Top 25 Digital Media Startup Investors in Sweden in October 2023
Top 25 Digital Media Startup Investors in Sweden in October 2023
| Investor | Digital Media Sweden investments |
|---|---|
| Bo Mattsson | 3 |
| Almi Invest | 2 |
| Fredrik Mansson | 2 |
| Bonnier Ventures | 2 |
| Jonas Dromberg | 2 |
| Wellstreet | 2 |
| Petter Lindström | 2 |
| Spintop Ventures | 2 |
| Vicki Potts | 2 |
| SEB (Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken) | 1 |
| Ludvig Linge | 1 |
| Staffan Ingeborn | 1 |
| Inbox Capital | 1 |
| Chalmers Ventures AB | 1 |
| DIG Investment | 1 |
| Swedia Capital | 1 |
| Atwater Capital | 1 |
| Johan Sedihn | 1 |
| Ulrich Boyer | 1 |
| J12 | 1 |
| Niklas Bergman | 1 |
| Lars Lindgren | 1 |
| Niklas Eklund | 1 |
| Creandum | 1 |
| DS Asset Management | 1 |
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Bo Mattsson is a director of Previously, Mattsson founded Cint and served the same company as its chief executive office, chairman, and general and sales manager. Hewas also the head of Swedbank Securities.Mattsson holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and an MBA, both from the Stockholm School of Economics.
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- Internet, Information Technology, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- Sweden, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Zaver — Zaver develops innovative payment solutions to accelerate the revolution in mobile payments. All for companies and individuals to be able to shop in a more accessible and smarter way - offline and online.
- Påmind — Påmind is a Swedish company founded to give customers control over their existing everyday contracts, ranging from mortgages to insurances. The customer is reminded each time a contract expires, Påmind AB then help the customer to renegotiate the agreement and ensure that the customer is offered the best terms. All this is done without the customerhaving to do anything.
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ALMI Invest is a venture capital company which invests in Swedish companies with exciting, scalable business models and motivated entrepreneurs. ALMI Invest consists of eight regionally based venture capital funds, all with local offices and experienced local investment managers. We manage a total of SEK 1 billion. Unlike most venture capitalists,we can invest in a wide range of businesses. A strong team of entrepreneurs, a scalable business model and an initial revenue stream are more important than the line of business when we invest.Our first, initial investment would typically be SEK 2-4 million. During the lifetime of an investment, sums of up to SEK 10 million can be ventured. We always syndicate with an investment partner (another venture capitalist or angel investor) from Sweden or otherwise which means that we can take a maximum of 50 percent of an investment round.ALMI Invest was founded in 2009 by ALMI Fretagspartner together with regional investors. Half of our capital comes from European Union structural funds, which accounts for an investment of SEK 500 million. The other 50 per cent comes from regional investors and ALMI Fretagspartner.
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- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Sweden, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Dicot — Dicot is a pharmaceutical company focused on drug discovery and the development of novel lifestyle drugs to enrich patients' lives. The Company develops and manufactures medicines for the treatment of erectile dysfunction and premature ejaculation. The company's lead candidate, LIB-01, is in the pre-clinical stage of development.
- EmbeDL — Efficient Deep Learning for Embedded Systems
- Nordic Forestry Automation — The forestry sector is standing before unprecedented challenges in adapting to increased demand for sustainable raw materials, carbon storage, biodiversity conservation and a shortage of highly skilled machine operators. Digital tools, precision forestry and automation will play a crucial role in
Fredrik Mansson - Investor @ Propel Capital
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- Beauty, Fashion, Lifestyle
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Sniph — Sniph is a smart subscription service for perfume, which makes it easy to discover new scents.The company lives according to the philosophy that smells make more difference than they can understand and that they affect us more than the group think. Dofter develops memories and feelings. Some smell can lift people when they need it - or take themfar away when they least anticipate it.
- Match2One — Self service programmatic advertising platform, easy to use and no minimum spend. Launch intelligent programmatic display campaigns and drive online sales.
Bonnier Capital is the investment division of the Bonnier Group. Since 2016, we invest in promising companies in structurally growing industries and have become a reliant investment partner to companies and funds of various sizes.
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- Health Care, Digital Media, Software
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Sweden, Finland, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Medoma — Medoma is a Swedish virtual ward company that offer patients acute hospital care in their home instead of in the hospital.
- Natural Cycles — Natural Cycles birth control is 93% effective with typical use and 98% effective with perfect use. Learn more about hormone-free birth control today.
- Kyra — Kyra is a Gen-Z entertainment company creating engaging digital content that resonates with youth culture. We represent world class digital native talent, produce digital content with the biggest and best consumer brands and develop media properties publishing daily content on platforms that matter to Gen Z. Kyra has the ability to not onlytarget but truly engage with the Gen-Z audience through content that resonates based on real-time audience data from our proprietary KyraIQ technology. Our inclusive, ahead-of-the-trend content and content creators make us the ultimate destination for the Gen-Z consumer who wants to be inspired by their own community. Our approach and creativity is based on data and insights and has proven to engage this audience better than any traditional publisher. We house a talent agency representing and collaborating with the leading Gen Z social stars such as Abby Roberts and Noen Eubanks; a global content studio creating award-winning content for youth-seeking brand partners such as Converse and HP; and a newly developed portfolio of media properties publishing daily content on Gen Z-native platforms around beauty, fashion, adventure, food, gaming and entertainment.Kyra engages Gen Z better than any traditional publisher, with an audience of 78 million social media followers racking up 750 million monthly video views in 190 countries around the globe. We know exactly where Gen Z is spending their time online and we respect their interests and passions. That result is content that is meaningful and fosters long term engagement for blue chip brands. Our team are experts on Gen Z culture, whether they are producing, managing, creating or marketing in New York, London and Los Angeles. Learn more at https://kyra.com/reel
Jonas Dromberg - Investor & Advisor @ Apprl
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- Apprl — Performance-based influencer marketing, made for e-commerce brands, and an invitation-only service for digital content creators.
- Klevu — Join thousands of other ecommerce teams using Klevu technology to improve conversion and automate workflows. Personalized search, merchandising, and product recommendations that just work.
Wellstreet is an innovation and tech ecosystem that includes an investment company, a strategic consultancy firm and a venture building incubator.
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- E-Commerce, Software, Retail
- Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Sweden, Norway, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Y/ELM+ — Y/ELM+ is a horseback riding safety and protection brand that focuses n creating leading-edge rider safety solutions.
- Maintract — Maintract is a new generation of financial contract management software. It also offers banking and financial services. They provide contract management automation solutions to banks for drafting, data verification, workflow automation, contract data monitoring, tracking workflow and documentation, compliance management, and more.
- Enable Banking — Empower your business with Enable Banking, the leading open banking connectivity provider, offering a secure, single API solution for seamless integration with 2500+ major banks across Europe. Book a demo today to unlock the future of open finance.
Petter Lindström
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- Advertising, Digital Media, Machine Learning
- Seed, Angel
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Match2One — Self service programmatic advertising platform, easy to use and no minimum spend. Launch intelligent programmatic display campaigns and drive online sales.
Founded in 2009, Spintop Ventures is a venture capital firm backed by a network of successful tech entrepreneurs who have invested in Spintop alongside institutional investors, family offices and some of the most experienced private investors in early stage growth companies.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Sweden, Finland, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- IPRally — Improve your invalidity, patentability and FTO searches. Easy-to-use patent search web application, powered by unique AI knowledge graph technology.
- Elastisys — Elastisys provides fully-managed Kubernetes Platform as a Service, GDPR-ready on EU clouds with optional PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, and Redis.
- EmbeDL — Efficient Deep Learning for Embedded Systems
Vicki Potts
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- Advertising, Digital Media, Machine Learning
- Seed, Angel
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Match2One — Self service programmatic advertising platform, easy to use and no minimum spend. Launch intelligent programmatic display campaigns and drive online sales.
SEB (Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken) is the leading corporate and investment bank in the Nordic countries, serving large corporations and financial institutions with corporate banking, trading and capital markets and global transaction services. Comprehensive pension and asset management solutions are also offered. It offers small and medium-sizedcorporate customers several customised products that were initially developed in cooperation with SEB’s large corporate clients. In addition, numerous services are specifically designed for small companies and entrepreneurs.
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- FinTech, Banking, Financial Services
- Series B, Series D, Funding Round
- Sweden, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- WHSmith — Welcome to WHSmith. Here you can find stationery, books, toys and games and many more products. Shop online or find out more about us.
- metrofibre — metrofibre is a fiber-optic network service provider. Its network design is based on point-to-point routing for each household and user. Their projects are financed by private infrastructure investors in the form of public-private partnerships.
- Vicore Pharma — Vicore Pharma is a pharmaceutical company dedicated to developing innovative medicines for severe lung disorders. It develops drugs that act through the AT2 receptor. The company’s drug candidate C21 aims to improve the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a rare disease for which C21 has been granted orphan drug designation both in the EUand the US. In addition, C21 is explored pre-clinically in a number of rare diseases where the AT2 receptor plays an important role. The company is based in Astra Zeneca’s Bioventurehub in Mölndal.
Ludvig has a background as a co-founder of the company The Astonishing Tribe, TAT, and is an active angel investor. He is passionate about helping strong teams that want to combine design and technology to create innovative companies that really make a difference.TAT became during the beginning of the 2000s, the world leader in user interfacesfor mobile phones and delivered design and software for brands like Samsung, Nokia, Sony Ericsson, and Google. In late 2010, TAT was sold to Canadian Research in Motion, RIM, which makes BlackBerry handsets.
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- Software, Apps, Mobile Apps
- Funding Round, Seed, Angel
- Sweden
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- Apprl — Performance-based influencer marketing, made for e-commerce brands, and an invitation-only service for digital content creators.
- Welcome App — Welcome App is a mobile app that connects refugees and locals.
- MIND Music Labs — When it comes to musical instruments, “Smart” experiences are today still very limited. Musicians need truly wireless, portable, upgradable and cloud-based solutions. 250M users (pro and amateurs musicians) spending about $17B a year and their audience are waiting for a revolution. We develop ELK MusicOS (the “Android” of musical instruments)enabling musical instruments vendors to make a new generation of “Smart Instruments” and we build around it an ecosystem of cloud services.
Managing Investment Director of InnovationsKapital, which he founded in 1994. He pioneered the venture capital industry in the area when the industry was still in its infancy.Staffan has been responsible for InnovationsKapital’s investments in a number of companies, for example; Altitun (acq. by ADC), Formex (acq. by Tyco), Kreatel (acq. byMotorola), and Spotfire (acq. by TIBCO). He currently represents InnKap on the boards of Emric, Hexaformer, Microdata, Oxeon, Paxport, Projectplace and Silecs.Prior to founding InnKap, Staffan was a management consultant and private investor. His early career also includes positions as Managing Director of Frico AB (leading the IPO of the company), and General Manager of the Hygiene Division of LIC. He has an BSc from Göteborg University.
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- Sensor, Advertising, Digital Media
- Funding Round, Series E
- Sweden, Finland
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- Silecs — PiBond manufactures materials used in electronic devices, including patterning materials for semiconductors and optical materials. We also develop complete solutions that allow our clients to focus on creating innovative products.
- Hexaformer —
- Match2One — Self service programmatic advertising platform, easy to use and no minimum spend. Launch intelligent programmatic display campaigns and drive online sales.
Venture Capital in disruptive, global and high growth potential companies. Stage of funding is pre-series A - C rounds
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- Software, Apps, Service Industry
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Sweden, United States, United Arab Emirates
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- Favro — The #1 app making collaborative planning working at scale between teams for SaaS & Live Games companies. Agile team collaboration, smoother than ever.
- Kavall — Kavall is a grocery delivery startup.
- VOI Technology — VOI is a micro-mobility startup that provides electric scooters for last-mile transportation. Douglas Stark, Filip Lindvall, and Fredrik Hjelm founded it in 2018. Its headquarters is located in Stockholm in Sweden.VOI Technology is aiming to create a system of electrically powered scooters around urban centers to provide an affordable,sustainable, and exhilarating way to commute while helping people to reduce their carbon footprint and cities to have a more sustainable transportation network.
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- Software, Energy, Health Care
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- Sweden
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- Adsorbi — Adsorbi develops a novel biomaterial based on cellulose.
- RadChat — RadChat is a method for arranging timeslots between cars in close proximity. The timeslots can then be used for radar sensing or for transmitting data to nearby cars through the radar unit.The patent-pending technology's ability to eliminate radar interference is unequaled. Because each car in the vicinity has its own assigned timeslot,there will be no interference from other vehicles. RadChat enables your vehicle's sensors to be trusted.The data communication utility is a supplementary technology for communication in scenarios requiring low latency, directed connectivity, and safety. Video feeds, vital safety alarms, location and positioning data, and other types of data can be delivered.
- EmbeDL — Efficient Deep Learning for Embedded Systems
DIG Investment is an investment office focused on direct investments in the global alternatives markets. DIG Investment was founded 2011 by HMP Family to source, analyse and structure investments in special situations - many whom relate to the disrupting technology sector. Today DIG Investment has a group of anchor families as investors and havefurther widened the field of opportunities in the alternatives space to include additional areas. Such as, consumer brands, shared economies, retail, hospitality (many related to real-estate), media, software, consumer electronics and environmental/sustainability. Most still related to the core families' main businesses.
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- Energy, CleanTech, Clean Energy
- Funding Round, Seed, Series B
- Sweden
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- LUB Foods — Luthman Backlund Foods AB was started in 2013 by Carl Backlund and Niclas Luthman. Since then they have built a team of dedicated and hard-working people around us that all share the same vision - creating snacks and confectionery that is actually good for you and the people you love.THeir ambition is to create a global brand and a wide range ofproducts that adds to the quality of life and well-being of all the snacks and candy-loving people of the world.
- Qvantum — Qvantum is driven by a passion for a sustainable future, built by a team of industry experts, and using groundbreaking innovation.
- Pivotal Commware — Pivotal Commware was established in 2016 to commercialize a breakthrough in electromagnetic physics, Holographic Beam Forming™ (HBF). Years ago, Pivotal’s founders recognized that wireless demand for data would outgrow the complex coding, multiplexing and modulation schemes that network operators have deployed thus far. Beamforming was theanswer, but existing high cost, size, weight and power-consuming (C-SWaP) solutions were not. That’s why Pivotal assembled a team experienced in advanced commercial antenna and RF circuit design, advanced DARPA technology programs, and, uniquely, active/nonlinear metamaterials. Beyond technology, Pivotal also offers the depth and breadth of skills to develop integrated, end-to-end solutions.
We invest in businesses we believe in and strive to be the partner we ourselves would like to have.
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- Digital Media, Service Industry, Consumer Electronics
- Funding Round
- Sweden
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- Dirac — Dirac optimizes digital audio, perfecting sound for better listening in any environment. Our patented sound solution technology spans automotive, computer and tablet, headphone, home and professional, mobile and streaming audio.
Atwater Capital is an investment firm that is based in Los Angeles, California. The firm seeks to invest in the media and entertainment sectors, including direct investments in portfolio companies, intellectual property control investments, and opportunistic financing opportunities to offer risk-adjusted returns.
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- Music, Video, Digital Media
- Funding Round
- Sweden
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- Epidemic Sound — Download premium royalty free music and SFX! Our free trial gives you access to over 40,000 tracks and 90,000 sound effects for video, streaming and more!-
Johan Sedihn
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- Digital Media, Service Industry, Consumer Electronics
- Funding Round
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Dirac — Dirac optimizes digital audio, perfecting sound for better listening in any environment. Our patented sound solution technology spans automotive, computer and tablet, headphone, home and professional, mobile and streaming audio.
Ulrich Boyer
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- Advertising, Digital Media, Machine Learning
- Seed
- Sweden
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- Match2One — Self service programmatic advertising platform, easy to use and no minimum spend. Launch intelligent programmatic display campaigns and drive online sales.
J12 Ventures invests early in innovative companies in the Nordics.
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- Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Sweden, Germany, Portugal
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- Treyd — Working capital for fast growing brands. Order Now, Pay Suppliers Later
- Ostrom — We make energy fair, smart and green - one flexible monthly plan with no hidden fees, digital-first and 100% renewable energy.
- MVision AI — MVision develops technology that improves the treatment of various types of cancer by using artificial intelligence and machine learning. The company has been built on the idea to be an impactful organisation by bringing AI assisted diagnosis and treatment to whoever needs it, especially in developing countries. This dramatically improves treatmentoutcome and saves money.The founding team consists of AI PhD’s, data platform architects and physicists with experience from companies such as Varian Medical Systems and GE healthcare.
Niklas Bergman - Advisor @ TechCast Global
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- News, PaaS, PC Games
- Angel, Funding Round
- Sweden
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- Gleechi — Gleechi have developed the first commercial software solution to create hand motion that can interact in real-time. The software enables free and natural hand interaction games and virtual reality and makes real-time interaction for robot hands possible. The core competences and technologies are centered around advanced computer vision and machinelearning algorithms. Gleechi AB has been awarded Super Startup of year by Veckans Affärer and ALMI Invest, won the european competition EIT Digital Idea Challenge, and been awarded the startup of the year by STING (Stockholm Innovation & Growth).
- Newsreps — Newsreps is an App based News Network. We connect News companies with App users around the world. The User Generated News contributions are important, a recent study showed that 40% of the News when the war in Syria became public was produced on a smart-phone.We offer an ecosystem where App users and News companies can connect, communicateand our back-end handles all administration. User Generated News isn´t the future - It´s the News industry of today !
Lars Lidgren is the Founder at Bonesupport.
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- Software, Apps, Health Care
- Funding Round, Seed, Angel
- Sweden
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- Ella — Ella is a medical mobile application for women during and after pregnancy.
- Learnster — Learnster develops the LMS of tomorrow for growing organizations aspiring to achieve maximum learning in minimum time.
- Match2One — Self service programmatic advertising platform, easy to use and no minimum spend. Launch intelligent programmatic display campaigns and drive online sales.
Over the past 25 years, Niklas has an entrepreneur built and internationalized a range of companies in the area of reservation systems, revenue management, online marketing, and web publishing; amongst others he was the CEO and co-founder Bookatable, Livebookings, Infogate, and Epani.Over the past 8 years, Niklas has a direct investor and advisorto investment companies and venture capital companies; amongst others he was a co-founder and general partner at D-Ax (Axel Johnson Group CVC), a venture partner for Wellington Partners Venture Capital. Niklas is currently a general partner for PES Holdings. Investment focus is the Digital Media Sector and Digital Growth Companies, primarily in the Nordic countries and across Europe. Niklas describes himself as a ‘computer software geek and wizard turned businessman’ as he started his career at the age of 15. His achievements in building internationally successful companies have been recognized by various industry awards.
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- Software, Apps, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Sweden, Japan, Denmark
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- Savr — Savr is an Investment platform disrupting the Swedish fund industry with a lower fee structure and a new business model.
- PinMeTo — Optimize your time and local presence with an all-in-one local SEO tool. Show up in local search, manage listings, reviews, messages from one dashboard.
- Winnow — Winnow builds artificial intelligence tools to help chefs run more profitable and sustainable kitchens by cutting food waste in half. They develop technology to cut food waste in their operations. Their digital tools provide data to drive improvements in kitchen production processes and reduce environmental footprint.Winnow's mission is toconnect commercial kitchen, create a movement of chefs, and inspire others. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in London, England, United Kingdom.
We support early-stage founders in building global, category-defining companies. From Seed to IPO and beyond.
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- Software, Information Technology, Mobile
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Sweden, Germany, United States
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- Ivy — We are building a global API for instant bank payments
- Terralayr — Terralayr uses software to collect energy grid-scale storage, which will be required as we strive to make renewable energy more efficient and lucrative.
- Lindus Health — Lindus Health. From recruitment to delivery, we accelerate clinical trials. Our mission is to make health research accessible for everyone, everywhere.
Investing in listed companies and venture firms
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- E-Commerce, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- South Korea, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- ArtNGuide — ArtNGuide conducts online auctions and art fairs.
- Fassker — Fassker is a fashion magazine and community for the digital native generation.
- Doosan Mobility Innovation — Doosan offers drone solutions based on Fuel Cell powerpacks, which enable longer flights than existing battery-powered drones.
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