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Nordic Makers

Founders Alexander Aghassipour David Helgason Erik Byrenius Hampus Jakobsson Klaus Nyengaard Lars Nielsen Martin von Haller Groenbaek Thomas Madsen-Mygdal Thorvald Stigsen Tommy Andersen

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Total investments 40
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$4M
Portfolio companies 29
Rounds per year 5.00
Lead investments 3
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.28
Key employees 7
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Education
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning
  • Information Technology
Summary

In 2016 was created Nordic Makers, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Stockholm. The venture was found in Europe in Sweden.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United Kingdom. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Standard Library, Aula, Nextmind. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are E-Learning, EdTech. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 3 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager.

The high activity for fund was in 2017. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The real fund results show that this VC is 15 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Nordic Makers, startups are often financed by Passion Capital, Hampus Jakobsson, Emerge Education. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Heartcore Capital, Emerge Education, David Helgason. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by byFounders, Y Combinator, Project A.

The fund was created by Alexander Aghassipour, David Helgason, Erik Byrenius, Hampus Jakobsson, Klaus Nyengaard, Lars Nielsen, Martin von Haller Groenbaek, Thomas Madsen-Mygdal, Thorvald Stigsen, Tommy Andersen.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Pluto.markets

Apps
Financial Services
FinTech
Trading Platform
Wealth Management
$2M07 Feb 2024 Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark

Tjommi

$1M02 May 2022 Bergen, Vestland, Norway

Cognigy GmbH

Artificial Intelligence
Customer Service
Digital Marketing
Information and Communications Technology (ICT)
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
Sales Automation
Virtual Assistant
$42M01 Jun 2021 Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Munchfam

Food and Beverage
Restaurants
$720K01 May 2021 Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland

CluedIn

Data Integration
Information Technology
Software
$15M22 Apr 2021 Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark

Panion

Communities
Mobile Apps
Social Impact
Social Network
Software
$206K15 Nov 2020 Malmo, Skåne County, Sweden

Cooler Future

Financial Services
FinTech
Impact Investing
Wealth Management
$1M30 Oct 2020 Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

Munchfam

Food and Beverage
Restaurants
$206K01 Oct 2020 Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland

Willa

FinTech
Freelance
Internet
Payments
$3M30 Jun 2020 Los Angeles, California, United States
News
Cognigy Raises $44M in Series B Funding

– Cognigy is a Düsseldorf, Germany-based provider of a Conversational AI platform for omnichannel Customer and Employee Service Automation.
– Company raised $44m in Series B funding.
– The round was led by Insight Partners with participation from DN Capital, Global Brain, Nordic Makers, Inventures and Digital Innovation and Growth.
– The new investment will be used to accelerate company’s global customer growth, create new partnerships, and continue to enhance its platform capabilities for companies to speed up enterprise-grade AI adoption.

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Total investments 40
Average round size 4M
Rounds per year 5.00
Peak activity year 2017
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.28
Group Appearance index 0.80

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Pluto.markets

Apps
Financial Services
FinTech
Trading Platform
Wealth Management
$2M07 Feb 2024 Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark

Tjommi

$1M02 May 2022 Bergen, Vestland, Norway

Cognigy GmbH

Artificial Intelligence
Customer Service
Digital Marketing
Information and Communications Technology (ICT)
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
Sales Automation
Virtual Assistant
$42M01 Jun 2021 Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Munchfam

Food and Beverage
Restaurants
$720K01 May 2021 Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland

CluedIn

Data Integration
Information Technology
Software
$15M22 Apr 2021 Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark

Panion

Communities
Mobile Apps
Social Impact
Social Network
Software
$206K15 Nov 2020 Malmo, Skåne County, Sweden

Cooler Future

Financial Services
FinTech
Impact Investing
Wealth Management
$1M30 Oct 2020 Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

Munchfam

Food and Beverage
Restaurants
$206K01 Oct 2020 Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland

Willa

FinTech
Freelance
Internet
Payments
$3M30 Jun 2020 Los Angeles, California, United States
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