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Congratulations to Emil Eifrem and the entire Neo4j team on this incredible milestone! As an investor from seed and through multiple follow-on rounds, we are immensely proud to witness Neo4j's remarkable growth into a leader in the expanding graph technology market. 📈 Onwards & upwards 🚀

Vestbee has an uber-cool Winter Pitch competition where (y)ours truly Björn Nilsen is serving as one of the jury members. 🎅🏼 The application process is fairly straightforward and the criteria is broad - open to all European startups raising pre-seed, seed and Series A. 🇪🇺 The top contenders chosen by the jury will get to pitch in the grand finale in December and a shot at landing the coveted prize of a €1M investment! 🔥 The application closes on the 26th November. Carpe Diem! 🤟🏻 The link is in the comments section. 👇🏼 #pitching #VC #startups

Heartcore Capital at Slush 2024 🧊 Our Investment team - Björn, Paulina, Laerke, Frederik and Åke will be in Helsinki next week! If you'd like to connect during Slush, feel free to reach out to them. Nähdään 👋 #investinginhappiness #Slush2024 #metamorphosis

Europe’s next unicorns are closer than we think! 🦄 At the LP-GP 0100 Conference, our very own Yacine Ghalim joined Nicholas from White Star Capital and Aman from Finch Capital to unpack how to turn local ecosystems into global tech powerhouses. Using France as a case-study, Yacine highlighted how the country skyrocketed from a quiet tech scene to rivalling London as Europe’s #1 in just 8 years. Yacine covered a few ‘soft’ and ‘hard’ factors, that coupled with France’s deep technical talent pool and large domestic market, made the difference: ✨ Mindset Shift: From the election of a young, pro-innovation president to high-profile founders like Xavier Niel inspiring the next generation, belief and ambition went mainstream. 💼 Structural Support: Institutions like Bpifrance, founder-friendly tax policies, and better employee incentives helped build a true startup-friendly environment. The result? A “virtuous loop” where young talent, returning expats and international VCs all want in. Yacine concluded that this French success story can be replicated across other European startup ecosystems. Isn’t it ABOUT time to build those unicorn stables across Europe!? 🚀 #unicornsineurope #VC #europe 

We are delighted to support the inspiring teams at Likeminded and nilo.health as they come together to lead the way in workplace mental health! 🧠 Together, they’re now the largest B2B mental health provider in the DACH region, supporting over 500 companies and bringing mental health resources to more than 100,000 employees. 🚀 We are excited to continue this partnership with Vorwerk Ventures and welcome to the fold the wonderful folks at Atlantic Labs, Speedinvest and PROfounders Capital. ✨ This merger is a meaningful step in our mission to back incredible founders and teams that make a real difference. It is a powerful move toward healthier, more supportive workplaces across Europe. 🎉 A huge congratulations to everyone at Likeminded and nilo.health. 👏🏼 #investinginhappiness #workplacewellbeing #merger #dach 

Check out Signe utilising human capital aka making new friends and debating the direction of the industry at the With Intelligence Private Markets European COO Summit 2024! ✨ Love seeing the Heartcore Capital team shine at industry-leading events! 🙌🏻 #humancapital #buildingAteam #VC

“True innovation is littered with uncertainty, and uncertainty is the place where entrepreneurs thrive.” ∼ to paraphrase Jerry Neumann Catch up in our latest newsletter on what’s sparking our curiosity (and maybe yours too), who’s backing whom and all things Heartcore. 🖤 Link to the newsletter is in the comments 👇🏼 #investinginhappiness #venturecapital #newsletter

Get ready, Milan 🔥 our very own Yacine Ghalim is stepping up at the 0100 Conference for LPs and GPs from October 28th to 30th! He will be dropping some serious knowledge on how to churn out more unicorns in Europe. After all, who wouldn’t want a stable full of them!? 🦄 On Day 2, Yacine will be sharing some inspiring success stories from Heartcore Capital's portfolio alongside an incredible lineup of panelists, including Nicholas Stocks from White Star Capital, Ash Arora of LocalGlobe, Aman Ghei from Finch Capital, Kaan Eren at 500 Emerging Europe, and Kenneth Pentimonti from Paladin Capital Group. 👌🏼 If you’re attending or just around, feel free to reach out to him! 😊 #unicornsineurope #LP #GP #VC 

To stay competitive, Europe needs to bet on the future: scaling our startups! 💡 In the latest episode of the Bootstrapping.dk podcast, Jimmy explains why growth capital is a game-changer for the founders and the startup scene in Europe, and how institutional investors need to play a bigger role to make this happen. 👉🏼 You can listen to the conversation here (in Danish): https://lnkd.in/dbUZSDcT #venturecapital #growthcapital #institutionalinvestors

We knew things were going well, but not this well. 😊 Ranked top 9 VC fund in the world (!) based on Preqin returns data in venture capital, we’re grateful to be featured in the HEC Paris-Dow Jones Venture Capital Performance Ranking. 🎉 Congrats to Northzone as fellow Scandi (cough, photo finish) and Earlybird Venture Capital on the top crown (well done on UiPath). We’re excited to follow Prof. Oliver Gottschalg and team’s work going forward. ✌🏻 As always, this is only possible based on the incredible hard work our founders do with the capital provided by our LPs. 🖤 For the full list and methodology, head to the comments section. 👇🏼 #hardfacts #europeanvc #InvestinginHappiness #DowJones