# Top 50 Gaming Angel Investors in Sweden in May 2026

## Jonas Nordlander
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Apps, E-Commerce, Lifestyle

Jonas Nordlander is a Co-Founder & CEO at Avito.ru.

## Filip Engelbert
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Apps, E-Commerce, Lifestyle

Filip Engelbert is a Co-Founder at Avito.ru.

## Zlatan Ibrahimovic
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Focus: eSports, Internet, PC Games

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

## Paul Heydon
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Gaming, Mobile Apps

30 years as a founder, operator, investor, and advisor. Previously Paul was a Co-Founder and General Partner at LVP. Paul has invested in Supercell (majority acquired by Tencent), Unity (NYSE:U), Matchmade, Radiant Entertainment (acquired by Riot Games), Boomlagoon (acquired by Wargaming), Peak (acquired by Hachette Livre), AppOnboard, FRVR,Starform, Gameclub, Coherence, Lucid Sight, Doppio Games, Capture, Flick, EvenPrime, Tellie & Litho and others. Previously, he was an investment banker at Avista Partners, Commerzbank Securities & ING Barings. He has both a HBA & MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business at University of Western Ontario in Canada.

## Stefan Lindeberg
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 3
- 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.

## Karl Magnus Troedsson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Software, SaaS

Karl Magnus is the Troedsson Founder at Behold Ventures. He attended University of Gavle.

## Craig Fletcher
- Type: Angel
- Location: Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Gaming, PC Games, Video Games

Craig Fletcher is the current CEO of Player1 Events. He previously worked at Liberal Democrats as a Parliamentary Candidate for Romsey and Southampton North. Craig Fletcher attended the University of Edinburgh.

## Jacob Key
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Insurance

Jacob Key is co-founder and general partner of Luminar Ventures. Jacob has made close to 20 early stage investments in companies such as Challengermode, Gavagai, Unacast and Pacemaker - and made 3 successful exits to date in Sportamore, Vera&John and Vetzoo.

## Per Brilioth
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Seed
- Focus: Apps, Software, Transportation

Per Brilioth - CEO @ VNV Global

## Daniel Skavén Ruben
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Pet, AgTech

Daniel Skavén Ruben

## Robin Söderling
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: eSports, PC Games, Mobile Apps

Robin Söderling

## Clement Langlet
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Gaming, Online Games

Clement Langlet

## Ashley Heppenstall
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: eSports, Internet, PC Games

Born in England in 1962, Ashley Heppenstall is a graduate of Durham University where he obtained a degree in Mathematics.From 1984 until 1990, he worked in the banking sector where he was involved in project financing of oil and mining businesses. In 1990, Mr. Heppenstall was a founding director and shareholder of Sceptre Management Limited.Mr.Heppenstall has worked with public companies associated with the Lundin family since 1993. In 1998 he was appointed Finance Director of Lundin Oil AB. Following the acquisition of Lundin Oil by Talisman Energy in 2001, Lundin Petroleum was formed and he was appointed President & Chief Executive Officer in 2002 until he stood down in 2015.Ashley Heppenstall holds 1,542,618 shares in Lundin Petroleum through investment company Rojafi.Ashley Heppenstall is in the Nomination Committee’s and the Company’s opinion, as the Company’s previous President and CEO until 30 September 2015, not independent of the Company and Group management and further not independent of the Company’s major shareholders as he is a director of companies in which entities associated with the Lundin family hold ten percent or more of the share capital and voting rights.

## James Gwertzman
- Type: Angel
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: Gaming, Software, Virtual Reality

James Gwertzman is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz.

## Aleksander Leonard Larsen
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Digital Entertainment, Video Games

Aleksander Leonard Larsen is the Co-Founder and COO at Sky Mavis.

## Richard Setterwall
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Pet, Wellness, Food and Beverage

Richard Setterwall is a Venture Partner at Piton Capital. Founder at DogBuddy (sold to Rover.com) He attended UCLA Anderson School of Management.

## Simon Josefsson
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Sports, Consumer Goods

Simon Josefsson

## Andreas Granqvist
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: eSports, PC Games, Mobile Apps

Andreas Granqvist

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

Robert Swartling

## Benjy Boxer
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Gaming, Computer

Benjy Boxer - GM @ Unity

## Wayne Mackey
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Gaming, Online Games

Wayne Mackey - Founder/CEO @ Statespace

## Pia Rudengren
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Delivery, Food Delivery, Food and Beverage

Board of Director at Swedbank

## Gerard Pique
- Type: Angel
- Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Gaming, Apps, Video

Gerard Piqué Bernabéu is the President & Founder of Kosmos.He Previously worked at eFootball.Pro as the President & Co-Founder.

## Magdalena Kala
- Type: Angel
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Gaming, Retail, Blockchain

Ms. Kala joined Bain Capital Private Equity in 2013. She is a Vice President in the Consumer, Retail and Dining Vertical and is a member of the North American Private Equity team. Ms. Kala has also worked extensively in Bain Capital Private Equity’s Industrial Vertical. Ms. Kala received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business whereshe was an Arjay Miller Scholar. She graduated cum laude with an AB in Economics from Harvard University.

## Mats Carlsson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Danderyd, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: eSports, Internet, PC Games

Mats Carlsson is the Chief Executive Officer of Pareto Securities.

## Joakim Mandorsson
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Racing, Sports, Leisure

Joakim Mandorsson

## Peter Söderberg
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Apps, Mobile, Software

Peter Söderberg

## Dan Castillio
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, Racing, Sports

Dan Castillio

## Kelly Gale
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Medical, Health Care, Food Processing

Kelly Gale

## Markus Täkte
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Racing, Sports, Leisure

Markus Täkte

## Bengt Maunsbach
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Racing, Sports, Leisure

Bengt Maunsbach

## Anders Signell
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Delivery, Food Delivery, Food and Beverage

Anders joined Delivery hero as CEO of OnlinePizza and Pizzaonline.fi in December 2012. He is responsible for the Swedish and Finnish market. Before joining Delivery hero he worked at SAS, the Scandinavian airlines, where he was global ecommerce manager. Anders holds a degree in business and complimentary faculties like, Chinese, physics,mathematics and medicine.

## Peter Sellis
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Gaming, Mobile Apps

Peter Sellis - Product @ Snap

## Charlie Songhurst
- Type: Angel
- Location: Greater Seattle Area, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Charles Songhurst is a founding partner of Katana Capital, a long-short equity hedge fund. He also runs the Songhurst Group, which holds assets in a variety of private companies.Charles ran corporate strategy for Microsoft and focused on partnering and M&A. He was involved in the Yahoo acquisition and commercial deal, and the Skypeacquisition. Before running corporate strategy, Charles was focused on the emergence of Google and the growth of the search industry.Prior, Charles was an analyst at McKinsey & Company in London. Charles received a bachelor’s degree from Oxford University in politics, philosophy, and economics.

## Sophia Bendz
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Apps

Sophia Bendz - Partner @ Cherry Ventures

## Jonas Siljemark
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: eSports, Internet, PC Games

Jonas Siljemark is the CEO of Warner Music Scandinavia.

## Karl Sandstedt
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: eSports, Internet, PC Games

Karl Sandstedt is the Head of Devices and Services at Google.

## Ash Pournouri
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: Music, Software, Health Care

Founder and CEO of At Night Management, manager of Avicii, Cazzette. He attended Stockholm University.

## Matthew Ball
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Gaming, Software, Virtual Reality

Matthew Ball is the Venture Partner at Makers Fund.

## Johan Skarborg
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: eSports, Internet, PC Games

Johan Skarborg is the Founder and CEO of Academic Work.

## Hady Shkeer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gothenburg, Vastra Gotaland, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed, Private Equity
- Focus: Marketplace, E-Commerce, Same Day Delivery

Hady Shkeer is the Executive Director of Source A Network. He attended The Wharton School in 2014.

## Mattias Miksche
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Big Data, Financial Services

Mattias Miksche - Angel Investor & Chairman @ Hem

## Michael Knutzon
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage

Michael Knutzon

## Henry Soesanto
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Organic Food

Henry Soesanto serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Monde Nissin Corporation.

## Alexander Ljung
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet

Alexander Ljung is the Chairman and Co-Founder of Dance. He co-founded SoundCloud Limited in 2007 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director. Alexander Ljung serves at interactive installations. He has a background as a post-production sound designer and motion film music producer. He holds an M.Sc. degree within MediaTechnology from The Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and also studied Marketing & Business Development at the Stockholm School of Economics.

## Nicolas Julia
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Gaming, Financial Services

Nicolas Julia is a Blockchain entrepreneur. He is the CEO at Sorare, the leading platform to collect and play with officially licensed football Crypto-goodsNicolas dedicated his career to Blockchain in 2015, and was previously running operations at Stratumn, a $8M VC-backed blockchain company.Nicolas hosts the meetup Crypto-goods Club, theplace of expression for all Crypto-goods
enthusiasts.He believes Crypto-goods will pave the way for a new era of digital ownership and change the internet.

## Magnus Lindstam
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage

Magnus Lindstam

## Martin Dahlin
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: eSports, PC Games, Psychology

Martin Dahlin

## Antoine Lebel
- Type: Angel
- Location: Montreux, Vaud, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Apps, Mobile, Software

Antoine Lebel

## Carl-Viggo Östlund
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Delivery, Food Delivery, Food and Beverage

Carl-Viggo Östlund is currently working as an independent consultant. Until 2014, he was CEO of the state-owned mortgage institution SBAB. Prior to that, he worked as CEO of Nordnet Bank AB until 2012. Nordnet is an online bank that offers savings in the form of shares, funds and pensions, and has about 500,000 active accounts in Sweden, Norway,Finland and Denmark. Nordnet AB (publ) is listed in the Mid Cap segment on the OMX Nordic Exchange in Stockholm. Prior to coming to Nordnet, Carl-Viggo was, for six years, the CEO of SalusAnsvar - a listed company in insurance and finance.
Previous experience includes CEO positions in the logistics industry (TNT Sweden and Scandinavia, 1996–2001) and the manufacturing industry (Tetra Pak in Saudi Arabia, Canada, Brazil and Turkey). Carl-Viggo holds a bachelor's degree from Stockholm School of Economics.

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