Zenith Venture Capital

Solving an Itchy Problem – Read our managing partner Erik Lindblad’s post on why we invested in Valpas. https://lnkd.in/deejYBsW

Say hello to our latest investment - Valpas 🇫🇮 We are thrilled to partner with Martim, Vertti, Aleksi Jokela and the rest of the Valpas team and look forward to the exciting journey ahead towards their vision to make every trip bed bug safe. With bed bugs having doubled in just the past year and heading towards immunity to conventional chemical pesticides this is about to grow into a massive problem for the hospitality industry and its guest. Chemical free, preventive and smooth is the way forward. We believe that we are wittnessing a global category winner in the making here. https://lnkd.in/d7-atWR7

Last week we hosted our Portfolio Company day. This year was focused on two topics - sales and mental/physical wellbeing for entrepreneurs related to maximising performance while finding a sustainable way to stay sane during the crazy and pressing ride of building a category leader. We also had a great trio of later stage investors joining us for a panel and Q&A. Truly great to see most of our companies come together to exchange experiences and war stories over workshops and talks. And wrapping everything up with a loud Italian feast in the night. As all our portfolio companies are software driven Nordic-born B2B companies in a scale-up state there are a lot of commonalities forming this beautiful community and the exchange between them is a great development lever. Thank you to our participating panelists, key notes, fireside chatters and friends: 🌟 Christopher Engman 🌟 Linnéa Kornehed Falck 🌟 Martin Stenberg 🌟 Tatiana Shalalvand 🌟 Hanna Andreen (f.d Wachtmeister) 🌟 Adam Prinselaar 🌟 Mattias Miksche 🌟 Patrik Birkhane 🌟 Oliver Molander 🌟 Dany Bidar 🌟 David Prentell 🌟 Douglas Stark And thank you to our attending portfolio entrepreneurs and sales executives: 🌟 Pontus Winberg - Bright Energy AB 🌟 Arash Pendari - Vionlabs 🌟 Tinia Muehlfenzl - Vionlabs 🌟 Peter Beckman - Treyd 🌟 Petter Andréasson - Treyd 🌟 Karin Lindell - Ridesum 🌟 Martin Nordh - Acuminor 🌟 David Wille - MAIA Universe 🌟 Christian Obling Elbek - Shopbox 🌟 Martim Gois - Valpas 🌟 Nils Erik Mattisson - Minut 🌟 Buster Bark - Minut 🌟 Amelia Power - Minut

What a party. A huge thank you to all our amazing entrepreneurs, LPs, fellow VCs, angels, partners and friends who came and celebrated summer and the building of the next successful Nordic B2B software businesses with us last week. Also a massive shoutout to our event partner No Normalcy.

Great to se Minut being recognised as the Best Home Automation Solution at the leading short term rental industry awards, Shortyz. 🏆 Well deserved Nils Erik Mattisson and team. 👏

Exciting times - Freshsound is evolving and getting a new name: MAIA Universe. Continuing the journey to enable instant music syncing of commercially released music 💥

Meet us at... UPPSTART Kungliga Tekniska högskolan SaaSiest Mashup SVCA Please contact us on any channel to schedule a meetup at any of these events 👊  

Please join us in welcoming four exceptional individuals who are stepping into CEO roles within our portfolio companies: Amanda Mesler at Minna Technologies (It’s been a while, but now it’s official.) Stephen Ball at Acuminor Karin Lindell at Ridesum Pontus Winberg at Bright Energy AB 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀

Martin Nordh, co-founder of our portfolio company Acuminor, shares his advice on how small, regulated businesses can handle financial crime regulations more easily. Featured by Dagens industri.

Time to Raise is the leading program for accelerating women-led startups in the Nordics. We're thrilled that our CEO Erik Lindblad is returning as a mentor for the fifth consecutive time!