Denmark Demo Day connects 150 of the best and brightest young investors from international and local top-tier VC firms, other investment entities and leading business angels. During the day, you will have the opportunity to meet other international and local Danish investors in curated and spontaneous networking meetings, while also engaging with Danish top-performing startups.
We believe that Europe lacks a gathering for the younger generation of investors. In our view, this predominantly encompasses people who have been working with startup investing (in VC or similar) for around five years and therefore have a lot in common with their direct peers from other funds and firms across Europe. We think that a meet-up like Denmark Demo Day bringing together investors from all over Europe will not only create good conversations around dealflow, managing portfolio companies and simply what the “talk of the town” in European tech is. It will also form the basis for even better understanding and stronger future relationships between you and the Danish top founders.
That being said, we know that ‘young’ is a relative term, so if you feel young at heart but have a lot of experience and are super interested in the Danish tech startup ecosystem, we will most certainly not exclude you. We only require that you are actually ready to invest in early-stage Danish tech startups.
Prior to the event, we will ask all participating investors to provide us with information regarding their sweet spot in terms preferred sectors, technologies, business models and stage along with their existing ties to Denmark. With this in hand, we will create personalized matches for you with both startups and local investors.
On top of that, we will send out a complete participant list (with name, title and company) to all participants. All investors will have the opportunity to book short meetings in private meeting rooms with startups and the other investors prior to the event. At the event space there are plenty of meeting areas – both private meeting rooms and open areas with sofa lounges and an amazing terrace overlooking the Copenhagen waterfront. The BLOX building provides the ideal space for formal and spontaneous sparring between all participants.
Back in 2016, Guillaume Durao of Idinvest Partners (France), wrote this piece on why he invested in both Peakon and Planday, his view on Denmark as a startup hub, and why you should be active here.