Top 10 Art VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Sweden in January 2026
A list of 10 VC (Venture Capital) 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 (Venture Capital) Funds in Sweden in January 2026
| Investor | Art Sweden investments |
|---|---|
| Industrifonden | 2 |
| HOWZAT Partners | 2 |
| Active Venture Partners | 2 |
| Inbox | 1 |
| Accum Kapital | 1 |
| Inbox Capital | 1 |
| Kichi Invest | 1 |
| Aggregate Media | 1 |
| Monkfish Equity | 1 |
| Zenith Venture Capital | 1 |
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
Portfolio highlights
- Avtal24 — Avtal24 offers in an easily accessible manner agreements for both private individuals and companies. They believe in making the law available to everyone and they want everyone to have access to legal security. With us, you write agreements online or together with a lawyer by phone. Always at a fixed price. With high legal expertise, innovativetechnology and great focus on customer benefit and offer the market's most accessible legal services.Avtal24 was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.
- Gårdsfisk — Gårdsfisk is a company managing fishing farms. Gårdsfisks develops a new method for fish farming on land. The cultivation takes place in large pools in a closed system, where the nutrient residual water can be reused as fertilizer on the fields.
- Tribune Therapeutics — Tribune Therapeutics is a preclinical biopharmaceutical company building a promising pipeline of novel medicines to treat patients with a wide range of fibrotic diseases. It was founded in 2020 with funding from HealthCap and Novo Seeds.
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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- Wingly — Wingly is a flight sharing platform. Find pilots or passengers for your trip.
- 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.
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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- Yieldr — Liberating businesses from traditional, inefficient practices is in our DNA; that’s why it’s Yieldr’s purposes to create software that delivers value to end customers.Demand IntelligenceYieldr Demand Intelligence is the data analytics platform built exclusively for airlines. The software boosts the profitability of individual flights byallowing airlines to identify distressed inventory and connect those empty seats with travelers ready to fly. Utilizing Yieldr's saas solution, marketers and revenue managers gain control through insight and activation tools in order to decide what flight to promote, to whom and with what message.Media SolutionsYieldr Media Solutions is the programmatic advertising arm of Yieldr. The platform processes billions of requests across the globe on desktop, video and mobile, allowing travel and travel-related brands to engage with interested audiences through automated data activation.
- Sanaexpert — SanaExpert is an online retailer for proprietary dietary and nutritional supplements. With unconditional sales approval for its products throughout Europe, SanaExpert sells to multiple countries. SanaExpert’s products are prescription-free, also available in pharmacies and developed to cure long term health indications (SanaExpert health program).Additionally, the company supports mass and top-class athletes through its dedicated sports product portfolio (Sanaexpert sports program).
- Oferton Liveshopping — OFERTON LIVESHOPPING, SL is the company that owns the website www.oooferton.com. We are the first Spanish live shopping portal, a new concept of selling online: 6 new products each day, a single day of sale and at great prices!
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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- Art, Auctions, E-Commerce
- 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.
- 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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- Art, Auctions, Search Engine
- 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.
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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- 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.
- Fast Travel Games — Fast Travel Games is a VR exclusive game developer and publisher, founded by industry leading veterans and behind acclaimed titles such as Apex Construct and Wraith: The Oblivion - Afterlife.
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
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.
- 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!
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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- Yazen — Yazen is a digital obesity clinic that offers weight loss through modern pharmaceutical treatment.
- Zcooly — Zcooly offers several educational games for children.
- 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.
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 — Dogo app - dog trainer in your pocket. Strengthen your friendship with training
- 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.
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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Investment focus
- Software, Sports, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Sweden, Denmark, Finland
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- Cerve — The Cerve platform establishes a personalised, 2-way and automated communication between wholesalers and B2B buyers online — delivering bespoke and dynamic product catalogues, pricing, delivery terms and deals to each and every buyer on any platform and device.As an end-to-end platform, Cerve provides wholesalers with a full set of productsincluding an AI infrastructure, an ordering platform, a sales app and a wholesaler platform.
- Treyd — Working capital for fast growing brands. Order Now, Pay Suppliers Later
- Valpas — Valpas is the hygiene protocol that reassures your future guests and keeps your hotel clean from the most uncontrollable: bed bugs
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