HOT What you need to know about the European investment market in Q1
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 …
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HOT What you need to know about the Nordic investment market in Q1
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 …
HOT A list of up and coming Nordic manufacturers of electric vehicles - boats, trucks, bicycles, motorcycles and scooters.
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 …
HOT Is Klarna really worth $31 billion?
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 …
HOT Why did Point Nine Capital invested $12 million in Whereby?
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 …
American VC investors in Europe - who are they
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 which raised money in Europe in the last 12 months.
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 in Europe - who is doing SPACs from Europe?
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 …
Video software - interesting early stage SAAS startups doing video software in Europe.
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 …
European startups at Y Combinator in winter 2021
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 …
Best 50 Nordic - the most promising early stage startups from the Nordics, the 2021 edition.
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 …
What are the hot early stage marketplace startups from Europe?
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 …
20 early stage startups from Spain to look at.
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 delivery startups from Europe that raised money in 2020
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 …
Fintech startups from the Nordics - the new wave of unicorn wannabes.
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 …
A list of promising very early stage edtech startups from Europe.
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 …
Who are the investors backing Nordic fintech startups - from Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland or Iceland
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 …
The most active Nordic VCs in 2020
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 …
What VC funds were announced in 2020 from Germany, Austria and Switzerland (DACH)
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 …
Promising insurtech startups from the Nordics.
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 top 60 most active VCs, angel investors, corporate venture investors from Sweden in 2020.
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 …
The largest 30 Nordic VC investment deals from the Nordics in 2020
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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