🌳 We’re excited to announce our investment in AirForestry, a company revolutionising forest thinning with electric, autonomous drones! This €10.3 million Seed round was led by Northzone, and included participation from strategic, evergreen, and greentech investors Sveaskog, Kiko Ventures, CapitalT, Walerud Ventures, SEB Greentech VC, and Cloudbreak VC. 💚 Marking a significant shift in forest management and supporting a more sustainable future, AirForestry’s solution offers a fossil-free, gentle, and a radically more cost efficient method of forestry, reducing carbon dioxide emissions while enhancing the forest’s carbon sequestration capabilities. We’re very proud to welcome Olle Gelin, Mauritz Andersson, Caroline Walerud and their team to the portfolio as they continue to transform the future of forestry! Find out more below 👇
Northzone
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
London, England 39,576 followers
Northzone is a venture capital fund shaped by lives as entrepreneurs and investors. Founded in 1996.
About us
Northzone is a technology investment partnership. With two decades of experience, we have been chosen by some of the best entrepreneurs as their long-term partner for growth. With offices across the Nordics, London and in New York, we work around the clock to connect our companies with customers, business partners and key talent on a truly international scale. As former entrepreneurs ourselves, we have been sat on both sides of the table, and place the relationships with our Founders at the core of our business.
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- Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
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- 11-50 employees
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- London, England
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- Partnership
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- 1996
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- Technology, E-commerce, Consumer Internet, and SaaS
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5-9 Union Square West
New York, New York 10003, US
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👏 Congratulations to the Defacto team on the launch of "Defacto Core" - a new Lending-as-a-Service API designed to enhance SMB lending for financial institutions! 💪 By leveraging AI and real-time underwriting to provide instant funding decisions, Defacto continues to improve both efficiency and customer experience in the lending landscape. Find out more below 👇
Since day one, our mission at Defacto has been consistent: Empower #SMB growth with better access to financing. Year 1️⃣: We launched our embedded #API to let partners quickly provide essential capital to SMBs, while refining our scoring algorithms on large volumes of data. Year 2️⃣: We reimagined the SMB lending experience with a self-service digital platform powered by AI-native loan servicing, driving efficiency. To date, we’ve financed over €600M for 10k+ businesses—with just one customer care agent. Year 3️⃣: We obtained our banking license from the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution (ACPR), giving us complete control over compliance. Today, we’re thrilled to introduce Defacto Core—the first licensed, API-first #LaaS (Lending-as-a-Service) platform designed to help banks and traditional lenders serve SMBs at scale. Built by lenders, for lenders, Defacto Core offers a solution grounded in regulatory expertise, automated underwriting, and a proven track record of delivering a leaner, more delightful SMB lending experience. The technology is here, EU regulations are in our favour, and SMBs deserve better. Here’s to the new era of embedded lending 🚀 Read more on how we're supporting banks: https://lnkd.in/ePNqHwAM #laas #embeddedfinance #embedddedlending
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👏 spektr has just announced a big update! They now offer client onboarding, continuous compliance, and case management - all hyper-configurable to suit unique business needs. The update allows you to tailor compliance processes, from adjusting KYC and AML checks to building custom, no-code onboarding workflows, ensuring everything fits seamlessly into your operations. 🎯 The company's real-time monitoring, risk-based workflows, and centralised case management make compliance smoother and more efficient, while spektrAI provides intelligent support without compromising your control. Congrats to the team! 💪 More below 👇
The update you’ve all been waiting for: introducing client onboarding and case management to spektr’s continuous compliance solution. What’s the opposite of one-size-fits-all compliance? A hyper-configurable platform that gives you the power to refine every step of your compliance process to meet unique business needs. And that’s exactly what spektr provides. At the end of the day, the frequency of your KYC checks, the extensiveness of your AML reviews, and the level of your risk appetite differ so much that it’s not even worth addressing the tools that can’t keep up. From automating the most complex workflows to providing real-time risk insights, we've built a platform that doesn’t just adapt to your needs — it anticipates them. Check out our latest blog with all the information you need about this huge update: https://lnkd.in/dekNkQha Shoutout to spektr’s investors Northzone, PSV, and Seedcamp. #ComplianceAutomation #ClientOnboarding #CaseManagement #ContinuousCompliance
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We've raised £23.4M to grow our team, launch even better rewards and fast-track our expansion outside the UK 🎉 Over the last year we've added a free membership tier, hundreds of new independent partners around the country, countless product improvements and our personal favourite, Yonder Flights, a new way to use your points on any flight with any airline globally. So if you're sick of trying to hack your rewards card just so you can use your points on something useful, maybe look us up. We might be able to help. We've maintained a 4.5 TrustPilot rating and are the number one ranked credit card with Smart Money People. Our customers really love us (and we love them back... hi!). We've got loads more we want to do though. It's going to be a busy couple of years. Building a world class credit card business isn't easy. But we love to keep busy, so we're doubling down on ways to help you get the most out of your points, adding new partnerships with some of the world's most iconic brands and building more intuitive features to help you use credit responsibly. That's not even the half of it. With this new funding, we'll be taking Yonder on tour and launching outside the UK by the end of next year. Thanks to our new and existing investors Jigsaw VC, RTP Global, LocalGlobe, Northzone & Seedcamp for their continued support. You've always seen the vision and we're really proud to be working with you to get there. We're hiring, so if you want to come hang out with us (in our new office in Hoxton) then we'd love to chat. You can find our open roles on our website. Thanks also to Sifted and Tom Matsuda for covering the news. We've linked the article below.
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🇬🇧 Sifted Summit is around the corner! Don’t miss our partner, Sanjot Malhi, on stage alongside Lisa Picardo, CCO at PensionBee UK; Herman Narula, Co-founder and CEO at Improbable; and Tim Smith, Editor at Sifted discussing all things IPOs and exits. 🎙️ The panel ‘To sell or not to sell? Waiting in the exit wings’ will explore the resurgence of market activity and the reopening of the IPO window, examining the ideal time to sell your startup as well as alternative exit strategies, along with what to anticipate during the sale process. Find the full agenda below 👇 #siftedsummit
Sifted Summit Agenda
summit.sifted.eu
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🚀 Flink, the leading instant grocery delivery service secures $150m in new funding to drive growth and innovation! New investors alongside existing partners such as BOND, REWE, Mubadala and Northzone, contributed to this new round of $115m in equity and $35m in debt financing. 🤝 Adding to the exciting news, Flink has announced a preferred partnership with Just Eat Takeaway (JET) to extend its market reach as it continues scaling its operations across Europe. 📈 With $600M in gross revenue expected for 2024 and EBITDA break-even already achieved in both markets, Flink is targeting full profitability by Q2 2025. And also plans to open 30 new stores in Germany and the Netherlands over the next 12 months. Congratulations to Christoph Cordes, Oliver Merkel, Julian Dames, and the team! 👏 TechCrunch has more 👇 Jessica Schultz, Maxine Rior
EXCLUSIVE: Quick-commerce startup Flink raises another $150M at a valuation of nearly $1B
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The secret’s out, Kriya is now available on Stripe! We’re the first B2B PayLater solution available in the UK on Stripe’s financial infrastructure platform. UK-based Stripe users can now offer flexible payment terms to their business buyers. What’s in it for you? 📈 Increase conversion, order size, and buyer loyalty ⌛Offer 30 day payment terms, in real-time, at checkout 🫰 Get paid upfront 🔌 Frictionlessly integrate into Stripe without dev work 🛡️Protected from credit and fraud risk For more about this exciting partnership and how to get bigger sales, more often and be paid upfront, check out the link in the comments. #Partnership #Stripe #B2B #B2BPayments #BNPL #eCommerce #PayLater #TradeCredit
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🚀 We're excited to announce our investment in Nirvana's $24.2 million Series A funding round. We have led this round with participation from Inspired Capital, Eniac Ventures, and Surface Ventures. 🤍 Nirvana is using AI to bring price transparency to healthcare, empowering patients and improving billing efficiency for providers. Initially focusing on behavioural health, the company has now expanded into other healthcare sectors such as physical therapy, intensive outpatient, and primary care. Its platform achieves 95%+ pricing accuracy, reduces claim denials by 20%, and improves billing efficiency by 110%, far surpassing existing solutions. 🤝 Welcome to the team Akshay Venkitasubramanian, Urvish Parikh, Kelvin K Chan and team! Wendy Xiao, Nick Boesel, Michelle Nacouzi
Our investment in Nirvana: Revolutionising Health Insurance Verification with AI - Northzone
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🚀 We're thrilled to announce our lead investment in Reonic's Series A 🌲 Reonic empowers SME installers to run their business more efficiently digitally, by providing an end-to-end software suite that covers lead management, CRM, project design, procurement and billing. Their mission to accelerate the transition to renewable energy aligns perfectly with the urgent need for sustainable solutions. 🤝 We're excited to partner with Tristan Menzinger, Lars-Manuel Schneider, Udo Sill and their team as they expand across Europe, including the DACH region, France and Italy. Reonic has already attracted over 400 customers, including major German utility companies. Jessica Schultz, Markus Gleim, Paula Weber
Our investment in Reonic: Empowering Renewable Energy Installers Across Europe - Northzone
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🚀 We're thrilled to announce our lead investment in Reonic's Series A 🌲 Reonic empowers SME installers to run their business more efficiently digitally, by providing an end-to-end software suite that covers lead management, CRM, project design, procurement and billing. Their mission to accelerate the transition to renewable energy aligns perfectly with the urgent need for sustainable solutions. 🤝 We're excited to partner with Tristan Menzinger, Lars-Manuel Schneider, Udo Sill and their team as they expand across Europe, including the DACH region, France and Italy. Reonic has already attracted over 400 customers, including major German utility companies. Jessica Schultz, Markus Gleim, Paula Weber
Our investment in Reonic: Empowering Renewable Energy Installers Across Europe - Northzone
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