Northwood leads seed and Series A rounds in fintech, climate, health, infrastructure, software and industrials across Europe and North America.https://northwood.xocoweb.workers.dev/enhttps://northwood.xocoweb.workers.dev/insights/q3-2026-letter/https://northwood.xocoweb.workers.dev/insights/q3-2026-letter/Our letter to the partners in our funds for the third quarter of 2026: two new commitments, a partial sale of Payfield, and progress at Albedo and Juniper.Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTInvestor lettershello@example.com (Grant Holloway and Sofia Ortega)https://northwood.xocoweb.workers.dev/insights/the-long-first-cheque/https://northwood.xocoweb.workers.dev/insights/the-long-first-cheque/Why we write fewer, larger first cheques, hold back more than half of each fund for follow-ons, and accept the slower pace that comes with both.Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEssayshello@example.com (Theo Marchetti)https://northwood.xocoweb.workers.dev/insights/board-meetings-that-help/https://northwood.xocoweb.workers.dev/insights/board-meetings-that-help/A practical guide for founders to board meetings that earn their time: the pre-read, the agenda, how to reach decisions, and how often to meet.Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTPlaybookshello@example.com (Nadia Mensah and Lena Fischer)https://northwood.xocoweb.workers.dev/insights/q2-2026-letter/https://northwood.xocoweb.workers.dev/insights/q2-2026-letter/Our letter to the partners in our funds for the second quarter of 2026: two new Fund V investments, early results at Amperra and Kiln, and where Fund III stands after Ostra.Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTInvestor lettershello@example.com (Grant Holloway and Sofia Ortega)https://northwood.xocoweb.workers.dev/insights/boring-software-durable-companies/https://northwood.xocoweb.workers.dev/insights/boring-software-durable-companies/Why we keep backing infrastructure software that few people outside engineering teams will ever see, and what makes it so hard to replace once it is in.Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTEssayshello@example.com (Rafael Costa and Jun Seo)https://northwood.xocoweb.workers.dev/insights/the-grid-is-the-bottleneck/https://northwood.xocoweb.workers.dev/insights/the-grid-is-the-bottleneck/Clean power is now cheap to build and slow to connect. Why our climate investing has shifted towards storage, grid software and the industries that must plug in.Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTEssayshello@example.com (Clara Novak and Hana Weber)https://northwood.xocoweb.workers.dev/insights/what-we-look-for-in-a-founding-team/https://northwood.xocoweb.workers.dev/insights/what-we-look-for-in-a-founding-team/At seed and Series A we are mostly backing people. The qualities we have learned to look for in a founding team, and a few we have learned to discount.Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTEssayshello@example.com (Grant Holloway and Kwame Asante)https://northwood.xocoweb.workers.dev/insights/the-first-eighteen-months/https://northwood.xocoweb.workers.dev/insights/the-first-eighteen-months/What to do with the eighteen months after a seed round closes: where the money should go, what to measure, and when to start thinking about the next raise.Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTPlaybookshello@example.com (Hana Weber and Lena Fischer)https://northwood.xocoweb.workers.dev/insights/annual-letter-2025/https://northwood.xocoweb.workers.dev/insights/annual-letter-2025/Our annual letter to the partners in our funds: closing Fund V, the sale of Ostra, Tidewater's first year as a public company, and the first five Fund V investments.Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTInvestor lettershello@example.com (Nadia Mensah and Theo Marchetti)https://northwood.xocoweb.workers.dev/insights/ostra-joins-calder-health/https://northwood.xocoweb.workers.dev/insights/ostra-joins-calder-health/Ostra, which helps hospitals find and enrol patients for clinical trials, has been acquired by Calder Health. A note on what the company built.Tue, 04 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMTNewshello@example.com (Amira Haddad)https://northwood.xocoweb.workers.dev/insights/announcing-fund-five/https://northwood.xocoweb.workers.dev/insights/announcing-fund-five/We have closed Fund V at $650 million, to lead seed and Series A rounds in Europe and North America. Here is what stays the same and what changes.Tue, 15 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMTNewshello@example.com (Nadia Mensah)