Top 50 Community Angel Investors in Sweden in January 2025
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Community startups based in Sweden. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Community companies from Sweden. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Community Angel Investors in Sweden in January 2025
Investor | Community Sweden investments |
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Sophia Bendz | 4 |
Josefin Landgård | 4 |
Pär Svärdson | 3 |
Mattias Miksche | 3 |
Simon Josefsson | 3 |
Cristina Stenbeck | 3 |
Filip Engelbert | 3 |
Jonas Nordlander | 3 |
Hampus Jakobsson | 2 |
Fredrik Mansson | 2 |
Stefan Krook | 2 |
Daniel Pilotti | 2 |
Stefan Lindeberg | 2 |
Martin Lorentzon | 2 |
Karl-Johan Persson | 2 |
Rutger Arnhult | 2 |
Daniel Skavén Ruben | 2 |
Tomas Björkman | 2 |
Lisa Enckell | 2 |
Andreas Ehn | 2 |
Marcus Lewold | 2 |
Joachim Hedenius | 2 |
Karina Univer | 1 |
Christian von Koenigsegg | 1 |
Joakim Mandorsson | 1 |
Anette Nordvall | 1 |
Jan Carl Adelsward | 1 |
Kim Fai Kok | 1 |
Dan Castillio | 1 |
Houman Ashrafzadeh | 1 |
Jonas Tellander | 1 |
Erik Engellau-Nilsson | 1 |
Arlan Hamilton | 1 |
Rikard Steiber | 1 |
Jeremias Andersson | 1 |
Jon Hauksson | 1 |
Akim Arhipov | 1 |
Sarah Drinkwater | 1 |
Klaus Nyengaard | 1 |
Bengt Maunsbach | 1 |
Sarah Drinkwater | 1 |
Henrik Torstensson | 1 |
Jonas Brogårdh | 1 |
Lena Apler | 1 |
Shervin Razani | 1 |
Ian Vernon | 1 |
Stefan Magnusson | 1 |
Katja Toropainen | 1 |
Sune Alstrup | 1 |
Noel Fenton | 1 |
Sophia Bendz - Partner @ Cherry Ventures
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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.
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.
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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.
Par Svardson is the current CEO of Apotea AB.
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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 — Discover ALEQUI's range of riding apparel featuring sleek Scandinavian design built to last. Shop now for premium quality and style.
- 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.
Mattias Miksche - Angel Investor & Chairman @ Hem
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Investment focus
- Software, Big Data, Financial Services
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Vetnio — Vetnio is a tool that records conversations between veterinary professionals and pet owners, automatically generating clinical notes for the meetings. It saves veterinary professionals time, allowing them to focus more on their patients.
- Normain — Normain is the AI platform for deep knowledge work. Automate your complex analyses and reports directly on Sharepoint or Google Drive. Access your own data and public sources in one single platform.
- Lovable — Build software products, using only a chat interface
Simon Josefsson
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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 — Community, benchmarking, and insights features for banks - available via white label and API
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.
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Investment focus
- Fashion, E-Commerce, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Sweden, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Opna — Lead on timely and credible climate action by catalysing the highest impact carbon projects across the globe.
- 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.
Filip Engelbert is a Co-Founder at Avito.ru.
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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).
Jonas Nordlander is a Co-Founder & CEO at Avito.ru.
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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).
Hampus Jakobsson is a General Partner at early stage climate tech venture fund Pale Blue Dot.Prior to co-founding Pale Blue Dot, Hampus was a Venture Partner at science fund Blue Yard and a prolific angel investor with >100 angel investments. He co-founded of The Astonishing Tribe (acquired by Blackberry in 2010 for $150m). He left Blackberry2012 to found Brisk.io a sales productivity tool which folded 2016.
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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 — Clinical-grade, AI-powered sperm analysis from the comfort of home. Test your sperm count, motility, morphology and much more with the Mojo kit. Check your fertility from home at low cost - without the need for clinic visits and awkward waiting rooms.
- Volta Greentech — Battling global warming by reducing methane emissions from cows
Fredrik Mansson - Investor @ Propel Capital
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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.
Stefan Krook - CEO @ Kivra
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Investment focus
- Apps, Dating, Internet
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Relate — Relate is a startup that develops apps and other services to help both singles and couples to healthy and meaningful romantic relationships.
- WarOnCancer — WarOnCancer is a global storytelling platform.
Daniel Pilotti is the Founder of Your Special Delivery Service and Ryska Posten.
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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.
Stefan Lindeberg was the Venture Partner and Co-founder of Nordic Game Ventures. He attended Linköping University.
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Investment focus
- Software, Gaming, Analytics
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Sweden, Denmark, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Songsay — Share music video clips like gifs with sound!
- Lovable — Build software products, using only a chat interface
- Blue Scarab Entertainment — Blue Scarab Entertainment is Stockholm-based video game studio developing a surprising MMORPG for fans of cozy escapism, true-crime, and horses.
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.
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Investment focus
- Beauty, Coffee, Fashion
- Funding Round, Seed
- 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.
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.
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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.
Rutger Arnhult
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Investment focus
- Events, Sensor, Big Data
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Whalebone — Whalebone is a purveyor of finely printed things such as a bi-monthly magazine. Born in Montauk but released to Earth.
- Intrance Medical Systems — Intrance Medical Systems is a biopharmaceutical company.
- Norrländska Vapenaffären — Norrländska Vapenaffären operating a number of vertical e-commerce operations.
Daniel Skavén Ruben
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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
Tomas Björkman
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Investment focus
- Apps, Dating
- Seed, Angel
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Relate — Relate is a startup that develops apps and other services to help both singles and couples to healthy and meaningful romantic relationships.
Partner at Antler. Previously VP marketing at Wrapp. Active angel investor and previously independent consultant to startups.
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Investment focus
- Drones, Travel, Leisure
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Arkion — Skyqraft is a visual data analytics provider helping businesses in the linear infrastructure sector make better decisions about their grid. Today, Skyqraft is a trusted partner of some of the most influential and forward looking critical infrastructure organizations in Europe and North America.
- Triple Global — They are all passionate travelers and explorers and one thing we all have in common is that our best travelexperiences have all been while hanging with locals, learning about their favorite spots, passion or discussing culture differences. As they talked about this with more and more people they realized there’s a lot of people like us - who arestruggling to get past the turist traps with Hop'On Hop'Off busses and inpersonal tour guide groups They started Triple to connect curious travelers with passionate local hosts.
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.
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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.
Marcus Lewold
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Investment focus
- Men's, Women's, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Angel
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Coupleness — Coupleness, founded in 2019 by Ted Rosén and CEO Jenny Holmström, developed a mobile app aimed to act as a common micro-diary for couples who want to communicate more with each other.
Joachim Hedenius is the VPE and Co-Founder of KRY.
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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.
Karina Univer is the Investment Manager at Specialist VC. She attended University of Tartu.
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Investment focus
- iOS, Apps, Software
- Pre-Seed
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- imagi — Programming has never been this much fun! Learn to create with code, share your designs with friends on the imagiLabs app and customize your imagiCharm - a fun, easy-to-use, colorful, and educational toy for girls. Imagine it. Code it. Wear it.
Christian Von Koenigsegg is the founder and CEO of Koenigsegg Automotive AB.
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Investment focus
- Fashion, Children
- Angel
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Inimini — Inimini is a second-hand children’s clothing company by style and size.
Joakim Mandorsson
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Investment focus
- Racing, Sports, Leisure
- Seed
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- World's Marathons — Find the greatest marathons from around the world and register easier than ever before.
Anette Nordvall
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Investment focus
- Women's, Health Care, Personal Health
- Seed
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Grace Health — Grace's 5MB app gives women in untapped markets access to health expert fertility support.
Jan Carl Adelswärd is one of the founders at Sneakerstuff.
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Investment focus
- Pet, Marketing, Advertising
- Seed
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Petgood — Insect-based pet food and functional pet supplies
- Creed Media — With over 2000 successful campaigns we are trusted by global brands and well-known labels all over the world.
Kim Fai Kok
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Investment focus
- Men's, Music, Women's
- Angel, Pre-Seed
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Coupleness — Coupleness, founded in 2019 by Ted Rosén and CEO Jenny Holmström, developed a mobile app aimed to act as a common micro-diary for couples who want to communicate more with each other.
- Freshsound — Instantly license music from commercially released artists and songwriters for film, series, advertising, social content and gaming.
Dan Castillio
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Investment focus
- Apps, Racing, Sports
- Seed, Funding Round
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Woshapp — Woshapp is a car wash in an app that the customer can use for asking a car washing service on her site.
- World's Marathons — Find the greatest marathons from around the world and register easier than ever before.
Houman Ashrafzadeh
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Social, Internet
- Seed
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Life Inside — Collect and share videos that engage and convert your website and career site visitors. Try Life Inside for free today!
Jonas Tellander is the Co-Founder and CEO at Storytel.
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Investment focus
- Apps, SaaS, Fashion
- Angel
- Sweden
Erik Engellau-Nilsson is the CEO of Norrsken Foundation, a non-profit foundation combining entrepreneurship, technology and venture capital to maximize social good. In January, the foundation launched Norrsken House which has quickly grown to become the largest ecosystem for social entrepreneurship in Europe. Just before summer, the foundationclosed the first Norrsken Founders Fund supported by unicorn founders investing 300 million SEK in entrepreneurs creating transformative companies solving the biggest challenges facing humanity. In addition, the foundation has launched two initiatives seeking to reduce global corruption and democratizing and spreading personal growth tools leveraging technology.
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Investment focus
- Video, Women's, Wellness
- Seed, Angel
- Sweden
Arlan Hamilton is the Founder and Managing Partner of Backstage Capital, a venture capital firm dedicated to minimizing funding disparities in tech by investing in high-potential founders who are people of color, women, and/or LGBT. Started from scratch in 2015, Backstage has now raised more than $12 million and invested in more than 150startup companies led by underestimated founders. In 2018, they launched a four-city accelerator program in Los Angeles, Detroit, Philadelphia, and London.Arlan is the author of, It's About Damn Time, an inspirational and tactical business book for budding entrepreneurs and aspiring investors. She hosts the popular podcast, Your First Million, and has been featured on CNN, PBS, and others, and in 2019 became the first Black woman to have an entirely devoted episode of Emily Chang's Bloomberg 1.0.In October 2018, Arlan was featured on the cover of Fast Company magazine as the first Black woman non-celebrity to do so (following Oprah, Serena, and Beyonce).
In 2019, Arlan and her mother, Mrs. Earline Butler-Sims, announced their new scholarship program, which kicked off with Oxford University's first-ever undergraduate scholarship for a Black student, as well as a commitment to fund a full-ride scholarship for a Psychology student at Mrs. Sims' alma mater, HBCU Dillard University.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Communities
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- MicroAcquire — Buy and sell SaaS startups in as little as 90 days. 500k+ qualified buyers, 1,000s of vetted listings. M&A advisory, legal help, escrow, and more. Join now.
- Patientory — Empowers you with actionable insights from your health data, incentivizing you to take control of your health outcomes.
- Maven — Maven is where top creators teach cohort-based courses. We help you make a living teaching what you love.
Rikard Steiber is the Founder & President of Viveport & he attedned SDA Bocconi in 1993.
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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.
Jeremias Andersson
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Investment focus
- Apps, Dating
- Seed
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Relate — Relate is a startup that develops apps and other services to help both singles and couples to healthy and meaningful romantic relationships.
Jon Hauksson is the Co-Founder of Storytel.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Education, Communities
- Seed
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Togee — Togee enables its users to share their screen and audio in their favourite apps whilst texting, calling and drawing with their friends on-top simultaneously! Get second opinions on your next purchase or simply watch a funny video together – just like if you were sitting next to each other.
Akim is an Estonian entrepreneur who has cofounded BASIS ID– all-in-one identity verification (KYC) platform for financial institutions and governmental agencies in Southeast Asia. Akim’s team was participated in creation of electronic ID system and eGovernment portals for Estonian government.Previously a co-founder of successful companies in ITand transportation sectors – OnniBus.com and SuperBus.com. The first one is the most successful commercial bus operator in Finland: 20 lines, 200+ daily departures, 6+ million passengers served annually.
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Investment focus
- Software, iOS, Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Estonia, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Modash.io — High performing marketing teams use Modash to find, analyze and monitor influencers at scale all over the world. Join them today.
- imagi — Programming has never been this much fun! Learn to create with code, share your designs with friends on the imagiLabs app and customize your imagiCharm - a fun, easy-to-use, colorful, and educational toy for girls. Imagine it. Code it. Wear it.
- DriveX Technologies — Boost your windshield damage assessment accuracy with an AI inspection tool that provides instant repairability decisions.
Atomico Angel
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Investment focus
- Fashion, Communities, Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- France, Sweden, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Anyone — Anyone makes getting and giving advice easy through five-minute voice calls. Reserve your handle in the phone book of the future.
- Liberare (Formerly Intimately) — Intimately sells adaptive bras and underwear for women with disabilities. We sell the easiest bras to put on that are also fashionable. Front opening bras with the newest technology allow for easy dressing for everyone.
- Lucky Sweater — Welcome to the ultimate slow fashion community closet. Explore different styles, discover independent designers, and try new things with the slow fashion community.
Klaus Nyengaard is the co-founder and Chairman of GenieBelt, a SaaS-based platform that develops project management software. He is also co-founder of the investment club, Nordic Makers. He serves as the co-chairman of Treatwell, a beauty and wellness community marketplace.
Nyengaard has previously been CEO & Chairman of Just-Eat pre-IPO, andbuild a number of tech companies.
In 1994, Klaus Nyengaard graduated from Aarhus University with a specialized degree in economics and management.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Marketplace, Apps
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Denmark, United Kingdom, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Famly — Easy-to-use software for childcare providers. Our nursery management software makes administration, planning, and learning journals easy. Try it for free.
- Panion — Panion is a community-building tool that helps companies, schools, and organizations facilitate more social interactions amongst its members. The platform is entirely keyword searchable and filterable so members are able to search for each other based on common interests, values, goals or experiences and even narrow their searches by location,gender, age, language and much more. Members and admins can propose spontaneous events within the network and form social groups around an interest. Community admins are given a dashboard of analytics to track trends in their community and send segmented messages based on interest and location.
- Spotahome — Spotahome is a mid- to long-term residential rentals platform that is reinventing the property market. It offers the most complete property and room listings for stays above 30 days, bookable exclusively through online viewings which saves tenants and property owners time and money. The company creates the listing at no cost to the landlord - aprofessional photographer ("Homechecker") visits the property and creates the audio-visual materials including high quality photos, HD video tours, detailed floor plans and honest property and neighbourhood descriptions. By offering the most complete property listings, it allows tenants to book their property from anywhere in the world without the need for in-person viewings. It also offers guarantees against default payments and damages. Spotahome is growing rapidly, fueled by a $40M Series B funding round led by Kleiner Perkins, the first leading Silicon Valley VC in a Spanish company. It is present in 11 cities across 8 countries in Europe.Spotahome was launched by Alejandro Artacho, Bryan McEire, Hugo Monteiro and Bruno Bianchi in March 2014 and has offices in both Madrid, Spain and London, UK.
Bengt Maunsbach
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- Racing, Sports, Leisure
- Seed
- Sweden
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- World's Marathons — Find the greatest marathons from around the world and register easier than ever before.
The Tech and Society Solutions Lab draws on Omidyar Network’s long-standing belief in the promise of technology to create opportunity and social good, and works to invest and co-create in tech, programs and initiatives that helps the industry maximize its positive impact. Previously, Sarah headed up Campus London, Google's space forr startups, established and led a global community team for Google Maps, consulted for startups and big brands on community, content and social, and was a journalist.
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- Software, Communities, Fashion
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, France, Sweden
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- Mailchain — A secure, open source communications protocol, enabling users to send & receive messages between public addresses
- Odin — Community and investment tools for people building the future.
- Otterspace — Otterspace takes care of DAOs.
Henrik Torstensson is a Partner at Alliance Venture and a Board Member & Co-founder of Lifesum.
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- SaaS, Sports, FinTech
- Seed
- Sweden, United States
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- Sparta — Sparta is a web-based application and software that enables sales directors to run effective sales competitions. It enables its users to builds sales competitions, invite their team, manage them with rankings, statistics, and reports. It also enables its users to control the metrics and behaviors that they desire to control in a sales environment.Sales directors can run multiple competitions, team-based competitions, send and receive email notifications, receive daily update emails, access a chat feed with @mentions, access reports and insights, and perform many more tasks through the app and software.Sparta was founded by Niklas de Besche, Aref Abedi, Aref Abedi, and James Pember. It is based in Stockholm, Sweden.
- Castle — The quickest way to deal with fraud rings, account takeovers, and suspicious transactions.
- Fishbrain — Join over 14 million anglers using Fishbrain. Fishbrain is the world's #1 fishing app for finding fishing spots, forecasts, socializing, logging catches & more. Fish smarter with Fishbrain.
Jonas Brogårdh
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- SaaS, Social, Internet
- Seed
- Sweden
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- Life Inside — Collect and share videos that engage and convert your website and career site visitors. Try Life Inside for free today!
Lena Apler is the Founder and CEO of Collector Bank.
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- E-Commerce, Fashion, Marketplace
- Funding Round, Seed, Angel
- Sweden
Shervin Razani is the Founder and CEO at Life Event Sweden AB. He attended Stockholm University.
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- Fashion, Children
- Angel
- Sweden
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- Inimini — Inimini is a second-hand children’s clothing company by style and size.
Ian Vernon
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- mHealth, Messaging, Communities
- Seed
- Sweden
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- PeN Chat — An Instant Social Messaging App - Search Google Play, type Pen Chat Calls for Free
Stefan Magnusson is a Co-Founder of Taurus Technologies Electric.
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- SaaS, Social, Internet
- Seed
- Sweden
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- Life Inside — Collect and share videos that engage and convert your website and career site visitors. Try Life Inside for free today!
Katja Toropainen is the founder of Inklusiiv. Prior to that, she served as a chief program curator at Slush. Katja holds a master's degree in information and service management from Aalto University.
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- Software, iOS, Apps
- Pre-Seed
- Sweden, Finland
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- imagi — Programming has never been this much fun! Learn to create with code, share your designs with friends on the imagiLabs app and customize your imagiCharm - a fun, easy-to-use, colorful, and educational toy for girls. Imagine it. Code it. Wear it.
- StepOut.pro — A digital platform for fitness & wellness freelancers to streamline their business activities
Tech Investor and Entrepreneur, former Founder & CEO at The Eye Tribe
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Denmark, Sweden, France
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- Go Dogo — Go Dogo provides mental workout for dogs - It's an app-controlled wall-mounted robot that uses the home TV to give instructions and feedback. The combination of computer vision and treat releases enables brain games that slowly gets more and more challenging. Over-the-Air updates ensures that Go Dogo never gets old.
- Rerun — Log and visually explore computer vision and robotics data over time. Debug and understand the internal state and data of your systems with minimal code.
- Doublepoint — Solving Next-Generation Interactions. Doublepoint provides future computing platforms more intuitive, robust and versatile interactions.
Noel Fenton is a co-founder and general partner of Trinity VenturesNoel has been part of the Silicon Valley venture capital community for more than 40 years. Prior to co-founding Trinity Ventures in 1986, he was co-founder of three successful technology startups, and CEO of two of them, Covalent Systems and Acurex. From 1983 to 1986, he ledCovalent Systems from start up to a profitable $12 million sales level in three years. He led Acurex from 1972 to 1982 during a period when sales increased nearly tenfold to $65 million with continuous profitability. Noel’s active investments are BlueStripe Software, Blue Tarp Financial, ID Analytics, LoopNet, MyNewPlace, SciQuest, ServiceMax, and Taulia. Noel is actively involved in the World Presidents' Organization and the Stanford Athletic Board, and is a past chairman of the Northern California Chapter of the Young Presidents' Organization and a past chairman of the American Electronics Association.He received his M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and his B.S. in Chemistry from Cornell University.
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- Software, Real Estate, SaaS
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, Sweden
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- Funnel — Our revolutionary CRM property management software saves both time and money for agents and owners while making leasing more efficient. Learn how here.
- Petgood — Insect-based pet food and functional pet supplies
- Funnel — Our revolutionary CRM property management software saves both time and money for agents and owners while making leasing more efficient. Learn how here.
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