DNB
VC Fund
Oslo, Norway
DNB is a financial services group that offers financial services through mobile, online banking, bank offices, and international offices. The Group provides a full range of financial services, including loans, savings, advisory services, insurance, and pension products for retail and corporate customers. The company’s personal banking products and services include savings and investment products. DNB offers its products and services to various sectors, including financial institutions, energy, manufacturing, healthcare, packaging, and forest products, shipping, offshore, and logistics, seafood, and telecom, media, and technology. They also distribute its products and services through its branches, in-store postal and banking outlets, and post office counters. DNB was founded in 1822 and is headquartered in Oslo, Norway.
- Total investments:
- 55
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 27%
Last updated:
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Industries DNB invests in
Stages DNB invests in
Countries DNB invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 9 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Post-IPO Debt
- $8.8M–$786M
- Debt Financing
- $94M–$1.5B
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $240k–$100M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Renewable Energy 10 (18%)
- Energy 9 (16%)
- Oil and Gas 6 (11%)
- Solar 5 (9%)
- Real Estate 4 (7%)
Stage
- Post-IPO Debt 18 (33%)
- Debt Financing 13 (24%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 6 (11%)
- Funding Round 4 (7%)
- Seed 3 (5%)
Country
- Norway 16 (29%)
- Sweden 7 (13%)
- United States 5 (9%)
- United Kingdom 5 (9%)
- Denmark 3 (5%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Arsalan Mahmood
Business Developer
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Business Developer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
|
Bjornar Lund
CEO
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CEO | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Denis Braekhus
Staff DevOps Engineer
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Staff DevOps Engineer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Johan Fredrik Juell
Engineering Manager
|
Engineering Manager | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Nicolaj B. Petersen
Agile Coach
|
Agile Coach | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
| See all 9 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clearway Energy Group offers clean energy solutions. With its public affiliate Clearway Energy, Inc., it owns and operates more than 8 gigatonnes of renewable and conventional energy assets across the country. As it develops a nationwide pipeline of new renewable energy projects for the future, its 6.9 gigatonnes of operating wind, solar, andenergy storage assets offset the equivalent of more than 10.5 million metric tons of carbon emissions for its customers today. | $1.5B / Debt Financing / Oct 06, 2026 | ||
| Ventura Offshore is an oil and gas services company that specialises in drilling, project management, offshore services, and asset management within the oil and gas industry. The company ensures efficient and safe operations in challenging offshore environments. By delivering innovative solutions and maintaining the highest standards of quality andsafety, Ventura Offshore supports the energy sector in maximising productivity and resource management. | $250M / Post-IPO Debt / Sep 11, 2026 | ||
| Cadeler is an offshore services company that provides offshore wind installation and maintenance services. The company operates specialized vessels for transporting, installing, and servicing wind turbines and foundations in offshore environments, supporting the development of renewable energy infrastructure. | $438.5M / Post-IPO Debt / Aug 11, 2026 | ||
| Welcome to Scandi Standard. We want to inspire you to choose chicken: a good, healthy choice, which is ideal for today’s consumers. We sell the finest Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and Finnish chicken under the Kronfågel, Danpo, Den stolte Hane and Naapurin Maalaiskana brands. We are the leading chicken producer in the Nordic region, serving thedomestic and export markets.In June 2013, we created the Nordic region's market-leading chickenbased product group when Scandi Standard was established. The Company was created by gathering the largest poultry operations in the region into one collective group. At present, the Group has an annual turnover of approximately SEK 5.2 billion and almost 1,700 employees. | $514.8M / Post-IPO Debt / Jul 17, 2026 | ||
| Cadeler is an offshore services company that provides offshore wind installation and maintenance services. The company operates specialized vessels for transporting, installing, and servicing wind turbines and foundations in offshore environments, supporting the development of renewable energy infrastructure. | $282.3M / Post-IPO Debt / Jul 13, 2026 | ||
| Easpring Finland New Materials Oy is a manufacturing company that offers battery materials plant development and operation. It is a joint venture by Beijing Easpring Material Technology, Finnish Materials Group and LG Energy Solution. | $588.7M / Debt Financing / Jul 09, 2026 | ||
| Bonava is a real estate company. They offer apartments and single-family housing to consumers and rental apartments to investors. It constructs several types of homes, such as multi-family housing, single-family homes, and semi-detached houses with various types of tenure. | $384.4M / Post-IPO Debt / Jul 03, 2026 | ||
| LAXEY specializes in sustainable land-based aquaculture and the development of fish farming facilities. | Debt Financing / Jun 23, 2026 | ||
| DHT operates as an independent crude oil tanker company. Its fleet trades internationally and consists of crude oil tankers in the VLCC, Aframax, and Suezmax segments. The company operates through Its wholly-owned management companies in Oslo, Norway, and Singapore. | $250M / Post-IPO Debt / Jun 04, 2026 | ||
| Nscale provides infrastructure and cloud services designed for artificial intelligence computing workloads. The company develops and operates data centers equipped with large clusters of graphics processing units and supporting networking and storage systems used for training, fine-tuning, and running machine learning models. Its platform integrates compute hardware, data center operations, orchestration software, and data services to manage AI workloads across owned and collocated facilities. The infrastructure is used by enterprises, research organizations, and technology companies that require large-scale processing capacity for generative AI and other data-intensive applications. Nscale also supports deployment and management of AI environments through systems that coordinate resource allocation, workload scheduling, and distributed computing operations. | $790M / Debt Financing / May 11, 2026 | ||
| See all 55 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does DNB invest in?
DNB invests primarily in Renewable Energy, Energy and Oil and Gas startups, most often at Post-IPO Debt and Debt Financing stage. Most of the 55 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Norway. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does DNB invest in?
DNB typically joins rounds of $8.8M–$786M at Post-IPO Debt, $94M–$1.5B at Debt Financing and $240k–$100M at Venture - Series Unknown. These are whole funding-round sizes, not DNB's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds DNB took part in.
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Who are the partners at DNB?
The team at DNB includes Arsalan Mahmood (Business Developer), Bjornar Lund (CEO) and Denis Braekhus (Staff DevOps Engineer), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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