Northzone

Northzone is a venture capital fund founded in 1996, with offices in London, New York, Oslo, and Stockholm. The firm has raised over €1.5 billion and specializes in early-stage investments in technology-driven companies. Northzone has partnered with the founders of notable businesses such as Spotify, Avito, iZettle, and Klarna to help build category-defining enterprises. Through its extensive international network, the firm connects its portfolio companies with customers, business partners, and key talent, fostering growth and innovation across various industries.

Arve Andresen

General partner

Pascual Cortés-Monroy E.

vice_president

Dominik Esen

Associate

Stine Foss

Chief Financial Officer and Partner

Markus Gleim

Principal

Henrik Grim

Associate

Harriet Hamblin

Associate

Jackson Heddy

Deputy Chief Financial Officer

William Jilltoft

Associate

Michiel Kotting

Partner

Aaron Liu

vice_president

Michelle Nacouzi

Investment Associate

Christoffer Norman

Investment Manager

Sarah Nöckel

vice_president

Hans Otterling

Partner

Elena Pantazi

Head of Operations

Kilian Pender

Partner

Pär-Jörgen Pärsson

General Partner

Deepka Rana

Principal

Maxine Rior

Principal

Wendy Xiao Schadeck

Investment Manager

Jessica Schultz

Partner

Marta Sjögren

Partner

Bjorn Stray

Co-Founder & Partner

Jeppe Zink

Partner

353 past transactions

3Box

Private Placement in 2019
3Box Inc. offers 3box.io, a social profiles application for Ethereum users and communities and 3box.js, an application program interface (API) for web3 developers to onboard users and set/get data to a profile. Additionally, the company offers 3box-dapp, allows users to create and manage their social profile, sign in to dapps, interact with other users, build a reputation, and store data.3Box Inc. was founded in 2018 and is based in New York, New York.

Anyfin

Series B in 2021
Anyfin AB enables users to refinance their existing loans, by taking a photo. The company uses consumer data, and with additional information by talking a photo of existing loan statement, including repayment history using artificial intelligence (AI) technology. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden.

IDOVEN

Series A in 2022
IDoven develops products to detect heart problems at an early stage to prevent heart diseases.

Kahoot

Post in 2020
Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform and one of the world’s fastest-growing learning brands with millions of monthly active users in over 200 countries. Kahoot! makes it easy to create, discover, play and share fun learning games in minutes—for any subject, in any language, on any device, for all ages. Based on the mission of making learning awesome, Kahoot!’s game-based platform engages the heart, hand and mind, creating a wildly more social, meaningful and powerful pedagogical experience. Kahoot!’s platform and easy-to-use features not only attract educators and students but reach beyond the classroom to corporate powerhouses, sporting and cultural events.

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.

Matsmart

Series C in 2021
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!

TrueLayer

Series B in 2018
TrueLayer Limited provides an application to build financial applications. It offers TrueLayer, a toolkit to build financial apps that connect to bank data, verify accounts, and access transactions in real-time. Its TrueLayer is used to develop consumer and SMB applications in the areas of payments, online lending, PFM, robot-advisors, insurance, investment services, p2p marketplaces, and cryptocurrencies. The company’s solution is used by FinTech startups, online lenders, personal finance managers, and robot-advisors. TrueLayer Limited was incorporated in 2016 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Forto

Series C in 2021
Forto was founded in Berlin in 2016 under the name FreightHub by Erik Muttersbach and Michael Wax. The company develops groundbreaking, scalable, digital logistics technology and services that go beyond transportation from point A to point B. The easy to use and intuitive platform allows their customers to optimize and, therefore, own their entire global supply chain processes. With over 2,000 customers and 9 global offices, Forto currently employs 200+ people. They are passionate about global trade, and aim to increase global prosperity while driving sustainability. Forto is a brand of FreightHub GmbH.

TIER Mobility

Convertible Note in 2023
TIER Mobility is a Berlin-based provider of sustainable micro-mobility sharing-solutions. TIER is the fastest-growing micro-mobility company worldwide, expanding its operations to 32 European cities in less than nine months. Through its platform and focus on operational excellence, TIER allows for the integration of all micro-mobility assets. This enables TIER to enter strategic partnerships with public transportation, and other mobility providers such as SIXT. Currently, TIER has strategic partnerships with public transportation providers in Berlin, Munich, and Bonn. The company is lead by an experienced founder team with a proven track record in sustainability and technology with the vision to transform the quality of life in cities.

Zopa

Series G in 2018
Zopa Limited owns and operates an online marketplace lending platform, which allows individuals in the United Kingdom to access unsecured loans, facilitated by funds provided by both individuals and institutions. The platform offers car loans, debt consolidation loans, home improvement loans, wedding loans, and peer-to-peer investments. Zopa Limited was incorporated in 2004 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Depict

Seed Round in 2020
Depict.ai is building a product recommendation engine to help bring “Amazon-quality” product recommendation for any e-commerce store.

TIER Mobility

Series A in 2018
TIER Mobility is a Berlin-based provider of sustainable micro-mobility sharing-solutions. TIER is the fastest-growing micro-mobility company worldwide, expanding its operations to 32 European cities in less than nine months. Through its platform and focus on operational excellence, TIER allows for the integration of all micro-mobility assets. This enables TIER to enter strategic partnerships with public transportation, and other mobility providers such as SIXT. Currently, TIER has strategic partnerships with public transportation providers in Berlin, Munich, and Bonn. The company is lead by an experienced founder team with a proven track record in sustainability and technology with the vision to transform the quality of life in cities.

Red Points

Series B in 2018
Red Points is a technology company that provides a solution for protecting brands from online counterfeiting, digital piracy, and distribution fraud. Its SaaS platform removes hundreds of thousands of incidents of illegal products and content from the web monthly, across over one-hundred online marketplaces and social networks. Red Points’ solutions are used by over five-hundred brands worldwide including Bang & Olufsen, MVMT, and DOPE. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Barcelona, Spain.

Innotech Solar

Venture Round in 2009
Innotech Solar delivers high quality solar modules with the best value for money. In an innovative laser-based process, Innotech Solar maximizes electricity production by optimizing various types of solar cells. ITS strives to make use of 100% of the raw materials for energy generation. Our modules combine environmental friendliness, durability, and an outstanding price-performance-ratio. Innotech Solar was established in 2008 as a spin-off from REC (Renewable Energy Corporation ASA). 5 years later the company has 120 employees and has established an international presence with factories in Germany, Sweden and Hong Kong, sales offices in Munich, Shanghai and California, and headquarter in Narvik, Norway.

Tobii

Series B in 2009
Tobii Technology is a provider of hardware and software solutions for eye tracking; a technology that enables one to detect eye orientation, and thus the object of the gaze. Using innovations in technology, Tobii's mission is to bring eye tracking into broader use in applications such as eye control interfaces for computers, design testing, and medical diagnostics. The company was founded in 2001 and is based in Danderyd, Sweden with additional offices in the United States, Germany, Norway, and Japan.

Replisaurus

Series A in 2006
Replisaurus Technologies develops metallization solutions for the electronics industry. It offers ElectroChemical Pattern Replication (ECPR), a metallization technology process for semiconductor manufacturing markets; production solutions, including master electrodes, integrated ECPR tools, chemicals, and processing guidelines; and die-to-die, die-to-wafer bonding, and nano imprint lithography solutions. The company’s products have applications in IC metallization, pad redistribution, and power metal/power distribution; integrated passive devices substrates, including coils, capacitors, and resistors; flip chip substrates, interposers, chip carriers, and SIP substrates; micro bumps; and nano electronics and micro systems metallization, opto substrates, and chip coils. Replisaurus Technologies AB offers its solutions to the manufacturers of packaging, substrates, optical components, and semiconductor devices.

Lesara

Series C in 2017
Lesara is the leading global agile retail pioneer for amazing fashion merchandise at best prices.The company has offices in China and Germany and since its launch in 2013 expanded into 24 markets in 7 languages across Europe, grew its assortment to more than 100.000 SKUs and the the team to over 300 employees.Lesara is operating a completely vertically integrated supply chain and needs only 2 weeks from idea over design, production to product go-live for its collections.The company was awarded as fastest growing tech-company in Europe in 2016.

Thirty Madison

Series B in 2020
Thirty Madison, Inc., a digital health company, owns and operates web-based platforms for patients with hair loss, migraines, and other chronic conditions. It offers Keeps, a subscription-based online marketplace for over-the-counter medications for men’s hair loss prevention. The company also provides Cove, an online doctor visit and prescription service to treat migraine. In addition, it offers Evens that helps to treat acid reflux. Thirty Madison, Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is headquartered in Astoria, New York.

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!

Activate

Venture Round in 2018
ACTIVATE Holdings LLC operates as a content creator and influencer in fashion and lifestyle industry. Its platform aggregates and surfaces blog content from across the Internet enabling its users to connect with their favorite influencers and discover content through recommendations based on their taste, interests, and social connections. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in New York, New York. As of August 25, 2020, ACTIVATE Holdings LLC operates as a subsidiary of Impact Tech, Inc..

Jukely

Seed Round in 2015
Jukely is a club that grants its members daily guestlist access to hundreds of concerts, parties, and DJ sets every month. It analyzes music taste data across the social graph, and for every show, it magically matches with different friends and even friends of friends who'd be good to go with. It then makes it very easy to ping that group, to start a conversation around the show. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.

Klang Games

Series B in 2019
KLANG GAMES GMBH owns and operates entertainment and game development studio that develops multiplayer games. It offers ReRunners, an online asynchronous multiplayer game for mobile and tablet devices that features an open world and fast-paced racing gameplay. KLANG GAMES GMBH was founded in 2013 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Norstel

Venture Round in 2005
Norstel AB researches, develops, and manufactures conductive and semi insulating silicon carbide substrates. It also offers silicon carbide n-type and p-type epitaxy substrate. The company offers products for high performance semiconductors used in power and high-frequency electronics. It serves customers in Sweden and internationally. Jesperator AB changed its name to Norstel AB. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Norrkoping, Sweden. As of February 6, 2019, Norstel AB operates as a subsidiary of STMicroelectronics N.V..

Klarna

Private Equity Round in 2019
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.

Napatech

Venture Round in 2004
Napatech helps companies to reimagine their business by bringing hyperscale computing benefits to IT organizations of every size. Our SmartNICs enhance open and standard virtualized servers to boost innovation and release valuable computing resources that improve services and increase revenue. Our Reconfigurable Computing Platform™ is based on a broad set of FPGA software for leading IT compute, network and security applications that are supported on a wide array of FPGA hardware designs.

VisualDNA

Series B in 2009
Based in London, United Kingdom, VisualDNA is a consumer insights and analytics company that profiles people using engaging visual personality quizzes. The personality profiling company helps clients to get insight into various areas of their lives, and its patented technology creates detailed and accurate personality profiles. The company’s feedback is built by teams of in-house psychologists and based on internationally recognized principals, including the ‘Big 5′ traits of personality. Founded by Alex Willcock in 2006, VisualDNA works extensively with academic partners such as Cambridge University, UCL, and Columbia.

Labster

Series B in 2019
Labster ApS designs and develops interactive advanced lab simulations based on mathematical algorithms that support open-ended investigations for colleges, universities, and higher education. The company develops an interactive platform, where students engage with life science, biology, and biotechnology experiments. The product has been designed with 3D animations and includes educational science background information. The virtual lab simulations enables the students to work with virtual and realistic lab experiments. Labster ApS was founded in 2012 and is based in Copenhagen, Denmark with additional locations in Boston, Massachusetts; Zurich, Switzerland; and Sanur, Bali.

Bunch

Series A in 2020
Bunch Live, Inc. develops Bunch, a party application for multiplayer games. The company’s platform enables users to play games with friends over a group video chat. It also allows developers to integrate the platform into their own games to let players party up with friends and play together. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in New York, New York.

Spring Health

Series A in 2020
Spring Health provides employers with a comprehensive and effective solution for employee mental well-being. It uses a proprietary assessment and machine-learning technology to understand all of the conditions a person may be experiencing, and use those results to match them to a care plan personalized to their needs. Each member has access to a Care Navigator to help guide them through their options, assist in booking appointments with therapists, and connect them to domain experts across work-life, legal, or financial services. It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in New York, United States.

Revolt Technology

Series A in 2005
ReVolt Technology is a technology company, which is developing a rechargeable zinc-air battery. ReVolt's batteries may enable more high-power consumer devices, electric vehicles and renewable energy storage. The technology is a result of six years of intense research and development at SINTEF (the largest independent research institute in Scandinavia). Research on material combinations has solved issues historically related to the metal-air technology; power, lifetime and rechargeability.

Dots

Series A in 2014
We're an NYC-based mobile game studio that makes fun games like Dots and Two Dots.

Matsmart

Venture Round in 2019
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!

TFS Technology

Venture Round in 2004
TFS Technology leads the world in enhancement of existing infrastructure by simplifying usage and administration.

Kota

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Yonder develops a solution designed to automate health insurance and retirement benefits. Yonder's integrated platform collaborates with insurance and investment providers to create and manage health, dental, vision, and pension plans for employees in minutes. It also gives employees control over their health-care and savings options.

Spotify

Series G in 2015
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.

Kahoot

Series B in 2018
Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform and one of the world’s fastest-growing learning brands with millions of monthly active users in over 200 countries. Kahoot! makes it easy to create, discover, play and share fun learning games in minutes—for any subject, in any language, on any device, for all ages. Based on the mission of making learning awesome, Kahoot!’s game-based platform engages the heart, hand and mind, creating a wildly more social, meaningful and powerful pedagogical experience. Kahoot!’s platform and easy-to-use features not only attract educators and students but reach beyond the classroom to corporate powerhouses, sporting and cultural events.

Distribusion Technologies

Series A in 2016
We believe any part of the travel journey should be bookable from anywhere and that booking ground transportation tickets should be as easy as booking a flight. We developed the first global B2B booking API and the largest network of carriers and retailers in the industry. Through our platform, global travel brands connect with hundreds of buses, airport transfer, train and ferry providers. Travel retailers use our API to access the largest content while carriers benefit from a full end-to-end booking solution. We are building what is to become the world’s standard for ground transportation.

Asetek

Venture Round in 2005
Asetek A/S, together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, and markets liquid cooling solutions in Asia, Europe, and the Americas. The company operates through: Gaming and Enthusiast, and Data Center segments. Its products are used in personal computers, servers, and data centers to provide enhanced performance, acoustics, and energy efficiency. The company serves original equipment manufacturers, resellers, and channel partners. Asetek A/S was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Aalborg, Denmark.

Hopin

Series D in 2021
Hopin Ltd operates an online events platform that enables users to create engaging online events that connects people around the globe. It provides networking events, meetups, conferences, fairs and trades, hybrid events, webinars, company events, online courses, summits and forums, workshops, and exhibitions. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Nested

Series C in 2018
At Nested, their Mission is to give home-sellers certainty over their property sale from day one, without compromising on price. They do this by advancing what you need to buy your new home, whilst they sell your old one for the best possible price. Selling a home is one of the most stressful things you do in life. It's all-to-common to experience unclear valuations, broken chains and untrustworthy estate agents. they'were bringing a refreshing approach to this broken industry, removing the uncertainty for home sellers, providing best-in-class service and helping their customers secure their dream home on their timeline.

Klang Games

Series A in 2018
KLANG GAMES GMBH owns and operates entertainment and game development studio that develops multiplayer games. It offers ReRunners, an online asynchronous multiplayer game for mobile and tablet devices that features an open world and fast-paced racing gameplay. KLANG GAMES GMBH was founded in 2013 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Vionlabs

Seed Round in 2015
Vionlabs AB develops digital eco-systems for carriers, cable networks, and Internet providers in Scandinavia, Europe, and the Middle East. It offers MMDb, an app that allows users to discover music through movies; Tele 2 Sweden and Tele 2 Latvia digital eco-system for online watching and distributing films and TV-shows over the Internet; and atflick, a social video-on-demand service. The company is based in Stockholm, Sweden with an additional office in Barcelona, Spain.

Flink

Series B in 2021
Product development: design, engineering and production

Fishbrain

Private Placement in 2018
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.

Defacto

Series A in 2022
Defacto is a fintech firm that offers credit infrastructure using an API for small and medium companies. Defacto is an embedded finance product,

Outfittery

Series C in 2015
Outfittery provides an online personal shopping service for men. OUTFITTERY’s mission is to take the pain out of shopping for men – as an online version of the “personal shopping”.Their personal style experts put together two or three outfits for each of their customers based on their preferences and personality from a range of top brands. Each customer is served and advised personally after a first online contact and an (optional) phone call. They keep the range of clothes constantly up to date by looking for the most interesting men´s fashion brands and the best items of popular designers worldwide.Their service is free and the individually selected items are sent to their customers free of charge. Customers only pay for the pieces that they want to keep in their wardrobe and feel comfortable in. OUTFITTERY today is the pioneer and market leader in curated shopping for men in Europe, shipping to eight countries (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg, Sweden and Denmark).

Personio

Series E in 2022
Personio offers cloud-based HR management and recruiting solutions and software for startups, and small- and medium-sized enterprises. The company enables its customers to store and manage all employee data and HR processes in one place, including vacation and sick days, approvals, salary, attendance, employee documents, performance, reporting, and employee on-boarding. Its recruiting function comprises applicant tracking, interview scheduling, candidate reviews, and many other features. Personio was established in 2015 and is based in Munich, Germany.

Artfinder

Series B in 2012
Artfinder is the art marketplace creating a world where art benefits everyone. Artfinnder connects art lovers with independent artists around the world. When you buy art from Artfinder you support independent artists in over 100 countries, helping them to make a living from art. Artfinder is the first Certified B Corporation in the art world, balancing social purpose and environmental responsibility with purpose and profit. • 600,000+ subscribers around the world • 10,000+ artists and galleries internationally • 500,000+ artworks in categories including painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture, drawing and collage

Depict

Series A in 2022
Depict.ai is building a product recommendation engine to help bring “Amazon-quality” product recommendation for any e-commerce store.

Yonder

Seed Round in 2021
We're on a mission to make money rewarding and credit empowering through products people understand and love. We're building a challenger credit card that's a key to the city, designed for expats and young professionals. We've packed it with modern rewards, unbeatable travel insurance, no FX fees and loads more - all without needing a UK credit score.

Kitab Sawti

Venture Round in 2018
Kitab Sawti AB produces and distributes audiobooks in Arabic. The company also develops a software that offers Arabic speakers access to books in audio format. The application enables finding a book, playing it to start listening, and start and stop listening to whenever required. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden. As of July 8, 2020, Kitab Sawti AB operates as a subsidiary of Storytel AB (publ).

Sqore

Venture Round in 2017
Smart Recruitment - Automate the process between your job ad and the first interview. Increase screening efficiency Efficiently screen your candidates based on their skills and motivation - automagically - regardless of number of candidates. Deepen candidate engagement Engage today’s generation of candidates through rewarding experiences and allow them to get insights into your company before the interview. Lower your hiring costs We don't charge per candidate. Evaluate 100,000 candidates at the same cost as 100 - no need to limit yourself in the search for new talent.

Livepeer

Private Placement in 2019
Livepeer, Inc. develops and operates a platform for decentralized live video broadcast on the Internet. It provides an open platform that gives broadcasters, developers, and users the ability to get content and message out. The company combines a blockchain based crypto-token protocol with economic incentives and an open media server. It provides a decentralized video live streaming platform with the peer-to-peer networks and the blockchain. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in New York, New York.

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!

Labster

Series A in 2017
Labster ApS designs and develops interactive advanced lab simulations based on mathematical algorithms that support open-ended investigations for colleges, universities, and higher education. The company develops an interactive platform, where students engage with life science, biology, and biotechnology experiments. The product has been designed with 3D animations and includes educational science background information. The virtual lab simulations enables the students to work with virtual and realistic lab experiments. Labster ApS was founded in 2012 and is based in Copenhagen, Denmark with additional locations in Boston, Massachusetts; Zurich, Switzerland; and Sanur, Bali.

TrueLayer

Private Placement in 2019
TrueLayer Limited provides an application to build financial applications. It offers TrueLayer, a toolkit to build financial apps that connect to bank data, verify accounts, and access transactions in real-time. Its TrueLayer is used to develop consumer and SMB applications in the areas of payments, online lending, PFM, robot-advisors, insurance, investment services, p2p marketplaces, and cryptocurrencies. The company’s solution is used by FinTech startups, online lenders, personal finance managers, and robot-advisors. TrueLayer Limited was incorporated in 2016 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Livepeer

Series B in 2021
Livepeer, Inc. develops and operates a platform for decentralized live video broadcast on the Internet. It provides an open platform that gives broadcasters, developers, and users the ability to get content and message out. The company combines a blockchain based crypto-token protocol with economic incentives and an open media server. It provides a decentralized video live streaming platform with the peer-to-peer networks and the blockchain. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in New York, New York.

Red Points

Private Placement in 2019
Red Points is a technology company that provides a solution for protecting brands from online counterfeiting, digital piracy, and distribution fraud. Its SaaS platform removes hundreds of thousands of incidents of illegal products and content from the web monthly, across over one-hundred online marketplaces and social networks. Red Points’ solutions are used by over five-hundred brands worldwide including Bang & Olufsen, MVMT, and DOPE. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Barcelona, Spain.

Activate

Series A in 2014
ACTIVATE Holdings LLC operates as a content creator and influencer in fashion and lifestyle industry. Its platform aggregates and surfaces blog content from across the Internet enabling its users to connect with their favorite influencers and discover content through recommendations based on their taste, interests, and social connections. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in New York, New York. As of August 25, 2020, ACTIVATE Holdings LLC operates as a subsidiary of Impact Tech, Inc..

Kitab Sawti

Private Equity Round in 2019
Kitab Sawti AB produces and distributes audiobooks in Arabic. The company also develops a software that offers Arabic speakers access to books in audio format. The application enables finding a book, playing it to start listening, and start and stop listening to whenever required. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden. As of July 8, 2020, Kitab Sawti AB operates as a subsidiary of Storytel AB (publ).

Enigma Semiconductor

Series B in 2007
Enigma Semiconductor is developing next generation silicon solutions to enable the future of wired communications. Their solutions push the limits of technology to create compelling components and subsystems for applications such as Metropolitan and Access Networks, Enterprise and internet infrastructure and Storage Systems. Enigma is managed and stalled by a team of experienced professionals from established names like Cisco, intel and Vitesse Semiconductor.

Soundrop

Series B in 2013
Soundrop is a social music application that enables users to listen, vote, and interact about songs with their friends. It allows Spotify users to create listening rooms with their existing Spotify playlists. They can also share these listening rooms with their friends, and let their friends help curate the rooms by adding songs or voting up tracks. Everyone can chat about the music as they listen. Additionally, Soundrop has many public rooms dedicated to various music genres such Dubstep, Indie Rock, and Hip hop. Users can chat, add new tracks and vote up tracks they want to listen to next. Soundrop was founded by Inge Andrè Sandvik, Johann Prieur, Ali Sabil, and Ole Andrè Vadla Ravnås in 2011. It launched as a social jukebox app inside Spotify’s App Finder in November 2011.

PlayDo

Venture Round in 2008
PlayDo AB provides online games for young players. It offers Spineworld, a massively multiplayer online (MMO) game. The company was founded in 1999 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden.

Napatech

Series C in 2007
Napatech helps companies to reimagine their business by bringing hyperscale computing benefits to IT organizations of every size. Our SmartNICs enhance open and standard virtualized servers to boost innovation and release valuable computing resources that improve services and increase revenue. Our Reconfigurable Computing Platform™ is based on a broad set of FPGA software for leading IT compute, network and security applications that are supported on a wide array of FPGA hardware designs.

HappyOrNot

Series A in 2017
HappyOrNot Ltd. develops wireless point-of-experience devices that enables clients to develop their sales and service experience by polling and reporting on customer enjoyment levels. Its products include Smiley Terminal, which collects maximum feedback in high traffic areas; Smiley Touch, which discovers the root cause of service fluctuations; Web Smileys, which covers clients’ online presence by measuring user experience; and Smiley Wall, which is a wireless, peel-and-stick functionality device. It provides CX Insights as a Complete Service. The company serves the retail, including home and electronics, grocery chains, pharmacies, and do it yourself (DIY); transportation, including airports; services, including catering, restaurants, and education; healthcare, including health clinics; and human resources industries. It provides CX Insights as a Complete Service. HappyOrNot Ltd. was founded in 2009 and is based in Tampere, Finland.

Space Ape

Series C in 2014
Space Ape is a mobile gaming company dedicated to creating the highest quality games for players worldwide. Its diverse and talented team of 100 is dedicated to creating the highest quality and most successful mobile games in the world. It’s the company's passion, imagination, and inventiveness that drives them in their pursuit to create genre-defining game experiences. The company was founded in 2012 and is based out of London, England.

arfa

Seed Round in 2019
arfa inc., a consumer goods company, develops personal care brands based on close relationships with the people who use them. It offers deodorants, as well as products for multi-symptoms of menopause, such as moisturizers, cooling spray, oil supplements, body creams, face oils, hand & joint creams, and turmeric supplements. The company sells its products online. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in New York, New York.

Spotify

Series A in 2008
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.

Flink

Seed Round in 2021
Product development: design, engineering and production

Livepeer

Series A in 2019
Livepeer, Inc. develops and operates a platform for decentralized live video broadcast on the Internet. It provides an open platform that gives broadcasters, developers, and users the ability to get content and message out. The company combines a blockchain based crypto-token protocol with economic incentives and an open media server. It provides a decentralized video live streaming platform with the peer-to-peer networks and the blockchain. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in New York, New York.

Zopa

Venture Round in 2021
Zopa Limited owns and operates an online marketplace lending platform, which allows individuals in the United Kingdom to access unsecured loans, facilitated by funds provided by both individuals and institutions. The platform offers car loans, debt consolidation loans, home improvement loans, wedding loans, and peer-to-peer investments. Zopa Limited was incorporated in 2004 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

T-VIPS

Series B in 2007
T-VIPS AS, a technology company, provides products and solutions for video over Internet protocol (IP) transport markets. It specializes in providing video transport solutions of live broadcast signals. The company offers video gateway suite of products, which include video gateways, processing and multiplexing processors, monitoring and switching switches, and IPTV FEC inserters, as well as monitors. It also provides management solution for remote monitoring and control through a Web based graphical user interface for management of contribution and distribution over IP networks. In addition, the company offers solutions for contribution, terrestrial networks, mobile TV, IPTV, and monitoring applications. Further, it provides support, technical training, technical analysis and designs, network planning, service implementation strategies, and integration services. The company offers products for various applications, such as broadcast contribution, studio-to-studio media exchange, primary distribution from TV play-out to transmitter, in-house signal distribution and routing, post-production, sports and other live event coverage, regional adaptation of transport streams, DTT adaptation systems, and general video transport. T-VIPS AS was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Oslo, Norway with a subsidiary in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Hopin

Private Placement in 2020
Hopin Ltd operates an online events platform that enables users to create engaging online events that connects people around the globe. It provides networking events, meetups, conferences, fairs and trades, hybrid events, webinars, company events, online courses, summits and forums, workshops, and exhibitions. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Aevy

Seed Round in 2015
Aevy helps 10x developers lead happier lives with jobs they deserve, and bring in-demand talents to companies building amazing things. Aevy’s search engine automatically matches the recruiter at the company with the best and most suitable candidates. This allows for a recruiting process that is faster, more accurate and less biased - and a pricing model that is perfectly aligned with the customer’s needs. For candidates, this means they avoid spam of irrelevant job offers and can enjoy a comfortable, tailor-made, road to the perfect job.

Hopin

Private Placement in 2020
Hopin Ltd operates an online events platform that enables users to create engaging online events that connects people around the globe. It provides networking events, meetups, conferences, fairs and trades, hybrid events, webinars, company events, online courses, summits and forums, workshops, and exhibitions. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Personio

Series E in 2021
Personio offers cloud-based HR management and recruiting solutions and software for startups, and small- and medium-sized enterprises. The company enables its customers to store and manage all employee data and HR processes in one place, including vacation and sick days, approvals, salary, attendance, employee documents, performance, reporting, and employee on-boarding. Its recruiting function comprises applicant tracking, interview scheduling, candidate reviews, and many other features. Personio was established in 2015 and is based in Munich, Germany.

MarketFinance Limited

Private Placement in 2019
MarketFinance Limited operates a peer-to-peer finance platform that allows businesses to sell their invoices online. Its platform connects investors with creditworthy businesses looking for working capital finance; and allows businesses to free up cash flow by unlocking funds from their unpaid invoices. The company serves asset managers, hedge funds, corporate treasuries, and high net worth individuals from worldwide. The company was formerly known as MarketInvoice Limited and changed its name to MarketFinance Limited in November 2019. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in London, United Kingdom. It has an additional office in Manchester, United Kingdom.

Labster

Private Placement in 2020
Labster ApS designs and develops interactive advanced lab simulations based on mathematical algorithms that support open-ended investigations for colleges, universities, and higher education. The company develops an interactive platform, where students engage with life science, biology, and biotechnology experiments. The product has been designed with 3D animations and includes educational science background information. The virtual lab simulations enables the students to work with virtual and realistic lab experiments. Labster ApS was founded in 2012 and is based in Copenhagen, Denmark with additional locations in Boston, Massachusetts; Zurich, Switzerland; and Sanur, Bali.

Asetek

Venture Round in 2009
Asetek A/S, together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, and markets liquid cooling solutions in Asia, Europe, and the Americas. The company operates through: Gaming and Enthusiast, and Data Center segments. Its products are used in personal computers, servers, and data centers to provide enhanced performance, acoustics, and energy efficiency. The company serves original equipment manufacturers, resellers, and channel partners. Asetek A/S was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Aalborg, Denmark.

Yoni Inc

Venture Round in 2021
Yoni Inc doing business as Yoni Circle, provides an application for women to join live virtual storytelling circles. It offers salons, Yoni notes, shop, and community for women. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Sacramento, California.

Thirty Madison

Series A in 2018
Thirty Madison, Inc., a digital health company, owns and operates web-based platforms for patients with hair loss, migraines, and other chronic conditions. It offers Keeps, a subscription-based online marketplace for over-the-counter medications for men’s hair loss prevention. The company also provides Cove, an online doctor visit and prescription service to treat migraine. In addition, it offers Evens that helps to treat acid reflux. Thirty Madison, Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is headquartered in Astoria, New York.

TestFreaks

Series B in 2008
TestFreaks is now a world leading of B2B review solutions provider for online merchants. TestFreaks underwent a very significant change in 2012. Shifting from a B2C centric medium for aggregated review content and price comparison, the company transformed into a strictly B2B focused review solutions provider for online retailers, manufacturers and other comparison sites. The company offers four primary review solutions: * Aggregated Expert Reviews (more than 3,000,000) * Aggregated User Reviews (more than 20,000,000) * Product review collection through post purchase email * Service review collection through post purchase email All review collection services include human moderation in local language (over 30 languages currently supported). Through strategic partnerships with some of the worlds leading e-commerce platforms, the company has reduced client side implementation effort from four hours to under five minutes.

Zervant

Private Placement in 2018
Zervant Oy develops online invoicing software for small businesses and entrepreneurs in Finland, Sweden, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. It offers expense management and time tracking software solutions; and support services. The company serves photographers, freelance sales professionals, business consultants, and designers. Zervant Oy was founded in 2009 and is based in Espoo, Finland.

Red Points

Private Placement in 2018
Red Points is a technology company that provides a solution for protecting brands from online counterfeiting, digital piracy, and distribution fraud. Its SaaS platform removes hundreds of thousands of incidents of illegal products and content from the web monthly, across over one-hundred online marketplaces and social networks. Red Points’ solutions are used by over five-hundred brands worldwide including Bang & Olufsen, MVMT, and DOPE. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Barcelona, Spain.

Personio

Series A in 2017
Personio offers cloud-based HR management and recruiting solutions and software for startups, and small- and medium-sized enterprises. The company enables its customers to store and manage all employee data and HR processes in one place, including vacation and sick days, approvals, salary, attendance, employee documents, performance, reporting, and employee on-boarding. Its recruiting function comprises applicant tracking, interview scheduling, candidate reviews, and many other features. Personio was established in 2015 and is based in Munich, Germany.

IndigoBoom

Series A in 2007
IndiGoBoom is a digital music distributor with an annual fee structure as opposed to the majority of its competition who charge per song or album. We are hard nosed internet music biz veterans always ready to go to bat for the independent artist.

Kriya Finance

Series A in 2015
MarketFinance is a business finance company with offices in London and Manchester. The online platform enables businesses to access a range of flexible finance solutions — quickly and easily. This smart technology is backed by help from real people so business owners can save time and focus on growing their business. Since 2011, MarketFinance has advanced over £2.6 billion to companies across a range of sizes and sectors, providing working capital and finance for everything from paying staff and suppliers to launching new products or services and accelerating growth. MarketFinance is backed by Barclays, Santander InnoVentures, European venture capital fund Northzone (invested in Klarna, iZettle, and Trustpilot), private equity group MCI Capital (also invested in iZettle, Azimo, and Gett), and Viola Credit.

Personio GmbH

Private Placement in 2019
Personio GmbH develops and delivers HR management and recruiting software for clients in Germany. Its solution allows clients to implement and manage digital employee file, time off management, salary and bonus, performance and feedback, reporting and exports, jobs and recruiting, and on- and off-boarding. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Munich, Germany.

Appear

Series B in 2006
Appear Networks Systems AB provides a cloud-based mobile application platform that enables the development, integration, and management of mobile applications for independent software vendors. The company offers AIQ8 SDK and templates to develop enterprise mobility applications and host them in the cloud. Its Appear IQ suite of products comprises an MBaaS, which is a cloud based mobile enterprise solution that combines cross-platform development environment, an enterprise mobility platform, and an application store. The company was formerly known as Bluesolid and changed its name to Appear Networks Systems AB in November 2001. Appear Networks Systems AB was founded in 2000 and is based in Kista, Sweden with additional offices in Europe.

Forto

Private Placement in 2019
Forto GmbH provides freight forwarding services primarily in Asia and Europe. The company offers international shipping of FCL and LCL shipments; and air freight services. It operates a digital interface that facilitates to manage logistics, get real-time quotes, and book online and digital freight tracking through a platform. The company was formerly known as FreightHub GmbH and changed its name to Forto GmbH in April, 2020. Forto GmbH was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

Mojn

Secondary Market in 2014
Mojn Ltd. provides a channel for e-commerce businesses to send personalized emails to the existing customers. Its product integrates with existing email providers and automatically inserts personalized email template for specific user segment. Mojn Ltd. was founded in 2013 and is based in Copenhagen, Denmark. As of December 10, 2015, Mojn Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of LiveIntent Inc.

Velory

Private Placement in 2018
Universal Avenue AB develops global on demand sales platform. Its product includes Universal Avenue, a platform that is used by online brands to grow at new markets worldwide. It offers sales as a service with an on-demand direct salesforce connecting the brands with venues for industries including eating and drinking, shopping and beauty, accommodation, and experience provider. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden with additional offices in Norway, Finland, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Spain, and Greece.

Disperse.io

Series A in 2019
Disperse.io is a VC-backed artificial intelligence construction startup focused on improving on-site productivity. Its goal is to not just be part of the current wave of construction innovation upstarts but to ultimately reimagine the way building projects are delivered and operated. Disperse aims to help construction firms create cultures focused on learning and consistent delivery. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in London, England.

Nuday Games

Seed Round in 2013
Nuday Games is an entertainment company that focuses on gamifying subcultures, whereof Rock Science is the first product. Nuday Games - We Gamify Subcultures We turn discussions among people in core target groups into engaging activities. We formalize the social context and give value and structure to the target group’s passion. In the end, consumers of all ages love to compete and socialize with their shared knowledge as foundation. First in-house developed Game product is Rock Science – "The Rock Game of the Century". www.rockscience.tv

Qapital

Series B in 2018
Qapital, Inc. develops a mobile application and tools for users to manage and save their money for their goals based on customizable rules. It enables users to create a Qapital account and send money from their checking account to it. The company also offers Qapital Visa Debit Card, a debit card that enables users to pay bills and withdraw money. Its application is compatible with iOS and Android. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in New York, New York. Qapital, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Qapital Insight AB.

Revolt Technology

Series B in 2009
ReVolt Technology is a technology company, which is developing a rechargeable zinc-air battery. ReVolt's batteries may enable more high-power consumer devices, electric vehicles and renewable energy storage. The technology is a result of six years of intense research and development at SINTEF (the largest independent research institute in Scandinavia). Research on material combinations has solved issues historically related to the metal-air technology; power, lifetime and rechargeability.

Sticky

Seed Round in 2012
Sticky’s marketing optimization platform uses visual and emotional insights to uncover what real people see, miss, and feel when engaging with websites, ads, emails, videos, and much more. As a leader in SaaS visual marketing technology, Sticky provides the only biometric solution in the market that helps digital marketers measure and optimize the Visual Web. With Sticky's flagship platform, Insight & Audit, content creators and marketers can optimize their digital media in near real-time. Using Sticky's disruptive technology publishers, brand advertisers and agencies can achieve significant savings, operational efficiency and increased engagement, all at a fraction of the time and cost of more traditional methodologies. www.sticky.ai

Velory

Series A in 2016
Universal Avenue AB develops global on demand sales platform. Its product includes Universal Avenue, a platform that is used by online brands to grow at new markets worldwide. It offers sales as a service with an on-demand direct salesforce connecting the brands with venues for industries including eating and drinking, shopping and beauty, accommodation, and experience provider. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden with additional offices in Norway, Finland, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Spain, and Greece.

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!