We do not invest in companies. We build them.

Venture studios in high-conviction domains together with proven entrepreneurs.

7 studios launched 33 companies built

A Company That Builds Companies

Venture studios don't join existing businesses. They create them from within, bringing together proven entrepreneurs, capital, and repeatable methodology to originate and launch companies from the ground up.

At Bifrost Studios, we identify high-conviction themes like lifestyle, longevity, defence, and agentic AI. We spend months exploring our wedge into an industry, attract top-tier entrepreneurial talent, and launch studios that go on to create multiple companies per year within their vertical.

We launch multiple venture studios per year globally. Each one starts with a thesis, a founder with an unfair advantage, and a market where we can chart a fast path to revenue. We believe this is the most scalable company creation approach in the world.

The Company Creation Machine

The Apollo Framework is our foundational map for building and scaling companies. It covers three dimensions and fourteen factors across Team (the crew), Processes (the rocket), and Ressources (the fuel).

Our entire model is built on supporting our studios in building world class teams, ensuring they operate efficiently at the frontier of AI, and managing ressources to reach profitability. Apollo is how we operationalize this thinking.

Our internal studio, Forge, continuously refines Apollo on our own companies so partner founders get tooling that’s been battle-tested before it reaches them.

Decentralized decision rights.: Operators closest to the problem have the authority to act.
Unified operating system.: Shared language without centralized control.
Ownership alignment.: Everyone at the table has real skin in the outcome.
Compound learning.: Every build makes the next one faster and cheaper.

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Team

Leadership
Product & Tech
GTM
Execution
Domain Expertise

Processes

Operations
Concept Validation
Product Validation
GTM Validation
Scaling

Resources

Cash
Fundability
Mental State
Bifrost Leverage

Venture Studio Journey

From thesis to operating company in under a year.

Exploration Thesis development. Market mapping. Finding the wedge. Identifying the right founder for the right problem. Month 0-3 Launch Company creation begins. Capital, crew, and infrastructure deployed. Apollo activated. First customers, first revenue signals. Month 3-9 Scale Studio operating independently. Green boxes across the board. Building 2-3 companies per year within the vertical. Continued support through shared services. Month 9+

Portfolio

Built from scratch. Every single one.

Bifrost Defence Defence-tech studio building the integrator inside Europe's defence primes, with equity designed into their subcontract programmes. Studio

Hyperion An AI-native quantitative macro hedge fund, built around models rather than analysts. Studio

Meta Frontier Sovereign AI compute studio building a European compute stack deployed at the edge. Studio

1255 A modern Nordic LVMH, acquiring culturally sharp fashion and lifestyle brands and running a repeatable playbook to make them profitable and exit-ready. Studio

Bifrost Partners The build-and-buy studio rolling up business-services firms and making them AI-native. Studio

Forge AI-native companies that do the work for founders and SMEs across Europe, each compounding from a service into the software that runs it. Studio

Leopard Labs Intelligence infrastructure for AI-native capital markets, turning trusted data into proprietary knowledge graphs. Studio

Kosmo Labs Small-business software for South-Eastern Europe, starting with AI accounting. Studio

Fusion Esports studio buying and operating professional teams under a multi-club ownership model. Studio

Heyday Ventures A bottom-up longevity portfolio: the room you train in, the fuel you take, and the digital layer that tracks it. Studio

Thors Haven Defence platform serving frontline brigades, and the studio's validation channel in Ukraine. Company Lightmark AI authentication technology for defence and critical infrastructure. Company Marine Alpha Naval unmanned surface vehicles, integrated with European prime platforms. Company

Tarvas FPV drones, produced in the US for defence programmes. Company

Luft Aircraft Balloons and aerostats that carry any payload — tethered to hold a position for days, or free-flying to reach hundreds of kilometres. Company

Granite Sovereign cloud infrastructure for Europe. Company Vinny's Premium men's footwear. Company Nuori Premium natural skincare. Company Ace and the Harmony Content agency building recurring brand partnerships. Company

CPH.Works Spatial design studio for elite retail. Company

Finrose AI-native accounting services firm. Company Gatlas AI data infrastructure platform. Company Atlas People People due-diligence platform. Company Shortlists AI recruitment platform for agencies. Company Stride AI-native marketing agency. Company Harba All-in-one marine management platform. Company Entropy Survival and outdoor brand. Company Paper Plate AI-native food concept. Company NowcastIQ Real-time macro intelligence for institutional investors. Company Oculor AI built on the largest database of venture investors. Company

Permyt Permissions layer for AI agents. Company

TaxMate AI accounting platform for South-Eastern European SMBs. Company Find an Accountant Marketplace where accountants compete for small-business work. Company Astralis One of the most decorated organisations in Counter-Strike. Company

Forma Reformer Pilates studios, rolling out across DACH. Company

Hytte Studios Contrast therapy studios. Company

Astro Sports nutrition for Hyrox and CrossFit athletes. Company

Team and Studio Founders

Daniel MacGowan-von Holstein

CEO, Heyday Ventures

Cambridge-educated, former City finance lawyer turned operator. Built a restaurant chain into a multi-site brand and exited to private equity.

Ed Barrow

Co-Founder & CEO, Leopard Labs

Prev. Co-Founder, Patch Plants; UK CEO, Rocket Internet; VP Product; McKinsey.

Frederik Juncker

Head of Finance

Henry Piaskowski

Head of Platform & Special Projects

Jack Nicoll

Head of GTM

John-Alex Yannoulias

SLC Engineer

Jonas Gundersen

Co-Founder, Fusion Esports Group

Co-founder of Fusion & Astralis owner; ex-COO of NIP Group.

Jonathan R. Feilberg

Partner & Studio Lead, Bifrost Partners

AI & data expert with 10+ years building and operating businesses. Prev. VP of Strategy at Airtame.

Lasse Rasmussen

CPO & Head of Forge

Exited SaaS founder. Built and sold a category-leading fintech product; scaled products and teams at Rocket Internet and Deloitte.

Malte Kamp Videbæk

Founder & CEO, 1255

Former CEO/COO at Envii & Samsøe Samsøe; Group Buying Director at Boozt, which he helped build and take public. Two decades scaling Nordic consumer brands.