Nordic Venture Partners

Jalbum appoints Skype co-creator as CEO and closes second round of investment with Nordic Venture Partners

Tue, Oct 14, 2008 18:00 CET

Jalbum, the leading community for personalized photo sharing, announced that its board of directors has named Andreas Sjölund the new Chief Executive Officer of Jalbum and closed a second round of investment with Nordic Venture Partners.A serial entrepreneur, Sjölund brings with him 12 years of experience in creating and developing consumer Internet companies. Most notably, Andreas was a co-creator and the first product manager of Skype and one of the first employees in KaZaA - two of the world's most notorious and fastest growing Internet ventures to date. Jalbum founder David Ekholm

Nordic Venture Partners Invests €5 Million in NYX Interactive

Thu, Aug 28, 2008 07:00 CET

Stockholm August 28 2008: Nordic Venture Partners, the leading Scandinavian ICT venture capital firm, today announced a €5 million investment in NYX Interactive. The investment is a further testament to NYX being a world-class developer and supplier of online gaming technology and will aid the company in its international expansion.Per von Zelowitz, Partner of Nordic Venture Partners: “With our long experience within the gaming and entertainment industry and through our successful investments in this area including Essnet, Funcom and Player X, it is clear that NYX Interactive has a world

Nordic Venture Partners makes investment in ZYB

Wed, Oct 18, 2006 08:30 CET

COPENHAGEN, Denmark - 16. October 2006 - Nordic Venture Partners, the leading Scandinavian ICT venture capital firm, today announced that it has invested several million € in ZYB, a free mobile backup and sharing service operating on a global level. Also announced today, Preben Damgaard, co-founder of Damgaard/Navision and former Executive Vice President of Microsoft Business Solutions, has joined ZYB’s board of directors.ZYB was founded back in 2005 by three Copenhagen based entrepreneurs Tommy Ahlers, Ole Kristensen, and Morten Lund, who was also one of the early investors behind Skype.

JAlbum raises capital from Nordic Venture Partners

Tue, Aug 29, 2006 09:00 CET

Nordic Venture Partners has invested in JAlbum. The financing will be used primarily to support the company in enhancing its software and website to support the growing JAlbum community. JAlbum has grown rapidly to become one of the most widely used and loved open-source photo and video album software projects in the world.JAlbum is a website, community and free software that produces photo and video albums. JAlbum allows you to generate virtually any imaginable album look and works and runs anywhere. JAlbum is written in the Java programming language so it runs not only on Windows, but

Funcom secures €5 million in financing from Nordic Venture Partners

Thu, Sep 01, 2005 08:20 CET

Funcom, a world leading developer and publisher of subscription-based online games like ‘Anarchy Online’ and ‘Age of Conan – Hyborian Adventures’, has secured a €5 million equity investment from Nordic Venture Partners (NVP). The investment is a further testament to Funcom being a world-class developer and publisher of online games, and will further aid the company in developing and publishing online games.“This is another great recognition of Funcom as Europe’s premier developer of MMOG’s (Massively Multiplayer Online Games), and serves as a tribute to the company and the quality of our

Nordic Venture Partners announces Robert Göthner as Partner

Thu, Jun 16, 2005 08:40 CET

Nordic Venture Partners, the leading pan-Nordic venture capital firm, is pleased to announce that Robert Göthner has joined the firm as a Partner. Robert will utilize his extensive venture capital, operational and company building experience in working with the firm’s current portfolio as well as assisting the firm with new opportunities.“There are very few professionals who have as deep experience from the venture capital industry, combined with an impressive record in the IT industry. Robert’s prior experience with InnovationsKapital as Investment Director, and with IBM at several senior

Nanoradio fully financed to deliver the worlds smallest and lowest power WLAN chipset solution

Thu, Jun 02, 2005 08:00 CET

A syndicate of four Venture Capital funds consisting of Nordic Venture Partners, Innovacom, Teknoinvest and Industrifonden has granted an investment of 9MEuro in Nanoradio AB with Headquarter in Kista, Sweden. The goal with the venture capital injection is to launch a WLAN chipset solution to mobile and consumer electronic manufactures and long term build a global Wireless semiconductor provider that will dazzle the market supplying unique products with extremely low power consumption in all modes and world class form factor.Nanoradio schedules to sample customers of its first WLAN 802.11b/

Nordic Venture Partners strengthens its team

Tue, May 31, 2005 10:04 CET

Nordic Venture Partners has strengthened its operations by engaging Per-Arne Sandström as Senior Advisor from the 1st of January 2005. Based on his deep commercial and technical experience Mr Sandström will provide guidance and expertise to Nordic Venture Partners and its portfolio companies.Until his retirement from Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson in July 2004, Mr. Sandström was First Executive Vice President and Deputy CEO of the company. Mr. Sandström joined Ericsson in 1988, and has extensive senior management experience from, ranging from Chief Operating Officer to President of the

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