Nordic 9 tracks private investments deals across specific economic sectors from Europe.
Our goal is simple: to empower investors and startups with better real-time information and tools with a data platform that provides access to competitive intel about what is happening in the European startup market.
We built smart intelligence software on top of data and the information is thoroughly structured and accessible by what is fresh and important, by country and sector-specific reports, and by advanced search tools.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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