Founding General Partner at Norrsken VC
Check size: Norrsken VC's current live range is €1M–€10M across early stage and selected growth. It is a firm range, not David's personal check. Exact sizing, ownership and reserves depend on the applicable fund and company.
David backs scalable technology businesses that solve major problems and can become enduring category leaders. His long operating, angel and board history adds a company-scaling lens, while his current energy writing argues that Europe's security and competitiveness depend on clean domestic electrification. The investment standard pairs venture-scale economics with measurable impact and long-term operational resilience.
Lead with the problem's scale, why technology and economics have changed, product and traction, unit economics, impact KPI and counterfactual, regulatory and infrastructure dependencies, European competitiveness, expansion plan, team evolution, stage and requested €1M–€10M fit. For energy, quantify cost, reliability, deployment and system constraints.
Exceptional founders, a truly large problem, a technology or business-model inflection, strong product adoption, measurable impact, credible economics, operational resilience, teams able to scale internationally and leaders who can build a company and culture for a long journey.
No personal pass list is public. Firm and writing signals imply weak fit for marginal impact, climate claims without competitive economics, dependence on fragile fossil inputs with no transition path, technology without scalable distribution, founder teams unable to grow into leadership and opportunities too small for venture outcomes.
Map external dependencies, chokepoints, price shocks and geopolitical risks the product removes from a critical system.
Require a billion-life or comparably systemic outcome to rest on a business model capable of venture-scale returns and international expansion.
Evaluate how leadership, operating cadence, governance and talent systems must evolve as the company moves from product proof to category scale.
For impactful AI, assess misuse, bias, cybersecurity, transparency, human control and resilience alongside performance and adoption.
Europe can improve energy security, competitiveness and resilience by shifting toward abundant clean domestic electricity rather than repeated dependence on imported fossil fuels.