Atomico


Atomico is a European venture capital firm headquartered in London, with offices in Paris, Beijing, São Paulo, Stockholm, and Tokyo. Its founder and CEO is Niklas Zennström, a serial entrepreneur who co-founded Skype and Kazaa. The team includes Hiro Tamura, Chris Barnes, Siraj Khaliq, Niall Wass, and Sophia Bendz.

Focus

The company invests at Series A onwards partnering with game changing founders across the consumer, enterprise and frontier technology sectors. Zennström has stated that he founded the company in 2006 after "seeing that new technology would disrupt not just consumer markets, but the venture-capital industry itself".

History and investments

The firm has raise five funds, and invested in more than 130 companies to date.
In January 2006, the company completed a fund raise for Atomico Ventures I, for an undisclosed amount.
In March 2010, the company completed a $165 million fund raise for Atomico Ventures II.
In November 2013, the company completed a $476 million fund raise for Atomico Ventures III.
In February 2017, the company completed a $765 million fund raise for Atomico Ventures IV.
In February 2020, the company completed a $820 million fund raise for Atomico Ventures V.
As of February 2020, 11 startups in Atomico's investment portfolio had achieved Unicorn status with valuations of more than $1 billion.
The company has been involved with exits or substantial transactions in companies including Supercell, The Climate Corporation, Xobni, PowerReviews and Rovio's $1 billion IPO in September 2017.
The company publicly states that it has an active approach to deal sourcing. Atomico also publishes The State of European Tech report which is published annually at the Slush in Helsinki and Diversity and Inclusion in Tech: A practical guidebook for entrepreneurs.

Investments

The firm's investments include

Europe