# Magnus Carlsen

> Magnus Carlsen is a seed investor at Freestyle Chess backing Sports and Soccer. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Freestyle Chess](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/freestyle-chess)
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Oct 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://x.com/MagnusCarlsen
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/magnuschess

Magnus Carlsen is a seed investor at Freestyle Chess focused on Sports and Soccer. Magnus Carlsen is the Co-founder of Freestyle Chess.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sports | 2 | 50% |
| Soccer | 1 | 25% |
| Software | 1 | 25% |
| Recreation | 1 | 25% |
| Advertising | 1 | 25% |

10 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 25% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 25% |
| Series A | 1 | 25% |
| Series F | 1 | 25% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Norway | 2 | 50% |
| United States | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Metric | Metric develops AI-driven tools for automating digital advertising. Its platform, which primarily serves Shopify-powered e-commerce companies, is made to handle campaign creation, budget distribution, and performance optimization across Meta and Google. | $8.4M | Series A | Feb 23, 2025 |  |
| TOCA Football | TOCA is a soccer technology company that aims to disrupt and elevate the soccer experience through user-centered technology. Its mission is to accelerate the improvement of technical, physical, and cognitive abilities of all players through cutting edge technology and proprietary training systems using meaningful repetitions with custom trainingballs. | $100M | Series F | Oct 10, 2024 |  |
| SportAI | SportAI is a B2B sports technology firm that is spearheading the revolution in sports technique coaching, commentary, and analysis using advanced AI and machine learning. The company aims to boost sports performance and make high-quality sports data more accessible. SportAI's SaaS platform, powered by Computer Vision and Machine Learning,delivers unbiased sports technique analysis and AI-generated sports data to different sectors in the sports industry. This technology can seamlessly integrate into broadcasting, training apps, simulators, sporting equipment brands, and product recommendation websites, offering significant benefits to the global sports industry. | $1.8M | Seed | Aug 19, 2024 |  |
| SportAI | SportAI is a B2B sports technology firm that is spearheading the revolution in sports technique coaching, commentary, and analysis using advanced AI and machine learning. The company aims to boost sports performance and make high-quality sports data more accessible. SportAI's SaaS platform, powered by Computer Vision and Machine Learning,delivers unbiased sports technique analysis and AI-generated sports data to different sectors in the sports industry. This technology can seamlessly integrate into broadcasting, training apps, simulators, sporting equipment brands, and product recommendation websites, offering significant benefits to the global sports industry. | $760.1K | Pre-Seed | Jan 22, 2024 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [MP Pensjon](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mp-pensjon-941a) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Altitude Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/altitude-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Kvantia](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anden%C3%A6sgruppen-andenaes-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Marketer Real Estate Technologies](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marketer-technologies) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Skyfall Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/skyfall-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [TRY](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/try-1f2e) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Freestyle Chess

VC Fund · Wangels, Germany

Freestyle Chess maintains the fundamental features of regular chess but adds a twist: the rear row is randomized.

1 contacts available at Freestyle Chess.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Magnus Carlsen | Co-founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/magnus-carlsen-3a27 |

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## FAQ

### What does Magnus Carlsen invest in?

Magnus Carlsen invests primarily in Sports, Soccer and Software startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Norway. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Magnus Carlsen last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Magnus Carlsen closed in Oct 2024. Shizune tracks 4 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?

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