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 …
We are wrapping up the books with the startup deals from the Nordics for the month of January 2021. It was an average month, 20% fewer deals than in January …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 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 …
It's that time of the year when we look at the big picture and interpret the signals from the Nordic market we gathered throughout 2020. And since analysis reports without …
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 …
We're back! Hope you had a good relaxing holiday and that you are staying safe from the pandemics. To get you up to speed, we have created a report including …
Now that the holidays are over, we crunched the December data and have created a report where we put it together in a nice digestable format reflecting what was important …
As we're closing the books for 2020, we thought it would be useful to have a look at all the Nordic funds which announced fresh available capital thoroughout the year. …
2020 is almost over and we continue our deep dive analysis with a reality check about what's happened since the summer holidays - in addition to the report about the …
We keep getting many questions about the best people to talk to in the Nordics about raising money from international VCs. As noted in a previous report, there is a …
There's less than 50 days till the end of 2020 and the pace of investments in the Nordic countries seems to have slowed down. We took a step back and …
We're almost mid November and the pace of the business in the Nordics seems to become more calm. As we have about four more weeks until the holiday season kicks …
Climate change is a bit like sports - it is the type of subject everybody can have an opinion about since it is kind of easy to understand the direct …
So Amazon finally launched their Nordic operations - first in Sweden and gradually throughout the rest of the region. The general launch sentiment, as reflected by the local media, seems …
As Amazon made its business available in the Nordics, we thought it would be handy to have a look at who are the local startups trying to build shops in …
We produced a high level presentation covering an overview context of what is going on in the Nordic investment ecosystem. The report analyses what happened in the past years in …
This is a dealflow summary for the Nordic private companies we tracked for the month of September. This digest was sent by email to all Nordic 9 users. Not a …
We crunched the numbers for Q3 and produced the list with the largest deals we tracked for investments made in Nordic startups. What we found: the country breakdown includes 7 …
We crunched the numbers for Q3 and compiled the list with the most active investors from the Nordics, based on the number of transactions we tracked. What we found: the …
Digital markeplaces are not easy businesses to create. One of the reasons is the so-called chicken and egg problem - which side should you build first: the buying one or …
September is gone and so is Q3 of a very eventful year. We put together the Nordic transactions details from what we have gathered so far and tried to understand …
You are a startup founder from Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Denmark or Finland and you are building a great tech startup business. You have two options - you focus locally and …
We continue with our deep dives into the angel investors ecosystem from the Nordics, as angels activity is a great way to understand the startup ecosystems. After the list of …
The health sector is probably one of the more interesting category both from a perspective of an entrepreneur and of an investor. Entrepreneurs have a huge and very interesting market …
Our report about growth investors based in the Nordic countries seemed to be quite popular. Happy you find it useful! If you built a Nordic company and now you are …
This is a dealflow summary for the Nordic private companies we tracked for the month of August. During August we added a total of 287 deals and 7 reports in …
In the first 8 months of 2020, the companies from the Nordic countries have raised a whopping $3.35bn in equity funding. That is almost at the same levels as 2019, …
A traditional single family office, technically speaking, is a business run by and for a single family. Its sole function is to centralize the management of a significant family fortune, …
Even though the Nordics is a small overall market, we think startups can have interesting options when looking to scale up companies with local investment partners. Money is not as …
Let's talk numbers. Any pitch targeted for professional investors, especially when looking to deploy growth capital, is useless without traction numbers. A great sales story is one that is supported …
Here's the deal: the food industry is the 6th largest industry in terms of capital invested and accounts for 5% of the total amount of capital invested in Europe in …
We think you can understand better a startup ecosystem by also looking at what kind of investments the non-Nordic investors made in the local companies. Some of them have local …
This is a dealflow summary for the Nordic private companies we tracked for the month of July. During July we added a total of 215 deals and 8 reports in …
As we're getting back from the holidays and start prepping for the second part of 2020, we thought you would like to have on overview that catches you up to …
Summer is almost over (by Nordic standards) and in the past couple of months we have had some interesting M&A transactions that took place, including big American companies such as …
The angel investment activity is probably one of the better indicators of the early stage investment environment in a country. Let's talk some numbers: For 2020, January-June, for all the …
We think that the manufacturing sector is one of the most under-rated and under-invested when it comes to the potential of the technological innovation that one can make nowadays. This …
Sifted.eu made an interesting survey among its readers, which resulted in a list with more than 80 people from Europe, mostly founders contributing to creating a better world through their …
This is a dealflow summary for the Nordic private companies we tracked for the month of June. During June we added a total of 272 deals and 7 reports in …
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