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Birk Venture
Investor · Oslo, Norway · Europe
Birk Venture is a privately held Norwegian investment company focused exclusively on the life science sector, founded by Hans Ivar Robinson in 2010. It provides capital to young companies and takes an active role in developing its early stage investments, with a long-term evergreen approach.
Invests inHealthcare & Biotech
In its own wordslife sciencesbiotechnologypharmaceuticalsdiagnosticsmedical devicesconsumer health
Your fit with Birk Venture
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Or find every investor that fitsBirk Venture lists 6 checked portfolio companies on its own site. Its largest themes are Healthcare & Biotech (71%), Industrial & Manufacturing (14%) and E-commerce & Marketplaces (14%). 100% of its companies are based in Norway. It invests most often alongside Investinor, Radforsk and Sarsia.
No funding round on record names Birk Venture yet, so the figures come from its portfolio page.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare & Biotech | 71% | 15% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 14% | 7% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 14% | 6% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Investinor | 2 |
| Radforsk | 2 |
| Sarsia | 2 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 8th | 6 companies |
| Recent activity | 46th | 0 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 54th | 0% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 92th | 71% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 19th | 1 country |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers583%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company117%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Birk Venture head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Portfolio
6 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APIM Therapeutics is a clinical-stage oncology company developing first-in-class PCNA-targeting therapeutics. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| BerGenBio was developing first-in-class AXL inhibitors for aggressive disease | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Kloner builds Magento and WordPress websites and online stores for Norwegian businesses | Industrial & ManufacturingE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Nextera is a drug and target discovery company | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | |||
| Zelluna is developing a unique and proprietary TCR-NK cell therapy platform to treat solid cancers | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 8 Nov 2026- Site
- birkventure.no
- Last read
- 8 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Companies checked
- 6
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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