We are thrilled to announce our new $500M fund, Northzone IX, dedicated to backing exceptional founders at an early stage. We are grateful to the entrepreneurs we have worked with for the past 23 years, and couldn’t be more excited for the journey ahead.
We are delighted to announce
@martasjogren
’s promotion to Partner. She is instrumental in driving our mission to be the best partner to entrepreneurs, and we are excited for the journey ahead. Congrats Marta!
#sthlmtech
🚀 We are thrilled to announce that Wendy Xiao Schadeck (
@wen_xs
) becomes our new partner!
Since joining the firm in 2015, Wendy has been a driving force between our investments in crypto, consumer, health, developer tools and web 3.0 infrastructure.
And we are off! A huge day for
@Spotify
, 12 years in the making. We are privileged to have played a part. For the inside track, read
@pjparson
’s take on an impossible success story:
1/ Last week
@Hopin
raised a $400m Series C and hit the $5bn valuation mark in just one year and nine months 🚀
That makes it Europe’s fastest growing startup of all time, according to
@dealroomco
:
.
@medwingcom
raises €28 million for their Series B – with 200,000+ healthcare professionals, they the largest pool of healthcare staff in Europe. Proud investors w/
@Cathayinnov
@CherryVentures
and AtlanticLabs
@mkotting
Thrilled to announce our latest investment - a €25m series A in
@TierMobility
, alongside
@speedinvest
and
@PointNineCap
. Read
@paulbz
's views on why we think Europe is THE market to win for
#scooter
companies and how TIER will change mobility for good
🚨 We are hiring in New York and London!
❤️ We want people driven by passion and with an entrepreneurial mindset, ready to embrace the uncertainty of this world and the investment ecosystem. Your profile doesn’t look like the norm? Be our guest 👇
We are thrilled to announce our investment in
@TrueLayer
in a $7.5m round. We are entering a new era of banking, and Francesco, Luca and the TrueLayer team are powering the future. Read our Partner
@jeppezink
's thoughts on the investment:
#Londontech
👉 Slush has created a product in 4 months. Node by Slush is a community to connect startups to investors, mentors and partners.
We're proud to support the European ecosystem with great events like
@SlushHQ
– stay tuned for more announces in the coming days!
Raise funding, grow your business, and learn from the best. All online, throughout the fall. Apply for membership in a curated community for the world of startups now!
💥 NEWS: In just 8 months, Hopin has scaled from 5,000 registered users and 1,800 organizations hosting events to rocketing past 2.5 million users.
@hopinofficial
is the future of events. We're proud to be part of their journey and this massive $125 million round.
Hopin raised $125 million today and is now valued over $2 billion.
Just 12 months ago, I gave Johnny a term sheet to co-lead his Seed round.
This is the fastest growth we’ve ever seen from any company in Northzone’s 25 year history.
📈 We're so proud to see
@Trustpilot
listed on the London Stock Exchange!
Congrats
@Peter_Muhlmann
and team for such an impressive milestone 👏
👀
@jeppezink
had a look at our 2011 investment memo and other key ingredients of Trustpilot success 👇
Thrilled to announce our investment in Spacemaker, who are revolutionising construction planning using
#AI
, in a $25m A-round alongside
@atomico
. Excited to partner with them on their mission to build better & more sustainable cities for all.
@mkotting
🦄
@PersonioHR
just raised $125m and is poised to become Europe’s leading HR platform - the company is now valued $1.7bn
🌱 Since we led their Series A in 2017, they added 3000 customers across 80 countries
Congrats
@HannoRenner
and team 👏
w/
@mkotting
.
@iZettle
juggernaut story is the ultimate example of what an amazing team can mean even in the most competitive markets. Privileged & thankful to have played a small part in your success over the past 6yrs. Massive congratulations,
@jacobdegeer
@mnwire
& the team!
#STHLMtech
Big news - iZettle to join forces with PayPal. Becoming a part of the PayPal family will give us and our merchants an amazing opportunity to grow and expand. Excited to get to work with Dan,
@williamready
and team! Read my thoughts here:
Big congrats to our Partner
@pjparson
on winning Investor of the Year at
#InvestorAllstars
, thanks to an epic year with 2 €bn+ exits in
@Spotify
and
@izettle
to add to his stellar list of successes. European tech is on a high.
We're thrilled to announce our Series B funding round led by
@b_capital_group
and
@softbankkorea
. Big plans for expanding our global platform for sport fishing (and by the way, we're hiring!)
🛴 "Out of 16 companies that applied, only three have won permits to operate scooters in
@Paris
, arguably the biggest micromobility market in the world, including
@tierscooters
"
Huge congrats to the team 👏
@MicromobilityCo
have more 👇
c/
@paulbz
🇳🇴
@GetKahoot
picked up $215M from
@SoftBank
– since we've invested, we are impressed by the execution and vision of the team. Kahoot! has still a lot more in store 🚀
@TechCrunch
's
@ingridlunden
has more 👇
(1/3)Thank you to all the Seed fund managers and entrepreneurs/angels who joined us last night for dinner & drinks in NYC! We hope you enjoyed the show featuring Northzone’s
@pjparson
rocking on stage alongside
@MattHartman
,
@henryshandle
&
@RyanStar
. Looking forward to hosting..
With his experience from Microsoft, Betaworks, and
@dots
we are very excited to announce that
@paulbz
is joining Northzone as Partner. Read his thoughts on company building and transatlantic investing.
#Londontech
Congrats
@Jess_M_Schultz
on being named top Partner in
@didigital_se
's ranking of women in the Swedish Venture Capital ecosystem. More on Jessica's journey from HelloFresh Founder to VC investor below (in Swedish).
Jessica Schultz på Northzone är Sveriges mäktigaste kvinnliga riskkapitalpartner, enligt Di Digitals redaktion. ”Min plan var inte att bli en VC-investerare”, säger hon.
📈
@Spotify
's success story is both brilliant and hard-won. We never get tired of hearing it!
☕️
@pjparson
had a Fika with
@MartinLorentzon
, co-founder of Spotify, and dives into his learnings from the company crazy ride 👇
We are delighted to welcome
@redpoints_sol
to the Northzone family, building the smart solution to tackling the huge problem of online piracy and brand abuse. Congrats to
@Lurquizu
and team!
👏 Congrats to
@johnnyboufarhat
and team for such an impressive execution over the past year!
📈 With this round hitting the headlines, Hopin is definitely the fastest growing startup in history.
👉
@Hopin
is here to last.
Huge congratulations to Northzone's founding partner
@tellefthor
on being named new CEO of
@norfund_
- the Norwegian Investment Fund doing amazing work in developing countries 👏
We are proud investors this morning as
@asmundgf
rings the bell at the
@osloboers
to mark
@GetKahoot
's listing on the Merkur Market. Congratulations!!
📈 The e-commerce sector in Europe experienced rapid growth with the onset of the pandemic, with revenues leaping by 30% to a record $465bn in 2021 💥
@deeeepka
from our team shared some trends and the best e-commerce startups to watch with
@Siftedeu
👇
🎉 Congratulations to Merten, Roy, Ray, and the whole team on closing this round led by us with
@CherryVentures
and
@SparkCapital
💻 Ravio allows fast-growing tech startups to stay on the pulse of talent market insights, and they're live today 👇
"Empower women in your organizations to make decisions after you recruit them, sometimes that involves leaps of faith and a whole lot of trust."
@wen_xs
🚀 We are super excited to welcome the entire
@magic_labs
team to the Northzone family, after leading this $27M Series A round. Congrats
@_seanli
and team!
@TechCrunch
's
@CarlyPage_
spoke with our Partner
@wen_xs
and the founder Sean 👇
🚀 We're super proud to lead last
@wagestream
's round, grabbing £20 million to fund its international expansion.
"There's no doubt that, in the future, [income streaming] will become as important as any other benefits like healthcare" adds
@jeppezink
👇
💬 “Need a New Year’s Resolution? Monetize Yourself.” Our very own
@SarahNoeckel
explains how we shift from “corporations as people” to “people as corporations." on
@ProductHunt
👇
Congratulations to our Partner
@pjparson
for winning VC of the year at the
#Europas
! A hugely deserved win capping off an epic start of the year with
@spotify
@iZettle
Do you want to work for Europe’s leading investor? This is an incredible opportunity for an exceptional person to work with
@pjparson
on finding, backing and supporting the entrepreneurs building tomorrow’s
@Spotify
,
@iZettle
and
@avito
Delighted to announce our investment in
@wagestream
alongside our friends
@balderton
. Our thoughts on why we invested and why we think Wagestream can become a true consumer champion:
@jeppezink
🎮 Our portfolio company
@bunchgames
, the party app for multiplayer games, has closed $20 million in Series A funding bringing together many top multiplayer game makers. Congrats
@Selcukatli
and team for such a huge milestone!
c/
@paulbz
👏 Congrats Flink, for raising $52m to tackle the instant shopping delivery market!
🥑+📈With more than 120 employees, the team is growing at a pace we've never seen before – and poised to become the leader in the space
@TechCrunch
's
@sohear
has more 👇
🚀 The State of European Tech Report by our friends from
@Atomico
and
@SlushHQ
launches on Dec. 7th!
Register for the
@Hopin
event now, and be the first to learn all about the most important trends in 2021 👇
We are excited to announce our investment in in a $15m Series A round. Their smart
#AI
harmonises communication on construction sites to track progress and help close the trillion-dollar construction productivity gap
Our portfolio company Hopin raises $40M Series A as its virtual events business accelerates.
Congrats
@johnnyboufarhat
and team for expanding the business in a record time 👏
@alex
has more on
@TechCrunch
👇
c/
@paulbz
👏 Stoked to see
@GetKahoot
uplisting on the Olso Stock Exchange main list this morning.
📈 In 2020, over 250 million games were played with more than 1.5 billion participating players in 200 countries 💥
c/
@mkotting
📈 We've been blown away by the vision of
@fsimoneschi
,
@lucamartinetti
and the entire
@TrueLayer
team to bolster open banking and replace card networks since our investment in 2018. They are the most experienced in this category and we believe they've built a category leader 1/2
👨🏫 We're thrilled to lead
@microverseinc
$12.5m Series A to become the global leader in nurturing software engineering talent – welcome team!
The place you’re born shouldn't determine your opportunities in life 👇
w/
@obrien
@mkotting
@arielcamus
Northzone's
@SarahNoeckel
is excited about the Passion Economy and overall optimistic for startups. We can't say it better: there's no better time to start a business than now. Thanks
@joinstationf
👉
Congrats
@sebastian_bond
and the team at
@KitabSawti
on raising your $6 million Series A round. Exciting journey ahead building the world's leading audiobook service in Arabic.
#STHLMTech
💚 We're delighted to announce a new addition to our investment team: Kilian Pender is joining us as a Partner. Kilian has been a friend of the firm for many years, and bringing him on board feels like a natural and exciting next step.
🦄 It’s been incredible to watch
@Klarna
grow into the European success story it is today since our investment in 2015
👏
@klarnaseb
and his team have repeatedly demonstrated their commitment to act as a leader in their category
Reuters has more 👇
Bringing back Swedish principles to building scalable companies: ”Product is the best growth hack”
#sthlmtech
growth gurus on stage at
#sthlmtechmeetup
👏🏻Congrats to
@dkaragas
@stevengoodday
and team for all the hard work on the Keeps, Cove, Evens and Picnic brands to make personalized healthcare accessible for all.
🦄So proud to see
@thirtymadison
reaching this milestone today!
w/
@wen_xs
🛴 Congrats
@tierscooters
on reaching a $2bn valuation today 👏
📈 Since we invested in 2018, we've been lucky enough to witness this world-class team change mobility for good in an exponentially growing number of cities (150+)
@mkotting
has more 👇
🚀 We are thrilled to announce that Elena Pantazi
@ecpantazi
becomes our first Partner dedicated to Talent and Portfolio Development – welcome on board, Elena!
More about our platform and expansion plans👇
👉Forbes 2020 Midas List is out! With our very own
@pjparson
featured. Midas List recognizes since 19 years every year the world’s top 100 venture capitalists
w/
@Forbes
@alexrkonrad
Excited to announce our latest investment in
@LivepeerOrg
. With live video one of the fastest growing media markets,
@petkanics
and Eric Tang are building a distributed infrastructure layer at scale, creating a win-win for GPU miners and video customers.
@wen_xs
[Thread]
@pjparson
sat down with
@soroshtavakoli
& Anja Leissner from
@NoquoFoods
, that aims to disrupt some of our most beloved foods, starting with cheese 🧀
Here is a story on why it's time to invest in vegan food (and why it matters to tech VCs) 👇
.
@hopinofficial
is one of those crazy growth stories we're proud to back from inception as early-stage investors.
@theinformation
sat down with our
@paulbz
,
@johnnyboufarhat
and other investors about behind building the fastest SaaS unicorn in history👇
We are very excited to announce our investment in Berlin-based
@KlangGames
, who are redefining the multiplayer experience, in a $8.95m series A round. Read our Partner
@paulbz
's thoughts on why he made this his first Northzone investment.
#VC
#gamedev
🦄 And... another portfolio company going public:
@Trustpilot
. Europe is on a mission to list tech giants.
👏 So proud to be early investors since leading their Series A in 2011. Congrats
@Peter_Muhlmann
and team!
c/
@jeppezink