Atomico is a European Venture Capital firm headquartered in

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, with offices in

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, and

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. Its founder and CEO is

Niklas Zennström Niklas Zennström (; born 16 February 1966) is a Swedish entrepreneur and technology investor. Zennström is also the co-founder of the charity organization Zennström Philanthropies. Education Zennström has dual degrees in Business Administr ...

, a

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who co-founded

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and Kazaa.

History and investments

It has invested in more than 130 companies across the globe via 4 funds, Atomico Ventures I, the $165 million Atomico Ventures II, Atomico III, which closed at $476 million in November 2013 and most recently the $765 million Atomico IV. The company has been involved with exits or substantial transactions in companies including Supercell (sold a majority stake to

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, valuing the business at $3 billion in 2013),

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(acquired by

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for $1.1 billion in 2013),

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(acquired by

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in 2013),

PowerReviews PowerReviews is a technology company that provides software to brands and retailers that allow them to collect, display and analyse different forms of user-generated content (UGC) on their e-commerce websites. The company's capabilities include ...

(acquired by

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in 2012) and Rovio's $1 billion IPO in September 2017.

Investments

The firm's investments include Europe *6WunderKinder *

Graphcore Graphcore is a British semiconductor company that develops accelerators for AI and machine learning. It aims to make a massively parallel Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU) that holds the complete machine learning model inside the processor. Hi ...

Lilium_GmbH Lilium GmbH is a German aerospace company which is the developer of the Lilium Jet, an electrically powered personal air vehicle capable of VTOL flight. History Lilium GmbH was founded in 2015 by four engineers and PhD students at the Technical ...

* Infarm *

Truecaller TrueCaller is a smartphone application that has features of caller-identification, call-blocking, flash-messaging, call-recording (on Android up to version 8), Chat & Voice by using the Internet. It requires users to provide a standard cell ...

*Framer *MessageBird *Varjo *Omio (previously GoEuro) *Pipedrive *

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*HealX *Spacemaker *Kheiron Medical *

Betable Betable is a London-based company that develops and markets a real-money gambling platform for the social gaming industry. The company is licensed by the United Kingdom Gambling Commission and the Alderney Gambling Control Commission and is cer ...

Chemist Direct Chemist Direct is a UK-based company providing medical products and services in addition to beauty products online. Founded in 2007, it received funding from technology investment firm Atomico in 2013. History Chemist Direct initially started ...

EVRYTHNG EVRYTHNG is an internet of things (IoT) software company based in London, with operations in Oregon, New York, Beijing, Minsk and Switzerland. The company delivers real-time data and actionable information about “smart products” featuring a di ...

Farmdrop Farmdrop was an online grocer with a focus on food sourced from local farmers, fishermen, and other producers. The company provided farm-to-table foods for consumers in Greater London and surrounding counties, along with ethically-sourced baby ...

* AccuRx *Fashiolista * Fon *Habito *

Hailo Hailo was a British technology platform that matched taxi drivers and passengers through its mobile phone application. Founded in London in 2011, the Hailo taxi service was available in 16 cities (as of December 2013). By May 2013, Hailo had ena ...

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Last.fm Last.fm is a music website founded in the United Kingdom in 2002. Using a music recommender system called "Audioscrobbler", Last.fm builds a detailed profile of each user's musical taste by recording details of the tracks the user listens to, e ...

* LendInvest *Star *Mydeco *OneTwoTrip *Ostrovok *

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*Quipper *

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Seesmic Seesmic was a suite of freeware web, mobile, and desktop applications which allowed users to simultaneously manage user accounts for multiple social networks, such as Facebook and Twitter. Launched in 2008 by French entrepreneur Loïc Le Meur, ...

*Siine *Silk *Scoutbee *

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* Uniplaces *

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*Wrapp *Zattikka North America *Masterclass *

Memphis_Meats Upside Foods (formerly known as Memphis Meats) is a food technology company headquartered in Berkeley, California, aiming to grow sustainable cultured meat. The company was founded in 2015 by Uma Valeti ( CEO), Nicholas Genovese ( CSO), and Wi ...

*Clutter *Lime *Compass *

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*Deca *

Fab.com Fab is an e-commerce company founded in 2010. Once estimated at a worth of over $1 billion, in March 2015, the digital and ecommerce assets of Fab were acquired by PCH International for an undisclosed sum and has since been relaunched as a ne ...

*Fabricly *Heysan *Jawbone *

Knewton Knewton is an adaptive learning company that has developed a platform to personalize educational content as well as has developed courseware for higher education concentrated in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The ...

*Kyte *Memolane *PowerReviews *Quid *

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TrialPay TrialPay was an alternative e-commerce payment system in which a consumer gets an item for free from a participating merchant in exchange for buying or trying out another product or service from a TrialPay advertiser. The merchant is then paid f ...

South America *Gympass *Bebestore *CinemaKi *Connect Parts *Pedidos Ya *Restorando Asia *Smartnews * CMUNE *

Gengo Gengo was a web-based translation platform headquartered in Tokyo. History Gengo was founded in 2008 by Matthew Romaine and Robert Laing. Prior to starting Gengo, Romaine was an audio research engineer and translator with Sony Corporation, and ...

*iBoxPay {{col-end

References

External links

Atomico
(company website) Venture capital firms of the United Kingdom

History and investments

Investments

See also

References

External links