Kasper Wichmann

Kasper is an Investment Director at EIFO, Denmark’s national investment fund, where he focuses on venture capital and growth equity fund investments across global private markets. Alongside his investing role, Kasper is a recognized voice within the LP and private markets ecosystem through his writing, speaking engagements, and as host of the Balentic Edge podcast, where he shares perspectives on fund investing, manager selection, portfolio construction, and developments shaping institutional capital allocation. Kasper is also the founder of Balentic, an AI-driven private markets intelligence platform focused on improving decision-making and transparency for institutional investors. Over the past two decades, he has worked across private equity, leveraged finance, and institutional investing in Europe and Asia. His experience spans fund investments, direct investing, and portfolio management across strategies, stages, and geographies. Prior to EIFO, Kasper held roles at UBS Asset Management, where he specialized in private equity fund investing, as well as Credit Suisse Investment Banking and Íslandsbanki Leveraged Finance. He also helped establish the Asian Development Bank’s first direct private equity fund in Manila before returning to UBS AM in Hong Kong as Head of Private Equity Asia. In 2020, he returned to Denmark to build the private equity business at Nykredit Asset Management. Kasper holds an MSc in Applied Economics and Finance from Copenhagen Business School and a CEMS Master’s in International Management from Copenhagen Business School and the London School of Economics.