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Walter Masalin

Walter Masalin /

Partner

Walter has over 10 years of technology and investment experience. While overseeing investments and portfolio activities for NGP Capital in Europe, Walter has been working in a global team his whole career. He has prior experience from working at Nokia and was an entrepreneur in the social medial space before that. His current investment focus is on Digital Health and Consumer Services.

Walter’s passion is to help thriving entrepreneurs and dedicated teams to succeed. He enjoys working with disruptive companies, innovative new technologies and bold thinking individuals. Well-being is a curiosity of his and he has a big appetite for how technology can enable better personal health.

Walter holds a M.Sc. in Engineering Physics from Helsinki University of Technology, a M.Sc. in Economics from University of Helsinki and studied Economics and Psychology at Harvard University. Walter is based in Europe.

Active Investments

Babbel

Babbel
GetYourGuide

GetYourGuide
Moovit

Moovit
Omnidrone

Omnidrone
Yogaia

Yogaia
Yodo Run

Yodo Run
Vida Health

Vida Health
eGym

eGym

Exited Investments

MAG Interactive

MAG Interactive
Fyber

Fyber

News

Caroobi raises $20 million in Series B led by NGP Capital.

Caroobi received 20M USD in Series B financing. As the first digital car repair shop, the company brought the automotive aftersales market online by offering remote diagnosis and fixed prices. With the new investment, Caroobi will further expand its recently launched marketplace for replacement car parts and kick off its international rollout.

10 years and 14 languages later

Babbel recently turned ten years old. We sat down with co-founders Markus Witte and Thomas Holl in Berlin to talk about Babbel ten years from now, what being a learning company means and why building a diverse team is top of mind for the founders.

– Annika Sjöberg, NGP Capital

GetYourGuide’s unstoppable climb

GetYourGuide raises $75M Series D. The funding round is one of the largest ever raised by a Berlin startup, and the largest ever raised in this segment of the tourism industry.

– Annika Sjöberg, NGP Capital

A morning at MAG Interactive

We met with Daniel Hasselberg, CEO of MAG Interactive in his office in an 18th-century building on a leafy street in central Stockholm, to discuss managing through fast growth in the hits-driven gaming market and how MAG keeps on innovating year over year.

Up close with Walter Masalin – NGP Capital’s new Partner

With investments in Babbel, Clue, Fyber and MAG Interactive, as well as a number of other deals across Europe and Israel, Walter has been promoted to Partner at NGP. Here he shares his passion-points, what he thinks it takes to be a good venture investor, and a few fun trips down memory lane.

– Annika Sjöberg, NGP Capital

Christian Birk joins NGP as an EIR

We are excited to announce that Christian Birk, co-founder of Endomondo, has joined NGP to work closely with our digital health team, supporting both new digital health investments and our digital health portfolio companies.

– Walter Masalin, NGP Capital

Ida Tin’s Battle to Build Clue

Ida Tin wanted to build an app to help women track their periods. For months, she went door to door, pitching the concept to early-stage investors in Berlin, London, New York, and Silicon Valley.

– Lindsay Gellman, NY Times

The Chronic Care Continuum

At NGP, we are very excited about the ways that entrepreneurs and innovators are leveraging new and cheaper technologies to be able to extend the reach and efficacy of chronic care programs on a scalable basis.

– Walter Masalin, NGP Capital