Top 20 CleanTech VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Sweden in January 2025
A list of 20 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Cleantech startups based in Sweden. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Cleantech companies from Sweden. We update this investor list every month.Top 20 CleanTech VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Sweden in January 2025
Investor | CleanTech Sweden investments |
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Chalmers Ventures AB | 12 |
KTH Holding | 2 |
Verdane | 2 |
Luminar Ventures | 2 |
Almi Invest | 2 |
Sting Capital | 1 |
Blq Invest | 1 |
Zenith Venture Capital | 1 |
Kinnevik | 1 |
Boundary Holding | 1 |
Altor | 1 |
Almi Invest GreenTech | 1 |
byFounders | 1 |
Climentum Capital | 1 |
Creades AB | 1 |
Volvo Group Venture Capital | 1 |
Santander Climate Tech Fund | 1 |
Industrifonden | 1 |
Orkla Ventures | 1 |
RWE | 1 |
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- Software, Health Care, Energy
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- Sweden
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- Eneryield — We are specialized in predicting power outages with Sensorless Explainable AI. This enables proactive meassures.
- Korall Carbon Capture — Korall Carbon Capture is a pioneering company in Sweden specializing in Direct Air Capture (DAC) technology. KORALL offers a product in the form of a chemical blend that actively captures carbon dioxide as soon as it comes into contact with the air.
- 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.
KTH Holding is a state-owned limited company managed by KTH's University Board. It invests in promising startup companies that are based on research or teaching at KTH, with the aim of supporting commercialization and making it easier for new science to benefit society.
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- Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
- Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Sweden
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The preferred growth partner to tech-enabled businesses in Northern Europe.
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- E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Private Equity, Series A
- Sweden, Norway, Germany
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- Sitoo — Delight your customers with best-in-class shopping journeys. Every time. Everywhere.
- fiskaly — fiskaly develops smart cloud solutions for complex requirements in fiscalization, electronic receipts, and invoices for our partners in retail technology.Our SIGN fiscalization software and APIs are designed to avoid tax tampering by generating unique digital transaction signatures. We are 100% compliant with country-specific legislations andoffer cloud-based solutions without additional hardware. fiskaly’s certified product for Germany is the market leading and operating in more than 600,000 cash registers. Our solution for digital receipts opens up modern ways to optimize business processes and create new experiences. We enable full-circle benefits for POS providers, retailers, and consumers. With this paperless receipt alternative, fiskaly has won several awards for innovation & sustainability in 2023.
- Ingrid — Ingrid was founded with a mission to create delivery experiences that fit people's lives by letting e-commerce businesses deliver sustainable growth and giving shoppers the power to personalize delivery and returns. The result is a better overall customer experience and greater efficiency for both the retailer and the delivery carrier.
Luminar Ventures is a venture capital fund that prefers to make early-stage investments in technology companies. They engage with their portfolio companies and are actively helping with strategic, growth, team and organizational, and operational support, and together setting the foundation for future expansion.Luminar's core investment focusis on scalable digital seed-stage companies from the Nordics, founded by highly motivated and talented entrepreneurs with a vision to disrupt or transform major industries. The firm aims to provide experienced seed-stage financing and active operational support to Sweden based early-stage technology companies that are looking to disrupt or transform major industries with digital technologies and innovations.
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- Software, Information Technology, Insurance
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Sweden, Norway, United States
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- Yazen — Yazen is a digital obesity clinic that offers weight loss through modern pharmaceutical treatment.
- Deckmatch — Tooling to drink from the firehose of data, that is your top of funnel (TOFU)
- Lightbringer — Lightbringer is your all-in-one solution for patent protection. Easily navigate your patent journey with our digital AI-powered platform and seasoned patent attorneys.
ALMI Invest is a venture capital company which invests in Swedish companies with exciting, scalable business models and motivated entrepreneurs. ALMI Invest consists of eight regionally based venture capital funds, all with local offices and experienced local investment managers. We manage a total of SEK 1 billion.
Unlike most venture capitalists,we can invest in a wide range of businesses. A strong team of entrepreneurs, a scalable business model and an initial revenue stream are more important than the line of business when we invest.Our first, initial investment would typically be SEK 2-4 million. During the lifetime of an investment, sums of up to SEK 10 million can be ventured. We always syndicate with an investment partner (another venture capitalist or angel investor) from Sweden or otherwise which means that we can take a maximum of 50 percent of an investment round.ALMI Invest was founded in 2009 by ALMI Fretagspartner together with regional investors. Half of our capital comes from European Union structural funds, which accounts for an investment of SEK 500 million. The other 50 per cent comes from regional investors and ALMI Fretagspartner.
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- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Sweden, United States, United Kingdom
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- RemotiveLabs — RemotiveLabs is a developer of an automotive software development platform designed to streamline the vehicle manufacturing process.
- GAIA BioMaterials — GAIA BioMaterials is the manufacturer of a bio-degradable product that offers pouch, tray, and bottle products.
- Readily Diagnostics — Readily Diagnostics develops speedy and accurate diagnostic tests for respiratory disorders, enabling faster and more effective therapy at the point of care.
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
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.
- 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.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Ingrid — Ingrid was founded with a mission to create delivery experiences that fit people's lives by letting e-commerce businesses deliver sustainable growth and giving shoppers the power to personalize delivery and returns. The result is a better overall customer experience and greater efficiency for both the retailer and the delivery carrier.
- Kodiak Hub — Kodiak Hub cloud-based Supplier Relationship Management Platform is your engine for building smart & sustainable supplier relationships.
- Bower — Bower has developed an app that enables consumers to receive a deposit value when recycling their packaging at regular recycling stations.
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
Portfolio highlights
- 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
Kinnevik is an industry-focused investment company with an entrepreneurial spirit. Its purpose is to build digital consumer businesses that provide more and better choices. The company does this by working in partnership with talented founders and management teams to create, invest in, and lead fast-growing businesses in developed and emergingmarkets.Kinnevik believes in delivering both shareholder and social value by building well-governed companies that contribute positively to society. Kinnevik was founded in 1936 by the Stenbeck, Klingspor, and von Horn families. Kinnevik's shares are listed on Nasdaq Stockholm's list for large-cap companies under the ticker codes KINV A and KINV B.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Health Care, Internet
- Series B, Series C, Funding Round
- United States, Germany, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- TravelPerk — TravelPerk offers the freedom travelers want, and the control companies need. Enjoy an industry-leading travel inventory, 24/7 support and easy booking.
- Mews — Cloud-native, Mews PMS is an innovative hospitality management system that enables automation to boost revenue and empowers remarkable guest experiences.
- Enveda Biosciences — Enveda Biosciences is a biotechnology company building new medicines from plants. It harnesses the complexity of the natural world to tackle today’s biggest healthcare challenges. With the help of the advancements in knowledge graphs, machine learning, and metabolomics, they discover the next generation of small molecules. Its technologiessystematize the discovery of small molecules and novel targets for complex diseases. By probing novel chemical space and mechanisms of action, they are breaking the status quo for challenging diseases with a need for effective treatments, such as fibrosis or neurodegeneration.Enveda, launched in 2019, is based in San Francisco, California.
Boundary Holding is a European deep tech investment firm with presence in Luxembourg and France that invests in technologies enabling 4th industrial revolution.
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Investment focus
- Drones, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Switzerland, India, France
Portfolio highlights
- Aero41 — Aero41 is developing a drone entirely dedicated to crop protection, a flexible and intelligent platform that will integrate AI and collect data to make crop protection more and more eco-responsible while being effective to ensure the necessary yields.
- Neo Medical — Neo aims at transforming the current approach to spinal surgery by providing a unique answer to the worldwide strive for healthcare cost optimization through efficient, versatile and high quality systems.
- Remidio Innovative Solutions — Remidio is engaged in designing & developing Smart, Innovative & Disruptive Imaging Technologies in Vision Care, using a product development approach called “Design Thinking”.As part of the Design Thinking process, Remidio takes into account different facets of a customer’s experience with a product, as part of its overall productdesign approach, with the intent of inventing a new customer experience with the product.Customers can be an amazing resource to glean insight and understanding, but they are generally not able to articulate their latent and anticipated needs. Remidio hence focuses on making quick functional prototypes, that can then be given to the customer to understand these latent needs while observing their use of the prototypes.Founded by professionals with a passion for product innovation, Remidio is currently focussed on creating game changing products and solutions in the ophthalmology space.We look at constraints posed by a developing nation context- infrastructure, skilled resources and affordable pricing as an opportunity to innovate.We bring to market very high quality products that are reliable and extremely simple to use.
Entrepreneurs at heart. Engaged in partnerships built on curiosity, creativity and achieving a lasting impact.
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Investment focus
- Manufacturing, E-Commerce, Renewable Energy
- Private Equity, Funding Round, Post-IPO Equity
- Sweden, Norway, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Aira — Aira operates as a clean energy-tech company.
- 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.
- Marshall Group — Marshall Group is formed by merging Zound Industries and Marshall Amplification companies.
Almi Invest GreenTech is a venture capital company and an active start-up investor.
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- Waste Management, Energy, Manufacturing
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Sweden
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- Zparq — Zparq designs and manufactures marine electric propulsion products.
- Modvion — Modvion is a Swedish/ American Engineering and Industrial Design company developing modular designs in renewable engineered wood product materials to simplify and improve construction logistics.Their current area of focus is in wind tower technology. Modvion´s patented module technology enables significantly decreased cost, efficienttransportation and streamlined installation of towers exceeding 120 m. Ultimately, this results in increased cost efficiency in the harvesting of wind resources.
- EnginZyme — EnginZyme is a biotechnology company that specializes in biocatalysis. It creates products for easy and cost-efficient implementation of biocatalytic processes and helps the chemical industry transition to a sustainable way of operating.The company is driven by a mission to make biocatalysis the first choice for chemical process designersworldwide.
byFounders is the community-powered early-stage venture fund investing in globally ambitious teams connected to the Nordic and Baltic countries. With its unique Collective of founders and operators, byFounders offers its portfolio operational expertise and a global network. Believing in the power of tech to shape our future, byFounders takes an impact-aware approach to investing and working with the broader startup ecosystem.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Denmark, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Rig.dev — Rig.dev offers an open-source application platform for Kubernetes. Rig.dev empower developers to work in their own environments with elevated application abstractions, while still leveraging Kubernetes's reliability, portability, and scalability.
- Spoke.ai — Spoke.ai uses powerful AI to help you cut through workplace noise, achieve inbox zero across all your tools, and summarize Slack conversations with ease.
- Quantica — A Berlin-based 3D printing start-up pushing the boundaries of multi-material and high-performance material jetting.
A Venture Capital firm investing into European early-stage tech companies attacking CO2 emissions
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Investment focus
- CleanTech, Clean Energy, Biotechnology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Sweden, Spain, Austria
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- ecoLocked — ecoLocked is your partner to create a climate-positive built environment. We develop CO2-optimized recipes for concrete based on carbon-negative biochar admixes. Our admixes allow to store captured CO2 in buildings, reduce direct emissions from concrete production, and provide multiple functional benefits, such as improved thermal insulation.
- Rodinia Generation — Rodinia Generation offers environmental clothes manufacturing technologies that helps to eliminate overproduction in the fashion sector.
- 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.
Creades is an investment company investing in businesses that have the potential for revaluation and value creation. Creade's business concept is to provide a good risk-adjusted return to its shareholders by investing in businesses where Creades can act as an engaged owner, primarily in small and medium-listed and unlisted Swedish companies.The firm is a spin-off from Investment AB Öresund.
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Investment focus
- Software, Apps, E-Commerce
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Sweden, United States, Luxembourg
Portfolio highlights
- Kreditz — Kreditz makes sense out of open banking/PSD2-data with their proprietary Analytics Categorization Engine (ACE). By using ACE, Kreditz is able to fine-tune the transaction data (from any AISP-data aggregator) to make it understandable and usable in valid functional products such as income verification, credit scoring, KYC and many more. Theproducts are available both by API or by an integration-free Web portal. Kreditz serves industries such as consumer- & SME-lending, money transfer, auditing, gambling/betting, insurance and more throughout the Nordic countries.
- Instabee — Delivery when it suits you who shop online
- Aira — Aira operates as a clean energy-tech company.
We invest in companies at the forefront of service orientation and product differentiation in the transport and infrastructure industries.
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Investment focus
- Transportation, Software, Logistics
- Funding Round, Series B, Series A
- United States, Sweden, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Waabi — Waabi operates as a self-driving technology start-up. Waabi is bringing the promise of self-driving closer to commercialization than ever before.
- Trucksters — We are a transportation company that focuses on providing long distance FTL trucking service through an innovative relay system based on artificial intelligence. We achieve transit times similar to air transport while reducing the costs of traditional road transportation.
- Aifleet — aifleet is a tech-powered trucking company based in Austin, TX. The company is using proprietary technology to rebuild and humanize trucking for hard-working drivers.
Santander Climate Tech Fund is a venture capital fund managed by Santander Asset Management and EIT InnoEnergy.
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Investment focus
- CleanTech, Clean Energy
- Seed
- Sweden
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- suena — We are revolutionizing the way energy storage and renewables are integrated into power trading. By using cutting-edge forecasting, optimization and algorithmic trading techniques, we're able to reduce risks, maximize as well as stabilize profits on electricity and balancing markets.
- Caeli Wind — Caeli Wind is a cloud-based intelligent platform that identifies wind potential areas and enables marketing.
- Bee Planet Factory — BeePlanet Factory develops technological projects based on the reuse of batteries removed from the electric car. These batteries are called B2U (Battery 2nd Use). At the end of their original application, they keep intact a large storage capacity (70%-80%) and still offer high performance, which makes them perfectly functional for other uses, suchas stationary energy storage.The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Noáin, Comunidad Foral de Navarra.
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
- Avassa — Avassa is the one, easy-to-use solution to manage distributed applications across your on-premise, co-located and public cloud compute resources.
- 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.
Orkla Ventures promotes innovation and creativity opening up the possibility of investing directly in start-up companies. It focuses primarily on technology, concepts, and business models that might be relevant for Orkla’s businesses. The firm was established in 2017 to reach out to a growing universe of entrepreneurial businesses and startupcompanies engaged in innovation outside established companies.
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Investment focus
- Baby, AgTech, Software
- Seed, Funding Round
- Norway, Sweden
RWE has reliably supplied people and companies with electricity for more than 120 years – night and day. Many of us take electricity for granted. As well as the fact that it comes out of our sockets at any time. And we can, because power generators like RWE make sure that it does – with clean, secure and affordable electricity.
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Investment focus
- Renewable Energy, Clean Energy, Energy
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- United States, Germany, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- BitOoda — BitOoda is developing a full-lifecycle suite of sophisticated products and services for data centers, miners, and HPC consumers, based on our four core business lines.
- BigchainDB — With high throughput, low latency, powerful query functionality, decentralized control, immutable data storage and built-in asset support, BigchainDB is like a database with blockchain characteristics.
- Carbon Trust — Our mission is to accelerate the delivery of a sustainable, low carbon economy by helping businesses, governments and organisations across the globe to reduce carbon emissions and increase resource efficiency. We have a global team of more than 200 sustainability experts, including engineers, financiers and policy specialists, and almost twodecades of experience in the climate change sector. We reinvest surpluses from group commercial activities into our mission.
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