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Top 50 Angel Investors in Sweden

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in startups based in Sweden. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in companies from Sweden. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Angel Investors in Sweden

Investor	Sweden investments
Bo Mattsson	17
Hampus Jakobsson	17
Sophia Bendz	16
Niklas Eklund	13
Karl-Johan Persson	12
Daniel Pilotti	12
Sven Hagströmer	12
Cristina Stenbeck	11
Simon Josefsson	10
Jonas Nordlander	9
Mattias Weinhandl	9
Stefan Lindeberg	9
Erik Byrenius	8
Mattias Miksche	8
Per Brilioth	8
Ludvig Linge	8
Filip Larsson	8
Lars Lindgren	8
Fredrik Österberg	8
Filip Engelbert	7
Lena Apler	7
Alexander Hars	7
Sebastian Siemiatkowski	7
Sebastian Knutsson	6
Boel Rydenå-Swartling	6
Susanna Campbell	6
Josefin Landgård	6
Fredrik Hjelm	5
Hady Shkeer	5
Daniel Skavén Ruben	5
Pär Svärdson	5
Rikard Steiber	5
Claes Dinkelspiel	5
Andreas Ehn	5
Saeid Esmaeilzadeh	5
Johan Andersson	5
Fredrik Mansson	5
Alfred Ruth	5
Thord Wilkne	5
Jacob Key	4
Danny Saucedo	4
Martin Randel	4
Joachim Hedenius	4
Fabian Hielte	4
Jeremy Yap	4
Peter Carlsson	4
Jacob De Geer	4
Martin Lorentzon	4
Staffan Persson	4
Joen Bonnier	4

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Bo Mattsson is a director of Previously, Mattsson founded Cint and served the same company as its chief executive office, chairman, and general and sales manager. Hewas also the head of Swedbank Securities.Mattsson holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and an MBA, both from the Stockholm School of Economics.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Sweden, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Zaver — Zaver develops innovative payment solutions to accelerate the revolution in mobile payments. All for companies and individuals to be able to shop in a more accessible and smarter way - offline and online.
Påmind — Påmind is a Swedish company founded to give customers control over their existing everyday contracts, ranging from mortgages to insurances. The customer is reminded each time a contract expires, Påmind AB then help the customer to renegotiate the agreement and ensure that the customer is offered the best terms. All this is done without the customerhaving to do anything.
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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.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Mobile
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

Sophia Bendz - Partner @ Cherry Ventures

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Sweden, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

Investment focus

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.

Karl-Johan Persson, born in 1975, has been the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB since 1 July 2009.Before taking over as Managing Director Karl-Johan Persson held an operational role within H&M from 2005, including working as head of expansion, business development, brand and new business.Since 2000 Karl-Johan Persson has been a member of the boards of H&M’s subsidiaries in Denmark, Germany, the US and the UK. Between the years 2006 and 2009 he was also a member of the Board of H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB.Between 2001 and 2004 Karl-Johan Persson was CEO of European Network. Karl-Johan holds a BA in Business Administration from the European Business School in London.His current external board assignments are the Swedish Chamber of Commerce in the UK and the GoodCause foundation. Karl-Johan Persson is since 2013 a member of the Board of H&M Conscious Foundation. Karl-Johan Persson is a shareholder in Ramsbury Invest AB, and also personally holds 12,136,289 class B shares in H&M.The Managing Director is appointed by the Board of Directors and is responsible for the daily management of the company as directed by the Board.This means that the Managing Director must focus in particular on recruitment of senior executives, buying and logistics matters, pricing strategy, sales and profitability, marketing, expansion, development of the store network and of online and catalogue sales, and IT development.The Managing Director reports to the Board on H&M’s development and produces decision bases for investments, expansion, etc. The role of Managing Director includes contact with the financial market, the media and the authorities.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Internet, Software
Funding Round, Seed, Angel
Sweden, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Nordtech Group — Nordtech Group is a technology group consisting of software companies with industry-specific products. Common to its companies is that they deliver high customer values within their respective segments.
Relate — Relate is a startup that develops apps and other services to help both singles and couples to healthy and meaningful romantic relationships.
Joint Academy — Joint Academy connects patients with licensed physical therapists to deliver online treatments for chronic joint and back pain. Our treatments are clinically proven and give patients access to a personal, licensed physical therapist, an individualized exercise plan, interactive education about the condition, and progress tracking — all through auser-friendly app. Peer-reviewed studies show that Joint Academy patients reduce their pain, change their minds about surgery, and quit painkillers. Joint Academy is now available to patients in Sweden, the US, the UK, France, and Germany.

Daniel Pilotti is the Founder of Your Special Delivery Service and Ryska Posten.

Investment focus

Apps, Retail, Payments
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
Sweden, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

blipp.se — blipp.se is a digital marketplace for selling and buying cars.
Mantle — Welcome to MANTLE - Scandinavian professional skincare elevated by cannabis.
Lace Laboratory — Empowering panties. For women by women.

Sven Hagstromer is the founder of Creades AB.

Investment focus

Internet, Education, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Angel
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Påmind — Påmind is a Swedish company founded to give customers control over their existing everyday contracts, ranging from mortgages to insurances. The customer is reminded each time a contract expires, Påmind AB then help the customer to renegotiate the agreement and ensure that the customer is offered the best terms. All this is done without the customerhaving to do anything.
VALIDIO — Real-time data validation and data quality monitoring for modern data teams. Abstracting complexity away from data engineering.
Vad Vi Vet. — Founded in 2018, Vad Vi Vet started as a single Instagram account explaining how Sweden works before the general election. Today, it is the leading service for quickly improving your general knowledge of a variety of topics, by publishing fact-checked explanations on owned and operated digital platforms, with more than half a million weekly activeusers.

Cristina Stenbeck has been the lead shareholder of Kinnevik over the last 20 years. Cristina began her career within the Kinnevik group when she joined her first public portfolio company board in 1997. She became Deputy Chairman of Kinnevik in 2003. Served as Chairman and Executive Chairman of the Board between 2007 and 2016 and still serves on theBoard today. Kinnevik is a family-led entrepreneurial group focused on building digital consumer businesses spanning 80 countries around the world. The six investment focus areas are: Communication, e-Commerce & Marketplaces, Entertainment and Financial Services and it recently added health and education to its current consumer focus. Last year, Kinnevik made its first investment into a digital heath platform called babylon which uses advanced AI to diagnose and treat consumers' medical concerns. Kinnevik's largest investment is its 32% ownership in Zalando, Europe's leading fashion and e-commerce company. Cristina graduated with a B.Sc. from Georgetown University in Washington DC, USA and lives in Stockholm, Sweden with her family and four children.

Investment focus

Fashion, E-Commerce, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Sweden, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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.
Fides — Fides is your one-stop-shop for c-level governance.We are making it easier for managers to comply with, digitally execute and track their legal obligations across different companies in various jurisdictions. Keep an overview of duties, deadlines and tasks in different entities. Orchestrate, execute and document c-level meetings, resolutions& approvals. Create a revision-proof audit trail of any c-level decision.We know you have good intentions. You just need to be able to prove them.
H2 Green Steel — H2 Green Steel will be a fully integrated, digitalized and automated greenfield steel plant. By bringing together raw materials, renewable energy, local expertise, and artificial intelligence, we aim to bring emissions down to zero.

Simon Josefsson

Investment focus

Health Care, Sports, Consumer Goods
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Sweden, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Allihoop — Allihoop offers Scandinavian styled co-living homes for people on the move. Beautiful spaces designed to make you feel at home. Available in Stockholm and soon in Paris.
We Are Voice — We Are Voice is a new digital meeting place for choirs and choir leaders. We Are Voice facilitates everyday life for all of Sweden's choirs by offering a smarter way of communicating with each other, as well as taking part of choir arrangements and high-quality rehearsal files through an app that can be downloaded free of charge forsmartphones and tablets.
Stockrepublic — A social trading and community platform that enables unique portfolio insights, benchmarking and social collaboration for the customers of banks.

Jonas Nordlander is a Co-Founder & CEO at Avito.ru.

Investment focus

Apps, E-Commerce, Lifestyle
Funding Round, Seed, Angel
Sweden, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Werlabs — Werlabs is a Stockholm based medical technology company founded by Will Stoddart and Rickard Lagerqvist, a general practioner. Werlabs provides customers with health analysis via blood testing. The company’s aim is to give users the tools and information to take care of their health.
Glue Home — Imagine coming back from work to a clean home, the parcel from your favourite online store is in the hallway, your groceries have been delivered to the fridge and your dry cleaning is in the closet. All done while you were out. Imagine that at the same time you were helping reduce traffic, pollution and create jobs in your community.Glueenables the secure delivery of products and services into the home while you are away. Glue aims to improve ecommerce, foster trust and collaboration in communities and optimise time and resources.Glue connects consumers homes with businesses. We enable access to the home via a proprietary award-winning digital smart lock and other digital locks using Glue’s API which lets users give out digital keys in the Glue app. We are integrated with leading logistics, retail and services companies to offer delivery into the home. With Glue’s In-Home delivery app couriers can securely unlock a customer’s home to deliver an order while the customer is out.
NA-KD.com — NA-KD.com is the next generation of fashion marketplaces. A predominantly mobile-based online shopping sanctuary for fashion addicts all over the world. Combined with a unique merchant service that unleashes the e-commerce power of digital brands and social influencers. Funded by the original founder and team behind Nelly.com (170 million USDonline fashion store).

Mattias Weinhandl

Investment focus

Apps, Information Technology, Fitness
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Heja — Free app for your sports team. The only app you need to easily handle communication between coaches, managers, parents and players. Management, scheduling, availability, messaging, roster.
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.
BlueCall — BlueCall is a B2B mental wellness SaaS. We offer empowerment toolkit for organisation, HR and leaders to manage their employee's mental wellbeing. Hand in hand with our digital toolkit we provide digital and personalised coaching sessions to reinforce self development to individual's specific needs.

Stefan Lindeberg was the Venture Partner and Co-founder of Nordic Game Ventures. He attended Linköping University.

Investment focus

Software, Gaming, Analytics
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Sweden, Denmark, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Lassie — Lassie is the first proactive and preventive pet insurance company that wants to help pet owners take better care of their pets
Songsay — Share music video clips like gifs with sound!
Multiscription — Multiscription is a cross-product subscription service. Introducing Unleashd, the first in-game and cross-publisher subscription service for free-to-play games.

Erik Byrenius is a founding partner of Mudcake, a microfund run by ex-founders dedicated to making the world a better place for the next generation. We invest in the strongest founders shaping the way we produce, distribute and consume food. Our typical ticket is $200k-$600k in pre-seed and seed rounds globally.Previously he was the CEO andco-founder of food delivery business OnlinePizza (exit to Delivery Hero), founder of StartupTools and co-founded the angel syndicate Nordic Makers.

Investment focus

Health Care, Security, Information Technology
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Sweden, United States, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Digitail — Grow your practice, offer a modern client experience, and automate routine practice tasks with the proven all-in-one veterinary software.
Mavenoid — Mavenoid is the only product support automation platform built for complex products and devices. Using our unique AI, we solve problems too complex for chatbots
Elsa — Elsa is a platform for patient driven research for better drugs, health and prevention. Elsa lets patients become their own personal researchers by providing them with a better understanding around how lifestyle factors may affect their disease activity measurements for chronic disease. To support them from a scientific perspective, Elsa gives themaccess to data on their specific disease (initially we work with rheumatoid arthritis) through the Riskminder foundation and scientific studies at Karolinska Institutet.

Mattias Miksche - Angel Investor & Chairman @ Hem

Investment focus

Software, Big Data, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Estmn — 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.

Per Brilioth - CEO @ VNV Global

Investment focus

Apps, Software, Transportation
Funding Round, Series B, Seed
Sweden, United Kingdom, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

memmo.me — memmo.me provides a webpage for offering and distributing personalized video messages from actors, athletes, musicians, and other talent.
Arro — Discover the shared daily operating system that helps you get more from life and work. Get to Day Zero together.
Surfboard — Surfboard; Simpler, smarter and fairer scheduling software for customer support teams at scale. Click to learn more about our WFM solution.

Ludvig has a background as a co-founder of the company The Astonishing Tribe, TAT, and is an active angel investor. He is passionate about helping strong teams that want to combine design and technology to create innovative companies that really make a difference.TAT became during the beginning of the 2000s, the world leader in user interfacesfor mobile phones and delivered design and software for brands like Samsung, Nokia, Sony Ericsson, and Google. In late 2010, TAT was sold to Canadian Research in Motion, RIM, which makes BlackBerry handsets.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Mobile Apps
Funding Round, Seed, Angel
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Apprl — Performance-based influencer marketing, made for e-commerce brands, and an invitation-only service for digital content creators.
Welcome App — Welcome App is a mobile app that connects refugees and locals.
MIND Music Labs — When it comes to musical instruments, “Smart” experiences are today still very limited. Musicians need truly wireless, portable, upgradable and cloud-based solutions. 250M users (pro and amateurs musicians) spending about $17B a year and their audience are waiting for a revolution. We develop ELK MusicOS (the “Android” of musical instruments)enabling musical instruments vendors to make a new generation of “Smart Instruments” and we build around it an ecosystem of cloud services.

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

Investment focus

Mobile Apps, Software, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Kind — We want all healthcare providers to enjoy the benefits of modern communication. Kind is a secure cloud platform for communication and knowledge sharing. We meet the needs of organizations of all sizes with our flexible subscription model.
Brick Technology — Brick is an app that solves the problem of electronics running out of battery. Download our app and find the nearest Brick station on the map, then rent a power bank (with cables) to charge your phone, tablet, headphones or whatever it is that is running out of battery. Return the power bank to any Brick station so that you can charge on the go.Stay in charge.
Katam Technologies — Development of drone measurement and cloud-based evaluation service providing high precision forestry data using a mobile phone or drone.

Lars Lidgren is the Founder at Bonesupport.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Health Care
Funding Round, Seed, Angel
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Ella — Ella is a medical mobile application for women during and after pregnancy.
Learnster — Learnster develops the LMS of tomorrow for growing organizations aspiring to achieve maximum learning in minimum time.
Match2One — Self service programmatic advertising platform, easy to use and no minimum spend. Launch intelligent programmatic display campaigns and drive online sales.

Fredrik Österberg

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Water
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Mynt — Mynt is a financial partner for high growth SMBs. Mynt offers a premium corporate credit card solution with expense management and accounting automation.
Cellcolabs — Cellcolabs provides high quality stem cells at competitive prices for use within research and treatments.
Vad Vi Vet. — Founded in 2018, Vad Vi Vet started as a single Instagram account explaining how Sweden works before the general election. Today, it is the leading service for quickly improving your general knowledge of a variety of topics, by publishing fact-checked explanations on owned and operated digital platforms, with more than half a million weekly activeusers.

Filip Engelbert is a Co-Founder at Avito.ru.

Investment focus

Apps, E-Commerce, Lifestyle
Funding Round, Seed, Angel
Sweden, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Werlabs — Werlabs is a Stockholm based medical technology company founded by Will Stoddart and Rickard Lagerqvist, a general practioner. Werlabs provides customers with health analysis via blood testing. The company’s aim is to give users the tools and information to take care of their health.
Glue Home — Imagine coming back from work to a clean home, the parcel from your favourite online store is in the hallway, your groceries have been delivered to the fridge and your dry cleaning is in the closet. All done while you were out. Imagine that at the same time you were helping reduce traffic, pollution and create jobs in your community.Glueenables the secure delivery of products and services into the home while you are away. Glue aims to improve ecommerce, foster trust and collaboration in communities and optimise time and resources.Glue connects consumers homes with businesses. We enable access to the home via a proprietary award-winning digital smart lock and other digital locks using Glue’s API which lets users give out digital keys in the Glue app. We are integrated with leading logistics, retail and services companies to offer delivery into the home. With Glue’s In-Home delivery app couriers can securely unlock a customer’s home to deliver an order while the customer is out.
NA-KD.com — NA-KD.com is the next generation of fashion marketplaces. A predominantly mobile-based online shopping sanctuary for fashion addicts all over the world. Combined with a unique merchant service that unleashes the e-commerce power of digital brands and social influencers. Funded by the original founder and team behind Nelly.com (170 million USDonline fashion store).

Lena Apler is the Founder and CEO of Collector Bank.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fashion, Marketplace
Funding Round, Seed, Angel
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Inimini — Inimini is a second-hand children’s clothing company by style and size.
Songsay — Share music video clips like gifs with sound!
Go North — Go North is an e-commerce aggregator operated by Amazon FBA entrepreneurs.

Alexander Hars - Board member @ Zalster

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Sweden, Norway, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Bookis — Bookis is the Next-Generation Online Bookstore with Direct Author Compensation, making the sharing of stories and knowledge playfully easy - from all bookshelves, for everyone. We leverage community, technology and innovative distribution to enable radically easier peer-to-peer bookselling, with fair author compensation models. Building theworld's largest network of authors fighting for a more fair book industry worldwide.
Lumaly — Lumaly is a browser extension that automatically tries out and uses all available voucher codes in the cart when shopping online.
Brink Commerce — Brink Commerce offers leading eCommerce solutions. Boost growth, perfect customer experiences, and unlock agility with our Composable Commerce API.

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.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Sweden, United States, Poland

Portfolio highlights

Nylas — Unlock the power of your communications data. The Nylas communication APIs remove complexity & empower teams to create seamless user experiences.
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.
Klarna — Einkaufen, was du willst. Bezahlen, wie du willst. Klarna bietet dir verschiedene Zahlungsarten an. Du entscheidest, welche am besten zu dir passt.

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.

Investment focus

Apps, Music, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Sweden, United States, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Zaver — Zaver develops innovative payment solutions to accelerate the revolution in mobile payments. All for companies and individuals to be able to shop in a more accessible and smarter way - offline and online.
Gilion (Formerly Ark Kapital) — Ark Kapital is a precision financing company that empowers technology businesses to grow faster, enables owners to maintain control, and reduces risk for investors. ArK is founded by a world-class AI technology developer, a six-time-founder, and the veteran banker you always wanted.
Ready Player Me — The Ready Player Me platform leverages AI, ML , and a suite of developer-first tools to empower developers to integrate avatars into their games and apps to launch faster, improve user adoption, and grow revenue through asset monetization.

Boel Rydenå-Swartling

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Mobile Apps
Angel, Funding Round, Seed
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

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.

Susanna Campbell

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fashion, B2B
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Sweden, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Circulate — Find the best packaging for you and the planet in our marketplace
PocketLaw — PocketLaw is a user-friendly and affordable solution that allows you to create contracts, get legal guidance, manage your documents and contact lawyers.
Lace Laboratory — Empowering panties. For women by women.

Josefin Landgård is the Founder and CEO of Mantle. Previously she served as the Co-Founder and COO at KRY back in March 2014 to September 2018.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, Women's
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Sweden, France

Portfolio highlights

Estmn — Estrid is an online portal that offers women's personal care products.
Lassie — Lassie is the first proactive and preventive pet insurance company that wants to help pet owners take better care of their pets
Elsa — Elsa is a platform for patient driven research for better drugs, health and prevention. Elsa lets patients become their own personal researchers by providing them with a better understanding around how lifestyle factors may affect their disease activity measurements for chronic disease. To support them from a scientific perspective, Elsa gives themaccess to data on their specific disease (initially we work with rheumatoid arthritis) through the Riskminder foundation and scientific studies at Karolinska Institutet.

Fredrik Hjelm co-founded Voi Technology in 2018 with a vision of improving the way people move around congested urban centres by offering fleets of electric scooters as a cleaner, affordable and exhilarating alternative to cars. Prior to Voi, Fredrik founded Guestit, the Nordics’ most successful Airbnb management company, and worked in businessdevelopment for Avito.ru, Russia’s leading - and the world’s third largest – classified advertising site. Fredrik’s entrepreneurial career began at 12 years of age when he ran a number of commercial projects including forestry work (he grew up in rural Sweden), events and website sales.After graduating from high school, he attended the Armed Forces Interpreter Academy, within the intelligence branch of Sweden’s special forces, where he studied Russian and linguistics. He served a total of four years in Moscow in the Defence Attache Office, where he worked as an interpreter and analyst, covering Russia as well as Kazakhstan and Belarus. He went on to study business and economics at the Stockholm School of Economics.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Pet
Seed, Series A, Angel
Sweden, France, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Lassie — Lassie is the first proactive and preventive pet insurance company that wants to help pet owners take better care of their pets
CYCLE — GetHenry is a rapidly growing subscription service for market-leading delivery companies. We make sure that thousands of couriers are on the move safely, quickly and comfortably every day. In this way, we not only create added value for delivery services, but also help to reduce transport-related CO2 emissions on the last mile.
Magic — Teaching AI to act in its natural environment, the computer.

Hady Shkeer is a swedish entrepreneur and angel investor. the Executive Director of Source A Network LTD and the founder of Dadh LTD.

Investment focus

Marketplace, E-Commerce, Same Day Delivery
Pre-Seed, Angel, Private Equity
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Marifaa — Marifaa is a E-Learning Platform.
Mhtaref — Connect with the best freelance talent in the MENA region on Mhtaref - the ultimate freelancing marketplace.
Dukanji AB — Dukanji is an innovative B2B and B2C marketplace platform to connect East and West. to empower the traders around the globe and help them to trade with Europe."Dukanji" A is a global B2B platform that connects suppliers in Europe to the world. And helps manufacturers and suppliers around the world to find buyers in Europe. Dukanjioffers assisting in logistics, advisory and marketing services.Dukanji mission is to make it easy to do business anywhere. They do this by giving suppliers the tools necessary to reach a global audience for their products, and by helping buyers find products and suppliers quickly and efficiently.

Daniel Skavén Ruben

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Pet, AgTech
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

VEAT — VEAT is on a mission to make healthy, plant-based foods more accessible. We cook and prepare our fresh meals locally at Stora Essingen and deliver them daily to our vending machines throughout the city.
Petgood — Insect-based pet food and functional pet supplies
Volta Greentech — Battling global warming by reducing methane emissions from cows

Par Svardson is the current CEO of Apotea AB.

Investment focus

Beauty, Fashion, Computer
Angel, Funding Round
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Sniph — Sniph is a smart subscription service for perfume, which makes it easy to discover new scents.The company lives according to the philosophy that smells make more difference than they can understand and that they affect us more than the group think. Dofter develops memories and feelings. Some smell can lift people when they need it - or take themfar away when they least anticipate it.
ALEQUI — Alequi Equestrian is an online store for horse equipment and riders.
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.

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

Investment focus

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.

Mr. Claes Dinkespiel serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer at E. Öhman J:or AB. Mr. Dinkespiel serves as the Chairman of Nordnet AB. He serves as the Chairman of the Board of Svenskt Rekonstruktionskapital AB, Gummesson Gruppen AB, Premiefinans AB, Stockholms Köpmansklubb, MPS Holding AB, and Fastighets AB Trianon. Mr. Dinkespielserves as a Director of Aldano AB. He is Member of the Board in different companies like the foundation City University, Siliviahemmet, Arvid Lindman AB, E. FBN Sweden Service AB, Malon Fastighets AB, MPS Holding AB, Telereit Holding AB, Stiftelsen Silviahemmet, and others. Mr. Dinkespiel has been a Director of Nordnet AB since 2001. He served as a Director of Prevas AB since 2000. Mr. Dinkespiel served as the Chairman of the Board of Emric AB, SalusAnsvar AB and E. Öhman J:or Fondkommission AB. He served as a Director of Salusansvar AB since 1999. Mr. Dinkespiel served as a Director of Intellecta AB (publ). He served as a Director of Småföretagsinvest AB. Mr. Dinkespiel served as a Director at Öhman J:or Fondkommission AB, and Fylkinvest. He holds an M.B.A. from Insead, France, and a B.Sc. in Economics from Stockholm School of Economics.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Internet, AgTech
Seed, Funding Round
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Påmind — Påmind is a Swedish company founded to give customers control over their existing everyday contracts, ranging from mortgages to insurances. The customer is reminded each time a contract expires, Påmind AB then help the customer to renegotiate the agreement and ensure that the customer is offered the best terms. All this is done without the customerhaving to do anything.
Geras Solutions — Geras Solution’s mission is to be a leading provider of digital healthcare solutions.
Volta Greentech — Battling global warming by reducing methane emissions from cows

Andreas is working on a service that will connect people, time and places on the web. He also works as an independent consultant helping other startups with product strategy, technical infrastructure, scalability and recruiting as well as financial companies (venture capital and private equity) with technical due diligence and in other advisorroles.He was CTO at Spotify from the launch of the company in August 2006 until November 2009. Before that he worked at Stardoll as an engineer and project manager.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Financial Services
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United States, Sweden, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Prog.AI — Prog.AI helps to find developers based on their technical proficiency, libraries they have used, or even just the contributions they have made to GitHub projects.
Red Flag — Red Flag develops an automated accounting, expenses, and invoicing platform for SMEs.
Single Technologies — Founded in Stockholm, Sweden, with its long tradition in fiber optics, ultra-sensitive fluorescence spectroscopy and DNA sequencing, SINGLE’s ambition is to become the instigator of 3-D Sequencing.

Saeid Esmaeilzadeh

Investment focus

Legal, Advice, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Sweden, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Ageras — Ageras redefines administration for small businesses by integrating banking, accounting, and tax filing in a single platform.
STILRIDE — The future of electric mobility
Denjo Dogs — Denjo Dogs offer a selected assortment of designer dog products for modern, conscious homes. Stylish dog collars, luxury dog leads and more.

Johan Andersson

Investment focus

CRM, Apps, Travel
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Addressya — Addressya is an app that allows individuals to register a complete, precise and easy to use address.
PocketLaw — PocketLaw is a user-friendly and affordable solution that allows you to create contracts, get legal guidance, manage your documents and contact lawyers.
Vad Vi Vet. — Founded in 2018, Vad Vi Vet started as a single Instagram account explaining how Sweden works before the general election. Today, it is the leading service for quickly improving your general knowledge of a variety of topics, by publishing fact-checked explanations on owned and operated digital platforms, with more than half a million weekly activeusers.

Fredrik Mansson - Investor @ Propel Capital

Investment focus

Beauty, Fashion, Lifestyle
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Sniph — Sniph is a smart subscription service for perfume, which makes it easy to discover new scents.The company lives according to the philosophy that smells make more difference than they can understand and that they affect us more than the group think. Dofter develops memories and feelings. Some smell can lift people when they need it - or take themfar away when they least anticipate it.
Match2One — Self service programmatic advertising platform, easy to use and no minimum spend. Launch intelligent programmatic display campaigns and drive online sales.

Private investor with background as co-founder/CTO of Videoplaza. Author of speculative fiction thriller trilogy Fermi's Filter.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, Machine Learning
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
Sweden, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Mavenoid — Mavenoid is the only product support automation platform built for complex products and devices. Using our unique AI, we solve problems too complex for chatbots
Kitab Sawti — Kitab Sawti is an Arabic audio entertainment service offering audiobooks and podcasts through mobile apps.
Match2One — Self service programmatic advertising platform, easy to use and no minimum spend. Launch intelligent programmatic display campaigns and drive online sales.

Thord Wilkne is Member of the Board of Directors at Addnode Group

Investment focus

Consulting, Financial Services, Association
Funding Round, Seed, Angel
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Breakit — Breakit is Sweden's sharpest news about startups and tech companies.
Opti — Opti is a simple app that helps users see which funds are worth its price. Working as a robotic consultant, the app provides fund comparison service where the users can compare how well your existing funds are compared to others Opti's services are free when it comes to testing and comparing funds. However, the person who wants to help a swapfund may pay 145 kronor per byte. Customers' funds can be found at banks or other savings banks. Opti only handles the investment advice itself.The company is located at Stockholm, Sweden.
Dynamic Code — Dynamic Code's driving force is to translate the latest research into products that contribute to increased well-being and better health. Special expertise is to apply the latest scientific advances in DNA technology and other molecular biological research into useful products for consumers, municipalities, healthcare and companies.Their approach to product development is to create a product that is close to people's needs and to help people seeking guidance on various symptoms or diseases. Several of the häsotest as Dynamic Code has been developed, giving customers a quick and useful answers. Analysis The answer is at least as safe as in health care, but faster. In some cases there has not been adequate diagnoses within the traditional health care system. An example of this is our home test for bacterial vaginosis.

Jacob Key is co-founder and general partner of Luminar Ventures. Jacob has made close to 20 early stage investments in companies such as Challengermode, Gavagai, Unacast and Pacemaker - and made 3 successful exits to date in Sportamore, Vera&John and Vetzoo.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Insurance
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Muninn — AI-powered cyber security - defending your entire network
Challengermode — Leading platform for esports competitions. Compete in high quality tournaments from the best organizers or create your own Space & monetize your community.
MIND Music Labs — When it comes to musical instruments, “Smart” experiences are today still very limited. Musicians need truly wireless, portable, upgradable and cloud-based solutions. 250M users (pro and amateurs musicians) spending about $17B a year and their audience are waiting for a revolution. We develop ELK MusicOS (the “Android” of musical instruments)enabling musical instruments vendors to make a new generation of “Smart Instruments” and we build around it an ecosystem of cloud services.

Danny Saucedo

Investment focus

Music, Sales, Sports
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Corite — Here's where artists and fans join forces. Invest in music you love and get paid when it's streamed on Spotify and Apple Music.
Hooked Foods — Hooked is a start-up that produces plant-based seafood currently distributed in Sweden, Finland, and Germany with more locations coming soon.
Active Brands Group — Active Brands Group is an international distribution and brand company focusing on innovative products related to health, sports and other consumer goods. We are a diversified team with long experience from product development, sourcing, sales to e-commerce & marketing, distribution and healthcare.

Martin Randel - Co-Founder, Board Member and Owner @ Vitamin Well

Investment focus

Information Technology, E-Commerce, Mobile
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Sweden, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Reve — Tipser is the global leader in embedded commerce, turning any digital surface into a point of sale. Discover a better way to monetize traffic.
Nordtech Group — Nordtech Group is a technology group consisting of software companies with industry-specific products. Common to its companies is that they deliver high customer values within their respective segments.
Covr Security AB — Covr Security meet the growing demand for highly secure, user-centric control over mobile security and digitized personal information. Covr is founded by serial entrepreneurs, including the developers of the digital verification standard currently used by the Swedish banking system.

Joachim Hedenius is the VPE and Co-Founder of KRY.

Investment focus

Gaming, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Sweden, Estonia, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Passionfroot — A workspace where you can manage your creator business and organise your finances so that you can optimise your creator-work-life balance.
Ready Player Me — The Ready Player Me platform leverages AI, ML , and a suite of developer-first tools to empower developers to integrate avatars into their games and apps to launch faster, improve user adoption, and grow revenue through asset monetization.
Ready Player Me — The Ready Player Me platform leverages AI, ML , and a suite of developer-first tools to empower developers to integrate avatars into their games and apps to launch faster, improve user adoption, and grow revenue through asset monetization.

Fabian Hielte

Investment focus

Retail, FinTech, Software
Funding Round, Seed
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Zaver — Zaver develops innovative payment solutions to accelerate the revolution in mobile payments. All for companies and individuals to be able to shop in a more accessible and smarter way - offline and online.
WhyWaste — Reduce your food waste and increase your profits with Whywastes digital solutions. Schedule a demo to see how we can help your store become more sustainable and more profitable.
Interspectral —

Jeremy is a full time angel from Singapore who invests across USA/Canada, Europe, and Israel.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Paebbl — The modular technology from Paebbl may be included in any carbon capture system and is industrially scalable. As a result, Paebbl provides a raw material stream that is carbon-negative, radically altering the economics of preventing carbon from entering our environment.
Dust — Dust is a platform for creating sophisticated processes based on large language models and semantic search.
Terminal 3 — We empower an equitable Web3 future

Peter joined Tesla from NXP Semiconductors where he was responsible for purchasing and outsourcing. As CPO, he took the purchase organization from a tactical decentralized structure to a strategic global commodity organization. Before starting at NXP, Peter was CPO at Sony Ericsson. Peter had a total of 13 years experience from different roles withEricsson and Sony Ericsson in Sweden and the US. He led the team that built and implemented Ericsson's framework for Supplier Quality Assurance. Peter has a Master's degree with specialization in Production and Quality Control from Luleå Technical University in Sweden. In his spare time he enjoys running, mountain biking, golf, cooking and travel.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Food and Beverage, AgTech
Funding Round, Seed, Angel
Sweden, Finland, Germany

Portfolio highlights

X Shore — In the evolution of an industry that has remained steadfast in its traditions, for better or for worse. With new technology and innovative research, smart design and sustainable materials, X Shore embraces the long tradition of maritime craftsmanship while discarding the dirty institution of fossil fuels. They don’t see theirselves as disrupters.They’re not here to reinvent the wheel, but rather to right the ship. To set a course for long-term sustainability that they can all be proud of.
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.
Orbital Systems — Save up to 90% water and up to 80% energy with our smart recirculating shower - a much better shower experience for both you and our planet

Jacob de Geer is a Swedish serial entrepreneur and co-founder and CEO of iZettle, the fast-growing mobile payments company that lets anyone take card payments and manage and grow their business. Before starting iZettle, Jacob was the first employee at performance marketing firm TradeDoubler. Here he helped to build one of the largest advertisingnetworks in Europe before leaving to co-found movie sharing firm, Ameibo, and Tre Kronor Media, an award-winning communications agency. Both companies were acquired in 2010. Now, Jacob is fully focused on democratising payments around the world through his latest venture, iZettle.

Investment focus

Internet, IaaS, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Sweden, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Qatalog — Connect tools, resources and teams in one digital Work Hub. Find information quickly, collaborate effectively. Set up your Work Hub.
Gilion (Formerly Ark Kapital) — Ark Kapital is a precision financing company that empowers technology businesses to grow faster, enables owners to maintain control, and reduces risk for investors. ArK is founded by a world-class AI technology developer, a six-time-founder, and the veteran banker you always wanted.
Lace Laboratory — Empowering panties. For women by women.

Martin first struck up his partnership with Daniel Ek when Tradedoubler, Europe’s largest affiliate sales network (founded by Martin), acquired Daniel’s company Advertigo in 2006. As chairman, Martin has been on the company’s board of directors since July 2006. His responsibilities include creating and implementing strategy, budgets and goals.Previously, Martin held senior roles at Telia, Altavista, Cell Ventures and NetStrategy. He is currently on the TeliaSonera board. Martin was educated at Gothenburg’s Chalmers University of Technology and Handels University. In his spare time Martin enjoys all kind of sports and cultural pursuits. With such a hectic schedule, it’s fortunate that he’s energetic by nature, involving himself in numerous work and leisure activities to try and find the right balance between his career and his personal life.

Investment focus

Beauty, Coffee, Fashion
Seed, Funding Round
Sweden, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Sniph — Sniph is a smart subscription service for perfume, which makes it easy to discover new scents.The company lives according to the philosophy that smells make more difference than they can understand and that they affect us more than the group think. Dofter develops memories and feelings. Some smell can lift people when they need it - or take themfar away when they least anticipate it.
Coffydoor — Coffydoor, a Stockholm, Sweden-based startup building an on-demand coffee delivery service. Coffydoor was founded in 2020 by Houman Ashrafzadeh and Jonathan Johansson.
Sand Clinic — Sand Clinic is a healthcare startup. Sand Clinic provides a wide range of services to its members, including primary care, vascular ultrasonography, and red light therapy.

Staffan Persson - CEO @ Swedia Capital

Investment focus

Financial Services, Apps, Banking
Funding Round, Seed
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Dirac — Use Dirac to transform your listening experience. Our patented audio technology makes any sound system sound better.
Opti — Opti is a simple app that helps users see which funds are worth its price. Working as a robotic consultant, the app provides fund comparison service where the users can compare how well your existing funds are compared to others Opti's services are free when it comes to testing and comparing funds. However, the person who wants to help a swapfund may pay 145 kronor per byte. Customers' funds can be found at banks or other savings banks. Opti only handles the investment advice itself.The company is located at Stockholm, Sweden.
24 Storage — We at 24Storage rent stores in many different sizes for both individuals and businesses. Long or short time. But we also tend to say that we are developing the third generation of self-storage properties. By that we mean that we create a new system that makes it possible to build smaller properties, find better positions closer to the customer andcreate a better and more flexible solution for the customer. As a customer, you no longer have to travel far out of town to access their gadgets.24Storage AB was formed in early 2015. The founders and owners have over 20 years experience in the self storage industry as a partner and leader of the company, Shurgard Europe (Europe's leading self storage operator), SelStor AB and Pelican Self Storage. The founders have been involved and responsible for the establishment of over 100 self storage facilities in seven countries in Europe.In September 2015, we purchased Stockholm Storage in Sundbyberg, a smaller plant with development potential, but also a good pilot plant to develop our concept. At the same time, we bought a property in central Tyreso. The facility will be the first full-scale 24Storage plant in operation.From November 2, 2015, we own and operate Humlans mini camp with seven plants in western Sweden. The plant located in Gothenburg was founded in 1988 and was the first self storage facility in Sweden.From February 1, 2016, we own and operate the Mini-Store . A smaller facility centrally located in Boras. Mini-Store, started operations in late 2013 that Boras first self storage facility.As of June 1, 2016 we change the names of all companies and will pursue all activities under the brand 24STORAGE .

Joen is a Partner at Atomico and leads our engagement with corporations, traditional industries and international family-owned businesses to help them better understand the changing nature of the technology landscape.Joen is the bridge between highly successful traditional businesses and the transformative tech companies who are enablingdigitisation across all sectors. The potential for highly valuable collaborations that will catalyse massive growth opportunities is really exciting, especially in Europe. The future of technology is to be deeply embedded across the economy where it can drive efficiencies. Joen’s role at Atomico is to foster this engagement by creating strategic co-investment opportunities and collaborative relationships. As an active player in the startup scene in the Nordics, Joen also helps with sourcing and the evaluation of new investment opportunities.Fostered in a family-owned enterprise environment with deep understanding of the dynamics of family controlled businesses, Joen has 15+ years experience in the media and Internet sectors in both Europe and Asia. Joen has held senior positions with Bertelsmann and the Bonnier Group in New York, Scandinavia and China. Joen holds a Masters degree in Science (M.Sc) from the Stockholm School of Economics and is based in London.Joen lived in China for eight years and while his Mandarin is OK, his acting was apparently better – making his silver screen debut in a Chinese arthouse movie ‘Short Capitalism’ which premiered at the 2015 Art Basel fair in Hong Kong.

Investment focus

Education, B2B, EdTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Zaver — Zaver develops innovative payment solutions to accelerate the revolution in mobile payments. All for companies and individuals to be able to shop in a more accessible and smarter way - offline and online.
Sana — We build products that augment how organizations learn and access knowledge. Built on AI. Designed and engineered in Stockholm, Sweden.
Digiexam — Lower cost of examination, fair and unbiased grading, and less administration, all possible with our robust and secure platform. Learn more on our website!

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