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 …
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 …
Lists with venture investors can be made in multiple ways. Techcrunch made a global one with what they consider to be founder-friendly investors, based on who is perceived to be …
What are some of the most important early stage startups coming up from the Nordic countries this year? We analysed 468 investments made in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden …
We had a look at the very early stage investments made in Denmark from January-July 2020. For the first 6 months we have tracked a total of 100 transactions in …
As we closed the books for the first part of 2020, we analysed a bit what happened in the Finnish early stage startup ecosystem in the first 6 months of …
We had a look at the very early stage investments made in Norway for the very first part of 2020. For the first 6 months we have tracked a total …
Very early stage investments are usually a good indicator about the pulse of the investment market. As Sweden is the bigger Nordic market, we had a first good look at …