PreSeed Ventures have launched a venture fund dedicated fully and wholeheartedly to backing early-stage founders. With LPs believing firmly in the potential of Danish tech founders and the need for a risk willing VC to back them from the very beginning, we’ve successfully raised DKK 412m. …

We’re slowly waking up from our slumber and finding our footing in this new year. A look back at the year gone by has made us remember the core of what we do: Humans drive vision. Strategy dictates direction. To go fast, the two have to come together. …

Much has already been written about ”why” the ESG focus will help companies create value: An increasing body of research shows a positive link between ESG performance and financial performance, recruiting and retaining talent is remarkably easier, regulations will…

PreSeed Ventures have launched a venture fund dedicated fully and wholeheartedly to backing founders in the pre-seed stage — from time to time early seed. We’ve successfully raised DKK 265m for the first close of PSV Tech01. This marks not only the beginning of a new era for us but for the tech ecosystem in Denmark — an era where the force and vitality of Danish tech startups have grown so strong that a pre-seed VC is able to raise money from large pension funds.

Why Even Bother? Let’s face it: You and your co-founder(s) just started a new venture and you have a shitload of things to do — not least to worry about. When you have so many things on your plate, why should you care for something fluffy like breeding cultural diversity? At PreSeed Academy…

How do you avoid the typical business school bullshit when validating your business idea? How does it work in the real world? That’s exactly what was covered at PreSeed Academy StartupTalk #23 — here are the key takeaways 💡 — It can be quite tempting to skip the profound validation stage of your idea. But did you know that the 5-year survival rate for Danish startups is only 36%? That’s the cold hard fact that gets even colder — it’s the lowest score in the entire European Union 🥶👎

- A founder guide to managing an effective startup board from StartupTalk #21 @ PreSeed Academy — ABoard of Directors (BoD) can easily turn into a founder nightmare with timeconsuming nitty gritty reporting and long bla bla bla meetings with no action. Yet if done right it’s a badass power tool and life jacket that no founder would be without. In other words with the right composition…

— A lawyer will be your most expensive saving, but preparation can make it cheaper It goes without saying that people are the most vital resources for a startup’s success. As investors, our mantra has almost become ‘we would rather invest in A teams with a B idea, than a B team with an A idea’. But it’s also a fact that founders need to…

In this very moment of 2020, the entire world is dealing with the mental, physical and social consequences of a pandemic — Consequences that many (at least in our over-privileged corner of the world) had probably never imagined, nor prepared for, which overnight became very real and omnipresent in our…