# Top 50 Payments Startup Investors in Sweden in May 2026

## NFT Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance

We drive the fintech revolution Next Financial Technology Ventures Backing fintech pioneers since 2014 We aim to capture the shift in the financial industry and empower the entrepreneurs to realize their potential Our Story Strong portfolio across Fintech View the full portfolio Exciting news from the NFT portfolio View all news

## Wellstreet
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Retail

Wellstreet is an innovation and tech ecosystem that includes an investment company, a strategic consultancy firm and a venture building incubator.

## Brightly Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Brightly Ventures backs bold founders on a mission to transform industries and change the world for the better. Brightly is an early-stage investor focused on the Nordics. It has a hands-on approach supporting high-potential ideas and bringing them to market. It makes a deep commitment to each investment we make and draw upon its network andcompany-building experience to help boost the journey.

## Almi Invest
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

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.

## Luminar Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Insurance

Luminar Ventures is a venture capital fund that prefers to make early-stage investments in technology companies. They engage with their portfolio companies and are actively helping with strategic, growth, team and organizational, and operational support, and together setting the foundation for future expansion.Luminar's core investment focusis on scalable digital seed-stage companies from the Nordics, founded by highly motivated and talented entrepreneurs with a vision to disrupt or transform major industries. The firm aims to provide experienced seed-stage financing and active operational support to Sweden based early-stage technology companies that are looking to disrupt or transform major industries with digital technologies and innovations.

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

Mathias Hermansson

## Index Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet

Index Ventures is an international venture capital firm with dual headquarters in San Francisco and London, investing in technology-enabled companies with a focus on e-commerce, fintech, mobility, gaming, infrastructure/AI, and security.

## DHS Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Software, Big Data, Mobile Apps

DHS Ventures, Stockholm School of Economics alumni angel investing network that invests early on into inovative companies.

## Visa
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Corporate Round
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments

Visa is an American multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world. The company operates the retail electronic payments network through the transfer of value and information among financial institutions, merchants, consumers, businesses, and government entities.Visa also provideselectronic payment, risk management, and payment security solutions to online merchants; digital goods transaction services in online games, digital media, and social networks; and mobile financial services for mobile network operators and financial institutions in developing economies.Visa’s global payment brands include Visa, Visa Electron, PLUS, and Interlink. Together they provide payment options through credit, debit, prepaid, and commercial programs in 200 countries and territories. Visa's global network, VisaNet, delivers value-added processing services such as fraud and risk management, dispute resolution, rewards, and other business-enhancing applications.

## Swedbank
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vilnius, Vilniaus Apskritis, Lithuania
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Post-IPO Debt, Debt Financing
- Focus: Banking, Real Estate, FinTech

Swedbank AB (formerly Föreningssparbanken) is a Nordic-Baltic banking group offering retail banking, asset management, financial, and other services.Swedbank is a modern bank firmly rooted in Swedish savings bank history.

## 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

## Creandum
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Mobile

We support early-stage founders in building global, category-defining companies. From Seed to IPO and beyond.

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

Daniel Pilotti

## Industrifonden
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology

Industrifonden is a Nordic evergreen venture capital firm with a fund size of $600m, that focuses on early-stage technology and life science companies with international potential. The company works long term with the entrepreneurs we invest in, and have a strong track record of building game changing companies. Industrifonden-backed companiesinclude tech companies Qlik, Arcam, Soundtrack Your Brand, Fishbrain, and life science companies CellaVision, Oncopeptides and AMRA.

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

Fredrik Palm

## Forward Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce

Forward Venture Capital is a Venture Capital fund that invests in early-stage companies in the US and Europe. We support early stage entrepreneurs and help them accelerate their growth.

## Fulgur Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Wilmington, Delaware, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Bitcoin, FinTech, Cryptocurrency

We believe in Bitcoin as a next generation politically neutral monetary system, the foundation for decentralized finance of the future. While Bitcoin is an efficient settlement layer, it needs a Layer-2 solution for everyday transactions. That is why we support development of the Lightning Network - an essential step towards decentralized finance.As technology entrepreneurs we combine decades of experience creating business from zero and scaling it in emerging and fast-growing industries.We support outstanding teams in several ways: writing checks of $50-$200k for pre-seed startups; granting rewards for acknowledged contributions to the ecosystem; providing startup advisory and mentoring; investing in later stages.Along the way we help startups to navigate cryptocurrency legal and regulatory environment according to the evolving industry standards and best practices.

## Element Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments

Investors in tomorrow's financial technology. Element partners with European fintech firms targeting the biggest markets in financial services utilising technology to deliver competitive advantage.

## Karl-Johan Persson
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## Draper Associates
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Mateo, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Information Technology

Draper Associates, founded in 1985, is a seed-stage venture capital firm that helps entrepreneurs to drive their businesses to greatness. We understand that a great company takes time to build and we'd like to ensure that entrepreneurs are in for the long haul.

## Thijn Lamers
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology

Thijn Lamers is the former EVP Global Sales at Adyen Global Payment Services.

## Coin98
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ho Chi Minh City, NA - Vietnam, Vietnam
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Coin98 is a Crypto-focused software company.

## 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.

## Schibsted Growth
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Financial Services, E-Commerce

Investing in great digital companies!

## Greens Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: FinTech, Software, Cryptocurrency

Greens invests in Nordic pre-seed startups with founders who are alumni of Nordic Unicorns.

## Emil Sunvisson
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: B2B, FinTech, Payments

Emil Sunvisson

## H&M Group Ventures (Prev. H&M CO:LAB)
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Fashion, Textiles

H&M CO:LAB is the venture capital arm of the H&M Group.

## Sony Financial Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance

Sony Financial Ventures is the wholly owned investment subsidiary of Sony Financial Holdings Inc.

## David Chreng-Messembourg
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services

David Chreng-Messembourg - Co-Founder and General Partner @ LeadBlock Partners

## D4 Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, E-Commerce, Software

D4 Ventures is an investment vehicle founded by Hanzade Dogan.

## 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

## Stahl Invest
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Apps, Billing, Robotics

Stahl Invest

## Mikko Salovaara
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Payments, Financial Services

Mikko Salovaara

## Dan Sten Olsson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gothenburg, Vastra Gotaland, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Apps, Payments, Insurance

1969, MBA, Gothenburg University. Formerly with Svenska Handelsbanken and Eriksberg Shipyard, Gothenburg. Since 1972, with Stena Group: 1980, Deputy Managing Director; 1983, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer; Director, Stena and affiliates and Stena International and affiliates. Chairman: Stena Line; Stena Metall; Concordia Maritime;Swedish Shipowners' Association. Co-Founder, World Childhood Foundation. Member of the International Advisory Board, Alliance for Global Sustainability. Recipient of awards and honours, including: King's medal for contributions to the development of Swedish society in terms of business, sustainable values and charity (2005); Commander of the British Empire in recognition of Stena's long-standing commitment to investment in the UK; Honorary Doctorate, Chalmers Technical University, Gothenburg.

## 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.

## Creades AB
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Enterprise Software, Apps

Creades is an investment company investing in businesses that have the potential for revaluation and value creation. Creade's business concept is to provide a good risk-adjusted return to its shareholders by investing in businesses where Creades can act as an engaged owner, primarily in small and medium-listed and unlisted Swedish companies.The firm is a spin-off from Investment AB Öresund.

## Young Entrepreneurs of Sweden
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Software, Cryptocurrency

Yeo build networks between and develop talented young entrepreneurs.

## Aggregate Media
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Information Technology, Software

Aggregate is a venture capital company investing with media as expansion capital - media for equity. Since the start 2002, Aggregate has made over 150 transactions in a variety of industries; e-commerce, digital services, product- and B2B-companies etc. Aggregate target companies which today are not able to maximize the effect on their market, inlack of capital for media advertising.

## SKEL
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Reykjavík, Gullbringusysla, Iceland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Payments, Mobile Payments

SKEL is an investment company that seeks to create value for its shareholders and other stakeholders. SKEL's investment strategy is to grow the current portfolio while keeping long-term value creation in mind and to reduce the importance of fossil fuels in the company's operations by increasing the number of income supports andinvestments. SKEL's strategy is to be a transformational investor, supporting and assisting the companies, management teams, and entrepreneurs in which it chooses to invest. Thus, SKEL's managers and employees assist their partners in fully utilizing all of the potentials of the companies they manage, whether they are established companies or good business ideas.

## Global Brain Corporation
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence

Global Brain Corporation is a venture capital firm that invests in companies from seed or early to pre-IPO startups. Global Brain has invested in 300+ startups from seed/early to pre-IPO startups and achieved 25 IPOs and 61 M&As as a result of providing hands-on support services and resources to its portfolio startups. Global Brain hasmanaged a pure investment fund as well as multiple corporate venture capital funds partnered together with tier 1 public companies of telecom, real estate development, financial service, beverages, agriculture food, logistics, and electronic devices.

## COINCU
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Privacy

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## Swisscom Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Swisscom Ventures is an venture capital arm of Swisscom AG, that specializes in early stage tech investments founded in 2007.Swisscom Ventures invests in growth companies with emerging business models and technologies of strategic relevance to Swisscom's core business. As a value-add investor, Swisscom brings its investees the technicalexpertise and strategic insights of an incumbent telecom operator. We act as a bridge to Swisscom's operational business units, which portfolio companies can also leverage as a test environment for their products and services.Swisscom Ventures seeks minority stakes in companies related to the information/communications/entertainment space.

## Cocoa
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Payments, Software, Virtual Reality

We invest angel checks at pre-seed/seed and bring on all our VC network and expertise to become your in-house VC: here to help you hack the system, with independent and unfiltered investor insights

## Jan Kemper
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Payments, Software, Consulting

Dr. Kemper is the Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer of Omio. He is also an Assistant Professor at RWTH Aachen University and Inhaber Märkische Höfe.

## La Famiglia
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

We are an early-stage venture capital fund backing the best tech entrepreneurs across Europe and the US

## Nordic Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Private Equity, Post-IPO Equity
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Financial Services

Nordic Capital is a private equity investment firm and now has an enviable reputation in investment and portfolio management.

## Kangaroo Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming

Kangaroo Capital is a community driven blockchain and cryptocurrency venture capital that is dedicated to helping young startups and more established projects accelerate.

## Chainlayer
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Initial Coin Offering
- Focus: Cryptocurrency, FinTech, Finance

blockchain, bitcoin, ethereum, akash, bumper, concordium, cosmos, e-money, flow, kava, regen, serum, solana, the graph, unslashed finance.

## Accel
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce

First partner to exceptional teams everywhere

## Schibsted
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Apps, Financial Services, Information Technology

A global family of digital consumer brands leading the way across media, online marketplaces and technology ventures.

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