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An early-stage VC focused on idea-stage and pre-seed teams in Finland, Sweden and Estonia. This is where we share our latest news, portfolio insights and tips and trick on fueling your startup’s growth. Find out more on icebreaker.vc.

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Recapping 2021 — The year of doubling down on female founders

Bridging the gender funding gap

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Dec 22, 2021

Life at Icebreaker.vc

Icebreaker.vc is a team of 16 individuals from different backgrounds brought together by a passion to support phenomenal founders to take…

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Dec 19, 2021

Avery Schrader, CEO & Founder of Modash

Avery Schrader is Founder and CEO of Modash, an Estonia-based influencer discovery, audience analysis and monitoring platform. He founded…

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Nov 5, 2021

We are excited to welcome Eperoto into the Icebreaker family!

We are very excited to announce that Eperoto is now part of the Icebreaker family! 🎉

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Oct 26, 2021

Welcome to the team, Jesse!

We are excited to introduce the latest addition to our team, our Head of Software Jesse Tinell! Jesse is based in Stockholm and will help…

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Oct 12, 2021

Hedi Mardisoo, CEO & Co-Founder of Cachet

Founded in 2018 by Hedi Mardisoo and Kalle Palling, Cachet is building an ecosystem of services that enable platform economy and lifestyle…

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Sep 19, 2021

The European Pre-seed funding gap

Since starting at Icebreaker a year ago, a thing that has never stopped surprising me is how skeptical most founders are about the prospect…

Tunde Adekeye

Sep 10, 2021

Our Previous Stories

Thrilled to announce our Spaceit investment to create the mission control center for Space

We are beyond excited to welcome Spaceit to the Icebreaker family!

Riku Seppälä

Aug 15, 2021

A startup founder’s guide to building an inbound talent pipeline

Countless startups begin with one or two founders sitting around a kitchen table and developing an idea. The months and years following…

Mari Luukkainen

Jul 20, 2021

Ethnographic Research for Startups: How to Truly Understand Your Customer

Ethnographic research is a way of gaining an understanding of that group from an insider’s point of view.

Mari Luukkainen

Jul 13, 2021

Learnings from the Tesseract journey from an idea to a $25M investment round

Tesseract announced their $25M round last week. The Tesseract journey has not been a straight line since the founding in 2018 like startup…

Riku Seppälä

Jun 28, 2021

We are excited to welcome team Accurator into the Icebreaker family!

Tender processes used by construction companies are outdated, unstructured, time-consuming and require a lot of manual work from…

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Jun 21, 2021

Merit Valdsalu, CEO & Co-Founder of Single.Earth

Merit Valdsalu is co-founder and CEO of Single.Earth, a platform that trades natural resources as tokenised virtual goods, such as carbon…

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Jun 11, 2021

Why Icebreaker.vc invested in Coupleness

We are delighted to introduce the latest addition of the Icebreaker family: Coupleness!

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Jun 9, 2021

A startup founder’s guide to personal branding — why and how

Having a strong personal brand as a founder can make the difference between your startup being a success or another failed idea.

Mari Luukkainen

May 6, 2021

Supported by the great performance of Icebreaker 1 teams, we have raised €120M more to continue…

We completed the final closing of our second fund at €100M and also raised a separate €20M Opportunity Fund that we will use to continue…

Riku Seppälä

Apr 20, 2021

Growth is Everyone’s Business

How to establish a solid foundation on which to build a culture where growth can flourish? We sat down with Lumoa’s newly-joined Head of…

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Apr 13, 2021

6 Examples of Test Iteration for Growth Hacking

Test iteration for growth hacking is an excellent way to measure product and business process success. Learn from six helpful examples.

Mari Luukkainen

Apr 9, 2021

Sellforte raises €4 million to bring science to marketing

We are thrilled to announce our continued investment in Sellforte alongside Bonnier Ventures and the leading investor Sonae IM!

Riku Seppälä

Apr 6, 2021

Skyfora (formerly known as Hurricane Unwinder) launches the world’s lightest weather sonde while…

Skyfora, a Helsinki-based weather intelligence company has launched the world’s lightest weather sonde which provides high-resolution data…

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Mar 23, 2021

How to Build a Strong Talent Pipeline

Learnings from IPRally’s CTO and Co-Founder

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Mar 17, 2021

Six Months into Breaking Ice

Icebreaker is looking for new investment team members to join us as we make our mark on the Nordic and Baltic pre-seed scene. We are…

Tunde Adekeye

Feb 17, 2021

We are growing our team — join us!

The cliché “New year, new me!” became somewhat true during the last year. In March 2020, we at Icebreaker.vc switched over to a…

Rasmus Klärck

Feb 11, 2021

Flowhaven raises $16M to evolve brand licensing management

We are thrilled to announce our continued investment in Flowhaven, alongside Global Founders Capital and the leading investor Sapphire…

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Jan 27, 2021

We are excited to welcome Single.Earth into the Icebreaker family!

Ecosystem services as a new tradable and liquid asset class

Aleksi Partanen

Jan 18, 2021

IPRally raises €2.0 million to build the patent search engine 2.0

We are beyond excited to announce our continued investment in IPRally alongside the co-leading investors JOIN Capital and Spintop Ventures!

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Jan 6, 2021

Alloverse — VR and AR platform for creating collaborative workspaces

We are excited to welcome Alloverse into the Icebreaker portfolio! Stockholm-based Alloverse is on a mission to build the future of…

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Dec 1, 2020

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