Viking Venture

What is Viking Venture?

Viking Venture is a Venture Capital Fund headquartered at Nedre Bakklandet 77, Trondheim, NO-7014, Norway. Founded in 2001, they specialize in equity investments, focusing on seed, early stage, and later stage funding rounds, particularly favoring startups and businesses in Series B.

As a Nordic software investor, they dedicate their efforts to helping software companies scale, concentrating exclusively in this domain. With an investment range between 100,000 and 5,000,000, and a sweet spot of 1,500,000 for investments, they manage assets worth 200,000,000.

Viking Venture aids companies across sectors like software, IT & TMT, business solutions, hardware & manufacturing, energy, cleantech, A.I. & big data, material science, and healthcare & wellness. They pride themselves on being an active minority investor, focusing on fast-growing software scale-ups and believing in a hands-on approach.

This involves providing mentoring, guidance, and coaching, with an emphasis on getting business models and pricing right, building scalable, international sales organizations, accelerating growth through acquisitions, recruiting the right people, and securing necessary financing for a successful exit.

Viking Venture supports their portfolio companies by integrating them into their community of over 20 companies, which fosters knowledge exchange, ideas, and experiences crucial for international success. They invest not only with capital but also value their in-depth experience with software companies.

Additionally, they address the competitive job market by aiding in the recruitment process, providing access to top software talent in the Nordics, and emphasizing a strong recruitment process. Viking Venture's community leadership program, news, and insights sections on their website highlight their active participation and contributions to the growth of their portfolio companies, as well as their overall sector influence.