| Date | Title | Description |
| 09.02.2026 | Berget AI Raises €2.1M in Seed Funding | Berget AI, a Stockholm, Sweden-based AI sovereignty startup unlocking innovation and growth, raised €2.1m in seed funding.
Backers included Luminar Ventures, Wellstreet, and Norrsken Evolve.
The company intends to use the funds to expand it... |
| 24.01.2026 | Digital Health Leader Oviva Secures $200M for Chronic Care Expansion | Oviva, a European digital health pioneer, closed a $200 million Series D funding round. Kinnevik led the investment, becoming its largest shareholder. The company offers AI-powered virtual care for chronic conditions like obesity. Its evide... |
| 22.01.2026 | Digitalhealth company Oviva banks USD 200M Series D funding |
More than 200 million adults live with obesity and weight-related chronic conditions in Europe. Healthcare systems are strained. Significant clinician shortages and a lack of access to in-person care further exacerbate the issue. Kai Eberh... |
| 07.10.2025 | French investment club Keenest raises €10 million to finance sustainable economy startups | Paris-based Keenest, a climate-focused investment club, has reached a major milestone: more than €10 million has already been raised to help finance impact startups, seven months ahead of its projected targets.
Keenest has managed to double... |
| 03.10.2025 | Deeptech startups impress juries across Switzerland |
Cradle and Oxyle have been name Norrsken VC’s Impact/100, an annual ranking by the Norrsken Foundation, which recognizes the 100 most promising impact startups from all over the world. Cradle Bio uses generative AI to help scientists desig... |
| 10.09.2025 | One year on from Draghi report: Europe’s innovation future hangs on the 28th Regime | It's hard to believe that this time last year, I was sitting in a shopping mall (waiting for a flight), reading the Draghi report, a European Union report about the future of European competitiveness authored by Mario Draghi, former Italian... |
| 04.09.2025 | Berlin’s Aiomics secures €2 million to free Europe’s healthcare from documentation burdens | German HealthTech company Aiomics has successfully closed a €2 million pre-Seed financing round to expand its platform, scale to diverse care settings and prepare for entry into additional European markets.
The round was led by Vorwerk Vent... |
| 02.09.2025 | From capital to climate impact: 15 leading sustainability VCs in Europe | Europe’s venture capital landscape for sustainability is expanding rapidly, with ClimateTech emerging as one of the strongest investment areas. According to an OECD report, global CleanTech investment peaked at around €74 billion in 2021, a... |
| 22.08.2025 | The problem with the African tech ecosystem is its storytelling | By 2050, nearly one in four people on Earth will be African. Whether this demographic shift becomes a source of global prosperity or instability may depend on something seemingly intangible: the stories being told about the continent today.... |
| 22.08.2025 | £125M boost for GoFibre’s rural Scotland rollout, Valentin Stalf exits N26 CEO role, and Doncaster emerges as UK’s quiet AI hub | This week we tracked more than 35 tech funding deals worth over €404 million, and over 15 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe. If email is more your thing, you can always subscribe to our newsletter ... |
| 18.08.2025 | Saminvest invests in Norrsken Evolve | Saminvest invests in Norrsken Evolve
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Saminvest has committed EUR 10 million to the new Swedish venture capital fund Norrsken Evolve. The fund will invest in impact-driven early-stage companies... |
| 18.08.2025 | Norrsken Evolve launches €57M fund to back "impact tech" | Norrsken Foundation has launched Norrsken Evolve, a new €57 million pre-seed fund aimed at backing startups working "at the intersection of impact, resilience, and scalability".
The fund will target early-stage founders across Eur... |
| 30.07.2025 | BlackWood Ventures Fuels European Tech with $25 Million Debut Fund | BlackWood Ventures seals a $25 million debut fund. This significant capital influx targets Europe's most promising early-stage founders. The fund focuses on vital sectors: FinTech, CleanTech, and Web 3.0. BlackWood has already deployed capi... |
| 28.07.2025 | BlackWood Ventures closes debut fund at $25M to back Europe’s next-gen founders | BlackWood Ventures, a network- and technology-driven early-stage fund focused on European founders, has closed its debut $25 million fund.
Since its first close in April 2023, BlackWood has made 19 investments across nine countries, with a ... |
| 10.07.2025 | Enugu State launches $100,000+ campus hackathon to unleash the next generation of African tech innovators | The Enugu Campus Hackathon 2025 is officially live and it’s more than just a tech event. This first-of-its-kind, state-backed innovation movement is designed to ignite a new generation of African technology leaders. At its core, the hackath... |
| 25.06.2025 | Norrsken Foundation's €300 Million Bet on AI for Good: A New Dawn for Global Challenges | In a world grappling with monumental challenges, the Norrsken Foundation has thrown down a gauntlet. The Stockholm-based organization has committed €300 million to invest in European startups harnessing artificial intelligence (AI) to tackl... |
| 25.06.2025 | Swedish Norrsken Foundation commits €300 million to back the future of ‘AI for good’ in climate, health, food, education and society | The stockholm-based Norrsken Foundation today announced that it will commit €300 million to investing in European startups using ‘AI for good’ to solve challenges in climate, health, food, education, and society.
The funds will be drawn fro... |
| 27.09.2024 | Renowned organizations recognize Swiss startups |
Rrreefs, has won the I4N Award 2024, part of the Innovate4Nature initiative, which supports innovative solutions that address biodiversity challenges. It offers a total of CHF 100,000 in prize money across four focus areas. From over 400 g... |
| 25.09.2024 | Unveiling impact Unicorns: Norrsken Foundation's annual Impact/100 | Today, Norrsken Foundation has released its annual Impact/100 ranking, which shines a spotlight on the top 100 companies changing the world for the better, as selected by a hand-picked roster of world-leading VC firms, including Lionheart... |
| 14.05.2024 | Norrsken VC closes oversubscribed second fund at €320 million to double down on impact entrepreneurs | - |
| 22.04.2024 | Swedish startup Blykalla raises €6.8M to build small modular reactors to deliver clean energy | Read this article in:
Stockholm-based Blykalla, a company developing and building small modular lead-cooled reactors to deliver the next generation of clean energy, has closed a SEK 80M (approximately €6.87M) funding round.
Norrsken Launche... |
| 16.04.2024 | Agteria Biotech has found a way to reduce methane emissions from cows | When Erik Engellau-Nilsson, Managing Partner at Norrsken Launcher reached out and introduced a company saying “I’ve never seen ONE company with the same realistic potential and opportunity to reduce 1 per cent of global GHG as this one. It'... |
| 05.04.2024 | Norrsken Accelerator is currently accepting applications from African early-stage startups | Applications for the Stockholm-based Norrsken Accelerator, which offers US$125,000 in cash and access to an eight-week business development course, are now being accepted from African startups with a “vision for a better future.”
In 2016, N... |
| 01.04.2024 | Norrsken Accelerator invites applications from African early-stage startup founders | African early-stage entrepreneurs who have a “vision for a better future” are encouraged to apply to the Norrsken Accelerator, located in Stockholm. The program offers access to an eight-week business development program along with US $125,... |
| 15.11.2023 | Why Norrsken founder Niklas Adalberth is betting on Africa | In 2016, Niklas Adalberth, co-founder of Klarna, exited the buy now, pay later giant to establish the Norrsken Foundation, a nonprofit organization grounded in the principles of effective altruism.
While at Klarna, Adalberth immersed himsel... |
| 13.09.2023 | Norrsken Foundation launches psychedelic science initiative for mental health | Norrsken Foundation has today announced the launch of Norrsken Mind: Psychedelic Science Initiative, a foundation focused on the treatment of mental health through psychedelic substances. Norrsken Mind has raised over €3 million and says th... |
| 30.08.2023 | Entrepreneurs Need Better Role Models Says Klarna Co-Founder | Niklas Adalberth wants to see a world where entrepreneurs are inspired by those who want to make a ... [+] positive impact on the worldFotograf Morgan Ekner |
| 29.11.2022 | Orda raises $3.4 million to digitise African restaurants
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Success! | Nigerian food tech platform, Orda, has raised a $3.4 million seed round to digitise food businesses across the continent. The seed round, which was co-led by Quona Capital and FinTech Collective, also saw participation from institutional in... |
| 08.06.2022 | Norrsken Impact Accelerator selects 9 African Startups | Image courtesy of Norrsken
Founded in 2016, Norrsken aims to help entrepreneurs solve the world’s greatest challenges. Its ecosystem consists of Norrsken House, a co-working space for over 350 impact entrepreneurs in Stockholm, the Norrsken... |
| 23.02.2022 | 14 climate tech investors share their H1 2022 strategies | Almost the same size as Florida, global warming has made Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier increasingly unstable. This month, researchers are attempting to reach the “Doomsday Glacier” for study, but icebergs are slowing their progress.
The cli... |
| 10.02.2022 | After leaving The Gambia a decade ago, Lamin Darboe wants to help African startups tap into diaspora wealth | A few months into the coronavirus pandemic in April 2020, a team of 4 students of African origin in Sweden—including The Gambia-born Lamin Darboe who had recently moved to Stockholm to pursue a master’s degree—contested in a climate action ... |
| 04.02.2022 | This Week in European Tech: new unicorns in Vienna, Oslo and Dublin, MariaDB and GP Bullhound go SPAC, interesting acquisitions by Meta, Glovo, Canva and Withings, and more | Happy Friday!
This week, the Tech.eu research team tracked more than 120 tech funding deals worth over €2 billion, and over 35 exits, M&A transactions, and rumours, and related news stories across Europe, including Russia and Turkey.
As... |
| 31.01.2022 | Meet Norrsken22: The new €179M fund backed by 30 unicorn founders to support African tech entrepreneurs | Stockholm-based Norrsken Foundation, a non-profit organisation solving problems such as poverty, famine, environmental issues, and mental health, announced on Monday that it has launched a $200M (approx €179M) fund to back Africa’s future t... |
| 18.01.2022 | After building for 18 months, cloud-based restaurant management platform, Orda, raises $1.1m pre-seed | Share this article:
Cloud computing in Africa hasn’t caught on as much as in the West. However, there are clear signs that the market is growing. The cloud computing industry in Africa and the Middle East is expected to be worth $31 billion... |
| 17.03.2021 | Norrsken Foundation is closing on an oversubscribed impact venture fund at 125 million euros | About four years ago, social impact organization Norrsken Foundation launched a small program investing around EUR30 million in capital it had received from its wealthy patron, Klarna co-founder Niklas Adalberth.
Now, that initiative has be... |
| 09.03.2021 | Wefarm gets $11m Series A+ funding, upgrades SMS service to online platform | Smallholder network Wefarm has raised $11 million in a “Series A-plus” funding round led by UK-based Octopus Ventures.
Several new and existing investors — including AgFunder, June Fund, LocalGlobe, Rabo Frontier Ventures, and True Ventures... |
| 23.09.2020 | Submer is dunking servers in goo to save the planet | Digital technologies now serve as the central nervous system for the global economy, and making that nervous system work depends on networks of massive data centers that hoover up enormous amounts of power to keep businesses operating aroun... |
| 23.12.2019 | Klarna cofounder Niklas Adalberth’s Norrsken Foundation launches €100m impact fund | Norrsken Foundation, the Swedish impact hub created by Klarna cofounder Niklas Adalberth, has launched a €100m “impact-first” investment fund.
When it closes, Adalberth says it will be biggest impact fund yet focusing on early-stage tech st... |
| 13.09.2019 | Stockholm-based impact fund Norrsken raises additional €31 million from Klarna co-founder Niklas Adalberth | The Stockholm-based impact fund Norrsken (which translates to ‘Northern Lights’ in English) wants to create a world that is optimised for both people and the planet. The fund believes that building rapidly scalable businesses is the best wa... |
| - | Norrsken to back African tech entrepreneurs with a new $200 million impact fund | Fresh off the announcement of opening a Kigali, Rwanda-based entrepreneurship hub, Stockholm's impact VC Norrsken has made the first close of a new fund that will be used specifically to support growth-stage startups hailing from Africa. Wi... |
| - | This Week in European Tech: new unicorns in Vienna, Oslo and Dublin, MariaDB and GP Bullhound go SPAC, interesting acquisitions by Meta, Glovo, Canva and Withings, and more | Happy Friday!
This week, the Tech.eu research team tracked more than 120 tech funding deals worth over €2 billion, and over 35 exits, M&A transactions, and rumours, and related news stories across Europe, including Russia and Turkey.
As... |
