DTS - M&A Academy 2
DTS – M&A Academy: Growth Through Strategic Acquisitions
Join Danish Tech Startups for the M&A Academy, a hands-on learning series designed for ambitious tech scale-ups founders and CEOs that want to understand how acquisitions can become a real growth lever.
Across three intensive sessions, founders and senior leaders will learn how to identify acquisition targets, structure deals, run due diligence, negotiate with confidence, and plan for post-merger integration. The academy brings together scale-up teams, M&A advisors, investors, legal experts, and experienced operators in a trusted, practical environment.
This is not a theoretical intro to M&A. It is built for companies actively exploring how to grow through strategic acquisitions and for partners who want to support the next generation of Danish tech companies as they scale.
Program Themes
Session 1: 🎯 The Hunt Begins - Deal Sourcing & Valuation
How to identify and assess acquisition targets, understand valuation methods, and explore financing and deal structuring options.
Session 2: 💍 Making It Official - Due Diligence & Deal Execution
Financial, legal, and operational due diligence, risk assessment, negotiation approaches, and managing transaction timelines.
Session 3: 🏡 Building Together - Post-Merger Integration
How to align teams, culture, leadership, systems, and operations after the deal, while realizing long-term value.
Session 2 speakers:
Joining us are two founders with extensive first-hand experience of scaling companies and navigating acquisitions:
🎤 Jesper Søgaard — Co-founder & Co-CEO of Better Collective, which has completed more than 35 acquisitions since 2017 as part of its international growth strategy.
🎤 Niels Henrik Sodemann — Co-founder of EUCLORA and Innomasters, and previously Co-founder & CEO of Queue-it, which he scaled for more than a decade before exiting.
Together with the M&A experts from PwC, Søren Thorvaldsen Keller, Sebastien Delus and Ulrik Laustsen, they’ll bring the founder perspective into a practical conversation around due diligence, deal execution and the decisions that come with getting an acquisition across the line.
Agenda:
15:00–15:15 Arrival & Welcome
15:15–15:45 Founder case: Jesper Søgaard, Co-founder & Co-CEO of Better Collective
15:45–16:05 Financial Due Diligence: Sebastien Delus, Partner, PwC Deals
16:05–16:15 Break
16:15–16:45 Deal Structuring: Søren Thorvaldsen Keller, Partner, PwC Tax; Sebastien Delus, Partner, PwC Deals; Ulrik Laustsen, Partner, PwC Legal
16:45–17:15 Founder case: Niels Henrik Sodemann, former Co-founder & CEO of Queue-it
17:15–18:00 Roundtable
18:00–19:30 Dinner & Networking
19:30 Closing
Who It’s For
Founders and CEOs of startups with 20+ employees, as well as CFOs, strategy leaders, business development executives, legal advisors, and partners working with tech scale-ups.
Time: 15:00 – 20:00
Venue: to be announced
Dinner included (18:00–19:30)
🤝 Partners
A special thank you to our partners, PwC Danmark and Danske Growth, whose support makes Exit Academy possible and helps strengthen Denmark’s next generation of scaling companies.
Note: The organizer reserves the right to make minor adjustments to the session dates, with timely notice provided to all participants.
M&A Academy is built as a continuous cohort experience — not standalone sessions.
The value comes from progression, trust, and shared context across all three sessions.
📧 Contact: Karolina Coshnear – academies@techstartup.dk
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Academy attendance
All DTS academies are free to attend. However, to secure your spot, cancellations or no-shows within 24 hours of the event start time will incur a 500 DKK fee.
Dinner
Dinner is served after the academy. While optional, we encourage you to stay and join, it’s often where the best conversations continue.
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