"We need more wildly successful founders": Why this VC thinks Europe must take more risks

Icebreaker VC Partner Lasse Lehtinen wants to see more high risk investments in Europe. Photo: Press/Stock images
10 mars 2025
13:48
Icebreaker.vc, a venture capital firm focused on early-stage startups in Estonia, Finland, and Sweden, closed its third fund last week. Now one of its partners has issued a call for more European capital to finance high-risk ventures, suggesting it's essential for economic growth in the region.

Icebreaker.vc already claims to be the most active ideas-stage investor in the Nordics and Baltics.

On Monday, General Partner Lasse Lehtinen took to LinkedIn to argue that the VC firm is now ready to take risks to find "the next generation of ambitious companies," after raising money for its new investment fund (Fund III), which closed last week.

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