Get 250+ investors tailored to your startup

Invest in your industry and stage
Emails & contact info included
Excel and CSV export
Automatically

Trusted by 3,000+ startups

Top 35 Food and Beverage Angel Investors in Sweden in December 2024

Last updated: Dec 2024 A list of 35 angel investors that invest in Food and beverage startups based in Sweden. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Food and beverage companies from Sweden. We update this investor list every month.

Top 35 Food and Beverage Angel Investors in Sweden in December 2024

Investor	Food and Beverage Sweden investments
Daniel Curran	2
Anders Frankel	2
Hady Shkeer	2
Jonas Nordlander	2
Filip Engelbert	2
Daniel Skavén Ruben	2
Jared Friedman	1
Henry Soesanto	1
Johan Kleberg	1
Lars-Göran Ahlberger	1
Ash Pournouri	1
Fredrik Jung Abbou	1
Sophia Bendz	1
Anders Signell	1
Kelly Gale	1
Robert Ahldin	1
Eric Quidenus-Wahlforss	1
Lars Lindgren	1
Tomas Kull	1
Joshua Ismin	1
Othman Laraki	1
Martin Lorentzon	1
Alexander Ljung	1
Magnus Bergman	1
Richard Setterwall	1
Magnus Lindstam	1
Sean Percival	1
Danny Saucedo	1
Cameron McLain	1
Fabian Hielte	1
Justin Waldron	1
Eric Archambeau	1
Carl-Viggo Östlund	1
Jonas Fagerström	1
Michael Knutzon	1

Find investors that fund startups like yours. Automatically.

Our algorithm will find investors that invest in your industry, stage, and geography.

Investor list

Daniel Curran is the Founder and CEO at CustEx.com.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

CARD.com — Fully featured bank account with optional overdraft protection and round up savings account. Get your paycheck up to 2 days earlier.
RentoMojo — RentoMojo is an online furniture rental platform that was incorporated in November 2014.It currently operates in Bangalore, Pune, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai, Delhi, Gurgaon and Noida.RentoMojo was founded by Geetansh Bamania, an ex-IITM, in November 2014 in India. Like many other young working professionals, he was living in rented apartments,working long hours and found it inconvenient to equip the house with furniture when he moved. RentoMojo was developed to provide an alternative to buying and selling furniture in rental properties.
GC Plus — Find Your Next Home Service Expert With Ease

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Mylla — Mylla is a digital marketplace for buying and selling food from farm to table.
Foodtel — An intelligent, easy-to-use platform for smarter supply chain decisions, designed to save money and reduce food waste.
Southern Lights — Simplify the workflow of your green hydrogen projects with Southern Lights. Simulate, compare and assess your project viability with one single tool.

Hady Shkeer is a swedish entrepreneur and angel investor. the Executive Director of Source A Network LTD and the founder of Dadh LTD.

Investment focus

Marketplace, E-Commerce, Same Day Delivery
Pre-Seed, Angel, Private Equity
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Marifaa — Marifaa is a E-Learning Platform.
Mhtaref — Connect with the best freelance talent in the MENA region on Mhtaref - the ultimate freelancing marketplace.
Dukanji AB — Dukanji is an innovative B2B and B2C marketplace platform to connect East and West. to empower the traders around the globe and help them to trade with Europe."Dukanji" A is a global B2B platform that connects suppliers in Europe to the world. And helps manufacturers and suppliers around the world to find buyers in Europe. Dukanjioffers assisting in logistics, advisory and marketing services.Dukanji mission is to make it easy to do business anywhere. They do this by giving suppliers the tools necessary to reach a global audience for their products, and by helping buyers find products and suppliers quickly and efficiently.

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

Investment focus

Apps, E-Commerce, Lifestyle
Funding Round, Seed, Angel
Sweden, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Werlabs — Werlabs is a Stockholm based medical technology company founded by Will Stoddart and Rickard Lagerqvist, a general practioner. Werlabs provides customers with health analysis via blood testing. The company’s aim is to give users the tools and information to take care of their health.
Glue Home — Imagine coming back from work to a clean home, the parcel from your favourite online store is in the hallway, your groceries have been delivered to the fridge and your dry cleaning is in the closet. All done while you were out. Imagine that at the same time you were helping reduce traffic, pollution and create jobs in your community.Glueenables the secure delivery of products and services into the home while you are away. Glue aims to improve ecommerce, foster trust and collaboration in communities and optimise time and resources.Glue connects consumers homes with businesses. We enable access to the home via a proprietary award-winning digital smart lock and other digital locks using Glue’s API which lets users give out digital keys in the Glue app. We are integrated with leading logistics, retail and services companies to offer delivery into the home. With Glue’s In-Home delivery app couriers can securely unlock a customer’s home to deliver an order while the customer is out.
NA-KD.com — NA-KD.com is the next generation of fashion marketplaces. A predominantly mobile-based online shopping sanctuary for fashion addicts all over the world. Combined with a unique merchant service that unleashes the e-commerce power of digital brands and social influencers. Funded by the original founder and team behind Nelly.com (170 million USDonline fashion store).

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

Investment focus

Apps, E-Commerce, Lifestyle
Funding Round, Seed, Angel
Sweden, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Werlabs — Werlabs is a Stockholm based medical technology company founded by Will Stoddart and Rickard Lagerqvist, a general practioner. Werlabs provides customers with health analysis via blood testing. The company’s aim is to give users the tools and information to take care of their health.
Glue Home — Imagine coming back from work to a clean home, the parcel from your favourite online store is in the hallway, your groceries have been delivered to the fridge and your dry cleaning is in the closet. All done while you were out. Imagine that at the same time you were helping reduce traffic, pollution and create jobs in your community.Glueenables the secure delivery of products and services into the home while you are away. Glue aims to improve ecommerce, foster trust and collaboration in communities and optimise time and resources.Glue connects consumers homes with businesses. We enable access to the home via a proprietary award-winning digital smart lock and other digital locks using Glue’s API which lets users give out digital keys in the Glue app. We are integrated with leading logistics, retail and services companies to offer delivery into the home. With Glue’s In-Home delivery app couriers can securely unlock a customer’s home to deliver an order while the customer is out.
NA-KD.com — NA-KD.com is the next generation of fashion marketplaces. A predominantly mobile-based online shopping sanctuary for fashion addicts all over the world. Combined with a unique merchant service that unleashes the e-commerce power of digital brands and social influencers. Funded by the original founder and team behind Nelly.com (170 million USDonline fashion store).

Daniel Skavén Ruben

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Pet, AgTech
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

VEAT — VEAT is on a mission to make healthy, plant-based foods more accessible. We cook and prepare our fresh meals locally at Stora Essingen and deliver them daily to our vending machines throughout the city.
Petgood — Insect-based pet food and functional pet supplies
Volta Greentech — Battling global warming by reducing methane emissions from cows

Jared Friedman is a partner at Y Combinator in San Francisco, where he invests in and helps startups. Previously, Jared was co-founder and CTO at Scribd, a top 100 web property. He studied computer science at Harvard University.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Poland

Portfolio highlights

T2 — T2 is in early alpha. 280 character text, replies, and likes - that's it for now. Browse content now and sign up for the waitlist.
Awesomic — Get matched with the best-fit designer on a fixed budget with no stress. Place a design task and see the first results on the next business day. Start today!
The Mednet — The Mednet is a community of physicians helping each other treat patients with cancer.Their Mission is Improve knowledge sharing between physicians so that patients get high quality care wherever they are treated.They help physicians get answers to questions where there is no clear answer in guidelines or published research and expert opinion isnecessary. All answers are indexed and searchable so that every physician can quickly access expert knowledge to provide their patients with high quality care.

Henry Soesanto serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Monde Nissin Corporation.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Organic Food
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
Singapore, China, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Haofood — The popularity of plant-based meat is rapidly growing in China; in 2020, 39% of the population were attempting to reduce their meat consumption, and 65% of them were willing to try plant-based meat to help them in this. However, many are dissatisfied with the plant-based meat options in China; Haofood’s founders discovered that this was because ofthe tofu-like quality of products currently available in the market. On top of that, often flexitarians and vegetarians struggle with craving comfort foods. Being the most consumed meat in the world, chicken products, such as fried chicken, are a comfort food to and missed by countless first-time vegetarians.Haofood offers a solution to these problems with its realistically textured and healthy plant-based chicken. They are the first company in the world to use peanut protein as their base, taking advantage of its potential for a strong and elastic texture. Led by a founding team of senior professionals from the food industry, who, together, hold a well-rounded skill set ranging from entrepreneurship to food technology, Haofood uses its own proprietary extrusion technology and formulation to create affordable, delicious plant-based chicken made from sustainable, non-GMO peanuts.
WTH Foods — WTH Foods is a plant-based alternative protein company based in Manila, Philippines. Using local and sustainable ingredients, we create plant-based versions of processed meat products that Southeast Asian love
Shiok Meats — Delicious, healthy & cell-based seafood from Shiok Meats. Get variety of cultivated meat, cultivated seafood, cell cultured meat & Lab Meats in Singapore.

Since 2004 Johan has had various roles within MSB, the operator of the Swedish Tetra network for public safety users Rakel. Johan was involved already in the early rollout phase, but later also in the continuous development of the system. Today Johan has a role as System Architect with focus on information security related topics. Johan holds anMSc in Engineering Physics, and has some ten years of experience in the past from research and development in the public telecommunication, e.g. 2G and 3G implementations.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Food and Beverage
Funding Round
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Matsmart — Matsmart sells surplus food online. A major part of the food would otherwise be thrown away due to packaging changes, short or expired expiry dates or other reasons. During 2017, Matsmart saved 2022 tonnes of food from going to waste. The company has seen explosive growth, reaching recurring revenues of SEK 200 million. Matsmart was founded by KarlAndersson, Erik Södergren and Ulf Skagerström, and launched in Sweden in 2014. Since then, the company has also expanded to Norway and Finland. Long live the food!

Lars-Göran Ahlberger

Investment focus

Hydroponics, Horticulture, Food Processing
Funding Round
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Johannas Stadsodlingar — Johannas Stadsodlingar produces fish, vegetables, and herbs through a sustainable process. It uses aquaponics systems to provide water to the fishes and plants. Johannas Stadsodlingar is based in Stockholm, Sweden.

Founder and CEO of At Night Management, manager of Avicii, Cazzette. He attended Stockholm University.

Investment focus

Music, Software, Health Care
Pre-Seed, Series B, Funding Round
Sweden, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Shewy — Shewy is a producer of vitamin-enriched chewing gums sold in retail, online and against a subscription
Savr — Savr is an Investment platform disrupting the Swedish fund industry with a lower fee structure and a new business model.
Triller — Triller is an AI-powered music video app and talent discovery platform that allows users to create professional-looking videos in a matter of seconds. Pick a song, select the portion of the song you want to use, snap a few takes and with the tap of a button you have a celebrity-quality music video starring you and your friends. Triller reliessolely on organic growth and has more than 23 million downloads, with celebrities from Kevin Hart to Vanessa Hudgens regularly using the app to create their own music videos. Triller raised a $4.5M seed round in May 2016 and a $5M Series A funding round in February 2018, with plans to expand its AI technology and develop the brand as a talent discovery platform.

Fredrik Jung Abbou is a CCO & Co-founder of KRY.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Apps, Grocery
Pre-Seed, Seed
Kenya, Sweden, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Asilimia — Asilimia is a simple, fun mobile app for sending money through M-PESA quickly and without any transaction fees. Simply deposit money to your M-PESA, download Asilimia and send money for free to any other M-PESA account.
HackCapital — Join FoodTech focused investors looking to back impact-driven founders shaping our food system
Lovely Day Foods — We harness the power of plants and cutting-edge technology to crack the egg.

Sophia Bendz - Partner @ Cherry Ventures

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.

Anders joined Delivery hero as CEO of OnlinePizza and Pizzaonline.fi in December 2012. He is responsible for the Swedish and Finnish market. Before joining Delivery hero he worked at SAS, the Scandinavian airlines, where he was global ecommerce manager. Anders holds a degree in business and complimentary faculties like, Chinese, physics,mathematics and medicine.

Investment focus

Delivery, Food Delivery, Food and Beverage
Seed
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Picsmart — Picsmart operates as a food delivery company.

Kelly Gale

Investment focus

Medical, Health Care, Food Processing
Pre-Seed
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Shewy — Shewy is a producer of vitamin-enriched chewing gums sold in retail, online and against a subscription

Robert Ahldin is a Partner at GP Bullhound Asset Management, advising the GP Bullhound Funds on investments in technology companies. Robert did his first public equity investments as a teenager in the 80’s. His professional careeer started in the mid 90’s as Equity Analyst focusing on the IT/Internet sectors. At the turn of the century, Robertwent on as an entrepreneur being co-founder of an investment bank, a VC-fund and later two investment companies. Robert´s curriculum vitae contains several high profile investments, trade sales, block trades and IPOs. In 2014 Robert became a partner at GP Bullhound with the mission to help scaling up the firm´s investment activities.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Apps, News
Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

VEAT — VEAT is on a mission to make healthy, plant-based foods more accessible. We cook and prepare our fresh meals locally at Stora Essingen and deliver them daily to our vending machines throughout the city.
Sesamy — Sesamy provides frictionless single purchases and consumption of digital content, without restricting the user’s choice of app or device.
LUB Foods — Luthman Backlund Foods AB was started in 2013 by Carl Backlund and Niclas Luthman. Since then they have built a team of dedicated and hard-working people around us that all share the same vision - creating snacks and confectionery that is actually good for you and the people you love.THeir ambition is to create a global brand and a wide range ofproducts that adds to the quality of life and well-being of all the snacks and candy-loving people of the world.

Eric Wahlforss is the Co-Founder and CEO of Dance. He co-Founded SoundCloud Limited in 2007 and serves as its Chief Technology Officer. Eric Wahlforss has been working with the web since 1995 and served as the Interaction Designer for Gate5 (acquired by Nokia in 2007). Under the artist name Forss, he has released electronic music on Berlin basedlabel Sonar Kollektiv and toured across the world. He holds an M.Sc. degree in Industrial Economics from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and has studied three years at the Stockholm School of Economics.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Mobile
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Germany, United States, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Lovely Day Foods — We harness the power of plants and cutting-edge technology to crack the egg.
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.
Nomos — Nomos operates as an energy tech company.

Lars Lidgren is the Founder at Bonesupport.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Health Care
Funding Round, Seed, Angel
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Ella — Ella is a medical mobile application for women during and after pregnancy.
Learnster — Learnster develops the LMS of tomorrow for growing organizations aspiring to achieve maximum learning in minimum time.
Match2One — Self service programmatic advertising platform, easy to use and no minimum spend. Launch intelligent programmatic display campaigns and drive online sales.

Tomas Kull

Investment focus

Hydroponics, Horticulture, Food Processing
Funding Round
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Johannas Stadsodlingar — Johannas Stadsodlingar produces fish, vegetables, and herbs through a sustainable process. It uses aquaponics systems to provide water to the fishes and plants. Johannas Stadsodlingar is based in Stockholm, Sweden.

Joshua Ismin

Investment focus

Food and Beverage
Seed
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Stockeld Dreamery — We set off with a first vision: to create a cheese that is superior in taste and nutrition, constantly striving to use our planet’s resources wisely, accessible to all yet one of the top preferred cheeses by chefs and restaurants. Simply put, the world’s most ambitious cheese.

Othman Laraki, MS, MBA, is the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Color, a health technology company building public health infrastructures such as scaled and efficient testing to contain the COVID-19 pandemic or using genomics for population health. Previously, Othman co-founded Mixer Labs and developed its GeoAPI platform, a powerfullocation engine for developers. After the company was acquired by Twitter in 2009, he served as the social media network’s Vice President of Product and helped expand its user base from 50 to 200 million unique accounts. Before this, Othman spent several years at Google, where he played an integral role developing front-end products, including the Chrome browser.Othman is a long-time investor and advisor to leading companies such as Pinterest, AngelList, Slack and Instacart, and serves as a board member for ESI Group and Frontier Medicines. He holds degrees in computer science and management from Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, India, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Evernow — Real science for real menopause symptoms
YardStream — YardStream is a Metaverse company & an all-in-one virtual and hybrid event platform for virtual events, summits, meetups, workshops and in-person events for communities & enterprises. Specializing in augmented reality solutions, spatial mapping and 3D models. Each Business Delivers a Disruptive End-to-End Solution Backed by AI, 3D, AR, andML.
Exponential DeFi — Exponential is an investment platform for crypto holders to earn yield on their crypto through decentralized finance (DeFi) safely and easily.

Martin first struck up his partnership with Daniel Ek when Tradedoubler, Europe’s largest affiliate sales network (founded by Martin), acquired Daniel’s company Advertigo in 2006. As chairman, Martin has been on the company’s board of directors since July 2006. His responsibilities include creating and implementing strategy, budgets and goals.Previously, Martin held senior roles at Telia, Altavista, Cell Ventures and NetStrategy. He is currently on the TeliaSonera board. Martin was educated at Gothenburg’s Chalmers University of Technology and Handels University. In his spare time Martin enjoys all kind of sports and cultural pursuits. With such a hectic schedule, it’s fortunate that he’s energetic by nature, involving himself in numerous work and leisure activities to try and find the right balance between his career and his personal life.

Investment focus

Beauty, Coffee, Fashion
Funding Round, Seed
Sweden, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Sniph — Sniph is a smart subscription service for perfume, which makes it easy to discover new scents.The company lives according to the philosophy that smells make more difference than they can understand and that they affect us more than the group think. Dofter develops memories and feelings. Some smell can lift people when they need it - or take themfar away when they least anticipate it.
Coffydoor — Coffydoor, a Stockholm, Sweden-based startup building an on-demand coffee delivery service. Coffydoor was founded in 2020 by Houman Ashrafzadeh and Jonathan Johansson.
Sand Clinic — Sand Clinic is a healthcare startup. Sand Clinic provides a wide range of services to its members, including primary care, vascular ultrasonography, and red light therapy.

Alexander Ljung is the Chairman and Co-Founder of Dance. He co-founded SoundCloud Limited in 2007 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director. Alexander Ljung serves at interactive installations. He has a background as a post-production sound designer and motion film music producer. He holds an M.Sc. degree within MediaTechnology from The Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and also studied Marketing & Business Development at the Stockholm School of Economics.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, Sweden, United States

Portfolio highlights

Lottie — Lottie's mission is to change the way young kids experience technology and to bring peace of mind to parents, by building a magical experience that the whole family can love.
Weflow — All-in-one workspace to manage your Salesforce pipeline, notes & to-dos. Designed for sales teams who like to move with speed.
Stockeld Dreamery — We set off with a first vision: to create a cheese that is superior in taste and nutrition, constantly striving to use our planet’s resources wisely, accessible to all yet one of the top preferred cheeses by chefs and restaurants. Simply put, the world’s most ambitious cheese.

Magnus Bergman is co- founder and general partner of Luminar Ventures. Magnus has made over 30 seed investments in the past 10 years making him one of the most experienced tech angel investors in Sweden. Magnus was the first investor in Truecaller and was an early stage investor in Prezi, Soundtrap, Karma, and others. He also founded ParallelConsulting Group, which he later sold to Icon Medialab. Magnus Bergman has a Ph.D. in Physics at INPT, Toulouse, and a post-doctoral research position at NADA, KTH, Stockholm.

Investment focus

Apps, Mobile, Big Data
Seed, Series A
Sweden, United States

Portfolio highlights

Yazen — Yazen is a digital obesity clinic that offers weight loss through modern pharmaceutical treatment.
Frequencz — Frequencz, is an emerging leader of shared virtual private networks for Enterprises. We brings cloud economics to radio and disrupt the way private networks are built, operated and managed. Our solution delivers innovation within the radio domain that offers foundational change in ROI and profitability for private network operators and Enterprises.
Karma — Karma develops an application that helps restaurants, grocers and cafés reduce their food waste by selling their surplus to consumers at reduced prices. Its application serves as a sales channel via which merchants offer take away food items to registered users. Elsa Bernadotte, Mattis Larsson, Hjalmar Nordegren, Ludvig Berling, and Steven vanWel founded Karma on September 1, 2015. Its headquarters is in Stockholm in Sweden.

Richard Setterwall is a Venture Partner at Piton Capital. Founder at DogBuddy (sold to Rover.com) He attended UCLA Anderson School of Management.

Investment focus

Pet, Wellness, Food and Beverage
Seed
Sweden, United States

Portfolio highlights

Petbuddy Group — Petbuddy Group is a D2C pet care group of sustainable brands with the mission to do good for pets, pet parents and the planet. Our brand Buddy Pet Foods offers tailored subscriptions of natural- high quality dog food. In Sep 2020 we also launched Rockybox, a curated dog treat subscription box. We have invested heavy into ourecommerce/subscription platform and will over the next 5 years launch 5 to 7 more sustainable pet care brands based on data and trends. One customer group, one platform, many brands = strong value creation. Based out of Sweden we're experiencing strong growth and are seeking 5 MEUR to further scale PBG and it's brand offerings to new EU markets in 2021.
Wolf Spring — No dog was born to eat kibbles, but we understand that you can’t go hunting deer every morning to feed your dog. That’s why we have created Wolf Spring. It is the first canine functional drink, which, given daily to your four legged friend, will give them key nutrients to keep them healthy. We want to help making sure your beloved companion willnot have unexpected vet visits. We are 100% natural, 100% plant based and proudly made in the USA. We believe in limited ingredients, clear benefits and no bullshit. Your dog has an everlasting faith and love for you so our product has to live up to that trust. No compromise.

Magnus Lindstam

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Food and Beverage
Funding Round
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Matsmart — Matsmart sells surplus food online. A major part of the food would otherwise be thrown away due to packaging changes, short or expired expiry dates or other reasons. During 2017, Matsmart saved 2022 tonnes of food from going to waste. The company has seen explosive growth, reaching recurring revenues of SEK 200 million. Matsmart was founded by KarlAndersson, Erik Södergren and Ulf Skagerström, and launched in Sweden in 2014. Since then, the company has also expanded to Norway and Finland. Long live the food!

Sean Percival is the Chief Marketing Officer of Iterate Norway.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Manufacturing
Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
United States, Norway, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Tjommi — B2C app helping customers get money back from price drops
Vembla — Vembla offers a vast grocery selection 1500 to 20,000 products - from your local stores or our own warehouses. Get it delivered same day or in minutes.
Lendwill — There is a healthier way to build relationships with money.

Danny Saucedo

Investment focus

Music, Sales, Sports
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Corite — Here's where artists and fans join forces. Invest in music you love and get paid when it's streamed on Spotify and Apple Music.
Hooked Foods — Hooked is a start-up that creates healthy & tasty plant-based proteins that can used in a wide variety of dishes. High in protein & fibre, rich in vitamins and minerals like iron, vitamin b12, vitamin D, selenium and iodine.
Active Brands Group — ABG is a House of Brands focusing on bringing innovative products related to sports and health to a global market. We want to grow with our existing brands as well as through acquisitions and partnerships. We inspire, empower & elevate the way people move through sourcing, brand development and distribution.

Cameron McLain is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Giant Ventures. He previously worked at Hummingbird Ventures as a Principal. Cameron McLain attended Princeton University.

Investment focus

Machine Learning, Software, Medical
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Denmark, Italy

Portfolio highlights

Starcity — Starcity is a San Francisco-based owner and operator of Coliving communities. As of early 2020, Starcity has just under 500 beds in operation across San Francisco, Oakland, and Los Angeles, with a current committed development pipeline of approximately 2,000 units.Their 45-person team spans multiple disciplines including real estate, technology,design, and hospitality with employees from companies like Airbnb, CBRE, Cushman & Wakefield, Fairmont Hotels, FivePoint, Google, Tesla, Lyft, SoulCycle, The Standard, and Uber. They are urban housing enthusiasts on a mission to make great cities accessible to everyone.Starcity’s approach is different from other groups in the Coliving space. They are set up as both a General Partner and Operator with full-stack real estate development, design, and management capabilities. They love working on all aspects of design to maintain a keen focus on project details, and they enjoy having skin in the game when the opportunity presents itself.
Collectly — Collectly helps healthcare organizations collect more patient payments faster, automate and streamline internal revenue cycle operations, and elevate patient financial experience.
Polychain — The emergence of bitcoin and subsequent blockchain technologies has generated a new digital asset class in which scarcity is based on mathematical properties. Through cryptographic verification and game-theoretic equilibrium, blockchain-based digital assets can be created, issued, and transmitted using the software. Polychain Capital is committedto exceptional returns for investors through actively managed portfolios of these blockchain assets.

Fabian Hielte

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 —

Justin Waldron is Co-Founder & President of Playco, and previously Co-Founder / EVP of Product of Zynga, the world's largest mobile game company. Zynga IPO'd in 2011 with a $10 billion valuation and over $1b in annual revenue. Justin is an angel investor in Lambda School, Substack, and 60+ other companies. He mentors youngentrepreneurs at The Thiel Foundation's Thiel Fellowship program.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Japan, Chile

Portfolio highlights

AnotherBall — AnotherBall is a blockchain startup that combines entertainment and blockchain.
Proof of Play — We are a team of veteran game developers and entrepreneurs creating onchain games and open source technology. Our vision is simple: to create generation-defining games that fundamentally grant power and ownership to the players who play them.
Uncharted — Uncharted is a cryptocurrency-based gaming platform helps game developers and companies.

Eric Archambeau is a Senior Advisor at technology companies. Eric joined Wellington as a General Partner in early 2005 focusing on Digital Media, Software, Cleantech and Electronics.From 2000 to 2002, he was at Benchmark Capital where he lead and co-lead a number of deals including Betfair, Orchestria, Xignal and Activiti (now Alfresco), as well as pioneering an active Entrepreneur in Residence programme in London. Eric joined Benchmark from Atlas Venture where, in Silicon Valley, he worked with companies including Tsqware (acquired by Globespan) and Obongo (acquired by AOL).Before 1999, Eric was a serial entrepreneur. First in 1993, as co-founder and CEO of RightPoint, a provider of marketing automation enterprise software (acquired by e.piphany), then, in 1998, as founding CEO of Trading Dynamics (acquired by Ariba). Eric was also a founding board member of eGroups, acquired by Yahoo! in 2000. In the 1980s he worked in the semiconductor and EDA industry in Silicon Valley, most notably with VLSI Technology Inc.Eric is one of the founders of Social-Impact, a professional development programme helping social entrepreneurs worldwide to increase their social impact and reach their full potential. He also lectured at INSEAD where he founded the Social Entrepreneurship department.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Laced — Discover the latest sneaker releases with Laced. The UK and Europe's authentic sneaker marketplace, discover coveted styles from Nike, Air Jordan, Yeezy, New Balance and more. Buy and sell now with Laced.
Stockeld Dreamery — We set off with a first vision: to create a cheese that is superior in taste and nutrition, constantly striving to use our planet’s resources wisely, accessible to all yet one of the top preferred cheeses by chefs and restaurants. Simply put, the world’s most ambitious cheese.
SignalRank Corporation — SignalRank Corporation is a FinTech company in the Venture space. It focuses on the seed stage asset class and uses data analytics to allocate capital to the best seed fund managers for their top performing companies. GPRank and CompanyRank are two proprietary algorithms it leverages to automate capital allocation. The company invests from balancesheet. Its customers are seed stage investors with outstanding companies in their portfolio.

Carl-Viggo Östlund is currently working as an independent consultant. Until 2014, he was CEO of the state-owned mortgage institution SBAB. Prior to that, he worked as CEO of Nordnet Bank AB until 2012. Nordnet is an online bank that offers savings in the form of shares, funds and pensions, and has about 500,000 active accounts in Sweden, Norway,Finland and Denmark. Nordnet AB (publ) is listed in the Mid Cap segment on the OMX Nordic Exchange in Stockholm. Prior to coming to Nordnet, Carl-Viggo was, for six years, the CEO of SalusAnsvar - a listed company in insurance and finance. Previous experience includes CEO positions in the logistics industry (TNT Sweden and Scandinavia, 1996–2001) and the manufacturing industry (Tetra Pak in Saudi Arabia, Canada, Brazil and Turkey). Carl-Viggo holds a bachelor's degree from Stockholm School of Economics.

Investment focus

Delivery, Food Delivery, Food and Beverage
Seed
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Picsmart — Picsmart operates as a food delivery company.

Jonas Fagerström

Investment focus

Medical, Health Care, Food Processing
Pre-Seed
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Shewy — Shewy is a producer of vitamin-enriched chewing gums sold in retail, online and against a subscription

Michael Knutzon

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Food and Beverage
Funding Round
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Matsmart — Matsmart sells surplus food online. A major part of the food would otherwise be thrown away due to packaging changes, short or expired expiry dates or other reasons. During 2017, Matsmart saved 2022 tonnes of food from going to waste. The company has seen explosive growth, reaching recurring revenues of SEK 200 million. Matsmart was founded by KarlAndersson, Erik Södergren and Ulf Skagerström, and launched in Sweden in 2014. Since then, the company has also expanded to Norway and Finland. Long live the food!

Investors by industry

Artificial intelligence