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Investinor company Swarm64 has been acquired by NYSE listed company ServiceNow.
Investinor has been a shareholder in Motimate since 2019. The company now becomes part of the Norwegian technology and e-learning company Kahoot!.
Investinor encourages all employees and temporary employees, as well as employees and temporary employees in Investinor’s portfolios, to notify any illegal, unethical or other censurable conditions in the undertaking.
(Oslo, December 28, 2020) Investinor, Gunnar Evensen, the Urbanski family, Altitude Capital and MP Pensjon are among the shareholders taking part in Dele Health Tech’s issuance of shares worth NOK 65 million. The company has a unique technology for reporting on and predicting falls among seniors in assisted living facilities, and now the US market will be conquered.
The Norwegian health technology company has been joined by a group of investors in their venture into global operations. Hugo Maurstad and Investinor have led the consortium of new investors in the company.
Cyviz and Skitude will be listed on Euronext Growth Oslo (formerly Merkur Market) on Friday 18 December. Investinor has been the shareholder in both companies since 2014 and 2016, respectively, and had a great contribution to the processes of listing the companies.
Adopted at the Board meeting of 27 June 2019
In accordance with owner expectations as set out in the recent Norwegian Government White Paper on State Ownership (Meld. St. 8 2019–2020), Investinor has prepared a corporate tax behaviour policy. The policy is adopted by the Board and communicated to all our portfolio companies as part of our contribution towards development of the businesses of tomorrow.
(Trondheim, December 12th, 2020) ProVenture and Investinor are taking the lead as the Norwegian ultrasound company Cimon Medical AS raises a total of MNOK 60 in capital. Cimon Medical provides unique technology for continuous measurement of blood flow. The technology has been developed by world leading ultrasound researchers, located in Trondheim. The target group for the company’s first product is premature and critically ill children.
Skitude Holding, in which Investinor has been a shareholder since 2016, is seeking listing on Euronext Growth Oslo. The company is planning to carry out a share issue of up to NOK 270 million in which Investinor is one of the anchor investors, together with Handelsbanken Fonder, Canica and the Andenæs Group.
(Trondheim, 10.11.2020) Investinor AS (“Investinor”) has sold the majority of its shares in Calliditas Therapeutics AB (“Calliditas”), a publicly listed biotech company. Investinor’s financial gain in connection with its investment in Calliditas is more than NOK 475 million – the largest financial gain so far for Investinor.
Investinor portfolio company Calliditas Therapeutics had its first trading day June 5th on The Nasdaq Global Select Market in New York after completing a capital increase of 90 million USD.
The Norwegian technology company ExproSoft, with major shareholders Investinor and Viking Venture, has been sold to the Canadian software development company Peloton.
Investinor receives NOK 1 billion in additional investment capital, as a part of the Norwegian government’s crisis package for Norwegian start-ups and growth companies.
The Norwegian tech company Play Magnus AS has raised $13.5 million in a private placement financing round.
International specialist investors Sofinnova Partners and Vivo Capital acquire 6% in Calliditas Therapeutics AB from Industrifonden and Investinor.
Investinor has together with SNÖ and Arkwright X participated in a private placement of NOK 8 million in Ignite Procurement AS (“Ignite”). The new funds will position the company for continued growth and internationalization.
Close to 50 CEOs from Investinor’s portfolio companies were gathered at the annual CEO Day in Trondheim yesterday.
The world’s largest FPGA manufacturer, Xilinx, invests in Investinor portfolio company Swarm64.
(Trondheim/Stavanger 22nd August 2019) ProVenture and Investinor brings Chevron, one of the world’s largest oil and energy companies, on board as investor in early stage company Well Conveyor.
Polight receives first order for product verification
Investinor is making a 1.4 MNOK investment in the newly founded biotech company Hubro Therapeutics AS.
Svein-Egil Nielsen has been appointed as the new Chairman of Board at Novelda AS.
Kebony, a global leader in the production of sustainable modified woods, has today confirmed the appointment of Ingvild Huseby as Chair.
Terje Eidesmo has been appointed CEO of Investinor AS. Eidesmo brings extensive experience from Norwegian and international business as a CEO, an entrepreneur and academic. He succeeds Haakon H. Jensen who left his role earlier this year.
Investinor has decided to invest in the Norwegian technology company Xeneta. Existing shareholders Smedvig Capital, Creandum, Alliance Ventures and Alden are also participating in the share issue, worth NOK 70 million in total.
Memory, a Norwegian AI start-up, raises MUSD 5 in an investment round led by Investinor and the UK venture capital fund Concentric. Existing investor SNÖ Ventures also participates in the share issue.
Shares of poLight ASA were today listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange. The company has more than 500 shareholders following its successful initial public offering.
Unacast, the leading contextual and transparent location data platform, today announced that is has raised $17.5 million in a new funding round, exceeding its initial goals. Investinor invested in the round, increasing its commitment to Unacast.
Swarm64 – an enabler of real-time analytics for high velocity and big data – has raised $12.5 million USD in a Series B round led by Intel Capital and Investinor. The funding will be used to strengthen Swarm64’s position as a global leader in FPGA-based accelerators for relational databases.
Sorbwater Technology AS (Bergen, Norway) secures NOK 43 million in funding round led by Repsol and Investinor
Investinor’s life science portfolio company BerGenBio enters collaboration with Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ, USA (known as MSD outside the US and Canada).
Investinor’s portfolio company BerGenBio announces its intention to launch an Initial Public Offering and apply for a listing on Oslo Stock Exchange.
Investinor invests USD 160,000 in FinTech company AblePay Technologies from Trondheim, Norway.
Investinor invests in oiltech startup Scale Protection AS.
Investinor and lead investor Proventure invests MNOK 25 in oiltech startup Xsens.
Investinor’s portfolio company Novelda announces a MUSD 12 funding round to take its XeThru vital signs and true presence sensors into high volume production.
Investinor’s portfolio company OceanSaver is leading the race to offer ballast water treatment systems that are compliant with both IMO and US Coast Guard.
Investinor’s portfolio company poLight establishes competence centre in Tampere, Finland, and hires senior engineers and managers from Nokia and Microsoft.
Investinor’s portfolio company poLight® AS has raised NOK 160 million in equity capital through a private placement among new investors and existing shareholders.
Haakon H. Jensen (42) is appointed new CEO of Investinor.
Investinor’s portfolio company Robotic Drilling Systems AS (RDS) has entered into a contract with Nabors Industries (NYSE: NBR) for delivery of its newly developed all-electric robotic pipe handler.
Investinor invests 2.5 million Euro in skitech startup Skioo Holding, which has Norwegian alpine ski champion Aksel Lund Svindal as one of its key shareholders.
Investinor’s life science portfolio company BerGenBio reports promising findings from its First-in-Patient Phase 1 trial.
Investinor invests in Norwegian tech startup Unacast AS.
Investor, author, entrepreneur, and China expert Chris Rynning joins Investinor as industrial advisor.
The Board of Investinor and Geir Ove Kjesbu have together decided that Kjesbu resigns from his position as CEO of the company.
Investinor’s portfolio company BerGenBio has secured a capital raise of NOK 212 million (c. $25 million) in a private placement from existing shareholders, including Investinor AS and Meteva AS.
Investinor invests MEUR 1.9 in Norwegian medtech startup Spinchip Diagnostics AS.
Investinor’s portfolio company Ziebel, the market leader in composite rod well intervention, has completed its 100th Z-Rod® distributed fiber optic sensing job.
Investinor’s portfolio company Kebony has raised 19 million Euro to fund its second European factory. Belgian PMV and Investinor lead the new investment round, which was open to both new and existing investors.
Investinor invests MEUR 0.77 (MNOK 7) in Planktonic AS, which offers cutting-edge «baby food» for farmed fish fry.
Knut Sandven, CEO at Investinor’s divested portfolio company GasSecure has been awarded Entrepreneur of the year 2015.
Investinor invests MNOK 3.5 in Oslo based Fronteer Solutions, a fintech startup that offers tech based equity fund management.
Swarm64, a data acceleration company based in Oslo and Berlin, raises up to MEURO 7.1 from Investinor, Target Partners and Alliance Venture.
Investinor’s portfolio company Pharmalink AB has raised SEK100 million (MEURO 11) in a mezzanine financing round from all its existing investors.
Investinor and co-investors sells portfolio company GasSecure AS to Dräger Holding International GmbH for approximately MNOK 500.
Investinor has completed its first investment in CFEngine AS, the leading provider of IT automation at WebScale.
Investinor invests MNOK 12 in Norwegian technology startup Ace Oil Tools AS.