Top 50 Media (Entertainment) Startup Investors in Sweden (August 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Almi Invest
VC Fund
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21 | Sweden, United States, Ukraine | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $230k–$5M |
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Industrifonden
VC Fund
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14 | Sweden, United States, Denmark | Series A, Seed | Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology | |
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Spintop Ventures
VC Fund
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10 | Sweden, Finland, Norway | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $907k–$11M |
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Wellstreet
VC Fund
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10 | Sweden, Norway, Finland | Seed, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Software, Retail | |
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Antler
VC Fund
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10 | Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $100k–$29M |
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Creandum
VC Fund
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8 | Sweden, Germany, United States | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Information Technology, FinTech | |
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Bo Mattsson
Angel
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7 | Sweden, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Internet, Information Technology | |
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Active Venture Partners
VC Fund
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7 | Spain, United States, Sweden | Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology | |
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Partnerinvest Norr
VC Fund
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6 | Sweden, United States | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology | $588k–$6.1M |
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Bonnier Capital
VC Fund
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6 | Sweden, Finland, Germany | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Internet, Software, E-Commerce | $1M–$96M |
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Niklas Eklund
Angel
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6 | Sweden, Japan, Denmark | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, Apps, Internet | |
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J12
VC Fund
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6 | Sweden, Germany, Norway | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $1.2M–$30M |
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Heartcore Capital
VC Fund
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5 | Denmark, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech | $1.3M–$58M |
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Bonnier Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | Sweden, Finland, Germany | Seed, Series A | Health Care, Digital Media, Software | |
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Inbox Capital
VC Fund
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5 | Sweden, United States, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Series A | Software, Apps, Service Industry | |
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Ludvig Linge
Angel
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4 | Sweden | Seed, Angel | Software, Apps, Mobile Apps | $92k–$241k |
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GP Bullhound
VC Fund
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4 | United Kingdom, Sweden, Spain | Series B, Series A | Software, E-Commerce, Internet | $2M–$59M |
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H&M Group Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Sweden, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed | E-Commerce, Fashion, Textiles | $1.9M–$45M |
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Hampus Jakobsson
Angel
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4 | Sweden, Denmark, United States | Seed, Angel, Series A | Health Care, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $96k–$30M |
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Aggregate Media
VC Fund
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4 | Sweden | Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Information Technology, Software | |
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Zenith Venture Capital
VC Fund
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4 | Sweden, Denmark, Finland | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Sports, Apps | $531k–$12M |
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Zouk Capital
VC Fund
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3 | United Kingdom, Germany, United States | Private Equity, Series B | Software, Renewable Energy, Energy | |
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Sony Innovation Fund
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Japan, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care | $1.5M–$53M |
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Spencer Rascoff
Angel
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3 | United States, Sweden, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series C | Real Estate, Software, Travel | $1.1M–$150M |
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Northzone
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Sweden, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, E-Commerce, FinTech | |
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Fredrik Mansson
Angel
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3 | Sweden | Seed, Angel | Beauty, Fashion, Lifestyle | |
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Kyros Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Vietnam, Spain, Singapore | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Gaming, Internet | |
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Forward Venture Capital
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Sweden, Denmark | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services | $150k–$14M |
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Johan Andersson
Angel
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3 | Sweden | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Legal Tech, CRM | $157k–$1.7M |
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Per Brilioth
Angel
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3 | Sweden, United Kingdom, The Netherlands | Series B, Seed | Apps, Software, Transportation | |
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Luminar Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Sweden, Norway, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $960k–$21M |
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Sophia Bendz
Angel
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3 | Sweden, Denmark, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Software | $400k–$22M |
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Maria Frances
Angel
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3 | United Kingdom, France, Sweden | Seed, Series A, Angel | Fashion, Marketplace, B2B | $2.4M–$30M |
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Fredrik Hjelm
Angel
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3 | Sweden, United States, Denmark | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Developer Tools | $55k–$23M |
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Left Lane Capital
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Germany, Canada | Series A, Series B, Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $2.5M–$100M |
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Elias Aalto
Angel
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2 | Finland, Sweden, Estonia | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Internet, News, Video | |
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HOWZAT Partners
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom, Germany, United States | Seed, Series A | Travel, E-Commerce, SaaS | |
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Coin98
VC Fund
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2 | Singapore, Sweden, Estonia | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | |
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Kistefos Venture Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Norway, Singapore, Sweden | Seed, Series A | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | |
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Luxor Capital Group
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Spain, Germany | Series A, Seed, Series B | E-Commerce, Food Delivery, Mobile Apps | |
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Sven Hagströmer
Angel
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2 | Sweden | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Internet, EdTech, Education | |
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Lars Lindgren
Angel
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2 | Sweden | Seed, Angel | Software, Apps, Health Care | |
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Playfair Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom, United States, France | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce | |
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Petter Lindström
Angel
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2 | Sweden | Seed, Angel | Advertising, Digital Media, Machine Learning | |
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Agnetha Faltskog
Angel
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2 | Sweden | Seed | Music | |
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Jonas Dromberg
Angel
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2 | Sweden, Finland | Angel, Series A | E-Commerce, SaaS, Internet | |
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SEB Private Equity
VC Fund
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2 | Sweden, United States, Denmark | Series C, Series B | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | |
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TrueSight Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom, Sweden, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | |
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Lukasz Gadowski
Angel
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2 | Germany, United States, Sweden | Series A, Seed, Angel | Internet, E-Commerce, Software | |
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Kichi Invest
VC Fund
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2 | Sweden | Art, Apps, Content | ||
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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.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Sweden, United States, Ukraine
Investor stats
- Total investments: 339
- Round size: Seed $230k–$2.3M; Venture - Series Unknown $561k–$5M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- FirstQFM — FirstQFM is a Stockholm-based quantum technology company building proprietary foundation models for quantum computing.
- Brighteco — Brighteco is an innovative and value-driven Born Circular startup that offers Light as a Service. All Brighteco hardware are build modular and circular from e.g reused computer screens.
- Ambidex AB — helps food retailers create new revenue streams on their refrigeration systems by stabilizing the electricity grid.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Sweden, United States, Denmark
Investor stats
- Total investments: 154
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Arevo — Arevo offers liquid and granular amino acid fertilizer technologies for faster and better plant establishment.
- Telness Tech — We help telcos maximize customer happiness and minimize OPEX through automation. Our proprietary, cloud-based, end-to-end BSS/OSS platform is connectivity ready in 64 countries.
- 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.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Sweden, Finland, Norway
Investor stats
- Total investments: 71
- Round size: Seed $907k–$6.2M; Series A $1.5M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 58% lead, 42% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- MEGA.AI — MEGA.AI is a SaaS company that is revolutionizing debt collection with AI-powered voice technology, delivering smarter, faster, and more efficient customer interactions. MEGA’s AI Agents provide a precise, compliant, and debtor-friendly solution that manages high call volumes cost-effectively.
- Standab — Structured parking and charging infrastructure for shared micromobility in public space.
- WeWillWrite — The social writing platform that sparks creativity and ignites the urge to write
Wellstreet is an innovation and tech ecosystem that includes an investment company, a strategic consultancy firm and a venture building incubator.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Retail
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Sweden, Norway, Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 58
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2216
- Round size: Seed $159k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$645k; Series A $4.1M–$29M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $72M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Praktiki — Praktiki is building the "Decision Layer" for medicine.While medical knowledge doubles every 73 days, frontline clinicians struggle to translate guidelines into practice. Current AI search tools excel at surfacing public data from clinical trials, but fail to capture "how" experts apply that evidence in real-world scenarios.Praktiki fills this gap. We utilise an AI Agentic Creator Engine to capture tacit specialist reasoning and fuse it with public evidence. This feeds a proprietary Expert Knowledge Graph that powers: 1) Microlearning: Case-based modules created 10x faster and which are 170% more effective than traditional education 2) AI Expert Guidance: Real-time decision support synthesising evidence with expert implementation strategies.2025 Traction - our MVP proved that solving the expertise gap drives high engagement: - Registered >10% of UK GPs - 60,000+ modules completed with an 85% completion rate - 51% month-over-month growth - Market-leading NPS of 83We are building a compounding data moat to expand beyond education into clinical intelligence and healthcare data solutions.
- Mast — Mast is the cloud-native, fully configurable loan origination platform empowering lenders to process applications faster and smarter. We make lending better, smoother and faster.
- Forti Foods — The mission of Forti Foods is to enhance communities and change lives beyond the plate by fostering resilience and dignity via sustainable food innovation.
We support early-stage founders in building global, category-defining companies. From Seed to IPO and beyond.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Sweden, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 215
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Prewave — Supplier monitoring for purchasing, supply chain management and sustainability managers.
- Plancraft — MISSION We empower our customers to focus on what they love: crafts & construction VISION In times of automation, individual and high-quality work of craftsmen will be as demanded as ever. Plancraft paves the way for profitable projects by bringing powerful calculation to an easy-to-use and accessible level.
- Visibly — Visibly developing technology to bring about the change our built environment requires by providing businesses with the tools they need to reduce the industry's skills gap and ensure our infrastructure can meet the needs of the population.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Sweden, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
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ACTIVE is a European venture capital company focused on positively disrupting its traditional sector. Spearheaded by a diverse, passionate and multinational team, it is building a reputation for providing support that goes beyond capital for high growth businesses.With a presence in Spain, Germany and Scandinavia, ACTIVE targets entrepreneurialteams driving digital start-ups and seeking holistic partnerships based on shared values and pro-active support. Start-up founders connect to the unique ACTIVE community to engage with sector specialists, growth experts and senior advisors.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Spain, United States, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 42
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Odilo — Odilo removes the technology barriers, allowing any institution to offer all kinds of digital content to its users whilst ensuring compliance with copyright laws.Their company is one of the leading software solutions for libraries offering a comprehensive product suite to discover, manage and distribute digital content as well as print.They are headquartered in Cartagena, Spain and have offices in Madrid, Spain; Miami, Florida; Mexico City, Mexico; and New York, New York.Their aim is to develop the market’s most innovative and creative solutions. They lead the way in defining and designing efficient, user-friendly products, serving the needs of public, private, university, school and special interest libraries today, while enabling them to transition into the future.
- Whisbi — Live commerce platform leader for Enterprises. Improve the quality of online leads, grow your digital revenue and enhance online customer experience with your live streams and live shopping
- Healthify — Healthify builds the infrastructure that integrates social determinants of health into the era of value-based healthcare by creating networks of social service organizations.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Sweden, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 69
- Round size: Seed $588k–$2.1M; Venture - Series Unknown $794k–$6.1M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2009
Portfolio highlights
- Cold River Games — Crystalfall is an upcoming free online action RPG with customizable skills and an endless endgame, set in a steampunk world.
- Original Creation — Original Creation envisions a sustainable future in which capital is focused on long-term benefits for both people and the environment, and resources are properly managed through circular systems."
- Remos Space Systems — Remos Space Systems simplifies satellite ground operations.
Bonnier Capital is the investment division of the Bonnier Group. Since 2016, we invest in promising companies in structurally growing industries and have become a reliant investment partner to companies of various sizes.
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- Industry: Internet, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Sweden, Finland, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 59
- Round size: Seed $1M–$5.9M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.4M–$96M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Acast — Want to start a podcast? Acast can help. We're the world's leading independent podcast company, helping creators and advertisers reach listeners globally.
- AAC Clyde Space — AAC Clyde Space; squeezing big performance out of small satellites and CubeSats.
- Mediaflow Europe — Mediaflow is the platform that makes your files easy to find, your collaboration seamless and your brand stronger.
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Browse database — It's Free!Over the past 25 years, Niklas has an entrepreneur built and internationalized a range of companies in the area of reservation systems, revenue management, online marketing, and web publishing; amongst others he was the CEO and co-founder Bookatable, Livebookings, Infogate, and Epani.Over the past 8 years, Niklas has a direct investor and advisorto investment companies and venture capital companies; amongst others he was a co-founder and general partner at D-Ax (Axel Johnson Group CVC), a venture partner for Wellington Partners Venture Capital. Niklas is currently a general partner for PES Holdings. Investment focus is the Digital Media Sector and Digital Growth Companies, primarily in the Nordic countries and across Europe. Niklas describes himself as a ‘computer software geek and wizard turned businessman’ as he started his career at the age of 15. His achievements in building internationally successful companies have been recognized by various industry awards.
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- Industry: Software, Apps, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: Sweden, Japan, Denmark
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Savr — Savr is an Investment platform disrupting the Swedish fund industry with a lower fee structure and a new business model.
- PinMeTo — Optimize your time and local presence with an all-in-one local SEO tool. Show up in local search, manage listings, reviews, messages from one dashboard.
- Winnow — Winnow builds artificial intelligence tools to help chefs run more profitable and sustainable kitchens by cutting food waste in half. They develop technology to cut food waste in their operations. Their digital tools provide data to drive improvements in kitchen production processes and reduce environmental footprint.Winnow's mission is toconnect commercial kitchen, create a movement of chefs, and inspire others. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in London, England, United Kingdom.
J12 is a thesis-driven venture capital firm partnering early with technical founders across Europe to build category-defining data and AI companies across infrastructure, tooling, and domain-specific applications
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Sweden, Germany, Norway
Investor stats
- Total investments: 59
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$8M; Pre-Seed $1.2M–$4.1M; Series A $7M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- VALIDIO — VALIDIO manages data quality. They offer a next-generation data platform for any modern, data-driven organization. They validate and monitor the data quality of real-time streams and batch data, enabling proactive identification and mitigation of data quality issues.
- Camphouse — Mediatool is the all-in-one planning, execution, tracking and reporting tool for media and marketing campaigns. Increase productivity with streamlined delivery and better collaboration across all your marketing activities. Grow revenue with confidence, using real-time performance data to optimise investment.Hundreds of tangible benefits, onebetter way of working. Forget spreadsheets and get to know Mediatool.
- Galdera Labs — Disposable financial models cost more than time. They cost context. Galdera was built for growth finance teams looking to save both.
Heartcore Capital invests in companies re-enchanting the world through technology.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Denmark, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 206
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$12M; Series A $3.4M–$27M; Series B $9.6M–$58M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $250M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- PhaseTree — Materials design simulation company - PhaseTree ApS
- TrapLight Games — A hard-hitting mobile game studio from Finland. Traplight is a premium mobile games studio with 10+ years of game development expertise at the highest level. Our ambition is to create world class, chart topping, scalable game services.
- 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.
Bonnier Capital is the investment division of the Bonnier Group. Since 2016, we invest in promising companies in structurally growing industries and have become a reliant investment partner to companies and funds of various sizes.
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- Industry: Health Care, Digital Media, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Sweden, Finland, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 53
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Combify — Combify is a PropTech company that works with simplifying the communication in city development projects.
- Natural Cycles — Natural Cycles birth control is 93% effective with typical use and 98% effective with perfect use. Learn more about hormone-free birth control today.
- Kyra — Kyra is a Gen-Z entertainment company creating engaging digital content that resonates with youth culture. We represent world class digital native talent, produce digital content with the biggest and best consumer brands and develop media properties publishing daily content on platforms that matter to Gen Z. Kyra has the ability to not onlytarget but truly engage with the Gen-Z audience through content that resonates based on real-time audience data from our proprietary KyraIQ technology. Our inclusive, ahead-of-the-trend content and content creators make us the ultimate destination for the Gen-Z consumer who wants to be inspired by their own community. Our approach and creativity is based on data and insights and has proven to engage this audience better than any traditional publisher. We house a talent agency representing and collaborating with the leading Gen Z social stars such as Abby Roberts and Noen Eubanks; a global content studio creating award-winning content for youth-seeking brand partners such as Converse and HP; and a newly developed portfolio of media properties publishing daily content on Gen Z-native platforms around beauty, fashion, adventure, food, gaming and entertainment.Kyra engages Gen Z better than any traditional publisher, with an audience of 78 million social media followers racking up 750 million monthly video views in 190 countries around the globe. We know exactly where Gen Z is spending their time online and we respect their interests and passions. That result is content that is meaningful and fosters long term engagement for blue chip brands. Our team are experts on Gen Z culture, whether they are producing, managing, creating or marketing in New York, London and Los Angeles. Learn more at https://kyra.com/reel
Venture Capital in disruptive, global and high growth potential companies. Stage of funding is pre-series A - C rounds
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- Industry: Software, Apps, Service Industry
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Sweden, United States, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 35
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Favro — The #1 app making collaborative planning working at scale between teams for SaaS & Live Games companies. Agile team collaboration, smoother than ever.
- Kavall — Kavall is a grocery delivery startup.
- VOI Technology — VOI is a micro-mobility startup that provides electric scooters for last-mile transportation. Douglas Stark, Filip Lindvall, and Fredrik Hjelm founded it in 2018. Its headquarters is located in Stockholm in Sweden.VOI Technology is aiming to create a system of electrically powered scooters around urban centers to provide an affordable,sustainable, and exhilarating way to commute while helping people to reduce their carbon footprint and cities to have a more sustainable transportation network.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Apps, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $92k–$241k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
Since 1999, GP Bullhound has invested in and advised brilliant leaders. Powered by more than 180 employees across 13 offices worldwide.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Sweden, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 108
- Round size: Series A $2M–$27M; Series B $3.7M–$59M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $317M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Monocl — Monocl empowers life science professionals with the complete global expert solution designed to drive impactful outreach and strategic engagement. Our cloud-based expert platform - powered by machine learning - continuously analyzes an unrivaled amount of data across all therapeutic areas and regions, providing invaluable context and actionableinsights.
- Q-CTRL — Infrastructure software to power the quantum future
- Playtomic — Playtomic operates an online sports court booking platform intended to become a social network for sports players. It provides a platform to reserve courts, find other players with similar skill levels, and join a social sports community dedicated to learning that helps sports clubs to optimize the use of their facilities and step into the digitalage.Playtomic was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.
H&M Group Ventures is the venture capital arm of the H&M Group.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Fashion, Textiles
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Sweden, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 60
- Round size: Seed $2M–$8.7M; Series A $1.9M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AltMat — AltMat is a textile manufacturing firm that produces clothing materials, including natural fibers and yarns from agricultural wastes.
- Yaga — Yaga is an online selling and shopping platform for new and preloved fashion. Buy preloved clothing safely or open your own shop and sell. Find unique second hand clothes, earn extra money and help save the Planet.
- Rubi Laboratories — Rubi Laboratories turns carbon emissions into carbon-negative textiles for the fashion industry, with a proprietary synthetic biology technology.
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.
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- Industry: Health Care, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Sweden, Denmark, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 43
- Round size: Seed $310k–$5.3M; Angel $96k–$1.2M; Series A $2.3M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
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 — Clinical-grade, AI-powered sperm analysis from the comfort of home. Test your sperm count, motility, morphology and much more with the Mojo kit. Check your fertility from home at low cost - without the need for clinic visits and awkward waiting rooms.
- Volta Greentech — Discover innovative solutions to reduce agricultural emissions with Volta Greentech's science-driven feed additives, promoting sustainable farming and planetary health.
Aggregate is a venture capital company investing with media as expansion capital - media for equity. Since the start 2002, Aggregate has made over 150 transactions in a variety of industries; e-commerce, digital services, product- and B2B-companies etc. Aggregate target companies which today are not able to maximize the effect on their market, inlack of capital for media advertising.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Information Technology, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Zcooly — Zcooly offers several educational games for children.
- Parkamo — Parkamo is like Hotels.com & Airbnbn for parking. All apps, all prices, full transparency and you can earn money by renting out your parking.
- Swedish Temptations — Swedish Temptations, founded in 2019 by CEO Pia Qvarnström, built a brand named Bärta for producing organic, vegan and fermented food. The ingredients include Swedish split peas.
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Browse database — It's Free!Zeniths vision is to become the obvious partner for entrepreneurs and investors. We believe this will be achieved by helping entrepreneurs to build fantastic companies and thus deliver attractive return to our investors.
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- Industry: Software, Sports, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Sweden, Denmark, Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Seed $531k–$4.5M; Series A $1.8M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cerve — Cerve helps food and beverage companies turn fragmented data into reliable insights and agentic automations.
- Valpas — Valpas is the hygiene protocol that reassures your future guests and keeps your hotel clean from the most uncontrollable: bed bugs
- CoCoach — Build your dream coaching business with everything you need from day one. Get the 4 essential parts you need for a successful headstart.
Zouk Capital Growth Capital invests to build global leaders in resource efficiency. They believe that resource efficiency is fundamentally driven by technology – both industrial technology and information technology - and it has become clear that companies that improve efficiency are at a distinct advantage. Zouk invests in this new generation ofcompanies, supporting their expansion and accelerating the integration of resource efficiency measures across the global economy. The companies they invest in have commercially proven products and services with revenues between €10m - €150m and are positioned to scale rapidly. They support top-tier management teams to build market-leading, global businesses by providing growth equity and industry knowledge. To support them in achieving their growth strategies, they leverage their extensive international network of senior figures in the industry, business, finance, and government in Europe, North America, Asia, and the Middle East. Dedicated to adding value, they develop close partnerships with their portfolio companies and are some of the most experienced and active investors in the clean economy. Reflecting the value-add of Zouk’s approach, the second Growth Capital fund is the largest of its strategy in Europe at EUR 230m. Zouk’s Growth Capital focus is part of Zouk Capital LLP’s dual strategy of making investments that make a general environmental impact. Alongside its Growth Capital business, Zouk’s Infrastructure team finances the construction of renewable energy and environmental assets.
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- Industry: Software, Renewable Energy, Energy
- Stage:Private Equity, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 45
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- enspired — enspired is a fully digital energy trading-as-a-service company. We drive the energy transition by enabling our clients to bring flexible assets to power spot markets and capture their full value with our AI-based trading services. Our team consists of leading algorithmic traders, data scientists and technology enthusiasts who firmly believe thatthe way power is traded will soon drastically change - in our world, there is no room for trading screens and traditional optimization. All trades get executed in a fully automated fashion using advanced AI algorithms that outperform the market and monetize our client's flexibility to the fullest while supporting grid stability. Our clients include leading utilities, operators of renewables and batteries or consumption assets across Europe.
- Zest Eco — Zest Eco is a London, UK-based EV charging company. It is democratizing EV adoption in the UK by rapidly filling the gaps in the maturing public charging infrastructure.
- Energy Park — Tailored EV charging solutions for residential sites and businesses. We provide expert guidance and ongoing customer support. Find out more.
Sony Innovation Fund is investing in technology-driven transformational companies shaping the future of business, entertainment and society.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Japan, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 209
- Round size: Series A $1.5M–$50M; Series B $6.9M–$53M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $185M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- FLASH — FLASH is an entertainment and technology startup.
- what3words — Every 3 metre square has a unique 3 word address.
- Yellow Card — Yellow Card is a licensed stablecoin payments infrastructure provider powering global money movement across USD and 50+ local currencies. Talk to us.
Spencer Rascoff is based out of New York, New York and serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Match Group and also the Board of Directors of Hinge. Spencer previously served as Co-Founder, Executive Chairman at dot.LA. Spencer Rascoff attended Harvard University.
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- Industry: Real Estate, Software, Travel
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, Sweden, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 87
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$10M; Series A $5.5M–$48M; Series C $2.8M–$150M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- HostGPO — A members-only buying group for vacation rental hosts, owners, and managers.
- Ohana — Find sublets and furnished apartments for internships, travel nursing & monthly stays. Ohana offers flexible short-term and mid-term rentals in top cities.
- Madrona Venture Labs — Founders like you. Madrona Venture Labs is a startup studio based in Seattle. We partner with founders from day one to build meaningful companies from scratch.
Northzone is a multi-stage venture capital fund that seeks to invest in the healthcare, semiconductors, software, hardware, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and gaming industries.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, FinTech
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, Sweden, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 271
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- TrueLayer — We power faster and safer online payments with our open banking payments network. Onboard users, accept payments & make payouts in seconds. Learn more today.
- Yonder — A modern lifestyle credit card packed with rewards, no foreign exchange fees, and loads more. Apply without needing a UK credit score.
- Flink Food — Flink is a developer of an online platform used to offer and deliver multi-category grocery products. Its application offers a wide selection of convenience items like fresh herbs, fruits, bread, essentials, and home supplies among others that enable people to get necessaries delivered to the door within ten minutes while saving transit costs.Thecompany was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
Fredrik Mansson - Investor @ Propel Capital
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- Industry: Beauty, Fashion, Lifestyle
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
- Match2One — Self service programmatic advertising platform, easy to use and no minimum spend. Launch intelligent programmatic display campaigns and drive online sales.
We are the gateway of accessibility to Vietnam, the fastest-growing crypto market in the world.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Vietnam, Spain, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 34
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- BlonkFi — BlonkFi enables users to borrow stablecoins with volatile mid-market money, such as Meme tokens, as collateral.
- Crestal — Crestal offers a decentralized platform that meets the objectives of Web3 applications through modular service architecture. The Crestal blockchain monitors and scores services using a Proof of Performance (PoP) consensus process.
- KIP Protocol — KIP Protocol is a decentralised AI framework unlocking digital property rights of Knowledge Assets in the AI-powered future.
Forward Venture Capital is a Venture Capital fund that invests in early-stage companies in the US and Europe. We support early stage entrepreneurs and help them accelerate their growth.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Sweden, Denmark
Investor stats
- Total investments: 71
- Round size: Seed $850k–$8.5M; Pre-Seed $150k–$2.3M; Series A $1.6M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Halfdays — Halfdays is a skiwear brand for the modern woman. The company is on a mission to make the outdoors more approachable, inclusive, and fun.
- Quickture — Quickture is an AI editing tool for professional non-scripted editors that integrates with Adobe Premiere Pro and Avid Media Composer to deliver instant rough cuts and revisions.
- Kadence — Easy hybrid workplace management software supporting Desk Booking, Conference Room Booking, Visitor Management, and Workplace Events.
Johan Andersson
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- Industry: Software, Legal Tech, CRM
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $157k–$1.7M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Miramis — Discover Miramis (formerly Pocketlaw), AI-native contract management software to streamline contract lifecycles. Create, review, approve, sign and store.
- PocketLaw — PocketLaw is a user-friendly and affordable solution that allows you to create contracts, get legal guidance, manage your documents and contact lawyers.
- 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.
Per Brilioth - CEO @ VNV Global
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- Industry: Apps, Software, Transportation
- Stage:Series B, Seed
- Geography: Sweden, United Kingdom, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- memmo.me — memmo.me provides a webpage for offering and distributing personalized video messages from actors, athletes, musicians, and other talent.
- Arro — Discover the shared daily operating system that helps you get more from life and work. Get to Day Zero together.
- Surfboard — Surfboard WFM features integrated forecasting, capacity planning, automated scheduling and performance analytics for modern support teams.
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Browse database — It's Free!Luminar is one of the most active seed investors in the Nordics, providing experienced seed financing and active operational support.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Sweden, Norway, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 67
- Round size: Seed $960k–$5.4M; Series A $8.3M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- FirstQFM — FirstQFM is a Stockholm-based quantum technology company building proprietary foundation models for quantum computing.
- Fika Jobs — Stand out from the crowd. Find your perfect job.
- Ivy Interactive — Frictionless Coding with AI
Sophia Bendz - Partner @ Cherry Ventures
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- Industry: Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Sweden, Denmark, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 47
- Round size: Seed $400k–$5.9M; Pre-Seed $800k–$2M; Series A $3.5M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Starmony — Create a song instantly on your phone by just using your voice. Get professional music production in no time. Release instantly on Spotify and Apple Music.
- Scape — Scape is an AI email client that proactively drafts replies and surfaces what matters. Built for professionals who live in their inbox.
- Wikifarmer — A free online knowledge library where professional or amateur farmers can find best practices on growing their fields more effectively and an online marketplace where farmers can sell their products to buyers directly. Our vision is to create a fair, transparent and profitable environment for all the farming world. Farmers are dedicating theirlives in cultivating their fields, but get the lowest value of all the sales cycle, so we believe they need to receive a more fair share. Buyers have the right to have more options and buy at better prices, so we want to be the ones to solve this inequality in both sides.
Maria Raga Frances is based out of London, England, and is the venture partner of Creandum. Maria previously worked at ITV as a digital advisory council member. Maria Raga Frances attended INSEAD. Maria Raga Frances has been nominated as a finalist for the Bold Woman Award.
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- Industry: Fashion, Marketplace, B2B
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United Kingdom, France, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $2.4M–$30M; Series A $10M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Fleek — Fleek is a B2B Wholesale Marketplace for second-hand fashion. Our buyers are vintage stores and online resellers; our suppliers are used clothing wholesalers, rag-houses, and donation centres.
- Omada — Get in on the action with Omada, the ultimate and insanely fun Sports Prediction Community.
- District — District is a commerce platform where anyone can create and grow their own brand. District allows anyone to develop personalized retail experiences, such as live selling and auctions, marketplaces, and paid communities, without the need for coding or engineering.
Fredrik Hjelm co-founded Voi Technology in 2018 with a vision of improving the way people move around congested urban centres by offering fleets of electric scooters as a cleaner, affordable and exhilarating alternative to cars. Prior to Voi, Fredrik founded Guestit, the Nordics’ most successful Airbnb management company, and worked in businessdevelopment for Avito.ru, Russia’s leading - and the world’s third largest – classified advertising site. Fredrik’s entrepreneurial career began at 12 years of age when he ran a number of commercial projects including forestry work (he grew up in rural Sweden), events and website sales.After graduating from high school, he attended the Armed Forces Interpreter Academy, within the intelligence branch of Sweden’s special forces, where he studied Russian and linguistics. He served a total of four years in Moscow in the Defence Attache Office, where he worked as an interpreter and analyst, covering Russia as well as Kazakhstan and Belarus. He went on to study business and economics at the Stockholm School of Economics.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Developer Tools
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Sweden, United States, Denmark
Investor stats
- Total investments: 24
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$10M; Pre-Seed $55k–$7.5M; Series A $11M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Zellify — Zellify is a constructing Web2App infrastructure.
- imagi — Programming has never been this much fun! Learn to create with code, share your designs with friends on the imagiLabs app and customize your imagiCharm - a fun, easy-to-use, colorful, and educational toy for girls. Imagine it. Code it. Wear it.
- Ascentra Labs — Ascentra Labs is using AI to automate high-repeatability tasks in private equity consulting,
Left Lane Capital is a venture capital and seed-growth equity firm that invests in high-growth internet and consumer technology businesses that are fundamental to the human condition and spirit – where customers maintain a long-term relationship with the product, platform, or service.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, Germany, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 173
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$20M; Series A $9.4M–$40M; Series B $20M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1.4B in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Trovy — Your home's equity, in your wallet. Trovy Lending Co. dba Trovy NMLS #2676733
- Lexroom.ai — Lexroom.ai allows lawyers to complete hours of legal research in seconds.Legal professionals spend up to 50% of their time in repetitive, low value-adding tasks. That’s why we’re building Lexroom.ai, a product that allows lawyers to complete hours of research in seconds, so they can focus on what really matters.Lexroom.ai perfectly integrateswith lawyers' daily workflow and enables them to speed up time-consuming legal research tasks while increasing output quality, so that they can focus more on value-adding activities.Lexroom.ai is building a bridge between advanced artificial intelligence technologies and legal professionals, through a product specifically tailored to their needs.
- Moove — Moove is a mobility fintech that provides revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs, democratizing vehicle ownership across Africa. The company embeds its alternative credit-scoring technology onto ride-hailing, logistics, and last-mile/instant delivery platforms, which allows access to proprietary performance and revenueanalytics of mobility entrepreneurs to underwrite loans.
Elias Aalto is Wolt's Advisor and a Co-Founder before that.
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- Industry: Internet, News, Video
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Finland, Sweden, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Cluby — Cluby is a technology platform that provides restaurants with the best tools for managing and communicating with loyal consumers.
- ArcticStartup — ArcticStartup is helping to build communities with uncapped opportunities through media, events, PR and consulting since 2007.Launched in 2007 by Antti Vilpponen and Miikka Kukkosuo as founding writers and getting out two-three articles a week, ArcticStartup quickly started gaining traction. In 2008 Ville Vesterinen and Karri Saarinen joinedthe founding team and ArcticStartup launched its own that were at first held in a small bar of Dubrovnik in Helsinki. Both the media and events started going international in 2009, expanding to the neighbouring Nordics & Baltics. This growth continued until 2012, when the company nearly shut-down as the founders wanted to move-on to other projects. At that point Dmitri Sarle and Greg Anderson took over the company and re-founded ArcticStartup with Jan Ameri joining very shortly.
- Flowstep — Flowstep is a copilot that helps you create better designs, 10x faster. Just type and get user flows, high-fidelity UI, JTBD and more.
Howzat Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in incubation, seed, start up, growth capital, early stage, and mid venture investments. The firm seeks to invest in digital businesses with a focus on internet, digital media, e-commerce companies. It invests globally. It acts as as sounding board. The firm also makes co-investments. HowzatPartners was founded in 2006 and is based in Luxembourg and London.
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- Industry: Travel, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 93
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Wingly — Wingly is a flight sharing platform. Find pilots or passengers for your trip.
- Handiscover — Handiscover is the first community based Holiday accommodation-booking website, dedicated to people with special needs and disabilities. At the core of Handiscover lies a unique classification system which allows users to select accommodation based on their different levels of mobility/physical disability. It was founded by SebastienArchambeaud in 2014, a father to a boy with a muscle disease.
- Mymoria — MYMORIA offers an one-stop-online-shop for full configuration and complete commissioning of funerals. Mymoria is able to offer its services significantly cheaper than traditional mortician homes. The company is offering its services nationwide and work hard to organize our processes efficiently while maintaining thehigh service standards.
Coin98 is a Crypto-focused software company.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Singapore, Sweden, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- TomoChain — TomoChain is an innovative solution to scalability problem with the Ethereum blockchain, and other blockchain platforms. TomoChain features a 150-Masternodes architecture with Proof of Stake Voting (POSV) consensus for near-zero fee, and instant transaction confirmation. Security, stability and chain finality are guaranteed via novel techniquessuch as double validation, staking via smart-contracts and uniform randomization processes.TomoChain supports all EVM-compatible smart-contracts, protocols, and atomic cross-chain token transfers. Scaling techniques such as sharding, EVM parallelisation, private-chain generation, hardware integration will be continuously researched and integrated into TomoChain which will become an ideal scalable smart-contract public blockchain for decentralized apps, token issuance and token integration for small and big businesses.
- BovineVerse — BovineVerse is a Korean Metaverse chain game and sports guessing platform developer.
- Minterest — Minterest is a cross-chain decentralized money market lending protocol for decentralized financial. Its unique design attracts and rewards long-term liquidity with Minterest distributing value captured by the protocol to MNT token holders who actively participate in its governance. Minterest was founded in 2020 and is based in Tallin, Estonia.
Kistefos focus on investing between NOK 10m and NOK +100m in each company, aiming at obtaining a significant ownership stake. Kistefos is opportunistic with regards to sectors, company sizes, life-cycle stages and geographies. Kistefos’ investment strategy selectively seeks out a diverse range of proprietary transactions in companies of varioussizes, including build-ups, growth capital, rescue financings and buyouts.Kistefos is an active partner to the management teams and founders, providing considerable internal resources to ensure the long-term value creation through identification of the key value drivers. Furthermore, we operate under a flexible investment mandate, giving us the opportunity to optimally support our portfolio companies throughout our ownership period.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Norway, Singapore, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Surer — Surer is a cloud-based insurtech platform with a digital ecosystem of intermediaries and insurers. It provides tech solutions to help orchestrate the network in the insurance industry enabling insurance intermediaries to close deals with greater speed and allows insurers to distribute their product with better efficiency.
- Workclass — Apply for any jobs and get hired in 24 hours now!
- bluesheets — Build a solid data foundation with Bluesheets, the all-in-one tool that connects, categorises and automates your finanical data. Set up once, automate forever.
Luxor Capital Group is a hedge fund that offers equity and fixed income investments. It also provides its customers with investment advisory services. Luxor Capital Group was founded by Christian Leone and is based in New York.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Food Delivery, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Spain, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 46
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Treinta — Treinta is a digital ledger app for Latin American microbusinesses. Through Treinta, users can easily record transactions by assigning products from their inventory and see how their business metrics evolve in real time. The app helps owners save up to 30 minutes a day in bookkeeping related tasks and improve efficiency by over 30%. Out of the 50million microbusinesses in LATAM, today 90% still track their sales and expenses by using pen and paper.
- Volta Trucks — Electric trucks for sustainable cities, with people at the heart of everything we do.
- VerSe Innovation — VerSe Innovation is a local language technology company that develops a discovery platform to consume and socialize with media. Its platform facilitates the curation of content and tracks user preferences through its vertical search and recommendation tools that provide users with personalized content and notifications.
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Browse database — It's Free!Sven Hagstromer is the founder of Creades AB.
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- Industry: Internet, EdTech, Education
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Meitner — Meitner is a swedish edu-tech startup building a complete solution for all kind of schools.
- 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.
- 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.
Lars Lidgren is the Founder at Bonesupport.
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- Industry: Software, Apps, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Ella — Ella is a medical mobile application for women during and after pregnancy.
- Learnster — Learnster develops the LMS of tomorrow for growing organizations aspiring to achieve maximum learning in minimum time.
- Match2One — Self service programmatic advertising platform, easy to use and no minimum spend. Launch intelligent programmatic display campaigns and drive online sales.
Playfair Capital is an early-stage fund that commits to companies early and with conviction. Based in London, Playfair combines the best aspects of angel investing with a focused fund, to invest in truly ambitious founders, wherever they are in the world. Playfair takes a sector-agnostic approach and investments span deep tech, SaaS, marketplacesand B2B companies. We’ve backed the founders of more than 60 companies including Mapillary (acq. Facebook), CryptoFacilities (acq. Kraken), Omnipresent, Orca AI, Ravelin, sprout.ai, Thought Machine, Trouva and Vinehealth.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 109
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- StackOne — Accelerate your SaaS growth with our unified API solution for HRIS, ATS, and CRM. Say "yes" to customers, build advanced integrations quickly, and experienced the best data privacy controls in the market.
- Spotted Zebra — Spotted Zebra's skills cloud powers skills-based organisations. Our platform ensures skills are the centre of every decision made about people. Whether talent acquisition, talent development or internal mobility, Spotted Zebra focuses people on skills.
- Continuum Industries — Continuum Industries is a developer of Optioneer, the leading software for linear infrastructure optioneering.
Petter Lindström
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- Industry: Advertising, Digital Media, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Match2One — Programmatic advertising platform, high performance and easy to use. Launch intelligent programmatic display campaigns and drive online sales.
Agnetha Faltskog is a Swedish singer, songwriter, musician, and actress. She is a member of the pop group ABBA.
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- Industry: Music
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- SNAFU Records — Get fast, flexible music funding backed by real-time streaming data. Discover your catalog's value and join top artists powered by SNAFU.
Jonas Dromberg - Investor & Advisor @ Apprl
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- Industry: E-Commerce, SaaS, Internet
- Stage:Angel, Series A
- Geography: Sweden, Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Apprl — Performance-based influencer marketing, made for e-commerce brands, and an invitation-only service for digital content creators.
- Klevu — Klevu Oy is a self-learning search engine that helps online retailers turn visitors into customers. Its search for SMEs focuses on fast, relevant search with actionable insights into shoppers’ search and easy self-service integration.Klevu Oy’s enterprise edition provides natural language search with ease of catalog maintenance and insights intoshopping experience. It is based in Helsinki, Southern Finland.
Founded in 1995, SEB Private Equity is a Swedish finance company that offers advisory services and products to corporate customers.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Series C, Series B
- Geography: Sweden, United States, Denmark
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Motatos — Motatos is an online retail store that offers a wide variety of food, beverages, and household products to customers.
- Matsmart — Matsmart sells surplus food online. A major part of the food would otherwise be thrown away due to packaging changes, short or expired expiry dates or other reasons. During 2017, Matsmart saved 2022 tonnes of food from going to waste. The company has seen explosive growth, reaching recurring revenues of SEK 200 million. Matsmart was founded by KarlAndersson, Erik Södergren and Ulf Skagerström, and launched in Sweden in 2014. Since then, the company has also expanded to Norway and Finland. Long live the food!
- Worldfavor — Worldfavor is the first to bring sustainability and compliance information based on established frameworks to one global platform. We connect businesses around the world to share sustainability information with each other through one platform, where they can also manage and excel their own performance in a secure, collaborative space. We helpbusinesses avoid manual spreadsheets and stiff, expensive software. Simply because we want you to save time and resources for your impact, and because modern technology can enable so much more.The vision is to be global de-facto information platform for sustainable decisions, serving any actor with sustainability/compliance data (business data 2.0) on any organization from one shared platform where they also manage it. The SaaS covers all sustainability/compliance needs under one roof: Manage Sustainability, Visualize Sustainability and data collection and assessment of any type of partners in the Value Chain, such as suppliers or portfolio companies.
TrueSight Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in pre-seed and seed deals.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Sweden, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 66
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Laced — Discover the latest sneaker releases with Laced. The UK and Europe's authentic sneaker marketplace, discover coveted styles from Nike, Air Jordan, Yeezy, New Balance and more. Buy and sell now with Laced.
- Cordless — Bridging the gap between voice and text
- Kashmir Intelligence — Foundational model for refining operations
Lukasz Gadowski is the Founder and CEO of Team Global. He previously worked at Circ as a Co-Founder. Lukasz Gadowski attended HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management.
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- Industry: Internet, E-Commerce, Software
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Angel
- Geography: Germany, United States, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 46
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Bardeen — Bardeen is an automation app to replace your repetitive tasks with a single shortcut and control your web apps from anywhere. Explore our integrations with your favorite apps and hundreds of pre-built playbooks that help you stay in the flow.
- TAU Systems — TAU Systems provides medical imaging technology.
- MILES — Carsharing nach Kilometern statt Minuten. MILES Autos und Transporter einfach per App mieten und losfahren!
Kichi Invest is a private investment company that primarily invests in unlisted Nordic companies seeking growth capital. The company has a broad investment mandate and is open to discussions with passionate entrepreneurs or owners seeking an active partner to grow their business. IT believes that an active partner provides the best basis forgrowth.The company's philosophy is based on complementing capable entrepreneurs with broad expertise from strategy, transactions, and navigating through the challenges of a rapidly growing business.
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- Industry: Art, Apps, Content
- Geography: Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Barnebys — Barnebys is the world’s leading search service for art, antiques and collectibles. We were founded in Stockholm, Sweden in 2011 and have since then established our business globally with offices in New York, UK, France, Spain and Germany. Our clients include the world’s top tier of auctioneers, antique dealers, galleries as well as regional andlocal businesses. We are also offering an extensive free database of auction results and a top of the line valuation service. We are now looking to grow our business even further and are seeking top talent to join our team.
- Referanza — Activate your happy customers and turn them into brand advocates. For every business ready to grow. Try the Referanza Referral Platform today - it is free!
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