Established in London by Johan Brand and Jamie Brooker in 2010, we are most notable for founding Kahoot!, a #LearnTech company whose game-based platform has been played by more than a billion people globally.
Since 2017, we've refocused our efforts on early stage companies. Tim Moore and Sindre Østgård have joined as Managing Partners in London and the Nordics respectively, and we’ve directly or indirectly invested in more than 120 companies across #LearnTech, #OceanTech, #HealthTech and more.
In order to solve key societal problems, we believe we need the collective strength of businesses founded on values-based principles.
With high value creation and profit they are able to reinvest back into their core mission. Their unique culture enables them to adapt and thrive in an ever-changing and uncertain world.
True creativity occurs when we’re brave and embrace a fuzzy future. Our methodology takes a holistic view to understand the role of our companies in a wider context, in order to discover and execute the most impactful solutions.
We believe a company thrives when experts, passionate employees, investors and users take an active role in its development. Product-led companies are ever changing expressions of the underlying qualities that lie within the organisation and the context they operate in.
We use tools that help us visualise the broader picture; enabling us to design transformational, accessible and rewarding products that create network effects leading to exponential growth and financial sustainability.
Our insights into current and emerging technologies allow us to conceive ways they can be applied to solve problems in an inclusive and human-centred way, whilst attempting to eliminate potential negative societal consequences.
We focus our efforts on gaining a deep understanding of some of the greatest challenges of our time. Armed with these insights, our companies solve a range of problems related to human wellbeing and environmental sustainability.
At the core of every We Are Human company is a purpose that ignites emotions and brings people together en masse; whether it’s through shared passions, opportunities, pain-points or moments in time.
We partner with a wide network of experts, like-minded organisations and public institutions. Much like architects, we thrive on bringing together the right combination of smart minds to help turn a vision into a reality.
Rather than setting out with a specific product idea, our new ventures emerge out of the research, exploration and prototyping that we undertake in the areas we care about the most, often with other smart minds we partner with. For example, Kahoot! emerged out of a 2-year research project we undertook with our co-founder Morten Versvik and the Norwegian University of Technology and Science.
We invest in startups that contribute to our wider mission, by helping us learn and gain new insights, get increased exposure and grow our network. We only invest in companies that we could imagine ourselves working in one day, therefore they need to have a team and culture we aspire to be part of, and early proof of global impact, scale and financial sustainability.
We believe in the philosophy of “pay-it-forward”, and take great pride in having a voice that encourages change. We invest our time, money and resources into ecosystems, communities and movements that we care about, and that enable us to help set the agenda for transformation.
Projects we support: iHuman, Windjammer, Apps For Good, Passion4Ocean, MESH, Startup Campus, Startup Lab, Share.
Founded in London in 2010, We Are Human now also operates from the Nordics, with a portfolio of companies located around the world impacting the lives of millions of people every single day.
Our partners are split between London and Oslo, whilst we have a network of experts around the world, allowing us to bring in the right minds for the right projects.
