SNÖ Ventures

♟️✨ Yesterday, our portfolio company Take Take Take launched, and today they're being featured by Fast Company. A great weekend read!

✨ "It's not just a game, it's a sport. And it's time it felt like one." Our portfolio company Take Take Take launched today, and we couldn't be more excited for the chess revolution! 🤩 Mats André Kristiansen Magnus Carlsen Espen Agdestein Lucas Ranaldi Kaja Marie Snare Jonas Myrlund Sindre Ilebekk Johansen Mats Lande Brynjar Rongved Vegard Aakre Vik Ben Schwerin Armin Kohan Jack Brody

Check out SNÖ Ventures Partner Max Samuel on the podcast Venture Capital in Scandinavia, hosted by Esben A. Poulsen and Amby. They managed to touch on some juicy topics, including: ▫ Intersection of Mimetic Theory and Law of Jante ▫ Norwegian oil and gas industry as an antidote to tech stagnation in the world of atoms ▫ Unique potential opportunities afforded by Norway’s $1.7 trillion wealth fund Listen on Spotify: https://lnkd.in/d7wmHxFb Watch on YouTube: https://lnkd.in/dHpBfj7w

⚽️ Sky Sports has featured our portfolio company, Be Your Best™, highlighting their transformative use of virtual reality in developing football talents akin to Erling Haaland and Martin Odegaard. 🌟 Be Your Best is reshaping athlete training with their pioneering Cognitive Assessment Tool, setting new standards in sports training. Discover more about their impactful technology here: https://lnkd.in/dP3k3ZJy

🚀 Economic Mind x SNÖ Ventures We're delighted to announce that SNÖ Ventures has led a 30M NOK pre-seed round in Economic Mind, alongside co-investors Antler, Rystad Energy, Arkwright X, and angel investors Anders Kvale (Spacemaker AI), Fredrik Thomassen (Superside), Henrik Langeland (Enode), Sigbjørn Nome (Ignite) and Geir Atle Bore (FundingPartner). Economic Mind is revolutionizing market intelligence by creating the first-ever bottom-up digital twin of the world economy. Their bold mission is to enhance information transparency across global business ecosystems, empowering superior decision-making for companies and governments. 🤩 We at SNÖ are excited to support the team at Economic Mind as they redefine global economic analysis. Gard Rystad Aksel Reiten Jens Martin Dahlum Nikolai Bratsberg Karine Mogen Kristine Hagen Sommerseth Aksel Borgen Sanna Baug Warholm Robin Aakvik Toralf F. 

🕹 SNÖ’s Founding Partner, Teodor Bjerrang, has just returned from an exciting trip to Tokyo and the Tokyo Game Show 2024. It was fantastic to see so many Nordic game companies showcasing their games at the event!

🎉 Startuplab & SNÖ Ventures Invitational 2024 - That's a Wrap! 🎉 What a fantastic evening at the Startuplab & SNÖ Ventures Invitational! With over 200 attendees, evenly split between investors and founders, we enjoyed some fierce yet friendly competition on the minigolf course. A huge congratulations to Andreas Ore Larssen, Co-Founder of Naer®, who nailed three hole-in-ones and won the newly launched reMarkable Paper Pro! 🎊 Special thanks to the fabulous team from Startuplab (Lise, Gisle, Per Einar, Annar, Nissik, Adeleine, and more) for once again being the best co-hosts. ❤️ Big thanks to all the investors and founders who fuel the buzzing ecosystem that defines Oslo. We're excited to see everyone again at next year's Oslo Innovation Week for another round of networking and fun! 🏌️♂️🏆

✨ Thanks to Åse Pettersen Bailey, Alexander Bergo, PhD, Hilde Hukkelberg and Joachim Thorsen at Innovation Norway for inviting us to help kick off Oslo Innovation Week last night. 🙏 A pleasure to share panel with Ravi Belani from Alchemist Accelerator and Stanford University, and Martin Falch from Erevena. 👏 And great to meet many familiar faces from Innovation Norway's scaling programs #EMNY, #TEA and TINC Silicon Valley alumni.

🕹 Excited to be in Tokyo for the Tokyo Game Show 2024 later this month! If  you’re around, I’d love to connect. ☕ 🍶 🍵 #tokyogameshow #tokyogameshow24 #tokyogameshow2024 #tgs2024

✨ Congrats to SNÖ Partner Magne Uppman for being part of The Nordic 100. The Nordic 100 is an annual list by The Nordic Web and TechBBQ that recognizes the 100 most impactful and influential figures in the Nordic tech scene each year.