founder niklas zennstr m products venture capital growth capital number of employees 20 website www.atomico.com atomico is an international technology investment firm headquartered in london with offices in beijing istanbul s o paulo and tokyo . its founder and ceo is niklas zennstr m a serial entrepreneur who co founded skype and kazaa . the team includes chris barnes yann de vries mattias ljungman hiro tamura and teddi wardi . contents 1 focus 2 investments 3 see also 4 references 5 external links focus edit the company focuses on new consumer technologies that have the potential to transform markets and places an emphasis on strong management . zennstr m has stated that he founded the company in 2006 after seeing that new technology would disrupt not just consumer markets but the venture capital industry itself . 1 it has invested in more than fifty companies on three continents via three funds atomico ventures i the 165 million atomico ventures ii and most recently atomico iii which closed at 476 million in november 2013 . 2 the company has been involved with exits or substantial transactions in companies including supercell sold a majority stake to softbank valuing the business at 3 billion in 2013 the climate corporation acquired by monsanto for 1.1 billion in 2013 xobni acquired by yahoo in 2013 and powerreviews acquired by bazaarvoice in 2012 . 3 the company publicly states that it has an active approach to deal sourcing . atomico runs an open office programme in which the company visits cities around the world six to eight times a year searching for investments and usually involving talks by zennstr m to university students . he urges aspiring entrepreneurs to look for large market opportunities . 4 in some deals atomico invests alongside other investors such as when it partnered with accel partners in march 2011 to lead a 42 million funding round in rovio mobile . 5 and its february 2011 investment in fon . 6 investments edit the firm s investments include europe 6wunderkinder 7 betable chemist direct evrythng fashiolista fon hailo jolicloud klarna last.fm star mydeco onetwotrip ostrovok playfire quipper rovio mobile seesmic siine silk skype state website supercell video game company uniplaces viagogo wrapp zattikka north america deca fab.com fabricly heysan jawbone knewton kyte memolane powerreviews quid rdio technorati the climate corporation trialpay xobni south america bebestore cinemaki connect parts pedidos ya restorando asia cmune gengo iboxpay see also edit list of venture capital firms references edit why facebook film the social network is essential viewing for entrepreneurs the sunday telegraph 13 march 2011 . atomico corporate website http www.atomico.com team mattias ljungman skype founder to students don t follow the obvious path venture capital dispatch wsj blogs 11 march 2011 . angry birds creators rovio raises 26.2 million reuters 11 march 2011 1 atomico leads 10m investment round in fon atomico press release . wauters robin november 16 2011 . atomico invests 4.2 m in 6wunderkinder german name global ambitions . techcrunch . archived from the original on april 11 2014 . retrieved april 11 2014 . external links edit atomico company website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title atomico & oldid 736341374 categories venture capital firms of the united kingdom navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages fran ais edit links this page was last modified on 26 august 2016 at 20 31 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view