Top 50 Media (entertainment) Angel Investors in Norway in November 2024

Investor	Media (entertainment) Norway investments
Johan Brand	2
Johan Brand	2
Christian Jantzen	1
Morten Fornes	1
Marc Merrill	1
Murshid M. Ali	1
Yasmin Namini	1
David Helgason	1
Bjørnar Iversen	1
Marc Merrill	1
Sean Percival	1
Murshid M. Ali	1
Yasmin Namini	1
Jamie Brooker	1
Cato Sælid	1
Christian Jantzen	1
Julius Genachowski	1
Aleksander Leonard Larsen	1
Matt Cohler	1
Rishi Garg	1
Bjørnar Iversen	1
Amy Morhaime	1
Bogomil Balkansky	1
Eugene Wei	1
Kevin Lin	1
Michael Morhaime	1
Xen Lategan	1
Anders Lassen	1
Erik Wrobel	1
Hampus Jakobsson	1
Morten Fornes	1
Petri Nevalainen	1
David Helgason	1
Jamie Brooker	1
Anders Lassen	1
Amy Morhaime	1
Michael Morhaime	1
Bogomil Balkansky	1
Cato Sælid	1
Hampus Jakobsson	1
Xen Lategan	1
Matt Cohler	1
Julius Genachowski	1
Kevin Lin	1
Sean Percival	1
Erik Wrobel	1
Aleksander Leonard Larsen	1
Petri Nevalainen	1
Rishi Garg	1
Eugene Wei	1

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).

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!

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).

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!

Danish angel investor, based in London.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Denmark, Sweden, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Medusa — The most popular ecommerce project on GitHub. Medusa provides open-source ecommerce backend infrastructure in NodeJS.
Heyhack — Automated web application security testing, protection, and reporting for software-as-a-service businesses.
Fullview — Fullview let's you instantly monitor, control and analyze user sessions for faster real time customer support. No downloads. Easy to integrate.

Morten Fornes

Investment focus

Video, Mobile, Big Data
Funding Round
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Movi — Movi is building a new canvas for creation and ownership of web 3.0 visual content.

Marc Merrill Co-founded of Riot Games, Inc. in 2006 and serves as its President. Marc Merrill served as Chief Marketing Officer of Riot Games, Inc. He was corporate marketing executive in the exciting world of Business-to-Business media at Advanstar Communications. He has marketing, leadership, and elite gaming skills including Schedule Mastery +9.He held roles in finance with Merrill Lynch and US Bancorp.

Investment focus

Media and Entertainment, Gaming, Video Games
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Israel, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Anzu.io — Anzu is an in-game advertising platform that introduces native, creative, and dynamically-updated ads to video games and esports.
OpenBCI — OpenBCI is a low-cost, programmable, open-source EEG platform that gives anybody with computer access to their brain waves. Their vision is to realize the potential of the open-source movement to accelerate innovation in brain science through collaborative hardware and software development. Behind the many lines of code and circuit diagrams,OpenBCI has a growing community of scientists, engineers, designers, makers, and a whole bunch of other people who are interested in furthering our understanding of the brain. We feel that the biggest challenges in understanding what makes us who we are cannot be solved by a company, an institution, or even an entire field of science. Rather, we believe these discoveries will be made through an open forum of shared knowledge and concerted effort by people from many different disciplines. Today, the leading brain-computer interface (BCI) companies distribute fixed devices with limited or closed access to the algorithms that translate raw EEG signals to meaningful data. These devices are powerful and effective for application development but not ideal for R&D requiring adjustable hardware setups and direct control over the signal processing techniques. OpenBCI is fully accessible and powered by an open-source community of hardware and software builders, making it easy for creators of any skill level and ideal for researchers who haven’t yet settled on the perfect system design. The OpenBCI platform is intended to serve as a malleable starting point in the rapidly growing field of brain-computer interfacing.
Fast Break Labs — Fast Break Labs is an early-stage, venture-backed startup that's building the future of sports gaming and entertainment.

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.

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.

Yasmin Namini

Investment focus

CMS, Content, Digital Media
Seed
Norway

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.

David is a technologist, the founder of Unity Technologies, non-exec director to others, and a restless entrepreneur with a passion for creating feedback loops between innovation and teams and products, applying new and old business models to changing industries, and pushing people to do the very best they can do.David's background is inprogramming, an assortment of university dabbling, creating companies, and helping entrepreneurs. He served as CEO of Unity Technologies since co-founding it in 2003 and until October 2014, with an unflinching vision to democratize game development, and to develop technology and business models for the next phase of the games industry. David Helgason attended the University of Copenhagen.

Investment focus

Software, Gaming, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, Denmark, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Isometric — Isometric is a carbon removal standard and registry.
Slope — We handle the lending, underwriting, debt collection and fully pay out to you immediately once the product or service ships.
Rocky Road — At Rocky Road, we are redefining social gaming with our social gaming network. We are hiring!

Bjørnar Iversen is a Chief Executive Officer and President of Dolphin Drilling. Bjørnar Iversen attended Norwegian School of Economics.

Investment focus

Music, Podcast, Music Venues
Seed
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Melodypipe — Collaborate, book gigs, find artists and musicians, connect with industry professionals, and discover new music.

Marc Merrill Co-founded of Riot Games, Inc. in 2006 and serves as its President. Marc Merrill served as Chief Marketing Officer of Riot Games, Inc. He was corporate marketing executive in the exciting world of Business-to-Business media at Advanstar Communications. He has marketing, leadership, and elite gaming skills including Schedule Mastery +9.He held roles in finance with Merrill Lynch and US Bancorp.

Investment focus

Media and Entertainment, Gaming, Video Games
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Israel, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Anzu.io — Anzu is an in-game advertising platform that introduces native, creative, and dynamically-updated ads to video games and esports.
OpenBCI — OpenBCI is a low-cost, programmable, open-source EEG platform that gives anybody with computer access to their brain waves. Their vision is to realize the potential of the open-source movement to accelerate innovation in brain science through collaborative hardware and software development. Behind the many lines of code and circuit diagrams,OpenBCI has a growing community of scientists, engineers, designers, makers, and a whole bunch of other people who are interested in furthering our understanding of the brain. We feel that the biggest challenges in understanding what makes us who we are cannot be solved by a company, an institution, or even an entire field of science. Rather, we believe these discoveries will be made through an open forum of shared knowledge and concerted effort by people from many different disciplines. Today, the leading brain-computer interface (BCI) companies distribute fixed devices with limited or closed access to the algorithms that translate raw EEG signals to meaningful data. These devices are powerful and effective for application development but not ideal for R&D requiring adjustable hardware setups and direct control over the signal processing techniques. OpenBCI is fully accessible and powered by an open-source community of hardware and software builders, making it easy for creators of any skill level and ideal for researchers who haven’t yet settled on the perfect system design. The OpenBCI platform is intended to serve as a malleable starting point in the rapidly growing field of brain-computer interfacing.
Fast Break Labs — Fast Break Labs is an early-stage, venture-backed startup that's building the future of sports gaming and entertainment.

Sean Percival is the Chief Marketing Officer of Iterate Norway.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Manufacturing
Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
United States, Norway, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Tjommi — B2C app helping customers get money back from price drops
Vembla — Vembla offers a vast grocery selection 1500 to 20,000 products - from your local stores or our own warehouses. Get it delivered same day or in minutes.
Lendwill — There is a healthier way to build relationships with money.

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.

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.

Yasmin Namini

Investment focus

CMS, Content, Digital Media
Seed
Norway

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.

Jamie Brooker is the Founder & Strategic Advisor at Kahoot!

Investment focus

Education, Publishing, EBooks
Seed, Series B
Norway, 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.

Cato Saelid is an Oslo and Monaco based angel investor, originally from Oslo, Norway.

Investment focus

Gaming, Content, Finance
Seed, Series B
Norway, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Seedcamp — Seedcamp is Europe's seed fund, identifying and investing early in world-class founders attacking large, global markets and solving real problems using technology. The Seedcamp Nation includes over 400 startups building breakout businesses that change the way people live, interact and buy and includes publicly listed UiPath, Wise, and unicornsRevolut, Hopin, Sorare, Pleo, and wefox along with fast-growing businesses such as Grover, viz.ai and Ezra. Seedcamp fast-tracks a founder's vision and creates value through immediate access to smart capital, a lifelong community of support and a global network built upon more than a decade's experience backing exceptional talent.Seedcamp fast-tracks a founder's vision and creates value through immediate access to smart capital, a lifelong community of support, and a global network built upon more than a decade's experience backing exceptional talent.
PortalOne — PortalOne is a hybrid games company, delivering live game experiences with stunning visuals and next level interactivity.
Secret Cinema —

Danish angel investor, based in London.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Denmark, Sweden, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Medusa — The most popular ecommerce project on GitHub. Medusa provides a digital commerce platform with a built-in framework for customization.
Heyhack — Automated web application security testing, protection, and reporting for software-as-a-service businesses.
Fullview — Fullview let's you instantly monitor, control and analyze user sessions for faster real time customer support. No downloads. Easy to integrate.

Julius Genachowski is a Managing Director at The Carlyle Group, which he joined in 2014. He served as Chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission from 2009 to 2013. He held senior executive positions for about eight years at IAC, which owned and operated Internet and media companies including Expedia, Ticketmaster, and USA Network.Also prior to the FCC, he was engaged with several public and private companies in the technology, media, and telecommunications sector as a board member, investor, or advisor. He is a senior fellow at the Aspen Institute, and has taught a joint class at Harvard Business and Law Schools.Earlier in his career, he was a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter, and worked in Congress for the Select Committee on the Iran-Contra Affair and for then-Representative Charles Schumer. He is currently a member of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board. Mr. Genachowski currently serves as a director of Mastercard, Inc.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Legal Tech
Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Responsiv — Legal AI to find answers yourself. Legal Research. Clauses. Policies. Templates. Save your outside counsel budget for when you need it.
Trustible — Document, manage, and report on your AI Governance strategy to build trust and reduce risk. https://www.trustible.ai/
Garden — Garden helps lawyers and companies automate invention harvesting, generate novel patents, and analyze infringements in a couple clicks.

Aleksander Leonard Larsen is the Co-Founder and COO at Sky Mavis.

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.

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

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.

Rishi Garg is a Partner at Mayfield Fund. He previously worked at Twitter and attended Stanford University.

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Gaming
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Quilt — Quilt is a feminine-forward audio social network
Grove Collaborative — Launched in 2016 as a Certified B Corp, Grove Collaborative is transforming consumer products into a positive force for human and environmental good. Grove creates and curates high-performing, planet-first products across household cleaning, personal care, laundry, clean beauty, and pet, serving millions of households across the U.S. The Grove Co.brand helped create the zero-waste home care category and continues to be the market leader. Every item Grove offers, from both brands they craft — like their flagship brand Grove Co., plastic-free personal care line Peach, and clean skincare brand Superbloom — and from exceptional third-party brands, has been thoroughly vetted against strict standards for clean ingredients, efficacy, sustainability, cruelty-free formulas, and ethical supply chain practices. Grove, a public benefit corporation, is on a mission to move Beyond Plastic. Grove is the first plastic neutral retailer in the world and is committed to being 100% plastic-free by 2025. For more information, visit grove.co/beyondplastic.
PortalOne — PortalOne is a hybrid games company, delivering live game experiences with stunning visuals and next level interactivity.

Bjørnar Iversen is a Chief Executive Officer and President of Dolphin Drilling. Bjørnar Iversen attended Norwegian School of Economics.

Investment focus

Music, Podcast, Music Venues
Seed
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Melodypipe — Collaborate, book gigs, find artists and musicians, connect with industry professionals, and discover new music.

Amy Morhaime is the Co-Founder at Dreamhaven.

Investment focus

Gaming, SaaS, Video
Seed, Series B
United States, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Rally Cry — Rally Cry is dedicated to creating ways for people of all ages and skill levels to connect, play, and compete with each other.
Maestro Interactive Inc — Maestro provides a white-label platform for enterprise live streamers to own, engage, and monetize their audiences. We focus on engagement tools that drive actions at key moments while capturing user data to be used in analytics and marketing campaigns. Customers include Microsoft, PlayStation, E3, ESL, Capcom, WB Games, ELEAGUE, and more.
PortalOne — PortalOne is a hybrid games company, delivering live game experiences with stunning visuals and next level interactivity.

Bogomil Balkansky is a Partner at Sequoia Capital. He started his career as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. Bogomil holds a bachelor of arts in Mathematics from Cornell University and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Israel, Bulgaria

Portfolio highlights

Cortex — Cortex makes it easy for engineering organizations to gain visibility into their services and deliver high quality software.
Stoke — Fiverr Enterprise is a SaaS platform which helps companies source, onboard, manage, and pay your freelance talent legally and compliantly.
Promethium — Promethium is an augmented data management provider with the first AI-powered solution that combines natural language processing (NLP) with automated data prep to deliver true self-service analytics. Users simply ask a question in natural language, and Promethium locates the data, demonstrates how it should be assembled, automatically generates theSQL statement to get the right data, and executes the query across multiple repositories.

Longtime product executive working at the intersection of technology and media. A graduate of Stanford University, I ran product teams at Amazon.com, Hulu, Flipboard, and Oculus.

Investment focus

Gaming, Content, Video Games
Seed
Norway

Portfolio highlights

PortalOne — PortalOne is a hybrid games company, delivering live game experiences with stunning visuals and next level interactivity.

Kevin Lin is the Co-Founder and CEO of Metatheory. He previously worked at Everyday Ventures as an Owner and Manager. Kevin Lin attended Yale University.

Investment focus

Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Nest Wallet — A Wallet Engineered for Traders
Cosmology — Cosmology is building a unified developer experience for interchain dApps
Cosmology — Cosmology is building a unified developer experience for interchain dApps

Mike Morhaime is the president and a co-founder of Blizzard Entertainment, creators of World of Warcraft. In 2008, Morhaime was inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences' Hall of Fame.

Investment focus

Gaming, SaaS, Video
Seed, Series B
United States, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Maestro Interactive Inc — Maestro provides a white-label platform for enterprise live streamers to own, engage, and monetize their audiences. We focus on engagement tools that drive actions at key moments while capturing user data to be used in analytics and marketing campaigns. Customers include Microsoft, PlayStation, E3, ESL, Capcom, WB Games, ELEAGUE, and more.
Artifact — Artifact helps capture important memories with ease by creating personal podcasts with the people of customers choice.
PortalOne — PortalOne is a hybrid games company, delivering live game experiences with stunning visuals and next level interactivity.

Xen Lategan is the Chief Technology Officer of 0xA Technologies.

Investment focus

Gaming, Content, Computer
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Checkstep — AI Content Moderation Services: learn how AI can help you scale your content moderation and keep your users and moderators safe.
Bloomsbury AI — Bloomsbury AI offers web services that enables individuals to create, use, and share text-understanding computer applications. The company aims to help their customers to automate their expertise by a written dialog with computers. Bloomsbury AI was launched by Guillaume Bouchard, Tim Rocktäschel, Matko Bosnjak, Sameer Singh, Luis Ulloa, andSebastian Riedel in April 2015 and is based in London, England.
PortalOne — PortalOne is a hybrid games company, delivering live game experiences with stunning visuals and next level interactivity.

Anders Lassen

Investment focus

Video, Mobile, Big Data
Funding Round
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Movi — Movi is building a new canvas for creation and ownership of web 3.0 visual content.

Erik Wrobel is the Head of Product at Blend. Attended California State University - East Bay.

Investment focus

Video, Mobile, Big Data
Funding Round
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Movi — Movi is building a new canvas for creation and ownership of web 3.0 visual content.

Hampus Jakobsson is a General Partner at early stage climate tech venture fund Pale Blue Dot.Prior to co-founding Pale Blue Dot, Hampus was a Venture Partner at science fund Blue Yard and a prolific angel investor with >100 angel investments. He co-founded of The Astonishing Tribe (acquired by Blackberry in 2010 for $150m). He left Blackberry2012 to found Brisk.io a sales productivity tool which folded 2016.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Mobile
Seed, Angel, Series A
Sweden, Denmark, United States

Portfolio highlights

ClimateView — ClimateView is a Swedish climate action technology company that helps cities transform climate planning into progress. We combine data, agent-based modelling and interface design to help cities successfully manage the transition to zero carbon economies.
Mojo — Clinical-grade, AI-powered sperm analysis from the comfort of home. Test your sperm count, motility, morphology and much more with the Mojo kit. Check your fertility from home at low cost - without the need for clinic visits and awkward waiting rooms.
Volta Greentech — Battling global warming by reducing methane emissions from cows

Morten Fornes

Investment focus

Video, Mobile, Big Data
Funding Round
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Movi — Movi is building a new canvas for creation and ownership of web 3.0 visual content.

Petri Nevalainen

Investment focus

Video, Mobile, Big Data
Funding Round
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Movi — Movi is building a new canvas for creation and ownership of web 3.0 visual content.

David is a technologist, the founder of Unity Technologies, non-exec director to others, and a restless entrepreneur with a passion for creating feedback loops between innovation and teams and products, applying new and old business models to changing industries, and pushing people to do the very best they can do.David's background is inprogramming, an assortment of university dabbling, creating companies, and helping entrepreneurs. He served as CEO of Unity Technologies since co-founding it in 2003 and until October 2014, with an unflinching vision to democratize game development, and to develop technology and business models for the next phase of the games industry. David Helgason attended the University of Copenhagen.

Investment focus

Software, Gaming, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, Denmark, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Isometric — Isometric is a carbon removal standard and registry.
Slope — We handle the lending, underwriting, debt collection and fully pay out to you immediately once the product or service ships.
Rocky Road — At Rocky Road, we are redefining social gaming with our social gaming network. We are hiring!

Jamie Brooker is the Founder & Strategic Advisor at Kahoot!

Investment focus

Education, Publishing, EBooks
Seed, Series B
Norway, 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.

Anders Lassen

Investment focus

Video, Mobile, Big Data
Funding Round
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Movi — Movi is building a new canvas for creation and ownership of web 3.0 visual content.

Amy Morhaime is the Co-Founder at Dreamhaven.

Investment focus

Gaming, SaaS, Video
Seed, Series B
United States, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Rally Cry — Rally Cry is dedicated to creating ways for people of all ages and skill levels to connect, play, and compete with each other.
Maestro Interactive Inc — Maestro provides a white-label platform for enterprise live streamers to own, engage, and monetize their audiences. We focus on engagement tools that drive actions at key moments while capturing user data to be used in analytics and marketing campaigns. Customers include Microsoft, PlayStation, E3, ESL, Capcom, WB Games, ELEAGUE, and more.
PortalOne — PortalOne is a hybrid games company, delivering live game experiences with stunning visuals and next level interactivity.

Mike Morhaime is the president and a co-founder of Blizzard Entertainment, creators of World of Warcraft. In 2008, Morhaime was inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences' Hall of Fame.

Investment focus

Gaming, SaaS, Video
Seed, Series B
United States, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Maestro Interactive Inc — Maestro provides a white-label platform for enterprise live streamers to own, engage, and monetize their audiences. We focus on engagement tools that drive actions at key moments while capturing user data to be used in analytics and marketing campaigns. Customers include Microsoft, PlayStation, E3, ESL, Capcom, WB Games, ELEAGUE, and more.
Artifact — Artifact helps capture important memories with ease by creating personal podcasts with the people of customers choice.
PortalOne — PortalOne is a hybrid games company, delivering live game experiences with stunning visuals and next level interactivity.

Bogomil Balkansky is a Partner at Sequoia Capital. He started his career as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. Bogomil holds a bachelor of arts in Mathematics from Cornell University and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Israel, Bulgaria

Portfolio highlights

Cortex — Cortex makes it easy for engineering organizations to gain visibility into their services and deliver high quality software.
Stoke — Fiverr Enterprise is a SaaS platform which helps companies source, onboard, manage, and pay your freelance talent legally and compliantly.
Promethium — Promethium is an augmented data management provider with the first AI-powered solution that combines natural language processing (NLP) with automated data prep to deliver true self-service analytics. Users simply ask a question in natural language, and Promethium locates the data, demonstrates how it should be assembled, automatically generates theSQL statement to get the right data, and executes the query across multiple repositories.

Cato Saelid is an Oslo and Monaco based angel investor, originally from Oslo, Norway.

Investment focus

Gaming, Content, Finance
Seed, Series B
Norway, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Seedcamp — Seedcamp is Europe's seed fund, identifying and investing early in world-class founders attacking large, global markets and solving real problems using technology. The Seedcamp Nation includes over 400 startups building breakout businesses that change the way people live, interact and buy and includes publicly listed UiPath, Wise, and unicornsRevolut, Hopin, Sorare, Pleo, and wefox along with fast-growing businesses such as Grover, viz.ai and Ezra. Seedcamp fast-tracks a founder's vision and creates value through immediate access to smart capital, a lifelong community of support and a global network built upon more than a decade's experience backing exceptional talent.Seedcamp fast-tracks a founder's vision and creates value through immediate access to smart capital, a lifelong community of support, and a global network built upon more than a decade's experience backing exceptional talent.
PortalOne — PortalOne is a hybrid games company, delivering live game experiences with stunning visuals and next level interactivity.
Secret Cinema —

Hampus Jakobsson is a General Partner at early stage climate tech venture fund Pale Blue Dot.Prior to co-founding Pale Blue Dot, Hampus was a Venture Partner at science fund Blue Yard and a prolific angel investor with >100 angel investments. He co-founded of The Astonishing Tribe (acquired by Blackberry in 2010 for $150m). He left Blackberry2012 to found Brisk.io a sales productivity tool which folded 2016.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Mobile
Seed, Angel, Series A
Sweden, Denmark, United States

Portfolio highlights

ClimateView — ClimateView is a Swedish climate action technology company that helps cities transform climate planning into progress. We combine data, agent-based modelling and interface design to help cities successfully manage the transition to zero carbon economies.
Mojo — Clinical-grade, AI-powered sperm analysis from the comfort of home. Test your sperm count, motility, morphology and much more with the Mojo kit. Check your fertility from home at low cost - without the need for clinic visits and awkward waiting rooms.
Volta Greentech — Battling global warming by reducing methane emissions from cows

Xen Lategan is the Chief Technology Officer of 0xA Technologies.

Investment focus

Gaming, Content, Computer
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Checkstep — AI Content Moderation Services: learn how AI can help you scale your content moderation and keep your users and moderators safe.
Bloomsbury AI — Bloomsbury AI offers web services that enables individuals to create, use, and share text-understanding computer applications. The company aims to help their customers to automate their expertise by a written dialog with computers. Bloomsbury AI was launched by Guillaume Bouchard, Tim Rocktäschel, Matko Bosnjak, Sameer Singh, Luis Ulloa, andSebastian Riedel in April 2015 and is based in London, England.
PortalOne — PortalOne is a hybrid games company, delivering live game experiences with stunning visuals and next level interactivity.

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

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.

Julius Genachowski is a Managing Director at The Carlyle Group, which he joined in 2014. He served as Chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission from 2009 to 2013. He held senior executive positions for about eight years at IAC, which owned and operated Internet and media companies including Expedia, Ticketmaster, and USA Network.Also prior to the FCC, he was engaged with several public and private companies in the technology, media, and telecommunications sector as a board member, investor, or advisor. He is a senior fellow at the Aspen Institute, and has taught a joint class at Harvard Business and Law Schools.Earlier in his career, he was a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter, and worked in Congress for the Select Committee on the Iran-Contra Affair and for then-Representative Charles Schumer. He is currently a member of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board. Mr. Genachowski currently serves as a director of Mastercard, Inc.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Legal Tech
Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Responsiv — Legal AI to find answers yourself. Legal Research. Clauses. Policies. Templates. Save your outside counsel budget for when you need it.
Trustible — Document, manage, and report on your AI Governance strategy to build trust and reduce risk. https://www.trustible.ai/
Garden — Garden helps lawyers and companies automate invention harvesting, generate novel patents, and analyze infringements in a couple clicks.

Kevin Lin is the Co-Founder and CEO of Metatheory. He previously worked at Everyday Ventures as an Owner and Manager. Kevin Lin attended Yale University.

Investment focus

Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Karat Financial — Karat is the best card for creators, helping you save money, earn rewards, and grow your channel faster - because content IS a business.
Nest Wallet — A Wallet Engineered for Traders
Cosmology — Cosmology is building a unified developer experience for interchain dApps

Sean Percival is the Chief Marketing Officer of Iterate Norway.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Manufacturing
Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
United States, Norway, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Tjommi — B2C app helping customers get money back from price drops
Vembla — Vembla offers a vast grocery selection 1500 to 20,000 products - from your local stores or our own warehouses. Get it delivered same day or in minutes.
Lendwill — There is a healthier way to build relationships with money.

Erik Wrobel is the Head of Product at Blend. Attended California State University - East Bay.

Investment focus

Video, Mobile, Big Data
Funding Round
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Movi — Movi is building a new canvas for creation and ownership of web 3.0 visual content.

Aleksander Leonard Larsen is the Co-Founder and COO at Sky Mavis.

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.

Petri Nevalainen

Investment focus

Video, Mobile, Big Data
Funding Round
Norway

Portfolio highlights

Movi — Movi is building a new canvas for creation and ownership of web 3.0 visual content.

Rishi Garg is a Partner at Mayfield Fund. He previously worked at Twitter and attended Stanford University.

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Gaming
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Quilt — Quilt is a feminine-forward audio social network
Grove Collaborative — Launched in 2016 as a Certified B Corp, Grove Collaborative is transforming consumer products into a positive force for human and environmental good. Grove creates and curates high-performing, planet-first products across household cleaning, personal care, laundry, clean beauty, and pet, serving millions of households across the U.S. The Grove Co.brand helped create the zero-waste home care category and continues to be the market leader. Every item Grove offers, from both brands they craft — like their flagship brand Grove Co., plastic-free personal care line Peach, and clean skincare brand Superbloom — and from exceptional third-party brands, has been thoroughly vetted against strict standards for clean ingredients, efficacy, sustainability, cruelty-free formulas, and ethical supply chain practices. Grove, a public benefit corporation, is on a mission to move Beyond Plastic. Grove is the first plastic neutral retailer in the world and is committed to being 100% plastic-free by 2025. For more information, visit grove.co/beyondplastic.
PortalOne — PortalOne is a hybrid games company, delivering live game experiences with stunning visuals and next level interactivity.

Longtime product executive working at the intersection of technology and media. A graduate of Stanford University, I ran product teams at Amazon.com, Hulu, Flipboard, and Oculus.

Investment focus

Gaming, Content, Video Games
Seed
Norway

Portfolio highlights

PortalOne — PortalOne is a hybrid games company, delivering live game experiences with stunning visuals and next level interactivity.