# Top 50 Financial Services Angel Investors in Sweden in June 2026

## Hjalmar Winbladh
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Machine Learning, Apps

Board Member at MAJORITY.

## Sebastian Knutsson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, Gaming, FinTech

Sebastian Knutsson is one of our founders and has served on our Board of Directors since October 2003, as our chief creative officer since June 2004 and as our executive product developer from February 2003 to June 2004. Sebastian has more than 18 years of experience in the Internet industry. As chief creative officer, he leads the productstrategy, games development and service offerings for King. Sebastian has designed more than 100 games for King.

## Timo Soininen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Gaming, FinTech

Timo Soininen is the co-founder at Small Giant Games.
Timo Soininen is the CEO and co-founder of Small Giant Games, maker of the hit game Empires & Puzzles.
Small Giant joined Zynga, Inc (ZNGA) in December 2018, when Zynga acquired 80% of Small Giant at $700M valuation.
Prior to Small Giant he was the longtime CEO of Habbo Hotel and is also anactive angel investor in several technology startups ranging from biomaterials and digital health to games (Spinnova, Aiforia, Critical Force).
Timo holds a M.Sc. degree in Marketing from Helsinki School of Economics/Aalto University and just loves tennis.

## Peter Dahlgren
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, Finance

Peter Dahlgren - Founding Partner @ Confidus Venture Capital

## Annika Falkengren
- Type: Angel
- Location: Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Analytics, Funding Platform

Annika Falkengren

## Daniel Pilotti
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Apps, Retail, Payments

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

## Jacob De Geer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, IaaS, SaaS

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.

## Lena Apler
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gothenburg, Vastra Gotaland, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Fashion, E-Commerce, Apps

Lena Apler is the Founder and CEO of Collector Bank.

## Josefin Landgård
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Mobile, Medical

Josefin Landgård is the Founder and CEO of Mantle. Previously she served as the Co-Founder and COO at KRY back in March 2014 to September 2018.

## Roland Nilsson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Finance, Internet

Roland Nilsson - Founding Partner @ Confidus Venture Capital

## Mathias Hermansson
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Payments, E-Commerce, Mobile Payments

Mathias Hermansson

## Alexander Hars
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gothenburg, Vastra Gotaland, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS

Alexander Hars - Board member @ Zalster

## Erlend Reitan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Secondary Market
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Finance

Seasoned venture capital investor helping founders and their teams hands-on to accelerate the entrepreneurial journey. Actively looking for investments with unicorn potential.M&A specialist with experience from complex cross-border transactions. Experience from more than 20 M&A transactions including more than 10 cross-border deals, exitswith mainly publicly listed and Private Equity counterparts.

## Fabian Hielte
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Retail, FinTech, Software

Fabian Hielte

## Simon Josefsson
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Sports, Consumer Goods

Simon Josefsson

## Niklas Eklund
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Apps, Internet

Over the past 25 years, Niklas has an entrepreneur built and internationalized a range of companies in the area of reservation systems, revenue management, online marketing, and web publishing; amongst others he was the CEO and co-founder Bookatable, Livebookings, Infogate, and Epani.Over the past 8 years, Niklas has a direct investor and advisorto investment companies and venture capital companies; amongst others he was a co-founder and general partner at D-Ax (Axel Johnson Group CVC), a venture partner for Wellington Partners Venture Capital. Niklas is currently a general partner for PES Holdings. Investment focus is the Digital Media Sector and Digital Growth Companies, primarily in the Nordic countries and across Europe. Niklas describes himself as a ‘computer software geek and wizard turned businessman’ as he started his career at the age of 15. 
His achievements in building internationally successful companies have been recognized by various industry awards.

## Patrick Söderlund
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services

Patrick Söderlund

## Stefan Lindeberg
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Software, PC Games

Stefan Lindeberg was the Venture Partner and Co-founder of Nordic Game Ventures. He attended Linköping University.

## Fredrik Palm
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Payments, E-Commerce, Mobile Payments

Fredrik Palm

## Michael Batnick
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, Financial Services

Michael Batnick is the Director of Research at Ritholtz Wealth Management, the author of The Irrelevant Investor Blog. His new book, Big Mistakes: The Best Investors and Their Worst Investments, is coming out in June 2018. Michael is co-hosts the podcast Animal Spirits with Ben Carlson.

## Mattias Miksche
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence

Mattias Miksche - Angel Investor & Chairman @ Hem

## Chris Adelsbach
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures

## Alfred Ruth
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Digital Media, Machine Learning

Private investor with background as co-founder/CTO of Videoplaza. Author of speculative fiction thriller trilogy Fermi's Filter.

## Peter Sterky
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Apps, SaaS, Music

Peter Sterky is a CEO of Trift Capital.

## Ilkka Paananen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech

Ilkka Paananen, is the CEO and co-founder of Supercell, the Helsinki-based mobile games developer behind Clash of Clans, Hay Day, Boom Beach, Clash Royale and Brawl Stars. Since its founding in 2010, Supercell's five games have amassed 100m daily players and remain in the global top 10 years after launch. In June 2016, Supercell became thefirst European technology start-up to reach a valuation of $10 billion.In addition to his role at Supercell, Ilkka helps other entrepreneurs as both an investor and as an active member of the Nordic startup community where he mentors and coaches other founders. Alongside his co-founder Mikko Kodisoja, he has established the We Foundation to fight social inequality and help disadvantaged children in Finland.Prior to founding Supercell, he was the CEO & co-founder of Finnish games developer Sumea, which was later acquired by Digital Chocolate, where he worked as President until 2010. Ilkka holds a Master of Science degree from the Helsinki University of Technology.

## Karl-Johan Persson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Grant, Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Internet, Software

Karl-Johan Persson, born in 1975, has been the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB since 1 July 2009.Before taking over as Managing Director Karl-Johan Persson held an operational role within H&M from 2005, including working as head of expansion, business development, brand and new business.Since 2000 Karl-Johan Persson has been a member of the boards of H&M’s subsidiaries in Denmark, Germany, the US and the UK. Between the years 2006 and 2009 he was also a member of the Board of H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB.Between 2001 and 2004 Karl-Johan Persson was CEO of European Network. Karl-Johan holds a BA in Business Administration from the European Business School in London.His current external board assignments are the Swedish Chamber of Commerce in the UK and the GoodCause foundation. Karl-Johan Persson is since 2013 a member of the Board of H&M Conscious Foundation. Karl-Johan Persson is a shareholder in Ramsbury Invest AB, and also personally holds 12,136,289 class B shares in H&M.The Managing Director is appointed by the Board of Directors and is responsible for the daily management of the company as directed by the Board.This means that the Managing Director must focus in particular on recruitment of senior executives, buying and logistics matters, pricing strategy, sales and profitability, marketing, expansion, development of the store network and of online and catalogue sales, and IT development.The Managing Director reports to the Board on H&M’s development and produces decision bases for investments, expansion, etc. The role of Managing Director includes contact with the financial market, the media and the authorities.

## Thord Wilkne
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Consulting, Financial Services, Apps

Thord Wilkne is Member of the Board of Directors at Addnode Group

## Johan Andersson
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: CRM, Advertising, Advertising Platforms

Johan Andersson

## Magnus Rausing
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech

Magnus Rausing

## Josh Brown
- Type: Angel
- Location: Cleveland, Ohio, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, Financial Services

Josh Brown is the Chief Financial Officer and a Partner at Ten Capital Management with responsibility for the company’s financial oversight, day-to-day operations and strategic investment planning. Josh has more than 9 years of real estate experience, primarily in investment and development. He was a Summer Associate at Terranum, aColombia-based, fully integrated real estate company focused on investments in, and developments of, hotels, commercial spaces and mixed-used projects in Central and South America. Prior to Terranum, Josh was a Project Development Associate at Lionstone Development LLC, where he conducted financial analysis of proposed investments and developments, as well as coordinated the development of mixed-use hospitality projects. He earned his BA in history from Cornell University and his MBA from the Johnson School at Cornell University.

## Staffan Persson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Apps, Banking

Staffan Persson - CEO @ Swedia Capital

## Christer Holloman
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Retail

Founder of Divido, the world’s largest white-label saas platform for Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL). Prior to starting Divido, he launched Glassdoor.com in EMEA which subsequently got acquired for $1.2bn USD. Hold an MBA from the University of Oxford and is an active early-stage advisor, investor and NED.

## Sven Hagströmer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: EdTech, Internet, Education

Sven Hagstromer is the founder of Creades AB.

## Sophia Bendz
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Artificial Intelligence

Sophia Bendz - Partner @ Cherry Ventures

## Joen Bonnier
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Education, Artificial Intelligence, B2B

Joen is a Partner at Atomico and leads our engagement with corporations, traditional industries and international family-owned businesses to help them better understand the changing nature of the technology landscape.Joen is the bridge between highly successful traditional businesses and the transformative tech companies who are enablingdigitisation across all sectors. The potential for highly valuable collaborations that will catalyse massive growth opportunities is really exciting, especially in Europe. The future of technology is to be deeply embedded across the economy where it can drive efficiencies. Joen’s role at Atomico is to foster this engagement by creating strategic co-investment opportunities and collaborative relationships. As an active player in the startup scene in the Nordics, Joen also helps with sourcing and the evaluation of new investment opportunities.Fostered in a family-owned enterprise environment with deep understanding of the dynamics of family controlled businesses, Joen has 15+ years experience in the media and Internet sectors in both Europe and Asia. Joen has held senior positions with Bertelsmann and the Bonnier Group in New York, Scandinavia and China. Joen holds a Masters degree in Science (M.Sc) from the Stockholm School of Economics and is based in London.Joen lived in China for eight years and while his Mandarin is OK, his acting was apparently better – making his silver screen debut in a Chinese arthouse movie ‘Short Capitalism’ which premiered at the 2015 Art Basel fair in Hong Kong.

## Barry Ritholtz
- Type: Angel
- Location: Auburn, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, Financial Services

Barry Ritholtz is the founder and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management, a financial planning and asset management firm, with over $175 million in assets. He writes a daily column for Bloomberg View and a twice-monthly column on Personal Finance and Investing for The popular “Apprenticed Investor” columns at He is a frequent commentator on economics and financial markets, and has appeared as a regular guest in most major media outlets. In 2009, Barry Ritholtz wrote the book Bailout Nation, which was published by Wiley. Bailout Nation was named as the “Investment Book of the Year” by Stock Trader’s Almanac, and received a First Amendment Award for Outstanding Journalism: Best Book.In the summer of 2014, Barry Ritholtz began hosting a new series on Bloomberg Radio, called Masters in Business, an hour long deep dive in to the lives of people who drive markets and ventures. He also authors “Barry Ritholtz is on the Board of Advisors of Barry Ritholtz performed his graduate studies at Barry Ritholtz and his wife Wendy, an artist and teacher, currently reside in Long Island, New York with monsters Max and Jackson.

## Fredrik Österberg
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services

Fredrik Österberg

## Nicklas Storåkers
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Insurance, FinTech

Nicklas Storåkers

## Claes-Henrik Julander
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Blockchain, Trading Platform

Claes-Henrik Julander is a founder of Pan Capital.

## Patrik Backman
- Type: Angel
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Analytics, Enterprise Software

Patrik Backman represents a strong combination of technical, community and business leadership. In Technology, Patrik has led a large part of MySQL AB's global engineering team to produce superior software products and has managed the company’s strategic technical alliance with SAP AG. At MySQL AB he also helped build new and expand existinguser communities, and developed innovative community-based business models to drive new revenue to the company. In Business, Patrik has worked in Management Consulting and within the MySQL Management Team to solve complex business challenges to drive strong growth in international operations.Patrik holds a Masters of Science in Engineering from Helsinki University of Technology and a Master of Science in Finance from Hanken School of Economics.

## Thijn Lamers
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology

Thijn Lamers is the former EVP Global Sales at Adyen Global Payment Services.

## Mikko Salovaara
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Payments, Financial Services

Mikko Salovaara

## Omid Ashtari
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Analytics

Omid Ashtari has held operational roles at Google (business development, strategic partnerships), Foursquare (MD Europe), Citymapper (President), and Streetbees (COO). Currently he is an angel investor and advisor to early stag startups. He serves as the business advisor to the Mayor of London. He blogs on www.startuppragmatism.blog andwww.thefullspectrum.blog

## Charlotte Strömberg
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Rental, Finance, Insurance

Charlotte Strömberg is a former chairman of Castellum.

## Knut Frängsmyr
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Banking, Retail

Knut Frängsmyr is the chief operating officer and deputy chief executive officer of Frängsmyr holds master’s degrees in law from Frängsmyr is based in Stockholm, Sweden.

## Fredrik Hjelm
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Pet

Fredrik Hjelm co-founded Voi Technology in 2018 with a vision of improving the way people move around congested urban centres by offering fleets of electric scooters as a cleaner, affordable and exhilarating alternative to cars. Prior to Voi, Fredrik founded Guestit, the Nordics’ most successful Airbnb management company, and worked in businessdevelopment for Avito.ru, Russia’s leading - and the world’s third largest – classified advertising site. Fredrik’s entrepreneurial career began at 12 years of age when he ran a number of commercial projects including forestry work (he grew up in rural Sweden), events and website sales.After graduating from high school, he attended the Armed Forces Interpreter Academy, within the intelligence branch of Sweden’s special forces, where he studied Russian and linguistics. He served a total of four years in Moscow in the Defence Attache Office, where he worked as an interpreter and analyst, covering Russia as well as Kazakhstan and Belarus. He went on to study business and economics at the Stockholm School of Economics.

## Dan Sten Olsson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gothenburg, Vastra Gotaland, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Apps, Payments, Insurance

1969, MBA, Gothenburg University. Formerly with Svenska Handelsbanken and Eriksberg Shipyard, Gothenburg. Since 1972, with Stena Group: 1980, Deputy Managing Director; 1983, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer; Director, Stena and affiliates and Stena International and affiliates. Chairman: Stena Line; Stena Metall; Concordia Maritime;Swedish Shipowners' Association. Co-Founder, World Childhood Foundation. Member of the International Advisory Board, Alliance for Global Sustainability. Recipient of awards and honours, including: King's medal for contributions to the development of Swedish society in terms of business, sustainable values and charity (2005); Commander of the British Empire in recognition of Stena's long-standing commitment to investment in the UK; Honorary Doctorate, Chalmers Technical University, Gothenburg.

## Jason Francis
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: B2B, FinTech, Payments

Jason Francis - Co-founder & Vice CEO @ Qred

## Bjorn Bergstrom
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Series C
- Focus: Mobile, Pet, Music

Bjorn Bergstrom has 10+ years of experience from executive positions within startups, venture capital and consulting. He currently serves CEO & Co-founder of Neso Brands and was previouslyChief Growth Officer and CPTO at DTC fashion scale-up NA-KD. Bergstrom holds a Master of Science in Business & Management and a Bachelor of Science inBusiness & Economics, both from the Stockholm School of Economics (Handelshögskolan i Stockholm).

## Willard Ahdritz
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Music, Events, Rental

Willard Ahdritz is the current CIO, Founder, and Chairman of Kobalt Capital Limited. He previously worked at L.E.K. Consulting as a Senior Manager. Willard Ahdritz attended Stockholm School of Economics.

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