# Top 20 Legal Startup Investors in Sweden in June 2026 ## Industrifonden - Type: VC Fund - Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology 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. ## Benchmark - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C - Focus: Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS Benchmark invests in and works alongside entrepreneurs building startups into transformational companies. They focus on early-stage venture investing in mobile, marketplaces, social, and infrastructure and enterprise software. Founded in 1995, the firm has offices in Woodside and San Francisco, California.The firm has been recognized for itscommitment to open source and is noted for creating the first equal ownership and compensation structure for its partners. The five equal general partners who take board seats and a hands-on approach to every entrepreneur and company they back, with no junior investment staff. Current general partners are Chetan Puttagunta, Sarah Tavel, Victor Lazarte, Peter Fenton, and Eric Vishria. Benchmark has had 37 exits since beginning of 2011; 14 IPOs and 23 M&As representing a total market value of more than $60 billion.Benchmark’s current portfolio of early-stage venture investments includes private market leaders such as Uber, Snapchat, Tinder, Stitch Fix, Elastic and Cyanogen; recent IPOs and acquisitions such as Twitter, Instagram, Yelp, League of Legends, Jasper, OpenTable, New Relic, Hortonworks, Amplitude, Confluent, GrubHub, Zendesk and Zillow; and franchise companies from Juniper to eBay to Red Hat. ## NFT Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Apps We drive the fintech revolution Next Financial Technology Ventures Backing fintech pioneers since 2014 We aim to capture the shift in the financial industry and empower the entrepreneurs to realize their potential Our Story Strong portfolio across Fintech View the full portfolio Exciting news from the NFT portfolio View all news ## Inbox Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Apps, Software, Mobile Apps Venture Capital in disruptive, global and high growth potential companies. Stage of funding is pre-series A - C rounds ## Wayfinder Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence Wayfinder Ventures is a San Francisco based early stage venture fund ## Alt Capital - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology Alt Capital is a early-stage venture capital firm. ## Soläng Invest - Type: VC Fund - Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Apps, SaaS, Legal Soläng Invest ## Creades AB - Type: VC Fund - Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Apps Creades is an investment company investing in businesses that have the potential for revaluation and value creation. Creade's business concept is to provide a good risk-adjusted return to its shareholders by investing in businesses where Creades can act as an engaged owner, primarily in small and medium-listed and unlisted Swedish companies.The firm is a spin-off from Investment AB Öresund. ## Redpoint - Type: VC Fund - Location: Menlo Park, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C - Focus: Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology Redpoint partners with visionary entrepreneurs to create new markets & redefine existing ones. We invest in startups across seed, early & growth phases. ## XVC Tech - Type: VC Fund - Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Web3 XDC Ventures is a $125mn fund supported by founders of the XDC Blockchain Network that specializes in investing in early-stage Tech start-ups. ## Paladin Capital Group - Type: VC Fund - Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C - Focus: Software, Cyber Security, Information Technology Paladin Capital Group is a leading global investor that supports and grows the world’s most innovative companies through venture investment, expansion, and growth capital. Paladin is a leader in investing in technologies, products, and services focused on dual use in both commercial and governmental markets with a strong value-add culture. ThePaladin team merges financial expertise with national security and technical competence to add value across a wide array of market sectors and company stages. Paladin is focused on being an active investor—bringing decades of experience, advice, access, and relationships to its portfolio companies.Their most recent fund focuses on digital infrastructure resilience, investing globally in advanced technologies and solutions which enable, monitor, manage, and defend critical infrastructure that is dependent on cyber space. The firm is headquartered in Washington, DC, with offices in New York City, Silicon Valley, London, and Luxembourg. ## SV Aangel - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet SV Angel is a service organization, investing in founders who share these values. They support entrepreneurs in building lasting companies by assisting at key inflection points and leveraging networks to help them propel their businesses forward. ## EDGE Technologies - Type: VC Fund - Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Pre-Seed, Corporate Round - Focus: Software, Legal, Energy Building a better, healthier, more beautiful world by providing the world with better buildings. EDGE offers sustainable, forward-thinking, well-designed buildings and technology driving the cities of the future ## Darian Shirazi - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence Darian Shirazi is the Managing Partner of Gradient. ## Hummingbird Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech Supporting Exceptional entrepreneurs. We value emotional intelligence as much as data, growing internal culture as much as growing revenue, and forming strong, personal bonds with founders. We recognize patterns where other don't. ## Yuri Sagalov - Type: Angel - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology Yuri Sagalov is the CEO and co-founder of AeroFS, which he started with his co-founder and CTO Weihan Wang in 2010. He graduated from the University of Toronto's elite Engineering Science program, majoring in Computer Engineering. Yuri was studying towards a Masters of Applied Science focusing on Distributed Systems at the UofT before taking aleave of absence to start AeroFS. ## Terrence Rohan - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence Terrence Rohan is a seed investor and the Managing Director of Otherwise. Terrence's seed investments include Figma, Front, Notion, Hugging Face, Granola, Vanta, and Robinhood, among others. Forbes has ranked him as part of the Midas Brink list, and Business Insider has named him one of the top seed investors.Terrence was at Index Venturesfor seven years. While at Index, he co-created and eventually led Index’s first Seed Fund and then incubated the firm’s inaugural Founder-Angel Fund, which he served as General Partner and Co-Founder. He launched Otherwise, a novel Founder-Angel Fund inspired by the one he created for Index.Before becoming an investor, Terrence held various roles in product marketing and development at Google and YouTube.Terrence holds an MS in Management from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, an MS in Philosophy from The London School of Economics and Political Science, and a BA in Philosophy from Colgate University. ## Sven Hagströmer - Type: Angel - Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: EdTech, Internet, Education Sven Hagstromer is the founder of Creades AB. ## Almi Invest - Type: VC Fund - Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology Almi Invest is Sweden’s most active early-stage venture capital firm, investing in scalable startups across Sustainability, Industry, Tech, and Life Science.We invest from pre-seed to Series A, always co-investing with independent private investors to accelerate innovation and long-term success. Our portfolio spans sustainable solutions,industrial innovation, deep tech, SaaS, and life science, supporting startups that drive economic and environmental progress.With €430 million under management and over 1,000 investments since 2009, we have backed leading companies like MIPS, Tobii, and Neo4j, with notable exits to Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Qlik.Beyond capital, we offer engaged ownership, providing strategic guidance, active board participation, and access to an extensive investor network.Almi Invest is part of the Almi Group and is funded by the European Regional Development Fund, Almi AB, and regional partners. ## Peak - Type: VC Fund - Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology European early-stage venture capital fund backed 100% by founders. Helping Pre-Seed and Seed SaaS, Marketplaces & Platforms with their Go-To-Market.