Norselab Group

Yngve Tvedt founded the firm and led its transformation from venture studio to impact asset manager. He is joined by Erik Syvertsen, who brings governance expertise from international asset management, and Maria de Perlinghi, who oversees sustainability and communications. Norselab operates a platform model that pairs investment teams with in-house impact infrastructure; day-to-day investment decisions are made by the specialist teams managing each fund, with central oversight from these principals.

The firm sources growth-stage companies from late seed onward, leveraging networks from its venture-studio origins and its Oslo headquarters for Nordic deal flow. Norselab’s website invites purpose-driven founders to submit opportunities directly, and its public claims emphasize partnering with companies whose products and services drive industry transformation, not merely incremental efficiency.

Norselab is a multi-strategy asset manager that runs three SFDR Article 9 impact funds, not a family office or a traditional venture firm. The platform enables rapid launches of new impact products across asset classes, currently spanning growth equity and high-yield credit, with backing from Capricorn Investment Group’s Sustainable Investors Fund.

The firm builds and manages its own funds rather than committing to external vehicles. Its growth equity fund makes direct investments into European companies, while its two credit funds target Nordic high-yield and thematic high-yield opportunities.

The growth equity strategy focuses on late-seed to growth-stage companies. The credit strategies target yield opportunities in the Nordic high-yield market and thematic credit, offering debt instruments rather than equity stakes.

Norselab does not disclose separate philanthropic foundations. Its impact measurement framework, the Meaningfulness framework, operates within the commercial fund structures — all classified as SFDR Article 9 — rather than through a non-profit arm. The firm is a certified B Corp and participates in the Global Impact Investing Network and UN Global Compact, embedding sustainability directly into its investment processes.

Norselab has not publicly described co-investment arrangements with external general partners. The firm sources, structures, and manages its own funds directly, with Capricorn Investment Group providing strategic backing to the platform but not participating as a co-investor on individual deals.