# Top 45 Social Media Startup Investors in Sweden in May 2026

## Industrifonden
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 5
- 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.

## H&M Group Ventures (Prev. H&M CO:LAB)
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Fashion, Textiles

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

## GP Bullhound
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet

Since 1999, GP Bullhound has invested in and advised brilliant leaders. Powered by more than 180 employees across 13 offices worldwide.

## Atomico
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Atomico invests in innovative technology companies around the world.

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

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.

## Wellstreet
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## Active Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information 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.

## Northzone
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology

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.

## Niklas Eklund
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Apps, Internet

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.

## 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.

## Biz Stone
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Messaging, Mobile

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.

## Singular
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Analytics, Enterprise Software

Singular is a generalist venture capital firm backing ambitious European entrepreneurs.

## Menmo Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Malmö, Skane Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Social Media, Content Creators

Menmo Ventures is an investment company focused on enterprise software, web, and community based technological products. The company is based in Skane Lan, Sweden.

## Christopher Persson
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Social Media, Enterprise Software, Location Based Services

Christopher Persson - General Partner @ RECAPEX

## Rikard Steiber
- Type: Angel
- Location: Atherton, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Virtual Reality, Electric Vehicle, Sports

Rikard Steiber is the Founder & President of Viveport & he attedned SDA Bocconi in 1993.

## Marcus Wallén
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Internet, Analytics, Peer to Peer

Marcus Wallén

## D-Ax Corporate Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Social Media

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.

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

RECAPEX is a partner to owners and management of companies wanting to realise opportunities created by technology and digital change.

## Evan Sharp
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Travel, Women's

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.

## Hampus Jakobsson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Malmö, Skane Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Artificial Intelligence

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.

## Axel Bard Bringéus
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Apps, Software, Fitness

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.

## Lars Markgren
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Internet, Social Media, Online Auctions

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.

## Notion Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Notion Capital is a VC firm focused on European SaaS and Cloud.

## Greylock
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software

Greylock Partners is a leading venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley. We are early partners of remarkable teams building companies that matter.

## InReach Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Learning

InReach Ventures builds its own proprietary software and AI to discover and invest in the best early-stage startups from all over Europe.

## Ben Silbermann
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Wellness, Video

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.

## Sweet Studio
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: iOS, Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence

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? 

## Henrik Torstensson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Sports, FinTech

Henrik Torstensson is a Partner at Alliance Venture and a Board Member & Co-founder of Lifesum.

## Peter Muld
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Messaging, Social Media, Video on Demand

Peter Muld - Chief Strategy & Digital Officer ICA Sverige @ ICA Gruppen

## Recruit Strategic Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services

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.

## Rouven Dresselhaus
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet

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.

## Cloud Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Analytics

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.

## 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.

## Entreprenörskapital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Gothenburg, Vastra Gotaland, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Social Media, Content Creators

We are the product of the collective wealth of risk capital experience of everyone who has been part of Ekap since its founding.


## Nordea
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing, Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Banking

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.

## Mathias Ackermand
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, Audio, Music

Mathias Ackermand is a Private Investor at Privat. Attended Kiel University.

## NFT Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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

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

Mattias Miksche - Angel Investor & Chairman @ Hem

## Johannes Schildt
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Apps

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.

## Anders Böös
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Pet, Messaging, Marketplace

Anders Böös - Non-Executive Director @ Securitas

## Krim Talia
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: News, Social Media

Krim Talia

## Zobito
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Limhamn, Skane Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Services

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.

## Johan Siwers
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Fashion, Big Data, Social Media

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.

## Mats Lindoff
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Social Media, Content Creators

Mats Lindoff - Owner @ Lindoff Technology

## Novel TMT Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet

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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