Top 15 Android Startup Investors in Sweden in July 2025
A list of 15 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Android startups based in Sweden. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Android companies from Sweden. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Android Startup Investors in Sweden in July 2025
Investor | Android Sweden investments |
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Niklas Zennström | 2 |
Sebastian Siemiatkowski | 2 |
Sebastian Knutsson | 2 |
Supercell | 1 |
Sting Capital | 1 |
Hampus Jakobsson | 1 |
Sweet Studio | 1 |
Kari Anette Jakobsen | 1 |
Bjørn Ole Gleditsch | 1 |
Anne Gleditsch | 1 |
Boel Rydenå-Swartling | 1 |
Johan Lenander | 1 |
Sophia Bendz | 1 |
Icebreaker.vc | 1 |
Apax Partners | 1 |
Niklas Zennström is CEO and Founding Partner at Atomico. He works daily with founders and sits on the boards of Farmdrop, Lilium, Pipedrive, Oden Technologies and Varjo. Niklas is an experienced technology investor and entrepreneur, having previously co-founded and managed globally successful technology companies including Skype, Kazaa andJoltid. Niklas founded Atomico in 2006. He is passionate about partnering about founders solving big challenges facing their planet with digital technology.In 2007, he co-founded Zennström Philanthropies with his wife, Catherine. They focus their efforts in two areas: human rights and the environment. Niklas also founded the Race for the Baltic, a foundation for a well-managed and sustainable Baltic Sea, one of the most threatened major bodies of water in the world.Niklas is a keen yachtsman and has won four World Championships with his yacht racing team, Rán.Niklas holds dual degrees in Business and MSc Engineering Physics/Computer Science from Uppsala University in Sweden, and he spent his final year at the University of Michigan.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Apps, Software
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United Kingdom, Sweden, United States
Portfolio highlights
In 2005, Barrick And Thee Elite's co-founded Klarna in order to provide safe and smooth online payments. He currently serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Over the past decade, he has overseen the company’s rapid growth across Europe and more recently into North America. Klarna is a now fully licensed bank with 60mn consumer and 170,000merchant user base.
Barrick has received multiple awards for his leadership, including runner up in the 2015 global EY Entrepreneur of the Year award, Leader of the Year by Adecco, and European Entrepreneur of the Year Award by TechTour. He holds a master’s degree from the Stockholm School of Economics.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Sweden, United States, Poland
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- Nylas — Nylas provides an API platform that enables developers to quickly and securely access and process user data from any email, calendar, and contacts provider in the world. The solution allows developers to integrate complex, unstructured communications data into their applications in days, providing secure pre-built integrations that are SOC 2certified, GDPR compliant, Privacy Shield certified, and HIPAA and FINRA-ready.
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Sebastian Knutsson is one of our founders and has served on our Board of Directors since October 2003, as our chief creative officer since June 2004 and as our executive product developer from February 2003 to June 2004. Sebastian has more than 18 years of experience in the Internet industry. As chief creative officer, he leads the productstrategy, games development and service offerings for King. Sebastian has designed more than 100 games for King.
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- Apps, Music, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Sweden, United States, Estonia
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- Revyze — Revyze is a community-powered app with a sharp focus on high school education.
- Flower — We enable the energy system of tomorrow by combining pioneering technology with flexible assets, allowing clean energy to power society
- Reforged Labs — Reforged Labs | The world's first AI copilot For mobile game marketers
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- Gaming, Video Games, PC Games
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Finland, United States, United Kingdom
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- Appcharge — Appcharge specializes in offering a comprehensive payment solution that supports direct-to-consumer sales through a mobile-first web store. The platform features over 500 payment methods and 100 currencies, ensuring a seamless checkout experience for users worldwide.
- Future Run — Future Run embarks on an ambitious mission to redefine competitive gaming.
- Penguin Armada — Penguin Armada produces and develops video games.
Sting – Stockholm Innovation & Growth enables talented people to turn their ideas into sustainable businesses. The support they offer includes qualified coaching in business development, a business angel network, a venture capital fund, a recruitment service, and an international network of investors, business contacts and experts. Itcontribute to the success of Sweden’s future technology companies by helping them to grow and compete internationally.
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- Software, Apps, Medical
- Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Sweden
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- Prion — Prion makes it quick and easy for the preschool staff to give parents insight into what happens at preschool - together with the children. The app is available free for iPhone, Android and iPad.
- Texelio — Texelio a company who is set to redefine financial market news by developing AI which empowers the customers of Retail banks, Online Brokers and Investment Service platforms.
- Minnemera — Minnemera develops digital neurocognitive tests.
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, Mobile
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Sweden, Denmark, United States
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- 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 — Clinical-grade, AI-powered sperm analysis from the comfort of home. Test your sperm count, motility, morphology and much more with the Mojo kit. Check your fertility from home at low cost - without the need for clinic visits and awkward waiting rooms.
- Volta Greentech — Battling global warming by reducing methane emissions from cows
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- iOS, Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence
- Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Sweden
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- Koo! — Koo! is an audio based social networking service that let users record and listen to 1-minute audio clips called Koos.
- 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.
Kari Anette Jakobsen
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- Android, Software
- Seed
- Sweden
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- MyBeat — MyBeat is a low cost Swedish mobile operator, offering subscriptions in combination with re-used mobile phones.
Bjørn Ole Gleditsch
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- Android, Software
- Seed
- Sweden
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- MyBeat — MyBeat is a low cost Swedish mobile operator, offering subscriptions in combination with re-used mobile phones.
Anne Gleditsch
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- Android, Software
- Seed
- Sweden
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- MyBeat — MyBeat is a low cost Swedish mobile operator, offering subscriptions in combination with re-used mobile phones.
Boel Rydenå-Swartling
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- Software, Apps, Mobile Apps
- Angel, Funding Round, Seed
- Sweden
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- Prion — Prion makes it quick and easy for the preschool staff to give parents insight into what happens at preschool - together with the children. The app is available free for iPhone, Android and iPad.
- The Fit — Let our AI-powered fitting technology improve your customer experience and bottom line.
- Care to Translate — We provide medical translations for healthcare professionals and patients. Available in 40 languages, 24/7 on your smart device or browser.
Johan Lenander is Owner & Chairman at Martina Children's Hospital. He attended KTH Royal Institute of Technology.
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- iOS, Apps, Events
- Angel, Funding Round
- Sweden
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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.
- Qnekt — Qnekt is a multievent mobile application that is focused on creating great meetings between event attendees before, during and after. In that making, for an example, you 2 day conference much longer.Qnekt has two products, Qnekt - the mulitevent app as well as we build stand alone apps for huge events such as festivals and multieventapps forinternal communication for big corporations and schools. We made a shell that the event organizers fill with information and use as a project management tool. And as a bonus all attendees have the possibility to download the Qnekt event onto their phone. By that the event organizer has a new way of communicating with guests and the guests can message each other in the app. Vote on polls, navigate the program and creating their own and more.
- Brainlit — Biocentric lighting by BrainLit brings daylight indoors. Exposure to daylight helps balance our circadian rhythms which can improve our health and well-being.
Sophia Bendz - Partner @ Cherry Ventures
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- Health Care, Software, Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Sweden, United Kingdom, United States
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- mayk — Mayk sounds. Mayk music. Mayk noise. Mayk it... In an app.
- Medoma — Medoma is a Swedish virtual ward company that offer patients acute hospital care in their home instead of in the hospital.
- Wikifarmer — A free online knowledge library where professional or amateur farmers can find best practices on growing their fields more effectively and an online marketplace where farmers can sell their products to buyers directly. Our vision is to create a fair, transparent and profitable environment for all the farming world. Farmers are dedicating theirlives in cultivating their fields, but get the lowest value of all the sales cycle, so we believe they need to receive a more fair share. Buyers have the right to have more options and buy at better prices, so we want to be the ones to solve this inequality in both sides.
Founded in 2016, Icebreaker has invested in over 50 fast-growing tech startups built by domain expert founders from companies like Rovio, Nordea, Pipedrive, Eniram, IBM and BCG. In addition to the fund, Icebreaker also runs a community of more than 1000 founders and pre-founders with 5+ years of relevant industry experience and the will to start,build or join strong tech companies.With the initial ticket sizes of €150k - 800K Icebreaker provides enough funding for companies to get to a position of strength and avoid post-accelerator limbo without having to resort to disreputable sources of capital and unfriendly deal terms.
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Finland, Estonia, Sweden
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- Aibidia — Discover the Aibidia TXM Platform and our digital transfer pricing applications, eliminating billions of euros in tax inefficiencies and risks.
- Crewpoint — Crewpoint specially designed tools that are adapted to the intricacies of maritime logistics our platform streamlines crew movements. We assist operations teams in providing seamless, effective staff changes worldwide, from bulk reservations and last-minute reroutes to round-the-clock assistance and real-time travel statistics.
- Clock & Cloud — AI-driven platform delivering actionable geopolitical intelligence for proactive decision-making and enhanced business security
Apax is a leading global private equity advisory firm. For 50 years, Apax has worked to inspire growth and ideas that transform businesses.
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- Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Funding Round, Series C, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, India
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- Cloud Account — Cloud Account is a financial software developer that uses CRS management and services in the accounting industry.
- Swing Education — Swing Education transforms the way K-12 schools and substitute teachers connect, ensuring teacher absences are filled and student learning stays on track.
- GAN Integrity — Streamline compliance with GAN Integrity's ethics and compliance management software. Ensure success with our comprehensive and configurable platform.
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