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Kjartan Rist

Founding Partner Concentric

London, England

Invests in

Stages:

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Work Experience

  • Founding Partner

    2013

    Concentric invests from Seed through to series B, backing ambitious entrepreneurs who are using software to solve real problems in traditional industries. As Activist Venture Investors we have a value-add approach to investing and portfolio management. • Pockit (www.pockit.com) • Insly (www.insly.com) • Wheely (https://wheely.com/en) • Billetto (www.billetto.com) – Exited • Frontier Car Group (https://www.olx.com) – Exited • Telegram (https://telegram.org/) - Exited • Neteven (www.ww.com) – Exited • Duedil (https://www.fullcircl.com) – Exited • Huckletree (www.huckletree.com) • Houst (www.houst.com) • Public (www.public.io) • Heist (https://www.heist-studios.com) • Prettysocial Media (https://www.prettysocialmedia.com/en) • Homehero (https://www.homehero.co.uk) • Black (https://black.insure) • Hypaship (www.hypaship.com) • BVNK (www.bvnk.com) • Hussle (www.hussle.com) – Exited • Superscript (www.gosuperscript.com) • Timely (https://timelyapp.com) • Pipe (https://pipe.com) • Tesseract (https://tesseractinvestment.com) • Unaric (www.unaric.com) • Contingent (https://www.contingent.ai) • Thingtrax (www.thingtrax.com) • Goya (https://www.goya.finance) • Merama (www.merama.io) • EBAC (https://ebaconline.com.br) • Beckley Psytech (https://www.beckleypsytech.com) • Transcend Therapeutics Inc. (https://www.transcendtherapeutics.com)

  • Founding Partner - Fund of Funds

    2022

    Fund of funds backing ambitious, emerging managers. • Entrepreneur First I – (https://www.joinef.com) • Seedcamp Fund III, IV & VI – (www.seedcamp.com) • Raba Partnership 2 – (https://rabacap.com) • Runa Capital IV – (https://runacap.com) • Ten 31 II – (https://ten31.vc) • Sondo Fund 1 – (https://www.sondo.com) • s16vc II – (https://www.s16vc.com) • Emblem I – (https://www.emblem.vc) • 4Bio Capital III – (https://www.4biocapital.com) • Wolf – (https://wolfnyc.com) • Integrated Investment Partners 01 – (https://integrated.vc) • Fintech Collective DeFi I – (https://fintech.io/defi) • SNO Fund II – (https://sno.vc)

2022

  • Partner

    2022

    A venture capital fund dedicated to Bitcoin infrastructure projects. Part of the Concentric Group. • Bolt Observer – (https://bolt.observer) • Unmapped – (https://www.unmapped.co) • Galoy – (https://galoy.io) • Fedi – (https://www.fedi.xyz) • BVNK – (www.bvnk.com) • Noah – (https://noah.com) • Debifi – (https://debifi.com) • Synota – (https://synota.io) • Relai – (www.relai.ch) • Ledunia – (https://www.ledunia.com) • Anchorwatch – (https://www.anchorwatch.com) • Vida – (https://vida.page) • Layer Two Labs – (https://layertwolabs.com) • Wolf – (https://wolfnyc.com)

2022

  • Board Member/Investor

    2022

    The global 24/7 payments network operating in a USD 140 trillion market.

2018

  • Board Member/Investor

    2018

    The full cycle no-code insurance platform for MGAs and Insurers.

2018

  • Board Member/Investor

    2018

    The world's best AI-powered automatic time tracker.

2017

  • Board Member/Investor

    2017

    Delivering the most complete offering of cloud-based logistics and supply chain management solutions.

  • Board Member/Investor

    2016

    The European power house for Branded Content solutions. PrettySocial manage, optimise and distribute all the Branded Content through all social channels.

  • Advisor/Principal

    2012

    Advisory and investment participation in the field of Private Equity and Venture Capital

2003

  • Founder/Investor

    2003

    The leading scalable SaaS Unified Communications’ Platform for service providers and corporates

1999 - 2018

  • LP

    1999 - 2018

    • Endeca, Shazam, Lagan, MoreMagic, Kaidara, OLX, IGA Worldwide, Empower Interactive, Jacobs Rimell, Digital Railroad, Kana Software, Digital Chocolate, Eyeka and Datanomic

  • Founder/Principal

    1999 - 2002

    Founding member and Principal of the Venture Capital firm DN Capital