We seek out companies that our shareholders couldn’t access by themselves, searching for an appropriate balance of risk and reward. Our portfolio includes BlaBlaCar, Voi Technology and Numan to name a few. For more details see VNV Global's latest Annual Report available
here.
Sector: Mobility
Year of investment: 2015
Geography: Europe
BlaBlaCar connects people looking to travel long distances with drivers already going the same way, so both save money by sharing the cost of their journey. Founded in France, BlaBlaCar is now a leader of the global sharing economy, with +120 million members in 22 countries. blablacar.com
Sector: Mobility
Year of investment: 2014
Geography: Europe
Gett is a leading ride hailing company with its main market in Israel. the company is also active in the UK black cab market.
gett.com
Sector: Mobility
Year of investment: 2018
Geography: Europe
Voi is a Scandinavian green mobility company, offering electric scooter and bike sharing in partnership with cities and local communities. Voi was founded in Sweden and is expanding rapidly throughout Europe.
voi.com
Sector: Marketplace
Year of investment: 2018
Geography: Europe
Housing Anywhere is a global platform for international students looking to rent a room. Founded in the Netherlands, it now has 127 partner universities across 22 countries.
housinganywhere.com
Sector: Digital Health
Year of investment: 2019
Geography: UK
Numan is an online health clinic focusing on men’s health issues and erectile dysfunction. Based in London, its mission is rid men of the need to face uncomfortable visits, waiting rooms and harsh judgments – replacing them with a quick online consultation with expert clinicians and continuous care after that.
www.numan.com
Sector: Marketplace
Year of investment: 2021
Geography: Sweden
Bokadirekt is the leading booking engine and software provider for hair and beauty salons in Sweden.
bokadirekt.se
Sector: Other
Year of investment: 2020
Geography: Global
Olio is a UK-based sharing app where users can share their surplus food and unwanted items with people in their neighborhood.
olioex.com
Sector: Marketplace
Year of Investment: 2020
Geography: Global
HungryPanda is the global leader and specialist in online food delivery serving Asian restaurants and Chinese populations overseas. It serves customers in more than 60 cities across 10 countries to ensure they find authentic Asian food away from home.
hungrypanda.co
Sector: Mobility
Year of investment: 2019
Geography: Global
Borzo is a crowdsourced courier service that allows packages to be delivered within hours of purchase – Borzo is one of the largest same-day delivery services globally with operations across India, Turkey, Indonesia, Brazil and Mexico.
borzodelivery.com
Sector: Digital Health
Year of investment: 2016
Geography: MENA
Vezeeta is a healthcare technology platform that leads the field in the Middle East and North Africa. The company is pioneering a shift to automate the booking process for doctors worldwide and provides a search engine to find doctors by speciality, area, and fees – solving major problems for patients and providers.
vezeeta.com
Sector: Other
Year of investment: 2020
Geography: Global
Glovo is one of the most downloaded delivery apps with over 30 million installs. The company offers an on-demand courier service that purchases, picks up, and delivers products ordered through its mobile app.
glovoapp.com
Sector: Classifieds
Year of investment: 2017
Geography: MENA
Merro is a holding company that focuses on online marketplace businesses with network effects in developing markets. Merro was founded in 2014 by Henrik Persson, formerly Head of Investments at Kinnevik; Michael Lahyani, founder and CEO of Propertyfinder; and Pierre Siri, former CEO and investor in Blocket.se.
merro.co
Sector: Other
Year of investment: 2021
Geography: Europe
Collectiv Food is a B2B food marketplace that supplies a range of food retailers, from restaurants, to catering firms and dark kitchens with food and beverage products from thousands of different producers.
collectivfood.com
Sector: Marketplace
Year of investment: 2020
Geography: Global
Alva Labs is a developer of a psychometrics test that is quickly becoming the go to source for companies when employing new personnel.
alvalabs.io
Sector: Other
Year of investment: 2021
Geography: Nordics
Mathem is the leading online grocery service in Sweden. VNV Global entered the cap table when Mathem Acquired Kavall in early 2023.
Sector: Digital Health
Year of investment: 2021
Geography: Global
Stardots AB is developing a revolutionary digital health platform for the treatment of neurological diseases with an initial focus on Parkinson’s disease.
stardots.se
Sector: Classifieds
Year of investment: 2015
Geography: Pakistan
Naseeb Networks runs preeminent employment marketplaces in Pakistan (rozee.pk) and Saudi Arabia (mihnati.com), focused on matching jobseekers and employment opportunities. Its end-to-end solutions are used by over 10,000 companies and 5 million jobseekers, and it now processes more than 1.5 million job applications every month. naseebnetworks.com
Sector: Classifieds
Year of investment: 2015
Geography: MENA
BasharSoft’s mission is to build efficient jobs marketplaces and ecosystems. Founded in Egypt, the company enables social sustainability and positive economics by using tech platforms to help individuals and businesses at scale.
basharsoft.com
Sector: Mobility
Year of investment: 2019
Geography: MENA
SWVL is a leading transport app in Egypt that is reinventing mobility for its users. It allows people to book affordable, reliable and convenient bus rides as an alternative to public transport.
swvl.com
Sector: Marketplace
Year of investment: 2021
Geography: Global
Cirplus is a B2B marketplace for buying and selling recycled plastics, reducing Co2 emissions and stopping plastic pollution at the same time. The company is addressing the massive recycled plastics market which is expected to grow substantially in the coming years.
cirplus.com
Sector: Other
Year of investment: 2015
Geography: Global
KEH AB is a holding company that owns a significant position in social media monitoring company YouScan – a platform founded in Ukraine that helps brand owners listen to customer opinions. It is now expanding globally.
youscan.io
Sector: Mobility
Investments year: 2019
Geography: Bangladesh
Shohoz is a leading ride-hailing, food delivery and ticketing business in Bangladesh, striving to become the leading super app in the country.
shohoz.com
Sector: Marketplace
Year of investment: 2022
Geography: Europe
Captain Cause is a community engagement platform which allows large corporates to engage with their customers for impact investing.
Sector: Digital Helath
Investments year: 2022
Geography: Sweden
Medoma is a Swedish virtual care company that offer patients acute hospital care in their home instead of in the hospital.
Sector: Classifieds
Year of investment: 2018
Geography: Myanmar
Shwe Property is the premier real estate portal for Myanmar, and the first ever developed in the country. It now has over 100,000 listings and thousands of inquiries every month.
shweproperty.com
Sector: Classifieds
Year of investment: 2017
Geography: Brazil
Agente Imóvel, created in Brasil, is the homeowner´s companion during the complete lifecycle of owning a home – buying, living, selling, renting, financing and more. The platform connects buyers, sellers, and brokers to allow for more transparent and better real estate decisions.
agenteimovel.com.br
Sector: Classifieds
Year of investment: 2018
Geography: Myanmar
JobNet is the number one jobs and recruitment portal in Myanmar. It attracts hundreds of thousands of job seekers and delivers thousands of job applications every month.
jobnet.com.mm
Sector: Classifieds
Geography: Russia
Holding period: 2007-2019
IRR: 37%
Avito is the largest and most successful online classifieds platform in Russia. Vostok New Ventures exited Avito in January 2019 for $540 million for its 13.2% shareholding.
Sector: Fintech
Geography: Russia
Holding period: 2007-2015
IRR: 29%
Tinkoff Group Holding (TCS) provides innovative financial services to retail consumers in Russia, via technology-enabled, branchless platform. Vostok New Ventures first invested in TCS in 2008; it exited by selling most of its shares in connection with the 2013 IPO in London, and the remaining stake by spinning off a new fintech-focused investment vehicle, Vostok Emerging Finance, in 2015.
tinkoff.ru/eng and
vostokemergingfinance.com
Sector: Classifieds
Geography: Pakistan
Holding period: 2015-2016
IRR: 81%
Zameen.com is a property portal and search engine that revolutionized real-estate buying and selling in Pakistan.
www.zameen.com
Sector: Marketplace
Geography: Global
Holding period: 2014-2017
IRR: 14% (22% EUR)
Delivery Hero is one of the world’s leading online food ordering and delivery marketplaces.
Sector: Classifieds
Year of investment: 2015
Geography: Europe
Holding period: 2015-2021
IRR: 13%
Wallapop is an online marketplace that enables users to buy and sell goods in categories such as fashion, decoration, motorcycles, electronics, and more in Spain.
wallapop.com
Sector: Other
Year of investment: 2017
Geography: Global
Marley Spoon är en avancerad matkasse-service. Marley Spoon är baserat i Berlin och har verksamhet i Europa, USA och Australien och har ett sammarbete med Martha Stewart. marleyspoon.com
Sector: Digital Health
Year of investment: 2017
Geography: Global
Babylon is a global pioneer in digital healthcare, with the mission of allowing anyone with a mobile phone or computer to access high-quality health services. Based in London, its team combines the medical expertise of scientists, clinicians, mathematicians and engineers, with the ever-growing computing power of machines.
babylonhealth.com
Sector: Marketplace
Year of investment: 2018
Geography: Global
Booksy is a digital booking platform for health and beauty services, responding to the needs of both businesses and clients. Based in Poland, the company has successfully expanded into the US, the UK, Brazil and South Africa.
booksy.com
Sector: Classifieds
Year of investment: 2019
Geography: Global
JamesEdition is a global luxury goods marketplace that enables buyers to find items for sale and charter. It features over 100,000 private jets, yachts, exotic cars, exclusive watches and luxury homes from more than 3,600 trusted dealers around the world.
jamesedition.com
Sector: Marketplace
Year of investment: 2021
Geography: Europe
Carla is a Swedish e-commerce marketplace to lease, buy, or sell electric vehicles. The company guarantees pickup and home delivery to customers' doorsteps within as little as 72 hours within Sweden.
carla.se
