31 August 2023

Hello and welcome to VNTRS first monthly newsletter! We thought it was time for us to start sharing our insights from the early-stage startup ecosystem with all of you and also highlight some of the awesome stuff our portfolio companies are doing.

Content of today

Intro to VNTRS

News

VNTRS portfolio highlight

First of all, we hope all of you had a great summer! After a very intense and challenging spring, we all deserved some time off. Hopefully, you are now back fully recharged and ready for an even more intense fall.

Secondly, we thought of introducing ourselves a bit more. Hopefully, everybody reading this already knows us, but for the few of you that doesn’t here comes the elevator pitch:

Intro to VNTRS

VNTRS [Ventures] is a startup studio and pre-seed investor serving the New Nordic region. We work in the interface between digital product development and investments in early-stage technology companies. With heart and expertise in startups and scaleups, we help entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs build and grow their digital products and services while also helping them get to market in a cost-effective way.

In essence, you can think of VNTRS as your one-stop shop for early-stage founders. We have competence in tech, design, growth, product, operations, and fundraising. In the upcoming newsletters, we will introduce you to our whole team and give you a sneak peek into our daily work, helping founders build and launch their products!

Quick facts:

We have over 40 employees and over 35 companies in our portfolio

We have active investments in 6 countries!

With the official launch in Finland, we now have offices in 3 countries!

Companies in our portfolio have together created 125 new jobs!

Together they have raised over 200 million sek!

During the first part of 2023, we have met with more than 380 startups in the New Nordic region!

Our VC fund, VEQ, has now invested in 7 companies

Enough with the bragging.

News

Some proud news from our portfolio companies:

Two of our portfolio companies, Kurr and Varannan vecka, will be part of the upcoming season of the Swedish version of the television show Dragons’ Den.

One of our newest portfolio companies, Surgefield, a marketplace for large-scale property debt just launched from stealth and got invited to the Proptech ecosystem exchange in London! Huge congratulations on the successful launch.

During this summer, we signed 2 new investments that we are looking forward to introducing more in the coming months.

VNTRS portfolio highlight:

Lastly, we would like to take the opportunity to highlight one of our portfolio companies. Every month we will highlight one company so make sure to follow/sign up to learn about all of them.

Surgefield

Surgefield is a marketplace and ecosystem for real estate credits. Surgefield was founded with the vision of streamlining real estate finance using the power of technology. Their digital platform eliminates inefficiencies and friction in traditional real estate lending.

On Surgefield, borrowers can instantly reach a wide pool of lenders and receive decision-making in days, not months. Automated workflows, online document sharing, and built-in deal management streamline the entire financing process.

Borrowers can obtain funding beyond their existing banking relationships. With multi-family offices, debt funds, and international banks on the Surgefield platform, many new pockets of capital open up.

Lenders can browse pre-vetted real estate debt investment opportunities that meet their risk-return criteria. They can diversify their portfolio with exposure to certain real estate asset classes.

The real estate finance game is changing rapidly. The innovators will be those who embrace digital platforms. Skip the antiquated process of meetings and paper contracts. If you are in the industry, try Surgefield to unlock the future of real estate finance.

Thats all for this time, see you next month!

All the best from the whole team at VNTRS.