Esben Gadsbøll

Chairman & Co-initiator @ Danish Tech Startups // Co-Founder Defense Innovation Highway // Co-Founder & Board Member @ TechBBQ // Board Member @ EIFO // Founder turned BA // Partner Nordic Makers // Co-fo. WhiteAway.com

📍 Copenhagen, Capital Region, Denmark🔄 Updated September 2026💼 6 investments📅 23 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2017
VC🌍 Denmark
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Investor
Oct 2017
Certainly is a leading generative AI company all about CX specializing in tailor-made solutions for customer service automation.
Board Member
Mar 2015
DanBAN (Danish Business Angels) is a network organization for business angels in Denmark, with affiliation to similar business angel networks globally. DanBAN is today Denmarks largest network of business angels with more than 300 members. Through DanBAN our members share insights and pool investment capital, as well as provide knowledge and advice to their portfolio companies. Investing both capital and knowledge, DanBAN business angel members invest in un-listed companies in exchange for convertible debt or equity. DanBAN members are today active with ownership in more than 233 companies, with a collective 5.000+ jobs and exceeding Danish kroner 6.47 billion (app. EURO 870 million) in turnover.
Co-Founder & Board Member
Sep 2013
At TechBBQ, we bring together talent, capital, and knowledge to reach our common goals: support the Nordic startup ecosystem, celebrate our successes, and learn from our failures. We build communities and foster growth for startups and scaleups based on the distinctive Nordic traditions of openness, trust, and inclusion.
Co-founder and board member
Jan 2011
Genero’s aim is to help our customer companies grow and achieve better results. That is why we focus on measurable digital marketing. Pleasant statistics alone are not enough to satisfy us — we measure, test and authenticate everything that we do to make sure that we serve our customers in the best possible way.
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2024
Co-Founder
Mar 2024
Defense Innovation Highway (DIH) is the platform for speeding up cooperation in defense innovations between Ukraine & Nordic countries. Mission: Amplify cooperation between Ukraine and Allies countries in defense innovations, prioritizing the private defense tech powerhouse. Vision: defend the free world and prevail over tyrannies via innovative tech solutions and achieve superiority in defense tech so that Ukraine can win and the Allies can maintain their long-term security.
2020
Co-Founder
Mar 2020
#CoronaTech er et privat initiativ, der er søsat for at hjælpe det danske samfund gennem den krise vi står i netop nu. Vi vil binde problemer sammen med løsninger og vice versa. På vores platform kan iværksættere, forskere, erhvervsfolk, tech-eksperter, kompetencenetværk og andre handlekraftige folk melde sig ind som “contributors” udvikle nye løsninger eller styrke eksisterende initiativer gennem nytænkning og allerede teknologiske muligheder. Tanken er simpel: sammen kan vi løse problemerne. På CoronaTech kan du enten: ✔ Tilbyde din hjælp ✔ Dele et problem ✔ Dele en løsning We’re a private initiative that are aiming to democratize the problems that has arisen because of the Corona-virus. We wish to unite the danish innovation ecosystem in the form of entrepreneurs, scientists, business people, network groups and other do-gooders that can rapidly contribute to develop new solutions or strengthen existing initiatives by adding innovativeness and new thinking.
2017
Partner
Oct 2017
Nordic Makers is not your typical VC firm. We’re a group of seasoned entrepreneurs turned investors, passionate about backing brilliant founders across the Nordics. Most of our partner group have built unicorns, such as Zendesk, Sitecore and Just-Eat. We invest in Nordic B2B software companies with a born-global mindset. We’re looking for the category winners of the next decade. To date, we’ve invested €30M+ in 53 startups. Our ticket size is around €500K, and we follow-on in later rounds.
Investor
Oct 2017
Certainly is a leading generative AI company all about CX specializing in tailor-made solutions for customer service automation.
2015
Board Member
Mar 2015
DanBAN (Danish Business Angels) is a network organization for business angels in Denmark, with affiliation to similar business angel networks globally. DanBAN is today Denmarks largest network of business angels with more than 300 members. Through DanBAN our members share insights and pool investment capital, as well as provide knowledge and advice to their portfolio companies. Investing both capital and knowledge, DanBAN business angel members invest in un-listed companies in exchange for convertible debt or equity. DanBAN members are today active with ownership in more than 233 companies, with a collective 5.000+ jobs and exceeding Danish kroner 6.47 billion (app. EURO 870 million) in turnover.
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