Hans Otterling
General Partner @ Northzone
London, United Kingdom
Hans Otterling is a Series A investor at Northzone in London focused on E-Commerce and Retail. Hans Otterling joined Northzone in 2006. His primary areas of focus are e-commerce, fintech, internet security, enterprise software and related SaaS models. His portfolio includes Tobii, Klarna, HappyOrNot, Footway, Fishbrain,and Outfittery. Hans holds an MBA from Stockholm School of Economics and University of Massachusetts (Fulbright scholar).Hans Otterling is an enthusiastic participant in all discussions about the secrets of successful serial entrepreneurship. Having started, grown, and sold several market leading companies, he has learnt a thing or two along the way.He revolutionised the field of Investor Relations, through founding Waymaker, an early internet-based information distribution company. Where listed Swedish companies had previously employed the services of taxis in order to get their financial reports to the media, Waymaker built a completely new network.
- Total investments:
- 22
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 45%
Last updated:
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Industries Hans Otterling invests in
Stages Hans Otterling invests in
Countries Hans Otterling invests in
Round sizes
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Round size
- Seed
- $2.4M–$5M
- Series A
- $5.3M–$15M
- Series B
- $3.7M–$25M
Investment Focus
Industry
- E-Commerce 6 (27%)
- Retail 3 (14%)
- Fashion 2 (9%)
- Shopping 2 (9%)
- Software 2 (9%)
Stage
- Series A 4 (18%)
- Series B 4 (18%)
- Seed 3 (14%)
- Series C 2 (9%)
- Private Equity 2 (9%)
Country
- Sweden 7 (32%)
- Germany 2 (9%)
- Finland 1 (5%)
- United Arab Emirates 1 (5%)
Investments
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Klarna
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Klarna is an eCommerce payment solutions platform for merchants and shoppers.The platform gives customers the freedom to choose how and when to pay. They also offer direct payments, pay after delivery options, and installment plans. Klarna is a regulated bank known for its “buy now, pay later” model that offers shoppers interest-free financing onretail purchases over a period of installments.Klarna was founded in 2005 in Stockholm, Sweden by Sebastian Siemiatkowski, Niklas Adalberth, and Victor Jacobsson. | $1B / Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 01, 2021 | |
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Klarna
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Klarna is an eCommerce payment solutions platform for merchants and shoppers.The platform gives customers the freedom to choose how and when to pay. They also offer direct payments, pay after delivery options, and installment plans. Klarna is a regulated bank known for its “buy now, pay later” model that offers shoppers interest-free financing onretail purchases over a period of installments.Klarna was founded in 2005 in Stockholm, Sweden by Sebastian Siemiatkowski, Niklas Adalberth, and Victor Jacobsson. | $650M / Private Equity / Sep 15, 2020 | |
HappyOrNot
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HappyOrNot is a Finnish company that specializes in instant customer and employee satisfaction analytics.HappyOrNot is the company responsible for creating the globally-recognizable ‘Smiley’ feedback system. With over 25,000 physical ‘Smiley Terminals’ in airports, office spaces, and retail outlets around the world, the company generates employeeand customer feedback data on an unprecedented scale.Servicing more than 4,000 clients in 117 countries, HappyOrNot presents and packages customer and employee feedback data (visualized as a four point scale from ‘smile’ to ‘frown’) so that organizations can tweak specific aspects of their service in accordance with what customers and staff actually want. Founded in 2009 and with first terminals installed in 2010, the company, which employs 80 people, has recorded about a billion responses to date.Headquartered in Tampere, Finland, with offices in US, UK, Germany, France, Netherlands, Singapore and a global reseller network in over 100 countries, HappyOrNot is already being utilized by thousands of clients in every continent: from Microsoft to McDonald's; London Heathrow Airport to LinkedIn; British National Health Service (NHS) to IKEA. | $25M / Series B / Sep 19, 2019 | |
Kitab Sawti
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Kitab Sawti is an Arabic audio entertainment service offering audiobooks and podcasts through mobile apps. | $6M / Private Equity / May 03, 2019 | |
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Klarna
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Klarna is an eCommerce payment solutions platform for merchants and shoppers.The platform gives customers the freedom to choose how and when to pay. They also offer direct payments, pay after delivery options, and installment plans. Klarna is a regulated bank known for its “buy now, pay later” model that offers shoppers interest-free financing onretail purchases over a period of installments.Klarna was founded in 2005 in Stockholm, Sweden by Sebastian Siemiatkowski, Niklas Adalberth, and Victor Jacobsson. | $93M / Private Equity / Apr 08, 2019 | |
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Kitab Sawti
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Kitab Sawti is an Arabic audio entertainment service offering audiobooks and podcasts through mobile apps. | $1.1M / Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 04, 2018 | |
Fishbrain
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Fishbrain is a mobile app, commerce platform, and social network for people who love fishing. This free-to-use app provides tools, insights, support, and fishing gear to fully enjoy fishing. It also has an interactive map that helps anglers find new fishing spots and see what other people are catching, with what bait, and specifically where. | $13.5M / Series B / Mar 07, 2018 | |
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HappyOrNot
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HappyOrNot is a Finnish company that specializes in instant customer and employee satisfaction analytics.HappyOrNot is the company responsible for creating the globally-recognizable ‘Smiley’ feedback system. With over 25,000 physical ‘Smiley Terminals’ in airports, office spaces, and retail outlets around the world, the company generates employeeand customer feedback data on an unprecedented scale.Servicing more than 4,000 clients in 117 countries, HappyOrNot presents and packages customer and employee feedback data (visualized as a four point scale from ‘smile’ to ‘frown’) so that organizations can tweak specific aspects of their service in accordance with what customers and staff actually want. Founded in 2009 and with first terminals installed in 2010, the company, which employs 80 people, has recorded about a billion responses to date.Headquartered in Tampere, Finland, with offices in US, UK, Germany, France, Netherlands, Singapore and a global reseller network in over 100 countries, HappyOrNot is already being utilized by thousands of clients in every continent: from Microsoft to McDonald's; London Heathrow Airport to LinkedIn; British National Health Service (NHS) to IKEA. | $14.5M / Series A / Oct 12, 2017 | |
Lesara
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Lesara is the leading global agile retail pioneer for amazing fashion merchandise at best prices.The company has offices in China and Germany and since its launch in 2013 expanded into 24 markets in 7 languages across Europe, grew its assortment to more than 100.000 SKUs and the the team to over 300 employees.Lesara is operating a completelyvertically integrated supply chain and needs only 2 weeks from idea over design, production to product go-live for its collections.The company was awarded as fastest growing tech-company in Europe in 2016. | $39.6M / Series C / Sep 13, 2017 | |
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Fishbrain
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Fishbrain is a mobile app, commerce platform, and social network for people who love fishing. This free-to-use app provides tools, insights, support, and fishing gear to fully enjoy fishing. It also has an interactive map that helps anglers find new fishing spots and see what other people are catching, with what bait, and specifically where. | $3.7M / Series B / Apr 13, 2017 | |
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Co-Investors
About Northzone
Northzone is a multi-stage venture capital fund that seeks to invest in the healthcare, semiconductors, software, hardware, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and gaming industries.
Northzone Contacts
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Bjorn Stray
Partner
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Justin Cooke
Advisor
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Michiel Kotting
General Partner
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Christopher Steinau
Principal
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Deepka Rana
Investment Manager
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FAQ
What does Hans Otterling invest in?
Hans Otterling invests primarily in E-Commerce, Retail and Fashion startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 22 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Sweden. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Hans Otterling's check size?
Hans Otterling typically joins rounds of $2.4M–$5M at Seed, $5.3M–$15M at Series A and $3.7M–$25M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Hans Otterling participates in.
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When did Hans Otterling last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Hans Otterling closed in Mar 2021. Shizune tracks 22 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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