Eric Christian King Skovsgaard

Impact Investor, Entrepreneur, Creator & Consultant | Sustainability - Food/Agri - Tech - Applied AI - Hospitality | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion | Nordics & Sub-Saharan Africa - Investor in 85+ Startups

📍 Norway🔄 Updated September 2026💼 8 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Dec 2021
VC🌍 Norway
8
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8y
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Portfolio

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Dec 2021
hiveonline is building sustainable decentralised finance for financially excluded smallholders and their local ecosystems, by giving them access to credit and markets. We focus on community based market development, aggregating data and digitising validation. Our blockchain based system includes vouchers for safe, corruption free distribution of goods and a stablecoin, so we can provide digital cash in local currency along with secure, immutable records. @wearehiveonline
Investor
Jun 2021
Titl is a platform that connects African property owners with their tenants to manage rent, automate reminders, and get real-time reports of the property.
Investor
Jul 2020
Katapult Ocean invest in and support startups that have a positive impact on our ocean. Since 2018, Katapult Ocean has made 64 investments in exciting ocean impact companies from all over the world (27 countries, 5 continents). The companies participate in a 3-month long accelerator program to support growth and impact. A global network of more than 100 mentors and partners support the companies together with a team based in Oslo, Norway. To learn about the companies Katapult Ocean has invested in, please go to our portfolio overview at katapultocean.com/portfolio
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Jul 2020
Vacant Offices at Great Locations 🌍
early stageReal Estate
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Jul 2020
Diwala is an all-in-one SaaS platform that allows people and organizations to hold, verify, and issue any digital credential in the world. Our digital identity wallet enables people and businesses to build an easily accessible and verifiable record of essential documentation. Our SSI principles enable seamless data sharing with unparalleled integrity and interoperability, removing digital infrastructure barriers. We specialize in delivering technology solutions to emerging markets, facilitating trust independent of institutional or physical borders. Our mission is to make it effortless to issue and verify any credential in the world. We have 76 digital credential issuers using the platform and we have secured 334,000 users to our platform by contract with key customers such as the Stanbic Bank, Uganda Law Society, Uganda Marketers Society, The Human Resource Managers Association of Uganda, SAP University Alliances, the MTN Youth Skilling program, NSSF Hi innovator, Uganda Institute of Banking and Financial Services to mention but a few. The platform is currently being used in Uganda, Kenya, South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Lesotho, Namibia, Ghana and USA. Our vision is to help create a world where you can trust the data that you see.
Investor Program Manager
Dec 2018
PANGEA – WE FACILITATE TRUST, TRANSPARENCY AND IMPACT Pangea is an accelerator program and an investment platform that matches startups with investors. We create an enabling environment, where entrepreneurs can develop competence, access relevant network, and capital in order to reach their full potential. The Pangea Accelerator Program is a three months milestone based accelerator program focusing on validation and scalability. Our first Accelerator program is underway in Kenya, with huge success.
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May 2018
Weorder is a vertically focused financial platform for the restaurant industry. From ghost kitchens to independent chains, we provide products and services that help restauranteurs realize their business potentials. We are a Nordic leader HQd in Oslo (Norway) and Odense (Denmark). We believe in Good Revenue for restaurants which focuses on direct and identifiable customers with positive margin contribution and data intelligence. Weorder is the parent company of Quickorder, a leading all-in-one restaurant commerce system (POS/online ordering/payment) in the Nordics with over 1300 restaurant customers. Read more about quickorder here: www.quickorder.io Weorder is headquartered in Oslo, Norway.
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May 2018
RxAll™ is a digital infrastructure platform for healthcare. We enable on-demand access to high quality medicines at manufacturer/wholesale price to hospitals, pharmacies and patients from our curated network of high quality wholesalers and pharma companies. We solve $1.25T problem of access to affordable safe drugs. Our tech stack includes a proprietary instant drug testing platform- RxScanner™- that helps our sellers authenticate the medicines they sell. We also have the RxPOS™ that helps our sellers manage and sell inventory in store and online through our RxDelivered™ marketplace. Further, we have our embedded fintech RxPay™ that helps finance invoices for buyers on our platform ensuring availability and affordability of high quality medicines from our pharma company and wholesaler partners to our B2B2C customers. Our vision is to enable universal access to high quality medicines at the lowest prices to all humans across the world - starting with Africa.
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2025
Limited Partner
Jun 2025
Launch Africa Ventures is a frontier Pan-African fund solving the significant funding gap in the Seed to Series A bridge funding investment landscape in Africa. We invest in B2B and B2B2C early-stage, technology-driven startups with strong management teams solving the most meaningful problems on the continent. Our objective is to provide funding in that critical investment phase of a startup to enable scale and growth while creating a sustainable ecosystem.
2024
2021
Investor
Dec 2021
hiveonline is building sustainable decentralised finance for financially excluded smallholders and their local ecosystems, by giving them access to credit and markets. We focus on community based market development, aggregating data and digitising validation. Our blockchain based system includes vouchers for safe, corruption free distribution of goods and a stablecoin, so we can provide digital cash in local currency along with secure, immutable records. @wearehiveonline
Investor
Jun 2021
Titl is a platform that connects African property owners with their tenants to manage rent, automate reminders, and get real-time reports of the property.
2020
Investor
Jul 2020
Katapult Ocean invest in and support startups that have a positive impact on our ocean. Since 2018, Katapult Ocean has made 64 investments in exciting ocean impact companies from all over the world (27 countries, 5 continents). The companies participate in a 3-month long accelerator program to support growth and impact. A global network of more than 100 mentors and partners support the companies together with a team based in Oslo, Norway. To learn about the companies Katapult Ocean has invested in, please go to our portfolio overview at katapultocean.com/portfolio
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