Top 50 Mobile Angel Investors in Sweden in April 2025
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Mobile startups based in Sweden. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Mobile companies from Sweden. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Mobile Angel Investors in Sweden in April 2025
Investor | Mobile Sweden investments |
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Josefin Landgård | 4 |
Filip Larsson | 4 |
Sebastian Siemiatkowski | 3 |
Sophia Bendz | 3 |
Hampus Jakobsson | 3 |
Mattias Weinhandl | 2 |
Niklas Zennström | 2 |
Joachim Hedenius | 2 |
Anders Nyrén | 2 |
Daniel Pilotti | 2 |
Boel Rydenå-Swartling | 2 |
Ludvig Linge | 2 |
Christian Jantzen | 2 |
Viveka Ekberg | 2 |
Andreas Mihalovits | 2 |
Marcus Lewold | 2 |
Mathias Hermansson | 2 |
Hans Veldhuizen | 2 |
Joachim Samuelsson | 2 |
Sebastian Knutsson | 2 |
Martin Randel | 2 |
Ted Nelson | 2 |
Rikard Steiber | 2 |
Erik Byrenius | 2 |
Stefan Lindeberg | 2 |
Fredrik Palm | 2 |
Lars Thunell | 1 |
Niklas de Besche | 1 |
Johan Lenander | 1 |
Magnus Emilson | 1 |
Anna Storåkers | 1 |
Fredrik Hjelm | 1 |
Akim Arhipov | 1 |
Paul Schwarzenholz | 1 |
Dan Nilsson | 1 |
Lars Björk | 1 |
Kim Fai Kok | 1 |
Patrick Grimlund | 1 |
Petri Uitto | 1 |
Åsa Lidén | 1 |
Niall Murphy | 1 |
Johan Rosendahl | 1 |
Öjje Holt | 1 |
Jan West | 1 |
Conny Modigh | 1 |
Robin Söderling | 1 |
John Grundström | 1 |
Niklas Eklund | 1 |
Ramzi Rizk | 1 |
Kari Anette Jakobsen | 1 |
Josefin Landgård is the Founder and CEO of Mantle. Previously she served as the Co-Founder and COO at KRY back in March 2014 to September 2018.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Medical, Women's
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Sweden, France
Portfolio highlights
- Estmn — Estrid is an online portal that offers women's personal care products.
- Lassie — Lassie is the first proactive and preventive pet insurance company that wants to help pet owners take better care of their pets
- Elsa — Elsa is a platform for patient driven research for better drugs, health and prevention. Elsa lets patients become their own personal researchers by providing them with a better understanding around how lifestyle factors may affect their disease activity measurements for chronic disease. To support them from a scientific perspective, Elsa gives themaccess to data on their specific disease (initially we work with rheumatoid arthritis) through the Riskminder foundation and scientific studies at Karolinska Institutet.
Founder DLL-files.com - the worlds most popular website for downloading dll files
Angel investor since 2008
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Investment focus
- Mobile Apps, Software, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Kind — We want all healthcare providers to enjoy the benefits of modern communication. Kind is a secure cloud platform for communication and knowledge sharing. We meet the needs of organizations of all sizes with our flexible subscription model.
- 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.
- Katam Technologies — Development of drone measurement and cloud-based evaluation service providing high precision forestry data using a mobile phone or drone.
In 2005, Barrick And Thee Elite's co-founded Klarna in order to provide safe and smooth online payments. He currently serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Over the past decade, he has overseen the company’s rapid growth across Europe and more recently into North America. Klarna is a now fully licensed bank with 60mn consumer and 170,000merchant user base.
Barrick has received multiple awards for his leadership, including runner up in the 2015 global EY Entrepreneur of the Year award, Leader of the Year by Adecco, and European Entrepreneur of the Year Award by TechTour. He holds a master’s degree from the Stockholm School of Economics.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Sweden, United States, Poland
Portfolio highlights
- Nylas — Unlock the power of your communications data. The Nylas communication APIs remove complexity & empower teams to create seamless user experiences.
- Klarna — Einkaufen, was du willst. Bezahlen, wie du willst. Klarna bietet dir verschiedene Zahlungsarten an. Du entscheidest, welche am besten zu dir passt.
- nexos.ai — Introducing nexos.ai — a powerful model gateway that delivers game-changing AI solutions. With advanced automation and intelligent decision making, nexos.ai helps simplify operations, boost productivity, and accelerate business growth.
Sophia Bendz - Partner @ Cherry Ventures
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Software, Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Sweden, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- mayk — Mayk sounds. Mayk music. Mayk noise. Mayk it... In an app.
- Medoma — Medoma is a Swedish virtual ward company that offer patients acute hospital care in their home instead of in the hospital.
- Wikifarmer — A free online knowledge library where professional or amateur farmers can find best practices on growing their fields more effectively and an online marketplace where farmers can sell their products to buyers directly. Our vision is to create a fair, transparent and profitable environment for all the farming world. Farmers are dedicating theirlives in cultivating their fields, but get the lowest value of all the sales cycle, so we believe they need to receive a more fair share. Buyers have the right to have more options and buy at better prices, so we want to be the ones to solve this inequality in both sides.
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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Investment focus
- Health Care, Software, Mobile
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Sweden, Denmark, United States
Portfolio highlights
- ClimateView — ClimateView is a Swedish climate action technology company that helps cities transform climate planning into progress. We combine data, agent-based modelling and interface design to help cities successfully manage the transition to zero carbon economies.
- Mojo — 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 — Battling global warming by reducing methane emissions from cows
Mattias Weinhandl
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Investment focus
- Apps, Information Technology, Fitness
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Heja — Free app for your sports team. The only app you need to easily handle communication between coaches, managers, parents and players. Management, scheduling, availability, messaging, roster.
- 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.
- BlueCall — BlueCall is a B2B mental wellness SaaS. We offer empowerment toolkit for organisation, HR and leaders to manage their employee's mental wellbeing. Hand in hand with our digital toolkit we provide digital and personalised coaching sessions to reinforce self development to individual's specific needs.
Niklas Zennström is CEO and Founding Partner at Atomico. He works daily with founders and sits on the boards of Farmdrop, Lilium, Pipedrive, Oden Technologies and Varjo. Niklas is an experienced technology investor and entrepreneur, having previously co-founded and managed globally successful technology companies including Skype, Kazaa andJoltid. Niklas founded Atomico in 2006. He is passionate about partnering about founders solving big challenges facing their planet with digital technology.In 2007, he co-founded Zennström Philanthropies with his wife, Catherine. They focus their efforts in two areas: human rights and the environment. Niklas also founded the Race for the Baltic, a foundation for a well-managed and sustainable Baltic Sea, one of the most threatened major bodies of water in the world.Niklas is a keen yachtsman and has won four World Championships with his yacht racing team, Rán.Niklas holds dual degrees in Business and MSc Engineering Physics/Computer Science from Uppsala University in Sweden, and he spent his final year at the University of Michigan.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Apps
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United Kingdom, Sweden, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Isometric — Isometric is a carbon removal standard and registry.
- Neoplants — The first generation of bioengineered to fight air pollution. We call them neoplants.
- Lilium — Lilium is developing sustainable, high-speed air mobility through its electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft, vertiports and digital service.
Joachim Hedenius is the VPE and Co-Founder of KRY.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Sweden, Estonia, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Passionfroot — A workspace where you can manage your creator business and organise your finances so that you can optimise your creator-work-life balance.
- Ready Player Me — The Ready Player Me platform leverages AI, ML , and a suite of developer-first tools to empower developers to integrate avatars into their games and apps to launch faster, improve user adoption, and grow revenue through asset monetization.
- Ready Player Me — The Ready Player Me platform leverages AI, ML , and a suite of developer-first tools to empower developers to integrate avatars into their games and apps to launch faster, improve user adoption, and grow revenue through asset monetization.
Born 1954. Degree from the Stockholm School of Economics and Master of Business Administration from Anderson School of Management, UCLA, USA.Board Member: AB Volvo, Stockholm School of Economics, and Handelshögskoleföreningen at Stockholm School of Economics.Principal work experience and other information: Vice President of the Royal SwedishAcademy of Engineering Sciences since 2014. President and CEO of AB Industrivärden 2001-2015. CFO and Executive Vice President of Skanska AB 1997–2001. Director Capital Markets Nordbanken 1996–1997. CFO and Executive Vice President of Securum AB 1992–1996. President of OM International AB 1987–1992. Previous positions within STC Scandinavian Trading Co AB and AB Wilhelm Becker. Board member in Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson 2006-2013. Honorary Doctorate of Economics at Stockholm School of Economics.
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Investment focus
- Medical, mHealth, Wireless
- Funding Round
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Coala Life — Coala Life is a Swedish medical technology and life science company that focuses on heart diagnostics and digital health. The company has developed a portfolio of solutions based on the Coala, a patented and commercial service for remote monitoring and self-screening of heart sounds and ECG. The Coala is available direct to consumers and theCoala Pro is offered to healthcare professionals to enable smart, digital cardiac assessments.
Daniel Pilotti is the Founder of Your Special Delivery Service and Ryska Posten.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Retail, Payments
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- Sweden, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- blipp.se — blipp.se is a digital marketplace for selling and buying cars.
- Mantle — Welcome to MANTLE - Scandinavian professional skincare elevated by cannabis.
- Lace Laboratory — Empowering panties. For women by women.
Boel Rydenå-Swartling
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Investment focus
- Software, Apps, Mobile Apps
- Angel, Funding Round, 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.
- The Fit — Let our AI-powered fitting technology improve your customer experience and bottom line.
- Care to Translate — We provide medical translations for healthcare professionals and patients. Available in 40 languages, 24/7 on your smart device or browser.
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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Investment focus
- Software, Apps, Mobile Apps
- Funding Round, Seed, Angel
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Apprl — Performance-based influencer marketing, made for e-commerce brands, and an invitation-only service for digital content creators.
- Welcome App — Welcome App is a mobile app that connects refugees and locals.
- MIND Music Labs — When it comes to musical instruments, “Smart” experiences are today still very limited. Musicians need truly wireless, portable, upgradable and cloud-based solutions. 250M users (pro and amateurs musicians) spending about $17B a year and their audience are waiting for a revolution. We develop ELK MusicOS (the “Android” of musical instruments)enabling musical instruments vendors to make a new generation of “Smart Instruments” and we build around it an ecosystem of cloud services.
Danish angel investor, based in London.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Denmark, Sweden, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Medusa — The most popular ecommerce project on GitHub. Medusa provides the world's most flexible commerce platform for developers to handle specialized commerce cases.
- Heyhack — Automated web application security testing, protection, and reporting for software-as-a-service businesses.
- Fullview — Fullview let's you instantly monitor, control and analyze user sessions for faster real time customer support. No downloads. Easy to integrate.
Viveka Ekberg
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile Apps, Telecommunications
- Seed, Funding Round
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Telness — Telness is a mobile operator offering mobile telephony with features specially tailored for business owners. Digital and easy to use. Of course at the right price, without bindings or hidden fees.
Andreas is a German serial entrepreneur and angel investor having invested in more than 150 international startups.Andreas co-founded his first internet company Omniga in 1999 and, after reaching profitability within 2 years, grew it to a venture builder focused on B2C subscription models with more than 200 employees when he stepped back from hisactive roles in 2012.In the same year Andreas started investing in startups and later also got engaged in the Spanish ecosystem as the founder of Marbella Tech Angels, a network of more than 160 investors, founders & mentors living around Marbella. Andreas is also co-founder of the Global Super Angels Club, a platform for angel investors usually investing six-figure euro amounts in startups, supporting its more than 70 members to improve their deal flow and speed up their search for like-minded co-investors.Andreas received several awards incl. the Best European Early Stage Investor 2018 award from the European Business Angel Network (EBAN) and the Best Business Angel 2020 award at the Spanish National Business Angel Conference.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Spain, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Dost — Dost automates the process of incoming supplier invoices to help CFOs and Finance Managers of mid-size and large companies with a high volume of invoices to improve efficiency, accuracy in data entry and reduce time when processing incoming invoices by leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and intelligent process automation (IPA).
- CheKin — Chekin has developed a framework that covers everything related to guest registration on touristic accommodations. Chekin has made it extremely easy to register guests for third-party software providers (startups, travel companies, Hospitality software and so on..), in two aspects, 1. It helps with all the local touristic regulations across theEuropean Union and 2. With a set of APIs that facilitates all the guest registration process. Chekin is the premier supplier of trusted software solutions for digitalizing the check-in and check-out (and all the key legal points to take into consideration in between). We provide a stack of optimized, ready-to-run software solutions, and support for implementation on travel tech companies. Further, Chekin rapidly updates applications according to regional law changes to ensure optimal results. Chekin integration model is to be embedded into the partner solution, this native integration provides a better experience for the end users, a trusted tool for the hotelier, and lower their cost due to the guest data collection process.
- GigPig — Book gigs. Get Gigs. No messing. Supporting venues and artists all the way with live music management.
Marcus Lewold
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Investment focus
- Men's, Women's, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Angel
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Coupleness — Coupleness, founded in 2019 by Ted Rosén and CEO Jenny Holmström, developed a mobile app aimed to act as a common micro-diary for couples who want to communicate more with each other.
Mathias Hermansson
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Investment focus
- Payments, E-Commerce, Mobile Payments
- Seed, Funding Round
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Mondido — Mondido is a payment service designed to increase conversion rates for online merchants. It enables the acceptance of payments on websites and mobile applications while offering smart features for analyzing and increasing sales. Mondido was launched in 2014 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden.
Hans Veldhuizen is a serial entrepreneur and current investor. He previously founded two companies, both of which were bought, and he now enjoys investing in startups. His first company, Nedstat, focused on web analytics and was acquired by comScore for $36.7M. His second company, Albumprinter, based in the Netherlands, created astreamlined process for customers to make hard cover books using their own images. Albumprinter was sold to Vistaprint for €65M.
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Retail, Fashion
- Seed, Series B
- Sweden, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- Otrium — Otrium has over 300 brand partnerships with both up-and-coming designers and luxury names and more than 3 million shopping members. Otrium is disrupting the fashion industry by solving the problem of unsold inventory using data.
- Tinitell — Tinitell is a one-button mobile phone for kids that like to play outside! It’s super simple, fun, and durable. Parents don’t want to buy mobile phones for their kids because they - are expensive - break easily - get lost - and they don’t want to their kids to spend a lot of time online. But parents buy phones for their kids anyway. Parents want toknow where their kids are, and they want to be able to talk them. Tinitell is the reinvention of the walkie-talkie for the cellular network, and kids is just the beginning. A variety of future users are screaming for a simple communication solution. Tinitell is going to become the world’s strongest brand in the wristphone segment of wearable tech.
- LayerGloss —
Joachim Samuelsson is a serial entrepreneur that kick-starts enterprises, develops them during a couple of years and then capitalizes on the increase in value by selling the company. As an entreprenuer he is driven by the opportunity of helping other people and understanding how to build and realize huge value with minimal risk. Despite hisrelative young age of 48 he has already the experience of building value in five successful ventures that have been sold to third parties for over a billion Swedish Krona.He has also dedicated a couple of years pro-bono to social entrepreneurship in a project to inspire entrepreneurship among young people in Southern Sweden. This latest endeavour, Crunchfish, is arguably his most challenging to date, as it is destined to change the world by enabling a new touchless way of interacting with mobile devices. Joachim has been awarded for his entreprenurship several times and was recently voted the most entrepreneurial person in Southern Sweden by the public in a contest organised by Svenskt Näringsliv. He represents also the City of Helsingborg as one of their Ambassadors.Academically, he has a Master of Science degree in Industrial Engineering and Business Administration from Linköping University 1988. He is married to Petra and has three beautiful grown-up daughters.
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Computer, Software
- Angel
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Crunchfish — Crunchfish is passionate about touch less interaction and has specialised in bringing the touchless technology to the market. We take the user experience with apps and mobile devices to the next level by making a touchless interface available everywhere.We are an open family of playful explorers with the mission of synchronizing electronicsfor us humans, instead of the other way around.Our Touchless A3D™ software requires no hardware changes. It relies only on the video stream from the embedded camera. This enables a new interaction paradigm on all mobile devices.
Sebastian Knutsson is one of our founders and has served on our Board of Directors since October 2003, as our chief creative officer since June 2004 and as our executive product developer from February 2003 to June 2004. Sebastian has more than 18 years of experience in the Internet industry. As chief creative officer, he leads the productstrategy, games development and service offerings for King. Sebastian has designed more than 100 games for King.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Music, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Sweden, United States, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Revyze — Revyze is a community-powered app with a sharp focus on high school education.
- Flower — We enable the energy system of tomorrow by combining pioneering technology with flexible assets, allowing clean energy to power society
- Reforged Labs — Reforged Labs | The world's first AI copilot For mobile game marketers
Martin Randel - Co-Founder, Board Member and Owner @ Vitamin Well
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, E-Commerce, Mobile
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Sweden, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Reve — Tipser is the global leader in embedded commerce, turning any digital surface into a point of sale. Discover a better way to monetize traffic.
- Nordtech Group — Nordtech Group is a technology group consisting of software companies with industry-specific products. Common to its companies is that they deliver high customer values within their respective segments.
- Covr Security AB — Covr Security meet the growing demand for highly secure, user-centric control over mobile security and digitized personal information. Covr is founded by serial entrepreneurs, including the developers of the digital verification standard currently used by the Swedish banking system.
Ted Nelson is currently Chief Commercial Officer at Truecaller. Previously he was SVP Sales & GM Stardoll.com at Stardoll.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Mobile, Sports
- Seed, Angel
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
I am an entrepreneurial and experienced CEO. I have successfully built, launched, and grown multiple new global businesses at companies such as Google (Internet), Modern Times Group (media), and HTC VIVE (VR). Proven ability to successfully create and communicate corporate visions and strategies, hire and motivate top talent, and lead global sales,marketing, and product teams.Board member of companies such as Cision (software), Scandic Hotels (hotels), and Raymond (solar). Trusted advisor to large firms such as Ericsson and EQT, and cutting-edge startups like Einride (electric trucks), Jetson (flying cars), and Elonroad (electric roads).World class keynote speaker at international conferences such as MWC, GDC, IBC, CES, and invited speaker at Harvard, Stanford, and MIT. I am a future astronaut with Virgin Galactic, and the founder of WIT Global Women In Tech network and events.
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Investment focus
- Virtual Reality, Sports, Electric Vehicle
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Sweden, United States, Czech Republic
Portfolio highlights
- WEIQ — WEIQ is an application that offers an ordering and payment solutions for restaurants.
- Elonroad — Elonroad charging solutions allow for vehicle agnostic conductive charging, providing freedom and flexibility by charging while driving or parked.
- Jetson Aero — Your personal aircraft in aluminium and carbon fibre, powered with eight powerful electric motors.
Erik Byrenius is a founding partner of Mudcake, a microfund run by ex-founders dedicated to making the world a better place for the next generation. We invest in the strongest founders shaping the way we produce, distribute and consume food. Our typical ticket is $200k-$600k in pre-seed and seed rounds globally.Previously he was the CEO andco-founder of food delivery business OnlinePizza (exit to Delivery Hero), founder of StartupTools and co-founded the angel syndicate Nordic Makers.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Security, Information Technology
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Sweden, United States, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- Digitail — Grow your practice, offer a modern client experience, and automate routine practice tasks with the proven all-in-one veterinary software.
- Mavenoid — Mavenoid is the only product support automation platform built for complex products and devices. Using our unique AI, we solve problems too complex for chatbots
- Elsa — Elsa is a platform for patient driven research for better drugs, health and prevention. Elsa lets patients become their own personal researchers by providing them with a better understanding around how lifestyle factors may affect their disease activity measurements for chronic disease. To support them from a scientific perspective, Elsa gives themaccess to data on their specific disease (initially we work with rheumatoid arthritis) through the Riskminder foundation and scientific studies at Karolinska Institutet.
Stefan Lindeberg was the Venture Partner and Co-founder of Nordic Game Ventures. He attended Linköping University.
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Investment focus
- Software, Gaming, Analytics
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Sweden, Denmark, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- BlackWall — Protect your web site from hacking, content theft, crawling, and cloning!
- Lovable — Build software products, using only a chat interface
- Blue Scarab Entertainment — Blue Scarab Entertainment is Stockholm-based video game studio developing a surprising MMORPG for fans of cozy escapism, true-crime, and horses.
Fredrik Palm
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Investment focus
- Payments, E-Commerce, Mobile Payments
- Seed, Funding Round
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Mondido — Mondido is a payment service designed to increase conversion rates for online merchants. It enables the acceptance of payments on websites and mobile applications while offering smart features for analyzing and increasing sales. Mondido was launched in 2014 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden.
Lars H. Thunell, a Swedish national, is Executive Vice President and CEO of IFC (International Finance Corporation), a member of the World Bank Group.Lars Thunell is leading IFC in its mission to promote sustainable private sector development. Since joining the Corporation in January 2006, Lars Thunell has advanced growth of IFC's businessand its mission to create opportunities in emerging markets and improve people's lives. He has visited 60 developing countries to see firsthand how IFC can best help its clients with financing and advisory services, and endorsed further decentralization of IFC.Lars Thunell joined IFC after a successful career in the financial services industry. Most recently, he was the Chief Executive Officer of SEB, a North European commercial and investment bank. In the 1990s, Lars Thunell served as the Chief Executive Officer of Trygg-Hansa, a Swedish insurance company, and as Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Nordbanken.As President and Chief Executive Officer of Securum, an asset management company established by the Swedish government, he played a key role in the government's strategy for resolving the country's banking crisis of the 1990s. Under Lars Thunell's leadership, Securum was able to restructure and sell off distressed assets held by the government more quickly than originally expected, recovering value for the Swedish taxpayer.Previously, he worked at ABB Zurich and at American Express in New York. He has also held numerous board positions with international companies and nongovernmental organizations.Lars Thunell graduated with a doctorate from the University of Stockholm and was a research fellow at the Harvard University Center for International Affairs.
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Investment focus
- Solar, FinTech, Robotics
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- TRINE — TRINE uses crowdinvesting to enable people to support solar energy projects, while also delivering a return to the investors. We provide the expertise, organization and the platform for enabling secure investments in carefully selected projects and bring finance to local solar entrepreneurs in emerging nations to electrify the world. Ourcrowdinvestors will fund the initial cost for installing the solar system, over time this loan is paid back with interest by the value of electricity produced from the solar system. With our solution we will connect money sitting in banks, with solar entrepreneurs like yourself in need of financing. By doing so, we will not only enable people to earn a return on an impact investment and democratize those investment options, but also help you to elevate poor communities out of their energy poverty and improve their living standard.
- Spowdi — Spowdi uses solar-powered drip irrigation to enable farmers to save water, be more independent and secure more profitable food production.
- ManoMotion — ManoMotion is a deep tech AI company developing software for real time 3D gesture analysis that allows the user to interact with technology through finger and hand gestures in 3D. This is particularly important to create effective interaction without the need for additional hardware in Augmented and Virtual Reality, and with the small screens, orno screens, typical in wearable computing and smart devices.
Niklas de Besche is the Industrial Advisor at Altor. He was a former Executive Director, Products at Meltwater. He oversees product strategy and the continuous evolution of Meltwater media intelligence platform. Niklas has risen through the Meltwater ranks, opening the company’s first international office in Stockholm and playing an integral rolein building the Nordic operations. He spent several years in the U.S., setting up offices all over the country as an area director while simultaneously managing the Nordic region.
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Investment focus
- Consumer, Software, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Sweden, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
Johan Lenander is Owner & Chairman at Martina Children's Hospital. He attended KTH Royal Institute of Technology.
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Investment focus
- iOS, Apps, Events
- Angel, Funding Round
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Minut — Minut keeps your home safe and your neighbors happy while respecting your guests' privacy. Monitor noise and occupancy, secure your home, and enhance guest experience. Only Minut gives you the full insight you need to protect your homes, all in one single sensor.
- Qnekt — Qnekt is a multievent mobile application that is focused on creating great meetings between event attendees before, during and after. In that making, for an example, you 2 day conference much longer.Qnekt has two products, Qnekt - the mulitevent app as well as we build stand alone apps for huge events such as festivals and multieventapps forinternal communication for big corporations and schools. We made a shell that the event organizers fill with information and use as a project management tool. And as a bonus all attendees have the possibility to download the Qnekt event onto their phone. By that the event organizer has a new way of communicating with guests and the guests can message each other in the app. Vote on polls, navigate the program and creating their own and more.
- Brainlit — Biocentric lighting by BrainLit brings daylight indoors. Exposure to daylight helps balance our circadian rhythms which can improve our health and well-being.
Magnus Emilson - Founder & Executive Chairman @ Visit Group
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, B2B, Mobile
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Sweden
Anna Storåkers
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Investment focus
- Apps, Design, Mobile
- Angel
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Kreditz — Kreditz makes sense out of open banking/PSD2-data with their proprietary Analytics Categorization Engine (ACE). By using ACE, Kreditz is able to fine-tune the transaction data (from any AISP-data aggregator) to make it understandable and usable in valid functional products such as income verification, credit scoring, KYC and many more. Theproducts are available both by API or by an integration-free Web portal. Kreditz serves industries such as consumer- & SME-lending, money transfer, auditing, gambling/betting, insurance and more throughout the Nordic countries.
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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- Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Sweden, France, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- Unify — Route your prompts to the best LLM endpoint. Get the best output and optimize for speed, latency and cost to supercharge your LLM applications!
- Kiku — Kiku using AI for scheduling, screening, and assessing applicants can help organizations manage large volumes of candidates efficiently.
- Lovable — Build software products, using only a chat interface
Akim is an Estonian entrepreneur who has cofounded BASIS ID– all-in-one identity verification (KYC) platform for financial institutions and governmental agencies in Southeast Asia. Akim’s team was participated in creation of electronic ID system and eGovernment portals for Estonian government.Previously a co-founder of successful companies in ITand transportation sectors – OnniBus.com and SuperBus.com. The first one is the most successful commercial bus operator in Finland: 20 lines, 200+ daily departures, 6+ million passengers served annually.
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- Software, iOS, Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Estonia, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Modash.io — High performing marketing teams use Modash to find, analyze and monitor influencers at scale all over the world. Join them today.
- 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.
- DriveX Technologies — Boost your windshield damage assessment accuracy with an AI inspection tool that provides instant repairability decisions.
Paul Schwarzenholz - Co-Founder and Managing Director @ zenloop
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- Internet, Manufacturing, Software
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Germany, Sweden
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- Datia — Datia's products automate your sustainability workflows, data collection and reporting. Easily report on the EU Taxonomy, SFDR and more!
- Heatle — Heatle engages in the manufacture and supply of an inductive immersion heater that heats liquids in the vessel of your choice.
- repath — Our mission is to make climate risks visible to companies worldwide in order to enable a resilient and future-proof world.
Dan Nilsson
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- SaaS, Mobile, Software
- Seed, Funding Round
- Sweden
Lars Björk leads Qlik as CEO and is a member of the company’s board of directors. He oversaw the company’s initial public offering (IPO) in 2010 on the NASDAQ, which was recognized as one of the year’s top tech IPOs.Lars is recognized as an authority on driving company culture through an accessible management style, with articles appearing inthe New York Times, Forbes and Harvard Business Review, as well as speaking engagements at conferences including the CEO2CEO Leadership Summit. He was named the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in the technology category and was named Technology CEO of the Year at the 2015 PACT Annual Enterprise Awards. More recently, he was nominated to participate in Startup America, a White House initiative to accelerate high-growth entrepreneurship, and the Clinton Global Initiative, an organization that brings together leaders to drive action on global challenges.Before Qlik, Lars held several positions as CFO at companies such as ScandStick and Resurs Finance. He has an MBA from the University of Lund, Sweden and a Degree in Engineering from the Technical College in Helsingborg.
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- Apps, Android, Security
- Funding Round, Seed
- Sweden, United States
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- Allone — Increase your workplace safety with Seecure, a digital safety solution. The app lets you activate alarms during emergencies.
- Epishine — Epishine's goal is to be able to provide the world's most scalable, resource efficient, and affordable solar modules. Epishine sells light energy harvesting modules to manufacturers of wireless products. The modules are used to harvest light in any lighting conditions, turning light into usable power.
- Lightdash — Connect your dbt project to Lightdash and allow everyone to answer their own data questions. Built for analysts and the modern data stack.
Kim Fai Kok
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- Men's, Music, Women's
- Angel, Pre-Seed
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Coupleness — Coupleness, founded in 2019 by Ted Rosén and CEO Jenny Holmström, developed a mobile app aimed to act as a common micro-diary for couples who want to communicate more with each other.
- Freshsound — Instantly license music from commercially released artists and songwriters for film, series, advertising, social content and gaming.
Patrick Grimlund
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Investment focus
- Apps, Design, Mobile
- Series A
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Kreditz — Kreditz makes sense out of open banking/PSD2-data with their proprietary Analytics Categorization Engine (ACE). By using ACE, Kreditz is able to fine-tune the transaction data (from any AISP-data aggregator) to make it understandable and usable in valid functional products such as income verification, credit scoring, KYC and many more. Theproducts are available both by API or by an integration-free Web portal. Kreditz serves industries such as consumer- & SME-lending, money transfer, auditing, gambling/betting, insurance and more throughout the Nordic countries.
Petri Uitto
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile Devices
- Angel
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Higher — Higher is a startup working for the development of a mobile software solution for recruitment
Åsa Lidén is an Angel Investor.
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- Mobile, Health Insurance
- Angel, Pre-Seed
- Sweden
Niall Murphy is a CEO and co-founder of EVRYTHNG, the IoT Smart Products Platform connecting products to the Web and managing real-time data to drive applications and experiences. He is also known as a technologist and serial entrepreneur.Niall co-founder pan European WiFi network The Cloud with George Polk, ultimately acquired by BSkyB in2010. He founded one of the first ISPs in South Africa in a joint venture with Sprint, and three digital media businesses in South Africa. Niall co-founded Amsterdam-based scenario thinking consultancy The Digital Thinking Network in 1994 with Daniel Erasmus.He is a member of UK telecoms regulator Ofcom's advisory board, and was a co-author of the Wi-Fi International Roaming Access Protocols Framework in 2005.Murphy completed his secondary education at Redhill High School and obtained a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Witwatersrand.Murphy currently lives in New York, USA.
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- Mobile, Wireless, Mobile Apps
- Funding Round
- Sweden
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- Instabridge — With Instabridge get more than a million up-to-date WiFi spots & passwords in your phone => Install the App > Auto-connect to WiFi > Surf Internet for Free
Johan Rosendahl - Business Development @ CLX Communications
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- Mobile, Marketplace, Mobile Apps
- Pre-Seed
- Sweden
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- Done — Done provides a mobile platform where consumers get access to quality, vetted craftsmen for their home projects over video chat and have all communication in one place with the mobile app. Founded in Stockholm, Sweden, Done is transforming the way home services are consumed throughout the Nordics.
Öjje Holt is the Founder and Chairman of Acamp.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Credit, Mobile
- Angel
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Kreditz — Kreditz makes sense out of open banking/PSD2-data with their proprietary Analytics Categorization Engine (ACE). By using ACE, Kreditz is able to fine-tune the transaction data (from any AISP-data aggregator) to make it understandable and usable in valid functional products such as income verification, credit scoring, KYC and many more. Theproducts are available both by API or by an integration-free Web portal. Kreditz serves industries such as consumer- & SME-lending, money transfer, auditing, gambling/betting, insurance and more throughout the Nordic countries.
Jan West
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- Software, Mobile Devices
- Angel
- Sweden
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- Higher — Higher is a startup working for the development of a mobile software solution for recruitment
Conny Modigh
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile Devices
- Angel
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Higher — Higher is a startup working for the development of a mobile software solution for recruitment
Robin Söderling
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Investment focus
- eSports, PC Games, Mobile Apps
- Funding Round
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- G-Loot — G-Loot is the online competition platform for those who want to play, stream, create fun & social challenges with their friends and communities, or even relax alone. G-Loot challenges are open to anyone with no qualifying or queuing. All you need is the G-Loot PC app and the game you want to play.
John Grundström is an Active board member and Co-Founder at Floid.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Design, Mobile
- Angel
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Kreditz — Kreditz makes sense out of open banking/PSD2-data with their proprietary Analytics Categorization Engine (ACE). By using ACE, Kreditz is able to fine-tune the transaction data (from any AISP-data aggregator) to make it understandable and usable in valid functional products such as income verification, credit scoring, KYC and many more. Theproducts are available both by API or by an integration-free Web portal. Kreditz serves industries such as consumer- & SME-lending, money transfer, auditing, gambling/betting, insurance and more throughout the Nordic countries.
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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Investment focus
- Software, Apps, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Sweden, Japan, Denmark
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.
Ramzi Rizk
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile Apps, Graphic Design
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Germany, Czech Republic, Sweden
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- Datia — Datia's products automate your sustainability workflows, data collection and reporting. Easily report on the EU Taxonomy, SFDR and more!
- Callstack AI — acreom is the integrated markdown knowledge base with tasks. Your personal daily driver for your dev workflow.
- Supernova.io — Supernova helps you build, mature, and scale your design system easily, thanks to powerful documentation and efficient design system management.
Kari Anette Jakobsen
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- Android, Software
- Seed
- Sweden
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- MyBeat — MyBeat is a low cost Swedish mobile operator, offering subscriptions in combination with re-used mobile phones.
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