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The new wave of European VCs

Insights 11 May 2021

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 …

What you need to know about the Nordic investment market in Q1

Insights 07 April 2021

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 …

What you need to know about the European investment market in Q1

Insights 06 April 2021

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 …

Why did Point Nine Capital invested $12 million in Whereby?

Insights 17 March 2021

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 …

What you need to know about the Nordic investment market in February 2021.

Insights 08 March 2021

We're wrapping up the February numbers about the startup investment deals made in the Nordics. It was a relatively quiet month, definitely affected by the pandemic and by the entire …

Is Klarna really worth $31 billion?

Insights 02 March 2021

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 …

Best 50 Nordic - the most promising early stage startups from the Nordics, the 2021 edition.

Insights 25 February 2021

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 you need to know about the Nordic investment market in January 2021.

Insights 18 February 2021

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 in Europe - who is doing SPACs from Europe?

Insights 17 February 2021

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 VC investors in Europe - who are they

Insights 16 February 2021

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 …

A list of promising very early stage edtech startups from Europe.

Insights 11 February 2021

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 …

Fintech startups from the Nordics - the new wave of unicorn wannabes.

Insights 02 February 2021

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 …

2020 in 20 graphs about the Nordic startup and VC ecosystem

Insights 18 January 2021

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 …

The most active Nordic VCs in 2020

Insights 11 January 2021

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 you need to know about the Nordic investment market in December 2020.

Insights 10 January 2021

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 …

The most interesting investment deals of the 2020 fall.

Insights 13 November 2020

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 …

The most interesting early stage DTC (e-commerce) startups from the Nordics.

Insights 27 October 2020

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 …

2020 overview of the Nordic investment ecosystem

Insights 22 October 2020

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 …

What you need to know about the Nordic investment market in September 2020.

Insights 16 October 2020

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 …

Early stage marketplace startups from the Nordics you should look at

Insights 08 October 2020

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 …

10 takeways and graphs about the Nordic startup ecosystem in Q3 2020.

Insights 07 October 2020

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 …

A list of active Norwegian angel investors you should know about

Insights 24 September 2020

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 …

Raising series A and later in the Nordics - who are the INTERNATIONAL growth investors from the region.

Insights 11 September 2020

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 …

What you need to know about the Nordic investment market in August 2020.

Insights 10 September 2020

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 …

A guide of the family offices from Sweden

Insights 02 September 2020

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, …

Raising series A and later in the Nordics - who are the growth investors from Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark.

Insights 27 August 2020

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 …

The fastest growing startups from the Nordics that you should know of.

Insights 25 August 2020

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 …

What you need to know about the Nordic investment market in July 2020.

Insights 14 August 2020

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 …

The most promising venture investments made in Nordic companies this summer - a top 30 list.

Insights 08 August 2020

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 …

Angel investors from Sweden you should know about

Insights 06 August 2020

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 …

What you need to know about the Nordic investment market in June 2020.

Insights 17 July 2020

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 …

Who are the top founder-friendly investors from the Nordics?

Insights 14 July 2020

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 kind of startups from Denmark raised early stage funding in the first part of 2020.

Insights 10 July 2020

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 …

19 startups from Finland which raised less than $1M in H1 2020.

Insights 07 July 2020

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 …

A detailed breakdown analysis of 33 startups from Norway which raised less than $1M in H1 2020.

Insights 07 July 2020

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 …

What kind of startups from Sweden attracted early stage funding in the first half of 2020

Insights 07 July 2020

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 …

What you need to know about the Nordic investment market in May 2020.

Insights 12 June 2020

This is a dealflow summary for the Nordic private companies we tracked for the month of May. During May we added a total of 226 deals and 6 reports in …

Inventure - investor profile. Cheat sheet with facts and info.

Insights 28 May 2020

Inventure is a venture company based in Finland looking to back early stage startups from the local market, as well as from Sweden, Norway, Iceland and Denmark. The company was …

EQT Ventures - investor profile. Cheat sheet with facts and info.

Insights 20 May 2020

EQT Ventures is a young venture company based in Sweden and part of the EQT Group, one of the most powerful investors from North of Europe. The company was founded …

What you need to know about the Nordic investment market in April 2020.

Insights 17 May 2020

This is a dealflow summary for the Nordic private companies we tracked for the month of April. During April we added a total of 250 deals in our databases. This …

ByFounders - investor profile. Cheat sheet with facts and info.

Insights 15 May 2020

ByFounders is a young venture company from Denmark whith a scope covering the local market as well as Sweden, Finland, Iceland and Norway. The company was founded in 2017 by …

Maki VC - investor profile. Cheat sheet with facts and info.

Insights 10 May 2020

Maki VC is one of the younger venture companies from the Nordics, based in Helsinki, Finland. The company was founded in 2018 by two partners backed by 73 LPs and …

Northzone - investor profile. Cheat sheet with facts and info.

Insights 07 May 2020

Northzone is one of the oldest and more traditional venture company from the Nordics. The company was founded in 1996 and since then transitioned from a provincial local player operating …

Creandum - investor profile. Cheat sheet with facts and info.

Insights 04 May 2020

Creandum is one of the better known investors from Sweden. The company was started back in 2003 by four founders and almost 20 years later it has become one of …

Introducing the Cheat Sheet reports

Insights 02 May 2020

We launched a new section covering in-depth investors, deals, startups and verticals from the Nordics. Every month we produce a number of reports with facts and analysis. They include investors …

The Nordic private venture investments in the first quarter of 2020

Insights 16 April 2020

We had a quick look at the intermediate numbers of the investment deals tracked for Q1 of 2020 in startups based in the Nordic countries. In a nutshell: we are …

Predictions 2018 - how we did (pretty good!)

Insights 02 January 2019

At the end of 2017 we had a look at possible candidates from the small and cozy Nordic startup ecosystem that would be looking for raising growth capital investment funding …

10 interesting deals in the Nordics from October 2018.

Insights 06 November 2018

This is what we found interesting in the Nordic investment ecosystem during the month of October 2018. 1. VR is back in business in the Nordics Varjo, the Finnish company …

More money than projects in the Nordics, mobility moves and other stories from October.

Insights 06 November 2018

The following is a selection of our observations from the past month as we consume feeds, twits and other media bits from the Scandinavian ecosystem. We're looking to curate interesting, …

5 key take aways and 10 graphs about Nordic investments for Q3 2018.

Insights 11 October 2018

As we wrap up the deals for the month of September, its time to have a look at the big picture of the third quarter of the investment deals from …