Walter Masalin

Walter Masalin

Venture 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 media 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.

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    Company
    Theme
    Description
    Investment year
      • eGym
      • Company: eGym
      • Description: Digital fitness technology
      • Theme: Other
      • Investment year: 2018
      Other
      Digital fitness technology
      2018
      eGym develops the latest concepts for the organization of the training floors in fitness facilities and health-based institutions, like physiotherapy practices. eGym provides the full product range for the digital value creation: “Intelligent” fully electronic power machines in combination with the eGym Trainer and Fitness Apps. With eGym ONE, eGym offers a rapidly increasing Open Cloud Platform to connect all major fitness manufacturers, and enables its vision of the connected gym to come to life.The eGym Corporate Wellness Market Place leverages the gyms for decreasing health care costs.

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      • Yodo Run
      • Company: Yodo Run
      • Description: Social health and fitness service
      • Theme: Other
      • Investment year: 2017
      Other
      Social health and fitness service
      2017
      Shenzhen Yodo Tianxia Technology Co., Ltd., founded in March 2014, is a digital health company specialized in sports tracking. Yodo Run is the world’s largest sports community, with more than 100 million downloads. Yodo Run has completed three rounds of financing since it was founded and has won numerous accolades recently: the Baidu Gold Bear’s Paw Award, the Best New Product Award of Tencent Application Treasure and the Tencent Take-off Newcomer Award. In 2016, it was elected as the best annual runner application in China by 36krNext. Learn more at www.yodorun.com

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      • Clue
      • Company: Clue
      • Description: Period tracking and fertility app
      • Theme: Mobile Technologies
      • Investment year: 2016
      Mobile Technologies
      Period tracking and fertility app
      2016
      Clue uses science and data to provide actionable personal insights into female health. The free mobile app, available on iOS, Android and Apple Watch, calculates and predicts users’ periods and PMS based on users’ data. It calculates fertility windows based on global averages, which can be made more accurate by users entering ovulation test data. Clue’s mission is to help people all around the world benefit from insights into female health.

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      • Lifesum
      • Company: Lifesum
      • Description: Digital health app
      • Theme: Other
      • Investment year: 2016
      Other
      Digital health app
      2016
      Lifesum is a Swedish digital health startup with the vision to make people healthier and happier by using applied psychology and technology. Founded in 2013 with headquarters in central Stockholm, the company is growing fast and was selected by Wired UK as one of Stockholm's 10 hottest startups.

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      • Vida Health
      • Company: Vida Health
      • Description: Personalized mobile healthcare
      • Theme: Other
      • Investment year: 2016
      Other
      Personalized mobile healthcare
      2016
      Vida Health is a mobile platform for wellness and chronic care that helps people lose weight, lower stress, exercise more, eat better, and manage and reverse chronic conditions like pre-diabetes, diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, anxiety and depression. Vida pairs an individual 1:1 with a human health coach who guides him or her through a personalized plan, leveraging evidence-based methods and programs. Vida is unique in that it creates a truly personalized approach for each individual, and marries that with the power of data – integrating with 100+ apps and devices, biometrics, and claims data – which provides visibility into progress.

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      • GetYourGuide
      • Company: GetYourGuide
      • Description: Tour and activity booking platform
      • Theme: Smart Mobility
      • Investment year: 2015
      Smart Mobility
      Tour and activity booking platform
      2015
      GetYourGuide is the premier site to book experiences across the globe. Since 2009, the company has gained the trust of millions of travelers and established themselves as the authority in unique and unmissable things to do. With thousands of activities and attractions worldwide and a commitment to the highest quality, GetYourGuide constantly evaluates and improves their selection to ensure a standard of excellence.

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      • Babbel
      • Company: Babbel
      • Description: Disrupting language learning
      • Theme: Other
      • Investment year: 2013
      Other
      Disrupting language learning
      2013
      Babbel is the new way to learn a foreign language. The comprehensive learning system combines effective education methods with state-of-the-art technology. Interactive online courses will improve your grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation skills in no time. You'll make fast progress and have fun doing it.

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    Company
    Theme
    Description
    Region
    Exit year
      • Moovit
      • Company: Moovit
      • Theme: Smart Mobility
      • Description: Urban transit app
      • Region: Europe
      • Exit year: 2020
      Smart Mobility
      Urban transit app
      Europe
      2020
      Moovit is helping to create cleaner, safer cities by guiding people in getting around town using any mode of transport. Today, Moovit serves over 800 million users in 3,100 cities across 102 countries, and is the maker of the #1 urban mobility app. For cities with mobility challenges, Moovit offers AI-powered Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) solutions covering planning, operations, and analytics with proven value in reducing congestion, growing ridership, and increasing efficiency and asset utilization – ultimately shifting car drivers to consume public and shared mobility.

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      • Fyber
      • Company: Fyber
      • Theme: Other
      • Description: Mobile monetization platform
      • Region: Europe
      • Exit year: 2014
      Other
      Mobile monetization platform
      Europe
      2014
      Fyber (formerly SponsorPay) is a leading advertising technology company that empowers app developers to execute smart ad monetization strategies across all connected devices through a unified mobile supply side platform. Serving over 100 million unique users per month, Fyber works with thousands of the world’s leading developers, publishers and advertisers. Fyber was acquired by RNTS Media 2017.

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      • Omnidrone
      • Company: Omnidrone
      • Theme: Other
      • Description: Videogames for mobile
      • Region: Europe
      • Exit year: 2019
      Other
      Videogames for mobile
      Europe
      2019
      Omnidrone is a mobile gaming company founded in August 2013 by a team of ex-Digital Chocolate employees in Barcelona. The founding team has worked on many successful titles at their previous company Microjocs Mobile (co-founded, among others, by Gerard Fernandez and Elias Lozano, and acquired by Digital Chocolate in 2007) and later at Digital Chocolate.

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    Company
    Theme
    Description
    Region
    IPO year
      • MAG Interactive
      • Company: MAG Interactive
      • Theme: Other
      • Description: Mobile gaming company
      • Region: Europe
      • IPO year: 2017
      Other
      Mobile gaming company
      Europe
      2017
      MAG Interactive started making apps the day Apple’s App Store opened. Initially developing iOS titles for other companies, in 2011 MAG Interactive embarked on developing its own apps, launching its first game, Ruzzle, in March 2012. It became an immediate success and has been in the top ten list in 148 countries. Located in Stockholm, Sweden, the company is listed on Nasdaq First North since 2017.

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