Top 25 Social Network VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Sweden in October 2023
Top 25 Social Network VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Sweden in October 2023
| Investor | Social Network Sweden investments |
|---|---|
| Luminar Ventures | 4 |
| Industrifonden | 3 |
| Dreamcraft Ventures | 3 |
| Konvoy | 3 |
| GP Bullhound | 2 |
| Active Venture Partners | 2 |
| Northzone | 2 |
| GFR Fund | 2 |
| Almi Invest | 2 |
| Zenith Venture Capital | 1 |
| CMT Digital Ventures | 1 |
| Arnosa Trade & Invest Ltd. | 1 |
| Wellstreet | 1 |
| EQT Ventures | 1 |
| JNE Invest | 1 |
| Curitas Ventures | 1 |
| Novel TMT Ventures | 1 |
| AWTG | 1 |
| Spintop Ventures | 1 |
| Chalmers Ventures AB | 1 |
| Sweet Capital | 1 |
| SYBO Games | 1 |
| Recruit Strategic Partners | 1 |
| Wild Sloths | 1 |
| Nordic Makers | 1 |
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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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- Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- Sweden, United States, Denmark
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- Novatron — A new fusion reactor design for stable plasma confinement and fusion power generation.
- Retein — Aquammodate is a greentech company that produces highly pure water at minimum energy cost.
- Open Payments — Open Payments connects you to multiple banks through one single unified API. This removes the complexity and frictions of many diverse integrations
Seed-to-A engineers. We invest in techdriven companies in the Nordics and Europe.
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- Software, eSports, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Denmark, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Rig.dev — Rig.dev offers an open-source application platform for Kubernetes. Rig.dev empower developers to work in their own environments with elevated application abstractions, while still leveraging Kubernetes's reliability, portability, and scalability.
- Teamway — Teamway is the new way to hire world-class remote tech talents on-demand. We connect great companies with the best tech talent in a remote and elastic setup.
- Humani — We unleash humans inner superpower
Konvoy Ventures is a thesis driven venture capital firm. We invest in the platforms and technologies at the frontier of gaming.
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- Gaming, Video Games, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Afference — Powering the sense of touch in the digital world. Feel digital objects in AR, VR, and XR with our groundbreaking haptic feedback device, the Phantom.
- Proxima — At Proxima, we aim to push the boundaries of interactive entertainment by blending innovative technology with deep artistry. We believe in the magic of exploration, the power of creativity, and the strength of human connection that form the very foundation of our gaming experiences.
- CANOPUS Networks — Understand exactly what is happening on your network at all times. CANOPUS indexes terabit-scale traffic in real-time to provide actionable insights and forensic analysis.
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
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- 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.
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
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- 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.
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
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- 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.
GFR Fund is a San Francisco-based venture capital fund that invests in early-stage startups that are disrupting the consumer entertainment industry. GFR Fund is managed by GREE VR Capital, an affiliate of GREE Inc., a global leader in the mobile gaming industry.With over a decade of experience driving innovators in multi-platform entertainment,we see emerging technologies such as VR, AR, AI, Video Streaming and Blockchain as powerful tools that will propel the entertainment industry into a new generation of consumable content. We are looking for talented entrepreneurs who share our passion and values to help realize their vision and expand their businesses globally.
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- Software, Video Games, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
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- Yodayo — Explore AI generated anime art, find best prompts, create beautiful images with our free AI art generator, and share it with other anime fans!
- GEEIQ — GEEIQ enables businesses of every shape and size to navigate and engage the metaverse. Our platform helps identify opportunities and create data-led virtual strategies in Web3, gaming and virtual environments.
- RedKangaroo — RedKangaroo is a marketing platform for organic growth provides food, beverage, cosmetics, and pet food brands with the opportunity to promote word-of-mouth by rewarding clients.
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
Zeniths vision is to become the obvious partner for entrepreneurs and investors. We believe this will be achieved by helping entrepreneurs to build fantastic companies and thus deliver attractive return to our investors.
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- Software, Sports, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Sweden, Denmark, Finland
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- Minut — Minut keeps your home safe and your neighbors happy while respecting your guests' privacy. Monitor noise and occupancy, secure your home, and enhance guest experience. Only Minut gives you the full insight you need to protect your homes, all in one single sensor.
- Treyd — Working capital for fast growing brands. Order Now, Pay Suppliers Later
- Freshsound — Freshsound is an entire new wave for professional storytellers and agencies to license original music using AI and human creativity.
An exciting new iteration of our website is coming soon. CMT Digital is a blockchain and digital assets focused subsidiary of the CMT Group, a 24 year-old trading and investments firm. The CMT Group has operated as a valued partner to entrepreneurs, traders, and technologists
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
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- ZetaChain — An EVM-compatible L1 blockchain that connects everything: Build interoperable dApps that span any chain including Bitcoin, access all chains from one place.
- Cryptoworth — Cryptoworth is a cryptocurrency solution and consultancy company working hard at the intersection of cryptocurrencies, blockchains, business and people to better-serve the fin-tech industry. Cryptoworth was created to reduce the complexity of cryptocurrency adoption, usage, and management. Cryptoworth provides the best cryptocurrency and blockchainsolutions for use cases spanning from single users to large institutions.
- Trident Digital — Trident Digital is restoring market liquidity by providing the next-generation digital asset platform that addresses issues with access, security, and capital efficiency. It allows lenders and borrowers to connect transparently and not rely on a central counterparty.
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- Internet, Education, Communities
- Pre-Seed
- Sweden
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- Togee — Togee enables its users to share their screen and audio in their favourite apps whilst texting, calling and drawing with their friends on-top simultaneously! Get second opinions on your next purchase or simply watch a funny video together – just like if you were sitting next to each other.
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
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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.
EQT Ventures is a European VC fund with just over €2.3 billion in total capital raised. EQT Ventures I launched in May 2016, with commitments totalling €566 million and a simple mission - to be the kind of VC the team would have liked to have had on their own startup journeys. Recognizing that building and growing a company takes more than justcapital, the EQT Ventures team provides founders with support and advice throughout different stages of growth. EQT Ventures doesn't focus on particular markets or industries, but bold and ambitious founders who have the grit and determination to build global success stories. EQT Ventures II launched in November 2019, with commitments totalling €660 million. EQT Ventures III launched in 2022, with commitments totalling €1.1 billion, making it the biggest European Venture Capital fund committed to early stage tech startups. The EQT Ventures team is based across six offices in London, Stockholm, Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, Paris and San Francisco, taking a locals with locals approach and supporting founders on the ground. Motherbrain, EQT Ventures' in-house-developed artificial intelligence (AI) platform, ensures the team has data-driven approach and has driven more than $100 million in portfolio company investments.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- Sweden, Germany, United States
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- Fly.io — Fly.io offers an Application Delivery Network (ADN) intended to help website owners get connected with their customers easily. The company's application delivery network uses a global network of servers to accept visitor traffic, run middleware on requests, then route them to backend applications, enabling website owners to direct theirvisitors to their respective sites securely and in a few clicks.
- Verkor — Verkor is a French industrial company set to amplify battery cell production.
- Volt.io — Increase retention and digital sales by allowing your customers to initiate direct payments, from their bank accounts to yours in real-time. Your checkout in super-drive, powered by Volt.
JNE Invest
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- Events, Computer, Software
- Seed, Funding Round
- Sweden
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- Univid — Create engaging webinars in less than 60 seconds. A webinar platform that is easy to use and gives your marketing superpowers. Design, go live and engage.
- GoFrendly — Find new friends with gofrendly in your local area. gofrendly makes it simple for women to expand their social circle and connect with like-minded individuals.
Curitas Ventures a Stockholm-based venture capital firm. We invest in entrepreneurs and teams determined to build something out of the ordinary.
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- Software, Information Technology, Social Network
- Funding Round, Seed
- Sweden, United Kingdom
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- Turnpike — Turnpike provides a complete platform for wearable communication and workflow management. It empowers front-of-house employees in retail stores and hotels by delivering prioritized communication directly to their wrists via smartwatches. Its manager's portal is accessible from any browser-capable device, employee smartwatches, and optionalinput devices that enable employees and customers to request immediate assistance.
- BoardClic — BoardClic specializes in board evaluation, CEO evaluation, management evaluation, vertical alignment and corporate governance services.
- GoFrendly — Find new friends with gofrendly in your local area. gofrendly makes it simple for women to expand their social circle and connect with like-minded individuals.
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
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- 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.
AWTG is an end-to-end service provider for the telecommunications market with a global presence.
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- mHealth, Messaging, Communities
- Seed
- Sweden
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- PeN Chat — An Instant Social Messaging App - Search Google Play, type Pen Chat Calls for Free
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
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- 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
We are a leading tech investor & venture builder in the Nordics. Taking deep tech from lab to market.WELCOMEINVESTMENTS
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- Software, Energy, Health Care
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- Sweden
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- Adsorbi — Adsorbi develops a novel biomaterial based on cellulose.
- RadChat — RadChat is a method for arranging timeslots between cars in close proximity. The timeslots can then be used for radar sensing or for transmitting data to nearby cars through the radar unit.The patent-pending technology's ability to eliminate radar interference is unequaled. Because each car in the vicinity has its own assigned timeslot,there will be no interference from other vehicles. RadChat enables your vehicle's sensors to be trusted.The data communication utility is a supplementary technology for communication in scenarios requiring low latency, directed connectivity, and safety. Video feeds, vital safety alarms, location and positioning data, and other types of data can be delivered.
- EmbeDL — Efficient Deep Learning for Embedded Systems
Sweet is the King.com (Candy Crush) founders' investment fund. We are passionate about funding the next generation of entrepreneurs focused on creating a positive impact through consumer technology.
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- Apps, Software, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Israel
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- Pachama — Harnessing AI to drive carbon capture and protect global forests
- The Expert — Book consultations with the world's top design experts
- Masters — Train mind and body on the Masters app with full workout programs designed and run by the world's best athletes. Join today and start training like a pro.
A mobile game company in Copenhagen striving to craft meaningful experiences that can be played by everyone.
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- Video Games, Online Games, Gaming
- Seed, Series B
- Canada, Sweden
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- Hiber — Experience millions of virtual worlds or create your own, with or without code. Find out more in the Hiber3D Developer Portal.
- Mino Games — Mino Games is a free-to-play mobile gaming studio that produced the top 50 grossing mobile game Mino Monsters, with over 13 million downloads. We create deeply engaging, widely appealing games for millions of fans. We’re currently building our world class development studio in Montreal.We are a small group of passionate engineers, artists andanalysts with a mission to create games that millions of people all around the world love to play for years. We are funded by the best angel investors, institutional investors, and gaming companies from across the world.Our third and latest game, Cat Game, has already hit the App Store’s Top 100 Grossing Chart in Canada. The game, currently in soft launch, is showing world class key metrics, and we are expecting it to be a global hit when we launch it by February 2019.We are looking today to grow the team and looking for world class ambitious talent to come join us on the journey, to develop and support this newest title into a global success on both iOS and Android, and help us with future projects as we rapidly grow.
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.
Wild Sloths
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- Video Games, Online Games, Social Network
- Seed
- Sweden
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- Hiber — Experience millions of virtual worlds or create your own, with or without code. Find out more in the Hiber3D Developer Portal.
We know how much grit and luck it takes to build big companies. That’s why we invest our time and our children’s money in crazy, ambitious founders.Founded by a group of serial entrepreneurs that have built, scaled and exited some of the largest technology companies of the Nordics, Nordic Makers is a seed stage hands-on investor, workingactively with companies to take them to the next level.
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- Software, Education, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Denmark, Norway
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- Tjommi — B2C app helping customers get money back from price drops
- CluedIn — CluedIn helps enterprise companies achieve easier and reliable access to data that is scattered across their business. We build the Smart Data Fabric.
- Cognigy GmbH — Automate customer and employee services through Conversational AI implementation across any organization with Cognigy. Book demo or try free now!
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Luminar Ventures is a venture capital fund that prefers to make early-stage investments in technology companies. They engage with their portfolio companies and are actively helping with strategic, growth, team and organizational, and operational support, and together setting the foundation for future expansion.Luminar's core investment focusis on scalable digital seed-stage companies from the Nordics, founded by highly motivated and talented entrepreneurs with a vision to disrupt or transform major industries. The firm aims to provide experienced seed-stage financing and active operational support to Sweden based early-stage technology companies that are looking to disrupt or transform major industries with digital technologies and innovations.
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Muninn
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Aviant
— Delivering full-stack drone services that enables autonomous and on-demand transport of cargo.
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— The best in taking easy payments! Start accepting contactless transactions straight through your phone!
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