# Top 45 Proptech Startup Investors in Denmark in October 2023 ## Vaekstfonden - Type: VC Fund - Location: Hellerup, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 5 - 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. ## PreSeed Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Lyngby, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 3 - 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. ## Seed Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 3 - 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. ## Cherry Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, FinTech, Information Technology Cherry Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm led by a team of entrepreneurs with experience building fast-scaling companies such as Zalando and Spotify. The firm backs Europe's boldest founders, usually as their first institutional investor, and supports them in everything from their go-to-market strategy and the scaling of theirbusinesses. Cherry Ventures has previously invested in the seed stage of over 50 companies across Europe, including FlixBus, Auto1 Group, Infarm, Rows, Forto, and TourRadar. Cherry Ventures is based in Berlin and invests across Europe with operations in London, Paris, and Stockholm. ## Nordic Guarantee - Type: VC Fund - Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Convertible Note - Focus: FinTech, InsurTech, Rental Property Our guarantees provide as good protection as traditional bank guarantees. With our deep expertise in risk analysis and risk control,.. ## Thomas Visti - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Angel, Grant - Focus: Robotics, Software, Manufacturing Thomas Visti - CEO @ Mobile Industrial Robots ## Lasse Kieffer - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Robotics, Navigation, Construction Lasse Kieffer is an Entrepreneur and investor. ## Henrik Werdelin - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Events, Mobile, Information Technology Henrik Werdelin is the Founder of BARK, America’s fasted growing pet company as well as Managing Partner of Prehype, a venture development firm headquartered in New York with offices in Copenhagen and London. He attended Aalborg University and the University of Westminster.Prehype co-create new ventures and incubation programs with VCs andcorporations ranging from NewsCorp over Danone to GE and Mondelez – as well as launching successful venture-backed startups like BarkBox, AndCo, Roman and ManagedByQ.Henrik has for the past 15 years been involved in a range of successful startups and corporate incubations as either founder, investor or advisor; including HotPotato (now by Facebook), GoTryItOn (now Rent the Runway), NewSmart (incubated with NewsCorp), ReadMill (now DropBox), Betabox (incubated with Mondelez) and Sunrise (now Microsoft). Prior Werdelin was the Entrepreneur in Residence with Index Ventures and running product development for MTV International where he spearheaded the development of many of MTV’s award-winning innovative digital products. He is a frequent speaker at top-tier business schools and industry forums and has been quoted in numerous publications and media outlets on subjects such as corporate innovation, product design and entrepreneurship.He is Danish but lives in the US, where he was named amongst the Top 100 most Creative by Fast Company and Silicon Alley Insider’s ‘100 People in Tech’. ## NREP - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Real Estate, Information Technology NREP is a vertically integrated real estate product innovator, developer, investor and operator that seeks to make real estate better. ## Demant A/S - Type: VC Fund - Location: Smørumnedre, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Rental, Residential, Rental Property Leading in hearing healthcare Demant is the only company in the world that covers all areas of hearing healthcare, from hearing devices and hearing implants to diagnostic instruments and professional hearing care, and we harvest significant synergies from this unique position and expect to create new opportunities in the years to come. ## 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. ## Bjarke Ingels - Type: Angel - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Angel, Seed - Focus: SaaS, Product Design, Digital Entertainment Bjarke Ingels is an advisor at ROOM. He has established an international presence as a prodigy in his field, designing the wildly inventive buildings of tomorrow, both in shape and purpose. His bizarre structures, with curvy edges and shiny surfaces, not only look like something out of a sci-fi film but are also sustainability focused. His worksinclude a pyramid-shaped apartment building on the west side of Manhattan, an elevated staircase in Brooklyn Bridge Park, and a curvaceous boardwalk at the Maritime Youth House in Copenhagen. ## Mikkel Bulow-Lehnsby - Type: Angel - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Hospitality, Property Management, Information Technology Mikkel Bulow-Lehnsby is the Chairman and Co-Founder at NREP. Mikkel Bulow-Lehnsby attended Harvard Business School. ## TriplePoint Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Menlo Park, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Debt Financing, Series A - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services TriplePoint Capital offers leases and loans to finance companies' equipment or growth-capital needs. The company offers debt-financing products, including equipment leases, equipment loans, and growth capital loans. The company's equipment leases and equipment loans are used to finance equipments, such as computers and servers, electronictest and measurement equipment, telecommunications equipment, laboratory equipment, office furniture, and software. ## The Footprint Firm - Type: VC Fund - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Software, Renewable Energy, Finance The Footprint Firm is an advisory and investment company with a sole focus on sustainability. ## byFounders - Type: VC Fund - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - 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. ## Alexander Aghassipour - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS Founder at Zendesk. ## 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 ## Stockholm Techstars Accelerator - Type: VC Fund - Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Pet, FinTech, Finance The Stockholm Techstars Accelerator invests in early-stage, high-growth companies looking to build and expand in the Nordic-Baltic startup ecosystem. ## CAPNOVA - Type: VC Fund - Location: Aarhus, Midtjylland, Denmark - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet They are an investment and development company providing capital, solid business experience and a strong network in order to turn innovative ideas into successful businesses. They cover all of Denmark from their offices in Aarhus, Roskilde, Copenhagen, Viborg and Kalundborg. ## Bjarke Ingels Group - Type: VC Fund - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Water, Marine Technology, Natural Resources BIG has grown organically over the last two decades from a founder, to a family, to a force of 700. Our latest transformation is the BIG LEAP: Bjarke Ingels Group of Landscape, Engineering, Architecture, Planning and Products. A plethora of in-house perspectives allows us to see what none of us would be able to see on our own. The sum of our individual talents becomes our collective creative genius. A small step for each of us becomes a BIG LEAP for all of us. ## Torben Frigaard Rasmussen - Type: Angel - Location: Odense, Syddanmark, Denmark - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel Torben Frigaard Rasmussen - Chairman of the Board @ QuadSAT ## A/S Heluda Invest - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Rental Property, Asset Management, Property Management Family Investment Office ## Thorbjorn Ronje - Type: Angel - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Finance, Software, Consulting Serial entrepreneur ## KAYA - Type: VC Fund - Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Health Care, SaaS We are committed to supporting founders at every stage of their journey, from studio projects and pre-seed through to Series A and follow-ons. ## 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. ## The Aventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series B, Private Equity - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Cryptocurrency The team comes from heavy tech oriented background such as Cloud Infrastructure, Data Science, Theoretical Physics, Machine Learning, Software Development and Business development. We like to brand ourselves as "the nerds" in the tech space. We speak the same technical language as the founders and like to be an active part in the venturewe enter, depending on the needs of the founders. Our thesis is that we are building bridge spanning over the knowledge gap between deeptech founders and traditional investors. ## Oxlund Holding - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: B2B, SaaS, Hospitality Holding for Oxlund ## Thomas Juhl - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: B2B, SaaS, Hospitality Thomas Juhl - Chairman of the board @ UnitPal ## Oliver Kofoed - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Furniture, Smart Home Oliver Kofoed ## Morten Primdahl - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Apps, Virtual World, Information Technology Morten brings to Zendesk a refined focus on the technical details. He’s involved on all technical levels – from the application to the infrastructure components and databases.Prior to co-founding Zendesk, Morten consulted on a number of technology projects, ranging from helping startups establish a technical platform, to doing heavy dutyconsulting for online banking systems.Morten earned a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Copenhagen. ## Mikoha Holding - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: B2B, SaaS, Hospitality Mikoha Holding ## Johan Lorenzen - Type: Angel - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Banking, Internet Johan brings more than a decade of experience with high growth internet companies, both from the founder and investor side. Johan joined Holvi from the venture capital firm Sunstone, to change the future of banking first hand. Prior to that Johan has also worked on both, the technology and infrastructure, sides of traditional banking, as welladvising and investing in #fintech companies. Holvi | Holvi provides small businesses, freelancers, sole traders and contractors a pan-European business platform of the digital age as well as a full replacement for the traditional bank account. Holvi is built completely separately from any existing banks allowing the company to have full flexibility on choosing partnerships and bringing services with most added value to the customer. Holvi's vision on the future of banking is a fully customisable financial hub where people can plug in the channels and services they actually need. Holvi's mantra? Stay human. ## Bang Olsen Holding - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: B2B, SaaS, Hospitality Holding for Bang Olsen ## 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 ## Klaus Nyengaard - Type: Angel - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 1 - 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. ## 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. ## VF Venture - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Biotechnology, SaaS Vaekstfonden makes equity investments in Danish companies with a track record as well as in young entrepreneurial, innovative enterprises with an ambition for global growth. ## BioInnovation Institute - Type: VC Fund - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Convertible Note, Debt Financing, Pre-Seed - 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. ## Seier Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Berne, Bern, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Internet, Financial Services, Apps Seier Capital is a private investment fund owned 100% by Lars Seier Christensen. ## Sami Rusani - Type: Angel - Location: Los Angeles, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Self-Storage, Cyber Security, Personalization Sam is a strategist, advisor, investor and board member He is active in AI, Blockchain and Gaming. As a serial entrepreneur, technologist, and sales leader, Sam has worked with some of the biggest brands in the world, such as Sony, Fender, Virgin, Universal Music, Ogilvy, Heineken, VISA, and Mercedes. In his fundraising consultant role, he hashelped global startups from pre-seed to A rounds. He is very involved in social issues, loves wine and travel (he's visited more than 50 countries) and occasionally rides motorcycles. ## Innovation Fund Denmark - Type: VC Fund - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 1 - 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. ## Nordic Eye Venture Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, SaaS International venture capital firm based in Copenhagen. We come from the North, but we work in the world. We are Nordic Eye. ## Baboon.VC - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services Founded by a team of true blockchain and crypto veterans and enthusiasts, Baboon looks to fund founders that solve real-world problems to make a difference. ## Prehype - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Information Technology, Mobile, Freelance Prehype is venture development firm HQ in NYC with offices in London, Copenhagen and Sydney, Detroit.Prehype is a venture development firm, building new businesses in partnership with the world’s finest corporations and VCs. They run workshops for companies like Diageo, NewsCorp, Mondelez, LEGO, and Verizon, in which they identify problems ormissed opportunities and resolve them through their startup/early-stage approach. Some of their very successful ventures are Bark & Co (barkbox), basno.com, and Managed By Q. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features: - 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others) - Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data - Updated daily from public funding news - CSV and Excel export The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co