# Top 50 Education Startup Investors in Denmark in May 2026

## Vaekstfonden
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hellerup, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 8
- 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.

## North-East Venture
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Fashion

North-East Venture is an international, multi-stage fund placed in Copenhagen, Denmark. The fund was launched December 1st 2013.

## Innovation Fund Denmark
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Grant, Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

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.

## David Helgason
- Type: Angel
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Gaming, Information Technology

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.

## Nordic Makers
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Education, Information Technology

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.

## Klaus Nyengaard
- Type: Angel
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Apps

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.

## Thomas Visti
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Angel, Grant
- Focus: Robotics, Software, Manufacturing

Thomas Visti - CEO @ Mobile Industrial Robots

## Kasper Grundtvig Knokgaard
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Fashion, E-Commerce, Education

Kasper Knokgaard joined EQT Partners in August 2007 and has since worked in the Copenhagen, New York and Munich offices.Prior to joining EQT Partners, Mr Knokgaard worked with McKinsey & Co., latest as Engagement Manager, in the Copenhagen office. Mr Knokgaard mainly focused on private equity and corporate finance related projects.MrKnokgaard holds a B.Sc. and a M.Sc. in Business Administration and Management Science from Copenhagen Business School. During his study he also spent one semester at IIMA in India and participated in a 2 month entrepreneurial program in Silicon Valley, California.

## Kickass Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Sports, Content, Cooking

Kickass Capital invests in extraordinary entrepreneurs with unique technologies that will define the next era of innovation.
They go in at POC stage, with ca$h ($200k-2M), support and our extensive network.

## Greg Moga
- Type: Angel
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: EdTech, Internet, Software

Greg Moga is a Member of the Advisory Board at National Geographic.

## Northzone
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology

Northzone is a venture capital fund with a perspective shaped by lives as entrepreneurs. Since 1996, they've made over 175 investments and invest from Seed to Growth. They've partnered with the founders of Spotify, Avito, iZettle, Klarna, Hopin, and hundreds of others to build category-defining businesses. They've raised €1bn inSeptember 2022.

## Alexander Aghassipour
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Founder at Zendesk.

## Mia Wagner
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: EdTech, Finance, Women's

Mia Wagner

## Anders Holch Povlsen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Secondary Market
- Focus: E-Commerce, Fashion, Education

Anders Holch Povlsen is the CEO at Bestseller.

## Emerge Education
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Education, EdTech, E-Learning

Emerge Education is a European seed fund investing in founders solving the $8.5tn skills gap. Emerge provides founders with unrivalled education sector insights, as they're the only fund backed by the world’s foremost education entrepreneurs.

## Sparkmind.vc
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Education, EdTech, E-Learning

Sparkmind.vc is the first Nordic venture capital company focused on the learning sector. The company invests in teams transforming early childhood, K12, higher, secondary and vocational education as well as corporate and lifelong learning. The investment sweet spot of the company is from seed to international growth phase with single investments upto €5m.

## Thorvald Stigsen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Denmark, South Carolina, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: EdTech, Education, E-Learning

Thorvald Stigsen has a background in software development and founded Skygate in 1992 to offer software solutions for the travel sector.With the development of Travel Management solutions and MIS tools he received the European Award in Information Technology for Excellence in converting results from information technology research to innovativeproducts for the marketplace.In 2006 he founded Momondo, a meta-search for flights that has received market recognition for its broad search and coverage.In 2010 Momondo was acquired by Cheapflights Media and Thorvald Stigsen joined the board.

## PreSeed Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lyngby, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

PreSeed Ventures is the biggest and most succesful early stage investor in Denmark. For more than 20 years, PreSeed Ventures have assisted and financed talented entrepreneurs with early-stage investments, and we hold more than 70 companies in our portfolio.

## Fiona Pathiraja
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Wellness

Fiona is Managing Partner at Crista Galli Ventures, an early stage healthtech VC fund based in London and Copenhagen.

## Susanne Brønnum
- Type: Angel
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Apps, Internet

Susanne Brønnum (born 1969, Danish nationality) first joined Nets in 1990 and has been Group Executive Vice President (Financial & Network Services) since 2010. Susanne Brønnum holds an academy profession degree in Financial Management from Copenhagen Business School and has completed The General Manager Programme at Harvard BusinessSchool.

## Project A Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology

Project A is an early-stage venture capital firm, combining financial and operational support for technology companies. In addition to $600 M in assets under management, Project A provides its portfolio companies with a wide range of operational support services. This includes more than 100 experts from key areas such as software engineering,business intelligence, marketing, and recruiting. The portfolio includes companies such as Trade Republic, sennder, KRY, Catawiki, WorldRemit, Spryker, and Voi.

## True Growth Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Internet, Software, Financial Services

True Growth is a Berlin-based group of founders who actively invest into outstanding entrepreneurs. Over the past two decades, we have built several internationally leading companies and sold them to global players. We leverage our operational experience and dedicate a significant amount of time to supporting our portfolio companies.

## Scale Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Apps

Scale Capital is an early-stage venture fund investing in digitalization and disruptive technologies within B2B with a focus on the Nordic region with the potential and ambition to win in the US market.

## 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

## Tommy Ahlers
- Type: Angel
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Analytics, Social Media, SaaS

Tommy Ahlers is a Danish serial entrepreneur and CEO of the Danish software startup, Podio, which Tommy joined Podio as CEO and angel investor in August 2010. Podio connects work processes and interactions in an online environment, Prior to joining Podio, Tommy Ahlers founded the networking and mobile backup site ZYB in 2005 and sold it toVodafone Europe BV for nearly $50m in May 2008. Ahlers holds a masters degree in law from the University of Copenhagen, graduating in 2000 and was previously with McKinsey & Company for more than four years, where he served as an engagement manager.Ahlers is a regular on the technology startup conference circuit, speaking at the likes of Mobile 2.0 Europe, DLD, the European Directory Marketplace Conference and TheNextWeb.

## Jakob Bendsen
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, FinTech, Education

Jakob Bendsen

## Louise Ertman Baunsgaard
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, FinTech, Education

Louise Ertman Baunsgaard

## Ilya Katsnelson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: EdTech, Internet, Software

Ilya Katsnelson

## Morten Møller Holst
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, FinTech, Education

Morten Møller Holst

## Ulrich Slothuus
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: EdTech, Tutoring, Education

Ulrich Slothuus

## Kennet Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software

Kennet - We partner with Founders and teams of successful, capital efficient SaaS and tech-enabled services companies ready to take the next big jump.

## Balderton Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

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.

## Danske Bank
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Post-IPO Debt, Debt Financing
- Focus: Biotechnology, Apps, Payments

Danske Bank is a Nordic universal bank offering a full range of banking services. It was founded 5 October 1871 as Den Danske Landmandsbank, Hypothek- og Vexelbank i Kjøbenhavn (The Danish Farmers' Bank, Mortgage and Exchange Bank of Copenhagen). It is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark and is one of the major retail banks in the northernEuropean region with over 5 million retail customers.Danske Bank was number 454 on the Fortune Global 500 list for 2011.

## NAVER Z
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, 3D Technology, Gaming

The official corporate website of NAVER Z Corporation

## Seed Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, SaaS

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.

## Kamet Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series C
- Focus: SaaS, EdTech, Hospital

Kamet Capital Partners

## Daniel Laursen
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: EdTech, Tutoring, Education

Daniel Laursen

## 10x Value Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

10x Value Partners is one of the world‘s best early stage investment firms based on blended IRR. We make selected investments in companies where we can move the needle and provide an unfair advantage to the business.

## Erik Byrenius
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Security, Information Technology

Erik Byrenius is the co-founder of Trellis Road, supporting and investing in high-impact foodtech entrepreneurs. He also runs StartupTools.org, a pro bono initiative with free guides and legal document templates for startups and investors.Previously he was the CEO and co-founder of European online food ordering company OnlinePizza (exit toDelivery Hero) and co-founded angel syndicate Nordic Makers.

## Susquehanna Growth Equity
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Private Equity, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Susquehanna Growth Equity is a private equity and venture capital firm focused on growth and expansion-stage companies. The firm primarily invests in software and tech-enabled businesses in North America, Israel, and Western Europe. Areas of focus include enterprise software/SaaS, financial technology, supply chain/logistics, internet,healthcare technology, security infrastructure, human resources technology, and lending technology. The firm invests $5-$100+ million in companies with $5-$100+ million of revenue.

## Index Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet

Index Ventures is an international venture capital firm with dual headquarters in San Francisco and London, investing in technology-enabled companies with a focus on e-commerce, fintech, mobility, gaming, infrastructure/AI, and security.

## Tommy Andersen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, EdTech, Virtual World

Tommy Andersen is the founder and Managing Partner of byFounders.

## Green Visor Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Green Visor Capital invests in, and works with, passionate entrepreneurs that use innovative technology to solve substantive issues in financial services and do so in a socially responsible manner, which we believe will generate large-scale shareholder value.Green Visor Capital was launched in late 2013 and its general partners include JoeSaunders, the former Chairman and CEO of Visa, Inc., the world's largest payments company.

## Infosys
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Analytics

Infosys is a provider of consulting, technology, and outsourcing, and next-generation services. Infosys enables clients in more than 50 countries to outperform the competition and stay ahead of the innovation curve. With US$9.02 bn in LTM Q2 FY16 revenues and 187,000+ employees, Infosys is helping enterprises renew themselves while also creatingnew avenues to generate value. Infosys provides enterprises with strategic insights on what lies ahead. Infosys help enterprises transform and thrive in a changing world through strategic consulting, operational leadership and the co-creation of breakthrough solutions, including those in mobility, sustainability, big data and cloud computing. In 1981, seven engineers started Infosys Limited with just US$250. From the beginning, the company was founded on the principle of building and implementing great ideas that drive progress for clients and enhance lives through enterprise solutions. For over three decades, Infosys has been a company focused on bringing to life great ideas and enterprise solutions that drive progress for our clients. Infosys recognizes the importance of nurturing relationships that reflect their culture of unwavering ethics and mutual respect. It’ll come as no surprise, then, that 97.6 percent (as of September 30, 2015) of our revenues come from existing clients. Infosys has a growing global presence with more than 187,000+ employees. Globally, Infosys has 85 sales and marketing offices and 100 development centers as of March 31, 2015. At Infosys, they believe their responsibilities extend beyond business. That is why Infosys established the Infosys Foundation – to provide assistance to some of the more socially and economically depressed sectors of the communities in which they work and that is why they behave ethically and honestly in all their interactions – with their clients, their partners, and their employees.

## Hampus Jakobsson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Malmö, Skane Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Artificial Intelligence

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.

## Learn Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Mateo, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Education, EdTech, E-Learning

LearnCapital is a venture capital firm focused exclusively on funding entrepreneurs with a vision for better and smarter learning. They believe that the future is shaped by the way we teach and learn in the present, and that we’re in the middle of one of the great revolutions in the history of education. New technology platforms, applications, andservices are not only amplifying and augmenting classroom learning, but creating a world in which any Internet-enabled device can become a classroom on demand.

## Christian Jantzen
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Danish angel investor, based in London.

## GGV Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

We believe the talent to build great companies comes from anywhere. A global venture capital firm that invests in local founders. As a multi-stage, sector-focused firm, GGV focuses on seed- to growth-stage investments across Social/Internet, Enterprise Tech, and Smart Tech sectors.

## Maj Invest Equity
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series C
- Focus: Financial Services, Finance, FinTech

Maj Invest is one of Denmark’s leading asset management companies, managing assets for primarily institutional clients. The Maj Invest group was established in 2005 and is today owned by employees, management and Danish institutional investors PKA, Realdania and PBU.The group comprises six companies: Maj Invest Holding A/S,Fondsmæglerselskabet Maj Invest A/S, Maj Invest Equity A/S and three companies related to international private equity funds. Click here for more information about their legal structure.They have two main business areas: Asset Management and Private Equity.In Asset Management they provide advice on strategic asset allocation and asset management of securities listed on regulated markets for institutional clients and the mutual funds Investeringsforeningen Maj Invest in Denmark and Maj Invest Funds in Luxembourg. They also offer wealth management services to wealthy individuals, companies and funds.Their Investor Relations & Markets department primarily handles Fondsmæglerselskabet Maj Invest A/S' client relations and supplies distributors with information on Investeringsforeningen Maj Invest and Maj Invest Funds.In Private Equity they act as advisors to private equity funds on their investments in unlisted equities in Denmark and abroad. In Denmark they advise four private equity funds and provide discretionary investment advisory services to clients on private equity portfolios. In the international part of their private equity business they advise three private equity funds on their investments in Vietnam, within microfinance and within energy and fertilizers.

## Societe Generale
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
- Focus: Software, Energy, Manufacturing

Societe Generale is one of the European financial services groups. Based on a diversified and integrated banking model, the Group combines financial strength and proven expertise in innovation with a strategy of sustainable growth, aiming to be the trusted partner for its clients, committed to the positive transformations of the world.Active inthe real economy for over 150 years, with a solid position in Europe and connected to the rest of the world, Societe Generale employs over 149,000 members of staff in 67 countries and supports on a daily basis 31 million individual clients, businesses and institutional investors around the world. The Group offers a wide range of advisory services and tailored financial solutions to secure transactions, protect and manage assets and savings, and help its clients finance their projects. Societe Generale seeks to protect them in both their day-to-day life and their professional activities, offering the innovative services and solutions they require. The Group’s mission is to empower each and everyone who wants to have a positive impact on the future.

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