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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 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 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 …
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 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 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 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 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
H&M and Klarna announced a strategic partnership which also has an investment component involving a symbolic equity stake for less than 1% of the Klarna's equity. Putting the equity stake …
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