Top 5 Crowdfunding Startup Investors in Sweden in October 2023

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Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Sweden, Finland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Yabie — Yabie's Payment and POS systems take the effort out of selling. It's the most intuitive, hassle-free and mobile way of interacting with your customers and making a sale.
roaring.io — We create automated solutions that simplifies your daily business processes, enabling you to work smarter and stay competitive.
Acknoledger — Ackno API will consist of UCNS and Ackno plagiarism engine that will be used by NFT platforms, NFT Marketplaces, Metaverses, and Digital Universes UCNS will adopt a decentralized approach to provide unique identifier for any content that is validated across Metaverses and NFT platforms AcknoLedger will collaborate with the current NFT and MetaverseEcosystem Partners to deploy UCNS solutions to their existing Digital Assets

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Lars H. Thunell, a Swedish national, is Executive Vice President and CEO of IFC (International Finance Corporation), a member of the World Bank Group.Lars Thunell is leading IFC in its mission to promote sustainable private sector development. Since joining the Corporation in January 2006, Lars Thunell has advanced growth of IFC's businessand its mission to create opportunities in emerging markets and improve people's lives. He has visited 60 developing countries to see firsthand how IFC can best help its clients with financing and advisory services, and endorsed further decentralization of IFC.Lars Thunell joined IFC after a successful career in the financial services industry. Most recently, he was the Chief Executive Officer of SEB, a North European commercial and investment bank. In the 1990s, Lars Thunell served as the Chief Executive Officer of Trygg-Hansa, a Swedish insurance company, and as Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Nordbanken.As President and Chief Executive Officer of Securum, an asset management company established by the Swedish government, he played a key role in the government's strategy for resolving the country's banking crisis of the 1990s. Under Lars Thunell's leadership, Securum was able to restructure and sell off distressed assets held by the government more quickly than originally expected, recovering value for the Swedish taxpayer.Previously, he worked at ABB Zurich and at American Express in New York. He has also held numerous board positions with international companies and nongovernmental organizations.Lars Thunell graduated with a doctorate from the University of Stockholm and was a research fellow at the Harvard University Center for International Affairs.

Investment focus

Solar, FinTech, Robotics
Seed, Angel, Series A
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

TRINE — TRINE uses crowdinvesting to enable people to support solar energy projects, while also delivering a return to the investors. We provide the expertise, organization and the platform for enabling secure investments in carefully selected projects and bring finance to local solar entrepreneurs in emerging nations to electrify the world. Ourcrowdinvestors will fund the initial cost for installing the solar system, over time this loan is paid back with interest by the value of electricity produced from the solar system. With our solution we will connect money sitting in banks, with solar entrepreneurs like yourself in need of financing. By doing so, we will not only enable people to earn a return on an impact investment and democratize those investment options, but also help you to elevate poor communities out of their energy poverty and improve their living standard.
Spowdi — Spowdi uses solar-powered drip irrigation to enable farmers to save water, be more independent and secure more profitable food production.
ManoMotion — ManoMotion is a deep tech AI company developing software for real time 3D gesture analysis that allows the user to interact with technology through finger and hand gestures in 3D. This is particularly important to create effective interaction without the need for additional hardware in Augmented and Virtual Reality, and with the small screens, orno screens, typical in wearable computing and smart devices.

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Focused on developing and deploying the critical climate solutions our world needs to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.

Investment focus

Energy, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Dioxycle — Dioxycle is develop electrolyser solutions for carbon dioxide emissions.
Boston Metal — We're on a mission to transform how metals are made. Our breakthrough technology produces emissions-free liquid iron.
Sortera Technologies — Sortera Alloys manufactures low-cost, high-quality metal alloys for domestic manufacturing using its artificial intelligence technology.

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Boel Rydenå-Swartling

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Mobile Apps
Angel, Funding Round, Seed
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Prion — Prion makes it quick and easy for the preschool staff to give parents insight into what happens at preschool - together with the children. The app is available free for iPhone, Android and iPad.
The Fit — Let our AI-powered fitting technology improve your customer experience and bottom line.
Care to Translate — We provide medical translations for healthcare professionals and patients. Available in 40 languages, 24/7 on your smart device or browser.

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