Top 10 Art VC Funds in Sweden
A list of 10 VC funds that invest in Art startups based in Sweden. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Art companies from Sweden. We update this investor list every month.Top 10 Art VC Funds in Sweden
Investor | Art Sweden investments |
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Active Venture Partners | 5 |
Industrifonden | 5 |
HOWZAT Partners | 2 |
Inbox Capital | 2 |
Monkfish Equity | 1 |
Aggregate Media | 1 |
Zenith Venture Capital | 1 |
Kichi Invest | 1 |
Inbox | 1 |
Accum Kapital | 1 |
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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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- Spain, United States, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Odilo — Odilo removes the technology barriers, allowing any institution to offer all kinds of digital content to its users whilst ensuring compliance with copyright laws.Their company is one of the leading software solutions for libraries offering a comprehensive product suite to discover, manage and distribute digital content as well as print.They are headquartered in Cartagena, Spain and have offices in Madrid, Spain; Miami, Florida; Mexico City, Mexico; and New York, New York.Their aim is to develop the market’s most innovative and creative solutions. They lead the way in defining and designing efficient, user-friendly products, serving the needs of public, private, university, school and special interest libraries today, while enabling them to transition into the future.
- Whisbi — Live commerce platform leader for Enterprises. Improve the quality of online leads, grow your digital revenue and enhance online customer experience with your live streams and live shopping
- Healthify — Healthify builds the infrastructure that integrates social determinants of health into the era of value-based healthcare by creating networks of social service organizations.
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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Investment focus
- Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- Sweden, United States, Denmark
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- Arevo — Arevo offers liquid and granular amino acid fertilizer technologies for faster and better plant establishment.
- Telness Tech — We help telcos maximize customer happiness and minimize OPEX through automation. Our proprietary, cloud-based, end-to-end BSS/OSS platform is connectivity ready in 64 countries.
- ZeroPoint Technologies — ZeroPoint Technologies AB was created in 2016 as a spinout from Chalmers University of Technology. The Intellectual Property Portfolio related to computer memory management was the acquired from the University and transferred into a new startup.The Technology, ideas and many of the people behind and with ZeroPoint comes from Professor PerStenströms research group, which is internationally recognized for excellence within high-performance Computing. Since its creation, ZeroPoint has attracted skilled people from industry, finance and the startup community and raised its’ first round of Venture Capital in 2016.
Howzat Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in incubation, seed, start up, growth capital, early stage, and mid venture investments. The firm seeks to invest in digital businesses with a focus on internet, digital media, e-commerce companies. It invests globally. It acts as as sounding board. The firm also makes co-investments. HowzatPartners was founded in 2006 and is based in Luxembourg and London.
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- Travel, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, Germany, United States
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- Suitepad — 2012, the idea for SuitePad was born. Merge guests' wallet, phone, remote, room-service menu, spa catalog, and newspapers on a device's vision was that for the first time was financed thanks to favorable expectant Android tablets.Product development was accompanied by renowned private and chain hoteliers from Germany, Austria, andSwitzerland. So the SuitePad was very close to the actual needs of the developed chain and private hotels. After 2013, the first SuitePad installation is completed, the product is found not only in sales so far in 11 European countries, but was also honored with numerous industry-related awards. These include the u. A. CeBit BITKOM Innovation Award 2013, the Gastro Vision Award 2014 of the Travel Industry Club Best Practice Award 2014, and the HSMAI Technology and Innovation Award.
- Handiscover — Handiscover is the first community based Holiday accommodation-booking website, dedicated to people with special needs and disabilities. At the core of Handiscover lies a unique classification system which allows users to select accommodation based on their different levels of mobility/physical disability. It was founded by SebastienArchambeaud in 2014, a father to a boy with a muscle disease.
- Mymoria — MYMORIA offers an one-stop-online-shop for full configuration and complete commissioning of funerals. Mymoria is able to offer its services significantly cheaper than traditional mortician homes. The company is offering its services nationwide and work hard to organize our processes efficiently while maintaining thehigh service standards.
Venture Capital in disruptive, global and high growth potential companies. Stage of funding is pre-series A - C rounds
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- Software, Apps, Service Industry
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Sweden, United States, United Arab Emirates
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- Favro — The #1 app making collaborative planning working at scale between teams for SaaS & Live Games companies. Agile team collaboration, smoother than ever.
- Kavall — Kavall is a grocery delivery startup.
- VOI Technology — VOI is a micro-mobility startup that provides electric scooters for last-mile transportation. Douglas Stark, Filip Lindvall, and Fredrik Hjelm founded it in 2018. Its headquarters is located in Stockholm in Sweden.VOI Technology is aiming to create a system of electrically powered scooters around urban centers to provide an affordable,sustainable, and exhilarating way to commute while helping people to reduce their carbon footprint and cities to have a more sustainable transportation network.
Monkfish Equity is the investment vehicle of the trivago founders. As Co-investors, with a focus on later stage phases, they invest in companies which can benefit from their entrepreneurial experience. Running the world´s biggest travel meta portal with over 500 M$ revenue (2015), the people behind Monkfish Equity understand entrepreneurs needs andfocus on value adding activities. As “low maintenance” investors, they offer the leeway that entrepreneurs need to build their businesses.
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- Internet, E-Commerce, Marketplace
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Germany, United States, Austria
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- Dogo GmbH — Download Dogo, a positive dog training app with clicker. Train your puppy at home and become best friends with your dog. +100 tricks & games.
- Refurbed — Refurbed operates as an online marketplace for refurbished products in the german-speaking world. It sells renewed phones, laptops and tablets which are up to 40% cheaper and 100% more environmentally friendly than their brand-new, store-bought counterparts. Refurbed devices are renewed through a 40-step process, making them look like new andfunction like new. On top of that, each device comes with at least a 12-month guarantee.The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Vienna, Austria.
- ArtNight GmbH — ArtNight GmbH offers unique do-it-yourself art workshops.
Aggregate is a venture capital company investing with media as expansion capital - media for equity. Since the start 2002, Aggregate has made over 150 transactions in a variety of industries; e-commerce, digital services, product- and B2B-companies etc. Aggregate target companies which today are not able to maximize the effect on their market, inlack of capital for media advertising.
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- E-Commerce, Information Technology, Software
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Sweden
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- Zcooly — Zcooly offers several educational games for children.
- Parkamo — Parkamo is like Hotels.com & Airbnbn for parking. All apps, all prices, full transparency and you can earn money by renting out your parking.
- Swedish Temptations — Swedish Temptations, founded in 2019 by CEO Pia Qvarnström, built a brand named Bärta for producing organic, vegan and fermented food. The ingredients include Swedish split peas.
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.
Kichi Invest is a private investment company that primarily invests in unlisted Nordic companies seeking growth capital. The company has a broad investment mandate and is open to discussions with passionate entrepreneurs or owners seeking an active partner to grow their business. IT believes that an active partner provides the best basis forgrowth.The company's philosophy is based on complementing capable entrepreneurs with broad expertise from strategy, transactions, and navigating through the challenges of a rapidly growing business.
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Investment focus
- Art, Apps, Content
- Funding Round
- Sweden
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- Barnebys — Barnebys is the world’s leading search service for art, antiques and collectibles. We were founded in Stockholm, Sweden in 2011 and have since then established our business globally with offices in New York, UK, France, Spain and Germany. Our clients include the world’s top tier of auctioneers, antique dealers, galleries as well as regional andlocal businesses. We are also offering an extensive free database of auction results and a top of the line valuation service. We are now looking to grow our business even further and are seeking top talent to join our team.
- Referanza — Activate your happy customers and turn them into brand advocates. For every business ready to grow. Try the Referanza Referral Platform today - it is free!
Inbox is a digital marketing and advertising company in Brazil focused on indoor digital media and out-of-home digital signage.
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Investment focus
- Art, Auctions, E-Commerce
- Funding Round
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Barnebys — Barnebys is the world’s leading search service for art, antiques and collectibles. We were founded in Stockholm, Sweden in 2011 and have since then established our business globally with offices in New York, UK, France, Spain and Germany. Our clients include the world’s top tier of auctioneers, antique dealers, galleries as well as regional andlocal businesses. We are also offering an extensive free database of auction results and a top of the line valuation service. We are now looking to grow our business even further and are seeking top talent to join our team.
- Matsmart — Matsmart sells surplus food online. A major part of the food would otherwise be thrown away due to packaging changes, short or expired expiry dates or other reasons. During 2017, Matsmart saved 2022 tonnes of food from going to waste. The company has seen explosive growth, reaching recurring revenues of SEK 200 million. Matsmart was founded by KarlAndersson, Erik Södergren and Ulf Skagerström, and launched in Sweden in 2014. Since then, the company has also expanded to Norway and Finland. Long live the food!
Accum Kapital is an investment firm that caters to both professionals and non-professional investors.
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Investment focus
- Art, Auctions, Search Engine
- Funding Round
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Barnebys — Barnebys is the world’s leading search service for art, antiques and collectibles. We were founded in Stockholm, Sweden in 2011 and have since then established our business globally with offices in New York, UK, France, Spain and Germany. Our clients include the world’s top tier of auctioneers, antique dealers, galleries as well as regional andlocal businesses. We are also offering an extensive free database of auction results and a top of the line valuation service. We are now looking to grow our business even further and are seeking top talent to join our team.
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