# Top 50 Sustainability Startup Investors in Denmark in June 2026 ## The Footprint Firm - Type: VC Fund - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 14 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Renewable Energy, Energy Management The Footprint Firm is an advisory and investment company with a sole focus on sustainability. ## Vaekstfonden - Type: VC Fund - Location: Hellerup, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 9 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS 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. ## Export and Investment Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Hellerup, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 8 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care 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. ## UVC Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS 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. ## Antler - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now! ## Transition - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Sustainability, CleanTech Transition, a new climate tech venture capital firm that focuses on Seed and Series A startups recently launched. ## Christian Bach - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Developer Tools Christian Bach is the President & Co-founder of Netlify. ## Nupark Accelerace - Type: VC Fund - Location: Holstebro, Midtjylland, Denmark - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Solar, Energy, Mobile Nupark Accelerace finances entrepreneurial businesses and is a Denmark-based investment company. ## PSV - Type: VC Fund - Location: Lyngby, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS PSV cares about a conscious future. As a venture house, our mission is to clear the path for founders who build companies that matter. Our hybrid setup, comprising PSV Foundry, PSV Lab, and two unique venture funds, PSV Tech and PSV Hafnium, sets us free from adhering to a singular method. Rather we rethink existing ways and models to maximise our impact beyond any individual firm or investment. Together, we can punch above our weight. ## Vsquared Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Semiconductor, Manufacturing 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. ## Jacob Wolff-Petersen - Type: Angel - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Renewable Energy, Environmental Consulting Jacob Wolff-Petersen is the founder of SteelSeries, a leading manufacturer of peripherals for gaming and electronic sports (eSports), including headsets, keyboards, mice, mouse pads and mouse accessories. ## Nefco - Type: VC Fund - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt - Focus: Energy, Sustainability, Energy Efficiency Nefco accelerates the green transition by providing risk capital to small and medium-sized projects with positive impact on the environment and climate. ## Ulf Bech Christensen - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Women's, Sustainability, Industrial Manufacturing Ulf Bech Christensen is a Biotech entrepreneur. ## VÅR Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Hellerup, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Manufacturing, Biomass Energy, Energy Storage VÅR Ventures help founders create sustainable impact. ## Rincon Venture Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Santa Barbara, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, SaaS, Analytics 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. ## BackingMinds - Type: VC Fund - Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: SaaS, Software, Agriculture We help great minds unleash their full potential! ## Giant Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence Giant backs purpose-driven founders building companies that matter. ## BioInnovation Institute - Type: VC Fund - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Convertible Note, Pre-Seed, Debt Financing - Focus: Biotechnology, Medical, Health Care 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. ## Human Act - Type: VC Fund - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: SaaS, Cooking, Software Human Act is a world-wide development organization. ## Root Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning 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. ## Juergen Mayerhofer - Type: Angel - Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Renewable Energy 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. ## Yara Growth Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Oslo, Oslo, Norway - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series B, Series A, Seed - Focus: AgTech, Agriculture, FinTech Yara Growth Ventures is the venture investment team within Yara International ASA. The Yara Growth Ventures team invests in disruptive startups in the agri-food industry globally in order to advance the mission of responsibly feeding the world and protecting the planet. Learn more at www.yaragrowthventures.com ## Bo Wase - Type: Angel - Location: Skanderborg, Midtjylland, Denmark - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Renewable Energy Bo Wase is chairman of InCommodities. ## North-East Family Office - Type: VC Fund - Location: Hellerup, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Food Processing North-East Family Office was etablished in 2013 in Copenhagen by the founders of the global jewelry brand, Pandora. Today Winnie Liljeborg together with her ## Spectrum Impact - Type: VC Fund - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Environmental Consulting, Energy, Renewable Energy 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. ## Heartland - Type: VC Fund - Location: Aarhus, Midtjylland, Denmark - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Food Delivery, Grocery 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. ## Ekaterina Gianelli - Type: Angel - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Health Care, Medical, Medical Device 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. ## EQt Foundation - Type: VC Fund - Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: AgTech, Farming, Agriculture The EQT Foundation supports entrepreneurs, researchers, and agents of change to bring frontier innovation from lab to market. ## Momenta - Type: VC Fund - Location: Engelberg, Obwalden, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things Momenta is the leading Industrial Impact® venture capital firm, accelerating industrial innovators across energy, manufacturing, smart spaces, and the supply chain. For over a decade, our team of deep industry operators has helped scale industry leaders and innovators to improve critical industries, the environment, and people's quality oflife. PitchBook has ranked Momenta as one of the ten best-performing venture capital firms for 2023 in its prestigious Global Manager Performance Score League Tables, and the firm is the only European-headquartered VC to secure a Top 10 spot on the list. ## Mickey Switzer Schubert-Suell - Type: Angel - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Energy, Industrial, Power Grid Mickey Switzer Schubert-Suell - CPO @ Tame ## Notion Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS Notion Capital is a VC firm focused on European SaaS and Cloud. ## Engine Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Biotechnology, Chemical, Medical We invest in Tough Tech founders. ## Helen Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Renewable Energy, SaaS, CleanTech Helen has signed a service agreement, through which the management of CVC portfolio companies will be transferred to Redstone Nordics starting from June 1, 2025. As part of this change, the Helen Ventures team will join Redstone's expert organization. ## Climentum Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: CleanTech, Clean Energy, Biotechnology A Venture Capital firm investing into European early-stage tech companies attacking CO2 emissions ## Korys - Type: VC Fund - Location: Halle, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Biotechnology, Information Technology, Renewable Energy Korys is the name chosen by the Colruyt family for their investment structure. The name Korys is derived from the Latin word for hazelnut tree – Corylus - which is at the origin of the Colruyt name.Their multi-disciplinary approach enables us to create a well-balanced, diversified portfolio of listed stocks and bonds, private equity funds, anddirect participations in small and medium-sized companies. Through their investments, they aim to make a positive impact on people and the planet, while generating attractive returns. A “three P” approach (People, Planet, Profit) forms the cornerstone of their investment strategy. They invest for the long term, as they realize that it takes time to achieve the sustainable impact they are aiming for. They focus their investments in sectors in which they have built substantial expertise as a team: Cleantech, consumer goods & retail and life sciences. ## Sune Alstrup - Type: Angel - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision Tech Investor and Entrepreneur, former Founder & CEO at The Eye Tribe ## Tamarack Global - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Aerospace, Clean Energy, CleanTech Tamarack Global operates as an investment firm that invests in new markets and new economies. The frim specializes in the fields of finance, financial services, and hedge funds. ## Eneco Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Renewable Energy, Energy, Energy Management Eneco Ventures, the investment arm of Netherlands-based energy innovator, Eneco. ## The Index Project - Type: VC Fund - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Chemical, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS Design to improve life is about solving real problems, small and large, simple and complex, systemic and emerging and is a life-long pursuit. The Index Project is a call to action. Are you in? ## Breakthrough Energy Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Energy, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing Focused on developing and deploying the critical climate solutions our world needs to reach net-zero emissions by 2050. ## Starlight Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Miami, Florida, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Biotechnology, Energy, Health Care Starlight is a venture capital firm for founders addressing the world’s most pressing challenges & opportunities. We partner early with unstoppable entrepreneurs leveraging breakthrough science and technology to pursue progress at scale in four main areas: the energy transition, industrializing synthetic biology, space technology, and novelcomputing & communications platforms.Starlight was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Miami, Florida. ## Anorak Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Virtual Reality, Information Technology Anorak Ventures is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco investing in seed-stage technology companies. ## Tony Kula - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Energy, Industrial, Power Grid Tony Kula - Founder & CEO @ MEETYOO ## Lasse Stokholm - Type: Angel - Location: Frederiksberg, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Energy, Industrial, Power Grid Lasse Stokholm is the Co-Founder and CEO of Zenfit. He attended Copenhagen Business School in 2016. ## byFounders - Type: VC Fund - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile Apps 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. ## Mist Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Lund, Skane Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software They invest in the pre-seed/seed stages of scalable technology-based companies aiming for large international markets. The business shall be able to operate long term, with a core of future-proof technologies.Mist Ventures invests in technology-based companies (deep tech) based on proprietary technology superior to to competition. ## Revent - Type: VC Fund - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care Revent is a tech fund backing purpose-driven founders addressing the biggest challenges of our time. ## Nordic Eye Venture Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, SaaS International venture capital firm based in Copenhagen. We come from the North, but we work in the world. We are Fiftyfive Capital. ## Klaus Oestermann - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel, Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Computer Klaus Oestermann is the CEO of BedRock Systems, an angel investor & Advisor and a former SVP & GM Delivery Networks Division at Citrix Systems. ## Voyager Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Manufacturing, Software, Energy Accelerating the creation of a sustainable future.