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Investor profile

Kinnevik

Venture Capital · Founded 1936 · Stockholms kommun, Sweden

Website ↗LinkedIn ↗Crunchbase ↗Dealroom ↗

Growth investor and active owner focused on supporting technology-enabled companies in Europe and the US

81 portfolio companies Venture Capital · $15B invested · 158 investments · Investor rank #172 · Last investment 2/2026
Portfolio companies ↑ 32% 5y
81
Decacorns
1
Thoroughbreds ↑ 19% 5y
27
Exits

Kinnevik’s biggest exits.

Portfolio companies that IPO’d or were acquired at $1B+, with the valuation recorded at exit and — for those still public — their value today. Exit events come from each company’s funding-round history; entry stage from Kinnevik’s transaction record.

Livongo Health
$2.5B IPO · 2019
Entered Series B+Now $14BHealth
Rocket Internet
$8.2B IPO · 2014
Entered Series ANow $1.9BMarketing
Zalando
$5.8B IPO · 2014
Entered Series B+Now $8.0BFashion
AVITO
$2.7B acquisition · 2015
Entered Series B+Marketing
Recursion Pharma
$2.7B IPO · 2021
Now $978MHealth
NetEnt
IPO · 2007
Entered Series B+Now $2.7BGaming
Lazada
$2.0B acquisition · 2016
Entered Series B+Marketing
HelloFresh
$1.9B IPO · 2017
Entered SeedNow $490MFood
Bayport Management
IPO · 2016
Entered Series ANow $1.0BFintech
Portfolio analysis

Where Kinnevik's portfolio is concentrated.

Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 81 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.

By countryCount
  1. USA23
  2. Sweden12
  3. Germany11
  4. UK6
  5. Denmark4
  6. Russia4
  7. Nigeria3
  8. Australia2
  9. India2
  10. Singapore2
  11. Spain2
  12. Brazil1
By sectorCount
  1. Health19
  2. Fintech15
  3. Food12
  4. Marketing11
  5. Enterprise Software9
  6. Fashion9
  7. Home Living6
  8. Energy5
  9. Transportation5
  10. Travel5
  11. Wellness Beauty4
  12. Jobs Recruitment2
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+52
  2. Series A18
  3. Seed9
By growth stageCount
  1. Late Growth56
  2. Breakout Stage21
  3. Early Growth4
Portfolio market map

Inside Kinnevik's portfolio.

The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 81 tracked.

Stegra
Energy · Unicorn
$4.1B
Lazada
Marketing · Unicorn
$3.1B
Rocket Internet
Marketing · Unicorn
$1.9B
Job&Talent
Jobs Recruitment · Unicorn
$1.5B
Babylon
Health
$449M
Cityblock Health
Health · Unicorn
$5.7B
Oda
Food
$47M
Mews
Travel · Unicorn
$2.5B
Solugen
Chemicals · Unicorn
$2.0B
Perk
Travel · Unicorn
$2.7B
Lunar
Fintech · Unicorn
$2.4B
Recursion Pharma
Health
$978M
Global Fashion Group
Fashion
$19M
Enveda Biosciences
Health · Unicorn
$1.0B
VillageMD
Health · Unicorn
$1.0B
Omio
Travel
$40M
Spring Health
Health · Unicorn
$3.3B
Pleo
Fintech · Unicorn
$2.3B
Transcarent
Health · Unicorn
$2.2B
Cedar
Health · Unicorn
$3.2B
Aira
Energy
$479M
HelloFresh
Food
$490M
Quikr
Telecom
$577M
Oviva
Health
$937M
Mathem
Food
$484M
Betterment
Fintech · Unicorn
$1.3B
HungryPanda
Food
$500M
Strand Therapeutics
Health
$612M
Dafiti
Fashion
$317M
Livongo Health
Health · Decacorn
$14B
Linio
Wellness Beauty
$138M
Vivino
Food
$700M
Westwing
Fashion
$264M
AVITO
Marketing · Unicorn
$2.5B
Monese
Fintech
$140M
Deposit Solutions
Fintech · Unicorn
$1.1B
Bread
Fintech
$450M
Vay
Transportation
$475M
Budbee
Transportation
$1.0M
Zalando
Fashion · Unicorn
$8.0B
MILVIK BIMA
Health
$300M
Pelago
Health
$232M
Sure
Fintech
$550M
Common
Real Estate
$200M
Omnipresent
Jobs Recruitment
$15M
Charm Industrial
Energy
$400M
Parsley Health
Health
$104M
Konga
Home Living
$164M
Habyt
Real Estate
$177M
Aura
Fintech
$1.7M
Nick's
Health
$400M
Wimdu
Travel
$1.0M
The Iconic
Fashion
$72M
Instabee
Transportation
$638M
Agreena
Food
$200M
Lamoda
Fashion
$130M
Saltside Technologies
Marketing
$160M
Anterior
Health
$160M
Nory
Food
$148M
GLOSSYBOX
Wellness Beauty
$94M
Portfolio founders

Where Kinnevik's portfolio founders come from.

132 founders across the 81 highest-funded portfolio companies — by current location, university attended, and the companies they worked at before founding. Sourced from the founder records the API links to each portfolio company.

LocationCount
  1. United States37
  2. Sweden20
  3. Germany17
  4. United Kingdom12
  5. Denmark8
  6. Norway6
  7. Russia6
  8. Spain4
  9. India3
  10. Argentina2
UniversityCount
  1. Imperial College London10
  2. WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management6
  3. Copenhagen Business School5
  4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology5
  5. Harvard University4
  6. KTH Royal Institute of Technology4
  7. University College London4
  8. Babson College3
  9. Harvard Business School3
  10. Stanford University Graduate School of Business3
Previous companyCount
  1. McKinsey & Company10
  2. Boston Consulting Group6
  3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology3
  4. MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab3
  5. Rocket Internet3
  6. Bain & Company2
  7. Booking.com2
  8. Deloitte2
  9. eBay2
  10. Groupon India2
How Kinnevik stacks up

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Y Combinator
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#226 rank 783 companies $207B portfolio
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#427 rank 2,321 companies $292B portfolio
Kima Ventures
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#1,039 rank 828 companies $84B portfolio
Temasek
Sovereign Wealth Fund · Singapore
#13 rank 376 companies $2.8T portfolio
Key people

Key people at Kinnevik.

Samuel
Samuel
CFO
 Samuel Sjostrom
Samuel Sjostrom
CFO
 Anna Stenberg
Anna Stenberg
CPO
Source: Dealroom next-gen API — investor team endpoint.
Every figure on this page is sourced live from the Dealroom next-gen API. Sections v1 shows that the API does not yet expose — shareholding-based holdings, Power-Law rankings & vintage time-series, entity-filtered news, and market sentiment — are omitted here rather than sourced elsewhere.