Top 35 Food and Beverage Angel Investors in Sweden in October 2023

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• VEAT — VEAT is on a mission to make healthy, plant-based foods more accessible. We cook and prepare our fresh meals locally at Stora Essingen and deliver them daily to our vending machines throughout the city.
• Petgood — Insect-based pet food and functional pet supplies
• Volta Greentech — Battling global warming by reducing methane emissions from cows

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• Werlabs — Werlabs is a Stockholm based medical technology company founded by Will Stoddart and Rickard Lagerqvist, a general practioner. Werlabs provides customers with health analysis via blood testing. The company’s aim is to give users the tools and information to take care of their health.
• Glue Home — Imagine coming back from work to a clean home, the parcel from your favourite online store is in the hallway, your groceries have been delivered to the fridge and your dry cleaning is in the closet. All done while you were out. Imagine that at the same time you were helping reduce traffic, pollution and create jobs in your community.Glueenables the secure delivery of products and services into the home while you are away. Glue aims to improve ecommerce, foster trust and collaboration in communities and optimise time and resources.Glue connects consumers homes with businesses. We enable access to the home via a proprietary award-winning digital smart lock and other digital locks using Glue’s API which lets users give out digital keys in the Glue app. We are integrated with leading logistics, retail and services companies to offer delivery into the home. With Glue’s In-Home delivery app couriers can securely unlock a customer’s home to deliver an order while the customer is out.
• NA-KD.com — NA-KD.com is the next generation of fashion marketplaces. A predominantly mobile-based online shopping sanctuary for fashion addicts all over the world. Combined with a unique merchant service that unleashes the e-commerce power of digital brands and social influencers. Funded by the original founder and team behind Nelly.com (170 million USDonline fashion store).

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• Werlabs — Werlabs is a Stockholm based medical technology company founded by Will Stoddart and Rickard Lagerqvist, a general practioner. Werlabs provides customers with health analysis via blood testing. The company’s aim is to give users the tools and information to take care of their health.
• Glue Home — Imagine coming back from work to a clean home, the parcel from your favourite online store is in the hallway, your groceries have been delivered to the fridge and your dry cleaning is in the closet. All done while you were out. Imagine that at the same time you were helping reduce traffic, pollution and create jobs in your community.Glueenables the secure delivery of products and services into the home while you are away. Glue aims to improve ecommerce, foster trust and collaboration in communities and optimise time and resources.Glue connects consumers homes with businesses. We enable access to the home via a proprietary award-winning digital smart lock and other digital locks using Glue’s API which lets users give out digital keys in the Glue app. We are integrated with leading logistics, retail and services companies to offer delivery into the home. With Glue’s In-Home delivery app couriers can securely unlock a customer’s home to deliver an order while the customer is out.
• NA-KD.com — NA-KD.com is the next generation of fashion marketplaces. A predominantly mobile-based online shopping sanctuary for fashion addicts all over the world. Combined with a unique merchant service that unleashes the e-commerce power of digital brands and social influencers. Funded by the original founder and team behind Nelly.com (170 million USDonline fashion store).

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• 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.
• WhyWaste — Reduce your food waste and increase your profits with Whywastes digital solutions. Schedule a demo to see how we can help your store become more sustainable and more profitable.
• Interspectral —

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• Laced — Discover the latest sneaker releases with Laced. The UK and Europe's authentic sneaker marketplace, discover coveted styles from Nike, Air Jordan, Yeezy, New Balance and more. Buy and sell now with Laced.
• Stockeld Dreamery — We set off with a first vision: to create a cheese that is superior in taste and nutrition, constantly striving to use our planet’s resources wisely, accessible to all yet one of the top preferred cheeses by chefs and restaurants. Simply put, the world’s most ambitious cheese.
• SignalRank Corporation — SignalRank Corporation is a FinTech company in the Venture space. It focuses on the seed stage asset class and uses data analytics to allocate capital to the best seed fund managers for their top performing companies. GPRank and CompanyRank are two proprietary algorithms it leverages to automate capital allocation. The company invests from balancesheet. Its customers are seed stage investors with outstanding companies in their portfolio.

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• Asilimia — Asilimia is a simple, fun mobile app for sending money through M-PESA quickly and without any transaction fees. Simply deposit money to your M-PESA, download Asilimia and send money for free to any other M-PESA account.
• HackCapital — Join FoodTech focused investors looking to back impact-driven founders shaping our food system
• Perfeggt — We harness the power of plants and cutting-edge technology to crack the egg.

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• Stockeld Dreamery — We set off with a first vision: to create a cheese that is superior in taste and nutrition, constantly striving to use our planet’s resources wisely, accessible to all yet one of the top preferred cheeses by chefs and restaurants. Simply put, the world’s most ambitious cheese.

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• Picsmart — Picsmart operates as a food delivery company.

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• Shewy — Shewy is a producer of vitamin-enriched chewing gums sold in retail, online and against a subscription

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• VEAT — VEAT is on a mission to make healthy, plant-based foods more accessible. We cook and prepare our fresh meals locally at Stora Essingen and deliver them daily to our vending machines throughout the city.
• Dema.ai — First-of-its-kind AI decision platform for e-commerce
• Freshsound — Freshsound is an entire new wave for professional storytellers and agencies to license original music using AI and human creativity.

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• Laqta! — Laqta! is a leading classifieds platform and B2C and C2C marketplace focused on Middle East, Europe, and Arabic speakers around the world. We are seeking to enter emerging markets around the world with B2C and C2C solutions and services.
• Marifaa — Marifaa is a E-Learning Platform.
• Mhtaref — Connect with the best freelance talent in the MENA region on Mhtaref - the ultimate freelancing marketplace.

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• Estrid — Estrid is an online portal that offers women's personal care products.
• VALIDIO — Real-time data validation and data quality monitoring for modern data teams. Abstracting complexity away from data engineering.
• Anotherblock — access music ownership in the world's biggest tracks.

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• Corite — Here's where artists and fans join forces. Invest in music you love and get paid when it's streamed on Spotify and Apple Music.
• Hooked Foods — Hooked is a start-up that produces plant-based seafood currently distributed in Sweden, Finland, and Germany with more locations coming soon.
• Active Brands Group — Active Brands Group is an international distribution and brand company focusing on innovative products related to health, sports and other consumer goods. We are a diversified team with long experience from product development, sourcing, sales to e-commerce & marketing, distribution and healthcare.

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• Tippsy — Largest selection of sake delivered to you. Tippsy makes finding good sake easy and fun! Free shipping 6+ bottles. Sake club subscription offers special perks such as member-exclusive discounts, virtual sake tasting as well as a beginner's guide.
• Breakr — Breakr connects artists and influencers to break new music through the culture. Music influencers can set up profiles, update their music preferences, and create digital campaigns available across all platforms. It was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Oakland, California.
• Proof of Play — We are a team of veteran game developers and entrepreneurs creating onchain games and open source technology. Our vision is simple: to create generation-defining games that fundamentally grant power and ownership to the players who play them.

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• Picsmart — Picsmart operates as a food delivery company.

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• Picsmart — Picsmart operates as a food delivery company.

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• Lottie — Lottie's mission is to change the way young kids experience technology and to bring peace of mind to parents, by building a magical experience that the whole family can love.
• Weflow — All-in-one workspace to manage your Salesforce pipeline, notes & to-dos. Designed for sales teams who like to move with speed.
• Stockeld Dreamery — We set off with a first vision: to create a cheese that is superior in taste and nutrition, constantly striving to use our planet’s resources wisely, accessible to all yet one of the top preferred cheeses by chefs and restaurants. Simply put, the world’s most ambitious cheese.

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• T2 — T2 is in early alpha. 280 character text, replies, and likes - that's it for now. Browse content now and sign up for the waitlist.
• Awesomic — Get matched with the best-fit designer on a fixed budget with no stress. Place a design task and see the first results on the next business day. Start today!
• The Mednet — The Mednet is a community of physicians helping each other treat patients with cancer.Their Mission is Improve knowledge sharing between physicians so that patients get high quality care wherever they are treated.They help physicians get answers to questions where there is no clear answer in guidelines or published research and expert opinion isnecessary. All answers are indexed and searchable so that every physician can quickly access expert knowledge to provide their patients with high quality care.

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• Perfeggt — We harness the power of plants and cutting-edge technology to crack the egg.
• Weflow — All-in-one workspace to manage your Salesforce pipeline, notes & to-dos. Designed for sales teams who like to move with speed.
• Contact — Contact is the fast, simple way to book creative talent.

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• Petbuddy Group — Petbuddy Group is a D2C pet care group of sustainable brands with the mission to do good for pets, pet parents and the planet. Our brand Buddy Pet Foods offers tailored subscriptions of natural- high quality dog food. In Sep 2020 we also launched Rockybox, a curated dog treat subscription box. We have invested heavy into ourecommerce/subscription platform and will over the next 5 years launch 5 to 7 more sustainable pet care brands based on data and trends. One customer group, one platform, many brands = strong value creation. Based out of Sweden we're experiencing strong growth and are seeking 5 MEUR to further scale PBG and it's brand offerings to new EU markets in 2021.
• Wolf Spring — No dog was born to eat kibbles, but we understand that you can’t go hunting deer every morning to feed your dog. That’s why we have created Wolf Spring. It is the first canine functional drink, which, given daily to your four legged friend, will give them key nutrients to keep them healthy. We want to help making sure your beloved companion willnot have unexpected vet visits. We are 100% natural, 100% plant based and proudly made in the USA. We believe in limited ingredients, clear benefits and no bullshit. Your dog has an everlasting faith and love for you so our product has to live up to that trust. No compromise.

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• Frequencz — Frequencz, is an emerging leader of shared virtual private networks for Enterprises. We brings cloud economics to radio and disrupt the way private networks are built, operated and managed. Our solution delivers innovation within the radio domain that offers foundational change in ROI and profitability for private network operators and Enterprises.
• Karma — Karma develops an application that helps restaurants, grocers and cafés reduce their food waste by selling their surplus to consumers at reduced prices. Its application serves as a sales channel via which merchants offer take away food items to registered users. Elsa Bernadotte, Mattis Larsson, Hjalmar Nordegren, Ludvig Berling, and Steven vanWel founded Karma on September 1, 2015. Its headquarters is in Stockholm in Sweden.

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• VEAT — VEAT is on a mission to make healthy, plant-based foods more accessible. We cook and prepare our fresh meals locally at Stora Essingen and deliver them daily to our vending machines throughout the city.
• Sesamy — Sesamy provides frictionless single purchases and consumption of digital content, without restricting the user’s choice of app or device.
• 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.

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• Evernow — Real science for real menopause symptoms
• Exponential DeFi — View risk assessment ratings and expert research for 500+ decentralized finance pools from Exponential DeFi.
• Detail — Record and edit engaging video faster with the simplicity of a camera app combined with the power of a video editor.

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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.

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• Matsmart — Matsmart sells surplus food online. A major part of the food would otherwise be thrown away due to packaging changes, short or expired expiry dates or other reasons. During 2017, Matsmart saved 2022 tonnes of food from going to waste. The company has seen explosive growth, reaching recurring revenues of SEK 200 million. Matsmart was founded by KarlAndersson, Erik Södergren and Ulf Skagerström, and launched in Sweden in 2014. Since then, the company has also expanded to Norway and Finland. Long live the food!

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• Matsmart — Matsmart sells surplus food online. A major part of the food would otherwise be thrown away due to packaging changes, short or expired expiry dates or other reasons. During 2017, Matsmart saved 2022 tonnes of food from going to waste. The company has seen explosive growth, reaching recurring revenues of SEK 200 million. Matsmart was founded by KarlAndersson, Erik Södergren and Ulf Skagerström, and launched in Sweden in 2014. Since then, the company has also expanded to Norway and Finland. Long live the food!

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• CARD.com — Fully featured bank account with optional overdraft protection and round up savings account. Get your paycheck up to 2 days earlier.
• RentoMojo — RentoMojo is an online furniture rental platform that was incorporated in November 2014.It currently operates in Bangalore, Pune, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai, Delhi, Gurgaon and Noida.RentoMojo was founded by Geetansh Bamania, an ex-IITM, in November 2014 in India. Like many other young working professionals, he was living in rented apartments,working long hours and found it inconvenient to equip the house with furniture when he moved. RentoMojo was developed to provide an alternative to buying and selling furniture in rental properties.
• GC Plus — Find Your Next Home Service Expert With Ease

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• Haofood — The popularity of plant-based meat is rapidly growing in China; in 2020, 39% of the population were attempting to reduce their meat consumption, and 65% of them were willing to try plant-based meat to help them in this. However, many are dissatisfied with the plant-based meat options in China; Haofood’s founders discovered that this was because ofthe tofu-like quality of products currently available in the market. On top of that, often flexitarians and vegetarians struggle with craving comfort foods. Being the most consumed meat in the world, chicken products, such as fried chicken, are a comfort food to and missed by countless first-time vegetarians.Haofood offers a solution to these problems with its realistically textured and healthy plant-based chicken. They are the first company in the world to use peanut protein as their base, taking advantage of its potential for a strong and elastic texture. Led by a founding team of senior professionals from the food industry, who, together, hold a well-rounded skill set ranging from entrepreneurship to food technology, Haofood uses its own proprietary extrusion technology and formulation to create affordable, delicious plant-based chicken made from sustainable, non-GMO peanuts.
• WTH Foods — WTH Foods is a plant-based alternative protein company based in Manila, Philippines. Using local and sustainable ingredients, we create plant-based versions of processed meat products that Southeast Asian love
• Shiok Meats — Delicious, healthy & cell-based seafood from Shiok Meats. Get variety of cultivated meat, cultivated seafood, cell cultured meat & Lab Meats in Singapore.

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• Starcity — Starcity is a San Francisco-based owner and operator of Coliving communities. As of early 2020, Starcity has just under 500 beds in operation across San Francisco, Oakland, and Los Angeles, with a current committed development pipeline of approximately 2,000 units.Their 45-person team spans multiple disciplines including real estate, technology,design, and hospitality with employees from companies like Airbnb, CBRE, Cushman & Wakefield, Fairmont Hotels, FivePoint, Google, Tesla, Lyft, SoulCycle, The Standard, and Uber. They are urban housing enthusiasts on a mission to make great cities accessible to everyone.Starcity’s approach is different from other groups in the Coliving space. They are set up as both a General Partner and Operator with full-stack real estate development, design, and management capabilities. They love working on all aspects of design to maintain a keen focus on project details, and they enjoy having skin in the game when the opportunity presents itself.
• Collectly — Collectly helps healthcare organizations collect more patient payments faster, automate and streamline internal revenue cycle operations, and elevate patient financial experience.
• Polychain — The emergence of bitcoin and subsequent blockchain technologies has generated a new digital asset class in which scarcity is based on mathematical properties. Through cryptographic verification and game-theoretic equilibrium, blockchain-based digital assets can be created, issued, and transmitted using the software. Polychain Capital is committedto exceptional returns for investors through actively managed portfolios of these blockchain assets.

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• Tjommi — B2C app helping customers get money back from price drops
• Vembla — Vembla offers a vast grocery selection 1500 to 20,000 products - from your local stores or our own warehouses. Get it delivered same day or in minutes.
• Lendwill — There is a healthier way to build relationships with money.

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• Matsmart — Matsmart sells surplus food online. A major part of the food would otherwise be thrown away due to packaging changes, short or expired expiry dates or other reasons. During 2017, Matsmart saved 2022 tonnes of food from going to waste. The company has seen explosive growth, reaching recurring revenues of SEK 200 million. Matsmart was founded by KarlAndersson, Erik Södergren and Ulf Skagerström, and launched in Sweden in 2014. Since then, the company has also expanded to Norway and Finland. Long live the food!

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• Shewy — Shewy is a producer of vitamin-enriched chewing gums sold in retail, online and against a subscription

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• Johannas Stadsodlingar — Johannas Stadsodlingar produces fish, vegetables, and herbs through a sustainable process. It uses aquaponics systems to provide water to the fishes and plants. Johannas Stadsodlingar is based in Stockholm, Sweden.

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• Shewy — Shewy is a producer of vitamin-enriched chewing gums sold in retail, online and against a subscription
• Savr — Savr is an Investment platform disrupting the Swedish fund industry with a lower fee structure and a new business model.
• Triller — Triller is an AI-powered music video app and talent discovery platform that allows users to create professional-looking videos in a matter of seconds. Pick a song, select the portion of the song you want to use, snap a few takes and with the tap of a button you have a celebrity-quality music video starring you and your friends. Triller reliessolely on organic growth and has more than 23 million downloads, with celebrities from Kevin Hart to Vanessa Hudgens regularly using the app to create their own music videos. Triller raised a $4.5M seed round in May 2016 and a $5M Series A funding round in February 2018, with plans to expand its AI technology and develop the brand as a talent discovery platform.

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• mayk — Mayk sounds. Mayk music. Mayk noise. Mayk it... In an app.
• Medoma — Medoma is a Swedish virtual ward company that offer patients acute hospital care in their home instead of in the hospital.
• Wikifarmer — A free online knowledge library where professional or amateur farmers can find best practices on growing their fields more effectively and an online marketplace where farmers can sell their products to buyers directly. Our vision is to create a fair, transparent and profitable environment for all the farming world. Farmers are dedicating theirlives in cultivating their fields, but get the lowest value of all the sales cycle, so we believe they need to receive a more fair share. Buyers have the right to have more options and buy at better prices, so we want to be the ones to solve this inequality in both sides.