Northzone

Northzone is a venture capital firm founded in 1996 and based in London, with offices in New York, Oslo, and Stockholm. It invests in technology-enabled companies across healthcare, software, hardware, artificial intelligence, semiconductors, blockchain, and gaming, spanning early-stage and multi-stage opportunities. The firm emphasizes connections by helping portfolio companies access customers, partners, and talent on an international scale. Northzone has backed notable founders of Spotify, Avito, iZettle, Klarna, and Hopin, reflecting a history of building category-defining businesses. The firm maintains a Nordic and European footprint while operating globally, and has raised substantial capital, including over €1.5 billion in funds.

Alex Agureev

Associate

Torleif Ahlsand

General Partner

Molly Alter

Principal

Tomas Bennich

Venture Partner

Jörgen Bladh

General Partner

Past deals in England

Nivoda

Series C in 2024
Founded in 2017, Nivoda operates a B2B online marketplace for buying and selling diamonds and jewelry. It simplifies global trade by offering an all-in-one solution for partners, ensuring reliable sourcing and competitive pricing.

TrueLayer

Series E in 2024
TrueLayer facilitates real-time online payments by integrating with banks and financial institutions. It enables businesses to verify identities, access transactions, and make instant payments across multiple countries. With over 10 million users trusting its services, TrueLayer aims to revolutionize global payment systems.

Wagestream

Venture Round in 2024
Wagestream Ltd., founded in 2018 and headquartered in London, United Kingdom, develops a financial services application designed to enhance employee benefits and financial well-being. The platform allows employees to access their earned wages instantly, providing them with greater control over their pay schedules. This innovation aims to alleviate financial stress related to unexpected expenses by eliminating the need for advances, loans, and the burdens of high-interest credit or payday loans. Additionally, Wagestream offers various financial tools that help businesses support their employees in managing expenses, setting savings goals, and developing financial plans. By addressing these financial challenges, Wagestream seeks to reduce the poverty premium and prevent employees from falling into cycles of debt.

Wagestream

Series C in 2022
Wagestream Ltd., founded in 2018 and headquartered in London, United Kingdom, develops a financial services application designed to enhance employee benefits and financial well-being. The platform allows employees to access their earned wages instantly, providing them with greater control over their pay schedules. This innovation aims to alleviate financial stress related to unexpected expenses by eliminating the need for advances, loans, and the burdens of high-interest credit or payday loans. Additionally, Wagestream offers various financial tools that help businesses support their employees in managing expenses, setting savings goals, and developing financial plans. By addressing these financial challenges, Wagestream seeks to reduce the poverty premium and prevent employees from falling into cycles of debt.

Zopa

Venture Round in 2021
Zopa is a UK-based online marketplace lending platform that connects borrowers with lenders directly, bypassing traditional banks. The platform provides unsecured consumer loans including car finance, debt consolidation, home improvement, and wedding loans, and supports peer-to-peer investments. Funds come from individuals and institutions, and money lent to a borrower is typically spread across many lenders. Borrowers repay monthly by direct debit under signed contracts, while lenders can fund small portions of multiple loans. The service includes an app to manage loans, credit, and savings, and to monitor credit scores. Zopa generates revenue by charging borrowers a fixed fee and lenders a 1% annual fee. The company is based in London and was founded in 2004.

Hopin

Series D in 2021
Founded in London in 2019 by Johnny Boufarhat, Hopin operates a live virtual events platform that enables users to create engaging online experiences. It facilitates networking, learning, and interaction through features such as one-on-one meetings, group sessions, keynote presentations, chat messaging, polls, and interactive expo areas.

TrueLayer

Series D in 2021
TrueLayer facilitates real-time online payments by integrating with banks and financial institutions. It enables businesses to verify identities, access transactions, and make instant payments across multiple countries. With over 10 million users trusting its services, TrueLayer aims to revolutionize global payment systems.

Hopin

Series C in 2021
Founded in London in 2019 by Johnny Boufarhat, Hopin operates a live virtual events platform that enables users to create engaging online experiences. It facilitates networking, learning, and interaction through features such as one-on-one meetings, group sessions, keynote presentations, chat messaging, polls, and interactive expo areas.

Hopin

Series B in 2020
Founded in London in 2019 by Johnny Boufarhat, Hopin operates a live virtual events platform that enables users to create engaging online experiences. It facilitates networking, learning, and interaction through features such as one-on-one meetings, group sessions, keynote presentations, chat messaging, polls, and interactive expo areas.

TrueLayer

Series C in 2020
TrueLayer facilitates real-time online payments by integrating with banks and financial institutions. It enables businesses to verify identities, access transactions, and make instant payments across multiple countries. With over 10 million users trusting its services, TrueLayer aims to revolutionize global payment systems.

Wagestream

Series B in 2020
Wagestream Ltd., founded in 2018 and headquartered in London, United Kingdom, develops a financial services application designed to enhance employee benefits and financial well-being. The platform allows employees to access their earned wages instantly, providing them with greater control over their pay schedules. This innovation aims to alleviate financial stress related to unexpected expenses by eliminating the need for advances, loans, and the burdens of high-interest credit or payday loans. Additionally, Wagestream offers various financial tools that help businesses support their employees in managing expenses, setting savings goals, and developing financial plans. By addressing these financial challenges, Wagestream seeks to reduce the poverty premium and prevent employees from falling into cycles of debt.

Hopin

Series A in 2020
Founded in London in 2019 by Johnny Boufarhat, Hopin operates a live virtual events platform that enables users to create engaging online experiences. It facilitates networking, learning, and interaction through features such as one-on-one meetings, group sessions, keynote presentations, chat messaging, polls, and interactive expo areas.

Hopin

Seed Round in 2020
Founded in London in 2019 by Johnny Boufarhat, Hopin operates a live virtual events platform that enables users to create engaging online experiences. It facilitates networking, learning, and interaction through features such as one-on-one meetings, group sessions, keynote presentations, chat messaging, polls, and interactive expo areas.

TrueLayer

Series C in 2019
TrueLayer facilitates real-time online payments by integrating with banks and financial institutions. It enables businesses to verify identities, access transactions, and make instant payments across multiple countries. With over 10 million users trusting its services, TrueLayer aims to revolutionize global payment systems.

Wagestream

Series A in 2019
Wagestream Ltd., founded in 2018 and headquartered in London, United Kingdom, develops a financial services application designed to enhance employee benefits and financial well-being. The platform allows employees to access their earned wages instantly, providing them with greater control over their pay schedules. This innovation aims to alleviate financial stress related to unexpected expenses by eliminating the need for advances, loans, and the burdens of high-interest credit or payday loans. Additionally, Wagestream offers various financial tools that help businesses support their employees in managing expenses, setting savings goals, and developing financial plans. By addressing these financial challenges, Wagestream seeks to reduce the poverty premium and prevent employees from falling into cycles of debt.

Zopa

Series G in 2018
Zopa is a UK-based online marketplace lending platform that connects borrowers with lenders directly, bypassing traditional banks. The platform provides unsecured consumer loans including car finance, debt consolidation, home improvement, and wedding loans, and supports peer-to-peer investments. Funds come from individuals and institutions, and money lent to a borrower is typically spread across many lenders. Borrowers repay monthly by direct debit under signed contracts, while lenders can fund small portions of multiple loans. The service includes an app to manage loans, credit, and savings, and to monitor credit scores. Zopa generates revenue by charging borrowers a fixed fee and lenders a 1% annual fee. The company is based in London and was founded in 2004.

TrueLayer

Series B in 2018
TrueLayer facilitates real-time online payments by integrating with banks and financial institutions. It enables businesses to verify identities, access transactions, and make instant payments across multiple countries. With over 10 million users trusting its services, TrueLayer aims to revolutionize global payment systems.

Zopa

Series F in 2017
Zopa is a UK-based online marketplace lending platform that connects borrowers with lenders directly, bypassing traditional banks. The platform provides unsecured consumer loans including car finance, debt consolidation, home improvement, and wedding loans, and supports peer-to-peer investments. Funds come from individuals and institutions, and money lent to a borrower is typically spread across many lenders. Borrowers repay monthly by direct debit under signed contracts, while lenders can fund small portions of multiple loans. The service includes an app to manage loans, credit, and savings, and to monitor credit scores. Zopa generates revenue by charging borrowers a fixed fee and lenders a 1% annual fee. The company is based in London and was founded in 2004.

Sourcepoint

Series B in 2017
Sourcepoint provides a privacy software platform for publishers and advertisers to manage consent and compliance across dynamic consumer touchpoints. The platform automates privacy workflows to help clients obtain privacy law compliant consent, communicate with users of ad blockers, and test monetization approaches. It also operates a content compensation platform that helps publishers quantify monetization challenges and offer consumers more ways to support the content they enjoy. The company serves enterprise clients with privacy automation and related consultative services to enable compliant data use and revenue experimentation. Founded in 2015, Sourcepoint is headquartered in New York, with offices in London and Berlin.

Ocapo

Series A in 2013
Ocapo Limited develops and acquires leading online performance marketing and lead generation technologies in targeted international markets. Currently operating in London, Dubai and Hong Kong, Ocapo and its member companies offer a world class marketing technology platform to over 170 leading global advertisers, enabling them to effectively and profitably navigate through an increasingly complex online marketing universe.

Videoplaza

Series A in 2010
Videoplaza is a provider of an advertising serving platform designed to help broadcasters and video publishers monetize their video content across various devices, including computers, mobile devices, tablets, and televisions. With a mission to empower these entities in the internet-delivered TV landscape, Videoplaza's technology enables clients to maximize the value of their audiences by facilitating trade across multiple sales channels. The company's platform, known as Karbon, is utilized by more than half of the broadcasters in Europe, showcasing its significant presence in the market. Videoplaza maintains a commitment to service and technology, supported by local teams in major cities such as London, Stockholm, Berlin, Cologne, Madrid, Paris, and Singapore.

VisualDNA

Series B in 2009
VisualDNA, established in 2006 and headquartered in London, specializes in consumer insights and analytics. The company creates engaging visual personality quizzes to profile individuals, providing clients with detailed and accurate personality data. This data, built on internationally recognized principles like the 'Big 5' traits, is used by advertisers, publishers, and financial advisers for targeted content and advertising. VisualDNA's technology offers real-time website visitor profiling, aiding publishers in understanding their audience better. The company collaborates with academic institutions such as Cambridge University and UCL for its research.

VisualDNA

Venture Round in 2007
VisualDNA, established in 2006 and headquartered in London, specializes in consumer insights and analytics. The company creates engaging visual personality quizzes to profile individuals, providing clients with detailed and accurate personality data. This data, built on internationally recognized principles like the 'Big 5' traits, is used by advertisers, publishers, and financial advisers for targeted content and advertising. VisualDNA's technology offers real-time website visitor profiling, aiding publishers in understanding their audience better. The company collaborates with academic institutions such as Cambridge University and UCL for its research.
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