# Top 15 Finance Angel Investors in Sweden in May 2026

## Alexander Hars
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gothenburg, Vastra Gotaland, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, SaaS

Alexander Hars - Board member @ Zalster

## Peter Dahlgren
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Finance, Internet

Peter Dahlgren - Founding Partner @ Confidus Venture Capital

## Erlend Reitan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Secondary Market
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Finance

Seasoned venture capital investor helping founders and their teams hands-on to accelerate the entrepreneurial journey. Actively looking for investments with unicorn potential.M&A specialist with experience from complex cross-border transactions. Experience from more than 20 M&A transactions including more than 10 cross-border deals, exitswith mainly publicly listed and Private Equity counterparts.

## Niklas Eklund
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Apps, Internet

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.

## Roland Nilsson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Finance, Internet

Roland Nilsson - Founding Partner @ Confidus Venture Capital

## Lena Apler
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gothenburg, Vastra Gotaland, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Finance, Software

Lena Apler - CEO @ Collector Bank

## Jarno Vanhatapio
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gothenburg, Vastra Gotaland, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, SaaS, Banking

Jarno Vanhatapio is the CEO and founder of NA-KD.com in Sweden, a disruptive online fashon retailer that has shipped to over 100 countries 4 months from the start in December 2015.He also founded ZooZoo.com and that became the second biggest petfood supplier online in Sweden after two years. Previously, he founded Nelly.com, the leading e-tailer infashion in the Nordics and one of the biggest fashion e-commerce sites in northern Europe with sales exceeding 180 million USD in 2015 and the company staffed 450 people. He has in depth knowledge of professional e-commerce, viral & social shopping, social shopping etc. Mr. Vanhatapio was in 2010, nominated for The Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award. In 2012, he received the "Söderbergska Handelspriset" from the Swedish Retail & Commerce association, the biggest individual prize in Nordic retail. He is also a Module Leader at Hyper Island, since January 2011.

## Robert Swartling
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Racing, Sports, FinTech

Robert Swartling

## Erik Voorhees
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zug, Zug, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Bitcoin, FinTech, Finance

Erik Voorhees is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of ShapeShift Ag. Erik Voorhees served as the Head of Marketing and Communications at BitInstant LLC. Erik Voorhees is an American and Panamanian startup Founder. Erik Voorhees was co-founder of the bitcoin company Coinapult. Erik Voorhees was the Founder and Partial Owner of SatoshiDICE. Hejoined BitInstant in February 2012. He has been a Member of Cryptocurrency Advisory Board at MGT Capital Investments, Inc. since June 14, 2016.

## Nicolas Cary
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Dental, Bitcoin, FinTech

Nicolas Cary is the Co-Founder & Vice Chairman at Blockchain.com.

## Federico Pirzio-Biroli
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Non Profit, Software, Venture Capital

Fede started out as an angel investor in 2010. His portfolio quickly grew, so he built a team around him and thus Playfair Capital was born. We have since gone on to become one of Europe’s most active and well-known early-stage VC funds. Before becoming a technology investor Fede worked for several NGOs in Africa, with a particular focus on aidtransparency. He recently renewed his focus on Africa by relocating to Kenya and becoming an angel investor in East Africa’s burgeoning startup ecosystem. He maintains an active role at Playfair and continues to lead our investment team.

## Roger Ver
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Bitcoin, FinTech, Cryptocurrency

Roger is currently involved in numerous Bitcoin related projects. He is an early investor in bitcoin-related startups. He has been a prominent supporter of bitcoin adoption and saw bitcoin as a means to promote economic freedom. He now promotes Bitcoin Cash, a hard fork of the cryptocurrency created with the intent to fix issues such as high feesand long transaction confirmation times.

## Staffan Persson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Apps, Banking

Staffan Persson - CEO @ Swedia Capital

## Johan Bendz
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Maine, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, B2B, Banking

Johan Bendz

## Thord Wilkne
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Consulting, Financial Services, Association

Thord Wilkne is Member of the Board of Directors at Addnode Group

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