We tracked a number of 4370 investors active in startups based in Europe in H1 2021. The breakdown is as follows: 1313 venture companies 1635 angel investors 1422 other type …
The German startup ecosystem is up and coming, with more and more interesting startups emerging every year. Add to that Switzerland and Austria, which have an increased interest in the …
The early stage VC activity of backing European startups has never been so busy. At pre-seed and seed levels in Europe, in 2021 alone we tracked almost 1000 investors active …
Seedcamp is one of the most active early stage investors from Europe. Launched in 2007 as a startup accelerator in London, they switched their model to a full VC business …
The French startup ecosystem has been pretty much a closed one, with deals done by and within the French connections. However, we have noticed that in the past few years …
After analysing who were the most active American investors in Europe in Q1 2021, and doing a portfolio analysis of the most active 15 of them, we thought it would …
We analyzed the portfolio of about 500 investors based in the United States who were active in Europe for a period of 15 months, between January 2020 and March 2021. …
As we screened the list of the most active American investors in startups based in Europe - all 311 of them - we thought it would be interesting to have …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
A lesser known feature of Nordic 9 is a comprehensive data set covering the Spanish market. In your account settings simply change the region of interest to Spain and voila, …
As we're finalising adding the last investment transactions for the first part of the year, we thought it would be useful to have a look at who were the most …
We're closing the books for the first part of the year, and it is time to have a look at the largest investment transactions we tracked for companies based in …
Early stage investment can be important in the further development of a company, if you're running a startup either in the Nordics or anywhere in the world. It's not only …
More than 3 months passed from 2020 (feels like a whole year) and this is a good time to review what were the top investment deals from the Nordic region. …
A list with top angel investors is handy when talking about most active investors or VC from the Nordic countries. So we extracted from our DBs a list with the …
We wanted to see what were the most active investors from the Nordic countries from 2019 so we created the list below. It contains all types of investors i.e. venture …
We had a look at who were the most active venture investors from Denmark as we're getting close to add final details on the transactions from the private investment market …
As we are finalising the books with the deals for 2019, we had a look at who were the most active venture investors from Finland. At the time of writing …
We thought it would be useful to take a look at the most active venture capital companies from the Nordic countries from last year, as we are closing the books …
In the last 6 months we saw plenty of fresh funds announced and money made available for being invested in the Nordics - we counted more than $2.2 billion available …
As we entered into 2020, we had a look at the aggregate numbers for 2019 - below you can find an overview of the private investments made in Sweden. Please …
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