| Website | northzone.com |
| Phone | +46 - 8 -599 05 880 |
| Employees | 12 |
| Founded | 1994 |
| Northzone VI, 2/10 | €130M |
Northzone is a European Venture Capital Partnership with a Nordic stronghold. With nine dedicated professionals in Oslo, Stockholm and Copenhagen - most of whom are themselves former successful, entrepreneurs. We work round the clock to help our portfolio companies grab whatever world market they are after. We have been around since 1994, raised and managed 6 funds with consistent top-tier returns and currently manage EUR 350 Million. Among our previous investments, we are especially proud of Lastminute, Stepstone, Pricerunner, NextGenTel and Nimsoft. For a peek at our present investments, look us up at www.northzone.com
Investment Focus:
During the history of Northzone and our first three funds we focused on start-ups and early stage companies. For a simple reason, really: We had seen it, done it and we knew all the tricks to make it work. (Yes, we could write the book and sell nicely. Doing it this way, though, yields better returns-on-knowledge).
Currently , we also invest in companies in the expansion phase. Needless to say, our successful start-ups have all been expansion phase companies, so incidentally, we have become quite familiar with the challenges in growing companies that have significant revenues and strong market positions
As far as our focus goes, we invest in companies that can become major winners and shape their respective industries in a new way. Companies that have less ambition than that may well be healthy businesses but not prospective Northzone investments. We want to deliver top-tier returns to our investors, not just nice companies.
We stick to our knitting, and invest in technology companies which is our area of core competence. The skill set and network required to successfully invest for instance in biotech or life science are very different.
| Company | Date | Round | Size | Participants |
| TrustPilot | 11/11 | Unattributed | $4.5M | 2 |
| BraveNewTalent | 2/11 | Series A | 1 | |
| Energy Micro | 3/10 | Unattributed | $13M | 2 |
| Videoplaza | 3/10 | Series A | €3.5M | 2 |
| Asetek | 12/09 | Unattributed | $8M | 3 |
| Innotech Solar | 7/09 | Unattributed | $9M | 2 |
| Tobii Technology | 5/09 | Series B | €16M | 3 |
| Imbera Electronics | 4/09 | Series B | $15M | 3 |
| doubleTwist | 4/09 | Series B | $5M | 4 |
| VisualDNA | 2/09 | Series B | $13.6M | 3 |
| Jasper Design Automation | 2/09 | Series D | $7M | 6 |
| Innotech Solar | 12/08 | Series A | $1.5M | 1 |
| PlayDo | 12/08 | Unattributed | $4.29M | 2 |
| Wiral Internet Group | 10/08 | Series B | $3M | 1 |
| Nimsoft | 10/08 | Series B | $12M | 4 |
| Spotify | 10/08 | Series A | $21.6M | 3 |
| Supponor | 8/08 | Series A | €6M | 2 |
| TestFreak | 8/08 | Series B | $3M | 1 |
| Silex Microsystems | 7/08 | Unattributed | $25M | 3 |
| doubleTwist | 5/08 | Series A | $2.5M | 2 |
| Norstel | 3/08 | Unattributed | €15M | 3 |
| Orecon | 3/08 | Series A | $24M | 4 |
| VisualDNA | 5/07 | Unattributed | $5M | 1 |
| TestFreak | 5/07 | Series A | $2.8M | 1 |
| Colibria | 2/07 | Unattributed | €10M | 3 |
| Interse | 1/07 | Unattributed | $3.89M | 1 |
| Nimsoft | 1/07 | Series A | $10.3M | 2 |
| IndigoBoom | 1/07 | Series A | 4 | |
| Napatech | 3/06 | Unattributed | $5M | 3 |
| Appear Networks Systems | 1/06 | Series B | €6M | 1 |
| Asetek | 12/05 | Unattributed | $10.9M | 3 |
| Qt Software | 5/05 | Series B | $6.7M | 3 |
| T-VIPS | 2/05 | Unattributed | $4.49M | 2 |
| Norstel | 2/05 | Unattributed | $18.2M | 3 |
