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Top 50 Impact VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Sweden in February 2025

Last updated: Feb 2025 A list of 50 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Impact startups based in Sweden. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Impact companies from Sweden. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Impact VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Sweden in February 2025

Investor	Impact Sweden investments
Chalmers Ventures AB	21
Almi Invest	18
Norrsken VC	10
Midroc New Technology	6
Industrifonden	4
Kinnevik	4
CommerzVentures	4
DHS Venture Partners	3
byFounders	3
Headline	3
Luminar Ventures	3
H&M Group Ventures	3
Altor	3
Northzone	3
SMOK Ventures	3
SamInvest Mitt	3
Wave Ventures	2
Inventure	2
World Fund	2
CapitalT	2
SoftBank	2
Brightly Ventures	2
Sting Capital	2
Wiklöf Holding	2
Söderberg & Partners	2
European Space Agency	2
LT Capital	2
Inovo.vc	2
LongRun Capital	2
KnowledgeHub	2
Rampersand	2
KTH Holding	2
SEB Venture Capital	2
Wellstreet	2
Redstone.VC	2
Fort Knox	2
Visive Capital	2
Gullspång Invest	2
Vinnova	2
Peak	2
Almi Invest GreenTech	2
Mastercard	2
EXOR N.V.	2
La Famiglia	2
Spintop Ventures	2
Alfabeat	2
Verdane	2
Partnerinvest Norr	2
FINCA Ventures	2
Ålandsbanken	2

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We are a leading tech investor & venture builder in the Nordics. Taking deep tech from lab to market.WELCOMEINVESTMENTS

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Repli5 — Enabling autonomous vehicles with synthetic data. We automate the creation of synthetic data and digital twins.
Adsorbi — Adsorbi use cellulose from the Nordic forest to help air purification companies to capture gaseous air pollutants.
Galaxy Biosolutions — Explore the infinite possibilities of Precision Fermentation with Galaxy Biosolutions

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

RemotiveLabs — RemotiveLabs is a developer of an automotive software development platform designed to streamline the vehicle manufacturing process.
Readily Diagnostics — Readily Diagnostics develops speedy and accurate diagnostic tests for respiratory disorders, enabling faster and more effective therapy at the point of care.
Phenaros Pharmaceuticals — Data-centric drug discovery with AI, Phenomics and Automation.

We are a venture capital fund investigating in Start-Ups solving the worlds biggest problems while building massive businesses.

Investment focus

Software, Food and Beverage, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Sweden, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Kapu — We are an online shopping community that helps you save even more on your everyday essentials when you buy together with your friends.
1Komma5° — KOMMA5 ° offers all owners of electric vehicles free electricity, which we refinance through trading with so-called GHG quotas. 1KOMMA5 ° encourages to lead a self-determined and CO2-neutral life.
Beans — Beans is on a mission to help the planet by reducing food waste, saving products, and offering them through an online grocery platform at discounted prices.

The area of New Technologies is highly interesting to us.The companies in this area are often relatively small and new. Midroc has an understanding for entrepreneurism and innovations and can give significant support to innovative companies.We contribute to the process of building profitable companies, and possibly market leadingcorporations, out of innovative ideas. It is an interesting business with a useful function as commercial development of new technology in most cases requires financing and support from a venture capitalist.The potential for global and innovative technologies regarding alternative fuels, energy, environmental technology and a greener future is really without limitations or boundaries.The goal for Midroc New Technology is to go for inventions that gives a good return and at the same time also provides useful global and environmental benefits.

Investment focus

Energy, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Kärnfull — The Nordic region's very first 100% nuclear electricity provider. An ecorational tech-enabler raising funds to science and R&D in next-gen nuclear via every delivered kilowatt-hour. Currently active in Sweden and Denmark, with Midroc New Technology as minority owners. Driven by a rapid organic growth, supplying thousands of householdsand SMEs with the cleanest energy available (Swedish nuclear, 2,5g CO2/kWh) by means of a fully digital service and Guarantees of Origin (GOOs). Supported by pro-bono advisors José Gonzalez (artist), Caroline Cochran (Oklo), Steven Pinker (Harvard), Christian Ekberg (Chalmers), Kirsty Gogan (TerraPraxis), Eric Ingersoll (LucidCatalyst), Johan Carlsson (producer), Klara Insulander Björk (Chalmers).
CorPower Ocean — CorPower Ocean is a turnkey supplier of wave energy systems, enabling customers to generate clean electricity from ocean waves - bringing stability to the renewable energy mix.
Reliefed Technologies — Reliefed Technologies globally patented 3D-production method -z.trusion®, enable 3D mass-production in 2D-production lines. This enables large energy and cost savings and higher performance -especially in New energy applications such as bipolar flowplates for fuel cells/electrolyzers/heatexhangers, electrodes and EV-batteries . Thepatented, disruptive 3D-production technology enable radical cost and energy savings especially in new-energy sector f.ex: in production of bi-polar flow-plates used in fuel-cells and electrolyzers the savings are 97% less energy use, 10 times higher production speed and 95% less Capex per production capacity unit. The technology also enables recycling and large material and weigh savings. It can also enable increased performance in weight-saving and cooling in EV-batteries. Reliefed run industrialisation/implementation projects with leading multinational OEM´s and Tier1 suppliers in energy, transportation and building sectors. Currently Reliefed hold 44 granted patents from US in west to Japan, Korea and China in east, based on the founders invention. The technology enable higher product performance and cost savings in production -especially in energy solutions such as: Li Ion batteries: increased electrochemical reaction surface in electrodes (anodes & Cathodes in Li-ion batteries ), structurally/thermally optimesd EV-modules that can be charged in 6 minutes, bipolar flow plate production for electrolyzers, fuel-cells, reactors and heat-exchangers.

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

Avassa — Avassa is the one, easy-to-use solution to manage distributed applications across your on-premise, co-located and public cloud compute resources.
Gesynta Pharma — Founded in 2017, Gesynta Pharma bases its R&D on research from the Karolinska Institutet. The most advanced drug candidate, GS-248, reduces inflammation and increases blood flow in the microvasculature, thereby having the potential to provide improved treatments for several serious diseases. In an ongoing clinical proof-of-concept study,GS-248 is being evaluated for its capacity to normalize vascular blood flow and reduce pain in patients with the autoimmune disease systemic sclerosis. Positive results from this study may lead to a rapid broadening of the development program towards additional indications, for example cardiovascular diseases and rheumatic diseases other than systemic sclerosis. Major shareholders include Industrifonden, Linc, Hadean Ventures, and a number of successful life science entrepreneurs. For more information, please visit www.gesynta.se
ZeroPoint Technologies — ZeroPoint Technologies AB was created in 2016 as a spinout from Chalmers University of Technology. The Intellectual Property Portfolio related to computer memory management was the acquired from the University and transferred into a new startup.The Technology, ideas and many of the people behind and with ZeroPoint comes from Professor PerStenströms research group, which is internationally recognized for excellence within high-performance Computing. Since its creation, ZeroPoint has attracted skilled people from industry, finance and the startup community and raised its’ first round of Venture Capital in 2016.

Kinnevik is an industry-focused investment company with an entrepreneurial spirit. Its purpose is to build digital consumer businesses that provide more and better choices. The company does this by working in partnership with talented founders and management teams to create, invest in, and lead fast-growing businesses in developed and emergingmarkets.Kinnevik believes in delivering both shareholder and social value by building well-governed companies that contribute positively to society. Kinnevik was founded in 1936 by the Stenbeck, Klingspor, and von Horn families. Kinnevik's shares are listed on Nasdaq Stockholm's list for large-cap companies under the ticker codes KINV A and KINV B.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Health Care, Internet
Series B, Series C, Funding Round
United States, Germany, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

TravelPerk — TravelPerk offers the freedom travelers want, and the control companies need. Enjoy an industry-leading travel inventory, 24/7 support and easy booking.
Mews — Cloud-native, Mews PMS is an innovative hospitality management system that enables automation to boost revenue and empowers remarkable guest experiences.
Enveda Biosciences — Enveda Biosciences is a biotechnology company building new medicines from plants. It harnesses the complexity of the natural world to tackle today’s biggest healthcare challenges. With the help of the advancements in knowledge graphs, machine learning, and metabolomics, they discover the next generation of small molecules. Its technologiessystematize the discovery of small molecules and novel targets for complex diseases. By probing novel chemical space and mechanisms of action, they are breaking the status quo for challenging diseases with a need for effective treatments, such as fibrosis or neurodegeneration.Enveda, launched in 2019, is based in San Francisco, California.

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

carbmee GmbH — Automate your companys carbon & ESG reporting & reduce Scope 1,2,3 emissions. Decarbonization tool based on data & science. Enterprise climate platform.
Doconomy — Doconomy is a Sweden-based fintech company that offers digital banking services. Their vision is of enabling a sustainable lifestyle for everyone. Doconomy wants to inspire change in behaviour and reduce unsustainable consumption and carbon emissions. Doconomy activates a circular ecosystem, connecting the consumer, the producer, the retailer andinfluencer to futureproof planet earth, and achieve a sustainable lifestyle for all.
lemon.markets — lemon.markets provide a REST API to support creating and executing orders at the stock market and retrieving market data.

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.
Normain — Normain is the AI platform for deep knowledge work. Automate your complex analyses and reports directly on Sharepoint or Google Drive. Access your own data and public sources in one single platform.
Circulate — Find the best packaging for you and the planet in our marketplace

byFounders is the community-powered early-stage venture fund investing in globally ambitious teams connected to the Nordic and Baltic countries. With its unique Collective of founders and operators, byFounders offers its portfolio operational expertise and a global network. Believing in the power of tech to shape our future, byFounders takes an impact-aware approach to investing and working with the broader startup ecosystem.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Denmark, United States, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

DREM — Simplifying distributed energy saving solutions
Meine Erde — Meine Erde is a provider of ecological burial option in Europe.
DataCrunch.io — DataCrunch is a cloud service provider which facilitates utilization and integration of state of the art AI/ML models

Headline is a Venture Capital firm actively on the ground in 7 cities around the world. We invest across categories and geographies, leading rounds at every stage. Once we commit to a team, we go to the ends of the earth to make their success global.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Air — Do you like your marketing and brand collateral scattered everywhere? Neither do we. Send productivity soaring with a flexible and powerful creative ops system.
Closinglock — Closinglock is modernizing the real estate world’s way of transferring information to eliminate wire fraud & protect buyers.
Cycles Nutrition — Cycles Nutrition provides science-backed, accessible nutritional strategies that empower health-conscious individuals to optimize longevity and enhance quality of life.

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, Series A, Funding Round
Sweden, Norway, United States

Portfolio highlights

Yazen — Yazen is a digital obesity clinic that offers weight loss through modern pharmaceutical treatment.
Deckmatch — Tooling to drink from the firehose of data, that is your top of funnel (TOFU)
Lightbringer — Lightbringer is your all-in-one solution for patent protection. Easily navigate your patent journey with our digital AI-powered platform and seasoned patent attorneys.

H&M Group Ventures is the venture capital arm of the H&M Group.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fashion, Textiles
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Sweden, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Avassa — Avassa is the one, easy-to-use solution to manage distributed applications across your on-premise, co-located and public cloud compute resources.
Cult Mia — Your guide to designer discovery. We handpick the best fashion from around the world and bring it to you weekly. Our exclusive curated drops feature the most exciting new brands & unique pieces. This is power dressing with staying power.
Heirloom — Heirloom is restoring balance to our atmosphere by removing 1 billion tons of carbon dioxide by 2035. We use natural processes to engineer the world's most cost-effective Direct Air Capture solution.

Entrepreneurs at heart. Engaged in partnerships built on curiosity, creativity and achieving a lasting impact.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, E-Commerce, Renewable Energy
Private Equity, Funding Round, Post-IPO Equity
Sweden, Norway, United States

Portfolio highlights

Aira — Aira operates as a clean energy-tech company.
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.
Marshall Group — Marshall Group is formed by merging Zound Industries and Marshall Amplification companies.

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

Portfolio highlights

Nivoda — Nivoda provides jewellery businesses with a simple solution to strengthen profits, increase efficiency and accelerate growth with its B2B diamond marketplace. Designed to save you time and money whilst giving you access to the world’s diamond supply at the best prices with zero inventory risk, Nivoda is trusted by thousands of retailers all overthe globe.
Tana — Tana is a software development company that reinvents how humans, teams, and computers work together. Tana was founded in 2020 and was headquartered in Oslo, Norway.
Berry Street — Nutrition therapy by registered dietitians covered by insurance.

Bridging Silicon Valley to CEE

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Poland, United States, Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

LetsData — Early discovery and response coordination to media anomalies
Authologic — Authologic is a system that helps businesses in checking the identity of their clients online.Authologic is a provider of identity verification solutions that includes tools for determining identity through online video, data, and digital IDs.Krzysztof Klimczak, Jarek Sygitowicz, and Marek Rogoziński founded Authologic in 2020 and is based inWarsaw, Poland.
Wonder Legends Studio — Wonder Legends Studio SA (WLS), a Polish transmedia studio working on a video game and an animated series, the company goal is to create a production model based on the interchangeability of assets in video games and animation.

Saminvest is a venture capital company that was formed by the Swedish government in 2016. Saminvest actively works to establish new and sustainable venture capital funds and angel investor programmes that expand the venture capital market in Sweden. Through Saminvest's indirect investments and work with investment funds, innovative and fast-growing companies can gain access to more capital and expert advice.

Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, Hardware
Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

The Fit — Let our AI-powered fitting technology improve your customer experience and bottom line.
Learnster — Learnster develops the LMS of tomorrow for growing organizations aspiring to achieve maximum learning in minimum time.
Brick Technology — Brick is an app that solves the problem of electronics running out of battery. Download our app and find the nearest Brick station on the map, then rent a power bank (with cables) to charge your phone, tablet, headphones or whatever it is that is running out of battery. Return the power bank to any Brick station so that you can charge on the go.Stay in charge.

Founded in 2016, Wave Ventures is the largest student-run VC in Europe, backed by Nordic unicorn founders, investing in Gen Z entrepreneurs at the earliest stage. We operate both from Finland and Sweden with a team of five people from the top universities in the region.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Mobile Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Finland, Sweden, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Solu — Solu.co is a Fastest Growing hub for Technology, How-to, Gadgets, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Digital Marketing And Business Ideas.
Daze — Daze provides a first-mile pickup service for e-commerce and recommerce.
Synergi — Synergi app features smart charging, smart climate, solar charging, and more to help you use electricity when it's cheap and good for the planet. Start saving and earning with smart electricity use!

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
Finland, Sweden, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Moncyte Health — Unique technology and novel data for personalized and optimal treatment of high cholesterol
Biomatter — Biomatter Designs is pioneering the technologies for generative protein design at the intersection of synthetic biology and AI.
Avenue Biosciences — From biotechnology tools to therapy discovery and development: Our platform enhances production yield and the quality of your end product.

European VC backing entrepreneurs who build climate tech that can save at least 100Mt CO2e emissions per year.

Investment focus

Sustainability, Energy Storage, Energy
Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
Germany, United Kingdom, Sweden

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!
Anaphite — A breakthrough nanomaterial
Vaeridion — Clean and affordable air mobility before 2030.

CapitalT is a venture capital fund investing in tech companies in climate tech, future of work, education, and web3/the new social. They help exceptional teams develop groundbreaking ideas to grow better, scale faster, and change across their industries.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
The Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

RYE — RYE is a members-only, low-cost green energy supplier built for businesses with no time to deal with energy suppliers. Always accurate energy or it's free
AirForestry — AirForestry thins forests in a completely new way, namely from the air. #Re-inventing Forestry
Chapter — Chapter provides purpose-built AI solutions that streamline workflows and increase efficiency for renewable energy enterprises.

SoftBank Group Corp. (Chairman & CEO: Masayoshi Son) Corporate and IR site provides company information such as our company profile, an overview of the company and Group companies, as well as IR and CSR.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Series B, Series C, Funding Round
United States, Brazil, Japan

Portfolio highlights

ASAAS — Asaas helps individuals and companies automate financial processes and improve their relationship with customers. It brings in a single place, sending invoices, automation of communication through different channels, and receivable management. It’s possible to receive payments through bank payment slip, credit, and debit, send transfers, pay bills,anticipate receivables and NFS-e. It’s also connected to a credit card to withdraw from ATMs. Much more than a bank account, it drastically reduces manual work in administrative tasks and reduces the default rate, improving the customer’s cash flow.
OpenAI — Introducing Sora: Creating video from text
Blip — Digital communication solutions from Take Blip provide smarter contacts with your customers. See what the chatbots can do!

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, Funding Round, Series A
Sweden, United States

Portfolio highlights

Adway — Adway specializes in recruitment marketing, employer branding, Hr-tech and candidate journey solutions.
Fast Travel Games — Fast Travel Games is a VR exclusive game developer and publisher, founded by industry leading veterans and behind acclaimed titles such as Apex Construct and Wraith: The Oblivion - Afterlife.
Collective Minds Radiology — Collective Minds® is the new radiology workspace. A cloud-based service for collaboration, consultation and access to new digital tools and expertise. We are building the largest global network of collective and artificial intelligence, with humans and machines.

Sting – Stockholm Innovation & Growth enables talented people to turn their ideas into sustainable businesses. The support they offer includes qualified coaching in business development, a business angel network, a venture capital fund, a recruitment service, and an international network of investors, business contacts and experts. Itcontribute to the success of Sweden’s future technology companies by helping them to grow and compete internationally.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Medical
Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

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.
Texelio — Texelio a company who is set to redefine financial market news by developing AI which empowers the customers of Retail banks, Online Brokers and Investment Service platforms.
Minnemera — Minnemera develops digital neurocognitive tests.

Wiklöf Holding operates as a holding company. It invests in logistics, construction, helicopter, real estate ownership, trade, and tourism sectors.

Investment focus

FinTech, Social Impact, Sustainability
Series A, Funding Round
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Doconomy — Doconomy is a Sweden-based fintech company that offers digital banking services. Their vision is of enabling a sustainable lifestyle for everyone. Doconomy wants to inspire change in behaviour and reduce unsustainable consumption and carbon emissions. Doconomy activates a circular ecosystem, connecting the consumer, the producer, the retailer andinfluencer to futureproof planet earth, and achieve a sustainable lifestyle for all.

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

Mobile, FinTech, Insurance
Pre-Seed, Seed
Sweden, United Kingdom

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.

The European Space Agency (ESA) is Europe’s gateway to space. Its mission is to shape the development of Europe’s space capability and ensure that investment in space continues to deliver benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world. ESA is an international organisation with 22 Member States. By coordinating the financial and intellectualresources of its members, it can undertake programmes and activities far beyond the scope of any single European country.ESA’s budget for 2017 is €5.75 billion. ESA operates on the basis of geographical return, i.e. it invests in each Member State, through industrial contracts for space programmes, an amount more or less equivalent to each country’s contribution. There are around 2200 staff working for ESA, from all the Member States and include scientists, engineers, information technology specialists and administrative personnel.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Grant, Pre-Seed, Seed
Germany, United Kingdom, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Forsway — Forsway is a satellite systems designer focused on the creation of end-user low-cost hybrid satellite / terrestrial telecommunication terminals. Forsway's leadership in innovation responds to one key requirement: cost efficiency in the provision of broadband services to end users.Forsway coordinates the development of new products withthe key players in the satellite and wireless industries (including the European Space Agency, some of the major Satellite Service Providers and Telco operators worldwide), applying the state of the art in technology to enable the generation of high tech / low cost end user terminals that can maximize the use of both satellite and terrestrial networks capacity: support for DVB-S2 waveforms (including VCM and ACM outbound modes, up to 16APSK demods), support for 3G WCDMA/HSPA (also GPRS/EDGE).Forsway’s mission remains to contribute in the bridging of the digital divide by applying maximum efficiency in the operation of hybrid terrestrial/satellite telecommunication networks.
Hula Earth — Biodiversity Monitoring for Nature, Agriculture, and Infrastructure
Horizon Microfabrication — The goal of Horizon is to provide clients with revolutionary micro-scale conductive parts and components to succeed. Horizon provides a comprehensive 3D microfabrication production process chain under one roof, together with extensive experience in the design and development of 3D microparts.

We are:Industry 4.0 seed fund. Typically, we invest around EUR 250K. If necessary, we are able to bring top-tier co-investors to the table if a bigger ticket is needed.Founder-centric. Few VC's understand that founders are the ones that run the companies. We are there to help, not to replace.Heavily networked. With contacts across theglobe, we are the bridge between great companies from the CEE and bigger funds and clients from rest of the world.Focused on CEE. In the upcoming years we will invest in around 40 companies in Central and Eastern Europe, with Poland being the main site of our investments.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Messaging
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Poland, United States, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Fizen.com — Fizen is your all-in-one financial solution, designed to seamlessly fuse traditional systems with the pioneering world of digital finance. Whether it's processing transactions through our robust payment gateway, delving into banking history for enriched financial data, offering white-label mobile wallet solutions, or integrating digital currencies including crypto and stablecoins,
ProperGate — Smart delivery management system providing real-time information and control of materials on complex construction sites.
SmartyMeet — We are Leveraging the power of AI to enhance meetings We will create automatic notes during a meeting and real-time language translation | SmartyMeet

VC for the most ambitious founders in CEE

Investment focus

Software, B2B, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Poland, United States, Italy

Portfolio highlights

SplxAI — The SplxAI platform is the first complete pentesting solution for Conversational AI apps. Secure your AI systems proactively with automated vulnerability assessments and mitigation.
Pythagora — Dev tool that uses AI to generate integration tests by analysing server activity without the developer having to write a single line of code
Quantia — A powerful and easy to use analytics platform for tracking, analyzing and understanding the performance of your brand in the ecommerce world.

Longrun Capital is a seed-stage capital focused on a sustainable, equitable, and prosperous world based in the Nordics.

Investment focus

Environmental Consulting, SaaS, Cycling
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Sweden, Germany

Portfolio highlights

CNaught — CNaught is an online platform that helps companies to purchase a diversified portfolio of carbon offsets.
Ekolution — Ekolution is a Sustainability & Cycling company.Ekolution AB offers durable, climate-smart prefabricated panels of the natural material hemp lime (hempcrete). Our building materials are not only carbon neutral, but actually carbon dioxide negative (there is more CO2 bound in the hemp than is emitted.
Levanta — Levanta is an Amazon Affiliate Marketing platform that helps Sellers build partnerships directly with revenue-generating creators, influencers, and affiliates

People are in the center of our actions. We believe that investment in human capital and its unique value guarantee success.

Investment focus

Software, Marketplace, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Poland, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

PerfectBot — An AI agent that learns from your content to instantly resolve tickets and free up your team.
SUPERSONIC Food — SUPERSONIC is a brand of products that replace traditional meals and beverages (meal replacement product), are innovative in their recipe and consist of the best plant components.SUPERSONIC are products of plant origin created by scientists, nutritionists and biotechnologists, that provide full nutritional value, build immunity and delay theaging process.
INKsearch.co — INKsearch.co is a platform that allows you to book a tattoo online. We simplify and speed up the booking process.

Rampersand is the first investor in founders with abnormal potential in Aus & NZ. We have invested 100M+ AUD in 34 companies & returned millions to investors.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
Australia, United States, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Restoke — Your restaurant, Your rules. Automate your process and let your team deliver
Cuttable — Cuttable operates as an automated content agency.
JigSpace — JigSpace is the interactive 3D presentation software that anyone can use to create immersive AR demonstrations and rich product stories. No coding required!

KTH Holding is a state-owned limited company managed by KTH's University Board. It invests in promising startup companies that are based on research or teaching at KTH, with the aim of supporting commercialization and making it easier for new science to benefit society.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Cellfion — Cellfion provides sustainable materials for next level clean energy storage and conversion devices.
porkchop — In-space logistics for SmallSats in Low Earth Orbit and beyond.
Novatron — A new fusion reactor design for stable plasma confinement and fusion power generation.

SEB Venture Capital is a Fintech investor that helps entrepreneurs and innovators launch and grow profitable businesses. They primarily serve as a strategic corporate venture focused on Fintech investments, with the option of partnering with SEB. They are also on the hunt for game-changing inventive solutions to new technologies that will make thefinancial industry smarter, safer, and more environmentally responsible, as well as more user-friendly. They also function as an evergreen fund, giving them the flexibility and staying strength to focus on long-term wealth development depending on what is best for the firm and its shareholders.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Sweden, Denmark, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Airsonett — Research-based medical technology company which leads the way in the development of non-pharmaceutical treatment for allergic asthma.
EnginZyme — EnginZyme is a biotechnology company that specializes in biocatalysis. It creates products for easy and cost-efficient implementation of biocatalytic processes and helps the chemical industry transition to a sustainable way of operating.The company is driven by a mission to make biocatalysis the first choice for chemical process designersworldwide.
Qvantum — Qvantum is driven by a passion for a sustainable future and we are changing the way the cities of Europe are heated.

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.
Key Ward — Accelerate your engineering projects with data intelligence. Mitigate the risk of late stage failures in your AI adoption journey with our no-code platform.
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.

The Redstone team is an international and diverse group of serial entrepreneurs, investors, investment professionals, tech analysts and data scientists.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, Finland, France

Portfolio highlights

DREM — Simplifying distributed energy saving solutions
ClimeFi — ClimeFi is the leader specialising in permanent carbon removals (CDRs), partnering with companies to build portfolio of certified CDR assets.
Atlas Metrics — The single source of truth for your ESG data

Fort Knox is a family-owned growth engine that invests in entrepreneurs to grow and develop.

Investment focus

Apps, Agriculture, Financial Services
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Arevo — Arevo offers liquid and granular amino acid fertilizer technologies for faster and better plant establishment.
Elastisys — Succeed with your cloud native journey as an organization developing and operating software critical to our society. NIS2, ISO-27001, GDPR.
Impactpool — Job vacancies in the European Union, United Nations and International Organizations.

Visive Capital is a venture capital investment firm.

Investment focus

Environmental Engineering, Finance, Internet
Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Earthbanc — The world's most advanced data driven carbon and finance marketplace. Venture backed by the European Space Agency incubator.
Measure & Change — Measure & Change has developed an automatic climate calculation service that collects data from the customer's business system, analyzes it, and calculates the organization's climate impact in real time.

Gullspång Invest is a Stockholm based family office with a long-term investment philosophy. Gullspång Invest funds team of entrepreneurs who are committed to building companies making a big positive impact. The company is a purpose-driven, for profit, with passion, and are seeking long-term partnerships with like-minded entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Software, Food and Beverage, Solar
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Sweden, United States

Portfolio highlights

Qvantum — Qvantum is driven by a passion for a sustainable future and we are changing the way the cities of Europe are heated.
Baseload Capital — At Baseload Capital we dream of a planet in balance with resilient societies that run on renewable geothermal energy.
NICK’S — Swedish-style ice cream is so creamy, so light and so Swedish. Swedish-style is low fat, low calorie, and keto friendly ice cream. But most importantly it's CREAMY ice cream that has only 4-7g of net carbs per serving.

Vinnova is Sweden's government agency for innovation. Our mission is to contribute to sustainable growth by improving the conditions for innovation. We do this mainly by funding innovation projects and the research needed to develop new solutions. We also invest long term in strong research and innovation environments. We stimulatecollaborations between companies, universities and other higher education institutions, public services, civil society and other actors. Our activities also focus on strengthening international cooperation. Each year, Vinnova invests around $350 millions in fostering innovation. Most of these funds are allocated via calls for proposals in which companies, public sector actors and other organisations apply for funding. All investments are continuously monitored and evaluated and we regularly analyse the impacts of our investments.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
Grant, Funding Round, Seed
Sweden, United States

Portfolio highlights

Saab — Saab serves the global market of governments, authorities and corporations with products, services and solutions ranging from military defence to civil security.
BeammWave — BeammWave provides a single chip for digital beamforming including front-end and antenna arrays for mobile phones and IoT devices. BeammWave was founded in 2017 and was headquartered in Lund, Sweden.
Beat Vascular Health — Beat Vascular Health is developing a decision support tool that is accurate, accessible, and simple to use in order to assist prevent ACS overadmission. The use of AI-supported software and multi-sensor input results in increased accuracy. Their system's software is presently being utilized to handle similar difficulties in other applications.

European early-stage venture capital fund backed 100% by founders. Helping Pre-Seed and Seed SaaS, Marketplaces & Platforms with their Go-To-Market.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
The Netherlands, Germany, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Vetnio — Vetnio is a tool that records conversations between veterinary professionals and pet owners, automatically generating clinical notes for the meetings. It saves veterinary professionals time, allowing them to focus more on their patients.
Outcome — Our mission: Give companies the power to continuously evolve
Workwize — Provide and maintain any kind of remote equipment for your workforce, no matter where they are

Almi Invest GreenTech is a venture capital company and an active start-up investor.

Investment focus

Waste Management, Energy, Manufacturing
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Zparq — Zparq designs and manufactures marine electric propulsion products.
Modvion — Modvion is a Swedish/ American Engineering and Industrial Design company developing modular designs in renewable engineered wood product materials to simplify and improve construction logistics.Their current area of focus is in wind tower technology. Modvion´s patented module technology enables significantly decreased cost, efficienttransportation and streamlined installation of towers exceeding 120 m. Ultimately, this results in increased cost efficiency in the harvesting of wind resources.
EnginZyme — EnginZyme is a biotechnology company that specializes in biocatalysis. It creates products for easy and cost-efficient implementation of biocatalytic processes and helps the chemical industry transition to a sustainable way of operating.The company is driven by a mission to make biocatalysis the first choice for chemical process designersworldwide.

Mastercard is a payments and technology company that connects consumers, businesses, merchants, and governments. They provide data services and marketing center. Their marketing materials help card portfolios and businesses. They also provide fraud prevention solutions and payment ecosystem security.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
Series A, Corporate Round, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

On Me — The hobbies gift card you can tap-to-pay.
MTN Group Fintech — MTN MoMo is a fintech platform providing consumers and businesses with a host of innovative digital financial services...
Clearbox AI — Benefit from Synthetic Data to unlock your AI projects, overcome privacy issues and improve the utility of your data.

EXOR is a holding company based in the Netherlands that the Agnelli family controls. The company has a diverse portfolio of investments in various industries, including automotive, real estate, and finance. The company is known for taking a long-term approach to its assets and has a reputation for being a patient and value-oriented investor. Thecompany's primary focus is on creating long-term value for its shareholders by actively managing and growing its portfolio of investments.EXOR's core mission is to cultivate exceptional enterprises, simultaneously nurturing opportunities for its talented workforce to flourish, make meaningful societal contributions, and yield outstanding returns for its valued investors.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Health Care, Service Industry
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Italy

Portfolio highlights

Bee — Bee is an AI developer of a life administration wearable assistant.
Lupa Pets — Lupa connects pet parents with pet service providers. Building the world’s first solution which integrates E2E, offering cutting-edge Practice Management Software, an online booking platform comprehensive of all service providers, and a market-leading Gen-AI vet assistant.
Backed Finance — Backed is a bridge between stocks, ETFs and the emerging DeFi ecosystem.

We are an early-stage venture capital fund backing the best tech entrepreneurs across Europe and the US

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Parloa — Amplify your customer service experience with a team of personal AI agents. Leverage the full power of generative AI for contact center automation.
Langdock — Meet Langdock. Start with a GDPR-compliant daily chat companion for your employees. Then deploy more advanced AI use cases like Assistants and Workflows. All in one easily extendable platform.
NaroIQ — Discover how we make Money Matter through out innovative fund infrastructure, enabling fair and redistributive earnings in the ETF and fund market.

Founded in 2009, Spintop Ventures is a venture capital firm backed by a network of successful tech entrepreneurs who have invested in Spintop alongside institutional investors, family offices and some of the most experienced private investors in early stage growth companies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Sweden, Finland, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Cambri — Cambri is concept testing software that helps global brands accelerate their innovation process.
Zymego — Zymego develops solutions that relieve healthcare workers of administrative work while improving patient access to healthcare.
Tings — Tings is a mobile app that helps people to organize and retain, and sell non-required recyclable and used merchandise.

Welcome to Alfabeat, a specialist seed and early stage venture capital fundfocused on Enterprise SaaS companies from Central and Eastern Europe,backed by successful enterprise software founders.

Investment focus

Software, Marketing, Internet
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Poland, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

SunRoof — Roof of the future
Monetizr — Monetizr connects brands with 300M+ Gen Z and Millennial gamers through rewarded, native experiences in mobile games, driving engagement, brand favorability, and purchase intent in one of the most immersive media channels.
Fluency — Fluency is a blockchain-empowered CBDC proprietary platform revolutionizing the existing financial system. Their blockchain enterprise smart contract platform was developed for the purpose of building and interconnecting national multi CBDC networks. Fluency Aureum allows issuance, distribution, and exchange of multi-CBDCs between central banks,commercial banks, merchants, and consumers. The company's proprietary technology is specifically tailored with the idea of bringing technological and economical innovations of digital currencies to the existing financial system.It was incorporated in 2019, headquartered in London, UK with subsidiaries in Delaware, US, and Dublin, Ireland.

The preferred growth partner to tech-enabled businesses in Northern Europe.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
Funding Round, Private Equity, Series A
Sweden, Norway, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Sitoo — Delight your customers with best-in-class shopping journeys. Every time. Everywhere.
fiskaly — fiskaly develops smart cloud solutions for complex requirements in fiscalization, electronic receipts, and invoices for our partners in retail technology.Our SIGN fiscalization software and APIs are designed to avoid tax tampering by generating unique digital transaction signatures. We are 100% compliant with country-specific legislations andoffer cloud-based solutions without additional hardware. fiskaly’s certified product for Germany is the market leading and operating in more than 600,000 cash registers. Our solution for digital receipts opens up modern ways to optimize business processes and create new experiences. We enable full-circle benefits for POS providers, retailers, and consumers. With this paperless receipt alternative, fiskaly has won several awards for innovation & sustainability in 2023.
Ingrid — Ingrid was founded with a mission to create delivery experiences that fit people's lives by letting e-commerce businesses deliver sustainable growth and giving shoppers the power to personalize delivery and returns. The result is a better overall customer experience and greater efficiency for both the retailer and the delivery carrier.

Partnerinvest Norr is a private equity firm specialized in software, security, and biometrics sectors. Partnerinvest Övre Norrland AB is a venture capital firms that seeks to invest in limited companies which have are in the expansion phase.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Flasheye — Flasheye has proven technology from the automotive, defense, and robotics industries into industrial applications.
Elastisys — Succeed with your cloud native journey as an organization developing and operating software critical to our society. NIS2, ISO-27001, GDPR.
Nordic Quick Systems — Nordic Quick Systems have been developing sprockets with segments that can be rotated and replaced. With their solution, machine maintenance can be carried out while both the chain and wheel body remain on the conveyor. Their products are developed in northern Sweden, a region strongly associated with well-qualified heavy industry. They work fortheir patented sprocket to become a new industry standard that streamlines the industry.

FINCA Ventures is an impact investing initiative of FINCA International that provides patient capital and support to early-stage social enterprises.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Information Technology, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Kenya, Mexico, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

FloatPays — Floatpays help your employees achieve financial wellbeing by giving them early access to earned wages.
Bamba — We help large companies that want to help their affinity users to solve unforeseen events fast, by minimizing costs, through a smart digital agent embedded in any company’s interface
Lapaire — Discover a wide range of high-quality & affordable eyeglasses at Lapaire Glasses. Book a free vision test with our professional optometrists to help you find your perfect pair of glasses to enhance your vision and style. Shops in 7 african countries: Benin, Ivory Coast, Togo, Burkina Faso, Mali, Kenya and Uganda.

Alandsbanken provides retail banking, corporate finance, asset management, and private banking services to institutions and individuals.

Investment focus

FinTech, Social Impact, Sustainability
Series A, Funding Round
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Doconomy — Doconomy is a Sweden-based fintech company that offers digital banking services. Their vision is of enabling a sustainable lifestyle for everyone. Doconomy wants to inspire change in behaviour and reduce unsustainable consumption and carbon emissions. Doconomy activates a circular ecosystem, connecting the consumer, the producer, the retailer andinfluencer to futureproof planet earth, and achieve a sustainable lifestyle for all.

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