Denmark Demo Day is an effort to bring international investors together with their local Danish peers as well as the most promising pre-seed and seed stage Danish tech startups. The ultimate goal is to see more investments into Danish tech startups by international investors – optimally in syndication with local VC firms and business angels. It is both a pitch event but also a platform for planned and spontaneous meetings between the exactly right people you ought to meet. Denmark Demo Day is months of networking and meetings condensed in just a few hours.
Innovation Fund Denmark and The Danish Growth Fund being the Danish state’s soft funding entity and investment fund respectively have joined forces with the startup ecosystem platform in the Danish Design Centre to create Denmark Demo Day. With the support of some of the most significant local VCs, we aim to create value for the international investor community and ultimately the Danish startup ecosystem and Danish society overall. .
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.
byFounders is an early stage venture fund actively investing in tech startups across the Nordics and Baltics. Made up of some of the region’s most accomplished entrepreneurs, the byFounders Collective invests and supports the next generation of globally ambitious founders – it’s “for founders, byFounders”
PreSeed Ventures is among Denmark’s most successful early stage investors. For over 15 years, they have built up a powerhouse of experts who takes pride in financing and assisting hungry entrepreneurs from the very early days of their startup journey. That has given rise to a big family of successful founders and companies like Templafy, Grandhood, Vivino and Trustpilot.
Building category-defining consumer brands by putting founders first. Heartcore Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm devoted to backing exceptional founders building the next generation of consumer internet brands. Founded as Sunstone Capital in 2007, Heartcore has raised over $500 million in committed capital across four fund generations. With a team based out of Copenhagen, Berlin and Paris, Heartcore invests all across Europe and occasionally in the United States.