Top 45 Social Media Startup Investors in Sweden in October 2023
Top 45 Social Media Startup Investors in Sweden in October 2023
| Investor | Social Media Sweden investments |
|---|---|
| Industrifonden | 5 |
| H&M Group Ventures (Prev. H&M CO:LAB) | 3 |
| Active Venture Partners | 2 |
| Spintop Ventures | 2 |
| Wellstreet | 2 |
| Niklas Eklund | 2 |
| Northzone | 2 |
| GP Bullhound | 2 |
| Creandum | 2 |
| Atomico | 2 |
| Johan Siwers | 1 |
| RECAPEX | 1 |
| Mats Lindoff | 1 |
| Novel TMT Ventures | 1 |
| Biz Stone | 1 |
| Singular | 1 |
| Evan Sharp | 1 |
| Hampus Jakobsson | 1 |
| Axel Bard Bringéus | 1 |
| Lars Markgren | 1 |
| Notion Capital | 1 |
| Menmo Ventures | 1 |
| Christopher Persson | 1 |
| Greylock | 1 |
| InReach Ventures | 1 |
| Rikard Steiber | 1 |
| Marcus Wallén | 1 |
| D-Ax Corporate Venture Capital | 1 |
| Ben Silbermann | 1 |
| Sweet Studio | 1 |
| Nordea | 1 |
| Henrik Torstensson | 1 |
| Entreprenörskapital | 1 |
| Peter Muld | 1 |
| Mathias Ackermand | 1 |
| Recruit Strategic Partners | 1 |
| NFT Ventures | 1 |
| Mattias Miksche | 1 |
| Rouven Dresselhaus | 1 |
| Johannes Schildt | 1 |
| Anders Böös | 1 |
| Krim Talia | 1 |
| Cloud Capital | 1 |
| Almi Invest | 1 |
| Zobito | 1 |
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H&M CO:LAB is the venture capital arm of the H&M Group.
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- E-Commerce, Fashion, Textiles
- Series A, Funding Round, Series B
- Sweden, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- A Retro Tale — A Retro Tale is a distinctive and reliable online retailer with a passion for and specialization in authentic luxury vintage and second-hand accessories.
- Rubi Laboratories — Rubi Laboratories turns carbon emissions into carbon-negative textiles for the fashion industry, with a proprietary synthetic biology technology.
ACTIVE is a European venture capital company focused on positively disrupting its traditional sector. Spearheaded by a diverse, passionate and multinational team, it is building a reputation for providing support that goes beyond capital for high growth businesses.With a presence in Spain, Germany and Scandinavia, ACTIVE targets entrepreneurialteams driving digital start-ups and seeking holistic partnerships based on shared values and pro-active support. Start-up founders connect to the unique ACTIVE community to engage with sector specialists, growth experts and senior advisors.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- Spain, United States, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Odilo — Odilo removes the technology barriers, allowing any institution to offer all kinds of digital content to its users whilst ensuring compliance with copyright laws.Their company is one of the leading software solutions for libraries offering a comprehensive product suite to discover, manage and distribute digital content as well as print.They are headquartered in Cartagena, Spain and have offices in Madrid, Spain; Miami, Florida; Mexico City, Mexico; and New York, New York.Their aim is to develop the market’s most innovative and creative solutions. They lead the way in defining and designing efficient, user-friendly products, serving the needs of public, private, university, school and special interest libraries today, while enabling them to transition into the future.
- Whisbi — Live commerce platform leader for Enterprises. Improve the quality of online leads, grow your digital revenue and enhance online customer experience with your live streams and live shopping
- Healthify — Healthify builds the infrastructure that integrates social determinants of health into the era of value-based healthcare by creating networks of social service organizations.
Founded in 2009, Spintop Ventures is a venture capital firm backed by a network of successful tech entrepreneurs who have invested in Spintop alongside institutional investors, family offices and some of the most experienced private investors in early stage growth companies.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Sweden, Finland, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- IPRally — Improve your invalidity, patentability and FTO searches. Easy-to-use patent search web application, powered by unique AI knowledge graph technology.
- Elastisys — Elastisys provides fully-managed Kubernetes Platform as a Service, GDPR-ready on EU clouds with optional PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, and Redis.
- EmbeDL — Efficient Deep Learning for Embedded Systems
Wellstreet is an innovation and tech ecosystem that includes an investment company, a strategic consultancy firm and a venture building incubator.
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- E-Commerce, Software, Retail
- Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Sweden, Norway, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Over the past 25 years, Niklas has an entrepreneur built and internationalized a range of companies in the area of reservation systems, revenue management, online marketing, and web publishing; amongst others he was the CEO and co-founder Bookatable, Livebookings, Infogate, and Epani.Over the past 8 years, Niklas has a direct investor and advisorto investment companies and venture capital companies; amongst others he was a co-founder and general partner at D-Ax (Axel Johnson Group CVC), a venture partner for Wellington Partners Venture Capital. Niklas is currently a general partner for PES Holdings. Investment focus is the Digital Media Sector and Digital Growth Companies, primarily in the Nordic countries and across Europe. Niklas describes himself as a ‘computer software geek and wizard turned businessman’ as he started his career at the age of 15. His achievements in building internationally successful companies have been recognized by various industry awards.
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- Software, Apps, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Sweden, Japan, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- Savr — Savr is an Investment platform disrupting the Swedish fund industry with a lower fee structure and a new business model.
- PinMeTo — Optimize your time and local presence with an all-in-one local SEO tool. Show up in local search, manage listings, reviews, messages from one dashboard.
- Winnow — Winnow builds artificial intelligence tools to help chefs run more profitable and sustainable kitchens by cutting food waste in half. They develop technology to cut food waste in their operations. Their digital tools provide data to drive improvements in kitchen production processes and reduce environmental footprint.Winnow's mission is toconnect commercial kitchen, create a movement of chefs, and inspire others. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in London, England, United Kingdom.
Northzone is a venture capital fund with a perspective shaped by lives as entrepreneurs. Since 1996, they've made over 175 investments and invest from Seed to Growth. They've partnered with the founders of Spotify, Avito, iZettle, Klarna, Hopin, and hundreds of others to build category-defining businesses. They've raised €1bn inSeptember 2022.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, Sweden, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- IDOVEN — IDoven develops products to detect heart problems at an early stage to prevent heart diseases.
- Quench.ai — Quench is a tech infrastructure for video creators to deliver exclusive content, engage and reward their true fans.
- Bedrock Ocean Exploration — Bedrock is building smarter, more efficient ways to collect and manage seafloor data.
Since 1999, GP Bullhound has invested in and advised brilliant leaders. Powered by more than 180 employees across 13 offices worldwide.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Funding Round, Series B, Series A
- United Kingdom, Sweden, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Sesamy — Sesamy provides frictionless single purchases and consumption of digital content, without restricting the user’s choice of app or device.
- EcoVadis — Ratings platform to assess corporate social responsibility and sustainable procurement. Solutions include risk monitoring, audit management and sustainability ratings.
- CoverManager — CoverManager is a tool for creating, sell and managing reservations of a restaurant.
We support early-stage founders in building global, category-defining companies. From Seed to IPO and beyond.
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- Software, Information Technology, Mobile
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Sweden, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Ivy — We are building a global API for instant bank payments
- Terralayr — Terralayr uses software to collect energy grid-scale storage, which will be required as we strive to make renewable energy more efficient and lucrative.
- Lindus Health — Lindus Health. From recruitment to delivery, we accelerate clinical trials. Our mission is to make health research accessible for everyone, everywhere.
Atomico invests in innovative technology companies around the world.
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Corti — Corti offers a digital assistant, augmenting medics in improving patient outcomes and internal performance.
- Strise — Strise is signaling a new era of enterprise software and organizational change, transforming how companies work and empowering individual growth through knowledge. We believe in the AI-enabled financial institution without data silos where users and data are working together to solve even the most complex business problems.
- 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.
Johan Siwers is a seasoned online media executive with a passion for entrepreneurial game changing companies.Johan has over the past 15 years been involved in breaking ground for a wide range of media and online ventures within companies like Kinnevik, Spray, Schibsted and InterActive Corp (IAC).Most recently Johan has launched, grown andexited the Northern European operations of Match.com, where he despite entering the market when it was already a crowded space, led the company to dominate the online dating category in the region.
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- Fashion, Big Data, Social Media
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- PinMeTo — Optimize your time and local presence with an all-in-one local SEO tool. Show up in local search, manage listings, reviews, messages from one dashboard.
- Hackyourcloset.com — Cultivate your closet with a digital consultant. Keeping up with our closets can take hours and hours. Subscribe in less than 5 min.
RECAPEX is a partner to owners and management of companies wanting to realise opportunities created by technology and digital change.
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- Enterprise Software, Software, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- Sweden, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- PinMeTo — Optimize your time and local presence with an all-in-one local SEO tool. Show up in local search, manage listings, reviews, messages from one dashboard.
- Planday — Planday bring down staff costs by 5%, reduce administration time by 75% and increase employee satisfaction by 20%. Planday is used by different sized companies in a variety of industries such as Restaurants, Hotels, Retailers, Call Centres, Fitness clubs, etc. Want to know more about Planday? Visit planday.com today.
- Campanja — Campanja’s next-generation Bid Management Solutions radically improve return on your advertising spend.We are a technology driven company backed by noteworthy investors such as Google board member and founding investor, Ram Shriram and MySQL founder, David Axmark. Trusted by global organizations, we are redefining paid search and display with apowerful combination of technical and business expertise. Using advanced technologies such as Real Time Tracking, Predictive Modelling and High Frequency Bidding we harness the true potential of online advertising to deliver great results to our clients.
Mats Lindoff - Owner @ Lindoff Technology
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- SaaS, Social Media, Content Creators
- Seed
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Hoodin — Save up to 90% of the time compared to manual research with need-centric solutions for selected industries like Medtech, Pharma, Public Sector, Finance, and Tourism. Start monitoring sources of your choice directly in the Hoodin platform.
Novel TMT Ventures backs stellar teams building innovative products and services to improve consumer experiences and efficiencies in commerce, media and payment.
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- E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Bloom & Wild — Bloom & Wild, a letterbox flower delivery company, take an online approach to the traditional business of ordering and delivering flowers. It has infused the traditional flower-giving experience with predictive analytics and technology to deliver a fresher, less-traveled bouquet to the people they care most about.Founded in 2013 by AronGelbard and Ben Stanway, Bloom & Wild aims to become the pan-European market leader in flower and gift delivery. The company continued its expansion into more European markets and added bricks and mortar retail for the UK. By entering into a retail partnership with Sainsbury’s, Bloom & Wild sees an exclusive range of premium bouquets available in selected superstores nationwide.
- Elevate Brands — We buy consumer-leading Amazon FBA brands and elevate them to their full potential. Tap into our unparalleled team to successfully grow your business.
- Backbone PLM — Backbone is a digital workspace to help product creators create, collaborate and scale. Built for designers, by designers.
Biz is a co-founder of Twitter, Medium, and Jelly. A progenitor of social media, and early Google employee, Biz has been developing large scale systems that serve the global conversation for twenty years. As an investor, Biz has backed Square, Pinterest, Slack when it was called Speck, Nest, Intercom and Beyond Meat (where he remains on the boardas Chair of the Nominating and Governance Committee), among others. In 2016, Stone's Jelly, a "human in the loop" AI search service, was acquired by Pinterest. After the sale, Twitter requested Biz return full time to lead the company's strategic vision, brand, and internal culture objectives alongside co-founder Jack Dorsey. Biz has been recognized as INC Magazine Entrepreneur of the Decade and one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People in the World. He is also an author, filmmaker and Fellow at both Oxford University and Berkeley.
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- Software, Messaging, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
- Karat Financial — Karat is the best card for creators, helping you save money, earn rewards, and grow your channel faster - because content IS a business.
- Config — Config combines engineering, operations, and manufacturing to simplify the large-scale shipment of high-quality hardware.
- Ristretto — Ristretto electric bikes - representing the pinacle of superior riding performance - the 512 combines design with sustainable luxury
Singular is a generalist venture capital firm backing ambitious European entrepreneurs.
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- Software, Analytics, Enterprise Software
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- France, Germany, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Life5 — The modern life insurance that fits you. Easy, flexible and affordable. The protection you need for your family 100% online
- Thynk.Cloud — Thynk is designed by hoteliers for hoteliers to simplify and automate sales, operations, and data management. Every process is easier, faster, and fully integrated.
- Continuum Industries — Continuum Industries is a developer of Optioneer, the leading software for linear infrastructure optioneering.
Evan Sharp is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Pinterest, where he leads all design efforts. A former architect, Evan finds inspiration from pinning interesting maps, science facts, architecture, vacation plans, and fonts for his design projects. Before Pinterest,Evan worked at Facebook as a product designer. He received a bachelor’s degree inhistory from the University of Chicago and studied architecture at Columbia University. Evan hails from York, Pennsylvania, and currently resides in San Francisco, California.
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- Software, Travel, Women's
- Seed, Series A
- United States, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Hume AI — The AI toolkit to measure, understand, and improve how technology affects human emotion.
- Chroma — Sonically driven. Visually enhanced. Technologically evolved. The future sound of entertainment.
- Ristretto — Ristretto electric bikes - representing the pinacle of superior riding performance - the 512 combines design with sustainable luxury
Hampus Jakobsson is a General Partner at early stage climate tech venture fund Pale Blue Dot.Prior to co-founding Pale Blue Dot, Hampus was a Venture Partner at science fund Blue Yard and a prolific angel investor with >100 angel investments. He co-founded of The Astonishing Tribe (acquired by Blackberry in 2010 for $150m). He left Blackberry2012 to found Brisk.io a sales productivity tool which folded 2016.
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- Health Care, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Sweden, Denmark, United States
Portfolio highlights
- ClimateView — ClimateView is a Swedish climate action technology company that helps cities transform climate planning into progress. We combine data, agent-based modelling and interface design to help cities successfully manage the transition to zero carbon economies.
- Mojo — Laboratory-grade AI-powered semen test at home. Test your sperm count, motility, volume and concentration with the Mojo kit. Check your fertility from home at low cost.
- Volta Greentech — Battling global warming by reducing methane emissions from cows
EQT Ventures’ in-house international expansion expert, Axel’s early career involved a stint at King.com, where he set up and ran advertising sales, before joining Spotify as Director of International Growth in 2011. In this role, Axel built and managed the international expansion team, taking on the responsibility for strategy and execution ofSpotify’s expansion into new markets across the world. Going from six to 60 markets over the course of six years, Axel oversaw Spotify’s transition into the global powerhouse that it is today. Axel then led the reorganization of the business, moving towards a decentralized model with larger autonomy and accountability in the hands of the regional teams and the Managing Directors, which reported directly to Axel.Axel advises EQT Ventures' portfolio companies on how to become global players, helping them build their strategy and operations for navigating and launching in new territories. Based in Berlin, Axel works closely with our German portfolio companies, including AnyDesk, Home, Wandelbots and BEAT81.
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- Apps, Software, Fitness
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- Germany, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- AnyDesk — AnyDesk was founded in Germany in 2014, and its unique remote desktop access software has been downloaded by more than 100 million users worldwide, adding another 5 million every month. The software is based on their unique proprietary codec, DeskRT, that allows for virtually latency-free collaboration, whether you’re down the hall, or on the otherside of the world. They’re one of the 50 fastest-growing firms in Germany, and they need someone like you to help us keep expanding.AnyDesk is the fastest remote desktop software on the market. It allows for new usage scenarios and applications that have not been possible with current remote desktop software.
- Wandelbots — We make robots usable for everyone. Learn how our easy-to-use software solutions can empower your organization to work with robots.
- Chroma — Sonically driven. Visually enhanced. Technologically evolved. The future sound of entertainment.
Prior to King, Lars served as Chief Technical Officer at Internet consulting company Spray (later renamed Razorfish), and Spray Network Europe (acquired by Lycos Europe in 2000). Lars also co-founded Fjord Network AB.
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- Internet, Social Media, Online Auctions
- Angel
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- HappyTail — HappyTail is a mobile app for active and social dogs and dog lovers. By connecting dogs with dog lovers we eliminate the dog owners dilemma of reduced freedom and lonely dog walks. HappyTail allows users to share photos and find dog-related places such as shops, vets, dog friendly restaurants. This benefits the dog owner as well as the dog –and that is our main mission: Every dog should be able to live a happy, active and social life!
Notion Capital is a VC firm focused on European SaaS and Cloud.
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- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Outverse — A community platform that's easier to use, better organised and designed for real interaction.
- Quench.ai — Quench is a tech infrastructure for video creators to deliver exclusive content, engage and reward their true fans.
- Statement — Find the right card machine for your business, with good rates and the best features. Search the top providers in minutes, including Worldpay, Barclaycard, Tyl and Teya.
Menmo Ventures is an investment company focused on enterprise software, web, and community based technological products. The company is based in Skane Lan, Sweden.
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- SaaS, Social Media, Content Creators
- Seed
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Hoodin — Save up to 90% of the time compared to manual research with need-centric solutions for selected industries like Medtech, Pharma, Public Sector, Finance, and Tourism. Start monitoring sources of your choice directly in the Hoodin platform.
Christopher Persson - General Partner @ RECAPEX
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- Social Media, Enterprise Software, Location Based Services
- Seed
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- PinMeTo — Optimize your time and local presence with an all-in-one local SEO tool. Show up in local search, manage listings, reviews, messages from one dashboard.
Greylock Partners is a leading venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley. We are early partners of remarkable teams building companies that matter.
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- Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Frec — Next-level investing without a wealth advisor. Low-cost direct indexing with supercharged tax savings. Earn high interest on cash with Treasury.
- PayJoy — Looking for a phone or a cash loan? PayJoy gives you credit with few requirements and in minutes. No late fees charged.
- Upwind Security — Upwind Security creates and develops software and online tools that ensures security of cloud infrastructure. It manages runtime environments of the cloud platform.
InReach Ventures builds its own proprietary software and AI to discover and invest in the best early-stage startups from all over Europe.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Learning
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, United States, France
Portfolio highlights
- Glassfy — The only subscription platform for developers and product managers. Glassfy provides the infrastructure to build & optimize subscriptions for mobile applications. You can now add subscriptions easily with a few lines of code, get info about any event happening in real-time, create different paywalls, and test which selling proposition usersprefer.
- Amalia.io — Streamline Sales Compensation. Incentive & Compensation Management platform that accelerates your business while uniting your team.
- Dreamdata — Dreamdata is a B2B Revenue Attribution Platform that gathers, joins, cleans all revenue-related data to present transparent, actionable analysis of what drives B2B revenue. The ultimate B2B multi-touch attribution tool for multi-techstack businesses.
Rikard Steiber is the Founder & President of Viveport & he attedned SDA Bocconi in 1993.
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- Virtual Reality, Electric Vehicle, Sports
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Sweden, United States, Czech Republic
Portfolio highlights
- LIV — LIV is your complete toolset for VTubing, Mixed Reality Capture and VR native utilities like in-headset stream chat, alerts and notifications!
- Einride — Einride is a freight mobility company that designs and builds technologies for transportation systems. It is taking logistics in a new direction with intelligent freight mobility solutions that are both autonomous and electric for shippers and carriers. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.
- Jetson Aero — Your personal aircraft in aluminium and carbon fibre, powered with eight powerful electric motors.
Marcus Wallén
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- Internet, Analytics, Peer to Peer
- Angel
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Greta — Greta helps developers to shorten content load times, reduce buffering and increase content quality. This improves their product’s end user experience, especially during traffic spikes, which leads to higher conversion rates, more engaged users and a better bottom line.By using machine learning technology Greta analyzes network data inreal-time, and automatically calculates the fastest route for the content to be delivered, which improves performance. Greta currently supports images, audio and video.The implementation takes a few minutes, and you can then easily make configurations in the UI and access your own dashboard to evaluate how your content delivery setup affects your end users’s experience.
- HappyTail — HappyTail is a mobile app for active and social dogs and dog lovers. By connecting dogs with dog lovers we eliminate the dog owners dilemma of reduced freedom and lonely dog walks. HappyTail allows users to share photos and find dog-related places such as shops, vets, dog friendly restaurants. This benefits the dog owner as well as the dog –and that is our main mission: Every dog should be able to live a happy, active and social life!
D-Ax is a partnership between Axel Johnson, a Swedish retail conglomerate and RECAPEX, a Nordic Investment company.Axel Johnson’s aim with D-ax is to invest in digital entrepreneurial companies. The ambition is to increase the trading group’s digital resources. As one of the Nordic region’s leading trading groups, Axel Johnson aims to meet withcustomers across all contact channels and develop new digital offers. The ambition is to is to increase the trading group’s digital resources. The firm looking for entrepreneurial digital companies that do business in trading and services. The companies should have achieved a certain level of sales and have a proven business model. While they may be e-commerce companies, this is not a must; they might also be companies that work with other digital business ideas within the spectrum covering online marketing, data transparency and data analysis.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Social Media
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Sweden, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- PinMeTo — Optimize your time and local presence with an all-in-one local SEO tool. Show up in local search, manage listings, reviews, messages from one dashboard.
- 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!
- Winnow — Winnow builds artificial intelligence tools to help chefs run more profitable and sustainable kitchens by cutting food waste in half. They develop technology to cut food waste in their operations. Their digital tools provide data to drive improvements in kitchen production processes and reduce environmental footprint.Winnow's mission is toconnect commercial kitchen, create a movement of chefs, and inspire others. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in London, England, United Kingdom.
Ben Silbermann is the Co-Founder and Executive Chair of Pinterest. He previously worked at Google as a Product Specialist. Ben Silbermann attended Yale University.
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- Health Care, Wellness, Video
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Cambly — Cambly gives English learners on-demand access to native English speaking tutors over video chat.
- Chroma — Sonically driven. Visually enhanced. Technologically evolved. The future sound of entertainment.
- Synapticure — The era of personalized care is finally coming to ALS. Synapticure will give all ALS patients access to the best care while fueling the advancement of personalized treatments for every type of ALS.
We co-found companies, dedicating our in-house team of designers, developers, and marketers to bring ideas to life. With every venture we co-found, our mission is to advance the consumer experience across industries with world-class technology, data-informed design, and lots of heart. Are you an entrepreneur who shares our mission?
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- iOS, Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence
- Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Koo! — The latest technology allows sleep tracker apps to analyze and compare your sleeping patterns. The Sleep++ app allows you to log your sleep and
- Alex Therapeutics — The Alex DTx Platform enables partners within pharma and health care to effectively and reliably launch new DTx treatments by leveraging existing insights, modules, processes and data.
- Stride Leadership — Stride is the revolutionary leadership product built to help become a confident leader. For too long, we’ve been taught that leadership is an elite act that’s linked to your job title. Now you hold leadership development in your hand, regardless of your age, job title, or seniority.With Stride, you’ll learn what it truly means to lead, and how todo it. We’ll bust common myths and you’ll discover which style of leadership is the best fit for you. Designed by leadership and design experts, Stride will help you learn the mindset required, the basics of leadership, and techniques for dealing with inevitable challenges. Whether you’re new to leadership or you’re a seasoned professional you’ll love learning and forming new habits with Stride.
Nordea Bank is Denmark's second-largest bank and counts every fourth Dane among its customers. Through their nationwide network of some 340 branch offices and a broad range of self-service facilities, they are able to offer you a full scale of financial products and services, including Netbank, Online Investment, telephone banking and cashdispensers.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Banking
- Funding Round, Debt Financing, Seed
- Finland, Sweden, Norway
Portfolio highlights
- Tibber — Tibber is a digital electricity supplier that offers smart solutions to minimize their customers’ consumption and costs. Its vision is to make sustainable energy consumption simple and affordable for all households. Tibber's mission is to reduce the residential electricity consumption for European households by 20 %. Founded in Norway andSweden in 2016, the company has expanded its offer to Sweden and Germany where it powers hundreds of thousands of homes. Tibber replaces traditional utilities with smart technology, supplying its customers with renewable energy at fair and transparent prices. In addition, its app provides real-time analytics into energy usage, and pairs with a variety of smart home devices to reduce electricity consumption at home. The company sells tech-gadgets in their online store and recently was licensed to balance the main power grid in Sweden with EVs.
- Statzon — Make data-driven plans & faster decisions with a simple access to +1M datasets & market reports about 8,000 topics from +200 trusted data providers.
- Get It Done Now — GIDN is a Nigerian Fintech Company targeting medium and low income population for Loans and Financial products. GIDN has in addition a cashless, mobile based community marketplace, with more than 5k members, and aims to regulate the informal economy and facilitate the purchase of Services and Digital Products.
Henrik Torstensson is a Partner at Alliance Venture and a Board Member & Co-founder of Lifesum.
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- SaaS, Sports, FinTech
- Seed
- Sweden, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Sparta — Sparta is a web-based application and software that enables sales directors to run effective sales competitions. It enables its users to builds sales competitions, invite their team, manage them with rankings, statistics, and reports. It also enables its users to control the metrics and behaviors that they desire to control in a sales environment.Sales directors can run multiple competitions, team-based competitions, send and receive email notifications, receive daily update emails, access a chat feed with @mentions, access reports and insights, and perform many more tasks through the app and software.Sparta was founded by Niklas de Besche, Aref Abedi, Aref Abedi, and James Pember. It is based in Stockholm, Sweden.
- Castle — Castle provides device fingerprinting, risk scoring, and a real-time rules engine - all through one single API.
- Fishbrain — Join over 14 million anglers using Fishbrain. Fishbrain is the world's #1 fishing app for finding fishing spots, forecasts, socializing, logging catches & more. Fish smarter with Fishbrain.
We are the product of the collective wealth of risk capital experience of everyone who has been part of Ekap since its founding.
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- SaaS, Social Media, Content Creators
- Seed
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Hoodin — Save up to 90% of the time compared to manual research with need-centric solutions for selected industries like Medtech, Pharma, Public Sector, Finance, and Tourism. Start monitoring sources of your choice directly in the Hoodin platform.
Peter Muld - Chief Strategy & Digital Officer ICA Sverige @ ICA Gruppen
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- Messaging, Social Media, Video on Demand
- Angel
- Sweden
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- Keelr — Powerful in-app messaging platform, extremely easy to integrate. Weapon of choice for digital agencies and early startups.
Mathias Ackermand is a Private Investor at Privat. Attended Kiel University.
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- Apps, Audio, Music
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Sweden, United Arab Emirates
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- 46elks — Integrate SMS, MMS and Phone calls into your applications with just a few lines of code. Transparent pricing, no startup fees, no minimum monthly costs.
- Kitab Sawti — Kitab Sawti is an Arabic audio entertainment service offering audiobooks and podcasts through mobile apps.
- Anotherblock — access music ownership in the world's biggest tracks.
Recruit Strategic Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in innovative startups from all around the world. It is a corporate venture capital arm of Recruit Holdings that seeks to invest in education and financial technology, digital healthcare, and infrastructure sectors. It was established in 2008 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
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- E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Japan, India
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- Blacklane — Blacklane is the global chauffeur service that offers safety, sustainability, and stress-free travel. Since 2017, the company has been carbon-neutral, combining a five-star guest experience with care for the planet. The customers can book their travels using Blacklane’s mobile app or website.Blacklane was co-founded by Jens Wohltorf and FrankSteuer and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
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- ZenBusiness — Start a new business today for $0 or grow your existing business with the ZenBusiness platform. Get to your first dollar faster without the stress.
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
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Sweden, Finland, United Kingdom
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- Yabie — Yabie's Payment and POS systems take the effort out of selling. It's the most intuitive, hassle-free and mobile way of interacting with your customers and making a sale.
- roaring.io — We create automated solutions that simplifies your daily business processes, enabling you to work smarter and stay competitive.
- Acknoledger — Ackno API will consist of UCNS and Ackno plagiarism engine that will be used by NFT platforms, NFT Marketplaces, Metaverses, and Digital Universes UCNS will adopt a decentralized approach to provide unique identifier for any content that is validated across Metaverses and NFT platforms AcknoLedger will collaborate with the current NFT and MetaverseEcosystem Partners to deploy UCNS solutions to their existing Digital Assets
Mattias Miksche - Angel Investor & Chairman @ Hem
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- Software, Big Data, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Sweden
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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.
Rouven Dresselhaus is Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Cavalry Ventures. His most notable investments at Cavalry include McMakler, Forto and Planetly (acq. by OneTrust). He also serves on numerous boards, e.g. at BRYTER and Sofía.Rouven started his career at Morten Sondergaard and then moved to Capnamic Ventures. In parallel, as a member of theadvisory board, he spearheaded the digitization initiative of his family business Joseph Dresselhaus GmbH & Co. KG (acq. by Nimbus) comprising core processes such as finance, HR, logistics and procurement.Rouven has invested in more than five dozen startups and participated in over two hundred funding rounds. He is a member of YPO, a global community of chief executives, and has been mentoring young entrepreneurs in formats such as Techstars, Techstars SAP.io, next logistics accelerator and the Axel Springer Plug and Play Accelerator. In addition, Rouven is a supporter of the entrepreneurial charity Founders Pledge.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Germany, United States, Mexico
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- Inkitt — Read upcoming novels and many more from talented authors before they go mainstream!
- Reaction Commerce — Product capabilities and documentation of Mailchimp Open Commerce.
- Meine Spielzeugkiste — Spielzeug mieten bei Meine Spielzeugkiste. Jetzt Mitglied werden!
Johannes Schildt, a true serial entrepreneur who founded or co-founded more than 3 companies, started his first company while still in school. Schildt later made a meteoric career at Stardoll working alongside people like Henrik Torstensson & Marcus Gners. Johannes successfully launched Stardoll's first official Facebook game, reaching1,000,000 monthly unique users within 3 months after launch. Today, Johannes is the CEO & Co-founder of Kry. By combining new technology with leading medical expertise KRY has built a platform to make healthcare digital.
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- Health Care, Software, Apps
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Finland, Sweden, United States
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- Helppy — Helppy is redefining elderly care. We are the trusted companion of seniors and their families. Helppy is a personalized elderly care platform supported by technology. We provide personal care, family support and a broad range of additional services to elderly at home.
- Valar Labs — AI to Make Oncologists Smarter
- Vital — Vital is an API for wearables, medical devices and lab tests. We make it easy to connect to hundreds of wearables such as Oura, Garmin, Fitbit, Omron, and deliver at home custom branded lab tests through an API.
Anders Böös - Non-Executive Director @ Securitas
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- Pet, Messaging, Marketplace
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Sweden, United Kingdom
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- Keelr — Powerful in-app messaging platform, extremely easy to integrate. Weapon of choice for digital agencies and early startups.
- DogBuddy — Find your perfect dog sitter, with dog walkers & dog boarding services near you. Liability insurance & 24/7 vet line included, far better than kennels!
Krim Talia
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- News, Social Media
- Angel
- Sweden
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- Warp News — News that is optimistic and based on facts. The world is better now than ever before, but mainstream media has a negative bias. We balance that.
Cloud Capital primarily invests in SaaS companies based on financing solutions that are optimized for SaaS companies' unique conditions. It provides SaaS entrepreneurs who have reached the scale-up phase access to smart expansion capital in the form of loans or shareholder capital or a combination of both. The firm was founded in 2017 byJohan Crona, with a background from starting, building, and investing in software companies.
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- SaaS, Software, Analytics
- Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Sweden, India
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- PinMeTo — Optimize your time and local presence with an all-in-one local SEO tool. Show up in local search, manage listings, reviews, messages from one dashboard.
- Kandle — Kandle is a revolutionary gameFi platform that aims to empower the existing and next billion crypto traders globally by introducing fantasy gaming to crypto. Designed exclusively for crypto natives and gaming enthusiasts, Kandle blends the world of crypto coins and the immersive thrill of gaming thus offering a diverse array of fantasy leagues andchallenging skill-based prediction contests to fuel your competitive spirit. Embrace a new era of fun and enjoyable crypto fantasy gaming. For more info, visit kandle.xyz
- Jeevam Health — Doctor & Coach driven membership plan to address the root cause of the Thyroid. The Treatment revolves around Nutrition, Supplements and Lifestyle Changes.
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.
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- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Sweden, United States, United Kingdom
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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
Zobito They help entrepreneurs and Venture Capital firms improve the operational performance of their companies, primarily in the Enterprise Software industry. Theyhave substantial experience in building operational platforms for sustainable growth. All partners at Zobito have experience in taking companies from tiny to world class and are proud tosay that the success was based on science and not art.An important part of Their business idea is to share both risk and upside in the companies They help. They put Their money where Their mouths are.
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- Software, SaaS, Information Services
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- Sweden, France, Italy
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- Bitrise — Continuous integration and delivery built for mobile: Automate iOS and Android builds, testing and deployment from your first install to the one millionth.
- inRiver — Inriver transforms your product information into a profit-driving asset at every product touchpoint. Power your entire product journey with inriver PIM.
- CyberVadis — Scale up your cybersecurity audits: Assess hundreds of vendors with analyst-validated assessments. Methodology based on global standards and regulations.
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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.
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Novatron
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Retein
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Open Payments
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