We do not invest in companies. We build them.

Bifrost Studios builds venture studios in high-conviction domains together with proven entrepreneurs.

7 studios launched 33 companies built

We are in the business of building businesses.

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 Platform

Every company starts on infrastructure that already runs.
A Bifrost company gets the toolstack every Bifrost company shares, one data layer holding its numbers, people and customers, and agents working on that data inside the tools the team already uses. It is a starting point, not a constraint, and any part of it can be upgraded or replaced. Founders should build, sell and grow, and the infrastructure exists so they can.
Every company needs a back office.
We run go-to-market, financial operations, recruitment, brand and website builds on behalf of our companies. The people and the processes are shared across the portfolio, so a new company inherits a function with a track record instead of building one from scratch.
We support you in the moments that decide the company.
Founders, operators and functional experts from across Bifrost embed with a company at the points where its trajectory is set: a fundraise, a pivotal first customer, a turnaround when the plan has stopped working. They work inside the company, on the company’s side of the table, until the problem is solved.

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.

Portfolio

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
Granite Sovereign cloud infrastructure for Europe. AI & InfrastructureScale2026 Company Atlas People People due-diligence platform. B2B SaaSScale2024 Company Paper Plate AI-native food concept. ConsumerExploration2026 Company Finrose AI-native accounting services firm. B2B SaaSLaunch2026 Company Vinny's Premium men's footwear. FashionScale2023 Company NowcastIQ Real-time macro intelligence for institutional investors. Data & AnalyticsScale2025 Company Astralis One of the most decorated organisations in Counter-Strike. EsportsScale2025 Company Thors Haven Defence platform serving frontline brigades, and the studio's validation channel in Ukraine. DefenceScale2025 Company Vector of One Applied AI thought partner, working with P&L leaders on AI design, acceleration and deployment. AI & InfrastructureExploration2026 Company Nuori Premium natural skincare. ConsumerScale2025 Company Hytte Studios Contrast therapy studios. LongevityLaunch2026 Company Marine Alpha Naval unmanned surface vehicles, integrated with European prime platforms. DefenceExploration2025 Company Lightmark AI authentication technology for defence and critical infrastructure. DefenceExploration2026 Company Tarvas FPV drones, produced in the US for defence programmes. DefenceExploration2026 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. DefenceExploration2026 Company Ace and the Harmony Content agency building recurring brand partnerships. MediaLaunch2024 Company Copenhagen Works Spatial design studio for elite retail. ConsumerLaunch2025 Company Gatlas AI data infrastructure platform. Data & AnalyticsExploration2026 Company Shortlists AI recruitment platform for agencies. B2B SaaSLaunch2025 Company Stride AI-native marketing agency. MediaLaunch2026 Company Harba All-in-one marine management platform. B2B SaaSScale2024 Company Entropy Survival and outdoor brand. ConsumerScale2025 Company Oculor AI built on the largest database of venture investors. Data & AnalyticsExploration2026 Company
Permyt Permissions layer for AI agents. CybersecurityExploration2026 Company
TaxMate AI accounting platform for South-Eastern European SMBs. B2B SaaSLaunch2024 Company Find an Accountant Marketplace where accountants compete for small-business work. B2B SaaSExploration2026 Company
Forma Reformer Pilates studios, rolling out across DACH. LongevityExploration2026 Company
Astro Sports nutrition for Hyrox and CrossFit athletes. ConsumerExploration2026 Company

Portfolio Founders

Nicholas MacGowan von Holstein

Founding Partner & Managing Director, Bifrost Defence

Serial entrepreneur who built and exited a global agency serving the largest sports organisations in the world, with twelve years at the helm. He is now focused entirely on building defence companies.

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Malte Kamp Videbæk

Founder, 1255

Two decades scaling Nordic consumer brands. He was part of taking Boozt Group public and later led Envii, Samsøe & Samsøe and Pie Systems, and is recognised as one of the top leaders in Nordic fashion.

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Ed Barrow

Founder & CEO, Leopard Labs

Exited serial founder. He started his career in investment banking, then ran businesses for Rocket Internet as a regional manager and CEO, before building his own companies. Before teaming up with us he was a VP in McKinsey's digital practice, building fintech products.

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Alice Humble

CEO & Co-founder, Shortlists

Built the UK market for a health and fitness platform from zero to a fifty-person team and 10M euro ARR, after six years running her own wellness business. Now CEO of Shortlists, an AI-native ATS and CRM for small UK recruitment agencies.

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Peter Damm

Co-founder & CEO, Granite

Four-time founder with one exit behind him. He spent seven years as a COO and CFO in London, then co-founded a venture fund that still holds active investments. Now CEO of Granite.

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Kevin Mørkvig Bjerring

Founder & CEO, Atlas People

Exited serial entrepreneur who built a consumer group into the largest in its category in Denmark, and remains on its board.

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Kristian Buchardt

CEO, Hyperion

An actuary with a doctorate and twelve years at PFA, rising to head of actuarial innovation and models, then director of the actuarial department at AP Pension. Affiliate professor at Copenhagen. Now CEO of Hyperion, a quantitative hedge fund built around models rather than analysts.

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Torhalla-Maarja Metsniin

Co-founder & Chief Growth Officer, Thors Haven

A decade leading marketing for Granicus, Clarion Events and Hyve Group, then Ukraine in 2023 to support its defenders. That work became Thors Haven, which she co-founded to build mobile medical, UAV command and evacuation trailers now deployed with the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Also Bifrost Defence's Country Director for Ukraine.

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Kristof De Spiegeleer

Co-founder, Granite

Serial cloud infrastructure entrepreneur with eight exits across twenty-five years, including sales to Symantec, Sun Microsystems and Western Digital.

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Vivek Bhogaraju

Founder & CEO, Vector of One

Previously led global data and AI at Expedia Group, where the products he ran reached more than 300,000 properties. He went on to own AI inside a private equity portfolio company and at fund level. Now running Vector of One.

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Daniel MacGowan-von Holstein

Founding Partner & MD, Heyday Ventures

Exited serial entrepreneur across food, beverage and retail. He spent his early career in top international law and finance before leaving to build a restaurant chain and sell it, then co-founded an alternative-protein biotechnology company and ran it as CEO for six years.

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Melody Sinclair-Brooks

Founder, Stride

Growth marketing operator turned founder. Melody built the marketing practice inside Bifrost Forge and now runs Stride, the portfolio's embedded marketing partner for positioning, content, SEO and go-to-market systems.

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Jonas Gundersen

Founder & CEO, Fusion Esports Group; CEO, Astralis

Entrepreneur, and before that a professional gamer and poker player. He founded his own software company, then spent four years as COO of NIP in the run-up to its listing.

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Tsvetomir Batinov

Founder & CEO, Kosmo Labs

Prev. team lead & full-stack developer at Risika. First-time founder, a builder by instinct.

Team

Thorbjørn Rønje

General Partner

Serial entrepreneur, investor and fund manager. Co-founder of Morph Capital, Scaleup Finance and Nume, among others. Thor is a General Partner at Bifrost Studios, leading fund investment decisions, strategy and scaling.

Nicolai Rasmussen

General Partner

Serial entrepreneur, investor and fund manager. Co-founder of Risika, Scaleup Finance and Nume, among others. Nicolai is a General Partner at Bifrost Studios, leading investment decisions, fund operations and commercial activities.

Lasse Nørby Rasmussen

CPO and Head of Forge

Exited founder and serial venture builder, previously with Rocket Internet, Deloitte Digital and Rainmaking. Lasse leads the internal venture studio and the fund-wide validation practices.

Jonathan Feilberg

Head of Private Equity

Entrepreneur and startup operator with more than ten years building and scaling companies across tech and operations. Jonathan leads acquisition strategy at Bifrost.

Sophus Blom-Hanssen

Head of Operations

Founder and startup operator, with more than six years scaling operating models and organisations from incubation through to unicorn stage. Sophus leads the studio team, with responsibility for bringing the Bifrost platform to every active company.

Henry Piaskowski

Head of Special Projects

Consultant turned startup leader, previously Head of Strategy at Veo Technologies and CFO at Obsidian Group. Henry owns the Apollo framework and a portfolio of active companies.

Jack Nicoll

Head of GTM

Serial entrepreneur and go-to-market operator who has scaled several brands from zero to hundreds of millions of euros in revenue. Jack runs GTM in Bifrost Forge and owns GTM best practice across the fund.

Frederik Juncker

Head of Finance

Experienced auditor and finance manager in global, multi-entity contexts. Frederik runs financial operations and legal for Fund II, plus operational finance for the active companies.

Sergio Reinosa Lario

Data & AI Lead

Previously co-founder and CTO of a startup, and a data and AI engineer at VML Map. Sergio owns the buildout of Bifrost's proprietary data infrastructure and AI capabilities.

Oscar Tyrberg

Venture Manager

Previously a Founder's Associate at a VC-backed startup, then a Senior Associate at Bain & Company working on private equity and AI. Oscar owns a portfolio of Bifrost startups and contributes to fund strategy and platform topics.

Sebastian Tümmler

Venture Associate

Founded and built a growth marketing agency before joining Bifrost. Sebastian runs fundraising outreach on behalf of the portfolio companies.

John-Alex Yannoulias

SLC Engineer

Founded a development agency and was an engineer at the scaleup Lenus eHealth before joining Bifrost. John-Alex owns prototyping and validation engineering in Bifrost Forge.

Regitze Bjergegaard

Executive Assistant

Founder of a food and beverage company and a diamond brokerage before joining Bifrost. Regitze supports the General Partners.

Phuong Nguyen

Finance Assistant

The Quarterly

Every quarter the whole portfolio stops and gets in one room to share knowledge, wins and level up together.

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