, and other senior appointments. Reinhardsen was the Chief Executive Officer of Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) from 2008 to 2017, providing geophysical and reservoir services and data.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Energy, Analytics
- Seed
- Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- Aegir Insights — We enable strategic decision-making about offshore wind with powerful commercial tools and bespoke research. Discover our latest insights online.
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!
Accelerating the creation of a sustainable future.
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- Manufacturing, Energy, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Denmark
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- SirenOpt — SirenOpt platforms provide non-destructive, real-time, inline and off-line materials characterization and classification solutions for manufacturers
- MittiLabs — Mitti Labs leverages satellite & AI technology to enable a positive impact for nature & small-holder farming communities
- Aepnus Technology — Aepnus Technology company provides Electrified chemicals for carbon-free future.
The EMD Foundation has set up a high-performance computer cluster with historical weather data for the entire world.
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- Energy, Renewable Energy, Predictive Analytics
- Seed
- Denmark
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- Oktogrid — Electrification is taking place at a rate, where conventional methods for inspection, maintenance, and congestion management no longer match the new energy scenario. Distribution transformers are ageing blind spots today with no access to online, real-time performance data. This is because getting access to data is hard. We have solved this problem.
Foundational partners to ambitious founders at every stage of company-building.
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- Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, India, China
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- FIRE1 — FIRE1 and is based in Dublin, Ireland, will focus on developing novel therapeutic devices.
- Ouro Medicines — Ouroboros Medicines is a biotechnology company that specializes in immunology and focuses on treating long-term immune-mediated illnesses. The company addresses chronic immune-mediated conditions directly by integrating scientific knowledge, a proven history of progressing cell-depleting treatments through clinical trials, and a strong pipeline.
- Orbis Medicines — Orbis Medicines is a novel macrocyclic chemistry and computational platform for high-throughput drug discovery.
Mette Fløe Nielsen
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- Energy, Nuclear, Sustainability
- Funding Round
- Denmark
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- Seaborg Technologies — Seaborg Technologies is making nuclear inexpensive and sustainable in order to fight climate change.
Jonatan Hjortdal
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- Software, Legal Tech, Information Technology
- Seed
- Denmark
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- Juristic — Juristic is the world's most advanced legal visualising tool - and it can automate legal drafting too! Solve complex legal and financial matters in real time. We are developing next-generation tools for advisers.
- Contribe.io — Next Generation Sustainability Management System
Bringing Civility Back to Airports - Propeller Airports is dedicated to investing in, developing, and managing airport infrastructure to provide a best-in-class travel experience.
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- Nuclear, CleanTech, Clean Energy
- Series A
- Denmark
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- Blue Energy — Blue Energy is a nuclear power plant company that provides reliable, clean, and abundant electricity.
Morten Baehrenz - CEO & Co Founder @ Rackbeat
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- SaaS, Software, Sustainability
- Pre-Seed
- Denmark
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- Contribe.io — Next Generation Sustainability Management System
Elewit is a technological platform that promotes innovation in the areas of energy transition and connectivity. It develops the analytical, prescriptive, and cognitive capabilities of the business. Elewit collaborates on the commercialization of SAGA.
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- Energy, Renewable Energy, Predictive Analytics
- Seed
- Denmark
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- Oktogrid — Electrification is taking place at a rate, where conventional methods for inspection, maintenance, and congestion management no longer match the new energy scenario. Distribution transformers are ageing blind spots today with no access to online, real-time performance data. This is because getting access to data is hard. We have solved this problem.
- unusuals — We are unusuals. We are AI. We are automatic detection. Take control of your infrastructure and start saving by unlocking visual data potential.
- Nearby Computing — NearbyComputing commercializes NearbyOne, an Edge IT fabrics orchestration platform that seamlessly manages the lifecycle of infrastructure, the VNFs and the applications, controlling their deployment and associated resources. NearbyOne addresses all these orchestration issues in a holistic and intertwined way. Applications and VNFs provided bythird party ISVs are onboarded to create a rich ecosystem of pre-integrated services, that get deployed in one-click. Service assurance and KPI monitoring are natively integrated into the platform to automatically control service SLAs. Infratructure, Network, Apps and KPIs are managed from a single pane of glass, and smart placement and configuration policies dynamically adjust service levels.
Jeppe Rindom is CEO & Co-founder of Pleo.Before starting Pleo, Jeppe was the CFO of the Danish startup success, Tradeshift and he has been involved as an advisor and investor in several startups and fintech companies.
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- Software, Mobile Apps, B2B
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Denmark, Sweden
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- Finematter — Using technology to help exceptional jewellery designers scale sustainably
- Fullview — Fullview let's you instantly monitor, control and analyze user sessions for faster real time customer support. No downloads. Easy to integrate.
- 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.
Division Q ontwikkeld samen met haar partners technische innovaties om de glastuinbouwsector te verduurzamen.
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- Fuel, AgTech, CleanTech
- Seed
- Denmark
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- NitroVolt — NitroVolt: the next generational step of sustainable ammonia.
North-East Venture is an international, multi-stage fund placed in Copenhagen, Denmark. The fund was launched December 1st 2013.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Fashion
- Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Denmark, United Kingdom, Germany
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- 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.
Founder @ Sitecore, now investor at Nordic Makers. Multiple board positions, nemlig.com, WhiteAway group, Seaborg Technologies.
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- Energy, Nuclear, Sustainability
- Funding Round
- Denmark
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- Seaborg Technologies — Seaborg Technologies is making nuclear inexpensive and sustainable in order to fight climate change.
Heartland engages in the future and invests in areas such as fashion, retail, and technology, sustainability and business innovation, renewables, nature conservation, education and properties.
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- E-Commerce, Food Delivery, Grocery
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Denmark, Canada, Israel
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- Firstfarms — FirstFarms streamline in the operation and development of farming by investing in land for the future production of agricultural products.
- Hyme Energy — Making green heat for industry accessible. Always. Hyme's solution supports the decarbonisation of industrial heat at large-scale.
- Eyeball — Eyeball operates as a digital platform for youth football.
We build and invest in ventures with bold entrepreneurs and corporates, all dedicated to building a positive future. Become a founder / Submit your pitch!
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- Sports, Fitness, Analytics
- Pre-Seed
- Denmark, Germany
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- aescolab — aescolab analyzes the blood values that are most important for your professional life, your sporting activities, your daily routine, and your family life.
- Ejendom.com — Ejendom.com offers a platform on operation,renovation and CO2 calculations to make the right sustainable and economic decision for property.
Ekaterina is a Venture Partner at Calm/Storm, the most active early-stage digital health investor in Europe. Ekaterina spent the past decade in venture capital as a former General Partner at Inventure, a leading seed investor in the Nordics, where she led investments across a spectrum of domains, including digital health, enterprise softwareand conscious consumption. She also set up and led Inventure's First Cheque programme, focusing on angel and pre-seed rounds. Prior to her tenure at Inventure, Ekaterina was part of the team that scaled Fjord, a prominent design and innovation firm that was later acquired by Accenture Interactive. An operator turned VC, she wants to be among the first investors to team up with founders, supporting them in shaping their teams and GTM strategies.
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- Health Care, Medical, Medical Device
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Finland, Denmark, France
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- Yeply — Yeply Mobile Bike Service is a start-up that specializes in bicycle maintenance. Yeply’s ideology is that bicycle maintenance should be an easy, quick, and effortless experience for the customer. It believes that every bike is worth caring for and they value every cyclist equally - cycling belongs to everyone.It was founded in 2016 and isheadquartered in Helsinki, Finland.
- Bahn Express — Fast and Effortless Car Transport
- 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.
The EQT Foundation supports entrepreneurs, researchers, and non-profits to build a regenerative and more inclusive tomorrow.
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- AgTech, Farming, Agriculture
- Seed
- Malaysia
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- NitroVolt — NitroVolt: the next generational step of sustainable ammonia.
- Qarbotech — QarboGrow Photosynthesis Enhancer Sustainable and Efficient Farming Uncover the significance of photosynthesis and learn how our product can enhance it to new heights! Learn More https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCp_pY8CzLg Curious about how our patented nanotechnology-based solution revolutionizes photosynthesis? What is photosynthesis and why is it inefficient? Photosynthesis is nature's remarkable process, where plants harness the power of sunlight
- Concert Bio — Concert Bio helps businesses manage their microbiome. We combine monitoring with analytics to develop interventions that improve the microbiome that matters to you. Our pilot program for CEA growers is currently live and accepting partners, see website for details.
European Investment Bank (EIB) provides lending, borrowing, and treasury services primarily in the European Union.The company offers project loans for the public and private sectors; loans to banks and other intermediaries; structured finance products; guarantees and securitization instruments for senior and subordinated debts; project bonds;equity and fund investment products such as infrastructure equity and debt funds, and environmental funds; and venture capital funds and security packages for funds.The company also offers microfinance; risk sharing finance for research, development, and innovation projects; finance and technical expertise for sustainable energy projects; infrastructure project advisory services; support for urban development projects; guarantees for transport infrastructure; and funding for public-private partnerships and small- and medium-sized enterprises.EIB serves the transportation, global loans, energy, industry, health, education, water, sewerage, infrastructure, services, telecommunications, agriculture, and fisheries sectors.European Investment Bank was founded in 1958 and is based in Luxembourg.
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Energy
- Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Funding Round
- France, Germany, The Netherlands
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- GEWOBA — GEWOBA is a real estate company that manages and provides a diverse portfolio of rental real estate apartments and properties.
- Acea — Acea operates in six business segments. The water segment collects, purchases, transports and distributes drinking water, and manages the sewerage system and the purification of wastewaters. The company serves 9 million residents served in Lazio, Tuscany, Umbria, Molise and Campania; The energy segment manages the transmission and distributesroughly 9 TWh of electricity, public lighting; commercial and trading segment activities include energy management, sale of electricity and gas, energy efficiency for domestic customers. The company is targeting growth in electricity generation from renewable (photovoltaic) sources and in electric mobility, with a view to effectively contributing more and more to the energy transition and decarbonisation. The environment segment provides laboratory, research and related consultancy services on the environment and control functions within the water cycle; engineering services and overseas operations providing water services in Latin America.
- TactoTek — Set your imagination free and create user experiences with the help of sustainable smart molded structures.
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