Luzana Costa

Builder | Investor | Advisor

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Nov 2022
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Africa Investments
Nov 2022
Norrsken supports founders with the knowledge, network and capital they need to make saving the world their business. We operate award-winning Norrsken House hubs in Stockholm, Sweden, Barcelona, Spain and Kigali, Rwanda. We manage the Norrsken Accelerator, the world’s leading accelerator program for early-stage impact startups, and we’ve incubated five impact-focused venture capital funds, with 100+ portfolio companies and nearly 1b USD under management. Norrsken is a non-profit, non-religious and non-partisan foundation founded in 2016 by Niklas Adalberth, the co-founder of Klarna. Join in and be part of the solution.
Angel Investor
Oct 2019
This is a catchall company for the doers, the thinkers, and the innovators.
Talent Investor
Feb 2018
Entrepreneurs First invests in exceptional individuals to build startups from scratch. We bring together talented outliers to develop their most ambitious ideas and raise money from the world’s best investors. Since pioneering Talent Investing in 2015, we’ve learned to recognize individuals with extraordinary futures before anyone else, embedding them in a community of ambitious peers and giving them the tools they need to succeed, fast. We back them before they have a company, a team, even before they have an idea, based purely on talent. EF’s portfolio is now collectively valued at over $16B, and includes companies such as Aztec, Cleo, Magdrive, Neptune, Omnea, Opply, PolyAI, Tractable, and many more. EF is backed by some of the worlds leading founders and investors, including Founders Fund, Greylock, John Collison (founder – Stripe), Patrick Collison (founder – Stripe), Reid Hoffman (founder – LinkedIn), Eric Schmidt (former CEO - Google), Demis Hassabis (founder – Google DeepMind ), Taavet Hinrikus (founder – Wise), Matt Mullenweg (founder – WordPress), Charlie Songhurst (Board member – Meta), Christa Davies (Board member – Stripe), Lachy Groom (founder – Physical Intelligence), Aidan Gomez (founder – Cohere), Mati Staniszewski (founder – ElevenLabs), Danny Rimer (Partner - Index Ventures), Matt Cohler (former General Partner - Benchmark). We exist to make great companies happen that otherwise wouldn’t. For more information about Entrepreneurs First, visit www.joinef.com Were hiring! Join our global team and experience firsthand the workings of a globally unique talent investor working with cutting edge entrepreneurs on world changing technologies: https://www.joinef.com/about/careers
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2022
Africa Investments
Nov 2022
Norrsken supports founders with the knowledge, network and capital they need to make saving the world their business. We operate award-winning Norrsken House hubs in Stockholm, Sweden, Barcelona, Spain and Kigali, Rwanda. We manage the Norrsken Accelerator, the world’s leading accelerator program for early-stage impact startups, and we’ve incubated five impact-focused venture capital funds, with 100+ portfolio companies and nearly 1b USD under management. Norrsken is a non-profit, non-religious and non-partisan foundation founded in 2016 by Niklas Adalberth, the co-founder of Klarna. Join in and be part of the solution.
Investment Manager
Jun 2022
DCG Expeditions is a global early-stage investor that supports the top fintech and crypto founders on their journeys to build the next generation of financial services. We are successful fintech founders ourselves, have access to an unrivalled global fintech network, we move fast and invest with permanent capital which means we can truly support founders over the long term.
2019
Post Investment Ops Manager
Nov 2019
Balderton is a multistage venture firm with 25 years of experience supporting Europe’s best founders from Seed to IPO. We have both early and growth funds and invest across the technology sector.
Angel Investor
Oct 2019
This is a catchall company for the doers, the thinkers, and the innovators.
2018
Talent Investor
Feb 2018
Entrepreneurs First invests in exceptional individuals to build startups from scratch. We bring together talented outliers to develop their most ambitious ideas and raise money from the world’s best investors. Since pioneering Talent Investing in 2015, we’ve learned to recognize individuals with extraordinary futures before anyone else, embedding them in a community of ambitious peers and giving them the tools they need to succeed, fast. We back them before they have a company, a team, even before they have an idea, based purely on talent. EF’s portfolio is now collectively valued at over $16B, and includes companies such as Aztec, Cleo, Magdrive, Neptune, Omnea, Opply, PolyAI, Tractable, and many more. EF is backed by some of the worlds leading founders and investors, including Founders Fund, Greylock, John Collison (founder – Stripe), Patrick Collison (founder – Stripe), Reid Hoffman (founder – LinkedIn), Eric Schmidt (former CEO - Google), Demis Hassabis (founder – Google DeepMind ), Taavet Hinrikus (founder – Wise), Matt Mullenweg (founder – WordPress), Charlie Songhurst (Board member – Meta), Christa Davies (Board member – Stripe), Lachy Groom (founder – Physical Intelligence), Aidan Gomez (founder – Cohere), Mati Staniszewski (founder – ElevenLabs), Danny Rimer (Partner - Index Ventures), Matt Cohler (former General Partner - Benchmark). We exist to make great companies happen that otherwise wouldn’t. For more information about Entrepreneurs First, visit www.joinef.com Were hiring! Join our global team and experience firsthand the workings of a globally unique talent investor working with cutting edge entrepreneurs on world changing technologies: https://www.joinef.com/about/careers
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