Top 50 FinTech Angel Investors in Sweden in November 2024
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Fintech startups based in Sweden. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Fintech companies from Sweden. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 FinTech Angel Investors in Sweden in November 2024
Investor | FinTech Sweden investments |
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Sebastian Knutsson | 3 |
Fredrik Österberg | 3 |
Josefin Landgård | 3 |
Timo Soininen | 3 |
Karl-Johan Persson | 3 |
Niklas Eklund | 3 |
Lena Apler | 3 |
Roland Nilsson | 3 |
Alexander Hars | 3 |
Hjalmar Winbladh | 3 |
Peter Dahlgren | 3 |
Daniel Pilotti | 3 |
Jacob De Geer | 3 |
Annika Falkengren | 3 |
Thord Wilkne | 3 |
Fredrik Palm | 2 |
Simon Josefsson | 2 |
Magnus Rausing | 2 |
Sophia Bendz | 2 |
Michael Batnick | 2 |
Mattias Miksche | 2 |
Stefan Lindeberg | 2 |
Christer Holloman | 2 |
Bo Mattsson | 2 |
Johan Andersson | 2 |
Erlend Reitan | 2 |
Peter Sterky | 2 |
Staffan Persson | 2 |
Fabian Hielte | 2 |
Ilkka Paananen | 2 |
Joen Bonnier | 2 |
Mathias Hermansson | 2 |
Alfred Ruth | 2 |
Josh Brown | 2 |
Barry Ritholtz | 2 |
Patrick Söderlund | 2 |
Mikko Salovaara | 1 |
Dan Sten Olsson | 1 |
Harald Kjessler | 1 |
Lars-Henrik Friis Molin | 1 |
Johannes Hobohm | 1 |
John Grundström | 1 |
Henrik Garvner | 1 |
Paul Schwarzenholz | 1 |
Michael Wolf | 1 |
Jacob Hellqvist | 1 |
Bjorn Bergstrom | 1 |
Öjje Holt | 1 |
Patrik Backman | 1 |
Roger Ver | 1 |
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.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Music, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Sweden, United States, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Zaver — Zaver develops innovative payment solutions to accelerate the revolution in mobile payments. All for companies and individuals to be able to shop in a more accessible and smarter way - offline and online.
- Revyze — Revyze is a community-powered app with a sharp focus on high school education.
- Reforged Labs — Make every creative a hero creative.
Fredrik Österberg
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Water
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Mynt — Mynt is a financial partner for high growth SMBs. Mynt offers a premium corporate credit card solution with expense management and accounting automation.
- Cellcolabs — Cellcolabs provides high quality stem cells at competitive prices for use within research and treatments.
- Vad Vi Vet. — Founded in 2018, Vad Vi Vet started as a single Instagram account explaining how Sweden works before the general election. Today, it is the leading service for quickly improving your general knowledge of a variety of topics, by publishing fact-checked explanations on owned and operated digital platforms, with more than half a million weekly activeusers.
Josefin Landgård is the Founder and CEO of Mantle. Previously she served as the Co-Founder and COO at KRY back in March 2014 to September 2018.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Medical, Women's
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Sweden, France
Portfolio highlights
- Estmn — Estrid is an online portal that offers women's personal care products.
- Lassie — Lassie is the first proactive and preventive pet insurance company that wants to help pet owners take better care of their pets
- Elsa — Elsa is a platform for patient driven research for better drugs, health and prevention. Elsa lets patients become their own personal researchers by providing them with a better understanding around how lifestyle factors may affect their disease activity measurements for chronic disease. To support them from a scientific perspective, Elsa gives themaccess to data on their specific disease (initially we work with rheumatoid arthritis) through the Riskminder foundation and scientific studies at Karolinska Institutet.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Finland, Sweden, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Gilion — Gilion (Formerly known as Ark Kapital) is creating custom growth loans that helps founders protect equity. Because founders who remain in control, are hard to overtake.
- Vuo AI — Building blocks for advanced AI-based applications
- MyGamez — With over 600 million mobile gamers, China is the biggest growth opportunity for global game companies.
Karl-Johan Persson, born in 1975, has been the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB since 1 July 2009.Before taking over as Managing Director Karl-Johan Persson held an operational role within H&M from 2005, including working as head of expansion, business development, brand and new business.Since 2000 Karl-Johan Persson has been a member of the boards of H&M’s subsidiaries in Denmark, Germany, the US and the UK. Between the years 2006 and 2009 he was also a member of the Board of H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB.Between 2001 and 2004 Karl-Johan Persson was CEO of European Network. Karl-Johan holds a BA in Business Administration from the European Business School in London.His current external board assignments are the Swedish Chamber of Commerce in the UK and the GoodCause foundation. Karl-Johan Persson is since 2013 a member of the Board of H&M Conscious Foundation. Karl-Johan Persson is a shareholder in Ramsbury Invest AB, and also personally holds 12,136,289 class B shares in H&M.The Managing Director is appointed by the Board of Directors and is responsible for the daily management of the company as directed by the Board.This means that the Managing Director must focus in particular on recruitment of senior executives, buying and logistics matters, pricing strategy, sales and profitability, marketing, expansion, development of the store network and of online and catalogue sales, and IT development.The Managing Director reports to the Board on H&M’s development and produces decision bases for investments, expansion, etc. The role of Managing Director includes contact with the financial market, the media and the authorities.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Internet, Software
- Funding Round, Seed, Angel
- Sweden, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Nordtech Group — Nordtech Group is a technology group consisting of software companies with industry-specific products. Common to its companies is that they deliver high customer values within their respective segments.
- Relate — Relate is a startup that develops apps and other services to help both singles and couples to healthy and meaningful romantic relationships.
- Joint Academy — Joint Academy connects patients with licensed physical therapists to deliver online treatments for chronic joint and back pain. Our treatments are clinically proven and give patients access to a personal, licensed physical therapist, an individualized exercise plan, interactive education about the condition, and progress tracking — all through auser-friendly app. Peer-reviewed studies show that Joint Academy patients reduce their pain, change their minds about surgery, and quit painkillers. Joint Academy is now available to patients in Sweden, the US, the UK, France, and Germany.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Apps, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Sweden, Japan, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- Savr — Savr is an Investment platform disrupting the Swedish fund industry with a lower fee structure and a new business model.
- PinMeTo — Optimize your time and local presence with an all-in-one local SEO tool. Show up in local search, manage listings, reviews, messages from one dashboard.
- Winnow — Winnow builds artificial intelligence tools to help chefs run more profitable and sustainable kitchens by cutting food waste in half. They develop technology to cut food waste in their operations. Their digital tools provide data to drive improvements in kitchen production processes and reduce environmental footprint.Winnow's mission is toconnect commercial kitchen, create a movement of chefs, and inspire others. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in London, England, United Kingdom.
Lena Apler is the Founder and CEO of Collector Bank.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Fashion, Marketplace
- Funding Round, Seed, Angel
- Sweden
Roland Nilsson - Founding Partner @ Confidus Venture Capital
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Finance, Internet
- Seed, Series A
- Sweden, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- evoluteIQ — Foster the best-in-class enterprise workflow automation at scale with EvoluteIQ's end-to-end intelligent business automation platform
- TradeTech Consulting — TradeTech is a leading consulting and IT services provider specializing in treasury and asset management for major financial institutions and multi-national corporations, primarily in the Nordic countries. Established in 1998, TradeTech tailors offerings specific to corporate treasury, banks, financial institutions, government and central banks.
- Confidus Venture Capital — Confidus Venture Capital is a Venture Fund designed to outperform. We invest in future winners in digital transformation and automation.Setting the record straight – the quality of an idea and the human capital behind it is far more important than factors such as investment stage, size or profits. We know it from experience working closely withambitious and bold entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs with the power to change the world! Together we have built disruptive global tech companies challenging industry norms. Delivering outstanding results. Our incentive is only upon success: Our belief in sustainable value creation is so strong we have eliminated management fees!
Alexander Hars - Board member @ Zalster
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, SaaS
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Sweden, Norway, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Bookis — Bookis is the Next-Generation Online Bookstore with Direct Author Compensation, making the sharing of stories and knowledge playfully easy - from all bookshelves, for everyone. We leverage community, technology and innovative distribution to enable radically easier peer-to-peer bookselling, with fair author compensation models. Building theworld's largest network of authors fighting for a more fair book industry worldwide.
- Lumaly — Lumaly is a browser extension that automatically tries out and uses all available voucher codes in the cart when shopping online.
- Brink Commerce — Brink Commerce offers leading eCommerce solutions. Boost growth, perfect customer experiences, and unlock agility with our Composable Commerce API.
Board Member at MAJORITY.
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Investment focus
- Machine Learning, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Sweden, United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Gilion — Gilion (Formerly known as Ark Kapital) is creating custom growth loans that helps founders protect equity. Because founders who remain in control, are hard to overtake.
- MAJORITY — MAJORITY is the first digital financial service dedicated to serving migrants worldwide. For $5 a month, MAJORITY members in the U.S. receive an FDIC-secured account, VISA® debit card, use of more than 55,000 ATMs across North America, remittance and international calling, native language advisors, and access to our network of community meet-upspaces, local discounts and events. With MAJORITY, there are never overdraft fees or minimum balance requirements. MAJORITY was started in Sweden by a diverse team of banking, fintech, payments, and telecom executives serving immigrant communities globally for the last 15 years. MAJORITY’s U.S. headquarters are in Houston, Texas.
- Gilion (Formerly Ark Kapital) — Ark Kapital is a precision financing company that empowers technology businesses to grow faster, enables owners to maintain control, and reduces risk for investors. ArK is founded by a world-class AI technology developer, a six-time-founder, and the veteran banker you always wanted.
Peter Dahlgren - Founding Partner @ Confidus Venture Capital
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Finance, Internet
- Seed, Series A
- Sweden, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- evoluteIQ — Foster the best-in-class enterprise workflow automation at scale with EvoluteIQ's end-to-end intelligent business automation platform
- TradeTech Consulting — TradeTech is a leading consulting and IT services provider specializing in treasury and asset management for major financial institutions and multi-national corporations, primarily in the Nordic countries. Established in 1998, TradeTech tailors offerings specific to corporate treasury, banks, financial institutions, government and central banks.
- Confidus Venture Capital — Confidus Venture Capital is a Venture Fund designed to outperform. We invest in future winners in digital transformation and automation.Setting the record straight – the quality of an idea and the human capital behind it is far more important than factors such as investment stage, size or profits. We know it from experience working closely withambitious and bold entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs with the power to change the world! Together we have built disruptive global tech companies challenging industry norms. Delivering outstanding results. Our incentive is only upon success: Our belief in sustainable value creation is so strong we have eliminated management fees!
Daniel Pilotti is the Founder of Your Special Delivery Service and Ryska Posten.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Retail, Payments
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- Sweden, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- blipp.se — blipp.se is a digital marketplace for selling and buying cars.
- Mantle — Welcome to MANTLE - Scandinavian professional skincare elevated by cannabis.
- Lace Laboratory — Empowering panties. For women by women.
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.
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Investment focus
- Internet, IaaS, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Sweden, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Gilion — Gilion (Formerly known as Ark Kapital) is creating custom growth loans that helps founders protect equity. Because founders who remain in control, are hard to overtake.
- MAJORITY — MAJORITY is the first digital financial service dedicated to serving migrants worldwide. For $5 a month, MAJORITY members in the U.S. receive an FDIC-secured account, VISA® debit card, use of more than 55,000 ATMs across North America, remittance and international calling, native language advisors, and access to our network of community meet-upspaces, local discounts and events. With MAJORITY, there are never overdraft fees or minimum balance requirements. MAJORITY was started in Sweden by a diverse team of banking, fintech, payments, and telecom executives serving immigrant communities globally for the last 15 years. MAJORITY’s U.S. headquarters are in Houston, Texas.
- Gilion (Formerly Ark Kapital) — Ark Kapital is a precision financing company that empowers technology businesses to grow faster, enables owners to maintain control, and reduces risk for investors. ArK is founded by a world-class AI technology developer, a six-time-founder, and the veteran banker you always wanted.
Annika Falkengren
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Analytics, Funding Platform
- Seed, Funding Round
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Gilion — Gilion (Formerly known as Ark Kapital) is creating custom growth loans that helps founders protect equity. Because founders who remain in control, are hard to overtake.
- Gilion (Formerly Ark Kapital) — Ark Kapital is a precision financing company that empowers technology businesses to grow faster, enables owners to maintain control, and reduces risk for investors. ArK is founded by a world-class AI technology developer, a six-time-founder, and the veteran banker you always wanted.
Thord Wilkne is Member of the Board of Directors at Addnode Group
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Investment focus
- Consulting, Financial Services, Association
- Funding Round, Seed, Angel
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Breakit — Breakit is Sweden's sharpest news about startups and tech companies.
- Opti — Opti is a simple app that helps users see which funds are worth its price. Working as a robotic consultant, the app provides fund comparison service where the users can compare how well your existing funds are compared to others Opti's services are free when it comes to testing and comparing funds. However, the person who wants to help a swapfund may pay 145 kronor per byte. Customers' funds can be found at banks or other savings banks. Opti only handles the investment advice itself.The company is located at Stockholm, Sweden.
- Dynamic Code — Dynamic Code's driving force is to translate the latest research into products that contribute to increased well-being and better health. Special expertise is to apply the latest scientific advances in DNA technology and other molecular biological research into useful products for consumers, municipalities, healthcare and companies.Their approach to product development is to create a product that is close to people's needs and to help people seeking guidance on various symptoms or diseases. Several of the häsotest as Dynamic Code has been developed, giving customers a quick and useful answers. Analysis The answer is at least as safe as in health care, but faster. In some cases there has not been adequate diagnoses within the traditional health care system. An example of this is our home test for bacterial vaginosis.
Fredrik Palm
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Investment focus
- Payments, E-Commerce, Mobile Payments
- Seed, Funding Round
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Mondido — Mondido is a payment service designed to increase conversion rates for online merchants. It enables the acceptance of payments on websites and mobile applications while offering smart features for analyzing and increasing sales. Mondido was launched in 2014 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden.
Simon Josefsson
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Sports, Consumer Goods
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Sweden, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Allihoop — Allihoop offers Scandinavian styled co-living homes for people on the move. Beautiful spaces designed to make you feel at home. Available in Stockholm and soon in Paris.
- We Are Voice — We Are Voice is a new digital meeting place for choirs and choir leaders. We Are Voice facilitates everyday life for all of Sweden's choirs by offering a smarter way of communicating with each other, as well as taking part of choir arrangements and high-quality rehearsal files through an app that can be downloaded free of charge forsmartphones and tablets.
- Stockrepublic — Portfolio analytics and social networking features for banks - available via white label and API
Magnus Rausing
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, United States, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Lick — Lick | Paints, Wallpapers and Supplies. Your Room, Covered
- By Rotation — Rent over 25000+ designer fashion items online from our free app. Discover luxury designer dresses, clothing, bags and accessories from your trending favorite brands.
- Anch.ai — Anch.AI is an Ethical AI Governance platform that helps you comply with EU regulations and avoid risks and penalties when developing and using AI as part of your business.
Sophia Bendz - Partner @ Cherry Ventures
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Software, Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Sweden, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- mayk — Mayk sounds. Mayk music. Mayk noise. Mayk it... In an app.
- Medoma — Medoma is a Swedish virtual ward company that offer patients acute hospital care in their home instead of in the hospital.
- Wikifarmer — A free online knowledge library where professional or amateur farmers can find best practices on growing their fields more effectively and an online marketplace where farmers can sell their products to buyers directly. Our vision is to create a fair, transparent and profitable environment for all the farming world. Farmers are dedicating theirlives in cultivating their fields, but get the lowest value of all the sales cycle, so we believe they need to receive a more fair share. Buyers have the right to have more options and buy at better prices, so we want to be the ones to solve this inequality in both sides.
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.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Financial Services
- Seed
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Quartr — Download the Quartr app to access investor calls/presentations, earnings reports, slide decks and transcripts without friction (and for free!)
Mattias Miksche - Angel Investor & Chairman @ Hem
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Investment focus
- Software, Big Data, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- AnotherblockAnotherblock AB — Anotherblock is Transforming Music into an Investable Asset Class. We Specialize in Music Investments, Music Rights, Catalog Valuations, and Royalty Management.
- Lovable — Lovable is building software that builds software. We are makers of GPT Engineer app - an AI software engineer.
Stefan Lindeberg was the Venture Partner and Co-founder of Nordic Game Ventures. He attended Linköping University.
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Investment focus
- Software, Gaming, Analytics
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Sweden, Denmark, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Songsay — Share music video clips like gifs with sound!
- Lovable — Lovable is building software that builds software. We are makers of GPT Engineer app - an AI software engineer.
- Blue Scarab Entertainment — Blue Scarab Entertainment is Stockholm-based video game studio developing a surprising MMORPG for fans of cozy escapism, true-crime, and horses.
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.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- United Kingdom, Sweden, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Gilion — Gilion (Formerly known as Ark Kapital) is creating custom growth loans that helps founders protect equity. Because founders who remain in control, are hard to overtake.
- Juno — Meet Juno, a workplace wellbeing programme that you control.
- Superlayer — Superlayer drives better performance for sales teams, leveraging and automating best practices to close more deals in less time.
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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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Sweden, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Zaver — Zaver develops innovative payment solutions to accelerate the revolution in mobile payments. All for companies and individuals to be able to shop in a more accessible and smarter way - offline and online.
- Påmind — Påmind is a Swedish company founded to give customers control over their existing everyday contracts, ranging from mortgages to insurances. The customer is reminded each time a contract expires, Påmind AB then help the customer to renegotiate the agreement and ensure that the customer is offered the best terms. All this is done without the customerhaving to do anything.
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Johan Andersson
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Investment focus
- CRM, Advertising, Advertising Platforms
- Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Addressya — Addressya is an app that allows individuals to register a complete, precise and easy to use address.
- PocketLaw — PocketLaw is a user-friendly and affordable solution that allows you to create contracts, get legal guidance, manage your documents and contact lawyers.
- Vad Vi Vet. — Founded in 2018, Vad Vi Vet started as a single Instagram account explaining how Sweden works before the general election. Today, it is the leading service for quickly improving your general knowledge of a variety of topics, by publishing fact-checked explanations on owned and operated digital platforms, with more than half a million weekly activeusers.
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.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Finance
- Seed, Series A, Secondary Market
- Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- evoluteIQ — Foster the best-in-class enterprise workflow automation at scale with EvoluteIQ's end-to-end intelligent business automation platform
- DIME — DIME provides digitalization and automation services to simplify the work of municipalities.
- Confidus Venture Capital — Confidus Venture Capital is a Venture Fund designed to outperform. We invest in future winners in digital transformation and automation.Setting the record straight – the quality of an idea and the human capital behind it is far more important than factors such as investment stage, size or profits. We know it from experience working closely withambitious and bold entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs with the power to change the world! Together we have built disruptive global tech companies challenging industry norms. Delivering outstanding results. Our incentive is only upon success: Our belief in sustainable value creation is so strong we have eliminated management fees!
Peter Sterky is a CEO of Trift Capital.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Music Education, Environmental Consulting
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Sweden, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Quartr — Download the Quartr app to access investor calls/presentations, earnings reports, slide decks and transcripts without friction (and for free!)
- Woshapp — Woshapp is a car wash in an app that the customer can use for asking a car washing service on her site.
- GetAccept — Get your digital sales needs covered with ease in our all-in-one software! Sign up for your free account today and close deals faster.
Staffan Persson - CEO @ Swedia Capital
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Apps, Banking
- Funding Round, Seed
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Dirac — Use Dirac to transform your listening experience. Our patented audio technology makes any sound system sound better.
- Opti — Opti is a simple app that helps users see which funds are worth its price. Working as a robotic consultant, the app provides fund comparison service where the users can compare how well your existing funds are compared to others Opti's services are free when it comes to testing and comparing funds. However, the person who wants to help a swapfund may pay 145 kronor per byte. Customers' funds can be found at banks or other savings banks. Opti only handles the investment advice itself.The company is located at Stockholm, Sweden.
- 24 Storage — We at 24Storage rent stores in many different sizes for both individuals and businesses. Long or short time. But we also tend to say that we are developing the third generation of self-storage properties. By that we mean that we create a new system that makes it possible to build smaller properties, find better positions closer to the customer andcreate a better and more flexible solution for the customer. As a customer, you no longer have to travel far out of town to access their gadgets.24Storage AB was formed in early 2015. The founders and owners have over 20 years experience in the self storage industry as a partner and leader of the company, Shurgard Europe (Europe's leading self storage operator), SelStor AB and Pelican Self Storage. The founders have been involved and responsible for the establishment of over 100 self storage facilities in seven countries in Europe.In September 2015, we purchased Stockholm Storage in Sundbyberg, a smaller plant with development potential, but also a good pilot plant to develop our concept. At the same time, we bought a property in central Tyreso. The facility will be the first full-scale 24Storage plant in operation.From November 2, 2015, we own and operate Humlans mini camp with seven plants in western Sweden. The plant located in Gothenburg was founded in 1988 and was the first self storage facility in Sweden.From February 1, 2016, we own and operate the Mini-Store . A smaller facility centrally located in Boras. Mini-Store, started operations in late 2013 that Boras first self storage facility.As of June 1, 2016 we change the names of all companies and will pursue all activities under the brand 24STORAGE .
Fabian Hielte
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Investment focus
- Retail, FinTech, Software
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Zaver — Zaver develops innovative payment solutions to accelerate the revolution in mobile payments. All for companies and individuals to be able to shop in a more accessible and smarter way - offline and online.
- WhyWaste — Reduce your food waste and increase your profits with Whywastes digital solutions. Schedule a demo to see how we can help your store become more sustainable and more profitable.
- Interspectral —
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Finland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Droppe — Order work equipment directly from manufacturers. Support small businesses and source more responsibly from local and European manufacturers. Order from several suppliers at the same time with one shopping cart. Test samples for free and order products for your workplaces without extra hassle. Find nitrile gloves, protective clothing, work gloves, work accessories, disposable gloves, disinfectants, sanitizers and other supplies in one place.
- Revyze — Revyze is a community-powered app with a sharp focus on high school education.
- SLAY — SLAY is a social gaming company.
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.
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- Education, B2B, EdTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Zaver — Zaver develops innovative payment solutions to accelerate the revolution in mobile payments. All for companies and individuals to be able to shop in a more accessible and smarter way - offline and online.
- Sana — Sana is an AI company building the next generation of knowledge tools. Designed and engineered in Stockholm, Sweden.
- Digiexam — Lower cost of examination, fair and unbiased grading, and less administration, all possible with our robust and secure platform. Learn more on our website!
Mathias Hermansson
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- Payments, E-Commerce, Mobile Payments
- Seed, Funding Round
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Mondido — Mondido is a payment service designed to increase conversion rates for online merchants. It enables the acceptance of payments on websites and mobile applications while offering smart features for analyzing and increasing sales. Mondido was launched in 2014 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden.
Private investor with background as co-founder/CTO of Videoplaza. Author of speculative fiction thriller trilogy Fermi's Filter.
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- Financial Services, Software, Machine Learning
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- Sweden, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Mavenoid — Mavenoid is the only product support automation platform built for complex products and devices. Using our unique AI, we solve problems too complex for chatbots
- Kitab Sawti — Kitab Sawti is an Arabic audio entertainment service offering audiobooks and podcasts through mobile apps.
- Match2One — Self service programmatic advertising platform, easy to use and no minimum spend. Launch intelligent programmatic display campaigns and drive online sales.
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.
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- Apps, Financial Services
- Seed
- Sweden
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- Quartr — Download the Quartr app to access investor calls/presentations, earnings reports, slide decks and transcripts without friction (and for free!)
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.
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- Apps, Financial Services
- Seed
- Sweden
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- Quartr — Download the Quartr app to access investor calls/presentations, earnings reports, slide decks and transcripts without friction (and for free!)
Patrick Söderlund
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- FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Gilion (Formerly Ark Kapital) — Ark Kapital is a precision financing company that empowers technology businesses to grow faster, enables owners to maintain control, and reduces risk for investors. ArK is founded by a world-class AI technology developer, a six-time-founder, and the veteran banker you always wanted.
Mikko Salovaara
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Investment focus
- Payments, Financial Services
- Seed
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Atlar — Atlar’s platform lets businesses automate all of their payment activities – including initiating transfers, reconciling transactions, and handling direct debits – directly with their existing bank partners.The Stockholm-based company was founded in 2022 by Johannes Elgh, Joel Wägmark and Joel Nordström who were previously early team members atTink (acquired by Visa for $2.2bn). Atlar is backed by Index Ventures – a firm that has previously backed category defining companies such as Adyen, Revolut, Figma, and many more.Backed by world-class investors, we help great tech companies such as Banxware, Mynt, and Lassie automate their bank payments.
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.
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- Apps, Payments, Insurance
- Funding Round
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Yepstr — Yepstr connects private individuals and companies that are in need of extra help with Sweden's most driven youth. Yepstr helps with everything from payment, insurance, and taxes so you get more time for other things.
Harald Kjessler
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Investment focus
- Apps, Credit, Mobile
- Seed
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Kreditz — Kreditz makes sense out of open banking/PSD2-data with their proprietary Analytics Categorization Engine (ACE). By using ACE, Kreditz is able to fine-tune the transaction data (from any AISP-data aggregator) to make it understandable and usable in valid functional products such as income verification, credit scoring, KYC and many more. Theproducts are available both by API or by an integration-free Web portal. Kreditz serves industries such as consumer- & SME-lending, money transfer, auditing, gambling/betting, insurance and more throughout the Nordic countries.
Lars-Henrik Friis Molin is the Founder of Talent Venture Group and he attended the Stockholm School of Economics.
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- Apps, Payments, Insurance
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Sweden
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- Yepstr — Yepstr connects private individuals and companies that are in need of extra help with Sweden's most driven youth. Yepstr helps with everything from payment, insurance, and taxes so you get more time for other things.
- Nova —
- YouNoodle — YouNoodle is the platform that helps you collect applications, evaluate them and select the winners, all while connecting with the most promising and brightest minds from around the globe.
Johannes Hobohm is the Chief Commercial Officer at Breakable Films.
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- FinTech, Financial Services
- Series A, Funding Round
- Sweden
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- Zaver — Zaver develops innovative payment solutions to accelerate the revolution in mobile payments. All for companies and individuals to be able to shop in a more accessible and smarter way - offline and online.
John Grundström is an Active board member and Co-Founder at Floid.
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- Apps, Design, Mobile
- Angel
- Sweden
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- Kreditz — Kreditz makes sense out of open banking/PSD2-data with their proprietary Analytics Categorization Engine (ACE). By using ACE, Kreditz is able to fine-tune the transaction data (from any AISP-data aggregator) to make it understandable and usable in valid functional products such as income verification, credit scoring, KYC and many more. Theproducts are available both by API or by an integration-free Web portal. Kreditz serves industries such as consumer- & SME-lending, money transfer, auditing, gambling/betting, insurance and more throughout the Nordic countries.
Henrik Garvner
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- FinTech, Analytics, Funding Platform
- Seed
- Sweden
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- Gilion — Gilion (Formerly known as Ark Kapital) is creating custom growth loans that helps founders protect equity. Because founders who remain in control, are hard to overtake.
Paul Schwarzenholz - Co-Founder and Managing Director @ zenloop
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- Internet, Manufacturing, Software
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Germany, Sweden
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- Datia — Datia's products automate your sustainability workflows, data collection and reporting. Easily report on the EU Taxonomy, SFDR and more!
- Heatle — Heatle engages in the manufacture and supply of an inductive immersion heater that heats liquids in the vessel of your choice.
- repath — Our mission is to make climate risks visible to companies worldwide in order to enable a resilient and future-proof world.
Michael Wolf
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- FinTech, Internet, Financial Services
- Funding Round
- Sweden
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- Econans — Econans provides digital simulation and advice services for personal finances, generating more confident consumers and higher conversion for banks and real-estate firms.
Jacob Hellqvist is an Adviser and Investor.
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- B2B, Apps, Analytics
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Sweden
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).
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- Mobile, Pet, Music
- Pre-Seed, Series C, Funding Round
- Sweden
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- Apica — The Operational Data Fabric from Apica unifies and connects all your data using a revolutionary Active Observability architecture.
- Lassie — Lassie is the first proactive and preventive pet insurance company that wants to help pet owners take better care of their pets
- Soundtrack Your Brand — Soundtrack Your Brand is a Spotify joint venture and the exclusive provider of Spotify Business and Spotify Enterprise. We connect brands and fans, and our vision is to grow the music market and thereby support artists, so that they can give the world more great music
Öjje Holt is the Founder and Chairman of Acamp.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Credit, Mobile
- Angel
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Kreditz — Kreditz makes sense out of open banking/PSD2-data with their proprietary Analytics Categorization Engine (ACE). By using ACE, Kreditz is able to fine-tune the transaction data (from any AISP-data aggregator) to make it understandable and usable in valid functional products such as income verification, credit scoring, KYC and many more. Theproducts are available both by API or by an integration-free Web portal. Kreditz serves industries such as consumer- & SME-lending, money transfer, auditing, gambling/betting, insurance and more throughout the Nordic countries.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Analytics, Enterprise Software
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Finland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- MindsDB — Make predictions from tables inside your database, then visualize them in your BI tool or App, all using standard SQL.
- api.video — api.video lets you quickly and securely deliver on-demand and live-stream videos directly from your website, software, or app.
- Claims Carbon — Claims Carbon software helps insurance companies decarbonize their value chain by providing carbon conscious underwriting and claims handling solutions. We use data and analytics to identify and reduce carbon hotspots and costs in the insurance exposure, simulate and monitor the impact of climate ac
Roger is currently involved in numerous Bitcoin related projects. He is an early investor in bitcoin-related startups. He has been a prominent supporter of bitcoin adoption and saw bitcoin as a means to promote economic freedom. He now promotes Bitcoin Cash, a hard fork of the cryptocurrency created with the intent to fix issues such as high feesand long transaction confirmation times.
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- Bitcoin, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Panama, Sweden
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- Portal — Portal is a financial services company that trades crypto anywhere without putting coins at risk, all from within a controllable wallet. Founded in 2018, Portal is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
- Acta Finance — Acta Finance develops a complete DeFi ecosystem, EVM compatible, able to deploy and integrate EVM compatible networks.
- Monarch Wallet — Monarch offers mobile and desktop apps, a decentralized wallet and exchange, a portfolio tracker, and universal KYC integration.
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