# Verdane

> Verdane is a VC fund in Oslo backing Software and E-Commerce. See 149 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Oslo, Norway
- Total investments: 149
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 50%
- Fund size: $8.6M
- Last fund: Jul 2013
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/verdane/
- Website: http://www.verdane.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VerdaneCapitalAdvisors

Verdane is a specialist growth equity investment firm that partners with sustainable, tech-enabled Northern European businesses to help them reach the next stage of international growth. Verdane can invest as a minority or majority investor, either in single companies or through portfolios of companies, and looks to deploy behind three core themes;the Digital Consumer, Software Everywhere and Sustainable Society. Verdane funds hold more than €3bn in total commitments and have made over 120 investments in fast-growing businesses since 2003. Verdane’s team of over 80 investment professionals and operating experts, based out of Berlin, Copenhagen, Helsinki, London, Oslo and Stockholm, is dedicated to being the preferred growth partner to tech-enabled businesses in Northern Europe.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Private Equity | $10M–$100M |
| Venture - Series Unknown | $5.3M–$116M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 33 | 22% |
| E-Commerce | 28 | 19% |
| Information Technology | 17 | 11% |
| Retail | 12 | 8% |
| SaaS | 10 | 7% |

166 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 52 | 35% |
| Private Equity | 28 | 19% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 19 | 13% |
| Series A | 7 | 5% |
| Series C | 6 | 4% |

12 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sweden | 44 | 30% |
| Norway | 20 | 13% |
| Germany | 14 | 9% |
| Denmark | 9 | 6% |
| Finland | 8 | 5% |

14 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Andreas Daae | Investment Professional | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreas-daae |
| Arne Handeland | Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arne-handeland |
| Bjarne Kveim Lie | Managing Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bjarne-kveim-lie |
| Bjorn Beckman | Investment Professional | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bjorn-beckman |
| Daniel Ahlstrand | Investment Professional | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-ahlstrand |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Dawn Health | Dawn Health is a digital health company offering life-changing digital health therapies driving improved patient outcomes beyond the pill. The company is enabling to design, develop, and service medical device software. They help people live better and longer lives through technology and aim to accelerate digital health globally through strategicconsulting and the development of innovative digital health products together with their partners. As MedTech specialists, they create life-changing solutions with a strategic focus on digital health, SaMD, GxP software, and IoT within healthcare. Dawn Health envisions a time where digital health solutions will revolutionize how people worldwide achieve higher standards of health, and access services to promote and protect their health and well-being. The company has a global ambition to be the preferred Digital Health Partner to the life science industry, and through their partnerships and ventures, to impact one million lives by 2030 through digital interventions. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 16, 2026 |  |
| AxonIQ | AxonIQ is the proven platform for rapidly building resilient, AI-native backend systems. With Axon Framework, Axon Server, and the AxonIQ Console, teams can design, scale, and monitor event-driven microservices with ease. Native support for the Multi-Context Protocol (MCP) makes Axon the perfect foundation for agentic AI, enabling systems that areboth explainable and adaptable. Trusted in industries like healthcare, finance, and logistics, AxonIQ powers mission-critical applications with confidence. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 16, 2026 |  |
| Frameo | Frameo is providing software for WiFi photo frames for both iOS and Android. |  | Private Equity | Jul 16, 2026 |  |
| Dawn Health | Dawn Health is a digital health company offering life-changing digital health therapies driving improved patient outcomes beyond the pill. The company is enabling to design, develop, and service medical device software. They help people live better and longer lives through technology and aim to accelerate digital health globally through strategicconsulting and the development of innovative digital health products together with their partners. As MedTech specialists, they create life-changing solutions with a strategic focus on digital health, SaMD, GxP software, and IoT within healthcare. Dawn Health envisions a time where digital health solutions will revolutionize how people worldwide achieve higher standards of health, and access services to promote and protect their health and well-being. The company has a global ambition to be the preferred Digital Health Partner to the life science industry, and through their partnerships and ventures, to impact one million lives by 2030 through digital interventions. |  | Secondary Market | Jul 16, 2026 |  |
| Frameo | Frameo is providing software for WiFi photo frames for both iOS and Android. |  | Secondary Market | Jul 16, 2026 |  |
| AxonIQ | AxonIQ is the proven platform for rapidly building resilient, AI-native backend systems. With Axon Framework, Axon Server, and the AxonIQ Console, teams can design, scale, and monitor event-driven microservices with ease. Native support for the Multi-Context Protocol (MCP) makes Axon the perfect foundation for agentic AI, enabling systems that areboth explainable and adaptable. Trusted in industries like healthcare, finance, and logistics, AxonIQ powers mission-critical applications with confidence. |  | Secondary Market | Jul 16, 2026 |  |
| MatHem | MatHem is an e-commerce company that combines a complete grocery store online with recipes and subscriptions for ready-made groceries. It delivers food to Swedish homes 7 days a week. The company also combines a full grocery store online with prescription and subscription finished shopping bags. MatHem offers a broad range of grocery products andadjacent household consumables, catering to more than half of Swedish households. The company food is delivered to your door with their own temperature-controlled to ensure an unbroken cold chain.Mathem.se has been awarded The Grocery Website of the Year (Årets matsajt) in 2010, 2011 and 2013 by the Swedish online magazine Internet world. It was founded in 2009 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden |  | Secondary Market | Jul 07, 2026 |  |
| Oda | Oda is an online grocery retailer that provides door-to-door delivery services. It offers a huge range of fresh produce groceries to millions of doorsteps. Using the data-driven methodology, with a focus on sustainability all the way along the chain, the company aims to build an efficient retail system in the world. The company was founded in2013 and is headquartered in Oslo, Norway. |  | Secondary Market | Jul 07, 2026 |  |
| YouScan | YouScan is an AI-powered social media listening platform with industry-leading image recognition capabilities.We serve 500+ customers worldwide, including well-known consumer brands and agencies, such as Nestle, L'Oreal, Chanel, PepsiCo, Google, Coca-Cola, Michelin, Samsung, McDonald's, Mediacom, Kantar TNS, Ipsos, among others.Industry experts recognize YouScan as a leading player in the social media intelligence space: Gartner named YouScan a "Cool AI Vendor for Marketing" and MarkTech Breakthrough Awards 2020 recognized us as "Best Social Media Monitoring Software." We also lead the G2 Social Media Analytics Software category.Besides powerful analytics that you would expect from an enterprise-class SML platform, YouScan also features Aina. This virtual AI-powered data analyst automatically delivers vital insights and alerts about customer's brand discussions on social media.YouScan platform also provides market-leading image recognition capabilities, called Visual Insights. They include brand logo detection, scenes, objects, activities, persons, and other photo contents analysis and reporting.YouScan Visual Insights provide marketers with unprecedented opportunities to uncover consumer insights, measure sponsorship ROI, find user-generative creative content and brand ambassadors, and much more.YouScan has started as a regional player in EE before expanding to other markets, so we also offer the best regional-specific data, such as VK.com.With sales offices in New York, London, Mexico City, and Moscow, we develop our advanced AI technology in Kyiv, Ukraine, often called "a secret weapon of Silicon Valley." Due to the unique tech talent abundance, more and more leading tech companies establish their R&D offices there. It is a great place to develop deep tech AI-powered products like YouScan. |  | Secondary Market | Jul 07, 2026 |  |
| Eversports | Eversports vision is to simplify the access to sport facilities in your environment. They thrive to build a unique community of sporters and to share their passion around the globe. Eversports connects its members directly with sport venues, helps them to book courts or courses and to meet sport partners. With Eversports you know exactly where andwhen to practice your favourite sport. Find all the information you need in one single interface. Eversports is the marketplace where sport providers and sporters get easily connected. |  | Private Equity | Mar 26, 2026 |  |

10 of 149 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Verdane invest in?

Verdane invests primarily in Software, E-Commerce and Information Technology startups, most often at Funding Round and Private Equity stage. Most of the 149 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Sweden. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Verdane's check size?

Verdane typically joins rounds of $10M–$100M at Private Equity and $5.3M–$116M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Verdane participates in.

### How do I contact Verdane?

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### Who are the partners at Verdane?

The team at Verdane includes Andreas Daae (Investment Professional), Arne Handeland (Partner) and Bjarne Kveim Lie (Managing Partner), among 28 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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