Being a VC in the Nordics
14 January 2010
As part of my Nordic rehabilitation process, following my older post about Sweden, here’s an interesting analysis of VC activity in the region.
It clearly shows that, on a per-capita basis, the Nordic countries kick ass in the Internet and Software sectors. Must be because there’s nothing else to do over there… shooot, shouldn’t say that.
Here’s the article:
By Daniel Blomquist, January 13th, 2010
At the end of the day, for a VC it is all about exits. We are in the business of building companies and then selling our shares at a (hopefully much) higher value than we originally purchased them for.
As a VC in the Nordic region, we wanted to understand if the market in which we operate is attractive enough in terms of if it is producing enough exit value. We also wanted to improve our knowledge of:
- are there differences between the Nordic countries
- in which sectors value creation has occurred
- impact of VCs both local & international
- exit market in terms of IPO vs M&A and important geographies for exits
- the time it takes to build companies that get exited
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