Top 50 Angel Investors in Norway in January 2025
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in startups based in Norway. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in companies from Norway. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Angel Investors in Norway in January 2025
Trond Riiber Knudsen is a Founder of TRK GROUP.
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Investment focus
- Software, Construction, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Norway, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- OTee — OTee's Industrial Automation platform makes it possible to create and manage industrial-grade virtual control systems, based on open standards and architecture!
- Ciloo — Ciloo is an operator of a global on-demand platform intended to provide e-commerce software for branded products and corporate gifts.
- Starflow — Starflow goal is to create a scalable energy system that helps people achieve energy independence.
Seasoned venture capital investor helping founders and their teams hands-on to accelerate the entrepreneurial journey. Actively looking for investments with unicorn potential.M&A specialist with experience from complex cross-border transactions. Experience from more than 20 M&A transactions including more than 10 cross-border deals, exitswith mainly publicly listed and Private Equity counterparts.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Finance
- Seed, Series A, Secondary Market
- Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- evoluteIQ — Foster the best-in-class enterprise workflow automation at scale with EvoluteIQ's end-to-end intelligent business automation platform
- DIME — DIME provides digitalization and automation services to simplify the work of municipalities.
- Confidus Venture Capital — Confidus Venture Capital is a Venture Fund designed to outperform. We invest in future winners in digital transformation and automation.Setting the record straight – the quality of an idea and the human capital behind it is far more important than factors such as investment stage, size or profits. We know it from experience working closely withambitious and bold entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs with the power to change the world! Together we have built disruptive global tech companies challenging industry norms. Delivering outstanding results. Our incentive is only upon success: Our belief in sustainable value creation is so strong we have eliminated management fees!
Aleksander Leonard Larsen is the Co-Founder and COO at Sky Mavis.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Digital Entertainment, Blockchain
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Norway, Singapore, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Mocaverse — Mocaverse is the Animoca Brands membership NFT collection of 8,888 unique beings: The Mocas. Join the Mocas in the realms to Learn, Play, Do Good, and Build together as we champion our Web3 values!
- Pixels — Pixels is a play-to-earn MMO game built around the NFT assets you already own. Build your NFT a home in the metaverse and get farming.
- Horizon Blockchain Games — We make web3 easy, fun, and accessible for users and builders.
Sean Percival is the Chief Marketing Officer of Iterate Norway.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Manufacturing
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- United States, Norway, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
Chris Murphy is a Venture Partner at MS&AD Ventures. He previously cofounded SaaStock and was an early Web Summit employee.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
I work with early-stage technology startups and founders with ambitions to solve global challenges. I'm co-founder and partner at Farmhouse, investing primarily in Norwegian startups, and a venture partner at Antler, a global early-stage VC. Previously, I held the position as Portfolio Manager and Partner at B&B while the company scaledfrom 16 to 60+ people in three countries. I initiated and co-founded the co-working space Nordic Innovation House in Silicon Valley, explored new business opportunities in the renewables industry and I was the first CEO of the Norwegian Venture Capital & Private Equity Association. I have experience as a co-founder, angel investor, member of the Board of Directors for startups and VCs, focusing on early-stage ventures, growth, and internationalization. I'm passionate about helping startups scale their impact, and especially empowering female co-founders and angel investors.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Pre-Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Norway, United States, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- Ownersroom — Handle your investor network like a professional, providing a single entry point to all the information they need!
- SafetyWing — Health and insurance products for remote companies and remote workers worldwide, as a replacement for national welfare systems.
- Savvie — Savvie is your sales forecasting tool, waste tracking tool, sold-out tracker, ordering solution, product manager and analytics dashboard all in one intuitive app. We help you reduce food waste while maximizing sales with our one-click solution for store management.
Christian Rokseth is dedicated and focused towards developing new and innovative communication solutions for enterprises. Since Christian Rokseth is started my career in 1999 Christian Rokseth have managed a series of advanced projects within the IT and Telecom industry. These projects have brought me significant knowledge about all the requiredsteps and processes involved in order to bring state of the art electronics and software products to the market. In 2014 Christian Rokseth is managed the development and market introduction of the world's first intrinsically safe smartphone. The product was developed from scratch by a team of 8 engineers. Likely the smallest team ever to develop a smartphone.
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Investment focus
- Electronics, CRM, Security
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Norway
Portfolio highlights
- Auk — Auk creates a fully-automatic system that makes it easier to grow vegetables, salads and herbs at your own kitchen
- Globus.ai — Cover up to 40% more shifts, every day, with our self-learning, AI-based, workforce management software. Book your free trial today.
- Intoto — Intoto is a Company from Norway providing real-time data from rivers and streams.
Jon Oyvind Eriksen - CEO and founder @ Aidiom
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Investment focus
- Software, Security, Internet of Things
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Norway, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Kantega — Kantega is an IT consultant company developing custom solutions based on Web services for large corporations and government.Kantega is a leading Norwegian IT company within Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) with J2EE, XML and Web Services, creating - user friendly and secure portals - self-service with digital signatures - securesolutions with PKITo customers within banking and finance, industry, energy, commerce and public services.
- Unacast — Build better products and make smarter decisions with real-world location data.
- Fonn Construction — Get the job right.
Avlok Kohli is the CEO at AngelList and Founder and CEO of LegalReach. He was the former Founder and CEO at Fairy.Avlok Kohli was the creator and founder of Fastbite, a lightening fast food delivery service. Because of Mr. Kohli’s leadership and Fastbite’s incredible value to customers, Square (led by Jack Dorsey, Founder / CEO of Twitter)acquired Fastbite a few months after launch and has since integrated it into Square's own delivery product as "Fastbite by Caviar"Avlok Kohli also plays an active role in other rapidly growing technology companies as an angel investor, advisor and founder.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Education
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- United States, Canada, Norway
Portfolio highlights
- 0pass — High security organizations trust 0pass for passwordless authentication with YubiKeys and device biometrics. Move infrastructure & apps to phishing-resistant MFA.
- Vocode — Vocode is an open-source library for building voice-based LLM applications.
- Delphi — Delphi is digital cloning that scales time, monetizes knowledge, and interacts audience at scale.
Gunnar Rydning joined Four Seasons Venture in 1986 and working closely with Birger Nergaard he built one of Norway’s leading investment groups.In 2007, he took on the executive directorship role on the General Partner companies serving all the Verdane Funds and he now sits on the of board of GP Verdane V, VI, VII and VIII. Gunnar is alsoManaging Director of Verdane Capital III where he is working alongside Birger Nergaard with the remaining portfolio.At Verdane Gunnar has participated in building a number of Nordic and international companies guiding them from first investment through to trade sale or IPO. Today he is a board member of Eastern Bulk Holding AS, Lorenzten & Stemoco AS, Gambaco AS, Kapnord Fond, Systek AS and Risk Information Group AS in addition to the executive directorships mentioned above. He also works together with Birger Nergaard as an independent advisor for Advent International in Norway and the Nordics.Gunnar played an active role in the initiative to establish Nordic Venture Network in 1999 and has over the years served as Chairman and board member.Gunnar holds an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MSc in Business and Economics from NHH-Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, SaaS, FinTech
- Angel, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Norway
Portfolio highlights
- Plaace — Proptech company creating vibrant streets and cities by helping property owners choose and connect with the right concepts, at the right place, using the right data.
- Neonomics — Our single API connection point enables you to build PSD2 and open banking-enabled propositions, from payment initiation to bank account aggregation & data access.
- Finanstipset AS — Finanstipset is a loan agency that provider refinancing solutions.
Johan is co-founder of Kahoot!, an educational gaming platform with millions of users world wide. Johan has over a decade's experience merging creativity, innovation and technology. Johan's work has included high profile projects for brands including Mercedes, BBC, HP, and Unilever, as well as startups in London and abroad. In 2010 heset up what has become We Are Human, a lean co-creative company, with global impact. In addition to working with some of the world's most recognised brands, We Are Human also incubates and develops its own IP, including the innovative EdTech platform Kahoot! Johan is regular facilitator, speaker and lecturer at universities and events. These include SXSW, OECD, Design Week, UCL and UiO. Johan is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA).
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Investment focus
- Software, EdTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Series B
- Norway, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Ludenso — Ludenso is a software developer of AR solutions for the education industry. To make education more creative and engaging, we are giving editors, authors, and teachers the power to bring their learning resources to life through 3D models, animations, videos, and audio support. This is made possible through the Ludenso Studio, where they can createinclusive learning experiences that enables students to learn in their own way.
- Perlego — Perlego is an online library subscription service for textbooks and non-fiction titles. Having partnered with over 3,000 of the world's best publishers, it gives its users unlimited access to over 650,000 eBooks and publications via an affordable monthly subscription. It aims to make learning accessible to all. It was founded in 2016 and isheadquartered in London, England.
- Evoy — Evoy manufactures and designs the world most powerful electric boat motors available in the market - Inboard and Outboard!
Tharald Nustad is the Founder and Owner of Nordic Impact, Founder and Owner of Katapult, and Co-Founder of Katapult Ocean. He is a former Chairman of the Board of Mallin AS. He attended Pacific Lutheran University.
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Investment focus
- Farming, Information Technology, Communities
- Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Ghana, Kenya, Norway
Portfolio highlights
- TikkTalk - powered by Skiwo — TikkTalk is an online marketplace for connecting businesses and consumers for interpretation services. TikkTalk is an open digital solution for managing interpretation services and holding video or phone meetings in a browser on any device. Anyone with interpretation skills can sign up, validate their skills by uploading certifications, and getaccess to interpretation jobs worldwide. Government organisations and businesses can get direct access to a global pool of interpreters, sorted by language, certification levels and ratings.
- ArcticStartup — ArcticStartup is helping to build communities with uncapped opportunities through media, events, PR and consulting since 2007.Launched in 2007 by Antti Vilpponen and Miikka Kukkosuo as founding writers and getting out two-three articles a week, ArcticStartup quickly started gaining traction. In 2008 Ville Vesterinen and Karri Saarinen joinedthe founding team and ArcticStartup launched its own that were at first held in a small bar of Dubrovnik in Helsinki. Both the media and events started going international in 2009, expanding to the neighbouring Nordics & Baltics. This growth continued until 2012, when the company nearly shut-down as the founders wanted to move-on to other projects. At that point Dmitri Sarle and Greg Anderson took over the company and re-founded ArcticStartup with Jan Ameri joining very shortly.
- Differ — Student life can be boring and challenging without friends. Differ help you connect with other students and help start those first awkward conversations
Christian Hager - Co-Founder @ Hjemmelegene
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Investment focus
- Software, B2B, SaaS
- Pre-Seed
- Norway
Portfolio highlights
- Savvie — Savvie is your sales forecasting tool, waste tracking tool, sold-out tracker, ordering solution, product manager and analytics dashboard all in one intuitive app. We help you reduce food waste while maximizing sales with our one-click solution for store management.
- Shepherd — An all-in-one meetings tool, bringing structure and efficiency to every meeting.
Thomas Falck
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Investment focus
- Marketing, Content Marketing
- Seed, Funding Round
- Norway
Portfolio highlights
- Inzpire.me — Software and services tailored to the Nordics. We empower brands and creators to captivate their audience with impactful, inspiring content
I am an active Angel Investor in pre-seed and seed startups, having invested in 80+ startups. I invest in ambitious founders building scalable products for large markets and support founders with advice, strategic network of investors. Currently Founding Partner at TrueSight Ventures, Venture Capital firm investing in European early-stage startups.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Norway, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- MEplace — MEplace creates a new approach to children’s wellbeing and preschool education. MEplace was founded in 2019 and was headquartered in England, UK.
- Two — Buy Now, Pay Later for your business customers. Two makes it easy and safe to offer invoice as a payment method on your e-commerce site.
- Kota — Instant access to leading insurance and retirement providers globally, with flexible contributions, automated accounting and a delightfully simple employee app.
Rolf Ahlqvist
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Investment focus
- Electronics, Public Safety, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed
- Norway
Portfolio highlights
- Intoto — Intoto is a Company from Norway providing real-time data from rivers and streams.
Nicolaj nielsen is an investor at IDUN audio. attended INSEAD MBA, General Management.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Self-Storage
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Denmark, Norway
Portfolio highlights
- Deckmatch — Tooling to drink from the firehose of data, that is your top of funnel (TOFU)
- Kin, Personal AI — Get inspired, talk things through, navigate situations or get personalized guidance with Kin. Built for privacy, security, and with memory in mind.
- Hyphen - Personal AI made private — Get inspired, talk things through, navigate situations or get personalized guidance with Kin. Built for privacy, security, and with memory in mind.
Evan Weaver is the Co-Founder and CTO at Fauna.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, CMS
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Germany, Canada, Norway
Portfolio highlights
- OpsLevel — OpsLevel is a microservice catalog that helps you build more reliable software and resolve production incidents faster.
- Propel — Easily build in-product analytics powered by large-scale data. Propel's serverless GraphQL API makes building and running data products seamless.
- Edgeless Systems — Industry-leading solutions for confidential computing. Our products are open source and work across clouds. They are intuitive to use for DevOps and Engineering Teams.
Dr. Murshid M. Ali is the Co-Founder at Skyfri, and a serial entrepreneur. He holds a Phd in Economics from the University of Stavanger, and a masters degree in International Business from Grenoble Ecole de Management.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, CleanTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Norway, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Factiverse — We leverage cutting-edge machine learning and instantly deliver insights on text that reveal nuanced intangibles, such as point of view, risk, bias, dispute and falseness. We assist you to verify any content, written by humans or AI. Available as an API, plugin or desktop solution.
- Waved — We are changing the way people think of guest experience with technology that senses and elevates the ambience.
- Investables — Make every interaction count! Leverage Chorus' conversation intelligence backed by ZoomInfo's leading B2B data to distill premium insights from sales calls.
Kris is a high school dropout and self taught builder who brings ideas to life and newness to the world.He has a relentless focus on empowering people to spend time on what really matters. Kris is highly optimistic, has a strong bias toward action, and rigorously works for the future to be better than the past.Today, Kris is Founder CEO ofUnloc. Their mission is to digitize keys and make life easier for everyone with a front door.Kris never quits once his mind is set on solving a problem.Web: unloc.ai
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Investment focus
- Software, B2B, SaaS
- Pre-Seed
- Norway
Portfolio highlights
- Savvie — Savvie is your sales forecasting tool, waste tracking tool, sold-out tracker, ordering solution, product manager and analytics dashboard all in one intuitive app. We help you reduce food waste while maximizing sales with our one-click solution for store management.
- Shepherd — An all-in-one meetings tool, bringing structure and efficiency to every meeting.
Trevor McFedries is the Founder of Friends With Benefits, Founder and CEO of Brud, the CEO - Dapper Collectives at Dapper Labs, and a Board Member at Rhizome and SCI-Arc.
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Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Norway, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- Fortunafi — We deliver all-in-one liquidity solutions for stablecoin issuers, protocol treasuries, and traditional entities. We offer a variety of investment products, such as private and public debt funds with native minting and redemption.
- Hyper — Hyper Online is an avatar iOS app. Use Hyper to build an avatar or vtuber and use it to live-stream, record videos for social media, or build a digital persona. Get it now!
- Mad Realities — Reality is Mad. Join ours instead. New age entertainment platform, powered by you.
Ståle Løvbukten is a Norwegian investor, board member, and advisor on business relations and strategy.
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Investment focus
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Norway
Portfolio highlights
- ShiftX — ShiftX is a collaborative tool, empowering teams to easily visualize, understand and improve how your business operates.
Petter Stordalen
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Investment focus
- Apps, Energy, Customer Service
- Funding Round
- Norway
Portfolio highlights
- Tibber — Tibber is a digital electricity supplier that offers smart solutions to minimize their customers’ consumption and costs. Its vision is to make sustainable energy consumption simple and affordable for all households. Tibber's mission is to reduce the residential electricity consumption for European households by 20 %. Founded in Norway andSweden in 2016, the company has expanded its offer to Sweden and Germany where it powers hundreds of thousands of homes. Tibber replaces traditional utilities with smart technology, supplying its customers with renewable energy at fair and transparent prices. In addition, its app provides real-time analytics into energy usage, and pairs with a variety of smart home devices to reduce electricity consumption at home. The company sells tech-gadgets in their online store and recently was licensed to balance the main power grid in Sweden with EVs.
Einar H. Braathen is Web3 investor @ CoinFund.
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Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Norway, Denmark, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Januar — Innovative EU crypto companies use Januar's payment account solutions to accept payments & send payout's while maintaining full compliance & stable business operations.
- Presail — The platform behind Web 3.0's best investment groups. Manage everything in one place: fundraising, investor management, and token vesting.
- STON.fi — STON.fi is a decentralized automated market maker (AMM) built on the TON blockchain. Explore the full range of STON.fi. Swap cryptocurrencies, stake tokens, provide liquidity on the TON blockchain.
Matt Cohler is a General Partner at At Benchmark, Matt has partnered with entrepreneurs from across the social, mobile, and cloud industries from around the globe suchas Instagram, Dropbox, Quora, Asana, Domo, Edmodo, Baixing, CouchSurfing, Peixe Urbano, ResearchGate, 1stdibs, and Zendesk.Prior to joining Benchmark he served as the VP of Product Management at Previously Matt was Vice President and General Manager at Matt also has been a consultant in
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Investment focus
- Enterprise Software, Software, Internet
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, Norway, China
Portfolio highlights
- Uber — Uber develops, markets, and operates a ridesharing mobile application that allows consumers to submit a trip request that is routed to crowd-sourced partner drivers.Its smartphone application connects drivers with people who need a ride. Its application enables users to arrange and schedule transportation and/or logistics services withthird-party providers. They take on big problems to help drivers, riders, delivery partners, and eaters get moving in more than 600 cities around the world. It also provides Windows Phone App, iPhone App, Blackberry App, and Android App. Uber serves customers in North, Central, and South Americas as well as Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia PacificGarrett Camp, Oscar Salazar, and Travis Kalanick founded UberCab in March 2009 which became Uber Technologies in October 2010, with its headquarters in San Francisco California, and an engineering center in Bengaluru in India as well as a regional office in Singapore.
- Enode — Enode develops APIs that connect EVs, solar, batteries, and heating to energy consumer products.Once connected, the digital infrastructures SaaS-based platform integrate them into the app to optimize energy consumption and help to participate in flexible markets with connected hardware, enabling clients to facilitate a zero-carbon energy grid.The Oslo, Oslo, Norway-based company was established in 2020 by Henrik Langeland, Nikolai Heum, and Thorvald Thorsnes.
- PortalOne — PortalOne is a hybrid games company, delivering live game experiences with stunning visuals and next level interactivity.
Shawn Xu is the Chief of Staff at Lowercarbon Capital.
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Investment focus
- Software, Apps, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States, Norway
Portfolio highlights
- Presail — The platform behind Web 3.0's best investment groups. Manage everything in one place: fundraising, investor management, and token vesting.
- Morf Health — Morf Health is making it 10x faster for healthcare providers to setup and maintain integrations across their tech stack, e.g. easily structure data from patient intake and send to an EHR. We pull data out of the tools they use to deliver care and run the business, unify and normalize the data, and then send it to the tools that need it.
- Mad Realities — Reality is Mad. Join ours instead. New age entertainment platform, powered by you.
Bent M Skisaker is a CFO of AutoStore.
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Investment focus
- Payments, Employee Benefits
- Series A
- Norway
Portfolio highlights
- Bislab — Bislab is an entity that provides credit assessments to individuals and businesses for banking, finance, insurance, and debt collection.
- Optio Incentives — Optio helps businesses incentivize employees, manage equity, stay compliant, and report costs with our software and advisory
Magnus Carlsen is the Co-founder of Freestyle Chess.
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Investment focus
- Sports, Software, Computer Vision
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Norway
Portfolio highlights
- SportAI — SportAI is a B2B sports technology firm that is spearheading the revolution in sports technique coaching, commentary, and analysis using advanced AI and machine learning. The company aims to boost sports performance and make high-quality sports data more accessible. SportAI's SaaS platform, powered by Computer Vision and Machine Learning,delivers unbiased sports technique analysis and AI-generated sports data to different sectors in the sports industry. This technology can seamlessly integrate into broadcasting, training apps, simulators, sporting equipment brands, and product recommendation websites, offering significant benefits to the global sports industry.
As a relevant player in Mexico’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, Fernando is one of the most important and active early-stage investors in Mexico. He has extensive experience in operational and financial aspects of private equity, project finance, and managing growing businesses. He heads Rumbo Ventures, the leading climate tech fund for Latin America.Fernando co-founded ALLVP in 2012 and has since invested in over 24 service-oriented companies in sectors such as healthcare, financial services, mobility, and e-commerce. Additionally, he co-founded NUMA México (formerly Venture Institute), the leading startup accelerator platform, and Fondeadora, LATAM´s pioneer crowdfunding platform that was sold to Kickstarter in 2016.After his tenure as COO and CFO of Umbral Capital, Fernando became CEO of the real estate private equity fund where he was responsible for managing USD$ 50M in capital commitments, and continued as Chairman of the Board after founding ALLVP. Before Umbral Capital, Fernando was Deputy Director of the Division of Energy and Project Finance in Protego
Asesores, now Evercore Partners.Fernando holds an MBA from Stanford GSB, an MA in Economics from London School of Economics, and a BA in Economics from ITAM.
Fernando has been active in Alternative Assets for more than 20 years, the last ten as founding partner of ALLVP.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Mexico, United States, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- CoreZero — Turning less into more
- Thalasso — BLUE ECONOMY SARGASSUM MANAGEMENT
- Hoop Carpool — Hoop Carpool is a SaaS Carpooling Platform for Companies, Universities and Citi-halls
Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen is a Co-Founder & serves as a Partner at 2xN. Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen was General Partner at Balderton Capital in London from 2015-2021 through four funds. He joined after spending a decade in Silicon Valley where he was with Uber and Dropbox.Since 2012 his venture track record includes two IPOs (Uber, Dropbox) and 11acquisitions.Lars joined Balderton from Uber which he joined when the company was operating in less than 20 cities. His role as Vice-President resulted in strategic alliances. Lars joined Uber from Dropbox as one of the company’s first 25 employees. As Head of Mobile, his growth deals with Samsung and other mobile OEMs helped Dropbox reach its first 100 million users. Prior to that Lars held positions at Voicesignal (acq. Nuance), Skyhook Wireless (acq. TruePosition), Ness Technologies (acq. Opentable), 3Jam (acq. Skype) and T9 Tegic (acq. AOL). More than a billion people have used the software and services distributed as a result of mobile growth partnerships led by Lars.His venture investments include Voi (Raine), Labster (A16Z), Hiya (Ericsson), Cambridge Quantum Computing (HON), Hopin (A16Z), Opensea (A16Z), Yassir (YC), Beacon (Eric Schmidt), The org (Sequoia), Octant (A16Z), Zycada (Khosla), Monarch Money (Accel) and Kukua (Tencent), Dubsmash (acq. Reddit), Tempow (acq. Google), Rahko (acq. Odyssey Therapeutics), Pocket (acq. Mozilla), Blue Bottle (acq. Nestle), Marble (acq. Caterpillar).Lars, who is Danish-Portuguese, grew up across Africa and served with the Royal Danish Guards. He holds a MBA from London Business School, where he also serves on the Board of Trustees, an MSc from Oxford University Keble College and a BSc from King’s College, London. He lives in London with his wife and three children.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Denmark, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- HUBUC — A single API-platform that allows any business to embed financial services capabilities into their products. e.g Uber can issue branded credit cards for all Uber drivers and Walmart provides customers a simple way to better manage and control their everyday finances, with no regulatory burden or compliance requirements in a few weeks.
- LiveFlow — The easiest way to bring financial data into your spreadsheet. Automate your finances, consolidate your accounts and collaborate in real-time. Try LiveFlow for free today!
- Quantrol Ox — QuantrolOx is building automated machine learning-based control software for quantum technologies to tune, stabilize, and optimize qubits.
Martin Henk is the Co-founder of Pipedrive.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Estonia, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Baserow — Create scalable databases and applications without code. Easy, flexible, and secure. Open source and self-hosted. No technical skills needed. Try for free today!
- Breyta — Gather all your qualitative data and our AI assistant transcribes, analyses and delivers you accurate product insights and patterns at scale in seconds.
- SegmentStream — SegmentStream is a data intelligence platform which helps collect and unify from different data sources into own data warehouse for advanced analytics and attribution. Our solution is trusted by leading brands such as Benetton, Nespresso, New Balance, myToys, Eventim Group, and others.
kevin bespolka is a Global macro investor.
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Investment focus
- Web Apps, Compliance, Consulting
- Seed
- Norway
Portfolio highlights
- Complai — ComplAI is a compliance platform for business processes. ComplAI works together among several actors (auditors, asset owners, standard owners, consultants, and stakeholders) providing access to compliance records, guidelines, reporting plans, and customizable requirement lists - minimizing supply chain problems and streamlining the auditingprocedure.
Jason Jacobs is a Partner at MCJ Collective and was a Founder and CEO at FitnessKeeper. He attended Babson F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business and Wesleyan University.
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Investment focus
- Developer APIs, Information Services, Information Technology
- Seed
- Norway
Portfolio highlights
- Enode — Enode develops APIs that connect EVs, solar, batteries, and heating to energy consumer products.Once connected, the digital infrastructures SaaS-based platform integrate them into the app to optimize energy consumption and help to participate in flexible markets with connected hardware, enabling clients to facilitate a zero-carbon energy grid.The Oslo, Oslo, Norway-based company was established in 2020 by Henrik Langeland, Nikolai Heum, and Thorvald Thorsnes.
Olav Bergheim has over 30 years of experience in creating and managing life science companies. He is a founder of Sonendo, Inc., in addition to several other successful life science companies including Volcano Corporation, 3F Therapeutics (acquired by Medtronic), Glaukos Corporation, Lonestar Heart Inc., Prelude Corporation and Metronom Health,Inc. Mr. Bergheim is also the founder of Fjord Ventures LLC, a life science accelerator located in Laguna Hills, California, where Sonendo was created. Mr. Bergheim was the chairman of Vessix Vascular, Inc. (acquired by Boston Scientific). Prior to starting Fjord Ventures, he spent 10 years at Domain Associates as a company creator and general partner. Prior to Domain, Mr. Bergheim spent 18 years with Baxter Healthcare at US and international locations, where he held various leadership and operating roles. Mr. Bergheim was a Corporate VP of Baxter as well as President of Baxter Germany, President of Baxter’s Cardiovascular Group (now Edwards Life Sciences) and General Manager of the Nordic area.
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Investment focus
- Medical, Wellness, Health Care
- Seed, Series D, Series E
- Norway, United States
Portfolio highlights
- OTee — OTee's Industrial Automation platform makes it possible to create and manage industrial-grade virtual control systems, based on open standards and architecture!
- Glaukos — Glaukos works relentlessly to create and deliver transformative therapies for patients struggling with glaucoma, corneal disorders, and retinal diseases.
David Rowan is editor of the UK edition of WIRED magazine, which won 2009 Launch of the David Rowan is Editor of the WIRED UK, the technology and trends magazine covering online brands, gadgets and the culture that surrounds them. David has reported on technology for The Times and Channel 4 News, the latter requiring him to illustrate the newiPod Video from the set of a porn shoot. He's also written for The Sunday Times and Telegraph Magazines, and edited the Guardian's on-line content. David has curated an exhibition of British creative talent at the Government's Cabinet Forum conference. He has also addressed the TEDs, and frequently contributes on Newsnight and the Today programme. He also writes a monthly column for GQ. David is in touch with many of the world's leading trend-setters and spotters. In presentations he looks at how the net is disrupting almost every sector, how apps change consumer behaviour and why 'social commerce' is killing traditional marketing. He reveals the 10 trends that will change your market in the next decade - and what you should be doing now to protect yourself.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, Germany, Croatia
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- EWOR — Build a successful company with EWOR
- Climate X — Climate X combines climate science and econometrics to deliver precise climate risk data without any black boxes.
- Rhizocore Technologies — We develop high-performance strains of locally-sourced mycorrhizal fungi to improve tree growth, tree health and tree resiliency. We offer a sustainable solution to increase forest yields whilst improving the ability of trees to sequester carbon.
Geir Hjellvik worked as CFO at Revus Energy AS till 2008 and currently working as CEO at Lithinon AS.
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- AgTech, Farming, Software
- Funding Round
- Norway
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- Sensonomic — Sensonomic helps you improve your land-based decisions by building digital versions of your operations. Test the outcome of your decisions before implementation.
Bo Myrås
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- Insurance, Life Insurance, Personal Finance
- Seed
- Norway
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- Tribe Insurance — Tribe is insurance based on social mechanisms. Insurance customers know far more about good and bad risks in their social network than the traditional insurance companies do. Through using social networks Tribe will be able to dramatically reduce risk cost and distribution cost.The Tribe team consists of experts on marketing,communication and online conversions. It consists of people from the two most respected online companies in Norway in addition to insurance industry expertise.Beta launch at
Johannes Teyssen - CEO @ E.ON
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- Versiro — Versiro is a real-time, multi-market decision support platform for electrical power assets.
Founder of Dirtybit.
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- B2B, SaaS, Video Conferencing
- Seed
- Norway
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- Confrere — Confrere is a video meeting and conferencing platform for professionals. The video chat solution was developed specifically for doctors, tutors, banks, psychologists, recruiters, personal trainers, and their clients in mind.The video conferencing solution was developed by Svein Willassen, Dag-Inge Aas, and Ida Aalen with a concept of buildingvirtual clinics for professions like doctors and bankers through video solutions, so they can meet their clients without actually meeting them.
Snorre Larsen
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- Manufacturing, Industrial Automation, Machinery Manufacturing
- Pre-Seed
- Norway
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- OTee — OTee's Industrial Automation platform makes it possible to create and manage industrial-grade virtual control systems, based on open standards and architecture!
Paolo Negri is a technical expert in cloud-based services and APIs. He co-founded Contentful after 10 years in the international I.T. industry driven by his strong belief in the API technology shift.
Starting in Italy, Paolo moved to the U.K. to take a more active part in the Web 2.0 wave. He first worked in the software industry before moving toFuture, one of the U.K.’s fastest growing company, as a Business Intelligence specialist. Following a detour in Munich, Paolo joined Wooga, the social gaming platform, where he supported a staggering 10-fold growth in 24-months.
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- Computer, Software, Network Security
- Seed, Series A
- Norway, Germany
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- Whereby — Get started for free and integrate WebRTC video calls into your website or app using the Whereby API and SDK.
- Edgeless Systems — Edgeless Systems builds the secure platform to store, analyze, and share data, using confidential computing.
Gustaf Alstromer is a partner at Y Combinator. Before joining Y Combinator he spent 4.5 years at Airbnb where he worked as a Product Lead on the Growth team, a team he helped start in 2012.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Software, SaaS
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada, Singapore
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- Ordinary Seafood — We are a consumer facing food-tech company using the power of plant protein and biotechnology to deliver the next generation of sustainable seafood. Our mission is to bring balance back into our food system by offering delicious and healthy seafood alternatives.
- Pina Earth — Unlocking carbon markets for European forest owners
- Ellipsis — Automated code reviews and bug fixes. Software engineers are more productive with Ellipsis, a developer tool that catches bugs, answers questions, and generates working, tested code.
Trond Riiber Knudsen
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- Internet
- Funding Round
- Norway
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- Maindeck — Save time and minimise cost on your dry-docking projects by collaborating in real time throughout your project.
Jason Choi is Venture Investor at Contrary Capital.
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- Financial Services, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Singapore, United States, Norway
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- Arch — The pioneering network for building bridgeless apps directly on Bitcoin. Arch makes it easy to deploy interoperable smart contract-like programs on the L1, without fracturing liquidity or taking on bridge risk.
- Hashflow — Tight spreads. Zero slippage. MEV-resistant.
- LI.FI — Swap and move any crypto asset across any blockchain ecosystem.
Magnus Kongsli Hillestad is the CEO and Co-Founder of Sanity.
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- Internet, Software, CRM
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States, Norway
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- Orbit — Join thousands of businesses using Orbit to grow and manage customer programs. Try Orbit for free!
- Orbit — Grow and measure your community across any platform with Orbit, the community experience platform. Try Orbit for free!
- Breyta — Gather all your qualitative data and our AI assistant transcribes, analyses and delivers you accurate product insights and patterns at scale in seconds.
Marius Barhaugen
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- Software, Generative AI, Sales Automation
- Pre-Seed
- Norway
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- swayle. — swayle. simplifies the sales process and enhances your sales team through the power of AI. We live in your HubSpot and automatically enrich any lead with tailored insights and personalize your cold outreach. Sway your buyer - Close the sale.
Thomas W. Grieg
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- Software, Collaboration, Asset Management
- Funding Round
- Norway
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- VesselMan — Digital Vessel Management is a cloud-based maritime SaaS dry docking software for ships repair and maintenance, technical projects and Digital Fleet Management.
Mikael Randel
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- Apps, Fashion, Shopping
- Funding Round
- Norway
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- Villoid — Villoid is an online retailer that enables its users to purchase fashion products.The retailer provides its users with a mobile application that enables its users to search for and purchase the fashion items of their choice. Furthermore, the application enables designers to join their community to create fashion items that can be sold toothers.Villoid was launched in 2015 and is based in Ohio.
Kea Zhang
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- B2B, SaaS, Software
- Pre-Seed
- Norway
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- Shepherd — An all-in-one meetings tool, bringing structure and efficiency to every meeting.
Harald holds an Master of Business Administration from the University of Southern California. He has more than 27 years of experience from Norwegian and international asset management and has been CFO in Vesta (Tryg) andheld leading positions in DnB Nor Asset Management. Harald has extensive experience from different board positions, and has beenpart of Borea since 2005.
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- Insurance, Life Insurance, Personal Finance
- Seed
- Norway
Portfolio highlights
- Tribe Insurance — Tribe is insurance based on social mechanisms. Insurance customers know far more about good and bad risks in their social network than the traditional insurance companies do. Through using social networks Tribe will be able to dramatically reduce risk cost and distribution cost.The Tribe team consists of experts on marketing,communication and online conversions. It consists of people from the two most respected online companies in Norway in addition to insurance industry expertise.Beta launch at
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