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Norrsken VC

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Norrsken VC is one of Europe’s leading and largest impact focused early-stage VC funds. We were born out of Norrsken Foundation – a non-profit foundation founded in 2016 by Niklas Adalberth, co-founder of Klarna, with the belief that entrepreneurs building rapidly scalable businesses are our best bet to solving the hardest and biggest problems of our time.

Norrsken VC operates independently, but shares the same values and mission with the Norrsken Foundation - we want to enable the next impact unicorn – a company that has a positive effect on one billion lives. When you become part of Norrsken VC - you join Europe’s largest ecosystem for impact tech entrepreneurs.

We invest in highly motivated people whose innate drive is to create a positive impact. Partnering up with us means, amongst many things, that you’ll receive support from educated and experienced people, a wide-span network, along with a community of like-minded people.

We’ve built unicorns and babycorns and invested in early-stage start-ups for decades. Now we spend our time helping up-and-coming visionaries reach our unified goals to build a more sustainable now.

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