Seed Capital

Founder Focus | Embankment “You need to understand how the VCs think, what they want to gain from investing, and ascertain whether you can align with that being a win-win situation.” This is one of David Svante Hansen’s pieces of advice for young founders curious about VC. Want to hear more from David? He’s attending Nordic Fintech Week this week, kicking off today with the investor roundtable we’re co-hosting with BlackFin Capital Partners (now sold out). Throughout the week, David and other founders from our portfolio will be around alongside our team, so there are plenty of opportunities to hear more of their advice for young founders and other interesting topics surrounding fintech and the ecosystem. More #FounderFocus conversations are on their way🎙️

It’s Nordic Fintech Week, and tomorrow we’re co-hosting an investor roundtable with our good friends at BlackFin Capital Partners: Beyond SaaS: AI Agents Restructuring Fintech. The session brings together investors, founders and operators to explore some of the questions defining the next wave of fintech, as it moves beyond traditional software into systems that can act, decide and execute on their own. Among those joining Chris Porsgaard at the table are our very own Ken Villum Klausen from Repodo and David Svante Hansen from Embankment. Sign up for the roundtable here: https://lnkd.in/eWJ2X2RA

Fund V is taking us into the Nordics. Repodo is doing the same. For years, Seed Capital has backed the best Danish founders. With Fund V, we’re expanding that focus across the Nordics. This reflects what we’ve heard directly from international investors. Several have long encouraged us to look beyond Denmark, Fund V being a first step in that direction. It’s not just us acting on the Nordic momentum. Our Danish portfolio company Repodo, building the world’s first AI native audit platform, has entered Sweden after only two weeks in the market. Read more about Repodo’s Swedish expansion in the Bootstrapping.dk (DK) article in the comments.

More than 20 years in Denmark. Now, we’re setting footprints across the Nordics. We've closed Seed Capital Fund V with €130M to back remarkable founders. Over twenty years ago we started backing founders in Denmark. With Fund V, we’re taking our expertise and fund model to the broader Nordics and will be backing 15-17 Seed stage companies across FinTech, Cybersecurity and Resilience, and AI-driven B2B. It’s no coincidence that we are taking on these particular verticals and expanding our search across the border. With a team and community of experts, we are backing the founders that are: ➡️ Reinventing financial infrastructure ➡️ Enhancing cybersecurity and resilience ➡️ Transforming SMB and enterprises “Broadening into the Nordics is a natural move for us and it’s been important for us to get the right team, with strong expertise and global mindset. Together with Geeta Schmidt and Lars Andersen, we have formed a partner team with both company building and venture growth expertise, with the goal of scaling them globally. This is also reflected in what we’re looking for in the founders we back, founders building global winners” - Christian Broendum. None of this happens without the LPs who back us: Realdania, EIFO, Dansk Vækst Kapital, Sampension, Lauritzen Fonden, Augustinus Fonden, family offices and angels. Thank you for your trust. We've already made our first Fund V investments, among them Norlix, Blackbird Coffee, Fortiv, Moxso, Pluto Markets, Cernel, Repodo and Oplane, and there's more to come. Read more about our Fund V in the article linked in the comments.

Proud to see Oplane featured in The Futurism Today’s “10 Swedish Startups Making Waves in 2026.” AI coding is letting teams build software faster than traditional security processes can keep up. Oplane builds AI-native security directly into that process, catching risks as software is built rather than reviewing it after it’s shipped. It’s a well-earned spot on the list, and a great recognition of what Emil Kvarnhammar and the Oplane team have built. Congrats to the whole Oplane team!👏🏻 Read the full article: https://lnkd.in/gp2FB93x

Founder Focus | Fortiv “A lot of people spend too much time on stuff that’s not important.” Thomas Sehested, CEO at Fortiv, on what comes closest to a secret sauce: speed, clarity, and knowing exactly what not to spend your time on. Follow along for more #FounderFocus conversations🎙️

AI is not a magic layer on top of an existing business Our general partner Geeta Schmidt is featured in KapitalWatch this week, answering questions on what separates a durable AI business from just another product with a chatbot bolted on, what Seed Capital looks for in AI investments, and why building a product can be easier than building a scalable business around it. Definitely worth a read: https://lnkd.in/etj79WsG

Good company captured on film A week on from TechBBQ, and what’s stayed with us are these behind-the-scenes moments. Portfolio companies, familiar faces from the ecosystem, even TechBBQ’s CEO, Avnit Singh, and Denmark’s Minister for Business and Competitiveness, Martin Lidegaard, all found their way into the frame. Not the moments planned for a camera, but good company caught along the way. That’s the part of TechBBQ we keep coming back for🤝🏼

Founder Focus | Tembi - Market Intelligence “I believe that there is a future where every professional on the planet will have access to intelligence about what will be happening in the market so that they can leverage that and be successful.” Kristian Mørk Puggaard, CEO at Tembi - Market Intelligence, on how they help companies in the e-commerce supply chain stay on top of their market by turning Europe’s e-commerce market into structured, live data. Keep an eye out for more #FounderFocus conversations🎙️

TechBBQ 2026: Cocktails, panels and everything in between. We started off by teaming up with Mesh Community to co-host the Mesh Collective X Cph meetup in the wonderful Arturel showroom, before heading to our annual cocktail party at Brønnum. Day 1 already had some of our talented portfolio companies and colleagues on stage. Day 2 was where it really came together, with our team and portfolio companies appearing across multiple stages throughout the day. Here’s a little photo dump of some of the people who joined us both on and off the stage: Christian Broendum - Seed Capital Geeta Schmidt - Seed Capital Sander Janca-Jensen - Flatpay Ken Villum Klausen - Repodo Emil Kvarnhammar - Oplane Mikkel Lindblom - Moxso David Svante Hansen - Embankment Joakim Bruchmann - Pluto.markets Jens Grønlund - Norlix Rolf Njor Jensen - Lunar Chris Porsgaard - Seed Capital Rikke Kjær Damgaard - Seed Capital Thank you to everyone who stopped by. See you next year!👋🏼