Top 25 Publishing Startup Investors in Sweden in October 2023

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• Y/ELM+ — Y/ELM+ is a horseback riding safety and protection brand that focuses n creating leading-edge rider safety solutions.
• Maintract — Maintract is a new generation of financial contract management software. It also offers banking and financial services. They provide contract management automation solutions to banks for drafting, data verification, workflow automation, contract data monitoring, tracking workflow and documentation, compliance management, and more.
• Enable Banking — Empower your business with Enable Banking, the leading open banking connectivity provider, offering a secure, single API solution for seamless integration with 2500+ major banks across Europe. Book a demo today to unlock the future of open finance.

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• Readly — Readly is transforming the way we read magazines. Now you can read all your favorite magazines from anywhere, at any time. An all-you-can-read buffet of magazines, including back issues, for one low monthly price.
• Taulia — Taulia makes it easy for businesses to free up cash, accelerate payments, and improve supply chain health. Learn about our working capital solutions today.
• Zest Eco — Zest Eco is a London, UK-based EV charging company. It is democratizing EV adoption in the UK by rapidly filling the gaps in the maturing public charging infrastructure.

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• Anocca — Anocca AB provides services like Biotechnology, Immunotherapeutics, Drug Discovery, Drug Development, Immunology.
• Vicore Pharma — Vicore Pharma is a pharmaceutical company dedicated to developing innovative medicines for severe lung disorders. It develops drugs that act through the AT2 receptor. The company’s drug candidate C21 aims to improve the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a rare disease for which C21 has been granted orphan drug designation both in the EUand the US. In addition, C21 is explored pre-clinically in a number of rare diseases where the AT2 receptor plays an important role. The company is based in Astra Zeneca’s Bioventurehub in Mölndal.
• Dignitana — Dignitana AB clinically superior scalp cooling technology. The company produces The DigniCap® Scalp Cooling System, a patented medical cooling device that offers cancer patients the ability to minimize hair loss during chemotherapy.

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• Uniify — Uniify is a no-code customer onboarding software that makes it fast, easy and secure for financial companies to onboard their customers. Save your business time and money, and build onboarding flows for your customers in minutes instead of months.
• Niricson — Niricson Software has developed a proprietary damage assessment software platform paired with a patent-pending drone-based data collection technology that helps infrastructure owners inspect their structures (e.g. hydro dams) in a way that is more accurate, five times faster, and 50% more cost-effective. Niricson is differentiated by its ability toautomatically detect and quantify not only surface damage, but also subsurface damage.
• Elements Advisors — See how Elements can help you quickly demonstrate your value, so you can get new clients. Guaranteed, or your money back.

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• Opna — Opna is a financing platform for climate projects that remove carbon and protect natural ecosystems. Opna offers data, proprietary risk assessments, and efficient capital structures, helping companies to translate net-zero committed capital from financial institutions, and corporates into direct financing across a project's lifecycle.
• PIONIX — open source software as a service for charging stations / e-mobility
• ClimateAligned — AI-driven platform for a climate view on financial products

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• Mindgard — Mindgard rapidly uncovers cyber threats against Artificial Intelligence. Our product empowers businesses to securely deploy their mission-critical AI within an everchanging cyber landscape.
• Signaloid — Signaloid provides efficient computing hardware and software technologies to quantify, transmit, and track data uncertainty in computations.
• AccelerComm — Our patented, market-leading IP solutions for 4G and 5G are configurable for quick, high-performance implementations across a wide range of applications.

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• Lysa — Lysa is a digital portfolio management service that allows you to invest as a Nobel Prize winner.
• KIT — KIT helps companies to improve relationships with their target groups, in order to increase awareness, loyalty and conversions at a time when social media is our most important marketing channel. KIT was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. KIT is part of People People People, an agency group that consists of Spoon, Oh My,Trickle, TDWT, Gabardin, KIT, Sigmar, Spoon Inhouse & Fuze PR
• Nordtech Group — Nordtech Group is a technology group consisting of software companies with industry-specific products. Common to its companies is that they deliver high customer values ​​within their respective segments.

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• Zcooly — Zcooly offers several educational games for children.
• Parkamo — Parkamo is like Hotels.com & Airbnbn for parking. All apps, all prices, full transparency and you can earn money by renting out your parking.
• Swedish Temptations — Swedish Temptations, founded in 2019 by CEO Pia Qvarnström, built a brand named Bärta for producing organic, vegan and fermented food. The ingredients include Swedish split peas.

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• Isometric — Isometric is a carbon removal registry and science platform
• TreesPlease Games — TreesPlease Games develops various computer and online games. The company is headquartered in London.
• Scriptic — Scriptic, interactive story games on mobile.

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• Raw Fury Games — Raw Fury is a video game publisher that designs and publishes indie games. Its games include atomicrops, whispers of a machine, and night call that features hand-painted 640x360 graphics, a story with existential twists and multiple endings, enabling users to play and enjoy games.The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Stockholm,Sweden.

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• blipp.se — blipp.se is a digital marketplace for selling and buying cars.
• Storytel — Storytel is a provider of audiobook and e-book streaming services. The company offers unlimited streaming to consumers in 20+ markets. With Storytel, users can discover award-winning detective stories, dizzying novels, or powerful biographies, and easily sort books in Swedish, English, Arabic, Danish or Finnish.Storytel was founded in 2005 andhas since been a leader in subscription services for audiobooks and e-books. The company is established in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Holland, and Poland. Since 2015 Storytel has also been the publisher of the physical books for the acquisition of publishing houses Massolit and B. Wahlstrom.
• Light Flex Technology — Active Printed Light - Powering The World's Smartest Garments

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• Aggero — Data-driven end-to-end technology platform that connects brands to gamers.
• Gameye — Gameye enables game studios to develop server based multiplayer games without the hassle of creating, testing and maintaining a global server infrastructure
• Cooperative Innovations — We're developers of compelling original VR + AR games, experiences & immersive experiences, making our industry-leading core technology available to license

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• Dicot — Dicot is a pharmaceutical company focused on drug discovery and the development of novel lifestyle drugs to enrich patients' lives. The Company develops and manufactures medicines for the treatment of erectile dysfunction and premature ejaculation. The company's lead candidate, LIB-01, is in the pre-clinical stage of development.
• EmbeDL — Efficient Deep Learning for Embedded Systems
• Nordic Forestry Automation — The forestry sector is standing before unprecedented challenges in adapting to increased demand for sustainable raw materials, carbon storage, biodiversity conservation and a shortage of highly skilled machine operators. Digital tools, precision forestry and automation will play a crucial role in

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• DanAds — Streamline ad sales and operations with our self-serve ad platform. Automate management of sales, ops, and creative, maximizing your income. Try it now!
• Delibr — Reach a new level of clarity and flow with PRD, story map, decisions, and Jira issues in one epic document.
• Cinclus Pharma — A Swedish pharma company bringing relief to the world with the clinical stage drug candidate linaprazan glurate for gastric acid related diseases.

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• Lurkit — Lurkit is a sophisticated ecosystem for data driven collaborations between content creators, game developers and publishers.
• Atomontage — Atomontage develops a volumetric graphics and simulation platform that can scale to record-breaking data sets and beyond. The company is headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware.
• LootLocker — LootLocker is the plug and play, cross-platform backend for developers to build, ship, and run their best games. Skip the grind and level up your game.

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• Otovo — To homeowners, Otovo is the easiest way to get solar panels on the roof. We are a marketplace organizing a network of hundreds of local, high quality energy installers that we have vetted thoroughly. We use our proprietary technology to analyse the potential of any home and advise precisely about the ideal project. Founded in Oslo in 2016, ourteam consists of engineers, programmers and technical consultants located in Oslo, Stockholm, Paris, Madrid, Warsaw and Milan. In France, we are known as “In Sun We Trust”, the result of the merger with the French solar energy startup.We have sold and completed thousands of solar energy projects across Europe and aim to become the continent’s no.1 residential solar energy company. Otovo is financially solid, being backed by some of Scandinavia’s major investment entities, notably Axel Johnson of Sweden, Norway’s municipal pension fund (KLP), and Nysnø, the Norwegian green sovereign investment fund.
• Improvin' — Improvin' is a sustainability performance platform that helps agri-food companies measure, report and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in their own value chain.
• ConforMIS — Conformis designs and manufactures customized knee & hip replacements that are patient-specific. Learn about how our implant could be the right choice.

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• Tinitell — Tinitell is a one-button mobile phone for kids that like to play outside! It’s super simple, fun, and durable. Parents don’t want to buy mobile phones for their kids because they - are expensive - break easily - get lost - and they don’t want to their kids to spend a lot of time online. But parents buy phones for their kids anyway. Parents want toknow where their kids are, and they want to be able to talk them. Tinitell is the reinvention of the walkie-talkie for the cellular network, and kids is just the beginning. A variety of future users are screaming for a simple communication solution. Tinitell is going to become the world’s strongest brand in the wristphone segment of wearable tech.
• Consector — Consector is a loan broker that offers personal counseling for individuals. Consector helps to competition the individuals' mortgages, personal loans and credit cards with the goal of improving and lowering their interest expenses.
• Playtomic — Playtomic operates an online sports court booking platform intended to become a social network for sports players. It provides a platform to reserve courts, find other players with similar skill levels, and join a social sports community dedicated to learning that helps sports clubs to optimize the use of their facilities and step into the digitalage.Playtomic was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.

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• Improvin' — Improvin' is a sustainability performance platform that helps agri-food companies measure, report and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in their own value chain.
• Raft — Remove the roadblocks to amazing operations. Vector uses real-time content to drive seriously-streamlined workflows in Freight-Forwarding, Customs Brokerage, Logistics and Trade Finance.
• Manna Drone Delivery — Drone delivery made simple

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• Improvin' — Improvin' is a sustainability performance platform that helps agri-food companies measure, report and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in their own value chain.
• NitroCapt — Sustainable nitrogen fixation, from air too fertiliser using climate neutral and fossil-free technology.
• Acamp — Acamp captures the camper community's pent-up demand by digitising existing campgrounds in addition to creating new by letting local landowners and small businesses rent out unused land to anyone searching for a place to camp.

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• Improvin' — Improvin' is a sustainability performance platform that helps agri-food companies measure, report and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in their own value chain.
• EvodiaBio — EvodiaBio is a bio-industrial firm that creates natural, sustainable scents for the food and beverage industries. Founded in 2021 and is based in Copenhagen, Capital Region.
• WNWN Food Labs — We're WNWN Food Labs and we love food. We're creating delicious, sustainable and ethical alternatives to unsustainable and ethically dubious foods. We're starting with cacao-free chocolate. Changing chocolate? It's Win-Win #alt-chocolate #altchocolate #alt-universe #altuniverse #alt-protein

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• DanAds — Streamline ad sales and operations with our self-serve ad platform. Automate management of sales, ops, and creative, maximizing your income. Try it now!
• Addressya — Addressya is an app that allows individuals to register a complete, precise and easy to use address.
• PocketLaw — PocketLaw is a user-friendly and affordable solution that allows you to create contracts, get legal guidance, manage your documents and contact lawyers.

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• Medoma — Medoma is a Swedish virtual ward company that offer patients acute hospital care in their home instead of in the hospital.
• Natural Cycles — Natural Cycles birth control is 93% effective with typical use and 98% effective with perfect use. Learn more about hormone-free birth control today.
• Kyra — Kyra is a Gen-Z entertainment company creating engaging digital content that resonates with youth culture. We represent world class digital native talent, produce digital content with the biggest and best consumer brands and develop media properties publishing daily content on platforms that matter to Gen Z. Kyra has the ability to not onlytarget but truly engage with the Gen-Z audience through content that resonates based on real-time audience data from our proprietary KyraIQ technology. Our inclusive, ahead-of-the-trend content and content creators make us the ultimate destination for the Gen-Z consumer who wants to be inspired by their own community. Our approach and creativity is based on data and insights and has proven to engage this audience better than any traditional publisher. We house a talent agency representing and collaborating with the leading Gen Z social stars such as Abby Roberts and Noen Eubanks; a global content studio creating award-winning content for youth-seeking brand partners such as Converse and HP; and a newly developed portfolio of media properties publishing daily content on Gen Z-native platforms around beauty, fashion, adventure, food, gaming and entertainment.Kyra engages Gen Z better than any traditional publisher, with an audience of 78 million social media followers racking up 750 million monthly video views in 190 countries around the globe. We know exactly where Gen Z is spending their time online and we respect their interests and passions. That result is content that is meaningful and fosters long term engagement for blue chip brands. Our team are experts on Gen Z culture, whether they are producing, managing, creating or marketing in New York, London and Los Angeles. Learn more at https://kyra.com/reel

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• Improvin' — Improvin' is a sustainability performance platform that helps agri-food companies measure, report and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in their own value chain.
• Tradesnest — Tradesnest is an AI powered B2B SaaS-Marketplace that revolutionises the B2B industry by removing the barriers for brands looking for distributors and retailers to enter new markets. With Tradesnest, getting your innovations on retailers’ shelves in new markets around the world has never been this easy!
• Every Health — Every Health focuses on "holistic, needs-based medical care for the LGBTQIA+ community".

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• Kind — We want all healthcare providers to enjoy the benefits of modern communication. Kind is a secure cloud platform for communication and knowledge sharing. We meet the needs of organizations of all sizes with our flexible subscription model.
• Brick Technology — Brick is an app that solves the problem of electronics running out of battery. Download our app and find the nearest Brick station on the map, then rent a power bank (with cables) to charge your phone, tablet, headphones or whatever it is that is running out of battery. Return the power bank to any Brick station so that you can charge on the go.Stay in charge.
• Katam Technologies — Development of drone measurement and cloud-based evaluation service providing high precision forestry data using a mobile phone or drone.

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• Bookis — Bookis is the Next-Generation Online Bookstore with Direct Author Compensation, making the sharing of stories and knowledge playfully easy - from all bookshelves, for everyone. We leverage community, technology and innovative distribution to enable radically easier peer-to-peer bookselling, with fair author compensation models. Building theworld's largest network of authors fighting for a more fair book industry worldwide.
• Lumaly — Lumaly is a browser extension that automatically tries out and uses all available voucher codes in the cart when shopping online.
• Brink Commerce — Brink Commerce offers leading eCommerce solutions. Boost growth, perfect customer experiences, and unlock agility with our Composable Commerce API.