Kjartan Rist

Kjartan has spent the last 20 years working in the technology sector as a founder, advisor, board member, and investor. As a Founding Partner of Concentric, the London & Copenhagen-based venture capital firm, he works with early-stage tech businesses (Seed+ through Series B) to support their development and accelerate growth. Current investments include Airsorted, Huckletree, PayAsUGym, Pockit, Public.io, Digital Risks, Frontier Car Group, Insly, Memory.ai, Duedil, Coindirect etc. Concentric take a hands-on, founder focused approach to start-up investment and is passionate about strengthening the profile of the European Venture Capital sector. Prior to Concentric, Kjartan co-founded the venture fund DN Capital and the merchant bank Korral Partners, and have been instrumental in 70+ transactions. Kjartan graduated from the University of Bath and with an MBA from Imperial College London.