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Atomico

Atomico is a venture capital firm headquartered in London, England founded by Niklas Zennström in 2006, making series A and onwards investments in technology companies.

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Funded Companies
Funding rounds
Products
Associated investment funds
Accelerator batches
People
Further reading
Documentaries, videos and podcasts
Companies
Timeline
News

Atomico is a venture capital firm founded in 2006 by Niklas Zennström that is headquartered in London, England, and has offices around the world in Beijing, China; São Paulo, Brazil; Stockholm, Sweden; and Tokyo, Japan. The firm makes series A and onwards investments in technology companies looking to expand their global reach; primarily focusing its investments in European technology companies. Notable investments made by Atomico include: Supercell, Skype, The Climate Corporation, Xobni, and Memphis Meats.

Timeline

Funded Companies

Company
Description
Website
Industry
Location
Memphis Meats

Company making cultured meat based in San Francisco founded by Uma Valeti, Nicholas Genovese and Will Clem.

memphismeats.com
Biotechnology
Poultry
Beef
Synthetic biology
Food technology
Clean technology (Cleantech)
Cellular agriculture
Cell-based meat
San Francisco
California
United States
Quid

A business intelligence company offering an artificially intelligent analytics web-based software platform .

quid.com
Enterprise software
Artificial intelligence (AI)
Big data
Software as a service (SaaS)
San Francisco
Beekeeper (company)

An information technology company offering an operational communications platform.

beekeeper.io
Enterprise software
Software as a service (SaaS)
Software
Telecommunication
Mobile phone
Online chat
Hotel
Switzerland
Mapillary

Street-level imagery platform that uses computer vision to fix the world's maps

mapillary.com
Machine learning
Computer Vision
Map
Photography
Automotive industry
Crowdsourcing
Cluster: Artificial intelligence
Malmö
Sweden
Graphcore

A company developing semiconductor accelerators for artificial intelligence and machine learning.

graphcore.ai
Artificial intelligence (AI)
Hardware
Bristol
Zocdoc

Zocdoc is a company an online medical care appointment booking service.

zocdoc.com
Booking
Healthcare
Dentist
Doctor
Appointment scheduling software
New York City
accuRx

Company developing software that helps physicians communicate with their patients. Their main product Chain SMS is used by medical office staff to send text messages for a variety of communications such as appointment reminders or to remind patients to take prescriptions.

accurx.com
Software
Medicine
Healthcare
Appointment scheduling software
Health information technology
London
United Kingdom
The Climate Corporation

The Climate Corporation (Climate) is a digital agriculture company that is a subsidiary of Bayer. The Climate Corporation, founded in 2006 and based in San Francisco, examines weather, soil and field data.

climate.com
Artificial intelligence (AI)
Agriculture
Risk management
Big data
San Francisco
Knewton

Knewton is a New York City-based education technology and artificial intelligence company founded in 2008 by Jose Ferreira.

knewton.com
Machine learning
Artificial intelligence (AI)
Education
Mathematics education
Curriculum
Learning management system
Educational technology
University
Big data
B2C
Hoboken, New Jersey
New York City
TrialPay

TrialPay is a Mountain View, California-based company.

trialpay.com
Payment system
Mobile advertising
Mountain View, California
Varjo Technologies

A Finnish VR company that specializes in cutting edge technology.

varjo.com
Virtual reality
Augmented reality
Hardware
Finland
Virginia
United States
Supercell (video game company)

Finnish mobile game company

supercell.com/en/
Video game industry
Mobile game
Finland
Helsinki
Kheiron Medical Technologies

Biomedical Artificial Intelligence company helping doctors find breast cancer early and more accurately using deep learning.

kheironmed.com
Deep learning
Health information technology
Machine learning
Healthcare
Oncology
London
United Kingdom
Fab (company)

Fab is an e-commerce company founded by Jason Goldberg.

fab.com
E-commerce
Lilium (company)

Lilium is a Munich-based startup developing an on-demand, all-electric, vertical take-off and landing air taxi service.

lilium.com, lilium.com/about-us
Aviation
Aerospace
Drone
Clean technology (Cleantech)
Transportation
Germany
Munich
MasterClass

MasterClass offers online educational classes.

masterclass.com
Celebrity
Education
Digital media
Educational technology
Entertainment industry
B2C
San Francisco
Wunderlist

Wunderlist is a company founded by Charlette Prevot, Sebastian Scheerer, Robert Kock and Jan Martin.

wunderlist.com
Software
Web development
Software as a service (SaaS)
Productivity software
Gengo

Gengo is a Tokyo-based company founded by Robert W. Laing.

gengo.com
Crowdsourcing
Translation
Application programming interface (API)
Tokyo
Healx

A biotechnology therapeutics company for rare diseases

healx.io
Bioinformatics
Drug development
Artificial intelligence (AI)
Healthcare
3D printing
Machine learning
Drug discovery
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Toronto
Ostrovok

Ostrovok is an e-commerce company.

ostrovok.ru
E-commerce
Wrapp

Company

wrapp.com
Gift card
App store
Social media
EVRYTHNG (company)

EVRYTHNG is a New York-based company founded by Vlad Trifa, Dominique "Dom" Guinard, Niall Murphy and Andy Hobsbawm.

evrythng.com
Platform as a service
Internet of things (IoT)
Enterprise software
Software as a service (SaaS)
New York
Framer (company)

Framer is an Amsterdam-based startup that developed interactive design platform Framer X.

framer.com
Fon (company)

Fon is an Alcobendas-based file sharing company founded by Martín Varsavsky.

fon.com
File sharing
Alcobendas
Teralytics

teralytics.net
Public transport
Big data
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Associated investment funds

Investment Fund
Total offering (USD)
Total sold (USD)
Location
Date signed
Atomico Ventures III, L.P.
391,980,000
286,798,700
Grand Cayman
October 24, 2012
Atomico Ventures II LP
266,000,000
Grand Cayman
May 5, 2009
Atomico IV, L.P.
750,000,000
Grand Cayman
March 17, 2016
Atomico Ventures Affiliates II, L.P.
10,000,000
Grand Cayman
April 23, 2010
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People

Name
Role
LinkedIn

Adam Lasri

Associate

Alexis Bonte

Venture Partner

Alexis Dormandy

Partner

Andrew Crankshaw

Finance Director

Annalise Dragic

Senior Associate

Ben Blume

Associate

Benjamin Grol

Partner

Bryce Keane

Head of Communications

Camilla Richards

Head of Investor Relations

Carlos Pires

Partner

Carolina Brochado

Partner

Caroline Chayot

Partner

Carter Adamson

Venture Partner

Chris Barnes

Partner & COO

Chris Savvopoulos

Engineering Lead

Christine Fa

Associate

Dan Hynes

Partner

Eleanor Warnock

Communications Manager

Gunita Bhasin

Investor Relations Associate

Hillary Ball

Associate

Hiro Tamura

Partner

Irina Haivas

Principal

Jambu Palaniappan

Executive in Residence

Joen Bonnier

Partner

Kelly Poon

Partner

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Further reading

Title
Author
Link
Type
Date

Documentaries, videos and podcasts

Title
Date
Link

Companies

Company
CEO
Location
Products/Services

6Wunderkinder

Bebestore

Bitmovin

Bossa Studios

Chemist Direct

Cinemaki

CloudNC

Clutter

CMUNE

Compass

Connect Parts

Deca

DRIVETRIBE

Equal Media

EVRYTHNG

Fab

FarmDrop

Fat Lama

FON

Gengo

GoEuro

Graphcore

Gympass

Habito

Hailo

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News

Title
Author
Date
Publisher
Description
Sophia Bendz is leaving Atomico to join Berlin-based seed firm Cherry Ventures
Steve O'Hear
July 1, 2020
TechCrunch
More personnel changes in European early-stage VC, this time it's the latest career move of former Spotify global director of marketing Sophia Bendz, who is leaving Atomico to join Berlin's Cherry Ventures. TechCrunch understands that the full Atomico staff are being informed of Bendz' departure at an all-hands currently taking place. Her stated reason for [...]
Onna, the 'knowledge integration platform' for workplace apps, raises $27M Series B
Steve O'Hear
June 17, 2020
TechCrunch
Onna, the "knowledge integration platform" (KIP) that counts Dropbox and Slack as backers, has raised $27 million in Series B funding. Leading the round is Atomico, with participation from Glynn Capital. Previous investors Dawn Capital, Nauta Capital and Slack Fund also followed on. Founded in 2015, Barcelona and New York-based Onna integrates with a plethora [...]
In conversation with Sasha Astafyeva, Atomico's new consumer-focused investment partner
Steve O'Hear
April 29, 2020
TechCrunch
European VC firm Atomico announced this week that it has hired Sasha Astafyeva as a new investment partner. Astafyeva previously spent three years as a principal at Felix Capital . In her new role, she'll lead "sourcing, due diligence, and management" of consumer tech companies, according to a company statement. Originally from Ukraine, Astafyeva was [...]
Atomico recruits Sasha Astafyeva as consumer-focused partner, and ex-Googler Terese Hougaard as principal
Steve O'Hear
April 27, 2020
TechCrunch
More personnel moves at Atomico. The European VC firm, founded by Skype's Niklas Zennström, has recruited Sasha Astafyeva as its new consumer-focused partner, and former-Googler Terese Hougaard as principal. Sasha Astafyeva (pictured left) previously spent three years as a principal at Felix Capital. In her new role as partner, she'll be leading "sourcing, due diligence, [...]
Atomico raises new $820M fund to back 'mission-driven' European founders at Series A and beyond
Steve O'Hear
February 18, 2020
TechCrunch
Atomico, the European venture capital firm founded by Skype's Niklas Zennström, has announced that it has closed its fifth fund -- "Atomico V" -- giving it another $820 million to invest in European startups. The London-headquartered VC firm's previous fund closed at $765 million, so this is an increase over three years ago. However, the [...]
Venture capital firm Atomico backs European tech with $820 million fund
Reuters Editorial
February 18, 2020
U.S.
Venture capital firm Atomico has closed its fifth fund with $820 million to invest in early-stage technology companies in Europe, a region it said had come of age in terms of innovation and opportunity.
Deep tech VCs on what they view as some of the most impactful young startups right now
Connie Loizos
January 18, 2020
TechCrunch
During this week's Democratic debate, there was a lot of talk, unsurprisingly, about ensuring the future of this country's children and grandchildren. Climate change was of particular interest to billionaire Tom Steyer, who said repeatedly that addressing it would be his top priority were he elected U.S. president. As it happens, earlier the same day, [...]
VCs from Accel and SoftBank talk Europe's startup scene, what they expect in 2020, and the future of SoftBank
Connie Loizos
December 26, 2019
TechCrunch
If you haven't noticed, Europe's startup scene is in full bloom, with more than $30 billion deployed in startups across the continent over the last 12 months and more than 20 countries now home to a so-called unicorn company. Investors around the globe are jumping into the pool, too. Consider that the Ontario Municipal Employees [...]
See Atomico's most senior VCs on stage at Disrupt Berlin
Connie Loizos
December 7, 2019
TechCrunch
Atomico is among the most widely respected venture firms in Europe, ranking right up there with friendly rivals like Accel London and Index Ventures. It's also just 13 years old at this point, compared with its more established peers. It's easy to overlook this, considering the impact the firm has made on the European startup [...]
Tech.eu Podcast -- Slush Interview Special: Sophia Bendz (Atomico) and Markus Villig (Bolt) - Tech.eu
Andrii Degeler
November 22, 2019
Tech.eu
In this interview special episode recorded at Slush 2019, we've talked to Sophia Bendz, partner at Atomico, and Markus Villig, CEO and co-founder at Bolt.
European startups raise $30 billion in 2019 after Amazon, Sequoia mega-deals - Business Insider
Callum Burroughs
November 21, 2019
Business Insider
So far in 2019, $34.3 billion has been invested in European startups a record for the continent.
SoftBank Vision Fund's Carolina Brochado is coming to Disrupt Berlin
Romain Dillet
November 15, 2019
TechCrunch
SoftBank's Vision Fund has single-handedly changed the game when it comes to tech startup investment. And that's why I'm excited to announce that SoftBank Vision Fund investment director Carolina Brochado is joining us at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin. Carolina Brochado isn't a newcomer when it comes to VC investment. She's worked for years at Atomico in [...]
TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2019 announces Startup Battlefield competitors
October 3, 2019
WebWire
TechCrunch, the leading technology media property dedicated to obsessively profiling startups, reviewing new Internet products, and breaking tech news, today announced 20 participants will compete in Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2019. Each year, the event brings together tech titans, noted thought leaders and experienced entrepreneurs to offer unique insights into industry topics-of-the-moment. At the very heart of TechCrunch Disrupt, Startup Battlefield launch...
Spacemaker scores $25M Series A to let property developers use AI
Steve O'Hear
June 10, 2019
TechCrunch
Spacemaker, a Norway-based startup that's created AI software to help property developers and architects make better design decisions, has picked up $25 million in Series A funding. The round is jointly led by Atomico and Northzone, with participation from investors in property and construction tech including Danish property developer NREP, Nordic property developer OBOS, and [...]
Employee retention platform Peakon raises further $35M in a new round led by Atomico
Steve O'Hear
March 19, 2019
TechCrunch
Peakon, the Denmark headquartered "employee retention platform," has raised a further $35 million in funding. Described as a Series B extension, the round is led by European venture capital firm Atomico, with backing from existing investors, including EQT Ventures, IDInvest Partners, Ba...
Automation Hero picks up $14.5 million led by Atomico
Jordan Crook
March 13, 2019
TechCrunch
Automation Hero, formerly SalesHero, has secured $14.5 million in new funding led by Atomico, with participation by Baidu Ventures and Cherry Ventures. As part of the deal, Atomico principal Ben Blume will join the company's board of directors. The automation startup launched in 2017 as Sales...
More Atomico promotions sees three new Partners at the European VC firm
Steve O'Hear
Invalid Date
TechCrunch
Atomico, the European venture capital firm founded by Skype's Niklas Zennström, sometimes feels like it's on a perpetual hiring and promotions spree, even if a number of partners have also departed over the years. Most recently, in November Sophia Bendz, the former Spotify Global Director of ...
The Nordic Web Ventures raises a second fund and picks up Atomico's Niklas Zennström as a backer
Steve O'Hear
Invalid Date
TechCrunch
The Nordic Web Ventures, the 'pre-seed' investment firm founded by Neil Murray in late 2017, has raised a second fund to continue backing very early-stage startups within the Nordic ecosystem. The remit of the new "Fund II" is largely unchanged from the first fund, promising...
Accurx raises £8.8M Series A for its messaging app for medical teams and patients
Steve O'Hear
Invalid Date
TechCrunch
Accurx, the U.K. startup and Entrepreneur First alumni that has developed a messaging service for doctor surgeries, has raised £8.8 million in Series A funding, TechCrunch has learned. According to multiple sources, London venture capital firm Atomico has led the round, with participation from Loca...
Fitness startup Eastnine picks up £2M from LocalGlobe, Cherry Ventures, Niklas Zennström and others
Steve O'Hear
Invalid Date
TechCrunch
Eastnine, a new fitness startup and app co-founded by London entrepreneur and investor Jason Goodman, is de-cloaking today, including disclosing that it has raised £2 million in seed funding. Leading the round is London-based LocalGlobe and Berlin-based Cherry Ventures, who are joined by a list of ...
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