# Top 50 Marketplace Angel Investors in Denmark in May 2026

## Esben Gadsbøll
- Type: Angel
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile Apps

Esben Gadsbøll - Founder @ Woolspire

## Klaus Nyengaard
- Type: Angel
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 4
- 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.

## Jesper Buch
- Type: Angel
- Location: Marbella, Andalucia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Mobile Apps, Internet, Software

Jesper book is the Seed Investor at DIBB Design.

## Mikal Hallstrup
- Type: Angel
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Lifestyle, E-Commerce

Mikal H. is the Co-founder at Offset Motorcycles. He attneded Arkitektskolen Aarhus.

## Anders Boelskifte Mogensen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Aarhus, Midtjylland, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Lifestyle, E-Commerce

Anders Boelskifte Mogensen

## Thomas Ryge Mikkelsen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Beauty, Fashion

Thomas Ryge Mikkelsen is an Investor and Chairman at Nøie.

## Hampus Jakobsson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Malmö, Skane Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## Lasse Meilsoe
- Type: Angel
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Retail, Aerospace

Lasse Meilsoe is the Co-Founder, Board Member, and Senior VP Business Development at 777 Partners Aviation IT Solutions.

## 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.

## Tommy Ahlers
- Type: Angel
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## Christian Schwarz Lausten
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Lifestyle, E-Commerce

Christian Schwarz Lausten

## Henrik Lindemann
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Art, iOS, Android

Henrik Lindemann

## Martin Lykke Suhr
- Type: Angel
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Retail, Fashion

Martin Lykke Suhr is the Co-Founder of GamerPay. He attended Y Combinator.

## Leonard Picardo
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: EdTech, Software, E-Commerce

Leonard Picardo joined the London office of Index in 2011, as an Associate in the Growth team.Previously, Leonard was a consultant at Oliver Wyman, where he worked cross-sector with clients in the US, Europe and the Middle East on topics ranging from growth strategies to operational improvement. There, Leonard also worked with The VenturePartnership Foundation, a grant-making foundation dedicated to supporting social entrepreneurs.Leonard start working life within the Aerodynamics department of the Redbull Formula 1 racing team.Leonard holds a 1st class Masters in Mechanical Engineering from Cambridge University where he was a Scholar and also a Business Masters from Collège des Ingénieurs, Paris. He has also lived in Japan.

## Matt Billmann Christensen
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Developer Tools, Information Technology

Matt Biilmann is the CEO and Co-founder of Netlify.

## Fredrik Björk
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Analytics, SaaS

Fredrik Björk is Founder & CEO at Grafbase. He attended Rochester Institute of Technology.

## Nicolaj Reffstrup
- Type: Angel
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Fashion, Security

Nicolaj Reffstrup is the Founder of Ganni. She attended Copenhagen Business School and IT-Universitetet i København.

## Nikolaj Coster Waldau
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Guides, Lifestyle, E-Commerce

Nikolaj Coster Waldau

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

Daniel Laursen

## Christian Bach
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Developer Tools

Christian Bach is the President & Co-founder of Netlify.

## Sophia Bendz
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Apps

Sophia Bendz - Partner @ Cherry Ventures

## Serge Chiaramonte
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce

Serge Chiaramonte

## Andrea T. Orlando
- Type: Angel
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Marketplace, SaaS

Andrea T. Orlando is the Managing Partner in Italy at Startup Wise Guys.

## Ian Hogarth
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care

Ian got a master's in machine learning at Cambridge and loves dystopian robot takeover narratives. Seven years ago, Ian realized being a choirboy came with no street cred, so he started DJing hip-hop, funk, drum & bass, and grime. Ian quit his job at Bain & Company, Singapore to start Songkick.

## Nicolaj Nielsen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

Nicolaj nielsen is an investor at IDUN audio. attended INSEAD MBA, General Management.

## Kristian Schrøder Hart-Hansen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Beauty, Cosmetics, E-Commerce

Kristian Schrøder Hart-Hansen is a CEO of Astrup Gods A/S.

## Christian Stadil
- Type: Angel
- Location: Denmark, South Carolina, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Social Media, EBooks

My core business philosophy is built on the idea of thinking “we before me” – to move from a narrow perspective and to think of the bigger picture. Therefore it may appear quite contradictory to launch a personal website which, regardless of perspective, revolves and turns around one self. But my aim with this website is to branch out beyondmy usual activities, while simultaneously using the site as a digital connection to my businesses within the Thornico Group (www.Thornico.com). Within this company we are involved in shipping, technology, the food industry, real estate, fashion and sports. All the mentioned companies share the core values of Company karma. This site should give an insight into what inspirations that lies behind the value based approach and the way we overall do business in the Thornico group. Hopefully, the website also provides a needlepoint into what has shaped and formed my other more private lifestyle choicesIn addition to this, the site will function as a distribution network in terms of information and news in regards to my books, when and where I give lectures and talks. I will share content, interests, personal thoughts and sources of inspiration here.

## Rodrigo Martinez
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Developer APIs

Rodrigo joined Point Nine Cap after finishing his MBA at London Business School in 2013. Before that, he was a Summer Associate at Index Ventures in London and worked as a Senior Strategy Consultant at PwC in Madrid. As a Telecom Engineer by training, Rodrigo spends a lot of time with all kinds of geeky stuff - including developer tools, machinelearning, blockchain, etc.

## Bjarke Staun-Olsen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Blockchain, E-Commerce

Bjarke Klinge Staun is a Principal at Creandum, a leading European early stage venture capital firm with a portfolio that includes Spotify, iZettle and Vivino.After starting his career at Goldman Sachs, Bjarke co-founded Alipes in 2008. Alipes is a technology company that never left stealth, as it became profitable very fast, has grownorganically and has a very specialized product. The company uses machine learning and natural language processing to automatically read financial news and generate insights about the stock market. The company has about 20 employees in Copenhagen, most of them machine learning, physics and computer science PhDs.After running Alipes for 6 years, Bjarke left active management to his two co-founders in 2014, and is now a proud board member and shareholder. He then ran Vaniday in Berlin, a Rocket Internet funded global beauty and wellness marketplace, before joining Creandum.At Creandum, Bjarke spends a lot of time on the machine learning and AI space, as well as on Fintech.

## Will Neale
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Founder (Grabyo, Fonix). Investor.

## Michael Pennington
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services

One of the UK's leading tech angel investors. Active seed and pre-seed stage angel investor in UK based disruptive tech. Prefers businesses venturing into pastures new and keen investing at the pre product stage whether BtoC or B2B.
Twice exited UK based tech entrepreneur with experience operating tech businesses in 20 countries in multiplelanguages. Co-founded Gumtree with Simon Crookall which was acquired by Ebay and Slando acquired by Naspers.

## Herman Kienhuis
- Type: Angel
- Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet

Founder and managing partner of River Venture Partners angel syndicate. Venture partner at VC firm Newio. Tech investor focused on early-stage investments in B2B software companies in Northern Europe. Supporting investors and entrepreneurs in building digital businesses that change people's lives. Former chemical engineer, strategist, digitalproduct development executive, founder of SanomaVentures and Managing Director of KPN Ventures.

## Kim Mikkelsen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Peer to Peer

Kim Mikkelsen - Chief Executive Officer @ Strategic Capital

## Preben Damgaard
- Type: Angel
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Food and Beverage

Preben Damgaard - Director @ Axcess A/S

## Jesper Johansen
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Hospitality, Restaurants

Jesper Johansen - Partner @ DKA Capital

## Nicolas Dessaigne
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Developer Tools

Nicolas is a firm believer of “culture-first” companies and am focused on building just that at Algolia where team empowerment is how they accomplish their goals. Prior to co-founding Algolia with Julien, he spent over 12 years working on information retrieval at Exalead and Thales.At Algolia they believe every website and app deserves greatsearch! they offer a hosted Search API that helps developers deliver an instant and relevant search experience. We’ve seen that search is a great touch point to optimize – they regularly see double digit increases in engagement on sites when they improve their search UX.When they founded Algolia in 2012 it was originally going to be a local SDK for mobile app search. They changed direction and realized that they needed to offer search as a hosted SaaS service, but it was those early mobile optimizations that gave us their unique advantage. They are one of the few search solutions that has been developed from scratch, and they never would have gone that direction if they hadn’t originally been focused on mobile search.His focus has been first and foremost on making Algolia a great place to work. They have a unique culture here that values ownership as its pillar. They want to create a company where every team member takes initiative, gets out of their comfort zone, is empowered to make decisions; in short: be free to be their best.He is recently spoken at SaaStock on the challenges of running a company based in both Paris and San Francisco. His priority lately has been on scaling their growth and ramping up their team size.

## Daniel Agger
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Guides, Lifestyle, E-Commerce

Daniel Agger

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

Ulrich Slothuus

## 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.

## Anthony Casalena
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, iOS

Anthony Casalena is the Founder and CEO of Squarespace, which he started from his dorm room in 2003. During the company’s early years, Anthony acted as the sole engineer, designer, and support representative for the entire Squarespace platform, allowing for it to be a stable business from the outset.In addition to his main responsibilities inrunning the company and setting overall product strategy, he remains actively involved in the engineering, design, and product teams within the organization. Anthony holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Maryland.

## Pia Vemmelund
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sealand, Surrey, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Local, Travel, Software

Pia joined Momondo A/S in 2007 as Commercial Manager with responsibility for Sales, Online Marketing, Finance and Administration. She was promoted to Managing Director in mid 2012 following Thorvald Stigsen's move to a non-executive Group role.Pia has over 25 years' experience in the travel industry. Prior to Momondo she spent 19years with Scandinavian airline, SAS, in a variety of roles including Director Commercial Intelligence & Sales Support.

## Matthew Ryan
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Personalization, Video on Demand, Video Advertising

Matthew Ryan

## Kåre Sand
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Retail, Sports, Cycling

Kåre Sand

## Robin Daniels
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mountain View, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Security, Software, Lifestyle

Robin Daniels is a Scout for Great Companies and Great Talent at Sequoia Capital. He attended Niels Brock.

## Thorbjorn Ronje
- Type: Angel
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Finance, Software, Consulting

Serial entrepreneur

## Bjørn Bruun
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Cooking, Marketplace, Restaurants

Bjørn Bruun

## Tom Ryan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Music, E-Commerce, Mobile

Tom Ryan is CEO and Co-Founder of Pluto TV, the leading free streaming television service in America that is also available in 22 countries across Europe and Latin America. Pluto TV carries and programs more than 250 live channels and thousands of on-demand movies and TV shows in partnership with hundreds of major TV networks, movie studios,publishers, and digital media companies. Each month over 36 million viewers tune in to watch premium news, TV shows, movies, sports, live events, cartoons, and trending digital series on mobile, web, and living room devices. Pluto TV is a top free app on Roku, Amazon Fire TV and Android mobile, and also powers built-in streaming television services on Vizio LG, and Samsung smart TVs. Earlier in his career, Tom served as CEO of Threadless (a popular crowdsourced design and e-commerce company), SVP of Digital Strategy at EMI Music as well as co-founder of Cductive (an early digital music retailer company that he merged with eMusic). He holds an AB from Dartmouth College and an MBA from INSEAD in France.

## Jason Calacanis
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce

Jason Calacanis is the Founder and CEO of Inside.com and Launch. He previously worked at Weblogs as a Co-Founder and CEO.

## David Helgason
- Type: Angel
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Evan Jaysane-Darr
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Rental, Residential, Rental Property

Evan Jaysane-Darr, Managing Partner

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