GP Bullhound

GP Bullhound is a technology advisory and investment firm founded in London in 1999, with additional offices in San Francisco, Stockholm, Berlin, and Manchester. The firm specializes in providing independent strategic advice on mergers and acquisitions and private placements, focusing on the technology sector. By leveraging a deep understanding of innovation and access to global buyers and capital across Europe, the United States, and Asia, GP Bullhound has facilitated significant transactions with leading companies such as Avito, Delivery Hero, and Spotify. The firm distinguishes itself through its expertise in technology, financial acumen, and commitment to supporting entrepreneurs, enabling them to build exceptional businesses and contribute to the growth of billion-dollar technology companies worldwide.

Robert Ahldin

Partner

Claudio Alvarez

Partner

Graeme Bayley

Partner and Group Chief Financial Officer

Elena Bocharova

Investment Banking Associate

Guillaume Bonneton

Partner

Felix Bratell

Associate

Hugh Campbell

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Gioia Cerbelli

Associate

Jack Curran

Investment Banking Associate

Alec Dafferner

Partner, Head of San Francisco Office

Joakim Dal

Partner

Matthew Finegold

Associate

Paul Gaillard

Associate

Hampus Hellermark

Analyst

Daniel Herter

Associate

Okan Inaltay

Associate

Alon Kuperman

Director

Reda Larbi

Analyst

Pierce Lewis-Oakes

Investment Banking Associate

Manish Madhvani

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Praveena Muthukumar

Finance Manager

Simon Nicholls

Partner

Adam Page

Associate

Dipam Patel

Associate

ED Prior

Investment Banking Associate

Sven Raeymaekers

Partner

Julian Riedlbauer

Partner

Per Roman

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Jaime Sendagorta

Associate

Andre Shortell

Partner

Greg Smith

Partner

Carl Wessberg

Partner

98 past transactions

Zound Industries

Venture Round in 2015
Zound Industries International AB manufactures and sells audio accessories. The company offers headphones under the brand names Urbanears, Marshall Headphones, Coloud, and Molami. It offers its products through a network of agents and distributors worldwide. Zound Industries International AB was founded in 2008 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden with additional offices in New York, New York; Shenzhen, China.

MatHem

Venture Round in 2014
MatHem i Sverige AB offers online retail of food and household products. It provides organic goods; grocery; prescription; health, party and feast, business and association, health, recipes from food bags, collaborations, weekday and weekend inspired food; wine; dairy products; bakery; meat and chark; drinks; pantry; fish; finished food and snacks; glass candy and snacks; baby food and accessories; pharmacy, hygiene and health; spices and flavorers; animal food and accessories; and kiosk and newspapers. The company is based in Stockholm, Sweden.

MariaDB

Series C in 2020
MariaDB provides customers, big and small, with enterprise-grade cloud database solutions to realize the benefits of public and private clouds. It is in every major public cloud, major Linux distribution and through SkySQL. Deutsche Bank, DBS Bank, Nasdaq, Red Hat, ServiceNow, Verizon and Walgreens and more than 75% of the Fortune 500 all run MariaDB.

WHOOP

Series F in 2021
Whoop, Inc. manufactures and sells wearable fitness sensors for athletes to monitor the heart rate and movement during workouts. It offers bands, gears, upper arm sleeves, tops, t-shirts, hoodies, sweatshirts, hats, gift cards, accessories, and other products, as well as men’s joggers. The company sells its products online. Whoop, Inc. was formerly known as Bobo Analytics, Inc. and changed its name to Whoop, Inc. in December 2013. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

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.

The Cloud

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

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.

Matsmart

Venture Round in 2015
Matsmart sells surplus food online. A major part of the food would otherwise be thrown away due to packaging changes, short or expired expiry dates or other reasons. During 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. Long live the food!

Leovegas

Seed Round in 2012
LeoVegas AB (publ), a mobile gaming company, engages in the mobile casino business in Nordic countries, rest of Europe, and internationally. It offers casino games, such as slots, jackpots, and table games, as well as live casinos; poker, bingo, and lotteries; and sports betting. The company also provides its games through tablets and desktop computers. LeoVegas AB (publ) offers approximately 1,500 games from 60 game providers for mobile devices. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.

Tradeshift

Series E in 2018
Tradeshift is a cloud-based business network connecting buyers and suppliers. Its platform enables its clients to connect with all their suppliers digitally in order to seize early payment discounts and minimize risks, eliminating paper and manual processes across procure-to-pay, thereby allowing businesses to simplify supply chain payments in a secure manner. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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.

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/)).

Believe

Private Equity Round in 2015
Believe Digital is the leading fully independent digital distributor and label services provider for artists & labels worldwide. They provide dedicated label & international campaign management, trade & digital marketing services, comprehensive video management & distribution, synchronisation, neighbouring rights and run in-house record label Believe Recordings.

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.

causaLens

Series A in 2022
causaLens Ltd. develops and offers an application software using predictive technology. The company's product CLPU (causaLens Predictive Unit) use the process of machine learning, artificial intelligence, and time series data to clean data in real time and adapt to changing world. Its product is used in energy, asset management, food production, insurance, oil and gas, healthcare, and transport and logistics industries. causaLens Ltd. was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

Fishbrain

Series A in 2015
FishBrain AB develops a mobile application that connects sport fishing people and anglers. It offers Fishbrain, an application that enables users to connect and follow anglers and fishing spots; find fishing spots and research when the fish bite best; join conversations with other users; keep fishing log; and explore public catch locations. The company’s application also enables users to track and share personal statistics, such as caches per month, species, fishing locations, baits, and methods; find top baits for fishing locations, fish species, and fishing methods; and get fishing forecast for the next days. Its application is available on App Store and Google Play. FishBrain AB was founded in 2009 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden.

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.

Genially

Series B in 2021
Genially Web S.L. operates a web portal for creating presentations. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Cordoba, Spain.

Matsmart

Venture Round in 2017
Matsmart sells surplus food online. A major part of the food would otherwise be thrown away due to packaging changes, short or expired expiry dates or other reasons. During 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. Long live the food!

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.

DuckDuckGo

Secondary Market in 2020
We're the Internet privacy company for everyone who's had enough of hidden online tracking and wants to take back their privacy now. For over a decade, we've built products, created new technology, and worked with policymakers to make online privacy simple and accessible for all. Every day, millions of people rely on our free all-in-one solution to stay private online. In one download we deliver privacy, simplified. Try DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials on Safari, Firefox, & Chrome and the DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser for iOS or Android today.

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.

Glovo

Series F in 2021
On-demand mobile application connects customers with independent local couriers

Instabridge

Series A in 2015
Instabridge AB develops a mobile application that allows users to find and share wi-fi networks. The application enables to share wi-Fi without giving password. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden.

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.

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.

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.

Zuto

Venture Round in 2014
Zuto Limited provides car finance brokerage services in the United Kingdom. The company offers advice, guidance, and a range of car finance options from various lenders for buying new and used cars. It also helps customers to find a deal on motor, GAP, mechanical breakdown, and other car related insurance products. Zuto Limited was formerly known as Car Loan 4U Limited and changed its name to Zuto Limited in May 2015. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Macclesfield, United Kingdom.

OnTruck

Series B in 2018
Connects businesses with freight carriers to ship pallets of goods

Interactive Investor

Seed Round in 2009
Interactive Investor (iii.co.uk) is the UK's leading community of traders and investors. Their vision is to help their website users become better off by providing you with the hard facts you need to make the right financial decisions for you. 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 you identify the best companies and products, for you, 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.

Zinwave

Series B in 2008
Zinwave was not born from business opportunity, but rather, a curiosity. Some of the best academic minds in the world couldn’t accept that there wasn’t a better way to provide wireless connectivity and transmit radio frequencies indoors. Their research led, ultimately, to the patented technologies that became the Zinwave distributed antenna system. Since launching our first commercial product in 2008, we have installed distributed antenna systems all over the world for customers in nearly every industry: commercial real estate, healthcare, hospitality, enterprise, public venues, wholesale data centers, education and emergency services. It’s those customers that are our focus. We have a passion for not just meeting needs but exceeding them and doing it with innovative solutions.

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.

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.

Matsmart

Venture Round in 2018
Matsmart sells surplus food online. A major part of the food would otherwise be thrown away due to packaging changes, short or expired expiry dates or other reasons. During 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. Long live the food!

Stratio

Series B in 2018
Stratio is a disruptive Big Data start-up. Stratio develops platforms and products with the best-of-breed Big Data technologies in a post-Hadoop era. These include Cassandra, Apache Spark and Stratio's own components. Stratio is committed to helping leading organizations transform and build their digital strategy around Big Data. Our products and services are primarily used by large corporations in the areas of banking, telecom, insurance, retail and industry - Companies and organizations that have a high volume of data and are looking to become Digital. Banks, insurers, telcos, retail and many other clients use Stratio's solutions for interactive, real-time and/or batch processing applications. 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 170, mainly based on Madrid, Spain. The company is also represented in Palo Alto, CA. Stratio’s values are honesty and work ethic which go hand in hand with an uncompromising obsession for value creation.

Fishbrain

Series B in 2017
FishBrain AB develops a mobile application that connects sport fishing people and anglers. It offers Fishbrain, an application that enables users to connect and follow anglers and fishing spots; find fishing spots and research when the fish bite best; join conversations with other users; keep fishing log; and explore public catch locations. The company’s application also enables users to track and share personal statistics, such as caches per month, species, fishing locations, baits, and methods; find top baits for fishing locations, fish species, and fishing methods; and get fishing forecast for the next days. Its application is available on App Store and Google Play. FishBrain AB was founded in 2009 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden.

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.

Monocl

Venture Round in 2019
Monocl AB develops cloud-based stakeholder management and mapping platform. The company’s platform provides solutions for medical affairs, clinical research, and marketing and sales. It serves stakeholders in life science industry. The company is based in Gothenburg, Sweden. As of October 29, 2020, Monocl AB operates as a subsidiary of Definitive Healthcare, LLC.

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.

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 D in 2012
myThings Inc. provides customized programmatic advertising solutions to advertisers. The company was formerly known as Swift-Find, Inc. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Job&Talent

Series B in 2016
Jobandtalent is an on-demand staffing marketplace that aims to make the labour market much more liquid and transparent, helping companies to hire in a more flexible way and with the mission of being part of the reduction of the unemployment in the world. We at the labour market has evolved from a very structured state into an extremely flexible one. Companies are demanding flexibility which has resulted in the growth of liquidity in the market. However, the flexible state of the labour market is also leaving the workers in a vulnerable and unprotected employment situation. We at Jobandtalent have created a Workforce as a Service (WaaS) platform in order to make this labour flexibility beneficial for both companies and workers alike. Our offices are located in the UK, Spain, Germany, Sweden, Mexico, and Colombia, and we have plans of further expansion to France and Italy by the end of the year.

Partnerize

Series D in 2018
Partnerize helps the world's leading brands build powerful business partnerships that drive extraordinary business growth. The Partnerize Partner Management Platform (PMP) is an end-to-end, SaaS-based solution for forming, managing, analyzing, and predicting the future results of partner marketing programs using artificial intelligence. Hundreds of the world's largest brands leverage its real-time technology to manage more than $6B in partner programs and financial exchanges across 214 countries and territories worldwide. Partnerize is the trading name of the Performance Horizon group of companies.

For The Vint AB

Seed Round in 2014
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.

Wallapop

Venture Round in 2018
Wallapop is a hyper-local mobile marketplace for buying and selling secondhand goods. The company was founded by Agustin Gomez in September 2013 and is based in Barcelona, Spain.

Challengermode

Venture Round in 2020
Challengermode AB owns and operates online competitive gaming platform that allows regular gamers to compete like professionals in computer games. The platform is accessible for users to play games such as League of Legends and Counter-Strike. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden.

Wallapop

Series G in 2021
Wallapop is a hyper-local mobile marketplace for buying and selling secondhand goods. The company was founded by Agustin Gomez in September 2013 and is based in Barcelona, Spain.

EcoVadis

Secondary Market in 2022
EcoVadis SAS operates a platform, which provides sustainability ratings, intelligence and collaborative performance improvement tools for supply chain companies. It offers its services through Internet. The company serves to pharmaceutical, finance, electronics, beauty, and consumer packaged goods industries. EcoVadis SAS was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Paris, France with additional addresses in New York, United States; London, United Kingdom; Hong Kong; Ebene, Mauritius; Warsaw, Poland; Tunis, Tunisia; Toronto, Canada; Düsseldorf, Germany; Tokyo, Japan; and Melbourne, Australia.

Connex One

Series C in 2022
Connex One is a cloud based, omni-channel engagement platform. Much more than just a predictive dialler, it has enhanced functionality and data analytics to give you a deeper understanding of your customers and the tools to connect with them for unparalleled results. One platform, every customer.

LeoLabs

Venture Round in 2024
LeoLabs, Inc. builds and operates phased-array radars that provide high resolution data on objects in low earth orbit. The company LeoLabs Collision Avoidance, a ground-breaking platform for automating and modernizing satellite operations. It also provides foundational mapping data and services to mitigate the risks of collisions. The company’s services include rapid orbit determination, early operational support, and ongoing orbit awareness. It serves commercial satellite operators, government regulatory and space agencies, and satellite management services markets. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Menlo Park, California.

RavenPack

Venture Round in 2024
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..

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.

DynamicAction

Venture Round in 2009
DynamicAction Holdings, Inc. provides analytics solutions for retail merchandising organizations worldwide. It offers DynamicAction, a Software-as-a-Service solution that summarizes business; connects, filters, distributes, and ranks data to identify and alert users to the merchandising opportunities on which to focus; recommends actions, as well as predicts practical profit and revenue improvement; coordinates work through task creation, assignment, scheduling, alerts, commentary, and activity trails; allows users to log actions taken to communicate them with colleagues; and allows users to analyze data. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Redwood City, California.

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.

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.

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 personalised 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.

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.

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.

Avito

Series A in 2010
Avito operates the online trading community Avito.ru. It provides advertising and marketing services. Avito offers a web based platform for free online classified advertisements in Russia. 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.

Typeform

Series C in 2022
Founded circa 2012 in Barcelona, Typeform was founded by two designers: David Okuniev and Robert Muñoz. Their mission? Make online forms a little more human. Today, Typeform works on the future of online forms. Powering your brand’s interactions with beautifully designed, professional-looking online forms that people just love. Create forms, surveys, quizzes (and so much more) to grow your audience, improve just about anything, and validate (or invalidate) your best ideas. The most important interaction on the web is the exchange of information between a brand and its audience. And that exchange usually happens through online forms. We believe that, even a utility like online forms, should be remarkable. Our customers say they get more answers from their audience, and even the occasional compliment. Make every interaction count.

myThings

Series B in 2008
myThings Inc. provides customized programmatic advertising solutions to advertisers. The company was formerly known as Swift-Find, Inc. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Scottsdale, Arizona.

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.

Spotify

Secondary Market in 2016
Spotify AB provides a digital music-streaming service that gives on-demand access of songs on devices, computers, mobiles, tablets, and home entertainment systems. Its services allow subscribers to search and discover music collections of friends, artists, and celebrities; build a personal collection playlist; and share music on Spotify, Facebook, Twitter, blog, and via email with friends. It also offers research and development services in Sweden. The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. Spotify AB operates as a subsidiary of Spotify Technology S.A.

HackerOne

Series E in 2022
HackerOne, Inc. develops a hacker-powered security platform for businesses to test and secure the software applications. The company offers HackerOne platform that enables companies to improve their vulnerability coordination process; and hackers to hack, learn, and earn for good across companies. It empowers companies to protect consumer data, trust, and loyalty by working with the global research community to surface their relevant security issues. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California.

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

AdMedia

Acquisition in 2018
AdMedia Partners, Inc. is a merger and acquisition advisory firm. The firm provides merger and acquisition advisory and research services including strategic consulting, cross-border advisory services, divestitures, and valuations. It caters to advertising and marketing services, media and publishing, technology, and new media and interactive industries. AdMedia Partners, Inc. was founded in 1990 and is based in New York, New York. As of March 2, 2018, AdMedia Partners, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of GP Bullhound LLP.

Leovegas

Series A in 2014
LeoVegas AB (publ), a mobile gaming company, engages in the mobile casino business in Nordic countries, rest of Europe, and internationally. It offers casino games, such as slots, jackpots, and table games, as well as live casinos; poker, bingo, and lotteries; and sports betting. The company also provides its games through tablets and desktop computers. LeoVegas AB (publ) offers approximately 1,500 games from 60 game providers for mobile devices. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.

Revolut

Series D in 2020
Revolut Limited develops a mobile application that allows users to exchange currencies at interbank rates, send money through social networks, and spend with a multi-currency card. The company, through its subsidiary, provides phone, medical insurance, and travel insurance. Revolut Limited was incorporated in 2013 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Burt AB

Series A in 2012
Burt AB provides engages in digital integration and analysis of consumer and advertiser data to accelerate sales. Its services allow to increase productivity with ad hoc reports, alerts, and actionable dashboards. Burt AB was founded in 2009 and is based in Gothenburg, Sweden with additional offices in New York, United States and Stockholm, Sweden.

myThings

Series C in 2010
myThings Inc. provides customized programmatic advertising solutions to advertisers. The company was formerly known as Swift-Find, Inc. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Scottsdale, Arizona.

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.

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.

Fishbrain

Seed Round in 2014
FishBrain AB develops a mobile application that connects sport fishing people and anglers. It offers Fishbrain, an application that enables users to connect and follow anglers and fishing spots; find fishing spots and research when the fish bite best; join conversations with other users; keep fishing log; and explore public catch locations. The company’s application also enables users to track and share personal statistics, such as caches per month, species, fishing locations, baits, and methods; find top baits for fishing locations, fish species, and fishing methods; and get fishing forecast for the next days. Its application is available on App Store and Google Play. FishBrain AB was founded in 2009 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden.

Klarna

Venture Round in 2014
Klarna is an eCommerce payment solutions platform for merchants and shoppers. The platform gives customers the freedom to choose how and when to pay. They also offer direct payments, pay after delivery options, and installment plans. Klarna is a regulated bank known for its “buy now, pay later” model that offers shoppers interest-free financing on retail purchases over a period of installments. Klarna was founded in 2005 in Stockholm, Sweden by Sebastian Siemiatkowski, Niklas Adalberth, and Victor Jacobsson.

LendInvest

Series C in 2018
LendInvest operates an online marketplace for property lending and investing. Its online marketplace platform lets everyday investors access various types of asset classes; and underwrites and pre-funds various investments. LendInvest also offers short-term property finance, such as bridge loans, development loans, and buy-to-let loans. Christian Faes and Ian Thomas founded it in 2008, with its headquarters in London in the United Kingdom.

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.

MatHem

Venture Round in 2017
MatHem i Sverige AB offers online retail of food and household products. It provides organic goods; grocery; prescription; health, party and feast, business and association, health, recipes from food bags, collaborations, weekday and weekend inspired food; wine; dairy products; bakery; meat and chark; drinks; pantry; fish; finished food and snacks; glass candy and snacks; baby food and accessories; pharmacy, hygiene and health; spices and flavorers; animal food and accessories; and kiosk and newspapers. The company is based in Stockholm, Sweden.

Genially

Series A in 2020
Genially Web S.L. operates a web portal for creating presentations. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Cordoba, Spain.

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.

Neonode

Venture Round in 2011
Neonode Inc., together with its subsidiaries, develops and licenses user interface and optical interactive touch solutions under the zForce brand in the United States, Japan, China, Germany, and internationally. It develops optical touch and gesture solutions for human interaction with devices. The company licenses its touch technology to original equipment manufacturers and Tier 1 suppliers. It also provides engineering consulting services. The company sells Neonode branded sensor products, such as AirBar products through distributors and directly to consumers. Neonode Inc. was incorporated in 1997 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.

Heliatek

Series B in 2009
Heliatek GmbH develops and manufactures organic solar films and photovoltaics cells. Its product includes HeliaSol, an organic photovoltaics (OPV) solution that can be applied to surfaces. The companys’s product is used for building, automotive, and pilot projects applications. The company serves building and construction material companies, automotive manufacturers, and suppliers. Heliatek GmbH has strategic partnerships with AGC Glass Europe, and Reckli China. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Dresden, Germany.

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.

Nivo

Series A in 2019
Nivo They`ve combined bank standard identity verification with secure instant messaging. Our 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.

Private Outlet

Venture Round in 2008
Private Outlet SAS engages in the online retail of apparel for men, women, and children in France, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Spain, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, and the United Kingdom. It offers ready to wear clothing, footwear, accessories, fashion products, decoration products, jewelry, high-tech products, appliances, sports products, beauty products, house products, and lingerie for its members. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Saint-Denis, France. Private Outlet SAS operates as a subsidiary of Andrino.

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.

Matsmart

Venture Round in 2016
Matsmart sells surplus food online. A major part of the food would otherwise be thrown away due to packaging changes, short or expired expiry dates or other reasons. During 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. Long live the food!

Wallapop

Venture Round in 2015
Wallapop is a hyper-local mobile marketplace for buying and selling secondhand goods. The company was founded by Agustin Gomez in September 2013 and is based in Barcelona, Spain.

Tiptapp

Venture Round in 2018
Tiptapp is an application platform used for buying and selling used and recyclable products. Its platform connects buyers and sellers of low-value second-hand items, bulky waste, and recyclables that can interact easily through mobile applications and smartphones. Tiptapp was established in 2015 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden.

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.

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.

Sesamy

Seed Round in 2022
Sesamy provides frictionless single purchases and consumption of digital content, without restricting the user’s choice of app or device.

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.

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.

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..

Vivino

Series D in 2021
Vivino, Inc. develops a mobile application and an Internet platform for the wine community. The company allows users to contribute ratings for wines from around the globe. Its Vivino application gives crowd-sourced tasting notes, average retail price, and suggested food pairings. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in San Francisco, California with additional offices in Copenhagen, Denmark; Ireland; Ukraine; and India.