Nordic Makers

Now is the best time to start a company — Announcing Nordic Makers’ Pre-Seed Program

IDEAS ITCH. Ideas need to come to life. Ideas and their execution are the bedrock for our civilization and a pandemic won’t stop that. We believe that the ashes of the pandemic will be…

Our Focus

2017 was Nordic Makers’ first full year of operation and we now have 14 investments. We met many of you at events, talks and in meetings as we continued to search for our product-market-fit (we will always be in beta). We learned a lot and now we know that:

• We still have a lot to learn

Why who, what and how eat awards for breakfast

I don’t care about how many media articles your PR campaign has generated. I don’t care about the $335B global digital advertising market in 2020 when you’re building “Facebook for cats”. And I couldn’t care less about what awards or grants you…

Strangling yourself with a cap table

At Nordic Makers we see more and more startups going into their seed round with active founders already being heavily diluted. Owning as little as 70% or less can drastically reduce the chances of raising a proper seed round. The company may suffocate unless the…

How to get investors interested [video]

Investors are people too. No good investor invests because of your great metrics. They…

The five soft skills of snaring an angel

As an angel investor, I get at least an email every day from someone who promises me riches and glory if I am just to part with money and spend my time and attention in supporting them. I have invested in very, very few of these people and made many of them…