🇫🇮 We’ll be at Slush next week! Don’t miss our partner Jessica Schultz’s fireside chat with Robert Falck, CEO and co-founder of our portfolio company, Einride. 🎙️ They’ll discuss the importance of timing when launching new technology - how to determine if the market is ready for your innovation or how to prepare it if it isn’t. Plus, they’ll share insights on how Einride timed its entry into autonomous electric transport and how timing, design, and market shaping fuel its approach to green logistics. 👀 You can also catch Maxine Rior, Markus Gleim, Dominik Esen, Alessandro De Benedetti, William Jilltoft and Aitana Giebels van Bekestein on the ground - be sure to say hi! Full agenda here: https://lnkd.in/eKfvTnsU..
Northzone
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
London, England 39,991 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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- 1996
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- Technology, E-commerce, Consumer Internet, and SaaS
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🗞️ Our recent portfolio updates, including our investments in AirForestry, Flower, Nirvana, Reonic and more. It's been a little while since our last roundup, check out our latest one below! 👇 https://lnkd.in/ebptKHNJ 🗓️ Stay up to date by signing up to our monthly newsletter (link in the comments). AirForestry 🇸🇪 is the company revolutionising forest thinning with electric, autonomous drones. We led its €10.3 million Seed round which included participation from investors Sveaskog, Kiko Ventures, CapitalT, Walerud Ventures, SEB, and Cloudbreak VC. Defacto 🇫🇷 announced the launch of "Defacto Core" - a new Lending-as-a-Service API designed to enhance SMB lending for financial institutions. Einride 🇸🇪 ’s CEO and founder, Robert Falck was highlighted on the TIME’s list of 100 most influential climate leaders for 2024. Flink 🇸🇪 secured $150m in new funding to drive growth and innovation from new and existing investors such as BOND, REWE, Mubadala and Northzone. Flower 🇸🇪 is the startup at the forefront of shaping a future powered by renewable energy. We led its €45m Series A round alongside the participation of Giant Ventures, 82an Invest, Sony Innovation Fund; and angel investors Thomas von Koch and Sebastian Knutsson. Klarna 🇸🇪 is now integrated with Apple Pay in both the US and the UK with plans to expand its availability to other markets. Kriya 🇬🇧 is officially available on Stripe - they’re the first B2B PayLater solution available in the UK on Stripe’s financial infrastructure platform. Nirvana 🇺🇸 The startup using an AI-powered platform to bring price transparency to the healthcare market announced its $24.2 million Series A funding round. We led this round with participation from Inspired Capital, Eniac Ventures, and Surface Ventures. Rayon.design 🇫🇷 has launched its latest software version - Rayon V2! Red Points 🇪🇸 was recently featured in Forbes’ guide on ‘how patents can help your business grow’ - recognised as an effective tool for swiftly removing online copycats at scale. Reonic 🇩🇪 the end-to-end software boosting efficiency for SME renewable energy installers announced its €13 million Series A funding round led by Northzone with participation from existing investors Point Nine and Puzzle Ventures. spektr 🇩🇰 has introduced client onboarding, continuous compliance and case management, now hyper-configurable. Solvimon 🇳🇱 was recently featured in WIRED’s ‘The Hottest Startups in Amsterdam in 2024’. Tandem Health 🇸🇪 is partnering up with leading Nordic Healthcare provider Aleris to provide their AI journaling technology for 1,000 of their 4,500 medical practitioners across disciplines. Yonder 🇬🇧 raised £23.4 million to grow its team, launch even better rewards and fast-track its expansion outside the UK. CEO and founder, Tim Chong also shared his insights with Sifted on ‘how to prepare to raise a Series A’.
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🎙️ What’s next for European VC? Next week at Web Summit, you’ll catch our partner, Pär-Jörgen Pärson, on stage alongside Eileen Burbidge, Partner at Passion Capital; Rainer Märkle, Partner at HV Capital; and Mike Butcher ✍️, Editor at TechCrunch. Reflecting on the past few years, they’ll discuss how VCs balance caution with opportunity, and what emerging dynamics might shape the landscape of 2025. 👇 Find out more below and see you there! https://lnkd.in/eQrwdewm #websummit
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🌼 We are delighted to announce our investment in Flower, the Swedish startup at the forefront of shaping a future powered by renewable energy. We led its €45M Series A round alongside the participation of Giant Ventures, 82an Invest, Sony Innovation Fund; and angel investors Thomas von Koch, Partner at the EQT Group and Founder of King, Sebastian Knutsson. 📈 The European energy market is facing unprecedented demand and rapid growth in renewables, leading to new challenges in grid stability, pricing, and energy volume. Flower tackles these with advanced AI forecasting, multi-market optimisation, and trading software. This new funding round brings Flower's total to €100M, fueling its pan-European expansion. Our partner Pär-Jörgen Pärson who is joining the company’s board adds, “We’re very excited about the team’s pioneering approach to addressing the challenges of renewable energy with cutting edge AI driven optimisation combined with grid level battery systems to transform the grid throughout Europe. We have never seen such a fast moving company”. Thrilled to welcome John Diklev and the Flower team to our portfolio! Learn more below 👇 https://lnkd.in/eu6FtQ4X Pär-Jörgen Pärson, Michelle Nacouzi, Naseem M.
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🏠 Inside most of us lives an interior designer/architect (or at least, that’s how we feel here at Northzone) so we’re excited to share our portfolio company, Rayon.design’s latest software version - Rayon V2! ✏️ Rayon brings modern tools to the AEC industry and its launch of V2 is the definite tool to do everything in one place: drafting, stylising, laying out and more. Whether you’re a seasoned professional or simply drawn to the creative process, take a look below 👇 https://lnkd.in/efA6ZbNS Bastien Dolla, Stanislas Chaillou, Michiel Kotting, Michelle Nacouzi
After 3 years of team work, we just shipped Rayon V2! 🎉 This new version represent Rayon’s best attempt to date to finally offer interior designers and architects an online software to draft, stylize and lay out their work, all in one place. To only name a few of the many (many) features added in this new version: views, canvases, new renderer, dark mode, much deeper editing tool set, improved annotative layer, 4x larger block libraries, style libraries, new template repository, model versioning, etc Try the app today -> https://www.rayon.design/
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🚀 Our latest perspective on the transformative opportunities within the healthcare industry is out! 🤯 The global healthcare market generates a staggering $21 trillion and only 2% is invested in digital tech - the potential for growth is immense. At our recent AGM in September, our partner Wendy Xiao delved deep into the opportunities emerging within the healthcare industry - a sector ripe for digital revolution. As we embrace AI and digital transformation, we see a path forward that enhances efficiency and aligns incentives across the value chain. We gathered our insights and included a short recording of Wendy’s presentation in the link below! 👇 https://lnkd.in/eFvN8u45
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🎙️ Recently, our partner Molly Alter sat down with Molly O'Shea from Sourcery to look back on her journey as an investor - covering everything from founder qualities and VC biases to what she’s learned along the way. She shared her thoughts on the differences between the US and European tech scenes, and why she’s excited about the future of vertical AI, software for hardware, and workflow SaaS. And also delved into Northzone's meritocratic, founder-friendly approach in balancing investments between the US and Europe. 📈 Check out the full podcast through the link in the comments 👇
Really excited to share our latest pod with Molly Alter, Partner at Northzone Northzone, is investing out of their latest & largest $1.2B fund X, bringing their total AUM to $4B. Molly joined Northzone in 2023, bringing with her an impressive track record of 12 investments from her time at Insight Partners and Index Ventures. Her portfolio includes notable successes such as Lightricks, Glia, Tractable, and Frame.io, which she sourced and served on the board of before their $1.28B sale to Adobe. We go deep into - EU vs USA debate - Her early success (Frame io's $1.28B exit to Adobe) - Software for hardware opportunities & constraints - VC biases & decision-making - Vertical AI Full episode, Q&A, & write up in Sourcery below
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🌳 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 👇
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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