Philosophy

Agile

While our companies are all about scale, our own operation is more of a boutique. Consciously focused on helping our companies, we are a small partnership and avoid raising large funds. With an average of one deal per year per partner, we believe we’re positioned to be entrepreneurs’ closest partners.

  • 4
    Investing Partners
  • 14
    Unicorns
  • 88
    Companies
  • 30
    Exits

Global Category Leaders

Truly great companies define and lead global categories. To help companies achieve this goal, we work closely with entrepreneurs to define their category and to expand globally. We have operated and invested across the globe for over 25 years, and have built relevant experience and support systems for companies looking to conquer the world.

Mirakl

Philippe and Adrien founded Mirakl, with the ambition to enable the marketplace revolution that will transform the traditional e-commerce landscape. We invested early in the journey in 2015. Mirakl raised $555m at $3.5B valuation in 2021.

Hybris

We met Carsten in 2007, invested personally in Hybris and joined the Board. Later, 83North invested. SAP acquired the company in 2013 for over $1.5B, by which time Hybris was one of the dominant ecommerce s/w vendors in the world.

Payoneer (NASDAQ: PAYO)

The Payoneer payment platform is trusted by millions of customers worldwide and chosen by leading marketplaces. 83North were the first institutional investor in the company and a close partner to its management team from 2007 when it raised its seed round.

ironSource (NYSE: IS)

83North joined the IronSource journey in 2016 when IronSource and SupersonicAds merged to create the powerhouse it is today when it comes to monetization technologies for the most engaged media properties in the world. 83North were the first and largest investors in SupersonicAds.

Wolt

After months of analysis of food delivery in small-mid sized cities, we met Miki and his team at Wolt. They had built unique technology and a company culture, that ensured delivery economics could work in smaller and less competitive cities. in 2022 Wolt merged with DoorDash (NYSE: DASH)

Celonis

Celonis was founded by Alex, Bastian and Martin, and spun out of TUM in 2011. It was bootstrapped until we co-led the Series A in 2016. The company has gone on to become the category leader in big data process mining. Celonis raised its last round in 2021 at a $11B valuation.

We build long-term relationships

Our founders remain our friends, advisors, and investors throughout the years — and many were friends, advisors, and investors before our work together. This makes our enterprise feel like a family, and creates a flywheel across our portfolio of success, advice, mentorship, and trust.

Issy Ben Shaul

CEO of Velostrata

Velostrata was the third time we served on the board of a company founded by Issy. All three were acquired, Actona by Cisco Systems, Wanova by VMware and Velostrata by Google. We are looking forward to his next one.

Juan Lobato

Co-CEO of Ebury and Venture Partner at 83North

We have known Juan since the early days of Ebury, where he is co-founder and co-CEO. Ebury is one of Europe fastest growing fintechs with revenues in excess of $100M. Ebury is now majority owned by Santander (sold for approx. $1B valuation). Prior to Ebury Juan was CEO of Beam.ty (a digital distribution network sold to Carlyle private equity). Juan was also a consultant with Mckinsey & Co. in London. Juan is an angel investor in over a dozen tech companies across UK, Europe and the US. He is also a venture partner with 83North, specifically helping & co-investing in fintech related companies

Mans Hultman

Partner at Zobito

We met Måns in 2003 when he was CEO of Qliktech. He was CEO 2000–2007, and Chairman between 2004–2009, the years that defined QlikTech’s strategy and momentum, leading to a very successful IPO in 2010. During Måns´ tenure as CEO, QlikTech’s sales grew from $2M to $153M. Later Måns co-invested with us and sat on the Board of Hybris. Today Måns is a partner at Zobito, investing in and advising tech companies.

Nati Davidi and Uri Alter

Co-Founders of Vdoo

We know Uri and Nati since 2011. They founded Cyvera and grew the company all the way to its acquisition by Palo Alto Networks. Uri and Nati chose to work with us again when they founded VDOO which was successfully acquired by Jfrog in 2021. They are part of 83North’s extended family. This partnership goes far beyond financial investments. Uri and Nati help us assess new opportunities, invest with us and formed personal friendships with us.

David Buttress

Former CEO of Just Eat and Venture Partner at 83North

David was the CEO of JustEat, where 83North was an early investor. Through operational excellence and a series of global acquisitions, he consolidated its market leadership and took it public into what is now a 7B$ market cap leader in food delivery. After leaving Just Eat David joined 83North as a Venture Partner.

Dov Moran

Managing Partner, Grove Ventures

Dov is one of Israel’s most famous entrepreneurs. He invented the USB drive and sold his company Msystems for 1.6B$ in 2006. Our relationship with him started in 2001 during that ride. Dov is now the managing partner of Grove, an early stage VC firm, and we invest and look at deals together. We also meet for coffee at the same cafe for many years where we tell each other the same jokes for almost 20 years.

Carsten Thoma

Founder of Hybris

We have known Carsten since 2007. He built Hybris from a start-up to a leading ecommerce s/w platform vendor, when it got acquired by SAP for over 1.5B$ (just before going public). Carsten then led SAP Hybris, SAP CRM & Commerce businesses. He has co-invested with us in many companies and sits on several boards. He splits his time between NYC and Switzerland and is considered a world expert in enterprise SW.

Entrepreneurs First

We don’t tell entrepreneurs how to run their businesses. We believe that entrepreneurs are the ones changing the world, and should take center-stage as they define the future, while we give behind-the-scenes support — advice, connections, experience, and capital — across their journey, from seed to IPO.

“Finding the right partners is challenging and most crucial for start-up success. As second timers, we had the privilege to better understand what we look for in partnerships. Trust, support and faith are the fundamentals we will always be evaluating when raising money”

Nati Davidi, Co-founder, Vdoo

“83North was intrigued and excited about our vision to revolutionize payments for mobile devices. We all knew this would be a long and hard road, but they supported us at every step.”

Magnus Nilsson, Co-Founder, iZettle

"Choosing the right investor, is more than getting the funds, it will be the partner that will go with you in the good and bad moments. Make sure you choose the right one, that can give you valuable advice and support."

Andres Bou, Co-Founder, SocialPoint

“Good companies have access to capital. It's what comes with this capital that makes 83North fundamentally different than most other funds. Supportive, humble, and always helpful in good times and bad.”

Tomer Levy, Co-Founder & CEO, Logz.io

"While most investors stay above the fray, the ones at 83North jump into the trenches and help carry the load. They understand that's where real value is created."

Renen Hallak, CEO & Founder, Vast

"It's a real pleasure to work with 83North, and to have them on our board.
Their approach is always full of humility, constructive and supportive.
They have a rich experience and a real understanding of entrepreneurs’ issues and challenges for fast-growing start ups."

Philippe Corrot, CEO & Co-Founder, Mirakl