Private early-stage investment

Backing ambitious B2B founders early.

Backing ambitious B2B start ups early.

Backing ambitious B2B founders early.

We invest our own capital in early-stage European B2B and B2G companies, alongside great founders and investors.

Overholt Capital is a privately backed investment company focused on pre-seed and early-stage B2B solutions. Beyond capital, we bring experience from M&A and building and scaling technology businesses.

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Our investment focus ↓

What we look for

Early conviction. Great companies. Strong co-investors.

We primarily invest in B2B companies at the pre-seed and early seed stages. We typically invest alongside experienced venture investors and founders where our capital and operating experience can be genuinely useful.

Pre-seed & early seed

We like getting involved while the company is still early and the important questions remain unanswered.

Europe

Primarily Nordic and European B2B solution companies.

B2B solutions

Software, technology-enabled businesses and scalable B2B business models that creates value worth paying for.

Approach

We invest with a pragmatic, flexible approach and value strong founders, sound fundamentals and high-quality investor groups.

More than capital

Experience on both sides of the table.

We bring experience from acquiring, building, commercialising and scaling companies. We invest where that experience can be useful to founders - without trying to become another voice running the company.

M&A & Strategic Transactions

Experience in mergers & acquisitions, corporate transactions, company valuation, deal-making and strategic decision-making. Useful when founders are thinking about financing, acquisitions, strategic options, shareholder structures, negotiations and eventual exits.

Commercial Scaling

Experience building and scaling commercial organisations in high-growth technology companies. Useful when founders are thinking about go-to-market, commercial strategy, sales organisations, international expansion, pricing, revenue growth and scaling from founder-led sales.

We aim to be useful when asked - and stay out of the way when we’re not.

Our approach

Simple capital. Long-term perspective.

Our own capital

We invest proprietary capital and therefore have flexibility in how and when we invest.

Alongside strong investors

We actively seek opportunities to invest alongside established VCs, angels and other experienced early-stage investors.

Founder-perspective

We know the founder's journey firsthand, and what it takes to build and scale a company - the pressure, trade-offs and imperfect information that come with it.

We invest where we have real conviction

and know we can be useful.

We invest where we have real conviction

and know we can be useful.

About

Two complementary perspectives.

Overholt Capital combines deep experience in transactions and strategic decision-making with hands-on experience building and commercially scaling technology companies.

Jørgen Overholt Hansen

Investor & Partner

Jørgen is the primary capital partner behind Overholt Capital and brings extensive experience from mergers & acquisitions, transactions and strategic corporate decision-making.

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Thomas Overholt

Partner — Investments & Operations

Thomas leads the day-to-day activities of Overholt Capital and brings experience from building and commercially scaling high-growth technology companies. His expertise includes go-to-market strategy, sales, international expansion and scaling commercial organisations.

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Contact

Building something interesting?

If you are scaling an ambitious B2B company - or you’re an investor looking for a pragmatic co-investor - we’d be happy to hear from you.

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hello@overholtcapital.com

Jørgen Overholt Hansen

Thomas Overholt