With summer just around the corner we wrap up the investments, exits and top stories from May. Traditionally a busy month, this year was no exception, catch up on all the action here.   Investments Denmark Danish-founded game engine maker Unity raises $400 million in private equity from Silver Lake FinTech […]

The Investment Min Doktor raises €22.6 million for its digital doctor visits app When Min Doktor revealed they’d raised €4.7 million at the end of 2016, they also announced that CEO Charlotta Tönsgård has been forced to step down as the shareholders looked for a new person to lead the company’s growth. […]

Yesterday, we revealed that in Q1 2017, the Nordics (alongside Germany) recorded the most VC-backed exits in Europe in Q1 2017. Still, when we look at the last couple of years as a whole, VC-backed exits are seeing barely any growth in the region, especially when you compare against the […]

Technically, Q1 2017 was a down quarter for funding in the Nordics despite being a stronger one than all in 2016 except Q4. This was the start of a stabilisation that we’ve seen play out so far this year in the region. It was a pretty strong quarter for exits […]

The morning started yesterday with news that Unity Technologies, a Danish founded company had raised a further $400 million at a $2.6 billion valuation (1) in addition to the $181 million they raised less than 12 months ago. The usual celebratory reactions followed, however, if you delved a little further into […]

We’ve talked at lengths about the number of early-stage investments that have been made in the last couple of years, as the pre-seed investment stage has been flooded with capital, representing the vast majority of investments that had been happening in the region. We’ve also warned about the importance of these […]

Twelve months ago, we produced an article called The Nordic Zeitgeist using Google Trends to look at which of the ‘hottest’ verticals were being searched for to see if we could get a better idea of what the main hubs in the Nordics may be looking at next. A year […]

2017 is closing in on $1 billion raised, with $875 million invested already in Nordic startups so far this year. At only five months into 2017 this certainly appears healthy, however when you consider that $2.7 billion in total was invested in the whole of 2016, how is this year faring […]

Two years ago we ran an analysis where we discovered that there had been a 50/50 split between new and returning investors in the Nordics in Q1 2015. In the conclusion of that post, we postured that we felt a 70% returning and a 30% new would be healthier and […]