Kasper Vardrup

🔥 Europe’s startup scene just got a big reality check — and the results are impossible to ignore. At Nordic Tech Week, Norrsken VC dropped the largest impact pulse report to date, built on insights from 660 founders & investors. The verdict? ➡️ Impact-optimism is on the rise. Highlights that stood out: 🚀 60% of founders + investors say the future looks bright 📈 this optimism has increased in 2025. 💶 3 out of 4 investors are doubling down on impact bets ⚡️ Energy. Industrials. Healthcare. → The sectors to watch But let’s be real: Europe’s still holding itself back. The potential is massive — if we dare to unlock it. Reach out to us at Norrsken Evolve if you are a pre-seed founder building in resilience and sustainability. 👉 Full report in comments. Props to the team for putting this together: Per Frykebrant, David Frykman, Tove Larsson, Beata Enwall, Agate S. Freimane, Ludvig Bergstrom

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🚗 EXCITING NEWS - I'm happy to share that our portfolio company Deftpower has raised €12.5 million from Endeit Capital, including continued support from us, 4impact capital, and other existing investors including Proeza Ventures, Rethink Ventures and Twickelborg to expand its AI-powered EV charging platform across Europe. We’re very excited to continue this journey with the Deftpower team. They have shown tremendous growth since our investment at the end of 2023 and we are inspired by the vision, innovation, dedication and execution skills of Jacob van Zonneveld, Marc Diks, Remco Tjeerdsma and Nicholas Laane and their team.  Deftpower is making EV charging cheaper, cleaner, and smarter. Their technology helps • Lower charging costs for EV drivers • Reduced CO2 emissions by shifting demand away from peak hours • Relieve pressure on the grid Their solution is at the core of what we invest in at 4impact capital; digital technology that contributes positively to planet and people and we look forward to what’s next. Welcome Endeit Capital, Sara Resvik, Jan Fredriks. Look forward to working with you. Rodolfo Elias Dieck, CFA, Sophie Millenaar, Ali Najafbagy, Victor Straatman, Daniel Uusitalo 🔗 Read more here: https://lnkd.in/g8Xk5xpq

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This week, I had the pleasure of attending the LP Forum at TechBBQ in Copenhagen. A truly insightful event with many thought-provoking discussions around institutional capital and venture. One topic that stood out to me: how pension funds are (slowly) approaching the venture capital asset class. While the structures for access, such as funds and fund-of-funds are well-established, many pension funds still seem hesitant to engage more actively. A particularly striking slide showed the most active pension funds in European VC. Surprisingly (and a bit shockingly), not a single German pension fund made the list. The potential here is massive. 🇩🇪 Europe is a wunderland and sooner or later, pension funds will realize this too. Wunderland Capital

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🚜🌍 Norway has become a launchpad for ambitious agritech companies with global reach. Just look at the momentum: ✅ Nofence: $35M Series B (Europe's largest agtech funding round in 2025) ✅ SAGA ROBOTICS // THORVALD: $11.2M raise (Aug 2025) ✅ Kilter: €9M Series A (Nov 2024) These scaleups are proving that you can build from Norway and expand to the world 🙌 At WinterLeap, Cornelis Arnoldussen and I celebrate their success and take inspiration from their journey. Our focus: helping farmers tackle weeds and pests during winter, using microwaves on frozen soil to stop problems before they even begin. The Norwegian agritech ecosystem is small but mighty, and it’s exciting to see what can grow from here 🌱 And credit as well to the investors behind these rounds, you’re not just backing companies, you’re helping reshape farming worldwide 💙 Pymwymic, Nufarm, Capagro, Speedinvest, European Circular Bioeconomy Fund (ECBF), Nysnø Climate Investments, Sandwater, Ferd AS, Praesidium Momentum,Blystad Groupp,Hattelandd,MP PENSJON PKK,Climate Innovation CapitallAkerrSBG Invest ASS,Natural Venturess,Verdelis Investments | ProAgInvest LLCC

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⚡ From energy vision to profitable reality. In just 8 months, Cloover (Jodok Betschart) scaled from €1M → €5M ARR (5x) — all while reaching profitability. With €1.2B in funding lines secured and hundreds of installers onboarded across 4 markets, they’re building the “Shopify of Energy.” But what’s just as striking? 🌍 Europe is fast becoming the epicenter of climate-tech. From Berlin outward, a new wave of startups is scaling faster than ever — and Cloover is one of the clearest signals. Profitable growth + massive market tailwinds = a European powerhouse in the making. 💡 For more real-time revenue updates like this, check out Specter.

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Here’s a harsh truth: fundraising today is slow, costly, and unfairly tilted towards the well-connected. You know what I’m talking about. We’ve all seen it again and again.   Europe has brilliant founders with bold ideas, yet too many fail before they even get a fair chance. And don’t get me wrong, it’s not because they lack vision, but because the fundraising system is outdated. CORE changes that. Because founders get a digital co-pilot that levels the playing field: AI guidance, investor-ready decks, early visibility, and rounds live in under 72 hours.  For the cost of a dinner, every founder now has access to the tools, structure, and visibility once reserved for a few. The real cost isn’t trying, it’s waiting. This isn’t about building another tool. It’s about building Europe’s private market infrastructure, where preparation, raising, and managing capital become accessible to all. 👉 This is how we level the field: https://lnkd.in/dsYhQqnp

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💫 Back from summer with many nights watching the stars and satellites passing in Asia, I am excited to share some latest News from our Portfolio: ReOrbit has just secured €45M in new funding – one of the largest Series A rounds in the Nordic history – to build Europe’s answer to #Starlink. 🛰️🛰️🛰️ Everything runs on space data: Communications, navigation, logistics, defense, security, or financial systems. Today, much of this critical infrastructure is managed outside Europe. In a world where data sovereignty equals national sovereignty, this is a risk we simply can’t afford. 🛰️ ReOrbit builds sovereign satellites and connected systems for independent, resilient communications, intelligence, and full command of critical infrastructure. With contracts already signed across Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, ReOrbit’s technologies ensure resilience and autonomy at a time when reliance on external providers is no longer an option. Led by Sethu Saveda Suvanam the ReOrbit team is delivering a software-first, Europe-native, lean platform as a backbone for sovereign satellite infrastructure—enabling nations to command their own data, intelligence, and critical assets. We at 10x Founders double-down on ReOrbit’s future together with Springvest Oyj, Elo, Varma, Icebreaker.vc, Expansion, Inventure 👉 Head to TechCrunch to read more: https://lnkd.in/entbfkFe Markus Räikkönen John Auburn Julian Wachtel Robert Wuttke Ted E. p.s.: the image is from our visit to ReOrbit's new production facilities in Finland last November.

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