# Artal

> Artal is a VC fund in Brattvåg backing Retail, Grocery and Chemical. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brattvåg, Norway
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Dec 2021
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://artal.no/

Artal is a growth equity firm that focuses on investments in the pharmaceutical sector.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Retail | 1 | 50% |
| Grocery | 1 | 50% |
| Chemical | 1 | 50% |
| E-Commerce | 1 | 50% |
| Marketplace | 1 | 50% |

8 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series C | 1 | 50% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 50% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 1 | 50% |
| Norway | 1 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jumbotail | Jumbotail is an operator of an online marketplace that simplifies food and grocery shopping.Jumbotail is a VC funded startup building an online marketplace for food and grocery, targeted at wholesale buyers. It also operates a marketplace that connects tens of thousands of these Kirana stores with brands and traders. The company offers a wholesuite of services including supply chain logistics, a mobile app for placing orders, integration with point-and-sales devices, and credit solutions to shop owners that can’t easily get a loan from banks.They offer a wide selection of high-quality staples, homecare, packaged foods, and personal care products from all the leading brands, and staples producers. Their vision is to organize the food and grocery ecosystem in India using technology, data science, and design. They are building products, platforms, and services for the next billion people of India, who have fundamentally different needs - access, language, selection, supply chain, financial, cultural, and the like. Their market potential is huge - in the order of hundreds of billions of dollars. They have a strong core team consisting of alumni from Stanford, CMU, IIT, BITS, etc. having several years of industry experience in companies like Amazon, Flipkart, eBay, BCG, Housing, and Grofers.They are reimagining and reengineering the food and grocery ecosystem through intelligent technology, intuitive design, and innovative business and supply chain models. They are a passionate team driven by their sense of purpose to solve a critical real-world problem. Each team member will have significant ownership of key components that go into the next-generation e-commerce, supply chain, demand generation, and credit technology platforms and services that they are building. | $84.9M | Series C | Dec 20, 2021 |  |
| Oncoinvent | Oncoinvent AS designs and develops cancer treatments by applying known physical and chemical principles of selected novel materials in new ways in order to maximize their medical benefit while minimizing potential safety concerns. | $6M | Venture - Series Unknown | May 19, 2020 |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Invus](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/invus) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- Ajax Capital — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- Alpine Capital AS — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- CGS Holding — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Hadean Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hadean-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- Helene Sundt — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Artal invest in?

Artal invests primarily in Retail, Grocery and Chemical startups, most often at Series C and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Artal last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Artal closed in Dec 2021. Shizune tracks 2 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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