Atomico Insights

Tech founders and talent want to build in Europe. Let’s empower them

Europe is already a top choice for tech talent. To keep it that way, we must pull policy levers to empower talent and better reward those who take a risk when they join or start a new company.

Our investment in Pomelo Care: setting a new standard for women’s and children’s healthcare

Pomelo Care is the leader in evidence-based healthcare for women and children.

Our investment in Ankar: building the operating system for innovation

From Cameras to Code: How AI is Shaping the Future of Entertainment

Our investment in Wonder Studios: Building the Studio Model for the AI Era

Our investment in ClaimSorted: pioneering the future of claims administration

A $30M Series A for Light: building the global leader in modern ERP

$1B of New Capital to Build the World's First Useful Quantum Computer

Lakera Acquisition: making Generative AI safer for the world

Klarna's IPO: A Global Success Story From Europe

Doubling down on our investment in Framer: the best way for companies to design, publish and scale their websites

Beyond human imagination

Ben Blume: Hinge Health's IPO, a milestone on the mission to transform MSK care

Our investment in Nourish: the leading nutrition care platform tackling chronic disease

Our investment in CADDi: the AI data platform transforming manufacturing

How Trump's reversal on AI safety has created an opportunity for Europe

Our investment in TravelPerk: the all-in-one platform solving corporate travel & expense management

Niklas Zennström: European tech’s confidence crisis is its biggest challenge

Our letter to founders

Our investment in Raycast: the shortcut to everything

Our investment in tem.: democratising and accelerating the clean energy transition through AI

$1.24 billion as European technology comes of age

Our continued investment in Healx: leveraging AI to advance rare disease treatments

Our investment in Lakera: securing GenAI applications in real time

Our investment in Light: the first AI-powered general ledger for global company finances

Our investment in Harbor Lab: modernising accounting in the $14T global shipping industry

Our investment in Pelago: doubling down on substance use management

Our investment in deeploi: boosting businesses through smarter IT management

Beyond traditional models: embracing the advantages and acknowledging the risks of a consumption-based pricing model

Our investment in Corti - supporting overburdened healthcare professionals globally

Our investment in Strise: overhauling the way we fight financial crime

Our investment in Opna: unlocking the capital to solve climate change

Unlocking the power of digital twins

Our partnership with Neko Health: building a proactive healthcare system

Our investment in Dexory: modernising warehouses, the beating heart of the supply chain

Niklas Zennström: European technology, the next global superpower

Atomico furthers European presence, with new local hubs in Berlin and Stockholm, alongside Paris

Dan Hynes: Here’s what feels different about Big Tech redundancies in the new era of ‘loud firing’

Atomico hires Snowflake’s Thibaut Ceyrolle to lead new Go-to-Market and Sales function

Congratulations to Atomico’s two newest, homegrown Partners

Our investment in Digitail: helping the vet industry go digital

Our investment in DeepL: using neural networks to expand human possibilities, overcome language barriers and bring cultures closer together

The State of European Tech 2022: The Path Ahead

Niklas Zennström: we need to talk about down rounds

Welcoming seven new members to the Atomico Angel Programme

Our investment in Factorial: empowering SMB's with a people-first automated HR platform

European tech must learn to embrace failure

Our investment in Ben: creating a global ecosystem for employee benefits

Welcoming Laura Connell, our newest Partner in Atomico’s Growth Investment Team

Welcoming four new faces to the Atomico Angel Programme

Our investment in NFTPort: building the infrastructure for digital ownership

Why we invested in TestGorilla - helping eliminate hiring bias

Why we invested in PocketLaw — finally, legal peace of mind for SMBs

Our investment in PocketLaw: modernising legal work for SME’s

Our investment in Vaayu: empowering retailers to tackle climate emissions

Congratulations to Europe’s three newest investment Partners!

The Atomico Angel Programme’s fourth year

Our investment in ChannelEngine: the ecommerce and marketplace management suite

Our investment in Commsor: unlocking the power of community for modern businesses

Our investment in Gaia: redesigning access to fertility care

Atomico supercharges Growth Acceleration offering with Director hires

Congratulations to Scandit, Europe’s newest Unicorn!

Launching the 7th annual State of European Tech Report

Our investment in Abacum: empowering finance teams to make organisations thrive

Atomico’s take on female and reproductive health in Europe through a consumer lens

Our investment in Y42: the first scalable data platform that anyone can run

Congratulations to Aiven, Finland’s newest Unicorn

Why we’re celebrating the year in tech with an NFT, and how to win one

Our investment in SheeldMarket: delivering institutional access to the digital assets market

Congratulations to Truecaller!

Our investment in Mondoo: simplifying infrastructure security operations

Our investment in Sorare: the future of collecting and fantasy sports

Congratulations to Lilium!

Rethinking employee wellness models: Atomico’s investment in Pelago

Our investment in Pelago: tackling addictions with digital solutions

Congratulations to LendInvest for listing on the London Stock Exchange

Thank you, Biology, and so long, petrochemicals: Atomico’s investment in FabricNano

Our investment in FabricNano: enabling the bioindustrial revolution

Why we invested in Pactum: a new category of intelligent automation

Our investment in Pactum: rethinking the future of contract negotiations

Our investment in Aiven: the backbone of open source innovation

Why we invested in Aiven, the leading provider of open source data infrastructure

Why we invested in Katana, the manufacturing entrepreneur’s secret weapon 🗡️

Our investment in Katana: the manufacturing entrepreneur’s secret weapon

Introducing the Atomico Angel Programme’s third year

The data opportunity: the emergence of a new layer in modern enterprise

Home grown talent: our newest Partner Ben Blume and two new Principals

French President Emmanuel Macron & Niklas Zennström: Europe’s Technology Future

Our investment in Attentive: personalized mobile messaging for innovative brands

Congratulations Pipedrive: Europe and Estonia’s newest SaaS Unicorn!

Our commitment to building a more diverse and inclusive European technology ecosystem

Our investment in LabGenius: creating a new industry paradigm in protein therapeutics with machine learning and automation

Atomico’s take on Open Source: our OS risk framework

Our investment in Qatalog: building the infrastructure for modern work

Congratulations to MessageBird, the OPaaS rocketship joining the ranks of European unicorns today

Atomico’s take on Open Source: 5 reasons to build an OS company in Europe now

Access Atomico

Why we invested in Onna, the world’s first Knowledge Integration Platform

Our investment in Onna: the world’s first Knowledge Integration Platform

Our investment in arculus and the future of manufacturing

Our investment in arculus: bringing modular production to manufacturing

After the crisis: automate to accelerate

Welcoming our newest Partner and Principal

Our investment in PsiQuantum: building the world’s first useful quantum computer

Announcing Atomico V

Europe’s Series A funding landscape: a snapshot

Introducing Conscious Scaling

Congratulations to Peakon on agreeing to join Workday!

Where biology and tech unite: Atomico’s take on building a Biology 2.0 company

New Year, New Partner: recognising Irina Haivas

Introducing the Atomico Angel Programme Year 2

Presenting the 2019 State of European Tech report

The 2019 State of European Tech Report is Live

Our Investment in Healx: revolutionising rare disease treatment discovery

Our Investment in Kheiron Medical: giving people a better fighting chance against cancer

Our Investment in Koru Kids: improving family well-being

Recognising the achievements of a great founder-funder

Our Investment in Infarm: making cities self-sustainable in producing food

Our Investment in Spacemaker: Designing better, more sustainable cities with AI

European entrepreneurs are scaling globally in record time: our research into how the world’s most successful companies go global

Our Investment in Peakon: insights to enable everyone to reach their full potential

Our Investment in Automation Hero: empowering information workers through AI

Our Investment in accuRx: bringing patients and their healthcare teams together

The 2018 State of European Tech Report is Live

Introducing: the Atomico Angel Programme

Our Investment in Framer: the only platform that designers and product teams will ever need

Meet Sophia Bendz

Our Investment in StarkWare: Creating a Secure, Scalable Future for Blockchain

Our Investment in Varjo: The Industrialisation of VR has arrived

It’s back-to-school season, and there are new faces at Atomico

Our Investment in Beekeeper: Using SaaS to Connect the Unconnected

Our Investment in MasterClass: Lifelong learning from the best in the world

Our Investment in Lime: maximising micro-mobility

Expanding Europe’s most successful scaling team with Steve Crossan (Deepmind) and Jambu Palaniappan (UberEats)

Data, AI & Robots: Atomico’s Take on Industry 4.0

Our Investment in Oden Technologies: driving the digital transformation of manufacturing

Our Investment in Oh BiBi: Bringing epic game genres to tiny screens

Our Investment in Teatime Games: Ushering in a new era of real time social gaming

Our Investment in Fat Llama: Bringing the Sharing Economy to Everything You Own

Our Investment in Streetbees: Rich insight into communities anywhere in the world at unprecedented scale

What can our Growth Acceleration Team do for your company?

New Year, New Roles and New Faces

Presenting the State of European Tech Report 2017

Decoding the DNA of Europe’s most successful technology entrepreneurs

Our Investment in MessageBird: A European Deep Tech Wunderkind Enabling Truly Global Cloud Communications

Congratulations to Rovio as they take flight today!

Meet Lilium CCO Remo Gerber

Our Investment in Bossa Studios: funding the next generation of innovative games

Our Secret Weapon: Tom Wehmeier becomes Partner at Atomico

Our Series B investment in Lilium: The sky’s the limit as clean air taxis set for lift-off

Our Investment in Habito: Why using technology for mortgages is a better deal for both borrowers and lenders

Our Investment in Upside Foods: Using technology to tackle one of the world’s biggest problems

Why Europe’s next $100B company could be German

Meet Clutter Co-founder/CMO Ari Mir

Our Investment in Hinge Health: how Digital Care for Common Injuries is Transforming Outcomes

Our Investment in Graphcore: Accelerating the Arrival of our AI Future

Meet Rovio CEO Kati Levoranta

Succeeding in China: 8 Key Lessons from Skype

Collaboration equals innovation: Joen Bonnier joins Atomico as Partner to connect founders with industry

Europe Meets China: In Conversation With The Atomico Gaming Team

“We can build these models, but we don’t know how they work”

Meet OnTruck Co-founder and CEO Iñigo Juantegui

Our Investment in Ontruck: Driving European road freight into the future!

The decisive moment

Our Investment in ofo: reinventing bicycle sharing

On AI, Robots and Data: Progressing intelligently

Atomico IV: $765m for Europe’s most ambitious founders

Our Investment in Pipedrive: putting salespeople in the driver’s seat

Our Investment in Scandit: disrupting the supply chain with computer vision

Announcing Carolina Brochado and Teddie Wardi as our newest Partners

Season’s Greetings

The future of sustainable transportation: why we invested in Lilium Aviation

More founder firepower: welcome to Alexis Bonte and Harry Stebbings

The State of European Tech 2016: the future is being invented in Europe

Our Investment in Uniplaces: reinventing student accommodation

Championing European tech: Bryce Keane, founder of Albion Drive and 3Beards, joins Atomico as Head of Communications

New investment in GoEuro to accelerate their success

Who owns the infrastructure of the future?

Our Investment in Bitmovin: working to build the web’s new video infrastructure

Our Investment in DRIVETRIBE: backing the Top Gear team to disrupt online media

Congratulations Hailo & mytaxi

Europe at the vanguard of AI

ChemistDirect.co.uk and Pharmacy2U join forces to become online market leader

Keep Calm and Code On

Our Investment in Jobandtalent: a world-class team revolutionising the SME jobs market with leading matching technology and an innovative transaction-based mobile platform.

Our Investment in LendInvest: disrupting property finance through marketplace lending

Our Investment in Mapillary: transforming photo mapping through crowdsourcing

Our Investment in FarmDrop: on a mission to fix the food chain

Introducing Our New Entrepreneur Partners and EIRs

Our Investment in GoEuro: transforming the way we travel in Europe

The State Of European Tech: Achievement Unlocked, But Not Mission Accomplished.

Our Investment in ZocDoc and the future of healthcare