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B2C Metrics You Must Track

The most important metrics you need when pitching investors and why they matter

Lukas Malmberg

Sep 30, 2022

5 Things to Avoid When Talking to Pre-seed VCs

I am an Associate at Icebreaker. We are a pre-seed fund which means that we make lots of investments and look at lots of companies. We want…

Lukas Malmberg

Aug 29, 2022

Getting to your seed fundraise with momentum

When you start a company, a natural tendency is to keep options open in terms of which types of customers you will be serving —…

Riku Seppälä

Jun 16, 2022

Welcome to the Icebreaker.vc family, team Wisby!

We are thrilled to be backing team Wisby on their journey to revolutionize the printing industry! 🎉

Icebreaker.vc

Apr 7, 2022

Startup founders’ ownership levels on the VC track

How to avoid cap table problems

Lukas Malmberg

Mar 15, 2022

Mari Luukkainen, Head of Growth at Icebreaker.vc — Be your own inspiration

The last but in no means least interview of our Women’s Day interview series is of our very own Head of Marketing, Mari Luukkainen. Mari…

Icebreaker.vc

Mar 11, 2022

Erika Ottela, COO & Co-founder of eBrands — Prioritization and balance

Continuing our series of female founder interviews, next up is Erika Ottela, COO and Co-founder of eBrands. eBrands is an ecommerce group…

Icebreaker.vc

Mar 9, 2022

Our Previous Stories

Julia Ront, CEO & Co-founder of Vespia — Breaking biases

Women’s Day interviews with inspirational and strong female leaders continues…

Icebreaker.vc

Mar 8, 2022

Merit Valdsalu, CEO & Co-founder of Single.Earth — Be bold and follow your passion

Next up in our International Women’s Day interview series Merit Valdsalu, CEO and Co-founder of Single.Earth. Single.Earth is tokenizing…

Icebreaker.vc

Mar 8, 2022

Jenny Holmström, CEO & Co-founder of Coupleness — Making a positive change in the world

Jenny Holmström is CEO and Co-founder of Coupleness, an app for couples with a mission to make it easy and mainstream to invest in your…

Icebreaker.vc

Mar 7, 2022

Recapping 2021 — The year of doubling down on female founders

Bridging the gender funding gap

Icebreaker.vc

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…

Icebreaker.vc

Dec 19, 2021

Workfellow closes a €2.73M funding round led by OpenOcean!

We are thrilled to finally announce our investment in Workfellow! We initially backed Workfellow in 2020 and we’re thrilled to continue…

Icebreaker.vc

Dec 15, 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…

Icebreaker.vc

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! 🎉

Icebreaker.vc

Oct 26, 2021

Welcome to the Icebreaker.vc family, Helppy! — Icebreaker.vc

We are very excited to be backing Helppy on their journey to redefine elderly care! 🎉

Icebreaker.vc

Oct 21, 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…

Icebreaker.vc

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…

Icebreaker.vc

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

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…

Icebreaker.vc

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…

Icebreaker.vc

Jun 11, 2021

Why Icebreaker.vc invested in Coupleness

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

Icebreaker.vc

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

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