We know the path, because we walked it.
NordBridge Japan helps students reach leading Nordic universities. We guide the entire journey, from choosing the right program to building the application, writing essays, and preparing for the move, with clear tools and one-to-one support.
Founded by two international students who made the same move themselves, we built the resource we wish we had.
We built NordBridge for every student staring down this path alone, unsure where to begin. We were once right there too.
The founders
Mahan Mir Mahmoud
Co-Founder · CEO
Strategy, Partnerships & Sales
Leads partnerships, university relationships, and student guidance.
"Every application is someone's next chapter, so we give it everything we've got."
Top experience
B2B consulting and business development across Europe and Asia, from renewable-energy consulting in the German market to venture and event work in Shanghai, grounded by a semester studying in Japan at Tokai University.
Languages German · Farsi · English · Spanish · Japanese
Miro Binnenstein
Co-Founder · COO
Product, Build & Operations
Builds the tools and systems behind the process.
"If a student ever feels lost along the way, we haven't done our job right."
Top experience
Trained at Bloomberg in London and led a German-market B2B project at Dialogue One, with hands-on operations experience across the DACH region that shapes how our tools and process actually work.
Languages German · English · Spanish
What we stand for
Independent
Advice is never for sale. You see every suitable program, partner university or not.
Honest
We say so when staying in Japan is genuinely the better option, even though that's not our sale.
Reachable
Real humans, fast replies, not a ticket queue.
Why Copenhagen
NordBridge House ApS is based in Copenhagen, where both founders study and where Danish company law gives us a stable legal base for a team working across all five Nordic countries. It's a base of operations, not a claim of partnership, see our Partners page for the honest state of those conversations.
Our goal is simple: remove the guesswork, so you can focus on where you're going.