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Top 50 Energy Startup Investors in Sweden in July 2025

Last updated: Jul 2025 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Energy startups based in Sweden. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Energy companies from Sweden. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Energy Startup Investors in Sweden in July 2025

Investor	Energy Sweden investments
Chalmers Ventures AB	27
Almi Invest	19
Norrsken VC	10
Course Corrected	9
Industrifonden	7
Northzone	5
KTH Holding	5
CommerzVentures	4
Almi Invest GreenTech	4
byFounders	4
Midroc New Technology	4
Kinnevik	4
Antler	4
Hampus Jakobsson	3
Headline	3
Altor	3
Navigare Ventures	3
Neptunia Invest	3
SamInvest Mitt	3
H&M Group Ventures	3
Subvenio Invest	3
Brightly Ventures	3
Luminar Ventures	3
Sebastian Siemiatkowski	3
Spintop Ventures	3
DHS Venture Partners	3
Butterfly Ventures	3
SMOK Ventures	3
LIU Invest	2
Gullspång Invest	2
Länsförsäkringar	2
FAM AB	2
2050	2
Ingka Investments	2
Creandum	2
Daniel Ek	2
Inovo VC	2
Christian Edler	2
CapitalT	2
Cristina Stenbeck	2
Peak	2
Anders Frankel	2
SEB Venture Capital	2
Verdane	2
Jonas Nordlander	2
Vinnova	2
Gunnar Hagman	2
Klimatet Invest	2
Wave Ventures	2
Imprimatur Capital Fund Management	2

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We are a leading tech investor & venture builder in the Nordics. Taking deep tech from lab to market.WELCOMEINVESTMENTS

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Embedl AB — Efficient Deep Learning by Deep Learning model optimization
Adsorbi — Adsorbi use cellulose from the Nordic forest to help air purification companies to capture gaseous air pollutants.
Swedish Algae Factory — Our algae materials replace harmful and less efficient chemicals in high-end organic personal care products and has the potential of increasing the efficiency of solar panels.

Almi Invest is Sweden’s most active early-stage venture capital firm, investing in scalable startups across Sustainability, Industry, Tech, and Life Science.We invest from pre-seed to Series A, always co-investing with independent private investors to accelerate innovation and long-term success. Our portfolio spans sustainable solutions,industrial innovation, deep tech, SaaS, and life science, supporting startups that drive economic and environmental progress.With €430 million under management and over 1,000 investments since 2009, we have backed leading companies like MIPS, Tobii, and Neo4j, with notable exits to Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Qlik.Beyond capital, we offer engaged ownership, providing strategic guidance, active board participation, and access to an extensive investor network.Almi Invest is part of the Almi Group and is funded by the European Regional Development Fund, Almi AB, and regional partners.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
Sweden, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Embedl AB — Efficient Deep Learning by Deep Learning model optimization
Epigenica — Epigenica focuses on advancing epigenomics through its EpiFinder™ platform, a multiplexed ChIP-seq technology for high-throughput analysis of epigenetic marks. The company offers R&D services for the development of therapeutic molecules and diagnostic methods using epigenetics. Epigenica aims to improve scientists' ability to capture andextract insights from the epigenome, contributing to precision medicine and the discovery of new biomarkers.
Polar Light Technologies — Polar Light Technologies focuses on developing the next generation of Nano and micro LED technology.

We are a venture capital fund investigating in Start-Ups solving the worlds biggest problems while building massive businesses.

Investment focus

Software, Food and Beverage, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Sweden, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Kapu — We are an online shopping community that helps you save even more on your everyday essentials when you buy together with your friends.
trawa — The partner for renewable and affordable electricity for businesses. Get electricity directly from solar and windparks with corporate PPAs.
Beans — Beans is on a mission to help the planet by reducing food waste, saving products, and offering them through an online grocery platform at discounted prices.

An early-stage venture capital fund backing climate tech companies with potential to become the leading businesses of tomorrow. Representing potentially one of the greatest investment opportunities of our lifetime - we invest in visionary entrepreneurs disrupting traditional industries and delivering exceptional growth as the world transitions to alow-carbon economy. Together with the most visionary and passionate entrepreneurs, Course Corrected wants to be part of solving one of our planet's most pressing challenges – battling climate change.

Investment focus

Energy, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Sweden, United States

Portfolio highlights

ReCarber — Commercializing carbon removal projects. ReCarber matches emitters with off-takers, orchestrates financing, and commercially develops BECCS / bio-CCS projects.
Emulate Energy — Emulate Energy transforms demand response into tailored and easy-to-operate energy storage devices costing a fraction of physical batteries.
Echandia — Echandia develops energy storage solutions for heavy-duty marine applications and is the leading supplier of LTO battery systems for maritime electrification.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Sweden, United States, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Fibbl — Fibbl is the world's first cost-effective end-to-end solution for 3D and AR focused visual marketing. Integrate 3D & AR into e-commerce and marketing in minutes.Fibbl have industrialized the process of producing photorealistic 3D models for consumer products from global brands. Fibbl has the world's largest 3D model database forconsumer products.Learn more - https://www.fibbl.com/
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.

Northzone is a multi-stage venture capital fund that seeks to invest in the healthcare, semiconductors, software, hardware, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and gaming industries.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Sweden, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

CarOnSale — Operator of B2B auction platform intended to digitize the lease-return and trade-in of cars.
Murphy AI — Murphy uses AI to help businesses recover unpaid invoices through respectful, personalized communication.
Bedrock Ocean Exploration — Bedrock is building smarter, more efficient ways to collect and manage seafloor data.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Cellfion — Cellfion provides sustainable materials for next level clean energy storage and conversion devices.
porkchop — In-space logistics for SmallSats in Low Earth Orbit and beyond.
Novatron — A new fusion reactor design for stable plasma confinement and fusion power generation.

Venture capital investor in early stage FinTech and InsurTech companies starting at Series A in Europe, Israel and the USA.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, InsurTech
Series B, Series A, Series C
United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

carbmee — Net zero solutions tailored for your business. Cut carbon, boost efficiency, and drive sustainability. Get in touch with our experts today.
Unique — Unlock the power of generative AI in Finance with Unique FinanceGPT. Get custom use cases and accurate insights in a secure, enterprise-ready platform.
Money Fellows — MoneyFellows digitizes the ROSCA model, enabling group lending and savings.

Almi Invest GreenTech is a venture capital company and an active start-up investor.

Investment focus

Waste Management, Energy, Manufacturing
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Denmark, United States, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

SKYE — Enabling industries to intelligent participate in the electricity market, leveraging what they already have: electrical assets.
IXI — Discover adaptive glasses with autofocus lenses that adjust to your viewing needs, providing seamless clarity at any distance.
Arsenale Bioyards — Arsenale is making industrial-scale biomanufacturing via precision fermentation economically viable for the very first time.

The area of New Technologies is highly interesting to us.The companies in this area are often relatively small and new. Midroc has an understanding for entrepreneurism and innovations and can give significant support to innovative companies.We contribute to the process of building profitable companies, and possibly market leadingcorporations, out of innovative ideas. It is an interesting business with a useful function as commercial development of new technology in most cases requires financing and support from a venture capitalist.The potential for global and innovative technologies regarding alternative fuels, energy, environmental technology and a greener future is really without limitations or boundaries.The goal for Midroc New Technology is to go for inventions that gives a good return and at the same time also provides useful global and environmental benefits.

Investment focus

Energy, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Kärnfull — The Nordic region's very first 100% nuclear electricity provider. An ecorational tech-enabler raising funds to science and R&D in next-gen nuclear via every delivered kilowatt-hour. Currently active in Sweden and Denmark, with Midroc New Technology as minority owners. Driven by a rapid organic growth, supplying thousands of householdsand SMEs with the cleanest energy available (Swedish nuclear, 2,5g CO2/kWh) by means of a fully digital service and Guarantees of Origin (GOOs). Supported by pro-bono advisors José Gonzalez (artist), Caroline Cochran (Oklo), Steven Pinker (Harvard), Christian Ekberg (Chalmers), Kirsty Gogan (TerraPraxis), Eric Ingersoll (LucidCatalyst), Johan Carlsson (producer), Klara Insulander Björk (Chalmers).
CorPower Ocean — CorPower Ocean is a turnkey supplier of wave energy systems, enabling customers to generate clean electricity from ocean waves - bringing stability to the renewable energy mix.
Reliefed Technologies — Reliefed offers non-metallic flow plates as an affordable and sustainable alternative for heat exchangers, fuel cells, electrolysers, cold plates, etc.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Health Care, Internet
Series B, Series C, Funding Round
United States, Germany, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

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.
Breathe Battery Technologies — Breathe Battery Technologies is a research-led technology company developing advanced battery management algorithms

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Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Singapore, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Rovers — Global Agricultural IP Company
Vern — Made with love in Sydney
Whisper — Whisper offers next-gen, real-time threat intelligence by leveraging a vast semantic graph built from 45 billion interconnected data points.

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.

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

Headline is a Venture Capital firm actively on the ground in 7 cities around the world. We invest across categories and geographies, leading rounds at every stage. Once we commit to a team, we go to the ends of the earth to make their success global.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Germany, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Root — Root is a next-generation social platform that combines communication tools with a customizable app framework, allowing communities to organize, coordinate, and extend their functionality through apps.
NetBox Labs — NetBox Labs makes the management of complex networks easier for operators by delivering open and composable products. The company's product NetBox Cloud offers an enterprise-grade, SaaS version of open-source NetBox.
Things — Things offer product development and various information such as CAD, drawings, parts configuration, and price information.

Entrepreneurs at heart. Engaged in partnerships built on curiosity, creativity and achieving a lasting impact.

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.

Welcome to Navigare Ventures. We invest in transformational early-stage companies at the frontier of science and technology.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Energy
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Sweden, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Arevo — Arevo offers liquid and granular amino acid fertilizer technologies for faster and better plant establishment.
Repli5 — Enabling autonomous vehicles with synthetic data. We automate the creation of synthetic data and digital twins.
Epigenica — Epigenica focuses on advancing epigenomics through its EpiFinder™ platform, a multiplexed ChIP-seq technology for high-throughput analysis of epigenetic marks. The company offers R&D services for the development of therapeutic molecules and diagnostic methods using epigenetics. Epigenica aims to improve scientists' ability to capture andextract insights from the epigenome, contributing to precision medicine and the discovery of new biomarkers.

Neptunia is a Swedish investment company, with Nordic ownership, that was founded by the brothers Johan och Mikael Karlsson together with the Ehrnrooth family. Neptunia invests in companies within Real Estate and Finance as well as Defence and Security.

Investment focus

SaaS, Drones, Cycling
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
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.
Ekolution — Ekolution is a Sustainability & Cycling company.Ekolution AB offers durable, climate-smart prefabricated panels of the natural material hemp lime (hempcrete). Our building materials are not only carbon neutral, but actually carbon dioxide negative (there is more CO2 bound in the hemp than is emitted.
Volter — Volter software offers a comprehensive solution for commercial and industrial property owners to deploy, manage, and improve solar assets.

Saminvest is a venture capital company that was formed by the Swedish government in 2016. Saminvest actively works to establish new and sustainable venture capital funds and angel investor programmes that expand the venture capital market in Sweden. Through Saminvest's indirect investments and work with investment funds, innovative and fast-growing companies can gain access to more capital and expert advice.

Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, Hardware
Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

The Fit — Let our AI-powered fitting technology improve your customer experience and bottom line.
Learnster — Learnster develops the LMS of tomorrow for growing organizations aspiring to achieve maximum learning in minimum time.
Brick Technology — Rent-on-the-go with Brick powerbank sharing: convenient on-the-move charging solution! Suitable for all devices.

H&M Group Ventures is the venture capital arm of the H&M Group.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fashion, Textiles
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Sweden, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Voyado — All-in-one CRM, CDP, marketing software and AI-powered product discovery purely built for retail and ecommerce.
Cult Mia — Your guide to designer discovery. We handpick the best fashion from around the world and bring it to you weekly. Our exclusive curated drops feature the most exciting new brands & unique pieces. This is power dressing with staying power.
Heirloom — Heirloom is restoring balance to our atmosphere by removing 1 billion tons of carbon dioxide by 2035. We use natural processes to engineer the world's most cost-effective Direct Air Capture solution.

Subvenio Invest

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, CMS
Seed, Funding Round
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Gridly — Gridly is a cloud-based AI-powered content management online platform tailor-made for games and digital products. By connecting development, design, and localization teams and their tools, Gridly serves as a single source for effective content management. Thanks to flexible content modelling, granular access and version control, Gridly improvescollaboration and streamlines content management and localization for your games or apps.
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.
Holm Security — Empowering companies struggling to gain insight into their cyber security landscape.

Brightly Ventures backs bold founders on a mission to transform industries and change the world for the better. Brightly is an early-stage investor focused on the Nordics. It has a hands-on approach supporting high-potential ideas and bringing them to market. It makes a deep commitment to each investment we make and draw upon its network andcompany-building experience to help boost the journey.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Sweden, United States

Portfolio highlights

Adway — Adway specializes in recruitment marketing, employer branding, Hr-tech and candidate journey solutions.
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.
Collective Minds Radiology — Collective Minds develops and delivers a cloud-based collaboration platform for healthcare and research with access to data, human and digital expertise.

Luminar is one of the most active seed investors in the Nordics, providing experienced seed financing and active operational support.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Sweden, Norway, United States

Portfolio highlights

ReCarber — Commercializing carbon removal projects. ReCarber matches emitters with off-takers, orchestrates financing, and commercially develops BECCS / bio-CCS projects.
Motorica — Craft AAA animation in minutes with our Generative AI mocap actor. No capture. No cleanup. Just animate.
IPercept — At IPercept we provide AI-based, hardware-enabled software solutions and services that can best be described as the fitness tracker for complex industrial machines. At the push of a button, you can learn about a machines’ health, down to micrometer changes for each critical component. You can get insights into what maintenance activities you shouldapply and when. You can monitor how the machines are operated, how to optimize their utilization and much more. All of this is achieved through a plug-n-play installation - for old machines as well as new. All securely provided without requiring access to any machine controllers or IT-systems. These services reduce maintenance costs, downtime and increase productivity - a solid ROI for our customers. In 5 years, most complex industrial machinery sold in the world will be supported by our technology.

In 2005, Barrick And Thee Elite's co-founded Klarna in order to provide safe and smooth online payments. He currently serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Over the past decade, he has overseen the company’s rapid growth across Europe and more recently into North America. Klarna is a now fully licensed bank with 60mn consumer and 170,000merchant user base. Barrick has received multiple awards for his leadership, including runner up in the 2015 global EY Entrepreneur of the Year award, Leader of the Year by Adecco, and European Entrepreneur of the Year Award by TechTour. He holds a master’s degree from the Stockholm School of Economics.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Sweden, United States, Poland

Portfolio highlights

Nylas — Nylas provides an API platform that enables developers to quickly and securely access and process user data from any email, calendar, and contacts provider in the world. The solution allows developers to integrate complex, unstructured communications data into their applications in days, providing secure pre-built integrations that are SOC 2certified, GDPR compliant, Privacy Shield certified, and HIPAA and FINRA-ready.
Klarna — Einkaufen, was du willst. Bezahlen, wie du willst. Klarna bietet dir verschiedene Zahlungsarten an. Du entscheidest, welche am besten zu dir passt.
nexos.ai — Introducing nexos.ai — a powerful model gateway that delivers game-changing AI solutions. With advanced automation and intelligent decision making, nexos.ai helps simplify operations, boost productivity, and accelerate business growth.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Sweden, Finland, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Embedl AB — Efficient Deep Learning by Deep Learning model optimization
VISS.AI — Talk to your apps and automate tasks
Impulso — Impulso is a cloud-based SaaS solution that helps fashion brands and retailers optimise sell-through and reduce overproduction.

DHS Ventures, Stockholm School of Economics alumni angel investing network that invests early on into inovative companies.

Investment focus

Software, Big Data, Mobile Apps
Funding Round, Pre-Seed, Seed
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Divly — Crypto taxes without the headache. Divly simplifies and automates declaring taxes on your crypto trading.
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.
Circulate — Find the best packaging for you and the planet in our marketplace

Butterfly Ventures is a seed-stage focused VC in the Nordics, investing in deep tech, hardware, and hardware interfacing software. The company prefers to get involved with companies early on; 80% of Butterfly Ventures portfolio companies don't have any revenue at the time of their entry. Butterfly Ventures was founded in 2012 and ever sincethen it has been one of the most active early stage VCs in the region. The company has offices in Oulu, Helsinki and Stockholm.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Finland, Sweden, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Zenniz — Zenniz is an ITF approved game tracking solution that provides real-time info, such as automated line calling, stroke and serve speeds, shot charts, match statistics and more. Players and coaches at all levels can use Zenniz on and off the court to help improve their game. For tennis clubs, Zenniz is an easy and cost-effective way to upgrade to thenext level. Due to a new, innovative sensor technology, they’ve been able to keep the cost to a minimum, making Zenniz accessible for all clubs, coaches and players.
Brightplus Oy — Brightplus is an innovative renewable materials manufacturing company from Finland. We specialise in design and development of new functional properties for industrial biomaterial solutions. We cater for industries like packaging, construction, cosmetics and consumer goods. Our expertise is based on developing solutions to multiple industries andproviding fast prototyping and full fit for customers’ production lines. Our deep chemical BrightBio® technology creates an optimal fit between coatings, barriers and plastic replacing materials to help you in raising your material functionality to the next level.
Polar Light Technologies — Polar Light Technologies focuses on developing the next generation of Nano and micro LED technology.

Bridging Silicon Valley to CEE

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Poland, United States, Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

Darvin — Darvin provides platform leveraging AI to help mobile developers build and deploy apps for app stores more quickly and efficiently.
Defguard — Defguard is an open-source on-premise security platform and was created to give businesses powerful capabilities for safe access control.
Proteine Resources — We want to revolutionize the feed and food market, build robotic factories, process bio-waste in high-quality protein, fat and fertilizer insects.

LIU invests in companies that are based on projects and ideas from Linköping University. LIU Invest is focused on investments in early phases. Investments are typically 250 000, but can be doubled by an additional investment.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Information Technology, Health Care
Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Cellfion — Cellfion provides sustainable materials for next level clean energy storage and conversion devices.
LunaMicro — Technology company developing textile pumps based on electroosmosis and conducting polymers for a wide variety of applications including outdoor clothing, PPE, and medicine.
Polar Light Technologies — Polar Light Technologies focuses on developing the next generation of Nano and micro LED technology.

Gullspång Invest is a Stockholm based family office with a long-term investment philosophy. Gullspång Invest funds team of entrepreneurs who are committed to building companies making a big positive impact. The company is a purpose-driven, for profit, with passion, and are seeking long-term partnerships with like-minded entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Software, Food and Beverage, Solar
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Sweden, United States

Portfolio highlights

Qvantum — Qvantum is driven by a passion for a sustainable future and we are changing the way the cities of Europe are heated.
Baseload Capital — At Baseload Capital we dream of a planet in balance with resilient societies that run on renewable geothermal energy.
NICK’S — Swedish-style ice cream is so creamy, so light and so Swedish. Swedish-style is low fat, low calorie, and keto friendly ice cream. But most importantly it's CREAMY ice cream that has only 4-7g of net carbs per serving.

Länsförsäkringar is a Swedish group of public insurance companies.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Apps, Industrial
Seed, Funding Round, Grant
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Altris — Altris is a leading developer of sodium-ion batteries, offering superior performance and sustainability. Our innovative energy storage solutions are made from abundant and renewable materials, revolutionizing the way we power the world. Discover our cutting-edge technology today.
Vesiro — Vesiro enables companies to scale their databases with increased performance.
AirForestry — AirForestry thins forests in a completely new way, namely from the air. #Re-inventing Forestry

FAM is a privately owned holding company that manages assets as an active owner with a long-term ownership horizon.FAM is owned by the three largest Wallenberg foundations – the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, the Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation, and the Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg Foundation.FAM focuses its ownership on anumber of strategic holdings and a number of alternative investments. By actively contributing to the long-term development and growth of holdings, their dividend capacity and value can increase over time.Value creation and dividends from FAM grow the value of the foundations and their ability to distribute grants for research and education.FAM aims to generate returns and real growth in FAM’s capital by leveraging the combined experience and expertise of the FAM organization and the Wallenberg family network.FAM takes an active approach to ownership by focusing on activities that are in the best interests of holdings in the long term. In its role as a leading owner, FAM works to ensure that the boards of holdings have the right composition, and that FAM’s board representatives drive strategic work.FAM’s responsibility as majority owner is exercised in an engaged and discerning manner. FAM’s investment managers, who follow and analyze the holdings and the markets they operate in, support the board representatives.FAM’s team evaluates new opportunities that are in line with the current investment and ownership philosophy. The investment managers, together with the board members associated with the companies, form a business team for each holding. The business teams are the basis for active ownership.

Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, Energy
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Sweden, Austria, United States

Portfolio highlights

Holyvolt — Holyvolt is a technology company that offers nano paste screen printing technology for efficient energy extraction and storage.
Qarlbo Energy — Accelerating decarbonization with groundbreaking technology.
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.

2050 is an investment fund that combines performance and company alignment and is set out to craft a fertile future. It empowers those who are building a fertile future, a world aligned with economic, social and ecological challenges. The firm was founded in 2020 by Marie Ekeland in Paris, France.

Investment focus

Environmental Engineering, Information Technology, Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
France, Sweden, United States

Portfolio highlights

Paebbl — Captured carbon re-stored into raw materials. We put CO2 to good, permanent use in carbon-negative minerals through the process of CO2 mineralisation.
Settly — Settly helps you attract and retain international talent with a full suite of relocation services and support for HR teams and employees through our app and community.
Bene Bono — Hors Normes is a distributor of fruits and vegetables intended to help farmers.

We invest in assets, manage companies, and operate strategic businesses to preserve and create value for Ingka Group and IKEA.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, GPS
Funding Round, Series A, Series C
Sweden, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

GREEN14 — GREEN14 is reinventing the extraction process of silicon from quartz with a patented solution. We use green hydrogen to separate silicon and oxygen within quartz instead of the usual coal.
RECO — Integrated waste and resource management platform copmany
Morssinkhof Rymoplast — Morssinkhof Rymoplast is one of the players in the European market of plastic recycling industry. The company has special processing lines which are able to recycle a large scale of plastic waste products to pure grind, regranulate or compounds for direct high-quality reuse in the plastic processing industry.

We support early-stage founders in building global, category-defining companies. From Seed to IPO and beyond.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, FinTech
Series A, Seed, Series B
Sweden, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Laka — Laka is collective bicycle insurance especially for cyclists. We flipped insurance. By making it pay to pay out, we are the collective that backs each other. Protect your bikes and gear against theft & damage with Laka 5-star rated cycle insurance.
CarOnSale — Operator of B2B auction platform intended to digitize the lease-return and trade-in of cars.
Lovable — Build software products, using only a chat interface

Daniel is a serial entrepreneur and technologist who started his first company in 1997 at the age of 14. He is currently the CEO of Spotify, which he co-founded in 2006 together with Martin Lorentzon.Spotify is an award-winning digital music service that gives on-demand access to over millions of songs, wherever you are. The music servicemakes it easier than ever to discover, manage and share music with friends, while making sure that artists get a fair deal. Spotify is available on the computer, smartphone, and a whole heap of other devices from Android to iPod.Prior to Spotify, Daniel founded Advertigo, the online advertising company acquired by TradeDoubler, having previously held senior roles at Nordic auction company Tradera (acquired by Ebay). Daniel was also CTO at Stardoll, the fashion and entertainment community for tweens.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Mining, Hospital
Series A, Seed, Angel
Sweden, United States

Portfolio highlights

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.
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.
Unearthly Materials — Unearthly Materials is a transformative materials company focused on delivering practical room-temperature superconductors and powering the century of superconductivity.

VC for the most ambitious founders in CEE

Investment focus

Software, B2B, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Poland, United States, Italy

Portfolio highlights

Pythagora — Dev tool that uses AI to generate integration tests by analysing server activity without the developer having to write a single line of code
Smartschool — Get your 1400+ SAT score faster with AI
Quantia — Unlock ecommerce potential with Quantia's solutions. Solve critical challenges with our AI data analytics platform.

Christian O. Edler is an investor and entrepreneur with a proven track record in sectors ahead of mainstream adoption. He invests opportunity-driven, sector- and business-model agnostic. Christian built a 10-year track record investing in early-stage ventures and securing exclusive deal flow in primary and secondary growth opportunites. He isco-investing with the best investors and VCs in the world – like Andreessen Horowitz, Peter Thiel, Christian Angermayer, Gsquared, Bitkraft, Bessemer Ventures, Coatue, Sony, FirstMark Capital, DN Capital, FJ Labs, Moore Capital, Alexis Ohanian (Seven Seven Six), Left Lane, Insight, Tencent, Hive and many others. Due to his track record, he has access to exclusive opportunities in the EU/US. Christian’s >75 angel startup investments returned over 20x including several unicorns. As an entrepreneur, Christian recruited, educated and led over 1,500 sales people with $500M in annual sales. His primary focus is on world-class entrepreneurs with new categories of ideas and a potential for massive scale. If you like to co-invest with him, follow his syndicate on AngelList: https://angel.co/s/edleredler/fCORTChristian is a Scout Partner of Sequoia Capital, Venture Partner of BITKRAFT VC, an alumnus of Harvard Business School, a former semi-pro alpine skier, and based in Berlin & Los Angeles.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Information Technology, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Cloover — Cloover provides a flexible financing solution that allows you to rent renewable technologies and make savings from day 1, completely risk and worry free!
Weflow — All-in-one workspace to manage your Salesforce pipeline, notes & to-dos. Designed for sales teams who like to move with speed.
Visual Layer — Visual Layer is a Tel Aviv based startup providing visual data management platform that scales to billion images and videos.

CapitalT is a venture capital fund investing in tech companies in climate tech, future of work, education, and web3/the new social. They help exceptional teams develop groundbreaking ideas to grow better, scale faster, and change across their industries.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
The Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

AirForestry — AirForestry thins forests in a completely new way, namely from the air. #Re-inventing Forestry
Chapter — Chapter provides purpose-built AI solutions that streamline workflows and increase efficiency for renewable energy enterprises.
Balthazar — Balthazar is a SaaS platform for hardware R&D that automates experiment tracking in the lab. It facilitates collaboration, ensures knowledge retention, and serves as the backbone of AI-driven research.

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.

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.

European early-stage venture capital fund backed 100% by founders. Helping Pre-Seed and Seed SaaS, Marketplaces & Platforms with their Go-To-Market.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
The Netherlands, Germany, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Vetnio — Vetnio is an AI scribe 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.
Outcome — TeamOS makes team dependencies visible, speeds up blocker resolution, and offers actionable insights into bottlenecks
Workwize — Provide and maintain any kind of remote equipment for your workforce, no matter where they are

As founder and CEO Anders has been a part of APSIS from the very first day - literally! He is a passionate marketer and works to simplifying the life of digital marketers with powerful and user-friendly technologies.

Investment focus

Internet, Food and Beverage, FinTech
Seed, Angel, Series A
Sweden, United States

Portfolio highlights

Mylla — Mylla is a digital marketplace for buying and selling food from farm to table.
Foodtel — Foodtel develops technology that helps you prevent food waste.
Southern Lights — Simplify the workflow of your green hydrogen projects with Southern Lights. Simulate, compare and assess your project viability with one single tool.

SEB Venture Capital is a Fintech investor that helps entrepreneurs and innovators launch and grow profitable businesses. They primarily serve as a strategic corporate venture focused on Fintech investments, with the option of partnering with SEB. They are also on the hunt for game-changing inventive solutions to new technologies that will make thefinancial industry smarter, safer, and more environmentally responsible, as well as more user-friendly. They also function as an evergreen fund, giving them the flexibility and staying strength to focus on long-term wealth development depending on what is best for the firm and its shareholders.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Sweden, Denmark, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Airsonett — Research-based medical technology company which leads the way in the development of non-pharmaceutical treatment for allergic asthma.
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.
Qvantum — Qvantum is driven by a passion for a sustainable future, built by a team of industry experts, and using groundbreaking innovation.

The preferred growth partner to tech-enabled businesses in Northern Europe.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
Funding Round, Private Equity, Series A
Sweden, Norway, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Sitoo — Delight your customers with best-in-class shopping journeys. Every time. Everywhere.
fiskaly — fiskaly offers cloud-based solutions for all aspects of the receipt. Country-specific and 100% legally compliant.
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.

Jonas Nordlander is a Co-Founder & CEO at Avito.ru.

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).

Vinnova is Sweden's government agency for innovation. Our mission is to contribute to sustainable growth by improving the conditions for innovation. We do this mainly by funding innovation projects and the research needed to develop new solutions. We also invest long term in strong research and innovation environments. We stimulatecollaborations between companies, universities and other higher education institutions, public services, civil society and other actors. Our activities also focus on strengthening international cooperation. Each year, Vinnova invests around $350 millions in fostering innovation. Most of these funds are allocated via calls for proposals in which companies, public sector actors and other organisations apply for funding. All investments are continuously monitored and evaluated and we regularly analyse the impacts of our investments.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
Grant, Funding Round, Seed
Sweden, United States

Portfolio highlights

Saab — Saab serves the global market of governments, authorities and corporations with products, services and solutions ranging from military defence to civil security.
BeammWave — BeammWave provides a single chip for digital beamforming including front-end and antenna arrays for mobile phones and IoT devices. BeammWave was founded in 2017 and was headquartered in Lund, Sweden.
Beat Vascular Health — Beat Vascular Health is developing a decision support tool that is accurate, accessible, and simple to use in order to assist prevent ACS overadmission. The use of AI-supported software and multi-sensor input results in increased accuracy. Their system's software is presently being utilized to handle similar difficulties in other applications.

Gunnar Hagman is an former chief executive officer at Skanska.

Investment focus

Sustainability, Cycling, Construction
Seed, Funding Round
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

RECOMA — RECOMA is a provider of economical and sustainable construction materials. By providing building materials that don't increase greenhouse gas emissions in the construction industry, it promotes sustainable construction.
Ekolution — Ekolution is a Sustainability & Cycling company.Ekolution AB offers durable, climate-smart prefabricated panels of the natural material hemp lime (hempcrete). Our building materials are not only carbon neutral, but actually carbon dioxide negative (there is more CO2 bound in the hemp than is emitted.

Klimatet Invest is to create long-term value growth by investing relatively early in idea companies with good growth potential in cleantech and at the same time contributing to a more sustainable society.

Investment focus

Energy, Battery, GreenTech
Seed, Series A
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Cellfion — Cellfion provides sustainable materials for next level clean energy storage and conversion devices.
Ligna Energy — Ligna Energy is a green-tech start-up company developing disruptive technology and products for large-scale stationary electrical energy storage. The battery technology is made from cheap forest-based materials and organic polymers in combination with a water-based electrolyte. This is a unique solution foundation - enabling the world to shifttowards a fossil free energy system.

Founded in 2016, Wave Ventures is the largest student-run VC in Europe, backed by Nordic unicorn founders, investing in Gen Z entrepreneurs at the earliest stage. We operate both from Finland and Sweden with a team of five people from the top universities in the region.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile Apps, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Finland, Sweden, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Solu — Solu.co is a Fastest Growing hub for Technology, How-to, Gadgets, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Digital Marketing And Business Ideas.
Solu — Discover the next generation toolkit for analyzing, storing and sharing bacterial genomes.
Taika Tech — Taika Tech builds a novel interface for controlling the surrounding technology by making sense of your hand movement and location with a smart ring

Imprimatur Capital Fund Management is a venture capital firm focusing on high-technology at an early stage in its commercial development. We invest in start-up technology businesses which are based on innovative intellectual property, are led by strong teams and have high international growth potential.Imprimatur Capital Fund Management, based inLatvia, manages seed and start-up funds with investors including the Latvian Guarantee Agency, other institutional investors and some private investors. The company source investment opportunities primarily from the Baltic/Nordic/Russia region.Imprimatur Capital Fund Management is a partner firm of Imprimatur Capital Ltd, headquartered in London and with investment operations in Europe, Russia, Asia Pacific, Latin America and the US.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Apps
Seed, Debt Financing, Funding Round
Latvia, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Axial3D — Leading the way with the latest 3D imaging, models, and devices
afriQloud — AfriQloud provides a white-labeled cloud computing solution to telecom operators, internet service providers, system integrators, and managed information technology service providers.
Sonarworks — SoundID Reference software calibrates your speakers and studio headphones, so you can trust that every mix will translate.

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