Today, we congratulate Lilium for successfully listing on the NASDAQ. Founded in 2015 by ​​Sebastian Born, Matthias Meiner, Patrick Nathen, and Daniel Wiegand, we feel privileged to watch Lilium mark the successful transition from private firm to public company. Not only does today offer a compelling response to the infamous…

Over the last 18 months, the largest public health crisis for a generation has redefined our collective sense of physical and mental wellbeing. …

Today, we extend our congratulations to LendInvest for listing on the London Stock Exchange. The news marks another important milestone in the company’s progress as it continues to build its property lending platform across the UK. Since 2008, LendInvest’s mission has been to bring speed, efficiency and transparency to what…

Consumption as we know it today cannot, and should not, last forever. The manufacture of petrochemical products such as cosmetics, deodorants, and even toothpaste accounts for 14 per cent of global oil demand, a share that is expected to rise to a third in 2030 and to nearly half by…

All businesses buy, and all buyers negotiate. Yet as software continues to integrate itself into large swathes of the day-to-day running of businesses across the world, the art of negotiation remains mostly untouched. Popular understanding of negotiation holds that both parties engage in a tense back and forth until something…

Modern enterprise quietly reached a remarkable milestone in January 2021. For the first time ever, the adoption of open source database management services superseded equivalent commercial products. Data management problems are now being met, more often than not, by open source solutions. But for Oskari, Hannu, Mika, Heikki, and the…

Several years ago, a few friends in Estonia started a small manufacturing workshop to sell direct to consumer. Business was good, but spreadsheets didn’t scale as well as the business. It soon became a nightmare to find the right file, the right sheet, and even the right cell to keep…

Two years ago, we started the Atomico Angel Programme with the goal of empowering the next generation of European angel investors to partner with outstanding early-stage founders from across the region. The connections and investments made by these first two cohorts demonstrate the ever-growing vibrancy of the ecosystem and the…

Today, we’d like to extend a big congratulations to Peakon on agreeing to join Workday. This historic partnership with one of the world’s leading HR and finance cloud companies is a testament to all that Peakon has achieved in the last six years and the incredible potential that remains…