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Top 50 Hardware Angel Investors in Sweden

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Hardware startups based in Sweden. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Hardware companies from Sweden. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Hardware Angel Investors in Sweden

Investor	Hardware Sweden investments
Sven Hagströmer	4
Paul Heydon	4
Sebastian Knutsson	3
Johan Lenander	3
Saeid Esmaeilzadeh	3
Ludvig Linge	3
Erik Byrenius	3
Hans-Olov Blom	3
Hampus Jakobsson	3
Gustaf Hagman	3
Bo Mattsson	3
Karl-Johan Persson	2
Hans Stråberg	2
Joachim Samuelsson	2
Marcus Boström	2
Tobias Emanuelsson	2
Daniel McCormick	2
Rutger Arnhult	2
Stefan Tengvall	2
Tord Wingren	2
Niklas Zennström	2
Pär Svärdson	2
Hans Veldhuizen	2
Anders Nyrén	2
Cristina Stenbeck	2
Hannu Turunen	2
Jonas Dromberg	2
Filip Engelbert	2
Nami Zarringhalam	2
Daniel Andersson	2
Sebastian Siemiatkowski	2
Viveka Ekberg	2
Simon Josefsson	2
Jonas Nordlander	2
Andreas Mihalovits	2
Kai Diekmann	1
Des Traynor	1
Sune Alstrup	1
Till Quack	1
Jacob Hellqvist	1
Johan Bendz	1
Laurent Leksell	1
Charlie Lee	1
Patrik Mossberg	1
Matt Miesnieks	1
Sabba Keynejad	1
Tomas Rudenstam	1
Jon Hauksson	1
Kevin Stumpf	1
Richard Båge	1

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Sven Hagstromer is the founder of Creades AB.

Investment focus

Internet, Education, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Angel
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

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.
VALIDIO — Real-time data validation and data quality monitoring for modern data teams. Abstracting complexity away from data engineering.
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.

30 years as a founder, operator, investor, and advisor. Previously Paul was a Co-Founder and General Partner at LVP. Paul has invested in Supercell (majority acquired by Tencent), Unity (NYSE:U), Matchmade, Radiant Entertainment (acquired by Riot Games), Boomlagoon (acquired by Wargaming), Peak (acquired by Hachette Livre), AppOnboard, FRVR,Starform, Gameclub, Coherence, Lucid Sight, Doppio Games, Capture, Flick, EvenPrime, Tellie & Litho and others. Previously, he was an investment banker at Avista Partners, Commerzbank Securities & ING Barings. He has both a HBA & MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business at University of Western Ontario in Canada.

Investment focus

Software, Gaming, Mobile Apps
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Tellie — Create a free website/link-in-bio to market your art, release new music, increase your followers, sell merchandise, and share your portfolio/resume/EPK. Token Gate all.
Coherence — Unlock your multiplayer possibilities
Glean AI — Glean AI is the only Accounts Payable solution that combines smart automation with spend intelligence and powers Finance teams to drive material savings.

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

Investment focus

Apps, Music, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Sweden, United States, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Zaver — Zaver develops innovative payment solutions to accelerate the revolution in mobile payments. All for companies and individuals to be able to shop in a more accessible and smarter way - offline and online.
Gilion (Formerly Ark Kapital) — Ark Kapital is a precision financing company that empowers technology businesses to grow faster, enables owners to maintain control, and reduces risk for investors. ArK is founded by a world-class AI technology developer, a six-time-founder, and the veteran banker you always wanted.
Ready Player Me — The Ready Player Me platform leverages AI, ML , and a suite of developer-first tools to empower developers to integrate avatars into their games and apps to launch faster, improve user adoption, and grow revenue through asset monetization.

Johan Lenander is Owner & Chairman at Martina Children's Hospital. He attended KTH Royal Institute of Technology.

Investment focus

iOS, Apps, Events
Angel, Funding Round
Sweden

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.
Qnekt — Qnekt is a multievent mobile application that is focused on creating great meetings between event attendees before, during and after. In that making, for an example, you 2 day conference much longer.Qnekt has two products, Qnekt - the mulitevent app as well as we build stand alone apps for huge events such as festivals and multieventapps forinternal communication for big corporations and schools. We made a shell that the event organizers fill with information and use as a project management tool. And as a bonus all attendees have the possibility to download the Qnekt event onto their phone. By that the event organizer has a new way of communicating with guests and the guests can message each other in the app. Vote on polls, navigate the program and creating their own and more.
Brainlit — Biocentric lighting by BrainLit brings daylight indoors. Exposure to daylight helps balance our circadian rhythms which can improve our health and well-being.

Saeid Esmaeilzadeh

Investment focus

Legal, Advice, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Sweden, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Ageras — Ageras redefines administration for small businesses by integrating banking, accounting, and tax filing in a single platform.
STILRIDE — The future of electric mobility
Denjo Dogs — Denjo Dogs offer a selected assortment of designer dog products for modern, conscious homes. Stylish dog collars, luxury dog leads and more.

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

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Mobile Apps
Funding Round, Seed, Angel
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Apprl — Performance-based influencer marketing, made for e-commerce brands, and an invitation-only service for digital content creators.
Welcome App — Welcome App is a mobile app that connects refugees and locals.
MIND Music Labs — When it comes to musical instruments, “Smart” experiences are today still very limited. Musicians need truly wireless, portable, upgradable and cloud-based solutions. 250M users (pro and amateurs musicians) spending about $17B a year and their audience are waiting for a revolution. We develop ELK MusicOS (the “Android” of musical instruments)enabling musical instruments vendors to make a new generation of “Smart Instruments” and we build around it an ecosystem of cloud services.

Erik Byrenius is a founding partner of Mudcake, a microfund run by ex-founders dedicated to making the world a better place for the next generation. We invest in the strongest founders shaping the way we produce, distribute and consume food. Our typical ticket is $200k-$600k in pre-seed and seed rounds globally.Previously he was the CEO andco-founder of food delivery business OnlinePizza (exit to Delivery Hero), founder of StartupTools and co-founded the angel syndicate Nordic Makers.

Investment focus

Health Care, Security, Information Technology
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Sweden, United States, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Digitail — Grow your practice, offer a modern client experience, and automate routine practice tasks with the proven all-in-one veterinary software.
Mavenoid — Mavenoid is the only product support automation platform built for complex products and devices. Using our unique AI, we solve problems too complex for chatbots
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.

Hans-Olov Blom

Investment focus

B2B, Apps, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

BlueCall — BlueCall is a B2B mental wellness SaaS. We offer empowerment toolkit for organisation, HR and leaders to manage their employee's mental wellbeing. Hand in hand with our digital toolkit we provide digital and personalised coaching sessions to reinforce self development to individual's specific needs.
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.

Hampus Jakobsson is a General Partner at early stage climate tech venture fund Pale Blue Dot.Prior to co-founding Pale Blue Dot, Hampus was a Venture Partner at science fund Blue Yard and a prolific angel investor with >100 angel investments. He co-founded of The Astonishing Tribe (acquired by Blackberry in 2010 for $150m). He left Blackberry2012 to found Brisk.io a sales productivity tool which folded 2016.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Mobile
Seed, Angel, Series A
Sweden, Denmark, United States

Portfolio highlights

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.
Mojo — Laboratory-grade AI-powered semen test at home. Test your sperm count, motility, volume and concentration with the Mojo kit. Check your fertility from home at low cost.
Volta Greentech — Battling global warming by reducing methane emissions from cows

Gustaf Hagman CEO and Co-founder - LeoVegas Group

Investment focus

Robotics, Software, Marketing
Pre-Seed, Seed
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

STILRIDE — The future of electric mobility
Fieldstream — SaaS Marketing Analytics

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

Software, Internet, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Sweden, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Zaver — Zaver develops innovative payment solutions to accelerate the revolution in mobile payments. All for companies and individuals to be able to shop in a more accessible and smarter way - offline and online.
Påmind — Påmind is a Swedish company founded to give customers control over their existing everyday contracts, ranging from mortgages to insurances. The customer is reminded each time a contract expires, Påmind AB then help the customer to renegotiate the agreement and ensure that the customer is offered the best terms. All this is done without the customerhaving to do anything.
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.

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.

Hans Straberg was the President & CEO of Electrolux AB from 2002 to 2010. Straberg is also a Bilderberg participant. He was one of the youngest CEOs of a Fortune Global 500 companies. Hans was born in 1957 in Västervik. He studied engineering at Chalmers University in Gothenburg.

Investment focus

Software, Computer Vision, Machine Learning
Seed
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

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.

Joachim Samuelsson is a serial entrepreneur that kick-starts enterprises, develops them during a couple of years and then capitalizes on the increase in value by selling the company. As an entreprenuer he is driven by the opportunity of helping other people and understanding how to build and realize huge value with minimal risk. Despite hisrelative young age of 48 he has already the experience of building value in five successful ventures that have been sold to third parties for over a billion Swedish Krona.He has also dedicated a couple of years pro-bono to social entrepreneurship in a project to inspire entrepreneurship among young people in Southern Sweden. This latest endeavour, Crunchfish, is arguably his most challenging to date, as it is destined to change the world by enabling a new touchless way of interacting with mobile devices. Joachim has been awarded for his entreprenurship several times and was recently voted the most entrepreneurial person in Southern Sweden by the public in a contest organised by Svenskt Näringsliv. He represents also the City of Helsingborg as one of their Ambassadors.Academically, he has a Master of Science degree in Industrial Engineering and Business Administration from Linköping University 1988. He is married to Petra and has three beautiful grown-up daughters.

Investment focus

Mobile, Computer, Software
Angel
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Crunchfish — Crunchfish is passionate about touch less interaction and has specialised in bringing the touchless technology to the market. We take the user experience with apps and mobile devices to the next level by making a touchless interface available everywhere.We are an open family of playful explorers with the mission of synchronizing electronicsfor us humans, instead of the other way around.Our Touchless A3D™ software requires no hardware changes. It relies only on the video stream from the embedded camera. This enables a new interaction paradigm on all mobile devices.

Marcus Boström

Investment focus

Email, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Sweden, Uganda

Portfolio highlights

Emata — Emata brings digital and affordable financial products to farmers in East Africa.
Causiq — Causiq combines data science with the principles of marketing mix modeling while unifying teams with a single source of truth, across online and offline.
Hypertype — Smartest email experience ever made.

Tobias Emanuelsson is a Founder and CEO at Polar Structure AB. He previously worked as the Founding Partner and Head of Transactions at Scandinavian Property Group.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series B, Funding Round
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

STILRIDE — The future of electric mobility
Taggr AB — Realize latent value in your equipment portfolio using light-touch, low-cost IoT technologies, delivered as-a-Service.
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.

Daniel McCormick

Investment focus

Retail, Software, Marketplace
Pre-Seed
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Traxlo — We are at the technology and retail industries intersection. Our longtime experience in the industry taught us that only the right innovation has the potential to make a positive impact. Thus we aim to make our solutions as seamless as possible to be able to add only benefits to every worker who uses our apps and to every retail store manager whohas lots on her plate, day in, day out.

Rutger Arnhult

Investment focus

Events, Sensor, Big Data
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Whalebone — Whalebone’s system analyses and aggregates all crowd activity into a real time feed of actionable and valuable data that is used to build modular tools that can generate crowd noise, visualizations, performer-audience interactions, real time insights and monetization.By applying sensors, deep learning, artificial intelligence and data analysis tothe complex crowd dynamics of live experiences, Whalebone’s mission is to bring excitement to online events, at scale. Whalebone was founded in 2017 and is based in Sweden.
Intrance Medical Systems — Intrance Medical Systems is a biopharmaceutical company.
Norrländska Vapenaffären — Norrländska Vapenaffären operating a number of vertical e-commerce operations.

Stefan Tengvall is the President and Chief Executive Officer at Fragbite Group.

Investment focus

Local, Software, Mobile Apps
Funding Round
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Telness — Telness is a mobile operator offering mobile telephony with features specially tailored for business owners. Digital and easy to use. Of course at the right price, without bindings or hidden fees.
TechBuddy.co — TechBuddy is a Swedish startup that wants to change the electronics industry. It provides its customers with independent technical support at home, when the electronics not working, when installing and purchasing. Its long-term goal is to label consumer electronics to ensure that the products are innovative, environmentally friendly and free ofchild labor. The company aims to be the filter between manufacturers and consumers in order for the customer to feel safe with his technology purchases.TechBuddy is based on sharing economy. Our freelance TechBuddies can work to inspire and guide people in an area they are passionate about and on their own terms. Through professional service and thorough knowledge, we help you get the most out of the technology available on the market.

Tord brings over 25 years experience in the mobile and wireless industries. He previously lead Ericsson Mobile Platforms, as the company's first CEO, to become the worlds leading mobile phone platform provider. While at Ericsson Tord oversaw the development of the technology that later became Bluetooth, and has since served in executive rolesat Samsung Electronics and Nanoradio.

Investment focus

Internet of Things, Security, Smart Home
Angel
Sweden

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.
DeviceRadio — IoT could allow drones to deliver defibrillators directly to critical heart patients - 15 minutes faster than an ambulance. IoT could increase the crop yield for farmers in developing countries, while reducing water consumption and need for artificial fertilizers. Today there are countless hardware solutions for IoT, almost one thousand commercialIoT platforms and a multitude of connectivity options ranging from cellular to LoRa and Bluetooth. The lack of common infrastructure to bring everything together creates complexity and a huge knowledge gap. DeviceRadio is building this infrastructure. Our mission is to make it possible for millions of existing developers to be part of building a better future powered by IoT.

Niklas Zennström is CEO and Founding Partner at Atomico. He works daily with founders and sits on the boards of Farmdrop, Lilium, Pipedrive, Oden Technologies and Varjo. Niklas is an experienced technology investor and entrepreneur, having previously co-founded and managed globally successful technology companies including Skype, Kazaa andJoltid. Niklas founded Atomico in 2006. He is passionate about partnering about founders solving big challenges facing their planet with digital technology.In 2007, he co-founded Zennström Philanthropies with his wife, Catherine. They focus their efforts in two areas: human rights and the environment. Niklas also founded the Race for the Baltic, a foundation for a well-managed and sustainable Baltic Sea, one of the most threatened major bodies of water in the world.Niklas is a keen yachtsman and has won four World Championships with his yacht racing team, Rán.Niklas holds dual degrees in Business and MSc Engineering Physics/Computer Science from Uppsala University in Sweden, and he spent his final year at the University of Michigan.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Apps
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Kingdom, Sweden, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Isometric — Isometric is a carbon removal standard and registry.
Neoplants — The first generation of bioengineered to fight air pollution. We call them neoplants.
Lilium — Lilium is developing sustainable, high-speed air mobility through its electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft, vertiports and digital service.

Par Svardson is the current CEO of Apotea AB.

Investment focus

Beauty, Fashion, Computer
Angel, Funding Round
Sweden

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.
ALEQUI — Alequi Equestrian is an online store for horse equipment and riders.
GoFrendly — Find new friends with gofrendly in your local area. gofrendly makes it simple for women to expand their social circle and connect with like-minded individuals.

Hans Veldhuizen is a serial entrepreneur and current investor. He previously founded two companies, both of which were bought, and he now enjoys investing in startups. His first company, Nedstat, focused on web analytics and was acquired by comScore for $36.7M. His second company, Albumprinter, based in the Netherlands, created astreamlined process for customers to make hard cover books using their own images. Albumprinter was sold to Vistaprint for €65M.

Investment focus

Mobile, Retail, Fashion
Seed, Series B
Sweden, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Otrium — Otrium has over 300 brand partnerships with both up-and-coming designers and luxury names and more than 3 million shopping members. Otrium is disrupting the fashion industry by solving the problem of unsold inventory using data.
Tinitell — Tinitell is a one-button mobile phone for kids that like to play outside! It’s super simple, fun, and durable. Parents don’t want to buy mobile phones for their kids because they - are expensive - break easily - get lost - and they don’t want to their kids to spend a lot of time online. But parents buy phones for their kids anyway. Parents want toknow where their kids are, and they want to be able to talk them. Tinitell is the reinvention of the walkie-talkie for the cellular network, and kids is just the beginning. A variety of future users are screaming for a simple communication solution. Tinitell is going to become the world’s strongest brand in the wristphone segment of wearable tech.
LayerGloss —

Born 1954. Degree from the Stockholm School of Economics and Master of Business Administration from Anderson School of Management, UCLA, USA.Board Member: AB Volvo, Stockholm School of Economics, and Handelshögskoleföreningen at Stockholm School of Economics.Principal work experience and other information: Vice President of the Royal SwedishAcademy of Engineering Sciences since 2014. President and CEO of AB Industrivärden 2001-2015. CFO and Executive Vice President of Skanska AB 1997–2001. Director Capital Markets Nordbanken 1996–1997. CFO and Executive Vice President of Securum AB 1992–1996. President of OM International AB 1987–1992. Previous positions within STC Scandinavian Trading Co AB and AB Wilhelm Becker. Board member in Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson 2006-2013. Honorary Doctorate of Economics at Stockholm School of Economics.

Investment focus

Medical, mHealth, Wireless
Funding Round
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Coala Life — Coala Life is a Swedish medical technology and life science company that focuses on heart diagnostics and digital health. The company has developed a portfolio of solutions based on the Coala, a patented and commercial service for remote monitoring and self-screening of heart sounds and ECG. The Coala is available direct to consumers and theCoala Pro is offered to healthcare professionals to enable smart, digital cardiac assessments.

Cristina Stenbeck has been the lead shareholder of Kinnevik over the last 20 years. Cristina began her career within the Kinnevik group when she joined her first public portfolio company board in 1997. She became Deputy Chairman of Kinnevik in 2003. Served as Chairman and Executive Chairman of the Board between 2007 and 2016 and still serves on theBoard today. Kinnevik is a family-led entrepreneurial group focused on building digital consumer businesses spanning 80 countries around the world. The six investment focus areas are: Communication, e-Commerce & Marketplaces, Entertainment and Financial Services and it recently added health and education to its current consumer focus. Last year, Kinnevik made its first investment into a digital heath platform called babylon which uses advanced AI to diagnose and treat consumers' medical concerns. Kinnevik's largest investment is its 32% ownership in Zalando, Europe's leading fashion and e-commerce company. Cristina graduated with a B.Sc. from Georgetown University in Washington DC, USA and lives in Stockholm, Sweden with her family and four children.

Investment focus

Fashion, E-Commerce, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Sweden, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Opna — Opna is a financing platform for climate projects that remove carbon and protect natural ecosystems. Opna offers data, proprietary risk assessments, and efficient capital structures, helping companies to translate net-zero committed capital from financial institutions, and corporates into direct financing across a project's lifecycle.
Fides — Fides is your one-stop-shop for c-level governance.We are making it easier for managers to comply with, digitally execute and track their legal obligations across different companies in various jurisdictions. Keep an overview of duties, deadlines and tasks in different entities. Orchestrate, execute and document c-level meetings, resolutions& approvals. Create a revision-proof audit trail of any c-level decision.We know you have good intentions. You just need to be able to prove them.
H2 Green Steel — H2 Green Steel will be a fully integrated, digitalized and automated greenfield steel plant. By bringing together raw materials, renewable energy, local expertise, and artificial intelligence, we aim to bring emissions down to zero.

Hannu Turunen is the Member of the Board of Exalocus. He was a Board Member at Men&Mice.

Investment focus

SaaS, Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence
Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
Finland, Sweden, United States

Portfolio highlights

Naava — Naava helps you to make safer and healthier indoor spaces - experience Naava green wall, a striking combination of nature and high-end technology.
Cargofy — Cargofy it's a mobile assistant, kind of a "Siri" but for truck drivers. We help truckers access to high paying loads through our app, and receive discounts on fuel, maintenance, and truck parts.
Picosun — Picosun is the leading manufacturer of Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) reactors for micro- and nanotechnology applications. Picosun provides the customers with versatile, reliable, and user-friendly ALD process tools, which offer world leading process quality and unique scalability from basic research to fully automated high throughput industrialproduction. Picosun is based in Espoo, Finland, its production facilities are located in Masala (Kirkkonummi), Finland, its US headquarters in Detroit, Michigan, and its Asian headquarters in Singapore. PICOSUN™ ALD process tools have been installed in various prominent industries and high-level reasearch organizations across Europe, USA, Asia and Australia. Picosun has world-wide sales and support network with distributors and representatives in over 30 countries.

Jonas Dromberg - Investor & Advisor @ Apprl

Investment focus

E-Commerce, SaaS, Internet
Funding Round, Angel, Series A
Sweden, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Apprl — Performance-based influencer marketing, made for e-commerce brands, and an invitation-only service for digital content creators.
Klevu — Join thousands of other ecommerce teams using Klevu technology to improve conversion and automate workflows. Personalized search, merchandising, and product recommendations that just work.

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).

Nami Zarringhalam was born in Tehran 1984 and moved to Stockholm at the age of 3. He studied Computer Science (M.sc.) at Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and is today co-founder and CSO (Chief Strategy Officer) of Truecaller - The world's largest verified mobile phone community dedicated to helping you take the right call.

Investment focus

Apps, Local Shopping, Small and Medium Businesses
Seed, Series A, Series B
India, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

LoveLocal (formerly m.Paani) — LoveLocal (formerly known as m.Paani) is the only app you need for all your daily needs fulfilled by your trusted local shops online. Now enjoy the convenience of online ordering, Fast home delivery, digital payments - all at a tap of a button. Shop anytime, anywhere from a vast range of products including fresh fruits, vegetables, groceries, OTCMedicines, Home and Personal Care Products, snacks, and much more. So LoveLocal!
CRED — Join 9M+ CRED members to earn rewards on your credit card bill payments.
Proposales — Proposales, currently three in the team, will hire more. The company also wants to accelerate the development of the product and especially the digital aspects of the offer.

Daniel Andersson

Investment focus

Messaging, Wearables, Health Care
Seed
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Leasify — Leasify have built a free tool where you can easily upload their lease and lease agreements to make the right decision and tips about what really makes them so expensive. Message sent when it is time to procure new equipment. In the procurement must be transparent quotes presented and established from reputable equipment suppliers that competeagainst each other on the buyer's conditions.
Flow Neuroscience — Flow Neuroscience is a healthcare company that develops depression treatment devices that combines an easy-to-use brain stimulation headset with a personalized mobile app to target both the physical and behavioral elements of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). The company's wearable stimulates a patient's left frontal lobe, the area of thebrain that has often lowered activity in people suffering from depression.Flow Neuroscience combines their wearable with a mobile app that nudges users to behaviors that will help lessen the effects of their depression, including exercise and regular sleeping patterns.The company's hope is to make available for the public a treatment that's currently only used in clinics specialized in brain stimulation. It also wants to make the treatment affordable enough to seriously challenge a dominant pharmaceuticals industry.

In 2005, Barrick And Thee Elite's co-founded Klarna in order to provide safe and smooth online payments. He currently serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Over the past decade, he has overseen the company’s rapid growth across Europe and more recently into North America. Klarna is a now fully licensed bank with 60mn consumer and 170,000merchant user base. Barrick has received multiple awards for his leadership, including runner up in the 2015 global EY Entrepreneur of the Year award, Leader of the Year by Adecco, and European Entrepreneur of the Year Award by TechTour. He holds a master’s degree from the Stockholm School of Economics.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Sweden, United States, Poland

Portfolio highlights

Nylas — Unlock the power of your communications data. The Nylas communication APIs remove complexity & empower teams to create seamless user experiences.
Prion — Prion makes it quick and easy for the preschool staff to give parents insight into what happens at preschool - together with the children. The app is available free for iPhone, Android and iPad.
Klarna — Einkaufen, was du willst. Bezahlen, wie du willst. Klarna bietet dir verschiedene Zahlungsarten an. Du entscheidest, welche am besten zu dir passt.

Viveka Ekberg

Investment focus

Software, Mobile Apps, Telecommunications
Seed, Funding Round
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Telness — Telness is a mobile operator offering mobile telephony with features specially tailored for business owners. Digital and easy to use. Of course at the right price, without bindings or hidden fees.

Simon Josefsson

Investment focus

Health Care, Sports, Consumer Goods
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Sweden, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Allihoop — Allihoop offers Scandinavian styled co-living homes for people on the move. Beautiful spaces designed to make you feel at home. Available in Stockholm and soon in Paris.
We Are Voice — We Are Voice is a new digital meeting place for choirs and choir leaders. We Are Voice facilitates everyday life for all of Sweden's choirs by offering a smarter way of communicating with each other, as well as taking part of choir arrangements and high-quality rehearsal files through an app that can be downloaded free of charge forsmartphones and tablets.
Stockrepublic — A social trading and community platform that enables unique portfolio insights, benchmarking and social collaboration for the customers of banks.

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).

Andreas is a German serial entrepreneur and angel investor having invested in more than 150 international startups.Andreas co-founded his first internet company Omniga in 1999 and, after reaching profitability within 2 years, grew it to a venture builder focused on B2C subscription models with more than 200 employees when he stepped back from hisactive roles in 2012.In the same year Andreas started investing in startups and later also got engaged in the Spanish ecosystem as the founder of Marbella Tech Angels, a network of more than 160 investors, founders & mentors living around Marbella. Andreas is also co-founder of the Global Super Angels Club, a platform for angel investors usually investing six-figure euro amounts in startups, supporting its more than 70 members to improve their deal flow and speed up their search for like-minded co-investors.Andreas received several awards incl. the Best European Early Stage Investor 2018 award from the European Business Angel Network (EBAN) and the Best Business Angel 2020 award at the Spanish National Business Angel Conference.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Apps
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

BRICKBRO — Currently, Brickbro is one of the leading real estate transactional platforms in the spanish market.
Xceed — Go out and live the best night events, parties & festivals at top clubs, bars and restaurants from around the world. Guest lists, tickets & VIP bottle service.
Tuvalum — Make used bikes great again! Tuvalum is the largets and most trusted site in pre-loved bikes. Every used bike is carefully certified by our expert mechanics. Our mission is to transform the bicycle industry for a more sustainable future through digitization and a great customer experience. Get the bike you really need for your goals and needs, allthe bikes are supremely certified by expert mechanics.

Kai Diekmann

Investment focus

Software, Open Source, Computer Vision
Pre-Seed
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Rerun — Log and visually explore computer vision and robotics data over time. Debug and understand the internal state and data of your systems with minimal code.

Des is the Co-Founder of Intercom, the platform for all customer interaction needs from marketing to support to product development. Previously he worked as User Experience Lead at web app development agency Contrast, and he was a Co-Founder of popular social networking search engine Bigulo.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Qase — Qase is a modern test management platform for manual & automated QA testing & reporting that helps your team deliver a higher quality product, faster.
Siro — Siro is a sales coaching platform that specializes in sales managers. Siro assists sales managers in providing precise feedback to field sales staff on live client conversations while also saving time in reporting.
SimpleStudy — SimpleStudy is an exam prep platform for Junior Cycle & Leaving Cert students. With exam papers, revision notes, quizzes, timed questions and essays, SimpleStudy is the study platform for Students in Ireland.

Tech Investor and Entrepreneur, former Founder & CEO at The Eye Tribe

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Denmark, Sweden, France

Portfolio highlights

Go Dogo — Go Dogo provides mental workout for dogs - It's an app-controlled wall-mounted robot that uses the home TV to give instructions and feedback. The combination of computer vision and treat releases enables brain games that slowly gets more and more challenging. Over-the-Air updates ensures that Go Dogo never gets old.
Rerun — Log and visually explore computer vision and robotics data over time. Debug and understand the internal state and data of your systems with minimal code.
Doublepoint — Solving Next-Generation Interactions. Doublepoint provides future computing platforms more intuitive, robust and versatile interactions.

his Masterâ€™s Degree in Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at the same institution in 2004.A stay in Palo Alto in 1998 sparked his interested in entrepreneurship and the World Wide Web. Shortly afterwards, he founded Quack Information Architecture. The company delivered web-development services and was among the first inSwitzerland to propagate standards-based XHTML and CSS code to their clients.In 2001 he started one of the first weblogs in Switzerland.From 1998-2004 Till Quack studied Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at the ETH Zurich, in Switzerland. He completed his Masterâ€™s Thesis at the University of California in Santa Barbara, where he contributed to the development of Cortina, a large-scale content-based image search engine for the WWW. Cortina is one of the first image search engines, searching millions of images.The combination of image recognition and the World-Wide Web unites his technological passions and led him to pursue a PhD in the same field.He co-created several mobile- and web-applications, among them mosaickr.com. He is author of several research papers and patents in the field of computer vision. Till Quackâ€™s interests lie in innovation, travelling, the outdoors, smart tv series, magazines, renewable energies, the baltic countries, and collective intelligence on the web.His personal page and blog can be found under www.quack.ch.

Investment focus

Software, Open Source, Computer Vision
Pre-Seed
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Rerun — Log and visually explore computer vision and robotics data over time. Debug and understand the internal state and data of your systems with minimal code.

Jacob Hellqvist is an Adviser and Investor.

Investment focus

B2B, Apps, Analytics
Seed, Pre-Seed
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Quartr — Download the Quartr app to access investor calls/presentations, earnings reports, slide decks and transcripts without friction (and for free!)
Dema.ai — First-of-its-kind AI decision platform for e-commerce

Johan Bendz

Investment focus

E-Commerce, B2B, Banking
Seed, Pre-Seed
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Juni — We're a tailor-made financial solution for your ecommerce, dropshipping, media buying or affiliate business. Here you can track your entire business in one place.
Dema.ai — First-of-its-kind AI decision platform for e-commerce

Laurent Leksell

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, mHealth
Funding Round, Seed
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Sana — We build products that augment how organizations learn and access knowledge. Built on AI. Designed and engineered in Stockholm, Sweden.
Coala Life — Coala Life is a Swedish medical technology and life science company that focuses on heart diagnostics and digital health. The company has developed a portfolio of solutions based on the Coala, a patented and commercial service for remote monitoring and self-screening of heart sounds and ECG. The Coala is available direct to consumers and theCoala Pro is offered to healthcare professionals to enable smart, digital cardiac assessments.
Mindmore — Mindmore Digitalize is a CE-marked medical device for digital cognitive screening.

Charlie Lee is the Founder at Litecoin Foundation. Charlie Lee is the creator of Litecoin, the most popular alternative currency to Bitcoin. He is an engineer manager at Coinbase. Charlie earned a Bachelors and Masters degree in electrical engineering and computer science from M.I.T.

Investment focus

Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, China

Portfolio highlights

Metagood — Metagood is a for-profit company that empowers communities to be catalysts for positive collective action.Founded by crypto veterans Danny Yang who created the largest crypto currency exchange in Taiwan, Amanda Terry who was an Twitter and NBC executive, and Bill Tai who was the first investor in Zoom, Canva, and 20 other publicly tradedcompanies, Metagood launched OnChainMonkey, the historic PFP collection all on chain in a single transaction on Sept 11, 2021. OnChainMonkey has been consistently ranked as one of the most profitable NFTs collections globally. Metagood was awarded Fast Company's 2022 20 Best World Changing Ideas for Impact Investing.
Monochrome — Monochrome Corporation is a leading provider of regulated crypto-asset investment solutions.
Flare Network — Flare is an EVM-based layer 1 that gives developers secure decentralized access to high-integrity data from other chains and the internet.

Patrik Mossberg

Investment focus

Hardware, Software, Internet of Things
Funding Round
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Parakey — Parakey allows smartphones to replace/complement key fobs and makes existing access control systems smart by adding our small hardware and Cloud service.

Matt Miesnieks is the CEO at Stealth Startup.

Investment focus

Software, Open Source, Computer Vision
Seed, Pre-Seed
Sweden, United States

Portfolio highlights

Aglet — Aglet is the first location-based app connecting sneakerheads, creators, and brands with geo-location play to explore the world. Download for iOS and Android!
Rerun — Log and visually explore computer vision and robotics data over time. Debug and understand the internal state and data of your systems with minimal code.

Sabba Keynejad is the Co-founder at VEED.IO. He attended University of the Arts London.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Photography
Seed
Sweden, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Kive — Superpower your team's visual collections in the blink of an AI.
Curvo — Curvo is the easiest way for young Belgians to passively invest through index funds.

Tomas Rudenstam

Investment focus

Drones, Forestry, GreenTech
Pre-Seed
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

AirForestry — AirForestry thins forests in a completely new way, namely from the air. #Re-inventing Forestry

Jon Hauksson is the Co-Founder of Storytel.

Investment focus

Internet, Education, Communities
Seed
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Togee — Togee enables its users to share their screen and audio in their favourite apps whilst texting, calling and drawing with their friends on-top simultaneously! Get second opinions on your next purchase or simply watch a funny video together – just like if you were sitting next to each other.

Kevin Stumpf is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Tecton.

Investment focus

EdTech, Software, Education
Seed, Pre-Seed
Sweden, United States

Portfolio highlights

Rerun — Log and visually explore computer vision and robotics data over time. Debug and understand the internal state and data of your systems with minimal code.
Subject — Subject provides high school learners access to premium, on-demand courses for credit or study support