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Top 50 FinTech Startup Investors in Sweden

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 50 angel investors and VC funds 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 Startup Investors in Sweden

Investor	FinTech Sweden investments
NFT Ventures	26
Almi Invest	17
Cherry Ventures	10
Luminar Ventures	9
Wellstreet	9
Creandum	8
Industrifonden	8
Inventure	7
Inbox Capital	6
DHS Venture Partners	6
Antler	6
Active Venture Partners	5
Schibsted Growth	5
CommerzVentures	5
Collector Ventures	5
Zenith Venture Capital	5
Brightly Ventures	4
J12	4
Forward Venture Capital	4
Index Ventures	4
Josefin Landgård	3
Novax	3
Ingka Investments	3
Niklas Eklund	3
Karl-Johan Persson	3
Roland Nilsson	3
Creades AB	3
Bo Mattsson	3
Swedbank	3
Fulgur Ventures	3
Fredrik Österberg	3
Gorilla Capital	3
Global Founders Capital	3
Northzone	3
Alexander Hars	3
Daniel Pilotti	3
Visa	3
Lena Apler	3
Svea Ekonomi	3
Peter Dahlgren	3
Passion Capital	3
Thord Wilkne	3
Felix Capital	3
Öhman Group	3
Accel	3
LocalGlobe	3
Element Ventures	2
White Star Capital	2
Söderberg & Partners	2
Patrick Söderlund	2

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We drive the fintech revolution Next Financial Technology Ventures Backing fintech pioneers since 2014 We aim to capture the shift in the financial industry and empower the entrepreneurs to realize their potential Our Story Strong portfolio across Fintech View the full portfolio Exciting news from the NFT portfolio View all news

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Sweden, Finland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Yabie — Yabie's Payment and POS systems take the effort out of selling. It's the most intuitive, hassle-free and mobile way of interacting with your customers and making a sale.
roaring.io — We create automated solutions that simplifies your daily business processes, enabling you to work smarter and stay competitive.
Acknoledger — Ackno API will consist of UCNS and Ackno plagiarism engine that will be used by NFT platforms, NFT Marketplaces, Metaverses, and Digital Universes UCNS will adopt a decentralized approach to provide unique identifier for any content that is validated across Metaverses and NFT platforms AcknoLedger will collaborate with the current NFT and MetaverseEcosystem Partners to deploy UCNS solutions to their existing Digital Assets

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Dicot — Dicot is a pharmaceutical company focused on drug discovery and the development of novel lifestyle drugs to enrich patients' lives. The Company develops and manufactures medicines for the treatment of erectile dysfunction and premature ejaculation. The company's lead candidate, LIB-01, is in the pre-clinical stage of development.
Trackpaw Scientific — Contributing to the development of safe and effective pharmaceuticals at increased speed and quality by digitalising the preclinical study landscape.
Nordic Forestry Automation — The forestry sector is standing before unprecedented challenges in adapting to increased demand for sustainable raw materials, carbon storage, biodiversity conservation and a shortage of highly skilled machine operators. Digital tools, precision forestry and automation will play a crucial role in

Cherry Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm led by a team of entrepreneurs with experience building fast-scaling companies such as Zalando and Spotify. The firm backs Europe's boldest founders, usually as their first institutional investor, and supports them in everything from their go-to-market strategy and the scaling of theirbusinesses. Cherry Ventures has previously invested in the seed stage of over 50 companies across Europe, including FlixBus, Auto1 Group, Infarm, Rows, Forto, and TourRadar. Cherry Ventures is based in Berlin and invests across Europe with operations in London, Paris, and Stockholm.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Planet A Foods — The chocolate revolution is here. 100% cocoa-free and unbelievably delicious. We call it QOA. You need to try it!
Octomind — Octomind is an AI-powered end-to-end web app testing tool that detects bugs before they are discovered by users. It develops automated software that runs UI tests to discover bugs.
Saleor Commerce — A headless, GraphQL-first e-commerce platform delivering ultra-fast, dynamic, personalized shopping experiences. Find out why developers love it.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Muninn — AI-powered cyber security - defending your entire network
Aviant — Delivering full-stack drone services that enables autonomous and on-demand transport of cargo.
Vibrant — The best in taking easy payments! Start accepting contactless transactions straight through your phone!

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

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Retail
Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
Sweden, Norway, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Y/ELM+ — Y/ELM+ is a horseback riding safety and protection brand that focuses n creating leading-edge rider safety solutions.
Maintract — Maintract is a new generation of financial contract management software. It also offers banking and financial services. They provide contract management automation solutions to banks for drafting, data verification, workflow automation, contract data monitoring, tracking workflow and documentation, compliance management, and more.
Enable Banking — Empower your business with Enable Banking, the leading open banking connectivity provider, offering a secure, single API solution for seamless integration with 2500+ major banks across Europe. Book a demo today to unlock the future of open finance.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Embat — Keep your cash flows, cash accounts, debt positions and forecasts monitored and automated real time.
atla — Advance the potential and safety of AI
Kosmik — Kosmik is the visual canvas for knowledge management. Kosmik allows you to write, create large media collections, browse the web and share it all with your team! No more folders, bookmarks or infinite message threads.

Industrifonden is a Nordic evergreen venture capital firm with a fund size of $600m, that focuses on early-stage technology and life science companies with international potential. The company works long term with the entrepreneurs we invest in, and have a strong track record of building game changing companies. Industrifonden-backed companiesinclude tech companies Qlik, Arcam, Soundtrack Your Brand, Fishbrain, and life science companies CellaVision, Oncopeptides and AMRA.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Arevo — Arevo offers liquid and granular amino acid fertilizer technologies for faster and better plant establishment.
AlixLabs — AlixLabs is an innovative startup enabling the semiconductor industry to scale down in a cost effective manner
Texray AB — REDUCE YOUR RADIATION EXPOSURE WITH TEXRAY REDUCE YOUR RADIATION EXPOSURE WITH TEXRAY THE HEART AND SOUL OF TEXRAY Texray has developed the first radiation protection textile in the world, to address the need for improved

Since 2005, Inventure has backed over 90 companies including Wolt, Swappie, Jobbatical, aiMotive, and more.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Series B
Finland, Sweden, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Leya AI — Feel and sound like an English native in 3 months
UltiHash — Data powers breakthroughs. UltiHash is the storage foundation to accelerate them: blazing fast, highly efficient, and built for sustainable long-term growth.
Reveel — Say goodbye to paper maps, brochures, and outdated audio guides. Reveel offers digital solutions for destinations such as UNESCO sites, sights, museums, cities, hotels and parks, taking the visitor experience to the next level. Become part of the smart destination movement, enhance the visitor experience, and discover the future of travel.

Venture Capital in disruptive, global and high growth potential companies. Stage of funding is pre-series A - C rounds

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Service Industry
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Sweden, United States, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Favro — The #1 app making collaborative planning working at scale between teams for SaaS & Live Games companies. Agile team collaboration, smoother than ever.
Kavall — Kavall is a grocery delivery startup.
VOI Technology — VOI is a micro-mobility startup that provides electric scooters for last-mile transportation. Douglas Stark, Filip Lindvall, and Fredrik Hjelm founded it in 2018. Its headquarters is located in Stockholm in Sweden.VOI Technology is aiming to create a system of electrically powered scooters around urban centers to provide an affordable,sustainable, and exhilarating way to commute while helping people to reduce their carbon footprint and cities to have a more sustainable transportation network.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Divly — Crypto taxes without the headache. Divly simplifies and automates declaring taxes on your crypto trading.
Treyd — Working capital for fast growing brands. Order Now, Pay Suppliers Later
Circulate — Find the best packaging for you and the planet in our marketplace

Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now!

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

FitFlo — FitFlo brings to life the connected gym experience for Operators, Trainers and Members.
Mole — Mole is a digital business card and mobile website software. Connect with your clients, promote your business online and much more. Comes with free customised NFC business card.
Optacloud — Fostering a global AI powered ecosystem to achieve 100% cloud efficacy-> effortlessly, economically and eco-consciously. Dev tools stack for automating the entire development lifecycle of cloud apps across- Build, Deploy & Optimize.

ACTIVE is a European venture capital company focused on positively disrupting its traditional sector. Spearheaded by a diverse, passionate and multinational team, it is building a reputation for providing support that goes beyond capital for high growth businesses.With a presence in Spain, Germany and Scandinavia, ACTIVE targets entrepreneurialteams driving digital start-ups and seeking holistic partnerships based on shared values and pro-active support. Start-up founders connect to the unique ACTIVE community to engage with sector specialists, growth experts and senior advisors.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Spain, United States, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Odilo — Odilo removes the technology barriers, allowing any institution to offer all kinds of digital content to its users whilst ensuring compliance with copyright laws.Their company is one of the leading software solutions for libraries offering a comprehensive product suite to discover, manage and distribute digital content as well as print.They are headquartered in Cartagena, Spain and have offices in Madrid, Spain; Miami, Florida; Mexico City, Mexico; and New York, New York.Their aim is to develop the market’s most innovative and creative solutions. They lead the way in defining and designing efficient, user-friendly products, serving the needs of public, private, university, school and special interest libraries today, while enabling them to transition into the future.
Whisbi — Live commerce platform leader for Enterprises. Improve the quality of online leads, grow your digital revenue and enhance online customer experience with your live streams and live shopping
Healthify — Healthify builds the infrastructure that integrates social determinants of health into the era of value-based healthcare by creating networks of social service organizations.

Investing in great digital companies!

Investment focus

Internet, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Sweden, Norway, France

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.
Dintero — Dintero is a Norwegian startup delivering payment, checkout, crm & loyalty solutions.
Campanyon — Camping, RV parks, glamping near you. Book your outdoor stays.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Tuum — Our cloud-native API-first core banking platform enables any business to rapidly offer seamless, tailored financial services to their customers.
Volt.io — Increase retention and digital sales by allowing your customers to initiate direct payments, from their bank accounts to yours in real-time. Your checkout in super-drive, powered by Volt.
ClimateView — ClimateView is a Swedish climate action technology company that helps cities transform climate planning into progress. We combine data, agent-based modelling and interface design to help cities successfully manage the transition to zero carbon economies.

Collector Ventures is the investment vehicle of of Collector Bank, founded by Lena Apler.

Investment focus

Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech
Funding Round, Series A
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Leeroy — Leeroy provides a technology platform that transforms customer data into marketing both on-site in-store and mobile. Leeroy provides merchants with tools to communicate and interact with the customer in real time leveraging efficiency, revenues and customer experience putting the merchant in the driver seat. The company's platform is aproduction and distribution tool for several different digital channels: in-store with communication by digital signage and by mobile to enhance loyalty.
Capcito — Capcito is a provider of working capital to SMEs. Products are invoice discounting, factoring and business loans, all offered with a click of a button. Smoothly integrated with cloud accounting applications and banks. A proprietary lending platform and scoring engine is continuously being developed to improve accuracy on credit assessment andprovide a more lean and relevant solution to SMEs in need of financing for further growth. Capcito strives to empower businesses to grow.
Swiftcourt — Swiftcourt helps buyers and sellers to perform safe and smooth peer-to-peer-transactions, by providing them with smart digital contracts, e-signing and transaction-related add-on services.Swiftcourt was founded in 2016 and has since then helped over 70 000 buyers and sellers complete over 40 000 transactions. At the moment, the company is insuccessful partnerships with FINN.no, one of the most prominent classified sites in the world and with Mittanbud.no, the market leading service finder classified site in Norway. Recently, Swiftcourt also closed a deal with the biggest classified site in Sweden, Blocket.se.Swiftcourt aims to be a global standard of conducting safe and smooth online transactions and help buyers and sellers with their deals worldwide.

Zeniths vision is to become the obvious partner for entrepreneurs and investors. We believe this will be achieved by helping entrepreneurs to build fantastic companies and thus deliver attractive return to our investors.

Investment focus

Software, Sports, Apps
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Sweden, Denmark, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Minut — Minut keeps your home safe and your neighbors happy while respecting your guests' privacy. Monitor noise and occupancy, secure your home, and enhance guest experience. Only Minut gives you the full insight you need to protect your homes, all in one single sensor.
Treyd — Working capital for fast growing brands. Order Now, Pay Suppliers Later
Freshsound — Freshsound is an entire new wave for professional storytellers and agencies to license original music using AI and human creativity.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Zevoy — Automate receipt and expense management
Adway — Adway specializes in recruitment marketing, employer branding, Hr-tech and candidate journey solutions.
Worldfavor — Worldfavor is the first to bring sustainability and compliance information based on established frameworks to one global platform. We connect businesses around the world to share sustainability information with each other through one platform, where they can also manage and excel their own performance in a secure, collaborative space. We helpbusinesses avoid manual spreadsheets and stiff, expensive software. Simply because we want you to save time and resources for your impact, and because modern technology can enable so much more.The vision is to be global de-facto information platform for sustainable decisions, serving any actor with sustainability/compliance data (business data 2.0) on any organization from one shared platform where they also manage it. The SaaS covers all sustainability/compliance needs under one roof: Manage Sustainability, Visualize Sustainability and data collection and assessment of any type of partners in the Value Chain, such as suppliers or portfolio companies.

J12 Ventures invests early in innovative companies in the Nordics.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Sweden, Germany, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Ayora — Ayora is a revenue management platform that assists professionals in optimizing revenue decisions and streamlining associated processes.
Buddywise — Gain control of your safety risks and empower your EHS teams to be truly data-driven. Use existing cameras to gather data, eliminate risks and react in real-time.
Jimini AI — Cutting-edge AI for next generation law firms and companies.

Forward Venture Capital is a Venture Capital fund that invests in early-stage companies in the US and Europe. We support early stage entrepreneurs and help them accelerate their growth.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Sweden, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Uniify — Uniify is a no-code customer onboarding software that makes it fast, easy and secure for financial companies to onboard their customers. Save your business time and money, and build onboarding flows for your customers in minutes instead of months.
Niricson — Niricson Software has developed a proprietary damage assessment software platform paired with a patent-pending drone-based data collection technology that helps infrastructure owners inspect their structures (e.g. hydro dams) in a way that is more accurate, five times faster, and 50% more cost-effective. Niricson is differentiated by its ability toautomatically detect and quantify not only surface damage, but also subsurface damage.
Elements Advisors — Elements Vitals revolutionize the way you measure, benchmark, and monitor financial health. Save time serving clients & growing your firm.

Index Ventures is an international venture capital firm with dual headquarters in San Francisco and London, investing in technology-enabled companies with a focus on e-commerce, fintech, mobility, gaming, infrastructure/AI, and security.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

SESO — Seso is a labor solution for agriculture. We provide support with the entire H-2A process, including the H-2A Visa, recruiting farmworkers, H-2A compliance, and digital worker onboarding.
Vizcom — Vizcom is an Ai-powered creative tool designed for design and creative professionals. It offers a transformative approach to concept drawing, enabling users to turn their sketches into impressive realistic renderings quickly and efficiently.
Nourish — Achieve your desired health and wellness through personalized nutrition counseling. Nourish is the easiest way to find a registered dietitian and get it covered by your insurance. Find a dietitian today and start your telehealth appointments.

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.

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.

Novax is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Insurance, Manufacturing, Food Processing
Funding Round, Series A
Sweden, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Hedvig — Hedvig is a new approach to insurance. It’s about freedom and being ok with your life, no matter what happens to you. We provide fair help everyone’s entitled to.
Prolupin — Prolupin GmbH is a spin-off from the Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging IVV in Freising. The world-leading expertise on the fractionation of lupines and the application of this in food technology gives the business a strong position in the vegetable protein market. This position is secured by several Fraunhofer patents.The company's business activities focus on developing, producing and marketing vegetable-based, lactose-free milk substitutes from the blue sweet lupine (Lupinus angustifolius). This domestic legume is particularly rich in proteins, undemanding with regard to soil and climate and grows predominantly in Northern Germany (soybean of the north), Poland, Scandinavia, North America and Australia. With the processing technologies developed at Fraunhofer IVV, it is possible to adapt the lupine protein flavor profile in such a way as to achieve a milk-like taste.

Ingka Investments invests in innovative companies and connects entrepreneurs to a vast and diverse network of partners. The firm combines handling resources respectfully while supporting the growth of innovative companies. It was founded in 2018 and headquartered in South Holland, Illinois.

Investment focus

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

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.
DirectID — We build solutions that create frictionless financial experiences, breaking down barriers & creating trust with bank data online. Bank Data, Open Banking.
GoBolt — Logistics, Simplified. GoBolt is building a sustainable supply chain network. Delivering an end-to-end customer experience.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Roland Nilsson - Founding Partner @ Confidus Venture Capital

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!

Creades is an investment company investing in businesses that have the potential for revaluation and value creation. Creade's business concept is to provide a good risk-adjusted return to its shareholders by investing in businesses where Creades can act as an engaged owner, primarily in small and medium-listed and unlisted Swedish companies.The firm is a spin-off from Investment AB Öresund.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, E-Commerce
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Sweden, United States, Luxembourg

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.
Instabee — Delivery when it suits you who shop online
Aira — Aira operates as a clean energy-tech company.

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.

Investment focus

Internet, Information Technology, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
Sweden, Germany

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.
Hackyourcloset.com — Cultivate your closet with a digital consultant. Keeping up with our closets can take hours and hours. Subscribe in less than 5 min.

Swedbank AB (formerly Föreningssparbanken) is a Nordic-Baltic banking group offering retail banking, asset management, financial, and other services.Swedbank is a modern bank firmly rooted in Swedish savings bank history.

Investment focus

Banking, Real Estate, FinTech
Funding Round, Post-IPO Debt, Debt Financing
Sweden, Latvia, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Yabie — Yabie's Payment and POS systems take the effort out of selling. It's the most intuitive, hassle-free and mobile way of interacting with your customers and making a sale.
Kojamo Group — Kojamo plc will focus on real estate investments in Finland, renewing rental housing to make it increasingly attractive by developing new types of homes and services. The solutions promote work-related mobility in urbanising Finland, increase well-being and help preserve the environment. The vision of the housing investment company is to be apioneer in housing and the customer’s number-one choice.
Exeger — We invent, engineer, and provide world-changing technologies to improve everyday life.

We believe in Bitcoin as a next generation politically neutral monetary system, the foundation for decentralized finance of the future. While Bitcoin is an efficient settlement layer, it needs a Layer-2 solution for everyday transactions. That is why we support development of the Lightning Network - an essential step towards decentralized finance.As technology entrepreneurs we combine decades of experience creating business from zero and scaling it in emerging and fast-growing industries.We support outstanding teams in several ways: writing checks of $50-$200k for pre-seed startups; granting rewards for acknowledged contributions to the ecosystem; providing startup advisory and mentoring; investing in later stages.Along the way we help startups to navigate cryptocurrency legal and regulatory environment according to the evolving industry standards and best practices.

Investment focus

Bitcoin, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Breez — Lightning Fast Bitcoin Payments
Relai — Relai is a Bitcoin investment app that allows anyone to buy bitcoin within one minutes or set up an automated savings plan.
AMBOSS — Lightning Network Explorer and Analytics Tools. Search for nodes and channels on the Lightning Network and get detailed information on them.

Fredrik Österberg

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.

Gorilla Capital invests in early stage Finnish, Swedish, Danish and Estonian technology companies

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Finland, Estonia, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Kwizie — Kwizie transforms passive video consumption into fun multiplayer quiz games with AI. Share a QR code or link to anyone, anywhere, in seconds!
Xiphera — Xiphera is a Finnish company designing hardware-based security solutions using standardised cryptographic algorithms.
Jungle AI — Jungle uses artificial intelligence to predict component failure, and poor performance in an advanced asset management software.

Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Zocks — The Meeting Assistant made for Financial Advisors
Simplify — Simplify is a common application for jobs & internships. Autofill job applications anywhere on the web, get notified when new jobs open, & seamlessly track your applications.
Smartpay — Smartpay is the first free of charge BNPL payment option for Japanese consumers who have credit cards. There are no sign-up fees, interest fees, settlement fees, or late charges. The payment experience is also Japan’s first cross-merchant, cross-platform, and single-click checkout BNPL service, allowing consumers to checkout in as little as 10seconds. The BNPL payment solution is simple to understand, structured on 3 equal installments over 8 weeks. This means that unlike the existing BNPL services in Japan, customers do not need to go to the convenience store to make payments or pay any bank transfer fees.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Jow — Jow is a grocery shopping app that simplifies shopping and gives advice of what to eat. This app offers free and simple recipes that adapt to the customer's taste. It automatically creates a customized menu with delicious recipes and fills the cart with all the ingredients necessary for cooking.Jow was founded in 2017 and is headquartered inParis, France.
spektr — Automate your ongoing due diligence cycle to boost revenue with spektr's compliance solution. Simplify client monitoring and risk control for commercial success.
Monumental — Pioneering the automation of on-site construction with cutting-edge robotics and software. Committed to transforming the industry, our mission is to enable software-defined construction, creating bespoke, beautiful buildings rapidly with minimal labor.

Alexander Hars - Board member @ Zalster

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.

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

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.

Visa is an American multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world. The company operates the retail electronic payments network through the transfer of value and information among financial institutions, merchants, consumers, businesses, and government entities.Visa also provideselectronic payment, risk management, and payment security solutions to online merchants; digital goods transaction services in online games, digital media, and social networks; and mobile financial services for mobile network operators and financial institutions in developing economies.Visa’s global payment brands include Visa, Visa Electron, PLUS, and Interlink. Together they provide payment options through credit, debit, prepaid, and commercial programs in 200 countries and territories. Visa's global network, VisaNet, delivers value-added processing services such as fraud and risk management, dispute resolution, rewards, and other business-enhancing applications.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
Funding Round, Series B, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Enfuce — Enfuce is a cloud-based financial services provider that specializes in card issuing and payment processing services. It helps banks, fintech, and financial institutions become and remain fully PSD2 compliant, and helps them give third-party service providers access to digital accounts.The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered inEspoo, Finland.
Agrotoken — Agrotoken is a grain-backed, transactional digital asset used to save or exchange for supplies, services, and other assets. Agrotokens allow to carry out commercial and financial transactions with the direct support of the grains. Agrotoken creates a safe ecosystem to make trading grains easier, more efficient, and more reliable.Agrotoken isfocused on tokenization of commodities, smart contracts, and digital economy solutions for Agribusiness.
Finerio — Finerio is the first automated and free personal finance app in Mexico.

Lena Apler is the Founder and CEO of Collector Bank.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fashion, Marketplace
Funding Round, Seed, Angel
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Inimini — Inimini is a second-hand children’s clothing company by style and size.
Songsay — Share music video clips like gifs with sound!
Go North — Go North is an e-commerce aggregator operated by Amazon FBA entrepreneurs.

Svea Ekonomi shall through personal service offer the market efficient and customized solutions within the fields of debt recovery, financing and sales ledger administration.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Bokio — Bokio is an accounting software that enables small business owners in the UK to do their own bookkeeping. Bokio also acts as a marketplace in which they develop additional services that can further help you simplify life as a small business owner. For example, they can help you find the best solutions for insurance and pension contracts etc for youand your employees. They are also working with their partners to help you with invoice sales to improve liquidity or to send payslips and invoices through the mail, including printing, envelopes and postage.
Mynt — Mynt is a financial partner for high growth SMBs. Mynt offers a premium corporate credit card solution with expense management and accounting automation.

Peter Dahlgren - Founding Partner @ Confidus Venture Capital

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!

Passion Capital is a partnership of entrepreneurs and operators applying their experiences to helping founders and early-stage teams build great digital media/technology companies. They are Stefan Glaenzer, Eileen Burbidge and Robert Dighero.They have been personally involved in the largest European technology exits of the past decade,including the biggest exits of the year for 4 of the past 10 years by market value (Ricardo.de acquired by QXL, Skype purchased by Ebay, Last.fm acquired by CBS, and QXL/Tradus acquired by Naspers) and want to be involved in many more.They believe that the critical differentiator and key asset of a successful business is the passion and ability of its founders.They are committed to fostering an ecosystem of technology, collaboration and executional excellence in Europe. As an example of this, White Bear Yard is their own hub for activities, ambitions and energy and where have fun in the process.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Salv — Smart AML solutions. Detect and mitigate money laundering risks through advanced transaction monitoring, sanction screening, and KYC risk scoring.
Monzo — Spend, save and manage your money, all in one place. Open a full UK bank account from your phone, for free.
SAPI — SAPI enables platform companies to offer business loans to their merchants, earning a revenue share while growing their ecosystem.

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

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.

A Venture Capital Firm for the creative class

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Health Care
Series A, Series B, Seed
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Castore — Castore has been created to bring a new level of performance to men’s sportswear. They are the world’s first premium sportswear brand specifically for men, targeting only the most discerning athletes who value the attention to detail and precision performance features that underpin all garments. The Castore brand DNA lies in an unrelenting focus ontechnical innovation to create the most advanced products for those individuals who simply cannot settle for second best.
LANCH — LANCH is a startup that provides a virtual kitchen and food delivery service.
TravelPerk — TravelPerk offers the freedom travelers want, and the control companies need. Enjoy an industry-leading travel inventory, 24/7 support and easy booking.

Öhman Group is a responsible and independent fund manager.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Apps, Software
Seed, Funding Round
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Bokio — Bokio is an accounting software that enables small business owners in the UK to do their own bookkeeping. Bokio also acts as a marketplace in which they develop additional services that can further help you simplify life as a small business owner. For example, they can help you find the best solutions for insurance and pension contracts etc for youand your employees. They are also working with their partners to help you with invoice sales to improve liquidity or to send payslips and invoices through the mail, including printing, envelopes and postage.
Quartr — Download the Quartr app to access investor calls/presentations, earnings reports, slide decks and transcripts without friction (and for free!)

First partner to exceptional teams everywhere

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Wonder — Introducing a new kind of home dining experience. Currently available in areas of New Jersey.
Coast — Coast is the simple, all-in-one fleet and fuel card that helps businesses easily pay for and track vehicle expenses. It's quick to set up, easy-to-use, and full of rewards.
Imperia — We provide to our clients tools for managing and optimizing their processes in the area of operations through an innovative, advanced and user-friendly software solution. Analytics Demand Planning (ADP) is a complete solution to support the demand forecasting process, based on two key pillars: 1. Easy-to-use: the solution is fully integrated inExcel, providing great ease of use and minimum implementation times. “If you know how to use Excel, you know how to use ADP”. 2. Collaborative planning: the tool is developed under a collaborative environment in which all members of the organization can be involved in the process, improving the decision-making process.Furthermore, it has great computing power based on statistical models and a wide range of advanced functionalities that add extra value to the product. Such as reference segmentation, intelligent cleaning of historical data series and integrated dashboards for sales and forecast analytics.

Seeding ambitious founders at places like @citymapper, @improbableio,@teamkano, @moo, @songkick,@seedcamp, @transferwise and @zoopla since 1999. Who's next?

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Qogita — A leading global wholesale supplier that offers a wide variety of products, brands, and categories across geographies.
Catalog — Catalog is the first plug-and-play tool exclusively designed to digitise small-to-medium B2B merchants ordering process. With Catalog, B2B SMBs are equipped with the tool they need to reclaim their time, engage with buyers in meaningful ways and boost growth.
Victory League — The virtual home for football fandom.

Investors in tomorrow's financial technology. Element partners with European fintech firms targeting the biggest markets in financial services utilising technology to deliver competitive advantage.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Januar — Innovative EU crypto companies use Januar's payment account solutions to accept payments & send payout's while maintaining full compliance & stable business operations.
getmomo — getmomo is a vertical payment platform for real estate. Guaranteeing on-time rent for landlords & offering tenants a zero-deposit solution
Token.io — The broadest coverage for open banking in Europe. Accept A2A payments. Add open payments to your platform. Access user permissioned financial data data.

Our presence, perspective and people enable us to partner closely with founders to help them define this future.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Rymedi — Rymedi removes the friction of a manual, paper filled operation to quickly achieve higher testing throughput and lower total cost of ownership.
TransactionLink — Our global KYC/KYB orchestration platform allows you to build and upgrade your digital onboarding journey in just days instead of months.
Trident Digital — Trident Digital is restoring market liquidity by providing the next-generation digital asset platform that addresses issues with access, security, and capital efficiency. It allows lenders and borrowers to connect transparently and not rely on a central counterparty.

Söderberg & Partners offers a wide range of services and products within multiple business areas including: Life and Non-Life Insurance Consulting, Wealth Management and Securities.

Investment focus

Portfolio highlights

Datia — Datia's products automate your sustainability workflows, data collection and reporting. Easily report on the EU Taxonomy, SFDR and more!
Babel Cover — Babel Cover is a provider of sustainable and transparent rewards-linked digital insurance.

Patrick Söderlund

Investment focus

Seed
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

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.

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