Top 15 Digital Media VC Funds in Sweden
A list of 15 VC funds that invest in Digital media startups based in Sweden. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Digital media companies from Sweden. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Digital Media VC Funds in Sweden
Investor | Digital Media Sweden investments |
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SEB Private Equity | 2 |
Spintop Ventures | 2 |
Wellstreet | 2 |
Bonnier Ventures | 2 |
Almi Invest | 2 |
Chalmers Ventures AB | 1 |
Swedia Capital | 1 |
Inbox Capital | 1 |
EQT | 1 |
SEB (Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken) | 1 |
Fort Knox | 1 |
DS Asset Management | 1 |
Newion | 1 |
Atwater Capital | 1 |
DIG Investment | 1 |
Founded in 1995, SEB Private Equity is a Swedish finance company that offers advisory services and products to corporate customers.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Series C, Funding Round, Series B
- Sweden, United States, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- Motatos — Motatos is an online retail store that offers a wide variety of food, beverages, and household products to customers.
- 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!
- Worldfavor — Worldfavor is the first to bring sustainability and compliance information based on established frameworks to one global platform. We connect businesses around the world to share sustainability information with each other through one platform, where they can also manage and excel their own performance in a secure, collaborative space. We helpbusinesses avoid manual spreadsheets and stiff, expensive software. Simply because we want you to save time and resources for your impact, and because modern technology can enable so much more.The vision is to be global de-facto information platform for sustainable decisions, serving any actor with sustainability/compliance data (business data 2.0) on any organization from one shared platform where they also manage it. The SaaS covers all sustainability/compliance needs under one roof: Manage Sustainability, Visualize Sustainability and data collection and assessment of any type of partners in the Value Chain, such as suppliers or portfolio companies.
Founded in 2009, Spintop Ventures is a venture capital firm backed by a network of successful tech entrepreneurs who have invested in Spintop alongside institutional investors, family offices and some of the most experienced private investors in early stage growth companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Sweden, Finland, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- Zymego — Zymego develops solutions that relieve healthcare workers of administrative work while improving patient access to healthcare.
- Elastisys — Elastisys provides fully-managed Kubernetes Platform as a Service, GDPR-ready on EU clouds with optional PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, and Redis.
- Tings — Tings is a mobile app that helps people to organize and retain, and sell non-required recyclable and used merchandise.
Wellstreet is an innovation and tech ecosystem that includes an investment company, a strategic consultancy firm and a venture building incubator.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Retail
- Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Sweden, Norway, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Y/ELM+ — Y/ELM+ is a horseback riding safety and protection brand that focuses n creating leading-edge rider safety solutions.
- Maintract — Maintract is a new generation of financial contract management software. It also offers banking and financial services. They provide contract management automation solutions to banks for drafting, data verification, workflow automation, contract data monitoring, tracking workflow and documentation, compliance management, and more.
- Enable Banking — Empower your business with Enable Banking, the leading open banking connectivity provider, offering a secure, single API solution for seamless integration with 2500+ major banks across Europe. Book a demo today to unlock the future of open finance.
Bonnier Capital is the investment division of the Bonnier Group. Since 2016, we invest in promising companies in structurally growing industries and have become a reliant investment partner to companies and funds of various sizes.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Digital Media, Software
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Sweden, Finland, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Combify — Combify is a PropTech company that works with simplifying the communication in city development projects.
- Natural Cycles — Natural Cycles offers a contraceptive app, spearheading digital contraception, a new category in female reproductive health.Users measure their basal body temperature in the morning and the app computes the temperature (and other relevant data like levels of luteinizing hormone) through an algorithm to calculate whether they are fertile or not.Natural Cycles’ subscription product relies on an algorithmic method to predict which days women are fertile during their monthly cycle — with an in-app color-coded calendar informing users if they could have unprotected sex on a given day or not.Women using the app are required to measure and input their body temperature daily using a basal thermometer. Natural Cycles relies on this and other individual data inputs to algorithmically calculate the probability of the user being fertile on each day in her cycle.
- Kyra — Kyra is a Gen-Z entertainment company creating engaging digital content that resonates with youth culture. We represent world class digital native talent, produce digital content with the biggest and best consumer brands and develop media properties publishing daily content on platforms that matter to Gen Z. Kyra has the ability to not onlytarget but truly engage with the Gen-Z audience through content that resonates based on real-time audience data from our proprietary KyraIQ technology. Our inclusive, ahead-of-the-trend content and content creators make us the ultimate destination for the Gen-Z consumer who wants to be inspired by their own community. Our approach and creativity is based on data and insights and has proven to engage this audience better than any traditional publisher. We house a talent agency representing and collaborating with the leading Gen Z social stars such as Abby Roberts and Noen Eubanks; a global content studio creating award-winning content for youth-seeking brand partners such as Converse and HP; and a newly developed portfolio of media properties publishing daily content on Gen Z-native platforms around beauty, fashion, adventure, food, gaming and entertainment.Kyra engages Gen Z better than any traditional publisher, with an audience of 78 million social media followers racking up 750 million monthly video views in 190 countries around the globe. We know exactly where Gen Z is spending their time online and we respect their interests and passions. That result is content that is meaningful and fosters long term engagement for blue chip brands. Our team are experts on Gen Z culture, whether they are producing, managing, creating or marketing in New York, London and Los Angeles. Learn more at https://kyra.com/reel
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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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Sweden, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Dicot — Dicot is a pharmaceutical company focused on drug discovery and the development of novel lifestyle drugs to enrich patients' lives. The Company develops and manufactures medicines for the treatment of erectile dysfunction and premature ejaculation. The company's lead candidate, LIB-01, is in the pre-clinical stage of development.
- Trackpaw Scientific — Contributing to the development of safe and effective pharmaceuticals at increased speed and quality by digitalising the preclinical study landscape.
- Nordic Forestry Automation — The forestry sector is standing before unprecedented challenges in adapting to increased demand for sustainable raw materials, carbon storage, biodiversity conservation and a shortage of highly skilled machine operators. Digital tools, precision forestry and automation will play a crucial role in
We are a leading tech investor & venture builder in the Nordics. Taking deep tech from lab to market.WELCOMEINVESTMENTS
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Investment focus
- Software, Energy, Health Care
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Adsorbi — Adsorbi develops a novel biomaterial based on cellulose.
- RadChat — RadChat is a method for arranging timeslots between cars in close proximity. The timeslots can then be used for radar sensing or for transmitting data to nearby cars through the radar unit.The patent-pending technology's ability to eliminate radar interference is unequaled. Because each car in the vicinity has its own assigned timeslot,there will be no interference from other vehicles. RadChat enables your vehicle's sensors to be trusted.The data communication utility is a supplementary technology for communication in scenarios requiring low latency, directed connectivity, and safety. Video feeds, vital safety alarms, location and positioning data, and other types of data can be delivered.
- EmbeDL — Efficient Deep Learning for Embedded Systems
We invest in businesses we believe in and strive to be the partner we ourselves would like to have.
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Investment focus
- Digital Media, Service Industry, Consumer Electronics
- Funding Round
- Sweden
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- Dirac — Use Dirac to transform your listening experience. Our patented audio technology makes any sound system sound better.
Venture Capital in disruptive, global and high growth potential companies. Stage of funding is pre-series A - C rounds
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Investment focus
- 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.
EQT is a private equity firm. They invest in companies and regions where there is an industrial approach. Their investment strategies include private capital, assets, credit, and public value, guided by an ownership approach and an industrial growth strategy.
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Investment focus
- Manufacturing, Health Care, Software
- Private Equity, Debt Financing, Funding Round
- Germany, United States, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- HVD Group — HVD Group offers cloud-based end-to-end field service management and enterprise resource planning software with key functionalities such as order, project and asset management, scheduling, time reporting, procurement and documentation handling.
- EA Elektro-Automatik — EA Elektro-Automatik is Germany's leading manufacturer of laboratory power supplies, high-performance power supplies & electronic loads.
- Next One Technology — Next One Technology operates in the cloud management, information technology, and software industries. The company manages and runs Next Project & Next Field, both of which are systems used in the construction sector. Additionally, Next One Technology provides cloud computing environments that aid in teaching tech skills, upskilling softwareteams, and simplifying developer workflow. The company's mission is to make technology education accessible for everyone by providing instant access to cloud.
SEB (Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken) is the leading corporate and investment bank in the Nordic countries, serving large corporations and financial institutions with corporate banking, trading and capital markets and global transaction services. Comprehensive pension and asset management solutions are also offered. It offers small and medium-sizedcorporate customers several customised products that were initially developed in cooperation with SEB’s large corporate clients. In addition, numerous services are specifically designed for small companies and entrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Banking, Financial Services
- Series B, Post-IPO Debt, Debt Financing
- Sweden, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- WHSmith — Welcome to WHSmith. Here you can find stationery, books, toys and games and many more products. Shop online or find out more about us.
- metrofibre — metrofibre is a fiber-optic network service provider. Its network design is based on point-to-point routing for each household and user. Their projects are financed by private infrastructure investors in the form of public-private partnerships.
- Vicore Pharma — Vicore Pharma is a pharmaceutical company dedicated to developing innovative medicines for severe lung disorders. It develops drugs that act through the AT2 receptor. The company’s drug candidate C21 aims to improve the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a rare disease for which C21 has been granted orphan drug designation both in the EUand the US. In addition, C21 is explored pre-clinically in a number of rare diseases where the AT2 receptor plays an important role. The company is based in Astra Zeneca’s Bioventurehub in Mölndal.
Fort Knox is a family-owned growth engine that invests in entrepreneurs to grow and develop.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Restaurants, Financial Services
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- Sweden
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- Arevo — Arevo offers liquid and granular amino acid fertilizer technologies for faster and better plant establishment.
- Elastisys — Elastisys provides fully-managed Kubernetes Platform as a Service, GDPR-ready on EU clouds with optional PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, and Redis.
- Impactpool — Job vacancies in the European Union, United Nations and International Organizations.
Investing in listed companies and venture firms
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Information Technology, Software
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- South Korea, Sweden
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- ArtNGuide — ArtNGuide conducts online auctions and art fairs.
- FASSKER — Fassker is a fashion magazine and community for the digital native generation.
- Doosan Mobility Innovation — Doosan offers drone solutions based on Fuel Cell powerpacks, which enable longer flights than existing battery-powered drones.
Newion is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in B2B software companies. Its mission is to support entrepreneurs in building software companies into category leaders that create sustainable impact, and in doing so generate excellent returns to its investors.
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- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- airfocus — airfocus is the first modular product management software: Manage and communicate your product strategy, prioritize your roadmap, and solve the right problems.
- Salonkee — All-in-one solution for beauty & hair salons
- Ellie.ai — Grasp your business needs and validate your product ideas before building your data pipelines. Use Ellie's conceptual data models and logical data models to design great data products.
Atwater Capital is an investment firm that is based in Los Angeles, California. The firm seeks to invest in the media and entertainment sectors, including direct investments in portfolio companies, intellectual property control investments, and opportunistic financing opportunities to offer risk-adjusted returns.
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Investment focus
- Music, Video, Digital Media
- Funding Round
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Epidemic Sound — Download premium royalty free music and SFX! Our free trial gives you access to over 40,000 tracks and 90,000 sound effects for video, streaming and more!-
DIG Investment is an investment office focused on direct investments in the global alternatives markets.
DIG Investment was founded 2011 by HMP Family to source, analyse and structure investments in special situations - many whom relate to the disrupting technology sector.
Today DIG Investment has a group of anchor families as investors and havefurther widened the field of opportunities in the alternatives space to include additional areas. Such as, consumer brands, shared economies, retail, hospitality (many related to real-estate), media, software, consumer electronics and environmental/sustainability. Most still related to the core families' main businesses.
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Investment focus
- Energy, Computer, Software
- Funding Round, Seed, Series B
- Sweden, United States
Portfolio highlights
- LUB Foods — Luthman Backlund Foods AB was started in 2013 by Carl Backlund and Niclas Luthman. Since then they have built a team of dedicated and hard-working people around us that all share the same vision - creating snacks and confectionery that is actually good for you and the people you love.THeir ambition is to create a global brand and a wide range ofproducts that adds to the quality of life and well-being of all the snacks and candy-loving people of the world.
- Qvantum — Qvantum is driven by a passion for a sustainable future and we are changing the way the cities of Europe are heated.
- Pivotal Commware — Pivotal Commware was established in 2016 to commercialize a breakthrough in electromagnetic physics, Holographic Beam Forming™ (HBF). Years ago, Pivotal’s founders recognized that wireless demand for data would outgrow the complex coding, multiplexing and modulation schemes that network operators have deployed thus far. Beamforming was theanswer, but existing high cost, size, weight and power-consuming (C-SWaP) solutions were not. That’s why Pivotal assembled a team experienced in advanced commercial antenna and RF circuit design, advanced DARPA technology programs, and, uniquely, active/nonlinear metamaterials. Beyond technology, Pivotal also offers the depth and breadth of skills to develop integrated, end-to-end solutions.
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