Heartcore Capital

Jimmy Fussing Nielsen has backed five unicorns and created ten soonicorns from deals worth €10B, focusing on lower-stack enabling tech like LLM architectures and quantum with a war-economy, dual-use lens.

Former founder-operator who built Qwerly and scored an early Last.fm win, he automates VC work to focus on meaningful founder relationships and backs mission-driven, experience consumer startups like sustainable travel.

Naza Metghalchi is a Partner at Heartcore Capital, an early-stage investor focused on European founders across Applied AI, Manufacturing, Fintech and related sectors. Previously, he spent five years at EQT Ventures as an operator before transitioning to venture investment. His investment approach emphasizes go-to-market strategy and organizational development, working directly with founders on these core areas.

Nikolaj Nyholm is a six-time entrepreneur and former venture capitalist with exits including Polar Rose to Apple and Imity to Vodafone. He currently serves as founder and CEO of Scattershot, a game development studio, founder and chairman of Astralis, a global esports brand, and senior advisor at The Raine Group. Nyholm has been an early investor in multiple gaming and technology companies including Neo4j, Seriously Digital Entertainment, Metacore, Peakon, and GetYourGuide.

Signe Marie Sveinbjørnsson is Partner and COO at Heartcore Capital and serves as a Non Executive Board Member at Nalik Ventures. She has a background in corporate and commercial law combined with operational experience managing multi-disciplinary teams across Europe, Africa, South America, and the Middle East. Her expertise encompasses contract negotiations, M&A, business development, stakeholder engagement, and risk management in complex organizational structures.

Yacine Ghalim began investing in crypto in 2013, an early consumer-focused VC who backed foundational Web3 protocols, focuses on trusted consumer brands across digital and physical worlds and collects JPEGs.

Bérenger Teboul-Danguin is a venture capital investor at Heartcore Capital, focusing on pre-seed and seed-stage companies in Western Europe with ticket sizes between €1 million and €5 million. He has sourced and participated in investments including Isentroniq, Egide, and Davis, among other portfolio companies.

Lærke Rud Hansen is a Copenhagen-based, on-the-ground Nordic investor with a tight-knit investing team and an unusually low public profile, appearing mainly in Danish corporate records and legal ownership structures.

Michael Baczyk is an investor at Heartcore Capital focused on early-stage quantum computing, sensing, and communications companies. He previously served as CEO of MBQ, a strategic advisory firm, and as VP of Business Intelligence at Global Quantum Intelligence. Baczyk holds degrees from Cambridge and ETH Zurich, has authored peer-reviewed quantum research, and has held technical roles at CERN Quantum & AI and Los Alamos Quantum Labs.

Jorgen Smidt is a private investor and board member who currently serves as Chairman at Camphouse. He brings venture capital and operational experience across strategic planning, business development, finance management, and restructuring, with particular expertise in venture capital fund structuring, fundraising, and investment sourcing. His background includes work in B2B SaaS, telecom infrastructure, and mobile sectors, as well as experience managing companies through investment to exit.

Björn Nilsen, principal leading the Stockholm office covering Europe and the Nordics, focuses on seed and Series A in software and life sciences and contributes to published defense‑technology research.

Ishita Sinha is an Events and Communications Associate at Heartcore Capital, where she leads organic marketing efforts and event management. She brings over four years of experience in content, communications, and events across venture capital, nonprofit, and startup organizations.

Magnus Melau is Finance & ESG Manager at Heartcore Capital, where he oversees fund operations, portfolio analytics, and finance infrastructure. He previously worked at Deloitte and KPMG in audit, ESG, and analytics roles. His work focuses on implementing data-driven finance systems, portfolio reporting, and automation for venture funds.

Mikkel Louekari Randsborg serves as Head of Transactions and Senior Legal Counsel at Heartcore Capital, where he oversees operations and transaction execution in venture capital. His background includes building business infrastructure in high-growth and regulated environments, with experience in multi-party negotiations across technology and other sectors. He integrates operational, financial, and legal considerations to support strategy implementation and value creation.

Paulina Koschitz, made Principal at 24, blends private equity, public markets and early-stage venture experience and, as managing director at Heartcore Advisory GmbH, unusually combines investment and operational roles.

Søren Rask Tange is Finance Director at Heartcore Capital, a role he has held since the 2019 separation of Heartcore from Sunstone Capital, where he had worked since 2008. He oversees quarterly fund reporting, liquidity management, internal financial reporting, budgeting, and forecasting, as well as audit preparation for the organization.