Northzone is an early stage venture capital fund investing in technology companies that is headquartered in London, England and was founded in 1996 by Bjorn Stray and Tellef Thorleifsson. The companies has offices in the Olso, Norway, London, England, and New York City, New York. Notable investments made by Northzone include Spotify, iZettle, Trustpilot, Avito, Klarna, Wallapop Lastminute.com, Pricerunner, NextGenTel, and Stepstone.
Investment funds
Northzone has raised a total of $1.3 billion across 8 funds.
Fund VII
On December 16, 2014 Northzone completed raising $325 million in funding for their Fund VII from European institutional investors. Northzone will be using the fund to focus its investments in financial technology, marketplaces media ecosystems and platforms, e-commerce, software-as-a-service, and gaming companies. The fund will be used to make seed investments of €500k to €1 million, early stage investments of €1M to €5M, and growth stage investments of €5M to €15M.
Fund VIII
Their most recent fund, Northzone VIII, was announced on Sep 5, 2016, and was €300 million. The company plans on using the investment fund to make early stage investments in the series A, series B, and series C funding rounds of European technology companies. The company claims to have interest in using their Fund VII to make investments in financial technology, e-commerce, media, and business to business software-as-a-service companies.
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TrustpilotTrustpilot offers a validated and open review community through which consumers can learn about a business and how others have experienced their product and service, and businesses can understand consumers engagement with their products.
Copenhagen
New York City
Denver
London
Melbourne
Berlin
Vilnius
StickyCompany
SpotifyA platform for listening to music and podcasts.
Stockholm
NokiaFinnish technology corporation
Finland
Espoo
PersonioSoftware company in Munich, Germany
Munich
IZettleIZettle is a Stockholm-based company.
Stockholm County
FreightHubFreight forwarding company offering instant quotes and transparent pricing.
Germany
FishbrainFishbrain is a Stockholm-based company founded by Johan Attby, Marcus Fransson, Jens Persson and Jakob Mattsson.
A full-service healthcare company in New York that focuses on providing medications.
Zopa
LabsterA company that uses virtual reality and virtual laboratories for life science education
Tobii TechnologyTobii ab develops and sells products for eye control and eye tracking.
Videoplaza
Jasper Design Automation
BraveNewAn enterprise knowledge sharing platform.
San Francisco
doubleTwist (company)doubleTwist is a San Francisco-based company.
Austin, Texas
Bloglovin'Bloglovin' is a company founded by Mattias Storm.
NapatechA company developing and commercializing programmable network adapters for network traffic analysis and application off-loading
Andover, Massachusetts
TIER MobilityTIER Mobility is a company founded by Julian Blessin.
FuboTVfuboTV is an Over The Top subscription service that streams premium sports and live channels.
AnyfinAnyfin is a Stockholm-based company founded by Sven Perkmann, Mikael Hussain and Filip Polhem.
Rovio EntertainmentFinnish video game developer and entertainment company
Keilaniemi
Kahoot!E-learning educational games platform
Norway
CornerJobCornerJob is a Barcelona-based company.
Black Sheep CoffeeBlack Sheep Coffee is a company founded by Eirik Holth, Gabe Shohet and Max Dubiel.
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