Top 50 Payments Startup Investors in Sweden in July 2025
A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Payments startups based in Sweden. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Payments companies from Sweden. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Payments Startup Investors in Sweden in July 2025
Investor | Payments Sweden investments |
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NFT Ventures | 7 |
Wellstreet | 3 |
Brightly Ventures | 3 |
Fulgur Ventures | 3 |
Daniel Pilotti | 3 |
Luminar Ventures | 3 |
13books Capital | 2 |
Creandum | 2 |
Swedbank | 2 |
Mathias Hermansson | 2 |
Index Ventures | 2 |
Thord Wilkne | 2 |
Industrifonden | 2 |
Draper Associates | 2 |
Fredrik Palm | 2 |
BitScale | 2 |
Sanctor Capital | 2 |
Visa | 2 |
Tether | 2 |
DHS Venture Partners | 2 |
Almi Invest | 2 |
Coin98 | 2 |
Forward Venture Capital | 2 |
Karl-Johan Persson | 2 |
MacLane Wilkison | 1 |
H&M Group Ventures | 1 |
Bashar Hamood | 1 |
Greens Ventures | 1 |
ICO Drops | 1 |
Young Entrepreneurs of Sweden | 1 |
Aggregate Media | 1 |
Håkan Nilsson | 1 |
SKEL | 1 |
Gate.io | 1 |
Lars-Henrik Friis Molin | 1 |
Thijn Lamers | 1 |
La Famiglia | 1 |
Stahl Invest | 1 |
Chainlayer | 1 |
Emil Sunvisson | 1 |
Global Brain Corporation | 1 |
Johan Andersson | 1 |
Sony Financial Ventures | 1 |
MCMA Ventures, LLC | 1 |
GP Bullhound | 1 |
Dawn Capital | 1 |
Jan Kemper | 1 |
Crypto.com | 1 |
Collector Ventures | 1 |
Rikard Steiber | 1 |
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Sweden, Finland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Yabie — Yabie's Payment and POS systems take the effort out of selling. It's the most intuitive, hassle-free and mobile way of interacting with your customers and making a sale.
- Invoier AB — Invoier is on a mission to help small and medium sized businesses become more competitive by changing the behaviour to access and price working capital. Founded in Stockholm, the financial technology company revolutionised short term financing with the world’s first spot market in real time for invoice trading. Today Invoier offers a platformfor businesses in Europe to get paid directly, plan the liquidity and grow its business. Backed by the EIC/European Investment Bank and partnering with some of the biggest investors we are quickly changing how the world sees SME financing. Join us on our mission! Visit: https://www.invoier.com/
- Oort Digital — Oort Digital offers users to store, send, borrow, lease, trade, pay, mine, and game with NFTs.
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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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Retail
- Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Sweden, Norway, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Y/ELM+ — Y/ELM+ is a horseback riding safety and protection brand that focuses n creating leading-edge rider safety solutions.
- Key Ward — Accelerate your engineering projects with data intelligence. Mitigate the risk of late stage failures in your AI adoption journey with our no-code platform.
- Maintract — Maintract is a new generation of financial contract management software. It also offers banking and financial services. They provide contract management automation solutions to banks for drafting, data verification, workflow automation, contract data monitoring, tracking workflow and documentation, compliance management, and more.
Brightly Ventures backs bold founders on a mission to transform industries and change the world for the better. Brightly is an early-stage investor focused on the Nordics. It has a hands-on approach supporting high-potential ideas and bringing them to market. It makes a deep commitment to each investment we make and draw upon its network andcompany-building experience to help boost the journey.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Sweden, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Adway — Adway specializes in recruitment marketing, employer branding, Hr-tech and candidate journey solutions.
- Fast Travel Games — Fast Travel Games is a VR exclusive game developer and publisher, founded by industry leading veterans and behind acclaimed titles such as Apex Construct and Wraith: The Oblivion - Afterlife.
- Collective Minds Radiology — Collective Minds develops and delivers a cloud-based collaboration platform for healthcare and research with access to data, human and digital expertise.
We believe in Bitcoin as a next generation politically neutral monetary system, the foundation for decentralized finance of the future. While Bitcoin is an efficient settlement layer, it needs a Layer-2 solution for everyday transactions. That is why we support development of the Lightning Network - an essential step towards decentralized finance.As technology entrepreneurs we combine decades of experience creating business from zero and scaling it in emerging and fast-growing industries.We support outstanding teams in several ways: writing checks of $50-$200k for pre-seed startups; granting rewards for acknowledged contributions to the ecosystem; providing startup advisory and mentoring; investing in later stages.Along the way we help startups to navigate cryptocurrency legal and regulatory environment according to the evolving industry standards and best practices.
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Investment focus
- Bitcoin, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- JAN3 — JAN3 is a Bitcoin technology company focused on expanding access to Bitcoin and financial freedom around the world.
- Sygnum — Sygnum is an international digital asset banking organization, rooted in Swiss and Singaporean traditions. The company provides professional and institutional investors, banks, corporations, and DLT foundations with the means to invest in digital assets with utmost confidence. Sygnum's team facilitates this through our top-tier security,personalized expert service, and regulated services in digital asset banking, asset management, tokenization, and B2B offerings.
- Meanwhile — The world's first regulated Bitcoin life insurance. Tax-efficient wealth planning for long-term Bitcoin holders.
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.
Luminar is one of the most active seed investors in the Nordics, providing experienced seed financing and active operational support.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Sweden, Norway, United States
Portfolio highlights
- ReCarber — Commercializing carbon removal projects. ReCarber matches emitters with off-takers, orchestrates financing, and commercially develops BECCS / bio-CCS projects.
- Motorica — Craft AAA animation in minutes with our Generative AI mocap actor. No capture. No cleanup. Just animate.
- IPercept — At IPercept we provide AI-based, hardware-enabled software solutions and services that can best be described as the fitness tracker for complex industrial machines. At the push of a button, you can learn about a machines’ health, down to micrometer changes for each critical component. You can get insights into what maintenance activities you shouldapply and when. You can monitor how the machines are operated, how to optimize their utilization and much more. All of this is achieved through a plug-n-play installation - for old machines as well as new. All securely provided without requiring access to any machine controllers or IT-systems. These services reduce maintenance costs, downtime and increase productivity - a solid ROI for our customers. In 5 years, most complex industrial machinery sold in the world will be supported by our technology.
Investors in tomorrow's financial technology. 13books find, fund and nurture the bold. Supporting the founders transforming tomorrow's financial services.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United Kingdom, Germany, France
Portfolio highlights
- Briink — Our AI helps private equity firms and companies automate and scale their EU Taxonomy and SFDR assessments. Get in touch today.
- Najar — Welii helps fast-growing companies save time and money by optimizing the purchasing process and management of all their SaaS software.
- Infact — Infact Systems is a company that focuses on bringing affordability and credit information into the 21st century. They facilitate the sharing of real-time, contextual data, primarily in the banking industry. Their mission is to increase responsible financial behavior by providing real-time data for modern credit. They offer integration andcustomization services for HPZone, particularly in terms of connecting with external laboratory systems. Infact Systems also provides services to help women take control of their finances.
We support early-stage founders in building global, category-defining companies. From Seed to IPO and beyond.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Sweden, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Laka — Laka is collective bicycle insurance especially for cyclists. We flipped insurance. By making it pay to pay out, we are the collective that backs each other. Protect your bikes and gear against theft & damage with Laka 5-star rated cycle insurance.
- CarOnSale — Operator of B2B auction platform intended to digitize the lease-return and trade-in of cars.
- Lovable — Build software products, using only a chat interface
Swedbank AB (formerly Föreningssparbanken) is a Nordic-Baltic banking group offering retail banking, asset management, financial, and other services.Swedbank is a modern bank firmly rooted in Swedish savings bank history.
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Investment focus
- Banking, Real Estate, FinTech
- Funding Round, Post-IPO Debt, Debt Financing
- Sweden, Latvia, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Yabie — Yabie's Payment and POS systems take the effort out of selling. It's the most intuitive, hassle-free and mobile way of interacting with your customers and making a sale.
- Inbank AS — Inbank is a consumer finance-focused digital bank with an EU credit institution license, active in seven countries.
- Kojamo Group — Kojamo plc will focus on real estate investments in Finland, renewing rental housing to make it increasingly attractive by developing new types of homes and services. The solutions promote work-related mobility in urbanising Finland, increase well-being and help preserve the environment. The vision of the housing investment company is to be apioneer in housing and the customer’s number-one choice.
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.
Index Ventures is an international venture capital firm with dual headquarters in San Francisco and London, investing in technology-enabled companies with a focus on e-commerce, fintech, mobility, gaming, infrastructure/AI, and security.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- Boulevard — Boulevard is the first and only Client Experience Platform. Streamline bookings, optimize your schedule, and drive growth with a complete platform built just for you
- Moment — Engineering the future of fixed income with the world's leading financial institutions.
- Bigger Games — Bigger Games, a dynamic mobile gaming company, is at the forefront of transforming the mobile gaming landscape. We aim for great execution and passionately work on each and every detail in our casual games to build the best experience for our players.
Thord Wilkne is Member of the Board of Directors at Addnode Group
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Investment focus
- Consulting, Financial Services, Association
- Funding Round, Seed, Angel
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Breakit — Breakit is Sweden's sharpest news about startups and tech companies.
- Opti — Opti is a simple app that helps users see which funds are worth its price. Working as a robotic consultant, the app provides fund comparison service where the users can compare how well your existing funds are compared to others Opti's services are free when it comes to testing and comparing funds. However, the person who wants to help a swapfund may pay 145 kronor per byte. Customers' funds can be found at banks or other savings banks. Opti only handles the investment advice itself.The company is located at Stockholm, Sweden.
- Dynamic Code — Dynamic Code's driving force is to translate the latest research into products that contribute to increased well-being and better health. Special expertise is to apply the latest scientific advances in DNA technology and other molecular biological research into useful products for consumers, municipalities, healthcare and companies.Their approach to product development is to create a product that is close to people's needs and to help people seeking guidance on various symptoms or diseases. Several of the häsotest as Dynamic Code has been developed, giving customers a quick and useful answers. Analysis The answer is at least as safe as in health care, but faster. In some cases there has not been adequate diagnoses within the traditional health care system. An example of this is our home test for bacterial vaginosis.
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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Investment focus
- Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- Sweden, United States, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- Fibbl — Fibbl is the world's first cost-effective end-to-end solution for 3D and AR focused visual marketing. Integrate 3D & AR into e-commerce and marketing in minutes.Fibbl have industrialized the process of producing photorealistic 3D models for consumer products from global brands. Fibbl has the world's largest 3D model database forconsumer products.Learn more - https://www.fibbl.com/
- Agteria Biotech — Agteria Biotech is an innovative biotech startup dedicated to mitigating methane emissions in cattle through our groundbreaking compound. By promoting sustainable practices in livestock farming, we aim to engage investors and dairy companies interested in eco-friendly solutions. Partner with us to t
- Senseworks — Senseworks is an insight platform that enables colleagues to collaborate effectively with customers by providing a single source of truth for accounting data.
Draper Associates, founded in 1985, is a seed-stage venture capital firm that helps entrepreneurs to drive their businesses to greatness. We understand that a great company takes time to build and we'd like to ensure that entrepreneurs are in for the long haul.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Grifin — Automatically buy stock where you shop. When you buy a cup of coffee at Starbucks, you invest $1 into Starbucks stock. Shop on Amazon? You now own $1 of Amazon stock.
- Allia — A better way to run your practice
- Decile Group — Discover how to launch a VC fund instantly with top managers. Join us to fund great companies changing the world. Start your journey now!
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.
BitScale invest in teams and solutions that bring transparency and efficiency to our world with cutting-edge technologies.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Cicada — Cicada | Institutional Credit Risk Management On Chain
- Fluidity Money — Earn yield for trading, holding, swapping, minting NFTs; everything you already do is now yield bearing. Fluid assets change the way you use your money on-chain.
- Thrive Protocol — Thrive Protocol's vision is to maximize value creation for all people and communities.
Sanctor Capital is a thesis driven investment fund and deploys capital across both primary and secondary markets.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- 0G Labs — The First Decentralized AI Operating System
- Sonic — Sonic's objective is to enhance the existing Solana Gaming Ecosystem to handle millions of requests per second per game and redirect them back to Solana L1.
- Mirror World — Mirror World is a blockchain-based virtual world, also known as the Metaverse, where we aim to connect Mirror World with different games and experiences, allowing users to move through different game scenarios with interconnected & independent economic systems.
Visa is an American multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world. The company operates the retail electronic payments network through the transfer of value and information among financial institutions, merchants, consumers, businesses, and government entities.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
- Funding Round, Series B, Series C
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Oze — OZÉ brings African small businesses into the digital era. It is an app that makes it easy for businesses to track sales, expenses, and customer information. The data is analyzed to provide tailored recommendations, reports, and business education. If the entrepreneur needs a little extra support, an OZÉ Coach is just a click away. As they are usingOZÉ to manage their business and learn how to run it better, we are learning about them. Using this data and machine learning, we can predict their credit risk and provide them with affordable capital from our banking partners. With over 20,000 registered users, OZÉ is the largest online community of SMEs in Ghana. The most exciting thing is that OZÉ works; 97% of businesses that have used OZE for at least 9 months are growing or profitable or both!
- Moniepoint — Moniepoint provides an all-in-one payments, banking and operations platform for businesses and their customers.
- Konnect — Konnect provides a cross borders payment solution intended to simplify complex financial flows allowing companies of any scale and size to send and receive payments in a practical, secure, and low-cost way.
Launched in 2014, Tether is a blockchain-enabled platform designed to facilitate the use of fiat currencies in a digital manner. Tether works to disrupt the conventional financial system via a more modern approach to money. Tether has made headway by giving customers the ability to transact with traditional currencies across a blockchain, withoutthe inherent volatility and complexity typically associated with a digital currency. As the first blockchain-enabled platform to facilitate the digital use of traditional currencies (a familiar, stable accounting unit), Tether has democratised cross-border transactions across a blockchain.
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Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, FinTech
- Corporate Round, Seed, Series A
- Singapore, Georgia, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Be Water — Be Water aims to redefine media consumption through a technology-driven approach to content production and storytelling.
- Shiga Digital — This is the website for shiga.io. We are bridging the gap between traditional finance and the blockchain, making it simple to leverage the benefits that decentralised finance brings.
- Elemental Royalties — Elemental focuses on securing royalties over advanced assets with established operators from a robust pipeline of potential royalty. Founded in 2004, the company is based in Vancouver, British Columbia.
DHS Ventures, Stockholm School of Economics alumni angel investing network that invests early on into inovative companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Big Data, Mobile Apps
- Funding Round, Pre-Seed, Seed
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Divly — Crypto taxes without the headache. Divly simplifies and automates declaring taxes on your crypto trading.
- Normain — Normain is the AI platform for deep knowledge work. Automate your complex analyses and reports directly on Sharepoint or Google Drive. Access your own data and public sources in one single platform.
- Circulate — Find the best packaging for you and the planet in our marketplace
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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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Sweden, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Embedl AB — Efficient Deep Learning by Deep Learning model optimization
- Epigenica — Epigenica focuses on advancing epigenomics through its EpiFinder™ platform, a multiplexed ChIP-seq technology for high-throughput analysis of epigenetic marks. The company offers R&D services for the development of therapeutic molecules and diagnostic methods using epigenetics. Epigenica aims to improve scientists' ability to capture andextract insights from the epigenome, contributing to precision medicine and the discovery of new biomarkers.
- Polar Light Technologies — Polar Light Technologies focuses on developing the next generation of Nano and micro LED technology.
Coin98 is an open, decentralized crypto wallet offering tools and infrastructure for everyone to access and seize opportunities to build their future on the Open Internet.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Singapore, Sweden, Estonia
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.
- Alliance Games — Build Beyond Limits. Multiplayer for the Next, Decentralized Era.
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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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Sweden, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- Uniify — Uniify is a no-code customer onboarding software that makes it fast, easy and secure for financial companies to onboard their customers. Save your business time and money, and build onboarding flows for your customers in minutes instead of months.
- Niricson — Niricson Software has developed a proprietary damage assessment software platform paired with a patent-pending drone-based data collection technology that helps infrastructure owners inspect their structures (e.g. hydro dams) in a way that is more accurate, five times faster, and 50% more cost-effective. Niricson is differentiated by its ability toautomatically detect and quantify not only surface damage, but also subsurface damage.
- Brink Commerce — Brink Commerce offers leading eCommerce solutions. Boost growth, perfect customer experiences, and unlock agility with our Composable Commerce API.
Karl-Johan Persson, born in 1975, has been the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB since 1 July 2009.Before taking over as Managing Director Karl-Johan Persson held an operational role within H&M from 2005, including working as head of expansion, business development, brand and new business.Since 2000 Karl-Johan Persson has been a member of the boards of H&M’s subsidiaries in Denmark, Germany, the US and the UK. Between the years 2006 and 2009 he was also a member of the Board of H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB.Between 2001 and 2004 Karl-Johan Persson was CEO of European Network. Karl-Johan holds a BA in Business Administration from the European Business School in London.His current external board assignments are the Swedish Chamber of Commerce in the UK and the GoodCause foundation. Karl-Johan Persson is since 2013 a member of the Board of H&M Conscious Foundation. Karl-Johan Persson is a shareholder in Ramsbury Invest AB, and also personally holds 12,136,289 class B shares in H&M.The Managing Director is appointed by the Board of Directors and is responsible for the daily management of the company as directed by the Board.This means that the Managing Director must focus in particular on recruitment of senior executives, buying and logistics matters, pricing strategy, sales and profitability, marketing, expansion, development of the store network and of online and catalogue sales, and IT development.The Managing Director reports to the Board on H&M’s development and produces decision bases for investments, expansion, etc. The role of Managing Director includes contact with the financial market, the media and the authorities.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Internet, Software
- Funding Round, Seed, Angel
- Sweden, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Nordtech Group — Nordtech Group is a technology group consisting of software companies with industry-specific products. Common to its companies is that they deliver high customer values within their respective segments.
- Relate — Relate is a startup that develops apps and other services to help both singles and couples to healthy and meaningful romantic relationships.
- Joint Academy — Joint Academy connects patients with licensed physical therapists to deliver online treatments for chronic joint and back pain. Our treatments are clinically proven and give patients access to a personal, licensed physical therapist, an individualized exercise plan, interactive education about the condition, and progress tracking — all through auser-friendly app. Peer-reviewed studies show that Joint Academy patients reduce their pain, change their minds about surgery, and quit painkillers. Joint Academy is now available to patients in Sweden, the US, the UK, France, and Germany.
MacLane Wilkison is the Co-Founder and CEO of NuCypher
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Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency, Gaming, Privacy
- Seed
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Freatic — We bridge the gap between individuals with untapped knowledge and actors who can take advantage of these opportunities.
- NuLink — NuLink combines best practices with best-of-breed security solutions to provide privacy-preserving technology with enterprise level security for decentralized applications
H&M Group Ventures is the venture capital arm of the H&M Group.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Fashion, Textiles
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- Sweden, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Voyado — All-in-one CRM, CDP, marketing software and AI-powered product discovery purely built for retail and ecommerce.
- Cult Mia — Your guide to designer discovery. We handpick the best fashion from around the world and bring it to you weekly. Our exclusive curated drops feature the most exciting new brands & unique pieces. This is power dressing with staying power.
- Heirloom — Heirloom is restoring balance to our atmosphere by removing 1 billion tons of carbon dioxide by 2035. We use natural processes to engineer the world's most cost-effective Direct Air Capture solution.
Bashar Hamood is a Venture Partner at FasterCapital. He previously worked as an Associate Director at Logica. He attended Heriot-Watt University.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- EcoBites — EcoBites is a subscription service that delivers sustainably sourced and eco-friendly packaged snacks and meals to consumers doorsteps.
- Lawyeree — A platform offering AI legal advice to clients and allowing clients to be connected with the best lawyers.
- SafeNest — SafeNest offers a comprehensive home security system integrating smart technology with professional monitoring services.
Greens invests in Nordic pre-seed startups with founders who are alumni of Nordic Unicorns.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Software, Cryptocurrency
- Pre-Seed, Angel
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Divly — Crypto taxes without the headache. Divly simplifies and automates declaring taxes on your crypto trading.
- Steep — The modern analytics platform powered by metrics.
- Superloyal — Revolutionize your customer retention strategy with Superloyal - the platform that delivers personalized experiences, at scale, through flexible technology.
ICO Drops contains a complete list of all ICOs & IEOs (Initial Exchange Offerings) in three columns "Active ICO", "Upcoming ICO", "Ended ICO" with rating and analysis.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Gaming, Trading Platform
- Seed, Pre-Seed
Portfolio highlights
- Synnax — Synnax is an artificial intelligence-powered financial platform which helps to forecast financial performance
- StarSharks — StarSharks is a NFT-GameFi ecosystem based on the BSC chain developed by game players, governance committees, and game developers. The game integrates different types of games and breaks down barriers found between games by allowing players to use the same character to enter the Shark-metaverse. It enables players come together to build and govern a new metaverse and create a community culture in the Shark-metaverse.
- Mines of Dalarnia — An evolving platform-mining blockchain game, filled with single-and multiplayer action, built for every gamer
Yeo build networks between and develop talented young entrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Software, Cryptocurrency
- Pre-Seed
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Divly — Crypto taxes without the headache. Divly simplifies and automates declaring taxes on your crypto trading.
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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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Information Technology, Software
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Yazen — Yazen is a digital obesity clinic that offers weight loss through modern pharmaceutical treatment.
- Zcooly — Zcooly offers several educational games for children.
- 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.
Håkan Nilsson is the founder of Zinnovate.
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Investment focus
- Payments, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Seed
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Payer — Online B2B payments for your enterprise and SME business. Accelerate conversion, payments and admin with our powerful, customisable platform.
SKEL is an investment company that seeks to create value for its shareholders and other stakeholders. SKEL's investment strategy is to grow the current portfolio while keeping long-term value creation in mind and to reduce the importance of fossil fuels in the company's operations by increasing the number of income supports andinvestments. SKEL's strategy is to be a transformational investor, supporting and assisting the companies, management teams, and entrepreneurs in which it chooses to invest. Thus, SKEL's managers and employees assist their partners in fully utilizing all of the potentials of the companies they manage, whether they are established companies or good business ideas.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Payments, Mobile Payments
- Seed
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Focalpay — Focalpay is a disruptive platform that breaks down the boundaries between retail and payments. We offer payment, checkout and backoffice in one universal system.
Gate.io is a cryptocurrency exchange platform that offers trading, investment, and digital wallet services. It supports over 1,300 cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, and Dogecoin.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Capx — Capx's mission is to accelerate the flow of capital through the private markets, thereby enhancing global capital allocation. With secondary market and enterprise solutions, Capx combines high-quality collections of opportunities with efficient access for institutions and individual investors.
- DEXX — Dexx has merged bot trading mechanics with the usability of centralized exchanges (CEXs), creating a broader market for traders.
- Fireverse — Fireverse is an AI-powered musical and Web-3 platform.
Lars-Henrik Friis Molin is the Founder of Talent Venture Group and he attended the Stockholm School of Economics.
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- Apps, Payments, Insurance
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Sweden, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Yepstr — Yepstr connects private individuals and companies that are in need of extra help with Sweden's most driven youth. Yepstr helps with everything from payment, insurance, and taxes so you get more time for other things.
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- YouNoodle — YouNoodle is the platform that helps you collect applications, evaluate them and select the winners, all while connecting with the most promising and brightest minds from around the globe.
Thijn Lamers is the former EVP Global Sales at Adyen Global Payment Services.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany, United Kingdom, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Atlar — Atlar’s platform lets businesses automate all of their payment activities – including initiating transfers, reconciling transactions, and handling direct debits – directly with their existing bank partners.The Stockholm-based company was founded in 2022 by Johannes Elgh, Joel Wägmark and Joel Nordström who were previously early team members atTink (acquired by Visa for $2.2bn). Atlar is backed by Index Ventures – a firm that has previously backed category defining companies such as Adyen, Revolut, Figma, and many more.Backed by world-class investors, we help great tech companies such as Banxware, Mynt, and Lassie automate their bank payments.
- Oaks — Oaks rewards consumers for saving up for the things they really want
- Wordware — A collaborative prompt engineering IDE
We are an early-stage venture capital fund backing the best tech entrepreneurs across Europe and the US
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Germany, United States, France
Portfolio highlights
- Parloa — Amplify your customer service experience with a team of personal AI agents. Leverage the full power of generative AI for contact center automation.
- Langdock — Meet Langdock. Start with a GDPR-compliant daily chat companion for your employees. Then deploy more advanced AI use cases like Assistants and Workflows. All in one easily extendable platform.
- NaroIQ — Discover how we make Money Matter through out innovative fund infrastructure, enabling fair and redistributive earnings in the ETF and fund market.
Stahl Invest
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- Apps, Billing, Robotics
- Funding Round
- Sweden
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- Wrebit — Wrebit började som ett projekt på Wengbrand Redovisning (redovisningsbyrå med kontor i Borås och Ulricehamn). Dagens teknik har medfört ett hot mot redovisningsbranschen, vi ville helt enkelt vara nyskapande och erbjuda småföretagarna ett eget bokföringsprogram. Det resulterade i Wrebit - Enkel bokföring i mobilen. Det är ett komplett bokförings -och faktureringsprogram som är helt appbaserat. Vi har gjort appen väldigt enkel och användarvänlig, inga förkunskaper krävs för att använda appen. Användaren kan bokföra, fakturera, ta fram resultat- och balansrapport, liksom momsrapport. Den är även fylld med fakta i form av avdragslexikon, ekonomifakta och viktiga datum.
blockchain, bitcoin, ethereum, akash, bumper, concordium, cosmos, e-money, flow, kava, regen, serum, solana, the graph, unslashed finance.
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- Cryptocurrency, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Initial Coin Offering
- United Kingdom, Sweden
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- Bumper — Bumper protects the value of your crypto using a radically innovative DeFi protocol. Deposit USDC today to earn BUMP tokens
- NuLink — NuLink combines best practices with best-of-breed security solutions to provide privacy-preserving technology with enterprise level security for decentralized applications
- Unslashed Finance — The best and easiest way to protect your crypto assets against hacks and other events.
Emil Sunvisson
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- B2B, FinTech, Payments
- Seed
- Sweden
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- Qred — Apply online. No secured loan requirement. Offer within an hour. Choose how much of the granted loan to withdraw. Loan up to 100 000 eur.
Global Brain Corporation is a venture capital firm that invests in companies from seed or early to pre-IPO startups. Global Brain has invested in 300+ startups from seed/early to pre-IPO startups and achieved 25 IPOs and 61 M&As as a result of providing hands-on support services and resources to its portfolio startups. Global Brain hasmanaged a pure investment fund as well as multiple corporate venture capital funds partnered together with tier 1 public companies of telecom, real estate development, financial service, beverages, agriculture food, logistics, and electronic devices.
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- Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- Japan, United States, United Kingdom
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- OpenLogi — OpenLogi is a Tokyo based logistics platform focused on SMEs and freelancers. OpenLogi was founded back in December 2013 by Hidetsugu Ito who was previously involved in launching Japanese magazine subscription service Fujisan.co.jp. Based on his experience in discussing and negotiating with logistics companies, he founded OpenLogi to addresslogistics solutions for small e-commerce players.
- Michibiku — Michibiku is a customized administration platform that offers board management and security services for companies and businesses.
- Sixty Percent — Sixty Percent is an overseas fashion mail order site that collects street brands from various countries and transmits asian fashion.
Johan Andersson
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- CRM, Advertising, Advertising Platforms
- Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Sweden
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- Addressya — Addressya is an app that allows individuals to register a complete, precise and easy to use address.
- 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.
Sony Financial Ventures is the wholly owned investment subsidiary of Sony Financial Holdings Inc.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- Japan, Germany, United Kingdom
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- Rest Less — Rest Less is the UK's fastest growing digital community for the over 50s. Join for free. Restless offers content, guidance and resources on a range of topics spanning Work and Careers, Volunteering, Learning, Money, Health, Lifestyle and Relationships.
- FloodFlash — Finding commercial flood insurance can be tough. Control your costs and your recovery with new rapid-payout flood insurance.
- Open Payments — Open Payments connects you to multiple banks through one single unified API. This removes the complexity and frictions of many diverse integrations
MCMA Ventures, LLC. Angel investor team of Mashuri Clark and Candice Gottlieb-Clark. Specializing in seed and pre-seed investments for disruptive innovators.
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- Bitcoin, Gift Card, Consumer Goods
- Funding Round
- Sweden
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- Bitrefill — Purchase Gift Cards or Mobile Refills from more than 3,500 brands in 186 countries instantly, safely, and privately with Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
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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- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Funding Round, Series B, Series A
- United Kingdom, Sweden, Spain
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- Sesamy — Sesamy provides frictionless single purchases and consumption of digital content, without restricting the user’s choice of app or device.
- EcoVadis — Ratings platform to assess corporate social responsibility and sustainable procurement. Solutions include risk monitoring, audit management and sustainability ratings.
- CoverManager — CoverManager is a tool for creating, sell and managing reservations of a restaurant.
We are a family of investors, entrepreneurs, strategists and operational specialists, drawn together by our passion for helping B2B founders build category-defining companies.
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- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United Kingdom, United States, Denmark
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- Kraaft — Kraaft.co is an instant messenger app dedicated to site monitoring for VRD public works trades: roads and various networks. Paris, Île-de-France in 2019.
- Omi — Omi is where marketing teams generate and publish stunning product photos and videos. Generate eCommerce banners, Social Media visuals, Ads creatives, CRM bundles and Print materials.
- Cover Genius — Cover Genius provides an insurance distribution platform designed to protect the customers of e-commerce companies. Its products feature integrated end-to-end insurance and warranty capabilities and offer dynamic product recommendations and pricing optimization, while also undertaking the payment of a customer's claim in real-time, enablingcustomers to access increased protection against any uncertainty.The company was founded in 2014.
Dr. Kemper is the Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer of Omio. He is also an Assistant Professor at RWTH Aachen University and Inhaber Märkische Höfe.
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- Payments, Software, Consulting
- Seed, Angel
- Sweden, Germany
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- Atlar — Atlar’s platform lets businesses automate all of their payment activities – including initiating transfers, reconciling transactions, and handling direct debits – directly with their existing bank partners.The Stockholm-based company was founded in 2022 by Johannes Elgh, Joel Wägmark and Joel Nordström who were previously early team members atTink (acquired by Visa for $2.2bn). Atlar is backed by Index Ventures – a firm that has previously backed category defining companies such as Adyen, Revolut, Figma, and many more.Backed by world-class investors, we help great tech companies such as Banxware, Mynt, and Lassie automate their bank payments.
- Green Air — GreenAir offers an ecosystem for the management of CO2-Certificates for electric vehicle owners and charging station operators in the regulatory sector, and for companies and project developers in the voluntary carbon market. Accelerate Decarbonization!
Over 100 million users buy, sell, and trade Bitcoin, Ethereum, NFTs and more on Crypto.com. Join the World's leading crypto trading platform.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, France
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- ZKM — By utilizing the Power of zkMIPS we have created the Entangled Rollup Network where blockchains can share native assets with no added security assumptions.
- Kiln — Stake your treasury directly, or bring staking to your users through our whitelabel product.
- Radius — Radius is a trustless shared sequencing layer that provides rollups with sequencing-as-a-service and cross-rollup interoperability solutions. Rollup blockchains are specialized blockchains that have off-chain executions to improve transaction processing speed and overall blockchain performance.
Collector Ventures is the investment vehicle of of Collector Bank, founded by Lena Apler.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Sweden
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- Leeroy — Leeroy provides a technology platform that transforms customer data into marketing both on-site in-store and mobile. Leeroy provides merchants with tools to communicate and interact with the customer in real time leveraging efficiency, revenues and customer experience putting the merchant in the driver seat. The company's platform is aproduction and distribution tool for several different digital channels: in-store with communication by digital signage and by mobile to enhance loyalty.
- Capcito — Capcito is a provider of working capital to SMEs. Products are invoice discounting, factoring and business loans, all offered with a click of a button. Smoothly integrated with cloud accounting applications and banks. A proprietary lending platform and scoring engine is continuously being developed to improve accuracy on credit assessment andprovide a more lean and relevant solution to SMEs in need of financing for further growth. Capcito strives to empower businesses to grow.
- Swiftcourt — Swiftcourt helps buyers and sellers to perform safe and smooth peer-to-peer-transactions, by providing them with smart digital contracts, e-signing and transaction-related add-on services.Swiftcourt was founded in 2016 and has since then helped over 70 000 buyers and sellers complete over 40 000 transactions. At the moment, the company is insuccessful partnerships with FINN.no, one of the most prominent classified sites in the world and with Mittanbud.no, the market leading service finder classified site in Norway. Recently, Swiftcourt also closed a deal with the biggest classified site in Sweden, Blocket.se.Swiftcourt aims to be a global standard of conducting safe and smooth online transactions and help buyers and sellers with their deals worldwide.
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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- Virtual Reality, Sports, Electric Vehicle
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Sweden, United States, Czech Republic
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- 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.
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