Looking for Seed or Series A funding for your B2B tech company in the Nordics or Germany? Contact our investment team and share your pitch deck.
B2B tech startups in the Nordics and Germany.
Seed to Series A stage businesses, usually with +€70K MRR
Experienced teams building IP-driven software with clear US potential.
Companies with a proven business model, seeking €1-7M.
Founders are majority shareholders at time of investment.
Enterprise software, covering a wide range of business areas but with a high ACV.
Deep tech companies, such as quantum computing, additive manufacturing, deep AI, etc.
Initial pitch and conversations
Workshop with team to understand product, market, competition, etc
Deep dive into the business and opportunities (Scale kissing phase)
Term sheet is provided
100-day planning sessions
Legal and tech due diligence
Investment
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B2B tech startups in the Nordics and Germany.
Seed to Series A stage businesses, usually with +€70K MRR
Experienced teams building IP-driven software with clear US potential.
Companies with a proven business model, seeking €1-7M.
Founders are majority shareholders at time of investment.
Enterprise software, covering a wide range of business areas but with a high ACV.
Deep tech companies, such as quantum computing, additive manufacturing, deep AI, etc.
Initial pitch and conversations
Workshop with team to understand product, market, competition, etc
Deep dive into the business and opportunities (Scale kissing phase)
Term sheet is provided
100-day planning sessions
Legal and tech due diligence
Investment
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Lene has spent 15+ years in Silicon Valley working for and advising founders, corporate executives, and investors and connecting them and their organizations to attractive business development opportunities, capital, and the latest technology and innovation trends.
Today Lene is leading US-based activities for a global Internet and content service provider, working to provide affordable access to the 3.6B people remaining unconnected. Her responsibilities include building partnerships with some of the world’s largest tech companies and driving new, global revenue opportunities.
Previously Lene worked with corporate innovation and consulting, creating a Silicon Valley innovation outpost for Monitor Deloitte Nordic and running a US subsidiary of a strategy consulting startup. She started her career in Silicon Valley with the Danish government, cofounding their first Innovation Center abroad and building programs for startups, including SCALEit, and joined Nordic colleagues to cofound the first Nordic Innovation House in Palo Alto.
Lene is also an external lecturer at OMNES Groupe’s San Francisco campus, where she teaches on Innovation ecosystems and entrepreneurship. She is a speaker at International Conferences & Summits, including SOCAP, Women’s Forum Global Summit, and Microsoft Airband Summit, and she previously served on the Board of Directors at the Scandinavian School & Cultural Center of San Francisco.
Lene holds an M.Sc. in Engineering, International Technology Management from Aalborg University.
Christian is co-founder of DANE CAPITAL and have spent more than 20 years in private investments and corporate finance, primarily in the Nordics. He has a proven track record from several buyouts, restructurings and growth capital deals, GP fundraising and secondary processes.
Prior to DANE CAPITAL, Christian was a director in a Danish mid-cap buyout firm and before that he worked for a global listed private equity company.
Christian serves on the board of several companies and is typically involved in driving the ownership agenda across his portfolio companies.
Christian holds an MBA from Fordham Business School in New York, and a bachelor’s degree in Finance from NYU, Stern School of Business in New York.
Fredrik Bentlinger is an experienced investor, partner and chief financial officer from venture capital firms, growth companies as well as larger listed companies. Fredrik has helped startups scale since the dotcom era.
With over 20 years as a C-level executive and board member within tech and managed services companies, Fredrik brings great experience to the companies he advises. Always looking at opportunities though a strategic but pragmatic lens, Fredrik is capable of driving forth people and empowering change.
Fredrik recently served as General Partner at the Bridge140 fund that invested in early-stage tech companies across northern Europe. Over the years Fredrik has built up an extended network of founders, business angels and investors.
Fredrik holds a Bsc. in Finance & Business Administration from Linnaeus University.
Lars Rinnan is a visionary CEO, angel investor, board member, public speaker and futurist from Oslo, Norway. Lars has more than 25 years management experience, and over the course of 7 years has started 6 companies within business intelligence and artificial intelligence, all joined together in Amesto NextBridge.
He is the CEO of Amesto NextBridge and the VP of AI & Robotics for Amesto Group. His entrepreneurial and business experience makes him a valued investor, advisor and board member for startups within AI and exponential technology. Lars is a sought after key note speaker on AI and the future, and an avid writer and blogger, frequently appearing in media and television. He has contributed to 7 books on AI and the future. Lars works best when he can utilize his holistic business view and vast network to spot opportunities and create value.
Lars holds an MBA from Lancaster University (UK) and a BSc. in Business Administration from the Norwegian Institute of Management.
Andy has over 15 years of experience in tech startups, which began with founding his first e-commerce venture in Slovakia in 2008. Moving to Silicon Valley in 2013, he joined Plug and Play’s team and invested in 12 startups, with 5 acquired by giants like Google. By 2016, he established Plug and Play’s Berlin office, backing European and Israeli startups. After 2019, Andy pursued angel investing and currently holds a personal 12-startup portfolio, including Notion and SandboxVR.
While Andy focuses on investing in B2B tech, he also has a soft spot for building and scaling B2C products. Andy is an avid supporter of the European tech scene by being a mentor at Cambridge University and multiple accelerator programs.
Besides investing, Andy has experience in hiring, people management, sales and international expansion. He was an early team member and cofounded several enterprise businesses that, within 6 years, scaled to over 700 employees and surpassed $100M in annual revenue.
Andy holds a Master of Laws degree from Comenius University and studied Software Engineering at CODE University of Applied Sciences.
Lars Barkler is the fund’s ESG Ambassador on climate technologies. Lars helps validate investment opportunities within his core field of expertise and takes part in discussions on how to improve the sustainability factors in Scale Capital’s portfolio companies.
Lars is the former CEO of Lithium Balance, a manufacturer of battery management systems for lithium-ion batteries used in automotive, industrial, and power storage applications.
Prior to joining Lithium Balance in 2007 he was the VP of technology and marketing in Brüel & Kjær. He has also previously served as marketing director in Radiometer Medical.