The VC Trends 2026 – Our Predictions

Year 2026 – Agentic AI and Physical Sovereignty As we look ahead to 2026, the hype around LLMs has given way to a focus on Agents and Atoms. The venture market is stabilizing, with interest rate cuts finally trickling through to LP sentiment and a projected 45% increase in IPO activity compared to last year. […]

Venture Capital in 2025

VC in 2025 – AI Reframing the Venture Landscape The 2025 venture capital year will be remembered as the moment AI stopped being a category and started being the economy. After two years of caution, global VC funding surged by nearly 50% year-over-year to approximately $469 billion. However, this wasn’t a “rising tide lifts all […]

The Strategic Pivot – Notes From 2024

How 2024 Stabilized the Future By 2024, the panic of the market correction had subsided, replaced by strategic pragmatism. Global investment edged back up to $368 billion, but the distribution of that capital changed forever. This was the year Deep Tech and Sovereign Tech moved from the periphery to the core of the European investment […]

Activist VC Glossary – VC jargon explained

This is the next edition of our popular Activist VC glossary. It has all the goodies from the previous editions, a bunch of new terms, and more examples and links to blog posts and other resources that give practical examples of the terms. As always, should you come across any terms you think are important […]

The Nexit annual VC review – Highlights from 2023

As the calendar turns, so do the gears of venture capital. The data and analyses from 2023 have crystallized, revealing intriguing patterns. In keeping with our annual ritual, we’ve delved into the VC statistics and some related innovation ecosystem reports (you’ll find the list at the end of this article) and distilled the essence for […]

Entering the US: Should I Stay or Should I Go?

This third and final entry (see the earlier entries here and here) in our three-part series goes through some of the critical drivers of US market entry and gives some advice as to when you should consider making the leap and when not. Strategy First The question of whether or not to invest in entering […]

Aava Mobile – One More Activist Exit

We are proud to announce our latest activist exit: Aava Mobile has been acquired by the German electronics and sensor design group Pepperl+Fuchs. While we have agreed with the purchaser that the exact details of the deal are not disclosed, we can say the exit was a good one with over 4X return on capital […]

The Hottest VC Trends of 2022: Our Predictions

In our previous blog post, we looked at global Venture Capital investment and exit trends in 2021. Now it’s time to make some predictions for 2022 and beyond. This time around, our crystal ball is clouded by fast-rising inflation, tightening fiscal policy of the central banks, and the hard-to-predict military aggression of Russia: The scope […]

The Hottest VC Trends of 2022: Numbers from 2021

Well, it is that time of the year again: numbers and studies about the VC trends and market in 2021 are now mostly available. Adhering to our tradition, we have read the reports (see list of the reports at the end of this post) and done the heavy lifting for you: Picked some interesting notes […]

New Nexit Investment – Tosibox Oy Raises 5 Million Euros

Press Release TOSIBOX OY RAISES 5 MILLION EUROS IN GROWTH FUNDING OULU, FINLAND, and ATLANTA, GEORGIA, September 15, 2021 – Tosibox Oy, the leading provider of operational technology (OT) networking platforms for enterprises and organizations, announced today it has raised new equity funding of up to 5 million euros from Nexit Ventures and its partner […]