# Top 50 Financial Services Angel Investors in Sweden in May 2026

## Roland Nilsson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Finance, Internet

Roland Nilsson - Founding Partner @ Confidus Venture Capital

## Josefin Landgård
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Medical, Women's

Josefin Landgård is the Founder and CEO of Mantle. Previously she served as the Co-Founder and COO at KRY back in March 2014 to September 2018.

## Peter Dahlgren
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Finance, Internet

Peter Dahlgren - Founding Partner @ Confidus Venture Capital

## Karl-Johan Persson
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Information Technology, Internet, Software

Karl-Johan Persson, born in 1975, has been the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB since 1 July 2009.Before taking over as Managing Director Karl-Johan Persson held an operational role within H&M from 2005, including working as head of expansion, business development, brand and new business.Since 2000 Karl-Johan Persson has been a member of the boards of H&M’s subsidiaries in Denmark, Germany, the US and the UK. Between the years 2006 and 2009 he was also a member of the Board of H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB.Between 2001 and 2004 Karl-Johan Persson was CEO of European Network. Karl-Johan holds a BA in Business Administration from the European Business School in London.His current external board assignments are the Swedish Chamber of Commerce in the UK and the GoodCause foundation. Karl-Johan Persson is since 2013 a member of the Board of H&M Conscious Foundation. Karl-Johan Persson is a shareholder in Ramsbury Invest AB, and also personally holds 12,136,289 class B shares in H&M.The Managing Director is appointed by the Board of Directors and is responsible for the daily management of the company as directed by the Board.This means that the Managing Director must focus in particular on recruitment of senior executives, buying and logistics matters, pricing strategy, sales and profitability, marketing, expansion, development of the store network and of online and catalogue sales, and IT development.The Managing Director reports to the Board on H&M’s development and produces decision bases for investments, expansion, etc. The role of Managing Director includes contact with the financial market, the media and the authorities.

## Alexander Hars
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gothenburg, Vastra Gotaland, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, SaaS

Alexander Hars - Board member @ Zalster

## Johan Andersson
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: CRM, Apps, Travel

Johan Andersson

## Barry Ritholtz
- Type: Angel
- Location: Auburn, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, Financial Services

Barry Ritholtz is the founder and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management, a financial planning and asset management firm, with over $175 million in assets. He writes a daily column for Bloomberg View and a twice-monthly column on Personal Finance and Investing for The popular “Apprenticed Investor” columns at He is a frequent commentator on economics and financial markets, and has appeared as a regular guest in most major media outlets. In 2009, Barry Ritholtz wrote the book Bailout Nation, which was published by Wiley. Bailout Nation was named as the “Investment Book of the Year” by Stock Trader’s Almanac, and received a First Amendment Award for Outstanding Journalism: Best Book.In the summer of 2014, Barry Ritholtz began hosting a new series on Bloomberg Radio, called Masters in Business, an hour long deep dive in to the lives of people who drive markets and ventures. He also authors “Barry Ritholtz is on the Board of Advisors of Barry Ritholtz performed his graduate studies at Barry Ritholtz and his wife Wendy, an artist and teacher, currently reside in Long Island, New York with monsters Max and Jackson.

## Peter Sterky
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Apps, Music Education, Environmental Consulting

Peter Sterky is a CEO of Trift 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.

## Alfred Ruth
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Digital Media, Apps

Private investor with background as co-founder/CTO of Videoplaza. Author of speculative fiction thriller trilogy Fermi's Filter.

## Mattias Miksche
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Big Data, Financial Services

Mattias Miksche - Angel Investor & Chairman @ Hem

## Sophia Bendz
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Apps

Sophia Bendz - Partner @ Cherry Ventures

## Staffan Persson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Apps, Banking

Staffan Persson - CEO @ Swedia Capital

## Josh Brown
- Type: Angel
- Location: Cleveland, Ohio, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, Financial Services

Josh Brown is the Chief Financial Officer and a Partner at Ten Capital Management with responsibility for the company’s financial oversight, day-to-day operations and strategic investment planning. Josh has more than 9 years of real estate experience, primarily in investment and development. He was a Summer Associate at Terranum, aColombia-based, fully integrated real estate company focused on investments in, and developments of, hotels, commercial spaces and mixed-used projects in Central and South America. Prior to Terranum, Josh was a Project Development Associate at Lionstone Development LLC, where he conducted financial analysis of proposed investments and developments, as well as coordinated the development of mixed-use hospitality projects. He earned his BA in history from Cornell University and his MBA from the Johnson School at Cornell University.

## Hjalmar Winbladh
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Manufacturing, Information Technology, Software

Board Member at MAJORITY.

## Jacob De Geer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, IaaS, SaaS

Jacob de Geer is a Swedish serial entrepreneur and co-founder and CEO of iZettle, the fast-growing mobile payments company that lets anyone take card payments and manage and grow their business. Before starting iZettle, Jacob was the first employee at performance marketing firm TradeDoubler. Here he helped to build one of the largest advertisingnetworks in Europe before leaving to co-found movie sharing firm, Ameibo, and Tre Kronor Media, an award-winning communications agency. Both companies were acquired in 2010. Now, Jacob is fully focused on democratising payments around the world through his latest venture, iZettle.

## Lena Apler
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gothenburg, Vastra Gotaland, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Finance, Software

Lena Apler - CEO @ Collector Bank

## Bo Mattsson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Internet, Information Technology, Software

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.

## Magnus Rausing
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech

Magnus Rausing

## Daniel Pilotti
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Apps, Retail, Payments

Daniel Pilotti

## Timo Soininen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Shoes

Timo Soininen is the co-founder at Small Giant Games.
Timo Soininen is the CEO and co-founder of Small Giant Games, maker of the hit game Empires & Puzzles.
Small Giant joined Zynga, Inc (ZNGA) in December 2018, when Zynga acquired 80% of Small Giant at $700M valuation.
Prior to Small Giant he was the longtime CEO of Habbo Hotel and is also anactive angel investor in several technology startups ranging from biomaterials and digital health to games (Spinnova, Aiforia, Critical Force).
Timo holds a M.Sc. degree in Marketing from Helsinki School of Economics/Aalto University and just loves tennis.

## Patrick Söderlund
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed

Patrick Söderlund

## Annika Falkengren
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2

Annika Falkengren

## Mathias Hermansson
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Payments, E-Commerce, Mobile Payments

Mathias Hermansson

## Fredrik Österberg
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Water, FinTech, Software

Fredrik Österberg

## Thord Wilkne
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Consulting, Financial Services, Association

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

## 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.

## Stefan Lindeberg
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Gaming, Analytics

Stefan Lindeberg was the Venture Partner and Co-founder of Nordic Game Ventures. He attended Linköping University.

## Simon Josefsson
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Sports, Consumer Goods

Simon Josefsson

## Joen Bonnier
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Education, B2B, EdTech

Joen is a Partner at Atomico and leads our engagement with corporations, traditional industries and international family-owned businesses to help them better understand the changing nature of the technology landscape.Joen is the bridge between highly successful traditional businesses and the transformative tech companies who are enablingdigitisation across all sectors. The potential for highly valuable collaborations that will catalyse massive growth opportunities is really exciting, especially in Europe. The future of technology is to be deeply embedded across the economy where it can drive efficiencies. Joen’s role at Atomico is to foster this engagement by creating strategic co-investment opportunities and collaborative relationships. As an active player in the startup scene in the Nordics, Joen also helps with sourcing and the evaluation of new investment opportunities.Fostered in a family-owned enterprise environment with deep understanding of the dynamics of family controlled businesses, Joen has 15+ years experience in the media and Internet sectors in both Europe and Asia. Joen has held senior positions with Bertelsmann and the Bonnier Group in New York, Scandinavia and China. Joen holds a Masters degree in Science (M.Sc) from the Stockholm School of Economics and is based in London.Joen lived in China for eight years and while his Mandarin is OK, his acting was apparently better – making his silver screen debut in a Chinese arthouse movie ‘Short Capitalism’ which premiered at the 2015 Art Basel fair in Hong Kong.

## Fabian Hielte
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Retail, FinTech, Software

Fabian Hielte

## Michael Batnick
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, Financial Services

Michael Batnick is the Director of Research at Ritholtz Wealth Management, the author of The Irrelevant Investor Blog. His new book, Big Mistakes: The Best Investors and Their Worst Investments, is coming out in June 2018. Michael is co-hosts the podcast Animal Spirits with Ben Carlson.

## Fredrik Palm
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Payments, E-Commerce, Mobile Payments

Fredrik Palm

## Patrik Backman
- Type: Angel
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Analytics, Enterprise Software

Patrik Backman represents a strong combination of technical, community and business leadership. In Technology, Patrik has led a large part of MySQL AB's global engineering team to produce superior software products and has managed the company’s strategic technical alliance with SAP AG. At MySQL AB he also helped build new and expand existinguser communities, and developed innovative community-based business models to drive new revenue to the company. In Business, Patrik has worked in Management Consulting and within the MySQL Management Team to solve complex business challenges to drive strong growth in international operations.Patrik holds a Masters of Science in Engineering from Helsinki University of Technology and a Master of Science in Finance from Hanken School of Economics.

## Harald Kjessler
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, Design, Mobile

Harald Kjessler

## Jason Francis
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: B2B, FinTech, Payments

Jason Francis - Co-founder & Vice CEO @ Qred

## Claes-Henrik Julander
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Blockchain, Trading Platform

Claes-Henrik Julander is a founder of Pan Capital.

## MacLane Wilkison
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Cryptocurrency, Gaming, Privacy

MacLane Wilkison is the Co-Founder and CEO of NuCypher

## Niklas de Besche
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Consumer, Software, Mobile Apps

Niklas de Besche is the Industrial Advisor at Altor. He was a former Executive Director, Products at Meltwater. He oversees product strategy and the continuous evolution of Meltwater media intelligence platform. Niklas has risen through the Meltwater ranks, opening the company’s first international office in Stockholm and playing an integral rolein building the Nordic operations. He spent several years in the U.S., setting up offices all over the country as an area director while simultaneously managing the Nordic region.

## Son Johnson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Mobile, Health Insurance

Son Johnson is an Angel Investor

## Anna Storåkers
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Apps, Design, Mobile

Anna Storåkers

## Michael Wolf
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: FinTech, Internet, Financial Services

Michael Wolf

## Anders Wallin
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Apps, Design, Mobile

Anders Wallin

## John Grundström
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Apps, Design, Mobile

John Grundström is an Active board member and Co-Founder at Floid.

## Stefan Alexandersson
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Accounting, Service Industry

Stefan Alexandersson

## Eva Cederbalk
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, Marketing, Digital Marketing

Eva Cederbalk

## Christer Holloman
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Retail

Founder of Divido, the world’s largest white-label saas platform for Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL). Prior to starting Divido, he launched Glassdoor.com in EMEA which subsequently got acquired for $1.2bn USD. Hold an MBA from the University of Oxford and is an active early-stage advisor, investor and NED.

## Sebastian Knutsson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Apps, Music, Public Transportation

Sebastian Knutsson is one of our founders and has served on our Board of Directors since October 2003, as our chief creative officer since June 2004 and as our executive product developer from February 2003 to June 2004. Sebastian has more than 18 years of experience in the Internet industry. As chief creative officer, he leads the productstrategy, games development and service offerings for King. Sebastian has designed more than 100 games for King.

## Fredrik Bergström
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: InsurTech, Environmental Consulting

Fredrik Bergström

## Lars-Henrik Friis Molin
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Apps, Payments, Insurance

Lars-Henrik Friis Molin is the Founder of Talent Venture Group and he attended the Stockholm School of Economics.

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