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Viking Venture Management

Founders Erik F. Hagen Jostein Vik

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Total investments 53
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$4M
Portfolio companies 40
Rounds per year 2.30
Lead investments 27
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.25
Exits 19
Key employees 6
Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • SaaS
  • Electronics
  • Oil and Gas
Summary

Viking Venture Management appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2001. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Trondheim. The venture was found in Europe in Norway.

Opposing the other organizations, this Viking Venture Management works on 1 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The real fund results show that this VC is 31 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The high activity for fund was in 2016. The typical startup value when the investment from Viking Venture Management is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019.

We also calculated 6 valuable employees in our database.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Viking Venture Management, startups are often financed by Industrifonden, Teknoinvest, Nordic Venture Partners (Sweden). The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Investinor, Industrifonden, Alliance Venture. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Investinor, Industrifonden, SIH - Secure Identity Holding.

The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Norway. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Enterprise Software, Oil and Gas. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight its learning, poLight, Skooler.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Flowbox

Advertising
Content Marketing
Digital Marketing
E-Commerce
Marketing
SaaS
Social Media
Software
$8M05 Feb 2020 -

Signicat

Cloud Security
Document Management
E-Signature
Financial Services
FinTech
Identity Management
Security
$1M16 Jul 2016 Trondheim, Trøndelag, Norway

Signicat

Cloud Security
Document Management
E-Signature
Financial Services
FinTech
Identity Management
Security
$1M10 Dec 2014 Trondheim, Trøndelag, Norway

poLight

Electronics
Hardware
Manufacturing
$18M06 Jul 2011 Norway, Vestfold og Telemark, Norway

Revolt Technology

Energy Storage
Hardware
Software
$11M15 Jan 2009 Portland, Oregon, United States

Signicat

Cloud Security
Document Management
E-Signature
Financial Services
FinTech
Identity Management
Security
$1M16 Oct 2008 Trondheim, Trøndelag, Norway

Iqua

Electronics
Mobile
Software
$2M07 Dec 2006 Espoo, Uusimaa, Finland

MaXware

Security
Software
$5M05 Dec 2005 Trondheim, Trøndelag, Norway

Revolt Technology

Energy Storage
Hardware
Software
$8M28 Jun 2005 Portland, Oregon, United States

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Total investments 53
Average round size 4M
Rounds per year 2.30
Peak activity year 2010
Lead investments 27
Follow on index 0.25
Exits 19
Group Appearance index 0.43

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Flowbox

Advertising
Content Marketing
Digital Marketing
E-Commerce
Marketing
SaaS
Social Media
Software
$8M05 Feb 2020 -

Signicat

Cloud Security
Document Management
E-Signature
Financial Services
FinTech
Identity Management
Security
$1M16 Jul 2016 Trondheim, Trøndelag, Norway

Signicat

Cloud Security
Document Management
E-Signature
Financial Services
FinTech
Identity Management
Security
$1M10 Dec 2014 Trondheim, Trøndelag, Norway

poLight

Electronics
Hardware
Manufacturing
$18M06 Jul 2011 Norway, Vestfold og Telemark, Norway

Revolt Technology

Energy Storage
Hardware
Software
$11M15 Jan 2009 Portland, Oregon, United States

Signicat

Cloud Security
Document Management
E-Signature
Financial Services
FinTech
Identity Management
Security
$1M16 Oct 2008 Trondheim, Trøndelag, Norway

Iqua

Electronics
Mobile
Software
$2M07 Dec 2006 Espoo, Uusimaa, Finland

MaXware

Security
Software
$5M05 Dec 2005 Trondheim, Trøndelag, Norway

Revolt Technology

Energy Storage
Hardware
Software
$8M28 Jun 2005 Portland, Oregon, United States
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