*the* bike startup from Europe
- American celebrities invested in a pre-launch European startup this week. Who are they, why they did it and what other Euro startups raised money from celebrities.
- Early stage profiles: one in stealth, D2Cs and a software-based market aggregator
- A curation of the most interesting fundraising deals from this week
- 9 new investment funds announcements.
will Google buy Klarna?
- Klarna became a Google reseller, is there more to it?
- how many ways are there for creating unicorns
- a 22 year old kid is changing an industry
- are voice apps a feature or a product?
Nordic ice cream robotics
Good investment vibes from the Nordics this week, where we're enjoying a combination of some hot summer days and some Swedish political turmoil.
Other than that, we've had a $2 billion valuation (it seems we've been hearing from Nordic unicorns every week lately), a pre-launch seed round for an icecream robot and a Danish developer of "Wordpress for robots".
what kind of investor are you?
There's three types of seed investors + we have a detailed look at the family offices from Sweden.
The early stage VC activity of backing European startups has never been so busy. At pre-seed and seed levels in Europe, in 2021 alone we tracked almost 1000 investors active …
vision-driven stuff out of Sweden
This week we talk about vision-driven projects from Sweden, quantum deals and the latest VC marketing initiatives launched in Europe.
After analysing who were the most active American investors in Europe in Q1 2021, and doing a portfolio analysis of the most active 15 of them, we thought it would …
The VC business in Europe seems to be booming these days, with new funds announced every other week and huge piles of money ready to be deployed, compared to the …
from 1 to 10 billion in 4 years
We're half way of 2021 already and it looks like money access is the last problem to have for the Nordic companies looking to grow by selling equity.
American VCs are coming to Europe - this was a very common refrain heard in the European venture circles in 2019-2020. Truth is, this was bound to happen sooner or …
Spain is one of the regions that has been coming up strongly in the Euro startup ecosystem in the last couple of years. An increasing number of success stories/exits, many …
That time of the year of analysing the big picture with what happened on the Nordic startup ecosystem last year. We tracked 1120 investment deals (worth $6.94bn) that were announced …
the hottest consumer app is from Europe
Today we cover the details of an investment deal that I haven’t seen on the usual Euro media channels and which will probably be written about extensively in the following days.
Euro investors not into the grocery business.
Euro startups accelerated by YC keep raising money, Goldman has quietly become one of more active growth finance providers and, believe it or not, there's still high profile investors not involved with grocery startups from Europe. Yet.
Food is a hot sector right now in Europe, for many reasons. One of its hottest vertical is the food delivery, augmented by the last 12 months of Covid, whereas …
Klarna raising $1 billion at a $31 billion valuation is probably one of most significant piece of news from the European startup market recently. Not only because this makes it …
This week Whereby announced raising $12 million for a SAAS op selling a video collaboration tool for freelancers and small companies. If you don't know what Whereby is - in …
Seedcamp is one of the most active early stage investors from Europe. Launched in 2007 as a startup accelerator in London, they switched their model to a full VC business …
Electric is the future, they say, and the Nordic countries are among the first in the world in adopting electric-based vehicles, particularly cars. But the people from the Nordic countries …
The French startup ecosystem has been pretty much a closed one, with deals done by and within the French connections. However, we have noticed that in the past few years …
Doing a review of the European startups that were part of the Y Combinator is not a first for Nordic 9. In 2020 we produced a report profiling startups from …
We are wrapping up the Q1 numbers about the startup investment deals we tracked in Europe. It was an average quarter from the activity perspective - about the same number …
Nordic SPACs
there were 3 SPAC vehicles announced in the Nordics in the past 10 days + interesting deals from the region
On-demand grocery delivery startups are a hot topic for VCs in Europe. So hot that only this week we had announced exactly three investment rounds: Rohlik from Prague, Czech Republic …
SPACs are finally becoming a thing in Europe. One year later and 400 SPAC IPOs already executed in the US since the summer of 2020, Europe finally wakes up and …
The German startup ecosystem is up and coming, with more and more interesting startups emerging every year. Add to that Switzerland and Austria, which have an increased interest in the …
Video software solutions (SAAS) are not a new topic in Europe, particularly since we are coming all the way from 2003 when Skype was founded. Besides, more recently, the working …
Insurance is an old and boring business. It is also a huge business in the Nordic countries and not only, relatively untouched by technology - both from a process development …
The Nordics is known as a great environment for their fintech startups, for many reasons - solid banks with great balance sheets, the consumer tech appetance and its widespread adoption …
We thought it would be interesting to see the new class of early stage marketplace operators from Europe and looked at the companies building such businesses. That means those startups …
Education is one of the most interesting markets that can be disrupted by technology startups. Europe doesn't have so many success edtech stories, and Kahoot of Norway and Brainly of …
As we finalise updating the numbers for the Nordic deals we tracked in March, it is time to have a look at the big picture and draw some conclusions about …
After we analysed what the most promising fintech startups from the Nordics are, with unicorn potential no less, we thought the financial services Nordic picture would be better represented if …
We have tracked the activity of exactly 617 investors in Sweden in 2020. That's about a hundred less than in 2019, when we tracked 706. Since we're reviewing the activity …
As we are looking at the big picture from what happened in the DACH area (Germany, Austria and Switzerland) in 2020, we put together all the venture fund announcement from …
We have created a report listing the largest VC investment deals involving Nordic companies for 2020. We considered deals involving capital raise against minority stakes in the equity books. M&As …
As we're putting the final touches on the December's deal updates, we thought it would be interesting to have an overall look at what happened in 2020. And so we …
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