Tellef Thorleifsson
Founding Partner @ Northzone
Oslo, Norway
Tellef Thorleifsson is a Series A investor at Northzone in Oslo focused on Energy and Mobile. Tellef Thorleifsson is based out of Oslo, Oslo, and was the CEO of Norfund. Tellef previously worked at Northzone as a Co-Founder and Managing Partner. Tellef Thorleifsson attended Norwegian School of Economics.
- Total investments:
- 17
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 59%
Last updated:
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Industries Tellef Thorleifsson invests in
Stages Tellef Thorleifsson invests in
Countries Tellef Thorleifsson invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Energy 3 (18%)
- Mobile 2 (12%)
- Payments 2 (12%)
- Software 2 (12%)
- Mobile Payments 2 (12%)
Stage
- Series A 6 (35%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 3 (18%)
- Funding Round 2 (12%)
- Seed 1 (6%)
- Series B 1 (6%)
Country
- Norway 5 (29%)
- India 2 (12%)
- Germany 1 (6%)
- Senegal 1 (6%)
- Sri Lanka 1 (6%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Mulilo Wind Enterprises is an Independent power producer focusing on renewable energy. | $75M / Private Equity / Nov 13, 2025 | ||
| IndiGrid was established on October 21, 2016 by our Sponsor, Sterlite Power Grid Ventures Limited, and is registered with SEBI pursuant to the InvIT Regulations.Their Sponsor is one of the leading independent power transmission companies operating in the private sector, with extensive experience in bidding, designing, financing, constructing andmaintaining power transmission projects across India. | $300M / Post-IPO Equity / Nov 13, 2024 | ||
| SAEL is the brand for an end-to-end solution for agro-energy products and services. They have successfully forayed into procurement, processing, refining, warehousing, and distribution of rice, rice by-products, solvent extraction, and renewable energy solutions. They are into technological innovation, sustainable energy creation, conversion, andutilization, powering sustainable and scalable farming practices, and promoting and safeguarding the interests of producer-consumer interests. They have rice mills, and the main product is different varieties of rice. They also have biomass and solar-based power plants and are expanding solar and biomass power plants. They also have a warehouse for food storage. | $1B / Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 18, 2024 | ||
| Hela Clothing is a clothing manufacturer. From design to delivery, the firm collaborates closely with brands in the intimate, sleepwear, and children's product lines. With design centers in major markets, they can watch and predict customer preferences. This enables us to provide their customers with unique design options that fit theirrequirements. | $14M / Venture - Series Unknown / Feb 24, 2023 | ||
| Izili is a social business committed to providing access to energy and digital. We commercialize innovative products with financing solutions that meet the needs of local populations. | $10M / Sep 27, 2021 | ||
| Gelato is the world’s fastest, smartest and greenest one-stop-shop for customized print products on demand. Our solution enables entrepreneurs, creators, and global brands to sell their products globally and produce them locally in 30 countries, reaching up to 5 billion potential consumers overnight. Thousands of businesses of all sizes - fromcreators and startups to large enterprises - use Gelato’s software and APIs to scale their e-commerce business to new markets.We have offices in Boston, London, Moscow, Mumbai, Santiago, São Paulo, Shanghai, Stockholm, Tallinn, and Tokyo. Our headquarter is in Oslo, Norway. | $240M / Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 16, 2021 | ||
| Black Sheep Coffee is a coffee shop chain. | $17M / Jun 17, 2019 | ||
| Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform that makes it easy to create, share, and play fun learning games or trivia quizzes in minutes. The platform offers learning games in minutes for any subject, in any language, on any device, and for all ages. Based on the mission of making learning awesome, Kahoot!’s game-based platform engages the heart,hand, and mind, creating a wildly more social, meaningful, and powerful pedagogical experience. Kahoot!’s platform and easy-to-use features attract educators and students as well as corporate powerhouses, sporting, and cultural events. | $15.4M / Series B / Oct 10, 2018 | ||
| Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform that makes it easy to create, share, and play fun learning games or trivia quizzes in minutes. The platform offers learning games in minutes for any subject, in any language, on any device, and for all ages. Based on the mission of making learning awesome, Kahoot!’s game-based platform engages the heart,hand, and mind, creating a wildly more social, meaningful, and powerful pedagogical experience. Kahoot!’s platform and easy-to-use features attract educators and students as well as corporate powerhouses, sporting, and cultural events. | $10M / Series A / Jul 19, 2017 | ||
| Fuse was founded by mobile graphics veterans who wanted to fix app and user experience creation for both designers and developers. Fuse is a cutting-edge UX tool suite that closes the gap between prototyping and actual development. | $12M / Series A / Jan 24, 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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What does Tellef Thorleifsson invest in?
Tellef Thorleifsson invests primarily in Energy, Mobile and Payments startups, most often at Series A and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 17 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Norway. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Tellef Thorleifsson closed in Nov 2025. Shizune tracks 17 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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