I’ve worked with several venture funds and accelerator programs over the years managing 100+ investments. Through that work, I have personally deployed over $15,000,000+ USD in funding to early-stage startups.
These days I’m not day-to-day active in any venture funds or accelerator programs. So please don’t email me your bad startup pitch. 😅 Here are a few funds I’ve previously worked on:
Previous Funds
Spring Capital (Estonia)
Fund I ($3.2M)
Spring Capital is an Estonian-based seed-stage venture fund investing in both the Baltics and Scandinavia. I was a Partner in this fund and remain an advisor to the portfolio.
Notable Fund Investments: Bolt, Monese, Wolf3D, Turing College, Outfunnel
The Nordic Web Ventures
Fund II ($1.5M)
The Nordic Web Ventures invests in ambitious pre-seed Nordic startups. I’m a small LP investor in the second fund from Neil Murray.
Notable Fund Investments: PortalOne, Technebies, Butter
Katapult Accelerator
Multiple Funds ($25M+)
Katapult is a leading impact-tech accelerator located in Oslo, Norway. I helped to establish the program and have served as a program teacher and mentor.
Notable Fund Investments: Chooose, Sky Garden, Diwala, Walkolution, FlowVR
500 Startups
FUND III ($85M)
500 Startups is largest early stage venture fund based in Silicon Valley. Through this fund I ran the Silicon Valley based accelerator program.
Notable Fund Investments: FilmGrail, Ad Espresso, Shippo, Pop Up Archive, App Zen, Chain.com, Gitlab, FabFitFun, Eaze, MeUndies, Growbots, Stripe
500 Startups
FUND IV ($100M)
500 Startups is largest early stage venture fund based in Silicon Valley. Through this fund I invested primarily in Nordic based startups.
Notable Fund Investments: Grove Collective, The Pill Club, Many Chat, IRIS AI, Imerso
X2 Labs
SPV ($500K)
A startup factory based in Stavanger, Norway that operated in 2017 through several accelerator programs.
Notable Fund Investments: Bluelice, Fishency
Science
Fund I ($10M)
One of the original startup studios based in Los Angeles. I was an early employee and founded a company here (Wittlebee).
Notable Fund Investments: Dollar Shave Club, Bird, Medium, Urban Remedy, Wealthfront, MeUndies
Personal Investments
I sometimes make small personal investments. Here are a few of them:
Bold Books
Publishing platform for independent book authors.
LendWill (Formerly Lendonomy)
Lend or borrow small amounts of money from friends.
Mussila
Award-winning app to teach kids to play the piano.
Firi / (Formerly MiraiEx)
Firi is the leading crypto exchange in Norway. It’s the easiest and best way to buy Bitcoin in Norway.
Iterate
Iterate is a venture builder based in Oslo, Norway.
Sharebox
Sharebox simplifies your handover by offering a service completely managed by your phone.
LeapIN
LeapIN is a solution to start and remotely run your location independent company online, in Estonia.
Exits
Occasionally I do in fact pick a winner! While the funds I’ve worked with have had many exits, these are the companies I was directly involved with and/or responsible for their investment.
Pop Up Archive
Acquired by Apple
Vessel
Acquired by Marketo
Lumific
Acquired by GoPro
Chain.com
Acquired by Stellar
Pitch Sean
I get a lot of startup pitches, mostly bad ones. I currently only do personal investments with companies I know, wait for it… personally. So please save us both the time and don’t pitch me 🙂