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Left to right: Malin Christine Mjøs Lassen (CFO & Chief Compliance Officer), Stine Sofie Grindheim (CEO), Stephen Øyhovden (Head of Strategy & Business Development), Tine Harrison (Head of Marketing) and Jens-Petter Tonning (Head of Corporate Finance).
A matchmaking platform for investors and start-ups Starting a new business can be hard: it’s often expensive and finding investors can be a challenge. But it does not have to be. More and more people are now interested in investing their money in shares and stocks instead of putting it into a savings account. Dealflow is here to make that process easier. By Hanna Margrethe Enger |
Photos: Opplett, by Siv-Elin Skoglund
The Dealflow platform was established in 2017 by Rune Brunborg and Petter Skulstad. They had noticed that there were very few opportunities for companies who wanted to raise less than 100 million Norwegian kroner in share issues, and they wanted to do something about it. They 46 |
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also wanted to democratise investing in early-stage companies and allow everyday Norwegians to be a part of the journey. “A lot of the value creation and share-value increase takes place before the company is even listed on the stock ex-
change,” Stine Sofie Grindheim, CEO, explains. “But it’s not easy to come in as an investor before the company is listed, as that’s when the public gets access to buy shares.” Making early-stage investments easier Typically, you had to know someone in the company or have the funds to invest a large amount of money if you wanted to invest before a company got listed on the stock exchange. Being able to take part in a share issue was therefore not available to most people. A share issue
