Crowberry Capital is the Nordic’s latest fund. Last week they announced the first closing of their new fund at $38 million (final close at $48 million) with the fund founded by former NSA Ventures veterans Helga Valfells, Hekla Arnardóttir and Jenný Ruth Hrafnsdóttir. As the fund is completely new, we […]

As we hinted at yesterday, Q2 2017 was a strong quarter for VC-backed exits, even improving on Q1’s 12, which saw the Nordics equal Germany as the place with the most VC-backed exits in Europe in Q1. Over the last three months, the region provided investors with a further 16 […]

Before our VC-backed exit analysis tomorrow, first we take a deeper look at the macro technology exits that occurred in the region in Q2, as the last three months witnessed further strong performance to build on Q1’s, with 46 Nordic technology exits totalling a disclosed $1.23 billion in Q2 2017. […]

In our final country specific analysis for Q2, we focus on the nation that provides the majority of investment action for the region, not only that but is also one of its most consistent performers. After a minor correction in Q1 (which in fairness was still 2nd only to Q4 […]

Next up in our Q2 country specific analyses is Norway. Their ecosystem has been the most consistent over the last 18 months, with no more than 6 investments being the difference between quarters during this time period. This was the case again in Q2, as 21 investments totalling $75.2 million […]

After just one investment in the first three months of the year resulted in us neglecting to do a Q1 funding analysis, things picked up for Iceland in Q2 as they recorded 4 investments totalling $14.75 million. Once again, we’ve teamed up with our friends at Northstack combining our insight […]