Founder & CEO at Atomico · Joined 2006
View Live Interactive Profile →Niklas Zennström's contribution to Atomico is institutional rather than narrowly thematic: after co-founding Kazaa, Joltid, and Skype, he built Atomico in 2006 as a direct corrective to Europe's historical venture capital gap. The firm's long-running emphasis on helping European founders expand globally is inseparable from Skype's own cross-border story - a product built in Europe that became a genuinely global category leader. That thesis has been repeatedly validated, most visibly through Supercell's roughly $8.6 billion sale to Tencent in 2016, one of the largest outcomes in European venture history, and through continued bets on companies like Klarna and DeepL.