Top 50 Fashion Startup Investors in Sweden in November 2024

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.

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.

Wellstreet is an innovation and tech ecosystem that includes an investment company, a strategic consultancy firm and a venture building incubator.

Fredrik Mansson - Investor @ Propel Capital

H&M CO:LAB is the venture capital arm of the H&M Group.

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.

Luminar Ventures is a venture capital fund that prefers to make early-stage investments in technology companies. They engage with their portfolio companies and are actively helping with strategic, growth, team and organizational, and operational support, and together setting the foundation for future expansion.Luminar's core investment focusis on scalable digital seed-stage companies from the Nordics, founded by highly motivated and talented entrepreneurs with a vision to disrupt or transform major industries. The firm aims to provide experienced seed-stage financing and active operational support to Sweden based early-stage technology companies that are looking to disrupt or transform major industries with digital technologies and innovations.

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

Bo Mattsson is a director of Previously, Mattsson founded Cint and served the same company as its chief executive office, chairman, and general and sales manager. Hewas also the head of Swedbank Securities.Mattsson holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and an MBA, both from the Stockholm School of Economics.

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Joachim Hedenius is the VPE and Co-Founder of KRY.

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.

A partner of choice for high growth Tech companies.

Since 1999, GP Bullhound has invested in and advised brilliant leaders. Powered by more than 180 employees across 13 offices worldwide.

Equity investment company doing Series A to late growth, private and public. Agile and long-term with no fixed holding period.

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

Filip Engelbert is a Co-Founder at Avito.ru.

Christian Von Koenigsegg is the founder and CEO of Koenigsegg Automotive AB.

Watertower Ventures is an early-stage venture fund based in Los Angeles with deep operational and investing expertise.

Vaultier7 provides growth capital to visionary entrepreneurs who are building bold brands at the forefront of the consumption revolution, inspired by values, authenticity and community

Lena Apler is the Founder and CEO of Collector Bank.

Shervin Razani is the Founder and CEO at Life Event Sweden AB. He attended Stockholm University.

J12 Ventures invests early in innovative companies in the Nordics.

Par Svardson is the current CEO of Apotea AB.

The Venture Capital fund making the worlds biggest and fastest changing asset class accessible, while contributing to a greener and more sustainable world by funding the planet changing minds of tomorrow. Proptech Farm - We accelerate Proptech start-ups!

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

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Daniel Pilotti is the Founder of Your Special Delivery Service and Ryska Posten.

Zenith is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 as a family office, closed to external investors, investing in challengers with scalable business models in fast growing industries. Zenith offers a unique eco-system of experience and competence to its portfolio companies. Since Zenith's partners always take an active role alongside theentrepreneurs, the Zenith team contributes with insight, creativity, and passion, and work together to grow the businesses.Zenith is a young company yet its ambition is high. Operating in the interesting and fast-growing Scandinavian market, Zenith believes that a sharp eye, an opportunistic approach, and fast action are crucial in finding exciting investments and attracting the right entrepreneurs in order to grow faster and more profitable together with them.Zenith provides the unique opportunity to invest in a number of exciting companies with strong growth that is otherwise impossible for private investors to access. With an extensive network that generates leads, Zenith is in an ideal position to establish new relationships and further strengthen the flow of new investment proposals. By leveraging Zenith's network model on a case-by-case basis together with the best possible team, it can better evaluate new investment opportunities and support and add value to its existing portfolio companies.

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Tom Chapman OBE is an investor in early-stage companies and co-founder of MATCHESFASHION.COM. Tom has an investment portfolio that spans multiple industries including technology, logistics, beauty, fashion, health, and medical cannabis. He invests in committed founders and experienced management teams to grow disruptive mission-driven businessesthat leverage technology to deliver a better service to consumers and transform the way the world works. Tom's recent investments include disruptive beauty brand HEYDAY, a one-stop shop for personalised skincare treatments; size-inclusive womenswear brand Universal Standard; Caliva, California's largest fully licensed integrated cannabis dispensary, retailer and distributor; by Humankind, a personal care brand seeking to eliminate single-use plastic; Convoy, which connects truckers with shippers to fill unused trucking capacity, reducing the environmental impact of freight; feminine health brand, OHNE; baby food business, Cerebelly; medical cannabis startup, Plena; and the world’s first stock exchange dedicated to the IPO and trading of commercial real estate assets, IPSX. Tom's work as an investor builds on his experience founding MATCHESFASHION.COM, operating at the forefront of the changing face of retail for more than 30 years. With his wife Ruth, they grew the company from a single bricks-and-mortar store to a global luxury fashion brand with a reputation for supporting and nurturing new and emerging talent, and are credited with introducing designers such as Versace, Prada and Bottega Veneta to the UK. Under Tom's leadership, MATCHESFASHION.COM invested heavily in technology across all areas of the business, enabling the company to better understand the lives of its customers and provide them with a fast, convenient and highly personalised service. MATCHESFASHION.COM was one of the first luxury brands to go online in 2005; one of the first businesses to launch 90-minute delivery in 2016; and one of the first retailers to build a platform to provide a single truly unified view of customer's shopping across both online and physical channels.It was, however, his understanding of how digital could radically transform how companies engaged with their customers and his appetite for challenging traditional practices that led to him being inducted into the Business of Fashion’s Hall of Fame in 2018 and being described as a “retail innovator”. Tom recognised that MATCHESFASHION.COM could use digital not only to reach a global audience quickly but to build highly personal, intimate customer relationships, engaging shoppers with rich, resonant content and storytelling. Paired with his challenger mentality, this insight saw Tom transform the company from a 14-store physical retailer into a leading global luxury e-commerce giant. From the launch of their website in 2007, MATCHESFASHION.COM grew at a rate of up to 100 per cent per year, raising £20 million in 2012 for a minority stake in the business.In 2013, Tom's commitment to digital saw him rebrand all Matches' physical stores as MATCHESFASHION.COM. These decisions collectively enabled the business to accelerate from a valuation of £76m in 2012 to an acquisition price in excess of $1 billion just five years later. In 2017-18, the business had 95 per cent of sales online and 85 per cent internationally. MATCHESFASHION.COM is also credited with pioneering blended retail, seamlessly bringing together physical and digital commerce to connect with customers over multiple touchpoints – whether that be through the company's events, magazine or private shopping experiences. Before the sale of the business, Tom conceived of 5 Carlos Place, a five-storey townhouse combining luxury private shopping in a home environment with a purpose-built broadcasting hub and events space focused on creating engaging content for MATCHESFASHION.COM's 100 million annual online visitors. Carlos Place was an extension of the private-shopping concept behind No.23, which reinvented retail service along the lines of private-client banking, delivering a highly personalised, intimate, bespoke shopping experience. Throughout the growth of MATCHESFASHION.COM, Tom has focused on keeping customers and their lifestyles at the centre of all company decisions, recognising that top-class service is the foundation of all consumer-facing businesses and that technology investment should always enable a business to connect better with the consumer and support them. Like MATCHESFASHION.COM, many of Tom's investments both challenge the status quo and have strong brands that build deep, personal relationships with customers by connecting with them across both physical and digital touchpoints, and place special importance on social responsibility, inclusiveness and environmental impact. Having been described as "trailblazers" by The New York Times and "pioneers" by VOGUE, Tom and Ruth Chapman were awarded Draper's Lifetime Achievement Award for their contributions to fashion retail in 2017. In the same year MATCHESFASHION.COM won British Luxury Brand of the Year at the prestigious Walpole British Luxury Awards. Tom Chapman, along with his wife Ruth Chapman, were awarded OBEs in the 2020 New Year Honours list for services to the international fashion retail industry. An advocate of arts, sustainability and cultural causes, Tom is a member of the Innovation Circle at the Serpentine Gallery.

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.

Jonas Tellander is the Co-Founder and CEO at Storytel.

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.

Johan Siwers is a seasoned online media executive with a passion for entrepreneurial game changing companies.Johan has over the past 15 years been involved in breaking ground for a wide range of media and online ventures within companies like Kinnevik, Spray, Schibsted and InterActive Corp (IAC).Most recently Johan has launched, grown andexited the Northern European operations of Match.com, where he despite entering the market when it was already a crowded space, led the company to dominate the online dating category in the region.

Gustav Söderström is an investor and advisor at Before joining Spotify, Söderström was the director of product and business development at the chief executive officer of In 2006, Söderström was named Swedish IT entrepreneur of the year by Internet Magazine. In the following year, he was voted one of Sweden’s 50 most influential people under 40 by Shortcut, a career networking site.Söderström holds a master’s degree in electro engineering from

Heartcore Capital invests in companies re-enchanting the world through technology.

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

Sophia Bendz - Partner @ Cherry Ventures

GroundBreak Ventures™ is a property technology venture capital fund based out of Toronto and is focused on reimagining how and where people live and work. We invest in companies as early as ideation and provide both the capital and the domain expertise necessary to support the growth of our entrepreneurs, as well as the businesses they worktirelessly to build. Our goal is to invest in 5 – 10 emerging companies annually from around the world, with an emphasis on North America.

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.

The Nordic Web Ventures is an Angel Fund run by Neil S W Murray, backed by 50+ community builders, entrepreneurs and investors passionate about supporting early-stage Nordic startups.

SF Ventures is a venture capital firm.

eEquity invests in online related business models, primarily in the Nordics with the ambition to build large market leaders. The ambition for each investment is to build market-leading businesses in close partnerships with entrepreneurs.Since They have a comprehensive portfolio of companies within the same business fields the entrepreneurs willsignificantly benefit from being plugged into Their network and from exchanging experience and expertise between the portfolio companies.They look for passionate entrepreneurs with a scalable and differentiated business model that adresses a substantial market. They are opportunistic in their investment process.

Magnus Emilson - Founder & Executive Chairman @ Visit Group

FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.

Ludvig has a background as a co-founder of the company The Astonishing Tribe, TAT, and is an active angel investor. He is passionate about helping strong teams that want to combine design and technology to create innovative companies that really make a difference.TAT became during the beginning of the 2000s, the world leader in user interfacesfor mobile phones and delivered design and software for brands like Samsung, Nokia, Sony Ericsson, and Google. In late 2010, TAT was sold to Canadian Research in Motion, RIM, which makes BlackBerry handsets.

Jacob de Geer is a Swedish serial entrepreneur and co-founder and CEO of iZettle, the fast-growing mobile payments company that lets anyone take card payments and manage and grow their business. Before starting iZettle, Jacob was the first employee at performance marketing firm TradeDoubler. Here he helped to build one of the largest advertisingnetworks in Europe before leaving to co-found movie sharing firm, Ameibo, and Tre Kronor Media, an award-winning communications agency. Both companies were acquired in 2010. Now, Jacob is fully focused on democratising payments around the world through his latest venture, iZettle.

Emilia de Poret is a Swedish singer.

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.