Hjalmar Didrikson

Exciting news! Balnord - our new VC fund for tech founders from Poland & Baltics, is live! We know that building a technology company is a unique task and we want to be the ones who will help you achieve the remarkable. We want to be the partner who will help us in good times and difficult moments. We think, act and invest long term. And we're here to help you from pre-seed to exit. #startups #venturecapital #entrepreneurship

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What makes the Nordics an exemplary hub for startups and innovation? ✅ A Thriving Ecosystem ✅ Innovation at the Forefront ✅ Collaboration Over Competition ✅ Global Impact ✅ Resilience and Adaptation Read more in the Nordics Startup Report 2024, crafted by our team in the region. https://lnkd.in/d-TD8Jse #PNPTC #NordicInnovation #StartupTrends2024 #TechInvestmentOpportunities

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Hello, network! Join me on 20th August for a fireside chat with Naimul Abd at Connect Sverige Region Öst about angel networks and trends in angel investing. We will focus on COREangels International and how we accelerate angel investment globally. Register: https://lnkd.in/d2T7pFhJ #angelinvesting #sharing #angels #startups #investing

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Women-led VC Funds Pitch Event📢 It is widely known that women are difficult to find in the male-dominated VC/PE sector. Women founders are receiving breadcrumbs of VC funding, with women GPs even less than that. So join us at AlphaQ Venture Capital's Global Allocator Alliance Pitch Event on 27 June where women GPs will present their VC Funds. In case you wish to participate in any of the future events DM me. ✅ Looking to raise capital for your #VCfund and increase the international pool of your LPs?   🤝 Need warm #LP introductions?   📝 Selling #secondaries to increase liquidity?   🧐 Looking for co-investments (Series A/Series B)?   ▶ G+QUANT's link for inquiries and fund decks: https://lnkd.in/gjC_EuTE #VentureCapital #VentureFunding #VentureDebt #Fundraising #Innovation #Technology #Entrepreneurship #Investing #Network #Investors #LPs #GPs #EmergingManagers #FamilyOffice #Markets #Economy #Business #Founders #Startups #StartupFunding #ai #artificialintelligence #unicorn #secondaries #secondarydeals

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🚀 Exciting News! Yazen Health has successfully closed an oversubscribed €19.5 million Series A round to accelerate growth and expand internationally! We’re proud to partner with Yazen in their mission to tackle obesity with a holistic approach that combines modern weight-loss medication, lifestyle support, and a multidisciplinary team of experts. Yazen has already helped over 20,000 patients in Sweden achieve sustainable health improvements, showing a remarkable 70% retention rate after one year. Profitable in Sweden, Yazen is now scaling across Europe—targeting Spain, Norway, and the Netherlands, with pilot markets in the UK and Germany. This funding round was co-led by Evli Growth Partners and Helsana HealthInvest, with support from Almaz Capital, Yabeo, and existing investors Luminar Ventures and Aggregate Media. We’re also thrilled to welcome Mikael Hed, former CEO of Rovio, as Yazen’s new Chairman of the Board. His expertise in scaling brands will be invaluable as Yazen takes on the global health challenge of obesity. Looking forward to seeing the impact Yazen will make on healthier lives worldwide! #HealthcareInnovation #ObesityTreatment #DigitalHealth #Investment https://lnkd.in/d3Z_rtiT

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Exceptional entrepreneurs come in many shapes and sizes - show us who you are and what you can do! 🛠️💡🚀 Since we at KRING mainly develop our venture concepts in-house, we care less about your idea, and more about YOU as a potential co-founder. Ideas change, people remain. The mindset and values we are looking for in individuals are (among others): 🤘🏼Proactiveness, hands-on, structured thinking, skin in the game, empathy, and kindness. Our experience has taught us that while the mindset and drive is alike, the educational, professional, and personal experiences across the best entrepreneurs differ a whole lot - and thank god for that! We don’t like to put people in a box - but nevertheless we have tried to provide a framework for our typical #cofounder profiles: 💚 Health and Energy industry experts 🦸🏽‍♀️ Second-time entrepreneurs (successful or failed) 📊 Management consultants 🛠️ Operators in high-growth startups / scale-ups 🌈 ...Surprise us and show us what you got! We are constantly looking for great people to join us on our mission to make the world a better place - one #impact venture at a time. Are you curious and what to learn more about building a venture with KRING? 👉Reach out to our Head of Talent & Culture, Agnes A.. Have we forgotten an ideal co-founder above or do you have any reflections to share! We would love to hear from you! #venturestudio #teamiskey #peoplegame

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🌟 Antler Nordics portfolio company Arkion announces a $4 million funding round 🌟 Antler has supported Arkion (formerly Skyqraft) from Day 0, from the time they joined our Nordic Founder Residency program. We are really excited about the great company. Awesome work so far from Louise Gauffin, David Wickström and team. Arkion recently achieved some truly impressive milestones, including closing several key client accounts in the US and Europe, tripling revenue, and achieving over 80% AI coverage of faults in distribution grids. Arkion delivers energy asset analytics through scalable, AI-powered asset intelligence, for a power grid that’s ready for an electrified future. With energy consumption poised to double by 2045, the resilience and modernization of grid infrastructure are necessary in shaping a net-zero future. Swift, precise, and sustainable inspections of energy infrastructure are imperative for getting the grid ready for this global transition. Round was led by Subvenio Invest with Neptunia Invest and Antler participating. 🚀 #Antler #AI #PowerGrids #Sustainability #Arkion

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Emerging vs Established Managers? A lot of discussions by institutional LPs about whether to invest in emerging GPs will end just there. There are exemptions such us AlphaQ Venture Capital Fund of Funds, which actively invests in emerging GPs. Hear what Stephan Heller had to say on the topic on the EUVC 's podcast with Andreas Munk Holm ✅ Looking to raise capital for your #fund and increase the international pool of your LP #investors?   🤝 Need warm #LP introductions?   📝 Selling #secondaries to increase liquidity?   🧐 Looking for co-investments?   ▶ G+QUANT's link for inquiries and fund decks: https://lnkd.in/gjC_EuTE #venturecapital #vcfundraising #lp #gp #familyoffice #fundoffunds #investors #alternatives #secondaries

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We’re proud to announce that we have successfully secured 10.4 MSEK in funding from both existing and new investors! With investors like Henrik Tjärnström (former CEO of Kindred), Lennart Käll (former CEO of Svenska Spel), Johan Dennelind (former CEO of Telia), and Audigr Group Inc. (via Sunshine Sports Investments), we’re strengthening our position in both football and Sports Content. This funding enables us to continue our international expansion and provide football organizations, media companies, and sports betting firms with AI-driven insights. Whether it’s supporting football clubs with advanced scouting and performance analysis, or helping media and betting companies create unique, data-driven football content, our mission is to turn data into actionable football intelligence. A huge thank you to all our investors who believe in our vision and are helping us grow further! Read more here, including links to articles about the financing in Swedish in Breakit and Dagens Industri. 👇 https://lnkd.in/d4mXjCQ4

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🚨 Interrupting your feed with an important announcement: THE NEW EMERGE MANIFESTO JUST DROPPED! 🚨 Were you just wondering what to possibly do with your upcoming weekend? Fear not - we've got you covered. Move over Eat, Pray Love, it's time for “Learn, Navigate, Work”, our fresh take on how AI will reshape the future of work and learning. 🧠✨ In case you missed the spoiler from Jan’s chat with EUVC ’s Andreas, here’s the TL;DR: 👉 A casual $56B invested in Gen AI since 2023 👉 AI might automate up to 2/3 of jobs. So yes, your next colleague might actually be a bot. 👉 But hey, those embracing AI will be 1.5-3x more productive! Or so we’re told... will update once Claude finally learns how to make my coffee ☕. Why Learn, Navigate, Work? We’re talking about: 1️⃣ Learning becoming accessible to everyone through AI 2️⃣ Navigating some of life’s most important decisions, where we work and who with, with your own AI career coach 3️⃣ Working on the things that DON'T make you want to nap mid-Zoom; AI making it possible for more people to do meaningful work Founders - building something that will change the future of how we work or learn? Come talk to us! Stay tuned for our requests for startups—we’ll be sliding into your LinkedIn feed soon with the ideas we're most excited to see (and fund) over the coming years 💸

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Have to share some excitement on what is going on right now. 🔥 The startup landscape is transforming, and we’re seeing this shift clearly in the Nordics, driven by a new wave of technically strong founders and the AI-platform shift. These founders are capitalizing on lower costs, rapid product development, and faster iteration cycles — fundamentally reshaping how startups are built. Here’s what I’m observing: 🔸 Getting off the ground has never been cheaper. What once required millions of $’s and a large team now takes a small group of brilliant founders and some token cost (which is plummeting). The barriers to entry have fallen dramatically, empowering ambitious founders to bring their ideas to life with unprecedented efficiency. 🔸 Faster than ever. Gone are the days of lengthy development. Today’s founders are embracing “build-test-iterate-repeat” cycles at breathtaking speeds. New versions are being shipped several times per day (!), not per quarter. Micro-pivoting has become the norm, enabling startups to adapt quickly and refine their products in real time. 🔸 Next level teams. We are seeing a wave of technically strong founders, many of them at young age, who have grown up in the AI-era. More PhD's in the pitch decks on my desk than ever before. Many founders who have experience from earlier journeys with Nordics start- & scale-ups making them know what good looks like and where the bar is. What this leads to? 🔹 Great and truly disruptive solutions 🔹 Increased competition 🔹 Higher failure rates as a lower barrier to entry and the opportunity in the platform shift makes more take a shot (which I welcome!) 🔹 A big threat to incumbents (My tip to incumbents: Don't build. Buy or collaborate with the new-comers. You won't be able to keep up.) 🔹 Fundraising is becoming very polarised. Either you are in the bucket I'm describing above or you are not. And if you are not, it's not a fun time right now. But if you are, it's a very fun time. 🔹 Unprecedented return potential The startups that do succeed are achieving spectacular results in record time. These outliers that used to yield 100x returns is now potentially delivering 1,000x — and in half the time. The game is faster, the stakes are higher, and the opportunities — particularly in the Nordics — have never been more exciting.

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🤯 Only a mere 1% of global AUM go to impact investing. Sounds unreal. Big news today as Norrsken VC just closed a second €320M impact fund, Europe’s largest to date, which only reinforces that return and impact should and can go hand in hand. Saving the planet is good business, period! Here's FT's piece on the story: https://lnkd.in/dRd-zrej Cheers to trailblazers and to hoping more will follow!

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Svenska Spel has decided to start reporting on the health of the group’s revenues, that is, what proportion of the revenues comes from customers with a lower risk of gambling problems. Svenska Spel’s reporting is based on the risk models in the company’s gambling analytics tool, Playscan, which have been developed in collaboration with Sustainable Interaction. – Reporting healthy (and unhealthy) revenues is an important step for the industry to become more transparent. We will see a great diversity in the figures presented by different companies due to the fact that they define and measure healthy revenues in different ways. Nevertheless, it adds information to the debate around regulation, says Jakob Jonsson, PhD and clinical psychologist at Sustainable Interaction. The first report will be released at the end of August. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/dzhgRFRE

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"A good COO runs just behind a CEO with urgency and picks up all the pieces that fall behind on the journey." This is Kjartan Slette's (COO & Co-Founder Unacast) description of why he and Thomas Walle (CEO & Co-Founder Unacast) have such a well-functioning partnership after over 10 years. Thanks for a great summary of the COO Summit Autumn 2024 (link to article in the comments), Joakim Birkeli Jacobsen & Shifter.no. Agnes Dyvik Clark shares some great takeaways from her fireside chat with Jon Kåre Stene and other relevant insights into the COO's role in a venture-backed scaleup. Curious to hear how Jon Kåre and Karl would agree with the Batman & Robin comparison! 😅 Great to witness another "Tandberg Mafia" story with Michel Sagen and his learnings from building Videxio and Pexip. Spoiler alert -> One common thread all the speakers come back to is the importance of culture. Something that is hard to copy or replicate but authentically crafted by the founders from early on. "Progress over perfection" - was Videxio's cultural mantra in the early days and I believe a lot of companies, both big and small could learn a lot by following that mindset. 💪🏻🔥🚀

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As part of her $5m investment announcement in Provenance, Jessi Baker has shared the pitch deck she used & some stats 👍 📊 As well as the deck, they had over 100 appendix slides, 25 pages of FAQs and a large data room. ☕ They contacted 105 funds, met with 67 at least once, 42 twice, and had 3rd rounds with over 20. 🤝 In the end, 3 funds (S4S Ventures, Nordic Eye Venture & Growth Capital & Alumni Ventures) and several angels, mostly from Angel Academe - increasing female investment recognised the huge opportunity & participated. Fundraising is a systematic process to find the right fit. It takes time, transparency & alignment of values. Emma Rees from Deployed has also been sharing her story & digging into the data. Thanks both 🙏 https://lnkd.in/eBh6JiRb #femalefounders #startupinvestment #angelinvestors Yee Mun T. Robert Mollen John Souter Rowena Ironside

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A bit more than ⏱️ 24 hours until our event! If you still haven't applied and added the event to your calendars, there's still time to do so. Here is the link to the event. Looking forward to seeing you! 👋 👉 https://fb.me/e/cYXKGe65v #Entrepreneurship #IcelandTech #TechEvent #DigitalInnovation #ProductDevelopment

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Our first quarterly report of 2024 reveals a solid start to the year, with strong sales figures. For the first quarter of the year, Net Sales amounted to SEK 192.4 million (195.5), and EBITDA was SEK 36.4 million (41.6), corresponding to an EBITDA margin of 18.9% (21.3). The product margin was 42.8% (40.4). "In line with our expectations, the first quarter of the year displayed sales levels consistent with the previous year. This is despite facing high comparative figures from 2023, during which we had a growth of 66% in the same period. We observe that the demand for our products continues to be at a high level, and for the full year 2024 we see good opportunities for growth." — Jonas Holst, CEO. You can read the full report here: https://lnkd.in/dUYhTEkw

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Unlock the Power of Preglife for your Business 🚀 Partner with Preglife, northern Europe’s leading pregnancy and parenting app, to enhance your offerings and connect with a highly engaged audience of expecting parents. Since start we have had over 9 million🥳 users across the Nordic region and beyond, Preglife is trusted by families to provide expert-backed guidance, personalized content, and invaluable tools that support them from pregnancy through the early years of parenting👶. Why Partner with Preglife🧐? Reach a Targeted Audience - Preglife connects you with expecting parents and new families who are actively seeking products, services, and advice to support their journey. Whether you’re in healthcare, baby products, or family services, Preglife’s audience is your ideal customer base. Enhance Brand Visibility - Align your brand with a trusted, well-established platform that offers credible and authoritative content. Preglife’s reputation 💯 for quality makes it an ideal partner to enhance your brand’s credibility and visibility. Innovative Collaboration Opportunities 🤝 - Leverage Preglife’s robust digital platform to offer in-app promotions, sponsored content, and tailored campaigns that resonate with our engaged users. Whether it’s through native ads, expert collaborations, or interactive content, Preglife offers flexible solutions to meet your business goals. Data-Driven Insights - Gain access to valuable target group data and insights that help you understand the needs and behaviors of expecting parents. Use this information to refine your offerings and develop targeted strategies that drive growth and engagement. Interested in hearing more - DM 💌 me here or email 📧 @ [email protected]

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