Viking Growth
VC Fund
Trondheim, Norway
Viking Growth is a VC fund in Trondheim focused on Software and Information Technology. Viking Growth is the leading software investor specializing in scaling Nordic B2B software companies. With over 20 years of experience, Viking Growth focuses on helping innovative software companies achieve international growth. Based in Trondheim, Norway, Viking Growth partners with ambitious software companies by providing capital, strategic expertise, and operational support to accelerate their journey. Viking Growth currently maintains an active portfolio of 19 companies across the Nordics with NOK 4 billion in ARR.
- Total investments:
- 47
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 62%
- Fund size:
- $72M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Viking Growth invests in
Stages Viking Growth invests in
Countries Viking Growth invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Round size
- Private Equity
- $12M–$19M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $3M–$26M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 20 (43%)
- Information Technology 10 (21%)
- SaaS 9 (19%)
- Oil and Gas 7 (15%)
- Energy 4 (9%)
Stage
- Venture - Series Unknown 17 (36%)
- Funding Round 9 (19%)
- Private Equity 8 (17%)
- Series A 3 (6%)
- Series B 2 (4%)
Country
- Norway 25 (53%)
- Sweden 5 (11%)
- Denmark 2 (4%)
- United Kingdom 2 (4%)
- United States 1 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Joar Welde
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
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Andreas Davies Sandbu
Head of Operational Excellence
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Head of Operational Excellence | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
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Andreas Loktu
Senior Investment Associate
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Senior Investment Associate | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Eivind Bergsmyr
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 6 | Find email | |
Erik F. Hagen
Managing Partner
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Managing Partner | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
| See all 11 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ocius-X provides construction management software for internet service providers and contractors to gather field data, track progress, and generate documentation for fiber network deployment. | $12.6M / Venture - Series Unknown / Oct 06, 2026 | ||
| CheckProof is the ideal tool for digitizing your work with preventive maintenance, quality and health & safety. Let’s secure value. Digitally. | Venture - Series Unknown / Jun 04, 2024 | ||
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HR-Friend
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HR-friend is building a best of breed group within HR software which will offer customers solutions for talent acquisition, onboarding and talent management | $19.3M / Private Equity / Jul 09, 2021 | |
| Attensi’s gamified simulation training represents a radically new method to achieve real behaviour change in large organisations. Simulations are different from other training solutions – and measurably more effective. Our solutions blend gamification and realism with deep insights from workplace psychology to make your staff training engaging | $26M / Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 08, 2021 | ||
| You probably know the challenge: producing the entire portfolio of marketing materials at the right cost - without spending too much time and too many resources. What you need is a workflow tool!Marketing today is about processes and data, and that is the core of Encode. We are the market-leading efficiency and automation platform for retailers,agencies, manufacturers and brand owners. We help to streamline their marketing production processes to deliver increased productivity and cost savings for Multi-channel output. At Encode, we have a 360-degree approach to your Time to Market. We work to boost your agility and your commercial benefits by identifying all possible optimizations. At Encode, we simplify all levels of the marketing production process. Encode’s software creates smart end-to-end functionality that delivers the ability to speed content planning, creation, approval and management.Each employee in Encode is specialized within their field, and as a team, we complement each other. That’s why we can offer our customers 360 degrees of professional services.We are SAAS/cloud-based and have all in one system: Multi-Channel Marketing Management Creative Project Management Product Content Management Brand ManagementExperts within the following industries: Retailers Agencies Private label product manufacturing Brand owners Financial Services Content factories | $12.2M / Private Equity / Jan 11, 2021 | ||
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TimeLog
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$13.1M / Private Equity / Nov 13, 2020 | ||
| Enabling people and organizations to do more with their content! Fotoware is a Norwegian software company that, in the space of 30 years, has become a world-leading provider of Digital Asset Management (DAM) solutions. Fotoware was founded in 1997 by Ole Christian Frenning (former press photographer 1974-1985 and photo editor of Aftenposten1985-1991) and Anders Bergman (former leader of development at Hasselblad Electronic Imaging 1985 - 1994) and was one of the first vendors in the world to offer a DAM system.More than 250,000 users and 4,000 customers in a wide range of industries worldwide use FotoWare today.Besides enabling our users to do more with their content, we also care about diversity and leadership. We are driven to make a difference by ensuring equality and diversity in the tech industry. Our team is composed of members with different backgrounds, education, and levels of experience. 40% of us are female and 52% of our employees are below 30 years old. | Private Equity / Jun 30, 2020 | ||
| EcoOnline AS is a market leader in Chemical Documentation Management software in the Nordics. | Private Equity / Feb 26, 2020 | ||
| Flowbox is an award-winning SaaS company offering a User-Generated Content platform (UGC platform) to help brands leverage and distribute social content throughout the buyer journey to increase engagement, social proof and sales. Flowbox’s heart lies in how technology can help brands generate and use owned, paid, earned and user generated contentfor a more effective, converting and transparent marketing and e-commerce. Through our platform, our customers are able to collect, moderate and publish content to their website, online shop and social channels. | $8.3M / Series A / Feb 05, 2020 | ||
| Tamigo – your global Workforce Management Solution in the Cloud.Since 2006, Tamigo has been a vital business partner for small to medium-sized companies as well as international enterprises – mainly within retail and hospitality. Together with our customers, we revolutionize Workforce Management through smart processes, new insights and uniquealignment on improving future performance. Get ahead by optimizing operations and staff management, increase sales, reduce labor costs, automate workflows and empower your employees through effective communication.At Tamigo, we make workforce management smarter. With headquarters in the heart of Copenhagen and franchisees in many parts of Europe, we work to make life easier for tens of thousands of people every day. | $10.3M / Venture - Series Unknown / Dec 06, 2019 | ||
| See all 47 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Viking Growth invest in?
Viking Growth invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and SaaS startups, most often at Venture - Series Unknown and Funding Round stage. Most of the 47 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 Viking Growth invest in?
Viking Growth typically joins rounds of $12M–$19M at Private Equity and $3M–$26M at Venture - Series Unknown. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Viking Growth's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Viking Growth took part in.
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Who are the partners at Viking Growth?
The team at Viking Growth includes Joar Welde (Partner), Andreas Davies Sandbu (Head of Operational Excellence) and Andreas Loktu (Senior Investment Associate), among 11 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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