GP Bullhound

GP Bullhound is a technology advisory and investment firm established in 1999, headquartered in London, with additional offices in Europe, the US, and Asia. The firm specializes in providing independent strategic advice on mergers and acquisitions, private placements, and other capital-raising activities. GP Bullhound serves a diverse range of sectors, including business product services, consumer product services, energy, financial services, and information technology. With a strong focus on innovation, the firm leverages its extensive network of global buyers and capital to assist entrepreneurs and founders in building successful businesses. GP Bullhound's expertise and understanding of the entrepreneurial journey set it apart from traditional investment banks, enabling it to facilitate transactions with leading companies in the technology space.

Hugh Campbell

Founder and Managing Partner

Alessandro Casartelli

Director

Gioia Cerbelli

Vice President

Joakim Dal

Partner

Elsa Hu

Director

Klueppel, Olya

Partner and Head of Credit

Per Lindtorp

Director

Manish Madhvani

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Simon Miremadi

Managing Director

Dave Nish

Director

Andre Shortell

Partner

Joerg Sievert Ph.D

Investment Partner

95 past transactions

Typeform

Series C in 2022
Typeform is a no-code SaaS platform with thoughtfully-designed tools that help companies grow their business by engaging with their audience. Offering people-friendly forms, quizzes, surveys, and asynchronous video solutions, Typeform turns digital interactions into human connection. Launched in 2012, Typeform drives more than 500 million digital interactions per year and integrates with hundreds of other business-critical tools like HubSpot, Calendly, and Slack, to name a few. Typeform is headquartered in Barcelona, Spain with an office in San Francisco, California, and has a globally-distributed workforce of over 450 people.

CausaLens

Series A in 2022
causaLens is pioneering the world’s first platform for building AI data scientists - empowering everyone to create and deploy their own data science agents in days. As data grows exponentially while data science talent remains scarce, organizations struggle to harness their data effectively. Our platform solves this by enabling organizations to create AI Data Scientists tailored to their specific business context and needs. Teams can collaborate in a multi-agent environment, ensuring human oversight across the entire workflow and making AI-powered data science trustworthy and accessible to everyone – from analysts to business leaders. Seamlessly create and share customized data science agents within a secure environment that protects sensitive information, enabling true enterprise-wide collaboration. AI Data Scientists can be created and trained in days, accelerating and expanding business insight and action at an unprecedented scale. We power industry leaders, including Cisco, Johnson & Johnson, Canon, and McCann Worldgroup, to accelerate and scale their data science capability. Imagine if everyone in your organization — from Marketing to Product, Supply Chain to Operations —could have a dedicated data science team. Now, you don’t need to imagine – you can build your own team of AI Data Scientists in just days.

HackerOne

Series E in 2022
HackerOne, founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, develops a hacker-powered security platform that connects businesses with penetration testers and cybersecurity researchers. The platform facilitates bug bounty solutions, enabling organizations to mitigate security risks through collaboration with a global community of ethical hackers. It promotes a coordinated approach to vulnerability disclosure and response, allowing companies to manage and address security vulnerabilities effectively. By partnering with the hacker community, HackerOne helps organizations identify and resolve relevant security issues before they can be exploited by malicious actors, ultimately enhancing consumer trust and protecting sensitive data. The company also has offices in London, New York City, Singapore, and the Netherlands.

Playtomic

Series C in 2021
Playtomic operates an online sports court booking platform intended to become a social network for sports players. It provides a platform to reserve courts, find other players with similar skill levels, and join a social sports community dedicated to learning that helps sports clubs to optimize the use of their facilities and step into the digital age. Playtomic was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.

Genially

Series B in 2021
Genially is the world-leader in interactive visual communication. Use Genially as your all-in-one online tool to create stunning presentations, interactive images, infographics, dossiers, quizzes, resumes, etc. and enrich them with interactivity and animation effects in seconds. You no longer need a team of designers and programmers to make an impact with striking, visual communication in a flash. Use interactive and animated effects to easily distribute information in layers that viewers can explore and discover. Leave outdated content creation software behind, and stun and engage your audience with Genially. The Wow Effect is just a few clicks away. Choose from over 1000 templates, or start from scratch. Join a community of millions of users worldwide that includes businesspeople, teachers, marketers, designers and companies like Hulu, Danone, Michelin and Heineken. The future of communication awaits you.

Whoop

Series F in 2021
WHOOP is the performance optimization system that tracks recovery, training, and sleeping hours thus helping elite athletes and teams win. The company provides athletes, coaches, and trainers with a continuous understanding of strain and recovery to balance training, reduce injuries, and predict performance. It creates a product that makes individuals and teams perform at a higher level through a deeper understanding of their bodies and daily lives. The WHOOP Strap 3.0 collects physiological data 24/7 to provide an accurate and granular understanding of the body. Aurelian Nicolae, John Capodilupo, and Will Ahmed established WHOOP in 2012 and in Boston, Massachusetts.

Resolution Games

Series C in 2021
Resolution Games is a games studio led by some of the top minds in the industry, forging a world-class catalog of titles that bring players into the richest VR and AR worlds possible.

Lingokids

Series C in 2021
Lingokids is the playlearningTM app for more than 10 million families around the world. The app teaches kids ages 2-8 important skills in English to help them discover their natural superpowers. Creativity. Collaboration. Critical thinking. Communication. These are some of the skills that children need to thrive. Parents can join the adventure of learning too. Lingokids has developed more than 600 games and activities kids and parents can play together. Their dream is to have a positive impact on 100 million families and we’re working hard to make it a reality.

Sesamy

Seed Round in 2021
Sesamy provides frictionless single purchases and consumption of digital content, without restricting the user’s choice of app or device.

Glovo

Series F in 2021
Glovo is a Barcelona based start-up that is transforming the way consumers access local goods, enabling anyone to get nearly any product delivered in less than 60 minutes. They are currently present in Spain, Italy, Portugal, France, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Peru, and many more to come. Glovo’s mobile application connects customers with independent local couriers, who acquire goods from any restaurant or shop in a city and also deliver urgent packages for a variable fee. The mobile app allows users to find and place orders with their favorite restaurants which are picked up when ready and delivered to the user's doorstep. The platform’s features include geolocation, which allows customers to track their deliveries in real-time and locate the nearest glover (courier), thus optimizing speed and distance. It´s like a new personal courier available to everyone that runs your errands immediately and on-demand.

Wallapop

Series G in 2021
Wallapop is a hyper-local mobile marketplace based in Barcelona, Spain, that facilitates the buying and selling of secondhand goods. Founded in September 2013 by Agustin Gomez, the platform operates as a "virtual flea market," connecting users within their local communities to trade a wide variety of pre-owned items. By focusing on local transactions, Wallapop aims to promote sustainable consumption and reduce waste while providing an accessible way for individuals to declutter their homes and find affordable products. The app's user-friendly interface and geolocation features enhance the buying and selling experience, making it a popular choice for those looking to engage in secondhand commerce.

Vivino

Series D in 2021
Vivino empowers people everywhere to enjoy wine to the fullest. Vivino is the world's largest online wine marketplace and most downloaded wine app, powered by a community of millions. Vivino’s unique wine shopping experience uses community data to suggest personalized wine recommendations, make wine discovery, and purchase fun, accessible, and effortless for wine drinkers of every level of expertise. The Vivino app is available for download on Android and Apple devices. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

DuckDuckGo

Secondary Market in 2020
DuckDuckGo is an independent Internet privacy company for everyone who's had enough of hidden online tracking and wants to take back their privacy now. Founded in 2008 as a privacy protecting alternative to Google Search, today DuckDuckGo has more than 100 million users worldwide and provides users with an all-in-one privacy solution through the DuckDuckGo web browser, available on mobile and desktop devices. Unlike most popular browsers, DuckDuckGo has powerful privacy protections built in, including our search engine that doesn’t spy on your searches and over a dozen other privacy protections active by default.

Challengermode

Venture Round in 2020
Challengermode provides a competitive gaming platform that automates tournament management and facilitates community engagement for gamers. The technology integrates seamlessly with games, allowing users to participate in competitions and leagues across various devices.

MariaDB

Series C in 2020
MariaDB is a new generation database company whose products reach more than a billion users through Linux distributions and have been downloaded over one billion times.

busuu

Venture Round in 2020
With more than 90 million users globally, busuu is the world's largest social network for language learning. Through a website and mobile apps, the business offers free and premium paid-for access to interactive courses for 12 languages. Uniquely, the platform encourages collaborative learning by offering users the unique opportunity to learn the language and practice their listening, writing, reading and speaking with assistance from a rapidly growing community of native speakers. In this way, every busuu user is both student of a foreign language and tutor of their own ‘mother tongue’. busuu was founded by Bernhard Niesner and Adrian Hilti in early 2008, with a vision to enable everyone in the world to learn a second language. Based in London, busuu offers an integrated, cross-channel platform which is constantly evolving to meet the demands of an increasingly mobile world population. Winner of 'Best Education Start‐up' at The Europas TechCrunch Awards in 2011 and CeBIT Innovation Award in 2010. The company now also offers corporate language training solutions for large international companies around the world. The company is named after the busuu language of Cameroon. According to an ethnological study from the 1980s, Busuu is spoken by only 8 people.

Playtomic

Venture Round in 2020
Playtomic operates an online sports court booking platform intended to become a social network for sports players. It provides a platform to reserve courts, find other players with similar skill levels, and join a social sports community dedicated to learning that helps sports clubs to optimize the use of their facilities and step into the digital age. Playtomic was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.

Revolut

Series D in 2020
Revolut is a financial services company that specializes in mobile banking, card payments, money remittance, and foreign exchange. Revolut started as a platform for providing prepaid debit cards and currency exchange but has since expanded its services to include cryptocurrency trading, stock trading, insurance, and various other financial products. It operates in numerous countries worldwide and is known for its mobile app, which allows users to manage their finances, make payments, and track spending.

Genially

Series A in 2020
Genially is the world-leader in interactive visual communication. Use Genially as your all-in-one online tool to create stunning presentations, interactive images, infographics, dossiers, quizzes, resumes, etc. and enrich them with interactivity and animation effects in seconds. You no longer need a team of designers and programmers to make an impact with striking, visual communication in a flash. Use interactive and animated effects to easily distribute information in layers that viewers can explore and discover. Leave outdated content creation software behind, and stun and engage your audience with Genially. The Wow Effect is just a few clicks away. Choose from over 1000 templates, or start from scratch. Join a community of millions of users worldwide that includes businesspeople, teachers, marketers, designers and companies like Hulu, Danone, Michelin and Heineken. The future of communication awaits you.

RavenPack

Venture Round in 2019
RavenPack designs big data analytics services that conducts financial analysis. Its big data analytics services facilitates in conversion of unstructured content into structured data helping in easier analysis and deployment in financial applications enabling clients to enhance returns, reduce risk or increase efficiency by systematically incorporating the effects of public information in their models or workflows..

Auro Travel

Venture Round in 2019
Auro Travel is The largest fleet of private vehicles in Spain. they offer a car service with driver, legal, professional, serious, discreet and tailored. they know that this is a very personal service and that is why they adapt to your needs, whatever you want. Booking with us is having the guarantee that everything will be fine.

Monocl

Venture Round in 2019
Monocl empowers life science professionals with the complete global expert solution designed to drive impactful outreach and strategic engagement. Our cloud-based expert platform - powered by machine learning - continuously analyzes an unrivaled amount of data across all therapeutic areas and regions, providing invaluable context and actionable insights.

Nivo

Series A in 2019
Nivo has combined bank standard identity verification with secure instant messaging. Its network offers the convenience of an interface like WhatsApp but where both sides of a conversation can trust the other is who they say they are. You can use the latest technologies to identify customers, and you can share information, images, and files effortlessly.

Glovo

Series D in 2019
Glovo is a Barcelona based start-up that is transforming the way consumers access local goods, enabling anyone to get nearly any product delivered in less than 60 minutes. They are currently present in Spain, Italy, Portugal, France, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Peru, and many more to come. Glovo’s mobile application connects customers with independent local couriers, who acquire goods from any restaurant or shop in a city and also deliver urgent packages for a variable fee. The mobile app allows users to find and place orders with their favorite restaurants which are picked up when ready and delivered to the user's doorstep. The platform’s features include geolocation, which allows customers to track their deliveries in real-time and locate the nearest glover (courier), thus optimizing speed and distance. It´s like a new personal courier available to everyone that runs your errands immediately and on-demand.

Playtomic

Venture Round in 2019
Playtomic operates an online sports court booking platform intended to become a social network for sports players. It provides a platform to reserve courts, find other players with similar skill levels, and join a social sports community dedicated to learning that helps sports clubs to optimize the use of their facilities and step into the digital age. Playtomic was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.

Partnerize

Series D in 2018
Partnerize is the leader in partnership automation. The Partnerize platform is the only of its kind to deliver a fully integrated, comprehensive suite of discovery, recruitment, optimization, payment, brand safety and fraud prevention capabilities for marketers seeking a high transparency, scalable subsidy to alleviate pressure on their unit economics as a result of over dependence on primary sales and marketing channels. Supported by unrivaled service including the category’s only in-housing support program, with Partnerize, you’re in control of the entire partnership marketing lifecycle—all on a single platform. Headquartered in NYC, Partnerize retains offices in Australia, United Kingdom, Japan, San Francisco, Philadelphia and Wilkes-Barre. For more information on how Partnerize helps turn your partnerships into a profit center, please visit https://partnerize.com/en. Partnerize is the trading name of the Performance Horizon group of companies.

Resolution Games

Series B in 2018
Resolution Games is a games studio led by some of the top minds in the industry, forging a world-class catalog of titles that bring players into the richest VR and AR worlds possible.

Playtomic

Venture Round in 2018
Playtomic operates an online sports court booking platform intended to become a social network for sports players. It provides a platform to reserve courts, find other players with similar skill levels, and join a social sports community dedicated to learning that helps sports clubs to optimize the use of their facilities and step into the digital age. Playtomic was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.

Stratio

Series B in 2018
Stratio is a digital transformation company that builds and transforms its digital strategy around artificial intelligence and big data. The company's augmented data fabric covers the whole lifecycle of data management such as Auto-discovering the data, virtualizing it, providing it with metadata and intelligently giving it semantic meaning, and, finally, mining it with MLOps. All with a unique platform that ensures the best integration among the different parts. Stratio's platform allows your company to be on public clouds and OnPrem without vendor lockings. That way you can reuse your previous work (Ontologies, Business Data views, ML Models, Workflows, etc.) in other clouds and countries reducing time and costs even on the short term. The start-up was founded in November 2013 by a team of seasoned engineers, designers, and technology consultants and has grown from a team of 15 to more than 500, mainly based in Madrid, Spain Bogota, Colombia, and Paris, France.

LendInvest

Series C in 2018
LendInvest Limited is an online investment platform based in London, United Kingdom, focused on property lending and investment. The company operates a marketplace that allows everyday investors to access various asset classes, including property-backed loans. LendInvest offers a range of financing options, such as buy-to-let mortgages, bridging loans, and development finance, catering to intermediaries, landlords, and developers. Founded in 2008 by Christian Faes and Ian Thomas, LendInvest combines technology with financial services to streamline property investment processes. The firm also has an asset management and advisory arm, targeting both commercial and residential properties in the UK.

OnTruck

Series B in 2018
OnTruck is a platform that is based on the use of new technologies to offer companies regional merchandise transport services, through an immediate and transparent price management system. OnTruck puts companies in contact with a wide network of professional carriers, in order to provide a reliable and efficient delivery service, and with the possibility to check in real time the status of each shipment. For their part, carriers can receive orders and accept them if they wish through a free application, so that they can complete the loading of their vehicles and increase their income. For the creation and implementation of OnTruck, its founders allocated 100,000 euros, although friends and family soon wanted to participate, with an investment of 500,000 euros. In October 2016, they closed a first round of financing worth 2 million euros, in which Point Nine Capital, based in Berlin, participated; the British fund Local Globe; and Samaipata Ventures. In May 2017, a second round of financing of 9.2 million euros led by Atomico took place, followed by the French fund IdInvest, and the venture capital arm of the company, also French, Total Energy. In May 2018 they received their third round of financing worth 25 million euros, led by the Cathay Innovation fund, followed by Atomico, Idinvest Partners, All Iron Ventures, Total Energy Ventures, GP Bullhound. The startup, which is focused on the regional palletized merchandise transport service, currently operates in two countries: Spain and the United Kingdom. In Spain it is present in the downtown area (Madrid and neighboring provinces), Catalonia and the Valencian Community. In the United Kingdom it operates in London and in the Southeast area of ​​the country. Yours is a simple, transparent and effective service. On the one hand, it provides an immediate way to access their prices, simply by entering the web and quoting shipping. Any company can schedule a shipment for free and hire in less than two minutes a load of any dry or refrigerated merchandise on local or regional routes in the areas it currently operates. The transport can be for that same time or scheduled, that is, the typical services of 24h and 48h, which means that they can pick up any palletized goods in less than 30 minutes. They are also very competitive in price within their sector, becoming up to 50% cheaper compared to the rates that are usually handled in the sector. On the other hand, OnTruck are firmly committed to optimizing the use of industrial vehicles by generating routes. Its technological solution seeks to capture the inefficiencies that are generated in the regional transport of goods when you combine and execute a high volume of loads in a very defined geographical area and generate opportunities for routes that reduce the number of kilometers that vehicles in our network make in empty.

Tradeshift

Series E in 2018
Tradeshift Inc. is a cloud-based platform that connects buyers and suppliers, streamlining digital trade transactions and enhancing supply chain efficiency. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Tradeshift offers a suite of solutions including Tradeshift Buy, an eProcurement tool; Tradeshift Pay, an accounts payable automation platform; and Tradeshift Risk, which focuses on risk data collection and analysis. The company also provides Tradeshift Engage, a platform for supplier collaboration, and Tradeshift Go, which offers visibility into employee spending. Additionally, Tradeshift Frontiers serves as an innovation lab, exploring emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and distributed ledgers to transform B2B commerce and global supply chains. With a commitment to eliminating paper and manual processes, Tradeshift enables clients to optimize procure-to-pay processes securely while capitalizing on early payment discounts and minimizing risks.

Tiptapp

Venture Round in 2018
Tiptapp is your go-to answer when you need assistance moving items into or out of your home. The app provides a marketplace where users can quickly and easily provide and receive assistance with delivery, shopping, moves, and recycling of any size.

Quixel

Venture Round in 2018
Quixel powers bundle includes a photogrammetry asset library, megascans, bridge, and mixer for creating 3D content. Their solutions are used in ambitious productions. They also provide educational programs and tutorials.

Wallapop

Venture Round in 2018
Wallapop is a hyper-local mobile marketplace for buying and selling secondhand goods, primarily accessible via a mobile app. It uses a geo-localized technology that connects a community of 15 million users by offering an easy and convenient way to buy and sell items that are no longer used. The platform, which has found a second home for more than 180 million items, provides people with access to unique goods at great prices while extending the life of fully functional products. Since its inception, Wallapop has been committed to continuous innovation in the online classifieds industry and second-hand market and aspires to use technology to contribute to sustainability. The company is backed by investors Korelya Capital, NAVER, Accel, Insight Venture Partners, 14W, and Northzone. It was founded in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain by Agustin Gomez, Miguel Vicente, and Gerard Olive in 2013.

AdMedia

Acquisition in 2018
AdMedia Partners is an independent M&A advisor to digital and traditional marketing and media businesses. Founded in 1990 and located in New York, we have completed over 250 transactions worth over $12 billion.

Matsmart

Venture Round in 2018
Matsmart sells surplus food online. A significant part of the food would otherwise be thrown away due to packaging changes, short or expired expiry dates, or other reasons. In 2017, Matsmart saved 2022 tonnes of food from going to waste. The company has seen explosive growth, reaching recurring revenues of SEK 200 million. Matsmart was founded by Karl Andersson, Erik Södergren and Ulf Skagerström, and launched in Sweden in 2014. Since then, the company has also expanded to Norway and Finland.

Matsmart

Venture Round in 2017
Matsmart sells surplus food online. A significant part of the food would otherwise be thrown away due to packaging changes, short or expired expiry dates, or other reasons. In 2017, Matsmart saved 2022 tonnes of food from going to waste. The company has seen explosive growth, reaching recurring revenues of SEK 200 million. Matsmart was founded by Karl Andersson, Erik Södergren and Ulf Skagerström, and launched in Sweden in 2014. Since then, the company has also expanded to Norway and Finland.

Seventy Agency

Venture Round in 2017
Seventy is a brand and business design agency with offices in Stockholm and Shanghai. We create value for our customers through businesses that transform and grow, and brands that engage with captivating experiences

Fishbrain

Series B in 2017
Fishbrain is a mobile app, commerce platform, and social network for people who love fishing. This free-to-use app provides tools, insights, support, and fishing gear to fully enjoy fishing. It also has an interactive map that helps anglers find new fishing spots and see what other people are catching, with what bait, and specifically where.

Mathem

Venture Round in 2017
MatHem is an e-commerce company that combines a complete grocery store online with recipes and subscriptions for ready-made groceries. It delivers food to Swedish homes 7 days a week. The company also combines a full grocery store online with prescription and subscription finished shopping bags. MatHem offers a broad range of grocery products and adjacent household consumables, catering to more than half of Swedish households. The company food is delivered to your door with their own temperature-controlled to ensure an unbroken cold chain. Mathem.se has been awarded The Grocery Website of the Year (Årets matsajt) in 2010, 2011 and 2013 by the Swedish online magazine Internet world. It was founded in 2009 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden

Matsmart

Venture Round in 2016
Matsmart sells surplus food online. A significant part of the food would otherwise be thrown away due to packaging changes, short or expired expiry dates, or other reasons. In 2017, Matsmart saved 2022 tonnes of food from going to waste. The company has seen explosive growth, reaching recurring revenues of SEK 200 million. Matsmart was founded by Karl Andersson, Erik Södergren and Ulf Skagerström, and launched in Sweden in 2014. Since then, the company has also expanded to Norway and Finland.

Spotify

Secondary Market in 2016
Spotify is a commercial music streaming service that provides restricted digital content from a range of record labels and artists. Users can browse through the interface by artist, album, genre, playlist, record label, and direct searches. It also enables individuals to create, share, and edit playlists with other users. If users want recommendations, they can integrate their system with Last.fm, an application that provides music recommendations based on listening history. The radio feature installed in Spotify creates random playlists for its users that are related to preferred artists. Spotify is available for mobile device platforms such as Android, Blackberry, Boxee, iOS, Linux, MeeGo, Squeezebox, Windows mobile, and more.

Job&talent

Series B in 2016
Job&Talent is a world-leading marketplace for essential work. We match great people with great companies through our platform. Technology is our superpower and we use it to help people find reliable and flexible work. In turn, companies get trusted, agile workforces. It’s an exciting journey we’re on. Here are some numbers. In 2022, we placed more than 340,000 workers in over 2,500 companies, and we generated €1.9 billion in revenue. We have a valuation of $2.4 billion, which makes Job&Talent the highest-valued unicorn in Spain, backed by leading investors such as SoftBank, Kinnevik, Atomico, Goldman Sachs, Citi and BlackRock. Job&Talent was founded in 2009 in Madrid, where we're still headquartered. We’re a remote-first company and operate in 10 countries across Europe, the U.S. and Latin America so far. We have ambitious plans to expand further.

Matsmart

Venture Round in 2015
Matsmart sells surplus food online. A significant part of the food would otherwise be thrown away due to packaging changes, short or expired expiry dates, or other reasons. In 2017, Matsmart saved 2022 tonnes of food from going to waste. The company has seen explosive growth, reaching recurring revenues of SEK 200 million. Matsmart was founded by Karl Andersson, Erik Södergren and Ulf Skagerström, and launched in Sweden in 2014. Since then, the company has also expanded to Norway and Finland.

Instabridge

Series A in 2015
Instabridge is a Wi-Fi sharing community and mobile app, particularly popular in Brazil and Mexico. Its mission is to build a wifi sharing community on every city on the planet. Originally founded in late 2012 as a way to enable you to share your home Wi-Fi with friends on Facebook, the Stockholm-based company has since pivoted to become a broader Wi-Fi sharing community, and has found traction in developing markets where cellular data remains prohibitively expensive. The Instabridge app lets you share the details of any Wi-Fi hotspot with other Instabridge users, and provides access to Wi-Fi hotspots shared by everyone else in the community. This has enabled it to build a crowdsourced database of Wi-Fi hotspots, in addition to a list of known public venues that have free Wi-Fi, such as McDonald’s or Starbucks.

Fishbrain

Series A in 2015
Fishbrain is a mobile app, commerce platform, and social network for people who love fishing. This free-to-use app provides tools, insights, support, and fishing gear to fully enjoy fishing. It also has an interactive map that helps anglers find new fishing spots and see what other people are catching, with what bait, and specifically where.

Zound Industries

Venture Round in 2015
Zound Industries designs, develops, and markets headphones. It offers four brands, intended to serve specific audiences: Urbanears, Coloud, Marshall, and Molami. The company has set up distribution in more than 100 markets, and its products are available at over 20,000 locations globally, including Apple, Best Buy, HMV, Target, Urban Outfitters, Colette, FNAC, Media Markt, Telia, Deutsche Telecom, Orange, and Tesco. Zound Industries was co-founded by Konrad Bergström, Niklas Bergh, and Oscar Axhede in 2008 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden. Its products were first introduced to the market in December 2009.

Spotify

Series G in 2015
Spotify is a commercial music streaming service that provides restricted digital content from a range of record labels and artists. Users can browse through the interface by artist, album, genre, playlist, record label, and direct searches. It also enables individuals to create, share, and edit playlists with other users. If users want recommendations, they can integrate their system with Last.fm, an application that provides music recommendations based on listening history. The radio feature installed in Spotify creates random playlists for its users that are related to preferred artists. Spotify is available for mobile device platforms such as Android, Blackberry, Boxee, iOS, Linux, MeeGo, Squeezebox, Windows mobile, and more.

Believe

Private Equity Round in 2015
Believe is the digital distributor for independent music. Their objective is to provide justice, expertise, respect, and openness to local artists and labels at all stages of their digital development.

Wallapop

Venture Round in 2015
Wallapop is a hyper-local mobile marketplace for buying and selling secondhand goods, primarily accessible via a mobile app. It uses a geo-localized technology that connects a community of 15 million users by offering an easy and convenient way to buy and sell items that are no longer used. The platform, which has found a second home for more than 180 million items, provides people with access to unique goods at great prices while extending the life of fully functional products. Since its inception, Wallapop has been committed to continuous innovation in the online classifieds industry and second-hand market and aspires to use technology to contribute to sustainability. The company is backed by investors Korelya Capital, NAVER, Accel, Insight Venture Partners, 14W, and Northzone. It was founded in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain by Agustin Gomez, Miguel Vicente, and Gerard Olive in 2013.

Auctionata

Series C in 2015
Auctionata | Paddle8 is an online auction platform specializing in art and luxury collectibles. As of February 29, 2017, Auctionata has announced it has ceased operations, declaring insolvency. The company had offices in Berlin, New York, London, Los Angeles, Rome, Zurich, and Madrid. Following the conclusion of its preliminary insolvency proceedings on February 28, 2017, Auctionata Paddle8 AG ceased its German operations. The subsidiaries Paddle8 in the US and Value-my-Stuff in the UK were sold and continue to operate.

KnCMiner

Series B in 2015
We bring new Bitcoin miners alive! KnCMiner focuses on producing miners for cryptocurrencies. We are a Swedish company with long expertise within the ASIC and FPGA field. Have a look at our website for more information of our company and products.

Goo Technologies

Seed Round in 2015
Goo Technologies is a pioneering web technology company based in Stockholm, Sweden. The company's vision is a world where all digital experiences are available instantly on all devices, everywhere. In the internet world it envisions, advanced games are published online just like a web page.

RealityMine

Series B in 2015
RealityMine enables many of the world’s largest market research and media organisations to monitor real consumers on multiple devices, across all major platforms, revealing unique insights from real life consumer behaviour. The firm’s RealityMeter can be deployed across Android, iOS and desktop platforms, and is deployed by leading panel owners and research clients across five continents. RealityMine is headquartered in Manchester, England, with offices in London and Sydney.

Mathem

Venture Round in 2014
MatHem is an e-commerce company that combines a complete grocery store online with recipes and subscriptions for ready-made groceries. It delivers food to Swedish homes 7 days a week. The company also combines a full grocery store online with prescription and subscription finished shopping bags. MatHem offers a broad range of grocery products and adjacent household consumables, catering to more than half of Swedish households. The company food is delivered to your door with their own temperature-controlled to ensure an unbroken cold chain. Mathem.se has been awarded The Grocery Website of the Year (Årets matsajt) in 2010, 2011 and 2013 by the Swedish online magazine Internet world. It was founded in 2009 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden

Leovegas

Series A in 2014
Leovegas is a Swedish mobile gaming company and provider of online casino and sports betting services. LeoVegas casino provides world-class entertainment and offers over 800+ games on mobile, tablet and computer.

Instabridge

Venture Round in 2014
Instabridge is a Wi-Fi sharing community and mobile app, particularly popular in Brazil and Mexico. Its mission is to build a wifi sharing community on every city on the planet. Originally founded in late 2012 as a way to enable you to share your home Wi-Fi with friends on Facebook, the Stockholm-based company has since pivoted to become a broader Wi-Fi sharing community, and has found traction in developing markets where cellular data remains prohibitively expensive. The Instabridge app lets you share the details of any Wi-Fi hotspot with other Instabridge users, and provides access to Wi-Fi hotspots shared by everyone else in the community. This has enabled it to build a crowdsourced database of Wi-Fi hotspots, in addition to a list of known public venues that have free Wi-Fi, such as McDonald’s or Starbucks.

KnCMiner

Series A in 2014
We bring new Bitcoin miners alive! KnCMiner focuses on producing miners for cryptocurrencies. We are a Swedish company with long expertise within the ASIC and FPGA field. Have a look at our website for more information of our company and products.

Poppermost Productions

Venture Round in 2014
Poppermost Productions is a Stockholm-based independent games developer. Poppermost Productions is currently building the first free-to-play open-world action sports platform that will offer players massive environments to explore, socialize and compete in. By partnering with over a dozen of the biggest brands, athletes and trend-setters in the industry, Poppermost Productions will offer players an unprecedented level of realism and immersion unlike any other sport game before. Starting with SNOW, the winter sports game, Poppermost has already begun to prove their vision by creating a high quality, authentic experience with over a dozen partnerships with major brand and athletes in the sports.

Fishbrain

Seed Round in 2014
Fishbrain is a mobile app, commerce platform, and social network for people who love fishing. This free-to-use app provides tools, insights, support, and fishing gear to fully enjoy fishing. It also has an interactive map that helps anglers find new fishing spots and see what other people are catching, with what bait, and specifically where.

Klarna

Venture Round in 2014
Klarna is an e-commerce payment solutions platform for merchants and shoppers. The platform gives customers the freedom to choose how and when to pay. The company also offers direct payments, pay-after-delivery options, and installment plans. Klarna is a regulated bank known for its “buy now, pay later” model, offering shoppers interest-free financing on retail purchases throughout installments. The Klarna app enhances the shopping experience by providing top retailers with flexible payment options and cashback rewards.

Zuto

Venture Round in 2014
Zuto is a web-based, financing platform that finds lenders and guides its users through their car-buying processes. It provides its users with one-to-one support and helps them make better buying decisions. The platform offers a range of car finance options to people from a variety of financial backgrounds. It also provides its users with the tools they need to choose the most suitable vehicle, free information about vehicle history, and valuation checks as well as help with paperwork.
Vint helps fitness providers grow their business through creating a strong community amongst its members directly in their management software = More business, less administration for our clients. The biggest problem in the fitness industry is member churn with an average of 50% member loss on a yearly basis why the management system is built to actively solve this issue by integrating social and growth components around the triggering events, simply by handling everyday tasks such as scheduling, bookings, and payment. Vint is sold as a SaaS platform with clients across the US, Sweden and Australia.

MyOptique Group

Series C in 2013
The MyOptique Group is revolutionising the £20bn European optical industry by cutting out the high street middle man – and providing its customers a superior service and significant savings. The group is the clear European leader in the growing online optical segment with a full offering covering all three major segments in the eyewear market - prescription glasses, sunglasses and contact lenses via its online retail brands Glasses Direct, Sunglasses Shop, MyOptique.com, LensOn, Netzoptiker, Eyewearbrands and Lensbest.de. More than two-thirds of sales are outside of the UK market. It carries over 150 brands and 7,000 styles.

MetaPack

Series A in 2013
Metapack are the leading provider of eCommerce delivery management technology to enterprise retailers and brands. Their platform integrates 465 carriers and 5,000 delivery services such as Next Day, Click and Collect, Locker Boxes and International Delivery – ensuring that retailers and brands can offer delivery options and convenience for their customers. For each and every order, Metapack is able to identify the most appropriate delivery service for that particular customer, providing a seamless and personalized delivery experience, whilst removing manual and time consuming processes in the retailer’s warehouse. MetaPack’s delivery management platform enables retailers and brands worldwide to strengthen their delivery proposition, generate customer loyalty and website conversion, ensuring every customer has the best delivery experience.

RealityMine

Series A in 2013
RealityMine enables many of the world’s largest market research and media organisations to monitor real consumers on multiple devices, across all major platforms, revealing unique insights from real life consumer behaviour. The firm’s RealityMeter can be deployed across Android, iOS and desktop platforms, and is deployed by leading panel owners and research clients across five continents. RealityMine is headquartered in Manchester, England, with offices in London and Sydney.

Burt Corporation

Series A in 2012
Burt AB is a data analytics platform that specializes in the digital integration and analysis of consumer and advertiser data, aimed at enhancing sales and revenue growth for media companies. Established in 2009 and headquartered in Gothenburg, Sweden, with additional offices in New York City and Stockholm, Burt AB offers a Software-as-a-Service platform that enables clients to connect and analyze diverse data sources across various screens, departments, and revenue channels. The platform provides ad hoc reports, alerts, and actionable dashboards, allowing customers to make informed decisions quickly and strengthen relationships with their most profitable audience segments and advertisers. With a focus on delivering revenue insights, Burt AB processes over one terabyte of new customer data daily for prominent clients, including major media entities. The company is recognized for its innovative approach and has gained a reputation for helping organizations become more data-driven while reducing customer churn and improving decision-making in real time.

Pure Equity Advisors

Acquisition in 2012
Pure Equity Advisors is a corporate finance firm. Pure Equity Advisors is an independent financial advisory firm focused on exits and growth equity fundraising. We advice entrepreneurs and investors on their most critical issue: mergers & acquisitions.

Tunigo

Venture Round in 2012
Tunigo offers the easiest and most fun way to find, create, and share new music and playlists on Spotify. With Tunigo you will discover specific music for all occasions, grouped by the real events of your life. Plus you will also be keeping track of the latest releases, charts, reviews and current music news.

13th Lab

Seed Round in 2012
13th Lab is developing the next generation computer vision platform for mobile devices. 13th Lab believes the camera has the potential to become the most important device sensor, and we are building the tools to enable this. Their platform is based on SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping). The technology was originally invented by NASA to be used by autonomous vehicles on space missions. The first application built on this platform (Ball Invasion) is now available in the iOS App Store for all iPad2 owners.

Leovegas

Seed Round in 2012
Leovegas is a Swedish mobile gaming company and provider of online casino and sports betting services. LeoVegas casino provides world-class entertainment and offers over 800+ games on mobile, tablet and computer.

Bluewater Bio

Venture Round in 2012
Bluewater Bio is an innovative company in the wastewater treatment business, providing a high performance, yet highly cost effective, proprietary wastewater treatment process, called HYBACS.

myThings

Series D in 2012
Founded in 2005, myThings is the global leader in conversion-driven personalized display advertising solutions, growing sales at scale for the top online retailers retailers in Europe. Its service propels acquisition through retargeting, pre-targeting and look-alike targeting, generating over 150% uplift compared to the targeting industry standard. myThings personalises over a billion banner impressions a month and operates in 14 markets including the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Benelux, Nordics, Russia, US, India and Japan. Among its clients are top tier European online retailers such as Littlewoods, Zalando, PriceMinister, Orange, CarPhoneWarehouse and Microsoft Store. A recognised leader in the field of RTB technology, myThings handles more than half a billion RTB requests every day, providing highly accurate bid predictions for every user and segment according to hundreds of data points including predicted revenue for advertiser. Its extensive network of RTB providers spans leading RTB exchanges such as Google DoubleClick, Appnexus, Rubicon and AdMeld. Among its clients are top tier European online retailers such as Littlewoods, Zalando, PriceMinister, Orange, CarPhone Warehouse and Microsoft Store. myThings was declared the winner of the 2011 E-consultancy Innovation in Affiliate Marketing Award and was ranked by Media Momentum as #5 of the top 50 fastest growing digital media companies in Europe.

Neonode

Venture Round in 2011
Neonode’s MultiSensing technologies provide a far more augmented and profound user experience than traditional touch. Neonode cutting-edge technology identifies any object and determines its size, pressure, any depth, speed, and even the nearness to a surface. It uses light with zero latency that can sense and determine any object like a pen, brush, bare/gloved finger, or larger objects like a hand, at A very high speed. Neonode MultiSensing solutions are the next generation of our patented optical 2D multi-touch solution, zForce, which is already implemented in millions of proven touch consumer devices in today's market. To co-create a better and happier world by developing state-of-the-art multi-sensing user interfaces for any device. Neonode made its mission to develop the next generation of user interface and touch technology solutions, breaking the norm of what is perceived possible. Neonode original MultiSensing® technology has emerged from years of design-driven innovation, into an intense user experience for mobile phones, tablets, toys, printers, clamshell PC's, and car HMI systems.

ALEXANDALEXA

Series A in 2010
Alexandalexa is a global luxury online kids store. It was founded in Q4 2006 by husband and wife team Alex Theophanous and Alexa Till. They have since created a fast growing eCommerce business that has grown fast and pioneered luxury childrens retailing online. The list of brands available includes many firsts online, including Burberry kids clothing, Ralph Lauren kids, Fendi, John Galliano and man more. They stock childrens ranges from newborn to 12 yrs old. Based in London, but shipping to 65 countried worldwide, the Company now employs over twenty people. It controls it's own supply chain, photography and marketing, and has a customer list that boasts many celebrity mum's and well know journalists. 2010 will be a record year for the Business, having gained over 85 designer labels, and appointing Belinda Earl (current Goup CEO of Jaeger/ Aquascutum) to become Chairman.

myThings

Series C in 2010
Founded in 2005, myThings is the global leader in conversion-driven personalized display advertising solutions, growing sales at scale for the top online retailers retailers in Europe. Its service propels acquisition through retargeting, pre-targeting and look-alike targeting, generating over 150% uplift compared to the targeting industry standard. myThings personalises over a billion banner impressions a month and operates in 14 markets including the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Benelux, Nordics, Russia, US, India and Japan. Among its clients are top tier European online retailers such as Littlewoods, Zalando, PriceMinister, Orange, CarPhoneWarehouse and Microsoft Store. A recognised leader in the field of RTB technology, myThings handles more than half a billion RTB requests every day, providing highly accurate bid predictions for every user and segment according to hundreds of data points including predicted revenue for advertiser. Its extensive network of RTB providers spans leading RTB exchanges such as Google DoubleClick, Appnexus, Rubicon and AdMeld. Among its clients are top tier European online retailers such as Littlewoods, Zalando, PriceMinister, Orange, CarPhone Warehouse and Microsoft Store. myThings was declared the winner of the 2011 E-consultancy Innovation in Affiliate Marketing Award and was ranked by Media Momentum as #5 of the top 50 fastest growing digital media companies in Europe.

FlatFrog Laboratories

Venture Round in 2010
FlatFrog's mission is to bring to life the exciting new world of multi-touch computing and applications. Designed from inception for volume production, our patented technologies enable unmatched in-glass multi-touch performance for large and flat displays. FlatFrog was founded by Ola Wassvik and serial entrepreneur Christer FÃ¥hraeus. The company is privately held with headquarters in Lund, Sweden, near the bridge to Copenhagen, Denmark.

Avito

Series A in 2010
Avito is a classified advertisements platform that allows users to buy and sell used cars, clothes, real estate, and other accessories. The Buyers and sellers use its line of business for the exchange of products and services such as coins, collectibles, computers, memorabilia, stamps, and toys, as well as concert and sporting tickets. Jonas Nordlanderr and Filip Engelbert founded Avito in 2007. Its headquarters is in Moscow in the Russian Federation.

Interactive Investor

Seed Round in 2009
Interactive Investor is a subscription-based direct investing platform that helps website users make accurate financial decisions. The site, which was founded in 1995, maintains an independent stance. It provides execution-only products and services which enables its millions of site users to trade and invest directly from the site. At the same time, its wealth of independent tools and information helps identify the best companies and products to invest in. With over 8 million unique users visiting their site every year, the Interactive Investor proposition delivers a service that has stood the test of time and provides the single point from which people can conduct all aspects of their investment lives.

Heliatek

Series B in 2009
As the technology leader in organic photovoltaics, Heliatek develops, produces and distributes industrial-grade organic PV solar solutions for virtually any building surface (horizontal, vertical, curved, rigid, and flexible). Heliatek stands for energy solutions designed for various traditional and never been possible before applications based on its unique features – it is ultra-light, flexible and truly green. HeliaSol® is a ready-to-use solution, ideal for retrofitting on existing building structures. HeliaFilm® is tailor-made solar film for companies in the building and construction material industry, to integrate into their façade or roof system products. Heliatek currently employs about 160 people at the Dresden and Ulm locations in Germany. The Free State of Saxony, the Federal Republic of Germany, and the European Union funded research and development, as well as the installation of the production technology.

Muzicall

Series B in 2009
Muzicall is the ringback tone (RBT) service provider for operators and media companies. Muzicall's sole objective is to focus on the, average of 15 seconds, of sound generated during a telephone call set-up and drive the RBT market to reach the full potential for operator and media company partners. Muzicall was founded in 2004 in conjunction with CH2MHILL, the $4billion international project services company. Headquartered in London's Soho, Muzicall is led by a team of telecoms, music, consumer and marketing specialists. The company works on a partnership basis with customers, investing both in marketing and systems and uses its knowledge and experience to grow sustainable revenues for its partners.

Ecommera

Series B in 2009
eCommera, Linked by Isobar, is a commerce specialist that combines strategic, technology and operational support to deliver rapid growth for global brands and retailers. They are passionate about retail and that permeates everything that they do - whether they are helping clients like Jimmy Choo develop an international strategy, working with Clarins to launch sites in over 25 markets, or putting their heads together with the team at Asda-Walmart to realise their next innovation. They have over eight years of experience, during which they’ve launched more than 170 sites for 25 brands across 30+ markets, logged over 2 million hours of development experience, and chalked up over 50,000 hours of analysis. They provide system integration services, retail consultancy and in-life technology management. They have the expertise, the experience and the drive to help you take your commerce operation to the next level. Part of the Dentsu Aegis Network, eCommera is at the forefront of Brand Commerce – creating effortless, borderless consumer journeys from the point of engagement to the point of purchase.

OrderDynamics

Venture Round in 2009
OrderDynamics is now part of the Tecsys family. Tecsys OrderDynamics is the world’s leading SaaS Order Management Systems provider. Focused on powering retail fulfillment, Tecsys helps clients in omnichannel retail markets. Their OMS provides client capabilities like order orchestration, enterprise-wide inventory visibility, returns management, customer service, shipment order consolidations and store driven fulfillment. Tecsys enables customer options like click-and-collect, and ship-from-store, creating shopping experiences expected by today’s shoppers. Iconic brands including Speedo, Quiksilver, J.McLaughlin, JYSK, Princess Auto, Bouclair Home, DeFacto, Browns Shoes and Crabtree & Evelyn, use Tecsys OrderDynamics technology across North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. For more information, visit www.tecsys.com.

DynamicAction

Venture Round in 2009
DynamicAction is the advanced analytics solution specifically built for eCommerce, store, and omnichannel retail teams to take action at the speed of Amazon. Connecting and analyzing millions of data points from every part of the retail organization, DynamicAction uses more than 1,000 proprietary algorithms to pinpoint margin-eating disconnects in the business, prescribe precise actions and accurately rank those actions by financial impact. DynamicAction delivers new metrics, automated diagnostics and both out-of-the-box and ad hoc analytics and visualizations. Since all roads lead to action, DynamicAction constantly alerts retail teams to areas of opportunity and improvement. Through API integration, it then elevates the retailers’ tech stack with transformed data to drive automated decisions and actions online and in-store. Retailers across the globe, including Farfetch, Wehkamp, Mulberry, Cole Haan and El Corte Ingles rely on DynamicAction to run more efficient organizations, sell more at full price, mitigate markdowns, reduce waste, capitalize on demand and increase profit. Forrester Research recently recommended DynamicAction as the key prescriptive analytics technology to replace predictive analytics in retail, and the National Retail Federation named DynamicAction the 2017 Digital Commerce Startup of the Year for its ability to "significantly improve or radically alter how retailing is done." Analyst firm Frost & Sullivan declared that by utilizing DynamicAction, “There’s a new way to run retail organizations with a clear understanding of data and immediate actions to improve performance. DynamicAction has Moneyballed retail.” Headquartered in Silicon Valley, DynamicAction has offices in London, Sofia and Dallas. Connect with us atwww.DynamicAction.com and @DynamicAction on Twitter.

Greetz

Series B in 2009
Greetz is an e-commerce concept to create and personalize greeting cards and gifts online and have them fulfilled and shipped locally. The entire Greetz application and marketing strategy was developed internally. As market leader in The Netherlands, Greetz has proven its concept during the past years and is now working on the international expansion.

Firecomms

Venture Round in 2009
Firecomms is a compound semiconductor company that develops high-speed light sources in visible range wavelengths. The company's lasers and LEDs enable low-cost, high-speed optical data transmission and data capture using visible light; creating new opportunities for optical data communications in small area networks, like those used in car networks and home networks.

BullGuard

Venture Round in 2008
BullGuard is a software company that provides its users with computer and internet security solutions. Its software range includes internet and mobile security, antivirus, and identity protection. BullGuard was founded in 2002 and is based in Europe.

Fjord

Seed Round in 2008
Fjord is a service design consultancy. The company creates useful, effective and desirable digital services that people love. Fjord works with innovation leaders to design breakthrough experiences that make complex systems simple and elegant. Founded in 2001, Fjord employs a diverse group of over 200 design experts in nine global creative hubs including Berlin, Helsinki, Istanbul, London, Madrid, New York, Paris, San Francisco, and Stockholm. Clients include the BBC, BBVA, Citibank, Harvard Medical School, Nokia, PayPal, Qualcomm, and Telefónica, among others.

myThings

Series B in 2008
Founded in 2005, myThings is the global leader in conversion-driven personalized display advertising solutions, growing sales at scale for the top online retailers retailers in Europe. Its service propels acquisition through retargeting, pre-targeting and look-alike targeting, generating over 150% uplift compared to the targeting industry standard. myThings personalises over a billion banner impressions a month and operates in 14 markets including the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Benelux, Nordics, Russia, US, India and Japan. Among its clients are top tier European online retailers such as Littlewoods, Zalando, PriceMinister, Orange, CarPhoneWarehouse and Microsoft Store. A recognised leader in the field of RTB technology, myThings handles more than half a billion RTB requests every day, providing highly accurate bid predictions for every user and segment according to hundreds of data points including predicted revenue for advertiser. Its extensive network of RTB providers spans leading RTB exchanges such as Google DoubleClick, Appnexus, Rubicon and AdMeld. Among its clients are top tier European online retailers such as Littlewoods, Zalando, PriceMinister, Orange, CarPhone Warehouse and Microsoft Store. myThings was declared the winner of the 2011 E-consultancy Innovation in Affiliate Marketing Award and was ranked by Media Momentum as #5 of the top 50 fastest growing digital media companies in Europe.

The Cloud

Venture Round in 2008
The Cloud is a provider of public access Wi-Fi hotspots.

Private Outlet

Venture Round in 2008
Private Outlet is the first-ever European shopping club specially designed for new trends, brands and fashion fanatics. Private Outlet organizes short sale events with some of the most famous brands around. There's up to 70% off the prices, but it's a 100% secure environment!

Multiwave Photonics

Series B in 2008
Multiwave offers pulsed fiber lasers that allow the customer to control key operating parameters. Multiwave also offers other optical sources based on fiber-optic technologies, as well as product design, product development and engineering services aimed at developing and selling cost-effective and reliable products and solutions that resolve customer pains.

Zinwave

Series B in 2008
Zinwave UK is a global provider of wideband active distributed antenna systems for in-building wireless coverage.

Skinkers

Series B in 2007
Skinkers is the UK based software developer that provides communication management software to help organisations overcome the current limitations of existing digital channels. We tick all the boxes! [Microsoft](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/microsoft) and Skinkers signed a technology for equity deal in 2006, a first for Microsoft in Europe. Skinkers owns the intellectual property rights for the peer-to-peer technology developed by Microsoft Research. Microsoft has a minority equity stake in Skinkers. Skinkers and Microsoft won the UK Partnering for Innovation Award [this year](http://www.livestation.com/news/25-skinkers_and_microsoft_win_partnering_for_innovation_award). Livestation was released for beta testing in July to moderate [reviews](http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/06/first-look-at-livestation-not-much-to-report) and is expected to be released to the general public in the fall. While it is often compared to [Joost](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/joost), Livestation is different in that it streams live video, as opposed to offering video On-Demand. Livestation official channels include Al Jazeera, BBC World News, Bloomberg Television, EuroNews (English, French, Italian and now Spanish), France 24, i>Tele, Russia Today and BBC World Service. A feature allowing viewers to add their own channels has just been launched and has over 400 channels already. To watch Livestation, users must download a free video player, which is available for beta [testing](http://www.livestation.com/user/signup). With added [funding](http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/29/skinkers-raises-16-million-series-b/), Skinkers is looking to compete in an increasingly [cluttered](http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/13/live-p2p-television-streaming-now/) P2P IPTV space with competitors like [Zattoo](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/Zattoo), [Babelgum](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/babelgum), [Next.TV](http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/05/more-competition-for-iptv-hp-launching-nexttv/), as well as a number of Chinese based companies ([Sopcast](http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/13/live-p2p-television-streaming-now/), [PPLive](http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/13/live-p2p-television-streaming-now/), [PPMate](http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/13/live-p2p-television-streaming-now/)).
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