Kjartan Rist
Founding Partner Concentric
Kjartan Rist
Founding Partner Concentric
London, England
Overview
Work Experience
Founding Partner
2013 - Current
Concentric invests from Seed through to series B, backing ambitious entrepreneurs who are using software to solve real problems in traditional industries. As Activist Venture Investors we have a value-add approach to investing and portfolio management. • Pockit (www.pockit.com) • Insly (www.insly.com) • Wheely (https://wheely.com/en) • Billetto (www.billetto.com) – Exited • Frontier Car Group (https://www.olx.com) – Exited • Telegram (https://telegram.org/) - Exited • Neteven (www.ww.com) – Exited • Duedil (https://www.fullcircl.com) – Exited • Huckletree (www.huckletree.com) • Houst (www.houst.com) • Public (www.public.io) • Heist (https://www.heist-studios.com) • Prettysocial Media (https://www.prettysocialmedia.com/en) • Homehero (https://www.homehero.co.uk) • Black (https://black.insure) • Hypaship (www.hypaship.com) • BVNK (www.bvnk.com) • Hussle (www.hussle.com) – Exited • Superscript (www.gosuperscript.com) • Timely (https://timelyapp.com) • Pipe (https://pipe.com) • Tesseract (https://tesseractinvestment.com) • Unaric (www.unaric.com) • Contingent (https://www.contingent.ai) • Thingtrax (www.thingtrax.com) • Goya (https://www.goya.finance) • Merama (www.merama.io) • EBAC (https://ebaconline.com.br) • Beckley Psytech (https://www.beckleypsytech.com) • Transcend Therapeutics Inc. (https://www.transcendtherapeutics.com)
Founding Partner - Fund of Funds
2022
Fund of funds backing ambitious, emerging managers. • Entrepreneur First I – (https://www.joinef.com) • Seedcamp Fund III, IV & VI – (www.seedcamp.com) • Raba Partnership 2 – (https://rabacap.com) • Runa Capital IV – (https://runacap.com) • Ten 31 II – (https://ten31.vc) • Sondo Fund 1 – (https://www.sondo.com) • s16vc II – (https://www.s16vc.com) • Emblem I – (https://www.emblem.vc) • 4Bio Capital III – (https://www.4biocapital.com) • Wolf – (https://wolfnyc.com) • Integrated Investment Partners 01 – (https://integrated.vc) • Fintech Collective DeFi I – (https://fintech.io/defi) • SNO Fund II – (https://sno.vc)
Partner
2022
A venture capital fund dedicated to Bitcoin infrastructure projects. Part of the Concentric Group. • Bolt Observer – (https://bolt.observer) • Unmapped – (https://www.unmapped.co) • Galoy – (https://galoy.io) • Fedi – (https://www.fedi.xyz) • BVNK – (www.bvnk.com) • Noah – (https://noah.com) • Debifi – (https://debifi.com) • Synota – (https://synota.io) • Relai – (www.relai.ch) • Ledunia – (https://www.ledunia.com) • Anchorwatch – (https://www.anchorwatch.com) • Vida – (https://vida.page) • Layer Two Labs – (https://layertwolabs.com) • Wolf – (https://wolfnyc.com)
Board Member/Investor
2022
The global 24/7 payments network operating in a USD 140 trillion market.
Board Member/Investor
2018
The full cycle no-code insurance platform for MGAs and Insurers.
Board Member/Investor
2018
The world's best AI-powered automatic time tracker.
Board Member/Investor
2017
Delivering the most complete offering of cloud-based logistics and supply chain management solutions.
Board Member/Investor
2016
The European power house for Branded Content solutions. PrettySocial manage, optimise and distribute all the Branded Content through all social channels.
Advisor/Principal
2012
Advisory and investment participation in the field of Private Equity and Venture Capital
Founder/Investor
2003
The leading scalable SaaS Unified Communications’ Platform for service providers and corporates
LP
1999 - 2018
• Endeca, Shazam, Lagan, MoreMagic, Kaidara, OLX, IGA Worldwide, Empower Interactive, Jacobs Rimell, Digital Railroad, Kana Software, Digital Chocolate, Eyeka and Datanomic
Founder/Principal
1999 - 2002
Founding member and Principal of the Venture Capital firm DN Capital
Education
MBA
1999 - 2000
Bachelor of Science (BSc)
1992 - 1996