European roots. Global from the start.
We use our hard-won experience to help visionary founders become global category leaders.
We’re not a traditional venture capital firm.
We are built by founders for founders. Every single aspect of Atomico, every part of our culture, and every decision we take, is designed with the ambition of helping founders succeed.
We exist for more than returns.
We believe entrepreneurs are the ultimate agents of positive, transformational change across every aspect of our society and economy.
Our mission is to spur this progress forward.
It’s why we partner with the world’s most ambitious founders. The rule-breakers who want to build the next leader in their category. The world-shapers creating companies that fundamentally shift the way we live today. The gamechangers using technology to rewire the world in favour of something better, for as many people as possible.
When we find these people, we invest much more than money. We work hand- in-glove with them, drawing on hard-won experience scaling some of the most successful technology companies in the world, while also providing guidance on how to scale consciously and contribute meaningfully to a better future.
Read on to find out more about how we operate, and the commitments we’re making to support our mission to develop the world’s most prosperous, sustainable, inclusive and mission-driven technology ecosystem right here in Europe.
155
Partnerships
15
Countries
1 in 6
Valued in excess of 1 billion dollars
35,000+
Jobs created
Every VC on the planet talks about the concept of value-add. In the case of Atomico, this really is true.
Sebastian Siemiatkowski, Co-Founder & CEO of Klarna They are by far the most active and helpful investor that we have.
Ilkka Paananen, Co-Founder & CEO of Supercell The Atomico team believed in our ambitious vision of building radically better ways of moving from the very beginning. They played an essential role in turning Lilium from an idea into a global business: assisting us with recruitment, communications, and securing follow-on funding.
Daniel Wiegand, Co-Founder & CEO of Lilium I could tell, early on, that they were a founder-friendly organisation from the term sheet that they submitted We took Atomico’s money because we just felt that they were treating us with a lot of respect. That hasn’t changed by the way.
Daniel Perez, Co-Founder & CEO of Hinge Health
How we invest
Atomico is built on the conviction that entrepreneurs are the ultimate gamechangers for positive transformation across our society and economy. Our mission is to support their global progress.
As such, we are a generalist technology investor, partnering across verticals where we see the most ambitious founders building for positive outcomes.
For us, mission alignment is the most important thing. We are not here to make incremental progress. We want to accelerate those who move the world forward. No vision is too ambitious - just take a look at our portfolio.
It’s never too early to talk to us. We partner with companies from the earliest stages to pre-IPO across two funds: Venture and Growth.
Our dedicated Venture team invests at Series A, alongside occasional Seed opportunities. To meet our Venture investors, click here.
Our specialised Growth team invests from Series B to pre-IPO. We have a dedicated Growth team to help you scale into global category leaders. To meet our Growth investors, click here.
Commitments We’re Making To Build a Better Ecosystem in Europe
Our mission at Atomico is to develop the world’s most prosperous, sustainable, inclusive and mission-driven technology ecosystem right here in Europe.
Since 2006 we have been building a different kind of venture capital firm. At Atomico, we seek to partner with the world’s most ambitious and mission driven founders: those using technology to rewire the world in favour of something better. When we enter into those partnerships we work together to help them build enduring, category defining businesses that are also conscious about their impact. We recognise, given the wide-reaching impact that some of our portfolio companies can have, the privileged hand we have as a VC in helping build a sustainable future, and the responsibility we carry of ensuring the companies we partner with commit to that.
Our initiatives continue to evolve, and whilst there is always so much more to do, here are just some of the initiatives that we’ve committed to so far:
Our annual State of European Tech Report is the industry barometer and largest free data repository on our ecosystem today, highlighting progress but also where we must improve.
Conscious Scaling - here are all our sustainability efforts, initiatives and resources, including our latest sustainability report, Conscious Scaling 2.0.
The Atomico Angel Programme has been active since 2018 and was launched to activate a new generation of angel investors including tech clusters that have been underrepresented in the past. You can see our various cohorts of angels, and their investments to date, here: Cohort 1, Cohort 2, Cohort 3, and Cohort 4. Since we launched we have had the opportunity to partner with 65 angels, committing almost $10m into ~400 potentially gamechanging startups. We have also made a number of LP commitments to first time fund managers focusing on underrepresented founders.
