# Top 25 Publishing Startup Investors in Sweden in May 2026

## Wellstreet
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 3
- 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.

## Zouk Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Private Equity, Series B
- Focus: Software, Renewable Energy, Energy

Zouk Capital Growth Capital invests to build global leaders in resource efficiency. They believe that resource efficiency is fundamentally driven by technology – both industrial technology and information technology - and it has become clear that companies that improve efficiency are at a distinct advantage. Zouk invests in this new generation ofcompanies, supporting their expansion and accelerating the integration of resource efficiency measures across the global economy. The companies they invest in have commercially proven products and services with revenues between €10m - €150m and are positioned to scale rapidly. They support top-tier management teams to build market-leading, global businesses by providing growth equity and industry knowledge. To support them in achieving their growth strategies, they leverage their extensive international network of senior figures in the industry, business, finance, and government in Europe, North America, Asia, and the Middle East. Dedicated to adding value, they develop close partnerships with their portfolio companies and are some of the most experienced and active investors in the clean economy. Reflecting the value-add of Zouk’s approach, the second Growth Capital fund is the largest of its strategy in Europe at EUR 230m. Zouk’s Growth Capital focus is part of Zouk Capital LLP’s dual strategy of making investments that make a general environmental impact. Alongside its Growth Capital business, Zouk’s Infrastructure team finances the construction of renewable energy and environmental assets.

## Swedbank Robur
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Post-IPO Equity, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Manufacturing, Mobile Apps

As Sweden's largest fund company, we want to create sustainable value creation. We do this by working actively with sustainability in our funds and products.

## 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.

## Pale blue dot
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Malmö, Skane Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Logistics, AgTech, Supply Chain Management

We invest in diverse and ambitious founders building scalable companies that help us reduce or reverse climate change.

## IQ Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence

IQ Capital is a Cambridge & London-based VC firm that invests in ‘deep tech’ companies capable of dominating their respective markets on a global scale. Initial investments at Seed and Series A range from £0.5m to £10m, with capacity for follow-on investment up to £30m through the Growth Fund. The team has achieved over 30 exits including toApple, Huawei, Google and Oracle.

## Nicklas Storåkers
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Insurance, FinTech

Nicklas Storåkers

## 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.

## Rustan Panday
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: EBooks, Retail, Computer

Rustan Panday

## Craig Fletcher
- Type: Angel
- Location: Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Almi Invest
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Karl Magnus Troedsson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Software, SaaS

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

## Axel Johnson
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series E
- Focus: Solar, Energy, CleanTech

Axel Johnson is the corporate home for a collection of diverse industry-leading businesses. In 2011, Axel Johnson Inc. companies had revenues of approximately $4.0 billion and employed in excess of 1,000 people. AJI is a private investment company, founded in 1920, and owned by the Johnson family of Stockholm, Sweden.

## Optimizer Invest
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mälarhöjden, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, Mobile, Retail

Optimizer Invest is a fully founder funded venture capital company. Optimizer helps early stage business and entrepreneurs to build great companies

## Dynamo
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Logistics, Supply Chain Management

We invest in extraordinary founders building startups in supply chain and mobility. We are equipped to support founders through the seed stage in their effort to transform global trade and commerce.

## LRF Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Travel, Leisure, Tourism

LRF Ventures provides capital, relevant expertise and a network for start-ups.

## PINC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Biotechnology, Cooking, Children

PINC invests in attractive start-ups leveraging four major consumer trends: Conscious Consumption, Holistic Health, Personalized Convenience, and Authentic Experiences.

## Johan Andersson
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: CRM, Apps, Travel

Johan Andersson

## Atomico's Angel Programme
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, B2B, SaaS

investment firm

## Filip Larsson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Malmö, Skane Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Mobile Apps, Software, Health Care

Founder DLL-files.com - the worlds most popular website for downloading dll files
Angel investor since 2008

## Alexander Hars
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gothenburg, Vastra Gotaland, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, SaaS

Alexander Hars - Board member @ Zalster

## David Helgason
- Type: Angel
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Gaming, Information Technology

David is a technologist, the founder of Unity Technologies, non-exec director to others, and a restless entrepreneur with a passion for creating feedback loops between innovation and teams and products, applying new and old business models to changing industries, and pushing people to do the very best they can do.David's background is inprogramming, an assortment of university dabbling, creating companies, and helping entrepreneurs. He served as CEO of Unity Technologies since co-founding it in 2003 and until October 2014, with an unflinching vision to democratize game development, and to develop technology and business models for the next phase of the games industry. David Helgason attended the University of Copenhagen.

## Rikard Lindström
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: PC Games, Publishing, Video Games

Rikard Lindström

## Jonas Sjögren
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Convertible Note
- Focus: CRM, Mobile Apps, Advertising Platforms

Jonas Sjögren

## Bonnier Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Digital Media, Software

Bonnier Capital is the investment division of the Bonnier Group. Since 2016, we invest in promising companies in structurally growing industries and have become a reliant investment partner to companies and funds of various sizes.

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