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5TARS is a free-to-play sports fantasy game and the one of the world’s largest Web3 Sports Fantasy Gaming platform. 5TARS integrates NFTs, allowing users to own unique digital assets, and features Arenas and Tournaments that reward skill and engagement with both Crypto and Real-World Assets.

In 2017, I heard about a new exciting restaurant in Copenhagen. I went to the small 15-seater bar, had 45 courses, and was blown away by the originality and the often controversial messages accompanying the dishes. I told the owner/chef Rasmus Munk that if he ever wanted to take this to the next level, I was in.

Shortly thereafter, we embarked on a massive project, creating a whole new, technology-based concept and two years later, we opened Alchemist in its second iteration. Despite a difficult start with the pandemic, the restaurant was successful from day one.

Alchemist now has two Michelin stars, is number 18 on the World’s Best Restaurants List, and currently has a waiting list of 35,000 guests.

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Beestreamed is a cutting-edge live streaming platform tailored for businesses looking to deliver high-quality, scalable streaming solutions. It features a unique pay-as-you-go pricing model, allowing companies to optimize costs based on actual usage rather than committing to expensive subscription plans. Beestreamed’s flexible architecture supports seamless integrations, enabling businesses to effortlessly stream live events, training sessions, product launches, and more with minimal setup. The platform’s robust performance ensures low latency, high-definition video, and reliable streaming capabilities across a variety of industries.

With a focus on scalability and customization, Beestreamed offers a white-label option, allowing businesses to fully tailor the platform to fit their brand and operational needs. Whether it’s embedding streams into existing platforms or customizing user experiences, Beestreamed gives businesses complete control over their streaming operations. The platform’s API and analytics tools further enhance its capabilities, empowering organizations to track engagement and fine-tune their streaming strategy. Beestreamed is the ultimate solution for companies seeking a modern, feature-rich live streaming platform.

When I went to high school, almost every night I and a small group of close friends went to this iconic bar. Opening in 1977, it was one of the first French-inspired cafes in Copenhagen, and completely different from the drab, brown bodega scene that dominated Copenhagen in the seventies. Cafe Dan Turell quickly became a favourite hangout of artists, musicians and journalists.

Named after the great Danish poet Dan Turell (the founder was his publisher), the cafe went downhill in recent years, and I bought it in 2019. After a complete renovation to bring back its former glory, the cafe is now again filled with lights, cocktails, 80s music and I often hang out there myself when in Copenhagen.

Concordex is a standout decentralized exchange on the Concordium blockchain, tailored for institutional use with a strong emphasis on user asset ownership and security, including multi-signature wallets for enhanced protection. It combines an improved trading experience with user-friendly features like detailed order books and intuitive charting, facilitating a smooth transition from centralized to decentralized exchanges.

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This platform distinguishes itself with full regulatory compliance and plans for a shift towards decentralized governance. Concordex also pioneers in maximizing capital efficiency for its users, offering innovative features such as Concentrated Liquidity and Multiple Fee Levels to optimize profits and reduce costs, positioning itself as a leader in the DEX market.

I have followed the blockchain and crypto space for more than 10 years. Originally an enthusiastic ambassador for Bitcoin and Ethereum, I eventually became concerned about aspects hindering mass adoption, in particular anonymity, lack of scalability and a general mistrust of regulation.

Having been the co-founder and co-CEO of Saxo Bank for more than two decades, I became convinced that the same regulatory developments we experienced in TradFi would eventually also make their way to the crypto space. Therefore, I founded Concordium in 2018, a compliance-ready layer one blockchain that combines all the great features of a distributed, permissionless blockchain with a focus on ID and complying and accepting the general expectations of the society around us. Based on world-class cryptographic science, Concordium aims to become a leading layer one blockchain, providing true scalability, and a trustworthy and stable foundation for real business use.

Entangle consists of a purpose-built blockchain interoperability protocol and Cross-Chain DApps utilising synthetic derivatives for liquidity provision and rewards.

Synthetic-LP Vaults is the first innovative decentralised application built on Entangle. Through synthetic replications, users can gain exposure to Cross-Chain LP yields including; Avax, Near, Fantom, Cosmos and Ethereum networks from their native wallets. Entangle will also build projects in collaboration with Concordium.

Composed of bespoke tooling built on secure foundations, the stage is set for creative liquidity use cases for all-ecosystem participants including Users, Layer 1 & 2 Blockchains, DEXes, Developers & Yield Oriented Protocols.

I invested in the company in 2022.

Copenhagen has become a global centre for fine dining and has a strong place in fashion. But in art, the impact has been smaller, and when I was offered to invest as a partner in a new art fair, I thought this was a great opportunity to enhance Copenhagen’s image in this field also.

After just a few editions, Enter Art Fair is now the largest art fair in Scandinavia and in 2022 had more than 70 Danish and international galleries presenting 250+ contemporary artists to around 20,000 guests.

Geranium was for a long time my favourite restaurant, so when the opportunity to invest in Geranium came about in 2015, I immediately decided to support the restaurant. As a result, the restaurant has since been in a position to continuously improve its locales, facilities and wine cellar. Unusually located in the Danish national football stadium, Parken, it sports beautiful views over most of Copenhagen.

Geranium was awarded three Michelin stars the first time in 2016 and has kept the highest rating of the Michelin guide ever since. After crawling up the list of the World’s 50 Best restaurants for several years, it finally topped the list in 2022, becoming The World’s Best Restaurant.

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I invested in Swiss-based Hypery in 2020, impressed by the company founders’ early appreciation of the opportunities offered to the music industry by blockchain and NFTs. The platform has signed a lot of interesting, mostly European artists, that benefit from the additional revenue streams, premium and unique offerings and greater control over their artistic and creative output. There is little doubt in my mind that blockchain can seriously disrupt and reinvent a somewhat broken industry and bring back more control and revenues to the artists, helped by the management team’s deep background in the industry as both record company executives and performing artists during decades.

In 2018, I was presented with this website allowing people to test various aspects of their personality. The site is updated with new tests in multiple languages on a weekly basis, and manages more than 200 million personal tests annually, ranging from more fun tests, to deeply serious personality tests based on scientific input.

IDR Labs has great growth potential in a world where young people are much more open about identifying their strengths and weaknesses and sharing the results with their friends than earlier generations.

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Kin is a personal AI, designed to be a part of your day-to-day life, offering guidance, support, and companionship. What truly sets Kin apart is its ability to learn from your interactions and convert these learnings into long-term memory. This feature allows Kin to adapt and evolve based on your needs and preferences, providing truly personalized assistance.

Kin is built on a privacy infrastructure, which ensures complete data ownership and control for the user. This means all your interactions with Kin, including your most intimate secrets, are fully under your control and are not shared with anyone else. This fosters a deep sense of trust, making Kin a companion you can confide in without any hesitation.

Overall, Kin is more than just an AI assistant. It's a knowledgeable friend, a trusted confidant, and a steadfast companion in your journey of personal growth.

Mearto is an art valuation platform where sellers of art can get an initial estimate of the value of their items before deciding to proceed with an auction or a sale.

I invested in Mearto in 2018, and while still a small company, the number of auction items continues to rise as investment in art and antiques is a growing market, as low-interest rates for many years and overvalued stock markets have drawn ever more investors into new markets.

I became a shareholder in this listed company in 2019 when a large shareholding was placed for sale by a Danish pension fund. Best known for the ownership of Scandinavia’s premier football club, F.C. Copenhagen, current Danish champions, the group has multiple other activities. PSE owns the national stadium in Denmark, Parken, a 36,000 seater ground in central Copenhagen, as well as around 32,000 sqm of office space in the same building. PSE also owns the successful waterparks known as Lalandia, a thriving business with three large waterparks in various locations in Denmark. Lalandia’s concept is building and selling summer houses around the waterparks and then managing the ongoing rental of the approximately 2,000 summer houses. I truly enjoy watching F.C. Copenhagen play in the Danish Super League and internationally in the European tournaments where the club has an outstanding record of participating nearly every year in the group stages.

Provenance Tags are encrypted and tamper-proof, ensuring the authenticity of products while also offering supply chain tracking capabilities. When scanned using a standard smartphone, these tags reveal essential product details.

These tags are a game-changer in product authentication, revolutionizing manufacturing, supply chains, and user interactions by simplifying tracking. A quick scan of the Provenance Tags on a product provides access to comprehensive information about its entire lifecycle, assuring buyers of its authenticity.

Provenance Tags enable the seamless integration of physical products with secure digital tags (NFTs) on the Concordium blockchain. This allows consumers to effortlessly scan them with their smartphones, granting instant access to a wealth of valuable information and data.

They boast robust functionality, making it easy to verify product authenticity by confirming the manufacturer's identity, origin, and complete history—all securely stored and validated on the Concordium blockchain.

Provenance Tags efficiently streamline the tracking of product-related data, including manufacturing details, supply chain information, location, notes, temperature, humidity, and other crucial environmental factors.

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In 2015, a good friend of mine offered me to buy half of Rungsted Ice hockey Club, located north of Copenhagen. After a hard time with bankruptcy prior to this partnership, the club is now in very good shape, having won two golds and one silver medal in the past three seasons, dominating Danish ice hockey for the first time in decades. I enjoy watching an occasional match in the friendly family atmosphere at the club’s stadium and look forward to continuing to play a significant role in developing Danish ice hockey.

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I invested in SamlinoGroup in 2017, a Danish platform for offering the best pricing on various household services, such as telephony, TV packages, insurance and other common needs. The platform offers comparisons between different services and has now expanded to multiple European countries. The business is growing and expanding services with an increasing volume every year.

I once had a gallery in the art district of London, but sold this some years ago. This left me with a collection of around 50 works that forms the base of Seier Fine Arts. I am very interested in art and also have a fairly large collection privately, but at Seier Fine Arts we buy and sell art commercially. The stock currently includes Damien Hirst, Richard Prince, Al-Soudani, Cecily Brown as well as other interesting artists and we will actively buy well-priced art when offered to us.

Seier Wine is a wine investment company that supports my restaurant investments maintaining world-class wine lists. The company invested in inventory and maintains a deep and broad selection of particularly French, Italian and US wines. 

Currently, Seier Wines provide wines for the wine cellars of Geranium, the world’s best restaurant 2022, Alchemist, Dan Turell and the Executive lounge at Rungsted Seier Capital, one of Denmark’s top ice hockey clubs.

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SpaceSeven is an NFT art platform that started in 2021. The platform was recently upgraded to a multi-chain offering, thereby bringing together artists minting NFTs on their favourite blockchains on one integrated platform. Currently NFTs on Concordium, Ethereum and Solana are available but more blockchains are added at a rapid pace. I remain convinced that NFTs are an important addition to more traditional art channels, enabling innovative artists to experiment with new artistic formats, and opening new distribution channels to an entirely new generation of art buyers that are not normally seen in traditional galleries.

SpeakerBee was launched in 2020 by me and a long-term associate during the pandemic as a “corona-gift” to the Danish public - a free knowledge-sharing platform based on video presentations. After the pandemic, SpeakerBee pivoted to a more professional production company and today has some of Copenhagen's best studio facilities, used by many large corporates for video production, virtual meetings and high-quality presentations. SpeakerBee studios are now also available in Denmark’s second-largest city, Aarhus. The ambition is to create an international network of quality studios in major cities, managed by our Command Central in Copenhagen for post-production and special projects with high requirements for production capabilities.

In 2019, I did a seven-programme startup series, “Vejen Til Seier” on one of the main Danish TV channels, TV2. The idea of the programme was to start with a large number of applicants and then filter the winner out via various real-life challenges, as my wish was to give the viewers an understanding of the real process you go through as an investor, rather than the pure pitch-based decisions in programmes like Shark Tank. While very entertaining, investment does not happen like this in the real world. The winner of my series was Spring Copenhagen, beating 700 applicants in the process.Spring Copenhagen revives various forgotten design classics and produces a new design based on wood. The investment has been very successful and Spring Copenhagen has multiplied its turnover manyfold since winning the competition and has a bright future ahead.

I invested in an early round in the Israeli lab-grown meat company, SuperMeat. I am convinced that food production will undergo significant changes in the coming decades, where focus on animal welfare, carbon footprint, medication and other challenges will become an increasing burden for traditional farm meat production. Companies like Supermeat deal with all of these challenges, while being an alternative to plant-based foods. Sustainably produced meat will not go out of fashion anytime soon and particularly not when solutions like these develop. Based on solid science, Supermeat is making great progress and attracting increasing attention from the food industry. The company’s products, focused on chicken, can be tested at an experimental restaurant in Tel Aviv.

Supertrends has (so far) used +75,000 AI prompts and queries to create the world`s largest timeline of human innovation, including 16,000 historical milestones and 4,000 tech predictions. Also, it constantly monitors ca. 1,500 professional media and the top-1,000 business thinkers world-wide daily. From this, it auto-generates approx. 250 daily information summaries and insights. This is auto-combined with data on startups and markets to create a 4th generation tech- and business monitoring tool - delivered to users as Personal AI.

In the embryonic blockchain space, there is high demand for qualified programmers with real blockchain experience. To accommodate this, and to service my own projects, I started Tacans in Ukraine at the beginning of 2021. The company today has around 60 specialists in all things blockchain, Web2 and Web3 and is focused on building projects. SpaceSeven, the NFT platform in my portfolio is one example, but Tacans is currently building several projects in the DeFi space.

The company has deep insight into working with the Concordium blockchain and provided some of the very first smart contracts available there, but is also conversant with other of the main blockchains. Tacans actively looks for domain experts with whom we can build innovative and ground-breaking applications for the blockchain industry.

Welcome to Tech Contemporary, a Digital Gallery located in Copenhagen. Discover the captivating world of digital art and immerse yourself in a realm where pixels come alive, emotions are woven into every brushstroke, and where the artwork tell the stories of innovation. As curators of this virtual sanctuary, we take pride in showcasing a diverse collection of mesmerizing digital artworks. From intricate digital artworks that redefine ownership to stunning pieces of digital and photo art that capture the essence of the moment; each creation is a testament to the boundless possibilities of the digital canvas. By embracing the revolutionary potential of digital artwork, we utilize can blockchain technology to empower artists and collectors. This gallery is not just a space to appreciate art; it's a platform where imagination meets technology, and creativity finds new avenues to flourish. With a passion for pushing artistic boundaries, we've curated a selection of artworks that celebrates the fusion of digital innovation and artistic expression. Every piece showcased here is an invitation to explore the uncharted territories of creativity, in which the ordinary is transformed into the extraordinary. Join us on this exhilarating journey as we navigate the digital landscapes, bridging the gap between traditional artistry and cutting-edge technology. Let Tech Contemporary be your portal to a world where physical art, digital art, and photo art meet, creating immersive and unforgettable experiences.

The Family, based in Paris, is an incubator for startups. Providing knowledge and experience in return for small stakes in new companies, The Family also arranges introductions to investors and has its own fund for incubation companies. Having been involved in hundreds of companies in the past decade, the take on helping startups succeed is a refreshing take on other incubators, where the focus is more on investment rather than on knowledge sharing.

During the pandemic, we experienced a large number of initiatives trying to contain the spread of Corona. Many of these initiatives were very expensive and sadly, highly inefficient. UV Medico delivers a scientifically solid and very tested solution via UV rays that destroys vira very quickly.

Until recent years, the 254 nm wavelength has been mostly used but has had a serious negative impact on humans, so has only been used to sterilise vacant rooms. The 222 nm wavelength has the same effect on vira, but does not have negative effects on humans, so can be used in rooms where humans are present. This represents a major step ahead, as many areas can now be cleared of vira, even when they are being used - examples could be restaurants, aeroplanes, ambulances, active operation theatres, public areas, concerts and large sports events. UV Medico offers a very important part of the solution to future epidemics as well as various industrial processes where products or areas need to be cleaned for various viruses and health threats. Already now, UV Medico has an impressive client group, counting major corporates and solving a variety of challenges for them.

VPCIR produces Assays and test kits for drug screening, pathogen detection, cancer and chronic disease research

User-friendly and ultra-rapid solutions for science, food safety, water quality
and clinical applications based on our in-house VPCIR technology.

VPCIR is based on the joined forces of senior research teams from Aarhus University and Chinese University of Hong Kong who in 2018 founded VPCIR biosciences based on their shared knowledge base and IPR in the field of DNA modifying enzymes and nanoengineering.

I invested in the company in 2022.

I bought Villa Pacini in 2020, as I became enchanted by the beauty of the old villa and the great surroundings in Tuscany.

Located in the hills outside the historic town of Lucca, it has been fully refurbished and a new swimming pool has been installed in the grounds.

As the former home of a Tour de France winner, it has a full Service Course and is very suited for groups of cyclists, where the Villa management can supply catering, bikes, pro trainers, suggested routes and service vehicles.

It can also be rented on a weekly basis for large families and holiday groups of up 25 people.

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Welcome to the product development platform built for engineers and designed for all extended team members. With no training required, you experience effortless real-time collaboration across teams, fostering efficient communication, streamlined workflows, and accelerated time to market.