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Top 50 Payments Startup Investors in Sweden (August 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Sweden Payments startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Sweden Payments startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
NFT Ventures
VC Fund
8 Sweden, Finland, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Apps $579k–$2.9M
Wellstreet
VC Fund
4 Sweden, Norway, Finland Seed, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Retail $193k–$2.5M
Brightly Ventures
VC Fund
4 Sweden, United States Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, SaaS $1.2M–$16M
Almi Invest
VC Fund
4 Sweden, United States, Ukraine Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Health Care, Information Technology $230k–$5M
Coin98
VC Fund
3 Sweden, Singapore, Estonia Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming $1.8M–$7M
Luminar Ventures
VC Fund
3 Sweden, Norway, United States Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, SaaS $960k–$21M
ZBS CAPITAL
VC Fund
3 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $1M–$6M
Kyros Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, Singapore, Vietnam Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming $50k–$50M
Index Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, United Kingdom, France Series A, Series B, Seed Software, E-Commerce, Internet $1.5M–$102M
Fulgur Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, Switzerland, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Bitcoin, FinTech, Cryptocurrency $50k–$40M
BitScale
VC Fund
2 United States, Singapore, Vietnam Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software $1M–$30M
Draper Associates
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, FinTech, Information Technology $1M–$60M
Visa
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Series B, Grant FinTech, Financial Services, Payments $7.3k–$60M
Mathias Hermansson
Angel
2 Sweden Seed Payments, E-Commerce, Mobile Payments
ICO Drops
VC Fund
2 Sweden, Spain, United Arab Emirates Seed, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming $1M–$4.8M
La Famiglia
VC Fund
2 Germany, United States, France Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $2.2M–$95M
Thord Wilkne
Angel
2 Sweden Seed, Angel Consulting, Financial Services, Apps
Industrifonden
VC Fund
2 Sweden, United States, Denmark Series A, Seed Biotechnology, Software, Information Technology $1.2M–$21M
DHS Venture Partners
VC Fund
2 Sweden Pre-Seed, Seed Software, Big Data, Mobile Apps
Tether
VC Fund
2 Canada, United States, United Kingdom Corporate Round, Seed, Post-IPO Equity Financial Services, FinTech, Cryptocurrency $1.5M–$775M
Svea Ekonomi
VC Fund
2 Sweden, Spain, Norway Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Seed Payments, FinTech, Financial Services $2.9M–$16M
Karl-Johan Persson
Angel
2 Sweden, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Angel Information Technology, Internet, Software
Sanctor Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Fredrik Palm
Angel
2 Sweden Seed Payments, E-Commerce, Mobile Payments
13books Capital
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, Germany, France Series A, Seed, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Payments $3.7M–$31M
Creandum
VC Fund
2 Sweden, Germany, United States Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $1.8M–$87M
NMI
VC Fund
2 Sweden Pre-Seed B2B, FinTech, Payments $1.1M–$1.3M
Animoca Brands
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Singapore Seed, Series A Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency $1.5M–$40M
Swedbank
VC Fund
2 Sweden, Finland, Estonia Post-IPO Debt, Debt Financing Energy, Real Estate, Renewable Energy $4.2M–$928M
Aggregate Media
VC Fund
1 Sweden Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Information Technology, Software
Sony Financial Ventures
VC Fund
1 Japan, Germany, United Kingdom Series A, Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
Johan Andersson
Angel
1 Sweden Seed, Pre-Seed CRM, Advertising, Advertising Platforms
MacLane Wilkison
Angel
1 Sweden Seed Cryptocurrency, Gaming, Privacy
H&M Group Ventures
VC Fund
1 Sweden, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Fashion, Textiles
Greens Ventures
VC Fund
1 Sweden Pre-Seed, Angel FinTech, Software, Cryptocurrency
Bashar Hamood
Angel
1 United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
Young Entrepreneurs of Sweden
VC Fund
1 Sweden Pre-Seed FinTech, Software, Cryptocurrency
Håkan Nilsson
Angel
1 Sweden Seed Payments, E-Commerce, Financial Services
Coin Ninja
VC Fund
1 Sweden Seed Bitcoin, Gift Card, Consumer Goods
Forward Venture Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Sweden, Denmark Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services $150k–$14M
VYSYN Capital
VC Fund
1 Singapore, Sweden, Seychelles Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming $2.1M–$10M
Charlie Lee
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom, China Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Bitcoin, FinTech, Cryptocurrency $19k–$11M
BnkToTheFuture
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, United States, Hong Kong Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Series A FinTech, Blockchain, Financial Services $126k–$14M
Felix Bengtsson
Angel
1 Sweden Seed Bitcoin, Gift Card, Consumer Goods
Regain Ventures
VC Fund
1 Sweden Seed Privacy, Internet, Software
Oracles Investment Group
VC Fund
1 Singapore, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming $1.3M–$11M
Sebastian Siemiatkowski
Angel
1 Sweden, United States, Poland Seed, Series A Software, Internet, E-Commerce $825k–$200M
Charles Dunstone
Angel
1 United Kingdom, Sweden Series B, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Finance $16M–$32M
Erik Voorhees
Angel
1 Sweden, United States, Germany Seed, Series A Bitcoin, FinTech, Blockchain $600k–$14M
Roger Ver
Angel
1 United States, Panama, Sweden Seed Bitcoin, FinTech, Cryptocurrency $300k–$8.5M
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NFT Ventures
VC Fund · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden · 8 investments in Sweden Payments startups

We drive the fintech revolution Next Financial Technology Ventures Backing fintech pioneers since 2014 We aim to capture the shift in the financial industry and empower the entrepreneurs to realize their potential Our Story Strong portfolio across Fintech View the full portfolio Exciting news from the NFT portfolio View all news

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Sweden, Finland, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 55
  • Round size: Seed $579k–$2.2M; Series A $1.2M–$2.9M
  • Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2016

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.
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Wellstreet
VC Fund · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden · 4 investments in Sweden Payments startups

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

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Retail
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Sweden, Norway, Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 63
  • Round size: Seed $193k–$1.4M; Pre-Seed $611k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $40M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Deedster — Accelerate your business by connecting and engaging your audience and employees with sustainability data, insights, and actions.
  • 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.
  • Berget AI — We champion AI sovereignty in Europe to unlock innovation and growth
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Brightly Ventures
VC Fund · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden · 4 investments in Sweden Payments startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Sweden, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$4.5M; Series A $3.4M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Evam — Mission-Critical Mobile Data Solutions: Transforming What First Responders Can DoEvam is a Leading Global Supplier of Mission Critical Mobile Data Solutions Software for Police, Ambulance, Fire & Rescue, and other Public Safety Organizations. Used by 100+ regions and municipalities. Handles hundreds of thousands of life-threatening incidentson a yearly basis.The collection of apps is carefully selected to give blue-light agencies the services that they need including Mobilisation, Mapping, Navigation, Case Management, Situational Awareness and more.
  • Hooked Foods — Hooked Foods is working on a plant-based tuna substitute. By serving delicious plant-based seafood for everyone to enjoy, the company is leading the transition to a healthier seafood ecosystem. The company was established in 2019 and is headquartered in Sweden.
  • 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.
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Almi Invest
VC Fund · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden · 4 investments in Sweden Payments startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Sweden, United States, Ukraine

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 339
  • Round size: Seed $230k–$2.3M; Venture - Series Unknown $561k–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • FirstQFM — FirstQFM is a Stockholm-based quantum technology company building proprietary foundation models for quantum computing.
  • Ambidex AB — helps food retailers create new revenue streams on their refrigeration systems by stabilizing the electricity grid.
  • Workify — Workify develops a user-friendly SaaS-based digital platform, providing information about assignments and how resources are used.
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Coin98
VC Fund · Ho Chi Minh City, NA - Vietnam, Vietnam · 3 investments in Sweden Payments startups

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

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Sweden, Singapore, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$7M; Series A $4.1M–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

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.
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Luminar Ventures
VC Fund · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden · 3 investments in Sweden Payments startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Sweden, Norway, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 67
  • Round size: Seed $960k–$5.4M; Series A $8.3M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • FirstQFM — FirstQFM is a Stockholm-based quantum technology company building proprietary foundation models for quantum computing.
  • Fika Jobs — Stand out from the crowd. Find your perfect job.
  • Ivy Interactive — Frictionless Coding with AI
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ZBS CAPITAL
VC Fund · Kyiv, Kyyiv, Ukraine · 3 investments in Sweden Payments startups

ZBS Capital - distinguished crypto venture fund, backed by major media resources including CryptoDiffer.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 159
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$6M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.3M–$6M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $500k in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Yellow — Yellow is a financial services provider of software, analytics, and investments in blockchain startups.
  • KIP Protocol — KIP Protocol is a decentralised AI framework unlocking digital property rights of Knowledge Assets in the AI-powered future.
  • Alliance Games — Build Beyond Limits. Multiplayer for the Next, Decentralized Era.
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Kyros Ventures
VC Fund · 3 investments in Sweden Payments startups

We are the gateway of accessibility to Vietnam, the fastest-growing crypto market in the world.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, Vietnam

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 113
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$6M; Series A $1.5M–$50M; Venture - Series Unknown $50k–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Portal to Bitcoin — The only custody-less interoperability protocol for Bitcoin. Swap native BTC, Ordinals, Runes with L2s and L1s
  • Euler — The credit layer for programmable finance
  • WorkQuest — About WorkQuest WorkQuest is a decentralized employment and workforce automation protocol enabling employers and workers to collaborate through smart contracts, stablecoin payments, AI matching engines, and on-chain reputation scoring. The platform transforms global employment into a transparent, verifiable, and borderless digital labor economy.
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Index Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in Sweden Payments startups

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

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1339
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$15M; Series A $5M–$38M; Series B $11M–$102M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $117M in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • Anrok — Anrok automates sales tax compliance across your financial stack, so you can grow your SaaS business in any market.
  • Pets Deli — PETS DELI is a leading D2C pet food brand in Germany with a clear focus on subscription based eCommerce, headquartered in Berlin. The company’s vision is to become the ultimate biggest and most customer centric D2C pet food brand in its core markets. PETS DELI’s unique business model is based on multiple diversified and recurring revenuestreams: The company markets its superior product offerings via online subscriptions, their online shop, offline flagship stores as well as selected partners in the most dominant retail chains.
  • Acutus Medical — Acutus Medical develops medical technologies to treat complex cardiac arrhythmia. The company's platform displays the heart’s true activation pattern, turning the chaos of a complex arrhythmia into a clear vision for electrophysiologists.Acutus Medical is a privately funded company founded in 2011 and based in Carlsbad, California. Itsproducts are co-developed in the U.S. and Europe with an exceptional team of medical scientists, biomedical engineers, and other professionals.It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Carlsbad, California.
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Fulgur Ventures
VC Fund · Wilmington, Delaware, United States · 3 investments in Sweden Payments startups, 8 in the past 12 months

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

  • Industry: Bitcoin, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Switzerland, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 70
  • Round size: Seed $690k–$5M; Pre-Seed $50k–$2.8M; Series A $2.8M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Utexo — Instant, private USDT payments on Bitcoin. Move stablecoins the way you move money.
  • Five Bells — Five Bells is an a blockchain-based settlement and clearing platform for digital assets that provides safe and open transactions.
  • Foundation — Foundation Devices builds the open hardware foundation for Bitcoin and the sovereign Internet.They started Foundation Devices to make beautifully designed, open-source hardware for Bitcoin and the decentralized Internet. To bring great design and UX to hardware wallets, nodes, and more. To empower individuals to securely use and store Bitcoinwhile maintaining their sovereignty. To help our industry cross the chasm while staying true to its founding ideals. We call this open hardware. And we are excited to bring it to the world!
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BitScale
VC Fund · Zug, Zug, Switzerland · 2 investments in Sweden Payments startups

BitScale invest in teams and solutions that bring transparency and efficiency to our world with cutting-edge technologies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, Vietnam

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$7M; Series A $5M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cicada — Cicada | Institutional Credit Risk Management On Chain
  • Turtle Club — Aggregated, diligenced, personalized onchain yield management.
  • Thrive Protocol — Thrive Protocol's vision is to maximize value creation for all people and communities.
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Draper Associates
VC Fund · San Mateo, California, United States · 2 investments in Sweden Payments startups

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

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 435
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$8.3M; Series A $2.3M–$25M; Series B $5M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Packlane — Packlane makes it easy and affordable for small businesses to design and order custom boxes and packaging online. Through Packlane's online store, customers can apply their own branding and artwork to various packaging styles, get an instant quote, and preview their box designs in full 3D.
  • Affinaquest — Kindsight's fundraising intelligence unlocks real-time insights to help you find donors, craft campaigns, and make more for your mission.
  • CampusLogic — Fill prospective student pipeline and accelerate financial aid packages with clear cost transparency, AI-powered virtual advising, and matched scholarships.
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Visa
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Sweden Payments startups, 7 in the past 12 months

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

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
  • Stage:Series B, Grant
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 146
  • Round size: Grant $7.3k–$52k; Series B $6.5M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SCORE — Since 1964, SCORE has helped more than 20 million entrepreneurs start, grow or successfully exit a business through expert mentoring, resources and education.
  • Replit — Replit is a simple yet powerful online IDE, Editor, Compiler, Interpreter, and REPL. Code, compile, run, and host in 50+ programming languages.
  • P-Agro Minerals — P-Agro Minerals develops chemical-free solutions for wastewater treatment plants, addressing phosphorus pollution.
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Mathias Hermansson
Angel · 2 investments in Sweden Payments startups

Mathias Hermansson

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Payments, E-Commerce, Mobile Payments
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
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ICO Drops
VC Fund · Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation · 2 investments in Sweden Payments startups

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

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Sweden, Spain, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $2.3M–$4.8M; Pre-Seed $1M–$2.3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
  • Chain of Alliance — Chain of Alliance want to allow players to create their own campaigns and stories. They will be able to use our API, and other players staked and offered Characters and land. Their currency offers the characters that are represented as non-fungible tokens can be staked to earn.
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La Famiglia
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 2 investments in Sweden Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 115
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$10M; Series A $7.4M–$95M; Series B $22M–$95M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $99M in 2023

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.
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Thord Wilkne
Angel · 2 investments in Sweden Payments startups

Thord Wilkne is Member of the Board of Directors at Addnode Group

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Consulting, Financial Services, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

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.
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Industrifonden
VC Fund · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden · 2 investments in Sweden Payments startups

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

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Sweden, United States, Denmark

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 197
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$6.2M; Series A $3.3M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Yangi — Yangi is a provider of environmentally friendly packaging solutions.
  • Fyndiq — Fyndiq is an e-commerce platform through which we offer a range of products for bargain hungry shoppers. We provide a sales channel for all types of e-tailers who want to boost their sales in an accessible way. Through Fyndiq individual retailers can effect fully sell of its overstock, while consumers have a one stop shop for bargain productsonline. Fyndiq offers more then 220 000 products to consumers from over 1 100 merchants in Sweden. Fyndiq was founded in Stockholm in August 2009 and launched its platform in august 2010. Since then we have been growing rapidly both in terms of turnover and employees. In 2012 our sales was 56 million SEK, a number we doubled in 2013 to sales of almost 124million SEK. In November 2014 Fyndiq raises $20M to take the platform internationally. The funding is notable in that it was led by one of the more prominent VCs based in the Nordics, Northzone, which was an early investor in Spotify. The other investor in this round, Industrifonden, is a VC backed by the Swedish government that invests in startups from the country to help scale them internationally. Currently we are 75 dedicated and motivated team members who make it all happen.
  • Avtal24 — Avtal24 offers in an easily accessible manner agreements for both private individuals and companies. They believe in making the law available to everyone and they want everyone to have access to legal security. With us, you write agreements online or together with a lawyer by phone. Always at a fixed price. With high legal expertise, innovativetechnology and great focus on customer benefit and offer the market's most accessible legal services.Avtal24 was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.
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DHS Venture Partners
VC Fund · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden · 2 investments in Sweden Payments startups

DHS Ventures, Stockholm School of Economics alumni angel investing network that invests early on into inovative companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Big Data, Mobile Apps
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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
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Tether
VC Fund · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 2 investments in Sweden Payments startups, 31 in the past 12 months

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

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Corporate Round, Seed, Post-IPO Equity
  • Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 62
  • Round size: Seed $2.1M–$81M; Corporate Round $1.5M–$250M; Post-IPO Equity $74M–$775M
  • Lead/follow: 81% lead, 19% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Pact Labs — Originate, securitize, and service low dollar balance loans at scale using our permissioned protocol via API and web.
  • NEURA Robotics — Cognitive Robotics for Real-World Applications: NEURA Robotics enables safe and smart robot integration for Industry, Work and Everyday Life
  • Mercado Bitcoin — Mercado Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency exchange platform that allows people to trade cryptocurrency, digital assets, and other tokens.Mercado Bitcoin provides access to alternative investments through tokenized assets, such as high-yield public and private debt, FuteCoin, and carbon credits.The company was founded in 2013 by Gustavo Chamati andMauricio Chamati and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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Svea Ekonomi
VC Fund · Solna, Stockholms Lan, Sweden · 2 investments in Sweden Payments startups

Svea Ekonomi shall through personal service offer the market efficient and customized solutions within the fields of debt recovery, financing and sales ledger administration.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Payments, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Sweden, Spain, Norway

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Series A $2.9M–$4.4M; Venture - Series Unknown $4M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ledyer — Ledyer is redefining how businesses buy from each other.B2B commerce has long lagged behind the effortless payment experiences of B2C. We believe that buying between companies should be just as smooth, secure, and instant, Without manual credit checks, invoice chaos, or payment risk.That’s why we built Ledyer: a B2B payments platform designedfor modern merchants, enabling businesses, associations, and public organizations to shop on invoice with the same simplicity as consumers.Ledyer automates the full payment journey — from order to settlement — handling identity, credit decisions, and risk. We integrate directly with e-commerce platforms, ERPs, and payment gateways, allowing merchants to offer flexible payment terms without added complexity.With real-time decisioning, automated reconciliation, and a built-in fraud-risk engine, Ledyer turns what used to be a slow, manual process into a competitive advantage.That’s why we built Ledyer. A B2B payments platform designed for modern merchants, enabling businesses, associations, and public organizations to shop on invoice with the same simplicity as consumers.Ledyer automates the full payment journey, from order to settlement, handling identity, credit decisions, and risk. We integrate directly with e-commerce platforms, ERPs, and payment gateways, allowing merchants to offer flexible payment terms without added complexity.With real-time decisioning, automated reconciliation, and a built-in fraud-risk engine, Ledyer turns what used to be a slow, manual process into a competitive advantage.
  • SeQura — SeQura provides an eCommerce payment solution for retailers that improves conversion rates and secures certainty of payment. The company offers all payment methods including “Pay Now”, “Buy Now Pay Later” or “Pay in 3”. SeQura was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Barcelona, Spain.
  • WeSports Group — WeSports Group is the top Nordic sports equipment specialist group. Through a combination of physical and online storefronts, as well as the distribution of our own and regulated brands, we serve professional athletes and those who enjoy an active lifestyle.
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Karl-Johan Persson
Angel · 2 investments in Sweden Payments startups

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

  • Industry: Information Technology, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Sweden, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Sanctor Capital
VC Fund · 2 investments in Sweden Payments startups

Sanctor Capital is a thesis driven investment fund and deploys capital across both primary and secondary markets.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 46
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Fredrik Palm
Angel · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden · 2 investments in Sweden Payments startups

Fredrik Palm

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Payments, E-Commerce, Mobile Payments
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
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13books Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Sweden Payments startups, 6 in the past 12 months

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

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 32
  • Round size: Seed $3.7M–$11M; Series A $8M–$21M; Series B $12M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 59% lead, 41% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Bitstack — It all started with an idea in 2021. Initially built to democratize Bitcoin in France, Bitstack has gone from a simple product that rounds up your everyday purchases and invests the spare change in bitcoin, to a dynamic app bringing a better way to manage all things money, with better money. Our mission is to empower people to better financetheir future by participating in a more open and inclusive financial system. We are rebuilding finance from the group up by building the first crypto-native bank that leverages Bitcoin and stablecoins to revolutionize consumer banking.
  • Aria — On a mission to help small businesses grow exponentially with Payment-terms-as-a-Service. At Aria, we believe that: - When payments go fast, businesses grow fast - it’s that simple! - Managing payments and credits at scale is the way for endless growth - our API offers high stability and extensible limits - The service and support of our teamsis just as important as the financing solution we provide - we’re not just another tech product Aria was founded in 2020 and is based in Paris, France.
  • Blockbrain — AI-Driven Business Excellence
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Creandum
VC Fund · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden · 2 investments in Sweden Payments startups, 22 in the past 12 months

We support early-stage founders in building global, category-defining companies. From Seed to IPO and beyond.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Sweden, Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 288
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$17M; Series A $5.3M–$35M; Series B $8M–$87M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

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.
  • OLIX — OLIX designs and manufactures optical processors that use light-based circuits to accelerate artificial intelligence workloads. The company develops Optical Tensor Processing Units that execute matrix and tensor operations for training and running inference on large-scale machine learning models. Its hardware aims to increase performance and reducepower consumption relative to conventional electronic accelerators by processing data in the optical domain. Flux Computing focuses on infrastructure for generative AI and advanced neural networks, targeting data centers and organizations that require intensive model computation. The product stack centers on custom optical chips integrated with supporting electronics, control software, and tools that link into existing AI frameworks. Sales and partnerships primarily address customers building large AI clusters, research environments, and emerging applications that benefit from high-throughput, low-energy computation.
  • EquiLibre Technologies — The Next Generation of Algorithmic Trading
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NMI
VC Fund · 2 investments in Sweden Payments startups

NMI Group AB

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Investment focus

  • Industry: B2B, FinTech, Payments
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $1.1M–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ledyer — Ledyer is redefining how businesses buy from each other.B2B commerce has long lagged behind the effortless payment experiences of B2C. We believe that buying between companies should be just as smooth, secure, and instant, Without manual credit checks, invoice chaos, or payment risk.That’s why we built Ledyer: a B2B payments platform designedfor modern merchants, enabling businesses, associations, and public organizations to shop on invoice with the same simplicity as consumers.Ledyer automates the full payment journey — from order to settlement — handling identity, credit decisions, and risk. We integrate directly with e-commerce platforms, ERPs, and payment gateways, allowing merchants to offer flexible payment terms without added complexity.With real-time decisioning, automated reconciliation, and a built-in fraud-risk engine, Ledyer turns what used to be a slow, manual process into a competitive advantage.That’s why we built Ledyer. A B2B payments platform designed for modern merchants, enabling businesses, associations, and public organizations to shop on invoice with the same simplicity as consumers.Ledyer automates the full payment journey, from order to settlement, handling identity, credit decisions, and risk. We integrate directly with e-commerce platforms, ERPs, and payment gateways, allowing merchants to offer flexible payment terms without added complexity.With real-time decisioning, automated reconciliation, and a built-in fraud-risk engine, Ledyer turns what used to be a slow, manual process into a competitive advantage.
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Animoca Brands
VC Fund · Cyberport, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 2 investments in Sweden Payments startups

Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 504
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$10M; Series A $5M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Vangrid — Vangrid operates as a decentralized physical infrastructure network.
  • Dow Protocol — An E-Commerce Financing RWA Platform on @BNBCHAIN, facilitating assets trusted by the world's largest banks. Lead invested by @mhventures @Maple_block
  • Ceramic Network — We've joined @textileio to build the first open intelligence network for AI agents. Follow us there.
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Swedbank
VC Fund · Vilnius, Vilniaus Apskritis, Lithuania · 2 investments in Sweden Payments startups, 16 in the past 12 months

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

  • Industry: Energy, Real Estate, Renewable Energy
  • Stage:Post-IPO Debt, Debt Financing
  • Geography: Sweden, Finland, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 51
  • Round size: Post-IPO Debt $20M–$786M; Debt Financing $4.2M–$928M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bonava — Bonava is a real estate company. They offer apartments and single-family housing to consumers and rental apartments to investors. It constructs several types of homes, such as multi-family housing, single-family homes, and semi-detached houses with various types of tenure.
  • UAB Rudina — Company details, contacts and financial data
  • Utilitas — Utilitas is an energy group that specializes in heat and electricity production and the provision of district heating services.
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Aggregate Media
VC Fund · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden · 1 investments in Sweden Payments startups

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

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Information Technology, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Sony Financial Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Sweden Payments startups

Sony Financial Ventures is the wholly owned investment subsidiary of Sony Financial Holdings Inc.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Japan, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • 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
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Johan Andersson
Angel · 1 investments in Sweden Payments startups

Johan Andersson

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Investment focus

  • Industry: CRM, Advertising, Advertising Platforms
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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MacLane Wilkison
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Sweden Payments startups

MacLane Wilkison is the Co-Founder and CEO of NuCypher

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Cryptocurrency, Gaming, Privacy
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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
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H&M Group Ventures
VC Fund · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden · 1 investments in Sweden Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Fashion, Textiles
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Sweden, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 54
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Centra — Centra is part of creating the next generation of brands, with a direct-to-consumer and wholesale e-commerce software for global brands. Brands across Scandinavia and the world trust Centra to seamlessly connect people to products. We're a medium-sized company with offices in Stockholm, Sweden, Wroclaw, Poland and New York City, USA.
  • Voyado — All-in-one CRM, Loyalty, CDP, marketing software and AI-powered product discovery purely built for retail and e-commerce.
  • Colorifix — Colorifix is a biotechnology company that has pioneered the first entirely biological process to produce, deposit and fix pigments onto textiles. Using a synthetic biology approach, it offers a radically different solution to incumbent dyeing technologies that entirely cuts out the use of harsh chemistry and leads to huge reductions in waterconsumption. Colorifix’s investors include Cambridge Enterprise, H&M, Mills Fabrica, Primera Impact and Sagana, whose collective backing is funding its expansion. For more information, visit www.colorifix.com
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Greens Ventures
VC Fund · 1 investments in Sweden Payments startups

Greens invests in Nordic pre-seed startups with founders who are alumni of Nordic Unicorns.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Software, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Bashar Hamood
Angel · 1 investments in Sweden Payments startups, 9 in the past 12 months

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

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 323
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Young Entrepreneurs of Sweden
VC Fund · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden · 1 investments in Sweden Payments startups

Yeo build networks between and develop talented young entrepreneurs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Software, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Divly — Crypto taxes without the headache. Divly simplifies and automates declaring taxes on your crypto trading.
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Håkan Nilsson
Angel · 1 investments in Sweden Payments startups

Håkan Nilsson is the founder of Zinnovate.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Payments, E-Commerce, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Payer — Online B2B payments for your enterprise and SME business. Accelerate conversion, payments and admin with our powerful, customisable platform.
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Coin Ninja
VC Fund · Akron, Ohio, United States · 1 investments in Sweden Payments startups

Coin Ninja was started by a passionate group of early Bitcoin enthusiasts. 
They truly believe that Bitcoin is the evolution of currency.Their mission is to accelerate the global adoption of Bitcoin. To fulfill this mission, they are releasing a suite of products that make owning, storing, using and sending Bitcoin easier for all types of users.They are also dedicated to providing their users with the best information, news and content, with a particular emphasis on educating new users or potential users to make them comfortable with all things Bitcoin.Coin Ninja is growing every single day with the belief that if Bitcoin does not stop, why should we? We'd love to hear from everyone - from the Bitcoin enthusiasts and experts to those first exploring the space. Drop us a line here or on any of their social platforms and we'll be sure to get back to you ASAP. Bitcoin is growing - HODL!

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Bitcoin, Gift Card, Consumer Goods
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bitrefill — Bitrefill (Germany) - Shop for Gift Cards, eSIMs, and Mobile Recharges with BTC, ETH, USDT, USDC, and more. Pay online with crypto in over 186 countries.
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Forward Venture Capital
VC Fund · Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands · 1 investments in Sweden Payments startups

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

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Sweden, Denmark

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 71
  • Round size: Seed $850k–$8.5M; Pre-Seed $150k–$2.3M; Series A $1.6M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Halfdays — Halfdays is a skiwear brand for the modern woman. The company is on a mission to make the outdoors more approachable, inclusive, and fun.
  • Quickture — Quickture is an AI editing tool for professional non-scripted editors that integrates with Adobe Premiere Pro and Avid Media Composer to deliver instant rough cuts and revisions.
  • Kadence — Easy hybrid workplace management software supporting Desk Booking, Conference Room Booking, Visitor Management, and Workplace Events.
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VYSYN Capital
VC Fund · 1 investments in Sweden Payments startups

VYSYN Labs is a selective Web3 focused investment firm supporting founders who create meaningful technology across digital assets and the global crypto economy.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Singapore, Sweden, Seychelles

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $2.1M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Chronicle — Chronicle is a next-generation NFT platform that prioritizes ease of use, allowing anyone to buy, sell, and trade collections from leading brands.
  • NuLink — NuLink combines best practices with best-of-breed security solutions to provide privacy-preserving technology with enterprise level security for decentralized applications
  • Continuum World — Continuum World - developed by Game Motion. A real-time, playandearn (play-and-earn) MMO in which you gather resources, construct and expand your base, and explore the world.
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Charlie Lee
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Sweden Payments startups

Charlie Lee is based out of San Diego, California and is the Founder and Director of Litecoin Foundation and the Non-Executive Director of Lite Strategy. Charlie previously worked at Coinbase as a Director of Engineering.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Bitcoin, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $19k–$11M; Pre-Seed $750k–$5M; Series A $1.8M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • DuelNow — ULTRARUBY Cosmetics menyajikan produk kosmetik berkualitas tinggi, cruelty-free, dan dirancang khusus untuk membuatmu jadi pusat perhatian. Dari formula ringan hingga hasil akhir yang memukau
  • Metagood — Metagood is the operating layer for tokenized assets across their full lifecycle: compliance, transfer rules, entitlements, corporate actions, and audit.
  • Monochrome — Monochrome Corporation is a multi-investment, financial services group specialising in infrastructure projects within the bitcoin and crypto-asset landscape.
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BnkToTheFuture
VC Fund · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 1 investments in Sweden Payments startups

The online investment platform that brings financial innovation & technology investment opportunities to qualifying investors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Blockchain, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $126k–$3M; Series A $2.5M–$8M; Equity Crowdfunding $1.1M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $120k in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Bitwage — Payroll, invoicing & benefits for digital assets. Bitwage offers services for companies and direct to workers. Workers can sign up and get direct deposit accounts to get paid from any company or client. Workers locally receive unique digital asset benefits. Workers internationally get paid faster & cheaper than traditional wires.
  • FV Bank — FV Bank is a US licensed bank and a digital asset custodian that provides banking, payments, digital asset custody, and Visa cards to the U.S. and international customers.
  • Hexa Wallet — Own HexaWallet.io today. Secure checkout and guided transfer support. No hidden fees.
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Felix Bengtsson
Angel · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden · 1 investments in Sweden Payments startups

Venture Builder & Micro Investor within the tech space in Scandinavia.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Bitcoin, Gift Card, Consumer Goods
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bitrefill — Bitrefill (Germany) - Shop for Gift Cards, eSIMs, and Mobile Recharges with BTC, ETH, USDT, USDC, and more. Pay online with crypto in over 186 countries.
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Regain Ventures
VC Fund · 1 investments in Sweden Payments startups

Regain Ventures is one of the most reputable investment firms in India established in 2021 with a mission to back the most promising blockchain projects. Our main focus is to support the promising, problem solving, and value-providing projects from their inception and early stages with funding, marketing, and bringing partnerships with the alreadyestablished projects in the crypto-verse. With the current growth of digital assets and Defi, we strongly believe that the day is not far when the Digital Economy will reconstruct a new Digital Economic World.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Privacy, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • NuLink — NuLink combines best practices with best-of-breed security solutions to provide privacy-preserving technology with enterprise level security for decentralized applications
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Oracles Investment Group
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investments in Sweden Payments startups

Oracles investment group About Us Investing in the future Oracle Investment Group (OIG) is a venture capital firm with a distinctive focus on the domains of decentralized finance, metaverse development, blockchain gaming, and the intricate infrastructure that underpins these domains. At the core of our investment strategy lies the recognition that community and connectivity are

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Singapore, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 44
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$11M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.3M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ordzaar — Ordinal Launchpad using the latest and greatest tech Bitcoin has to offer.
  • Tren Finance — Tren Finance: a secure DeFi liquidity protocol offering seamless asset swaps, yield opportunities, and cross-chain compatibility through automated smart contracts, redefining liquidity for users and institutions.
  • BLIFE Protocol — Bringing Web3 to Bitcoin with the backing of Animoca Brands. Merged with @Portalcoin
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Sebastian Siemiatkowski
Angel · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden · 1 investments in Sweden Payments startups

Sebastian Siemiatkowski, based out ofStockholm, Stockholms Lan, is the Co-Founder and CEO of Klarna. Sebastian Siemiatkowski attended the Stockholm School of Economics.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Sweden, United States, Poland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $825k–$8M; Series A $10M–$200M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Talentium — Meet your dream hire today.
  • Lovable — Build apps, websites, and digital products faster using Lovable's AI-powered platform, no deep coding skills required.
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Charles Dunstone
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Sweden Payments startups

Charles Dunstone is a Founder at Carphone Warehouse plc.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Series B $16M–$32M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Nutmeg — Invest With J.P. Morgan Personal Investing. A Portfolio Managed By Experts. Capital At Risk.
  • Strike — Make a move and sell with Purplebricks, your estate agent near you. Book a free house valuation, secure mortgage deals and search houses for sale.
  • Pacemaker — Pacemaker for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. Pick your tracks or playlist from Spotify or iTunes and let our AI DJ help you create a masterpiece.
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Erik Voorhees
Angel · Zug, Zug, Switzerland · 1 investments in Sweden Payments startups

Erik Voorhees is based out of United States and is the Founder of Venice. Erik previously worked at ShapeShift as a CEO & Founder. Erik Voorhees attended the University of Puget Sound.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Bitcoin, FinTech, Blockchain
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Sweden, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$4M; Series A $10M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Citrea — Bitcoin's First ZK Rollup
  • Start9 Labs — Sovereign computing for a free future
  • Nordic Air Defence — Nordic Air Defence builds cutting-edge solutions for modern aerial security. Made in Sweden.
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Roger Ver
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Sweden Payments startups

Roger is currently involved in numerous Bitcoin related projects. He is an early investor in bitcoin-related startups. He has been a prominent supporter of bitcoin adoption and saw bitcoin as a means to promote economic freedom. He now promotes Bitcoin Cash, a hard fork of the cryptocurrency created with the intent to fix issues such as high feesand long transaction confirmation times.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Bitcoin, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United States, Panama, Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$8.5M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Portal to Bitcoin — The only custody-less interoperability protocol for Bitcoin. Swap native BTC, Ordinals, Runes with L2s and L1s
  • NAKA — Elly POS is an irreplaceable all-in-one device with multiple payment methods. Accepting cards, crypto and digital payments. Future-proof, transparent and secure.
  • Acta Finance — Acta Finance develops a complete DeFi ecosystem, EVM compatible, able to deploy and integrate EVM compatible networks.
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Payments Investor funding in Sweden at a glance

Stats across 112 deals from 183 investors.

183
investors
in Sweden Payments startups
112
deals
in Sweden Payments startups
$3.3M
median round
in Sweden Payments startups
33%
lead investors
lead at least one round
18%
Seed
most common funding stage
72/28
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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