Stockholm, Sweden · Venture Capital Kinnevik is a Stockholm-based growth-stage investment company listed on Nasdaq Stockholm that backs innovative digital businesses in healthcare, software, consumer, and climate sectors. Originally a traditional Swedish industrial conglomerate founded in 1936, Kinnevik transformed into a focused growth investor and was an early backer of companies like Zalando, Tele2, and Millicom. The firm manages a portfolio valued at several billion euros and takes concentrated positions in companies it believes can become category leaders. Kinnevik provides patient capital with a long-term orientation unusual among European growth investors.
New York, United States · Person Co-founder and Managing Partner of Cogito Capital Partners. Based largely in New York, he leads the firm's transatlantic growth-stage investing, helping Central and Eastern European software companies scale into the US market.
Amsterdam, Netherlands · Venture Capital Prosus Ventures is the venture and growth investment arm of Prosus, the Amsterdam-listed international technology investor that was spun out of South African conglomerate Naspers in 2019 and today stands as one of the largest technology investors in the world, anchored by a historically ~25 percent stake in Tencent that funds the rest of the portfolio. Beyond Tencent, Prosus Ventures and its strategy teams actively invest in growth-stage technology companies across food delivery, fintech, edtech, classifieds, and AI, owning stakes in Delivery Hero, iFood, Swiggy, Stack Overflow, PayU, Udemy, and Brainly among others. With many billions of euros of investable firepower and an explicit willingness to lead USD 100M+ rounds, Prosus is effectively one of Europe's only indigenous late-stage growth investors that can compete at scale with US crossover funds on late rounds of European technology companies.
Stockholm, Sweden · Venture Capital Verdane is a Nordic growth equity firm with offices in Oslo, Stockholm, Helsinki, Berlin, and London that specializes in technology-enabled, sustainable growth companies. The firm invests at growth and late stage, typically in companies with $5-100 million in revenue, and manages over $6 billion in committed capital. Verdane focuses on digital consumer, software, and sustainable businesses, and is one of the largest dedicated growth investors in Northern Europe.
Oslo, Norway · Venture Capital Verdane's Oslo office is the firm's original headquarters, anchoring its Nordic growth equity practice. From Oslo, Verdane sources and supports portfolio companies across Norway's technology and sustainability ecosystem, covering digital transformation, e-commerce infrastructure, and energy transition. The firm's Norwegian roots give it deep access to the region's founder network and LP base.