Northzone

“North zone, for instance, you know, we have a pretty even split maybe a little over index on the platform side as well, because, you know, we care a lot about helping our portfolio companies post investment.”

“So for check size, we start at two and a half million at the seed stage and go all the way up to 50, sixty million. At the growth stage the real bread and butter is, you know, 10 to 20, that's where the majority of our checks happen”

“We're pretty evenly split between U S and Europe with maybe a slight a slight emphasis on Europe from a percentage dollars standpoint.”

“In Scandinavia, mental health was actually a thing long before it was in the U S they're so progressive over there. And so people were taking care of their mental health and it was destigmatized. Whereas in the United States, it was still kind of, this is, you…”

“Medical scribing took off early in the US with companies like Abridge and DeepScribe. And we saw how quickly those businesses were able to grow and invested in a company in Europe doing the same called Tandem Health.”

“And if I look at our current biggest winners Spotify and Avito, we invested in the A-round and Spotify just before the party finished in, in September of when the bull market was still very strong. And Avito reinvested in, in the deep bear market.”

“I think if you look at the next five, 10 years, I think we're going to have a second wave of companies that say, compared to this first wave, isn't there a better way of doing it? And I think you will find much more sophisticated setups structurally within the…”

“Yes. I, in many ways, I find it scary, but that's supply and demand speaking. I think we spoke about the cycle. I think we will see that changing as the cycle changes.”

“Inside Northstone, we try to emulate the startup. So we make sure we never static. We always have people arriving and leaving. We make sure hunger is always present and getting new input.”