# Bakken & Baeck

> Bakken & Baeck is a VC fund in Oslo backing Chemical and Software. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Oslo, Norway
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Aug 2018
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bakken-&-b%C3%A6ck-as/
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/bakkenbaeck
- Website: https://bakkenbaeck.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bakkenbaeck/

Bakken & Baeck is a VC fund in Oslo focused on Chemical and Software. A technology-driven design studio. Building digital products, brands and businesses. We help ambitious companies with new opportunities.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Chemical | 1 | 50% |
| Software | 1 | 50% |
| Life Science | 1 | 50% |
| Visual Search | 1 | 50% |
| Pharmaceutical | 1 | 50% |

12 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 50% |
| Angel | 1 | 50% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Johan Bakken | Co-Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/johan-bakken |
| Tobias Bæck | Co-Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tobias-bck |
| Codruta Gamulea | Commercial Lead for Orbit.ai - Artificial Intelligence as a service | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/codruta-gamulea |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Versor | Versor develops software necessary for true autonomous drone flight both indoors and outdoors, enabling complete automation of industrial drone operations. They believe this level of automation requires superior localization, which is particularly difficult to achieve indoors and in GPS-denied areas. By removing the need for pilots, entire fleetsof drones may be supervised remotely, enabling true scalability of drone operations across various applications. | $300K | Angel | Aug 23, 2018 |  |
| Iris.ai | Powerful Tools for Your Research. We have built a world-leading AI engine for scientific text understanding. Applied to literature reviews, data extraction, post-market surveillance or any other task involving thousands of documents like papers or patents, this engine will make your life a whole lot easier. | $2M | Seed | Dec 01, 2017 |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [The Index Project](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/index-design-to-improve-life) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Nordic Impact](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nordic-impact) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Techstars](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/techstars) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [The Nordic Web Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-nordic-web-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Bakken & Baeck invest in?

Bakken & Baeck invests primarily in Chemical, Software and Life Science startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Norway. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Bakken & Baeck?

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### Who are the partners at Bakken & Baeck?

The team at Bakken & Baeck includes Johan Bakken (Co-Founder), Tobias Bæck (Co-Founder) and Codruta Gamulea (Commercial Lead for Orbit.ai - Artificial Intelligence as a service). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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