Your investment catalyst, helping you transform challenges into opportunities.
We are an investment catalyst, transforming special situation challenges into opportunities. We step in when companies and investors face complex transitions, leveraging our experience, network, and capital to drive outcomes that create lasting value. Through equity-based partnerships, we ensure full alignment of interests, sharing both risk and upside to unlock the full potential of every opportunity.
Katalysen was founded in 2016 by serial entrepreneurs with deep experience in both successful and challenging ventures. Over the years, we have evolved into Northern Europe’s go-to investment catalyst, specializing in turning special situation challenges into opportunities. Our approach ensures that companies with strong potential receive the strategic and financial support they need to succeed. Katalysen is publicly listed on Spotlight Stock Market, offering public market investors unique access to special situation opportunities.
To be Northern Europe’s go-to investment catalyst for companies and investors navigating special situations. We take an active role in transforming challenges into opportunities, aligning interests through equity-based partnerships, and delivering exceptional outcomes for all involved. By structuring collaborative investments, we create win-win scenarios where businesses get the support they need, and investors gain access to high-potential opportunities. Our focus is on building lasting partnerships that drive long-term success.
A world in which companies with strong teams, strong products, and great clients no longer fail for the wrong reasons, whether due to shareholder financial stress, structural investment constraints, or other avoidable challenges. By acting as an investment catalyst, we help ensure that businesses with real potential can overcome obstacles, unlock new opportunities, and thrive. In the process, we aim to deliver exceptional returns for all involved stakeholders.
We have acculumated a wealth of experience from helping entrepreneurs and co-investors transform challenges into opportunities.
We help bridge the resource-scarce world of early-stage innovation with top-tier craftsmanship.
Seeking interesting transactions in interesting ventures
We invest in your transformation, ensuring win-win outcomes
We are not a fund, allowing us to customize and optimize each investment
We build relationships for the long-term, always aiming for repeat collaboration
“Even the most robust economies have a surplus of ideas that never reach consumers. If we want to reverse these trends and maximize innovation output, we need more hands-on investors and mechanisms for funding the commercialization of smart ideas.”
Edward Jung
Shareholder at Katalysen, Former Chief Architect at Microsoft, Co-Founder of Intellectual Ventures
Intellectual Ventures is an American private equity company that centers on the development and licensing of intellectual property. The company was founded in 2000 as a private partnership by Nathan Myhrvold and Edward Jung of Microsoft, and has since then raised and invested over $5bn.
“Collaborating with Katalysen has been a true pleasure. Their professionalism, integrity, and ability to adapt to our ever evolving needs make them an invaluable business partner.”
Marcus Gärde
CEO & Founder
Gärde Design
Gärde Design blends industry expertise, a robust network, and investor connections to fuel innovation and brand transformation for early-stage innovation ventures.
“Stockholm has always been a powerful hub for fintech, and by collaborating closely within the ecosystem we can ensure that even more great ideas survive early-stage hurdles to thrive on the world stage.”
Love Dager
CEO
Stockholm Fintech
Stockholm Fintech mission of community collaboration and knowledge sharing expands far beyond organising events. International delegations and a vault of contacts and connections means the organisation has a plethora of opportunities for all sizes of fintech companies working in Stockholm.
We are all investment catalysts, investing our time, individual experience, expertise, networks and passion into Katalysen.
Peter Almberg
Heiner Weber
Tobias Mathiasen
Anders Dahlgren
Highly skilled individuals lending their expertise, strategic acumen, and extended networks to our team of venture developers.
Peter Olsson
Aline R. Gustafsson
Thomas Liljeton
Ann-Sophie Hesser
Peter Almberg
Heiner Weber
The following is a selection of the immense experience and expertise that is nested within our global network.
Alexander Lipton
Edward Jung
Gagik Apkarian
Johan Kalling
Johan Stakeberg
Jonas Mårtenson
Oskar Söderström