Norrsken VC exists to drive capital towards solutions that tackle some of the world’s greatest challenges and allow us to live within the limits of planetary boundaries. We're impact-agnostic, backing teams solving high-severity problems with scalable, transformative potential across the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
While our focus is unrelenting, we are just a small player in a wider ecosystem. We partner with likeminded investors and partners to help scale the impact asset class. Together, we hope to make systemic change while plugging the funding gap and prove that impact and financial returns go hand in hand. Why Impact? Why not?
We back startups with impact at the very core of the business model. If you kill the impact, you kill the business.
And that goal must be measurable and intentional as a company scales.
It’s not just about doing good, it’s also about not doing bad. We help each of our companies understand and mitigate their adverse impacts.
This is where the companies of tomorrow should be. We only work with founders that want to help create the ripple effect.
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Review of how the company’s goals align with at least one UN SDG.
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Evaluate ‘net’ impact potential, analyse data, test hypotheses and conduct an Impact Workshop.
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Choose impact KPIs, set targets and include impact commitments in the Shareholders agreement.
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Monitor impact KPIs, track progress, build impact capability and ensure compliance with our Responsible Investments Policy
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As an Article 9 or 'Dark Green' fund, 100% of our investments need to fulfill the EU’s definition of a 'sustainable investment.' Our resolute focus here is one of our core strengths, allowing us to guide founders through the messiness of tracking impact.
We take a pragmatic, 'progress is better than perfect' approach. Our strategy involves offering startups workshops, templates, tooling, and advisors to make their ESG reporting run as efficiently as possible.
This pragmatic support enables our startups to efficiently meet sustainability goals, allowing them to quickly return to running their businesses with confidence.
Is estimated to have been saved across our portfolio in 2022, this equals the total emissions of Switzerland
Of our invested capital has had a measurable impact across at least one of the United Nations Sustainability Goals.
Jobs created created within our portfolio. It averages to over 70 positions per invested company, which in turn would mean an employment rate of 245%.
