Top 50 Payments Startup Investors in Sweden in January 2026
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 January 2026
| Investor | Payments Sweden investments |
|---|---|
| NFT Ventures | 7 |
| Wellstreet | 3 |
| Brightly Ventures | 3 |
| Fulgur Ventures | 3 |
| Daniel Pilotti | 3 |
| Luminar Ventures | 3 |
| Fredrik Palm | 2 |
| BitScale | 2 |
| DHS Venture Partners | 2 |
| Coin98 | 2 |
| Forward Venture Capital | 2 |
| Karl-Johan Persson | 2 |
| 13books Capital | 2 |
| Creandum | 2 |
| Tether | 2 |
| Swedbank | 2 |
| Index Ventures | 2 |
| Sanctor Capital | 2 |
| Industrifonden | 2 |
| Almi Invest | 2 |
| Visa | 2 |
| Mathias Hermansson | 2 |
| Thord Wilkne | 2 |
| Draper Associates | 2 |
| Arrington XRP Capital | 1 |
| Schibsted | 1 |
| Kangaroo Capital | 1 |
| Mikko Salovaara | 1 |
| Insignius Capital | 1 |
| Pfeffer Capital | 1 |
| Incore Invest | 1 |
| Hans Von Knorring | 1 |
| Lennart Boestad | 1 |
| COINCU | 1 |
| Aggregate Media | 1 |
| Johan Andersson | 1 |
| Sony Financial Ventures | 1 |
| GP Bullhound | 1 |
| MacLane Wilkison | 1 |
| H&M Group Ventures | 1 |
| Bashar Hamood | 1 |
| Greens Ventures | 1 |
| ICO Drops | 1 |
| Young Entrepreneurs of Sweden | 1 |
| Håkan Nilsson | 1 |
| Gate | 1 |
| Cocoa | 1 |
| Staffan Persson | 1 |
| SKEL | 1 |
| Emil Sunvisson | 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
- Antidote — London-based startup studio for Bitcoin founders
- Meanwhile — The world's first regulated Bitcoin life insurance. Tax-efficient wealth planning for long-term Bitcoin holders.
- NexBridge Digital Financial Solutions — NexBridge Digital Financial Solutions is a digital asset issuer that focuses on tokenizing financial assets such as publicly traded securities, private investment funds, and project-specific financial instruments.
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
- Opper AI — Opper AI is a task completion API for AI. Reliably complete tasks with AI models. Ship AI assistants, agents and backend features that really work. Access 100+ models, built in quality process, observability and more.
- 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.
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.
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
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.
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
- Model ML — Automate financial grunt work with precision. Model ML helps top finance firms move faster with AI that understands deals, models, and pitch decks.
- Najar — Welii helps fast-growing companies save time and money by optimizing the purchasing process and management of all their SaaS software.
- Low Observable Technology — Low Observable Technology delivers solutions in digital asset trading infrastructure, specializing in market making and liquidity provision. The firm also develops stealth technologies for defense applications, focusing on electronic countermeasures and low observability systems critical to undetectable aircraft missions.
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
- Cerrion — Cerrion is a visual AI that helps production teams react faster to process deviations, automate root cause analysis, and implement targeted improvement actions. They believe that process transparency enabled by AI and computer vision is key to achieving more autonomy and sustainability in manufacturing. Their software is built and designed withproduction teams from all over the world in the loop.
- Vesence — AI Agents in Microsoft Office that review emails, documents, and projects before they leave your firm.
- Kosmik — Transform your creative workflow with Kosmik's AI moodboard maker. Built-in browser, real-time collaboration, and infinite canvas for moodboarding.
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
- Transak — Transak offers a simple integration to allow your users to buy more than 100+ cryptocurrencies with credit/debit cards, or bank transfers in more than 120+ countries.
- Pave Bank — The world's first multi-asset and programmable bank
- Pointsville — Empowering businesses to efficiently create, manage and service digital assets and loyalty programs, driving innovation and inclusion.
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.
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
- BIT ODD — Gaming company building games filled with wonder, weirdness and delight
- Dream Games — Join Dream Games and explore a vibrant universe of characters and puzzles. Discover why millions of players worldwide love our mobile games. Visit us to learn more about our games, company culture, and career opportunities.
- 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.
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.
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.
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
- Konvolo — "Before Konvolo, we relied heavily on one-on-one feedback, which lacked the broader insights we needed. Now, we can gather thousands of pieces of feedback and
- 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.
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
- Car IQ — Car IQ is the first payment solution developed for vehicles and fleets that enables vehicles to autonomously initiate and complete payments for services such as tolls, fuels, parking and more.
- Cart.com — Cart.com's end-to-end solution provides brands with the software, infrastructure, and expertise of the world's largest online retailers.
- 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.
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.
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.
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, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- NLPatent — Accelerate productivity and uncover hidden insights with NLPatent's intuitive AI-powered patent research platform.
- CryptoMove — Buy a perfect domain name from Sudos.com. Discover thousands of domain names available for sale. Sudos.com keeps you safe.
- Affinaquest — Kindsight's fundraising intelligence unlocks real-time insights to help you find donors, craft campaigns, and make more for your mission.
Arrington Capital is a thesis-driven firm investing in digital assets and Web3 since 2017
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- ether.fi — EtherFi is a non-custodial decentralized ETH staking method that distributes staking to node operators in exchange for rewards.
- Azuro — Powerful tooling, oracle & liquidity solutions for any EVM predictions & gaming ecosystem
- QED Protocol — A trustless, scalable, decentralized compute protocol for a fairer internet focused on user privacy and platform transparency.
A global family of digital consumer brands leading the way across media, online marketplaces and technology ventures.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- Sweden, Norway, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Savr — Savr is an Investment platform disrupting the Swedish fund industry with a lower fee structure and a new business model.
- Woilà — ACQUIRED BY KLARNA IN OCTOBER 2020.Woilà was founded in 2017 to reinvent the shopping experience post-purchase, and raised €4M through 2018-2020. By identifying price drops, price guarantees and vouchers, Woilà helped consumers get money back if an item bought online dropped in price after the purchase had already been made. Woilà processed $50Mworth of transactions during 2020 and now the technology will be leveraged by Klarna to further strengthen its value proposition to consumers.
- Insurello — Insurello provides a digital solution that helps customers find insurance payments. Insurello intermediates on behalf of its clients the communication and the processes of insurance companies in exchange for 25 percent of any insurance benefit.
Kangaroo Capital is a community driven blockchain and cryptocurrency venture capital that is dedicated to helping young startups and more established projects accelerate.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- India, Sweden, Vietnam
Mikko Salovaara
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Investment focus
- Payments, Financial Services
- Seed
- 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.
We are a thesis-driven investment firm focused exclusively on ventures, tokens, and projects related to blockchain tech, digital currency, and crypto assets.
Our mission is to accelerate the development of a better financial system. We build and support bitcoin and blockchain companies by leveraging our insights, network, and access to capital.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- France, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Obscuro Labs — Ten, a decentralized Ethereum Layer 2 Rollup protocol designed to hyper-scale, encrypt and prevent negative MEV on Ethereum
- Odsy Network — Odsy solves the "Access Control Problem" for Web3 builders with the revolutionalry dWallet concept. By powering the most secure, robust and flexible infrastructure for decentralized access control - Web3 can finally be connected to the real world.
- Hackless — Hackless is a platform of security services and analytics for your DeFi protocol. The 1st out-of-the-box MEV-solution that helps to protect smart contracts from the hack attacks.
Pfeffer Capital is a family investment firm investing in all stages of companies leveraging exponential tech.
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Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, FinTech
- Seed, Series C
- United States, Sweden, Seychelles
Portfolio highlights
- Kollider — Kollider build tools and services to make financial markets available to everyone, across borders, instantly and simply using Bitcoin’s Lightning Network.
- Clear Labs — Clear Labs harnesses the power of next-generation sequencing (NGS) to simplify complex diagnostics for clinical and applied markets. By creating a fully automated platform that brings together DNA sequencing, robotics, and cloud-based analytics, Clear Labs democratizes genomics applications to deliver increased clarity.Clear Labs’ turnkeyplatform accelerates outcomes and improves accuracy - from food-borne pathogens to infectious diseases, including SARS CoV-2. With a novel approach, Clear Labs is helping the world better understand, track, and mitigate tomorrow’s novel pathogens.
- Vinter — Making smarter indexes for crypto ETF issuers.
We fuel businesses in the internet and technology space with the ambition to become leaders in their categories.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Series A, Funding Round
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Brite Payments — The next generation of payment solutions. We create smarter, faster, more financially sustainable ways to pay and be paid.
- Kameo — The name Kameo is a Nordic version of the American concept cameo role as the means to play a background role. It allows, for example, often Quentin Tarantino in his films. That is exactly what the idea is to Kameo do and thus provide the leads to small business owners and private investors.
Hans von Knorring is the founder of Lumera.
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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.
Lennart Boestad is the CEO of Greentrade.
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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.
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Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Privacy
- Seed, Funding Round
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- AdLunam — Future Roadmap Tokenomics Token Sale Accelerate, Engage, Launch: The Full Stack Growth Solution for Web3 Founders Stop Chasing Investors. Let Attention Find You. ABout us Pioneering Web3 Investment AdLunam Inc. is a pioneer in the Web3 investment world, offering the first gamified ecosystem for blockchain investments. We provide early access to promising Web3 projects. Comprehensive...
- NuLink — NuLink combines best practices with best-of-breed security solutions to provide privacy-preserving technology with enterprise level security for decentralized applications
- PoPop World — PoPop World is a leisure playground with 20+ mini games.
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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- E-Commerce, Information Technology, Software
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Sweden
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- 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.
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
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.
MacLane Wilkison is the Co-Founder and CEO of NuCypher
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- Cryptocurrency, Gaming, Privacy
- Seed
- Sweden
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- 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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- E-Commerce, Fashion, Textiles
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- Sweden, United States, United Kingdom
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- 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
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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- Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom
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- 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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- FinTech, Software, Cryptocurrency
- Pre-Seed, Angel
- Sweden
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- 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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- Blockchain, Gaming, Trading Platform
- Seed, Pre-Seed
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- 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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- FinTech, Software, Cryptocurrency
- Pre-Seed
- Sweden
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- Divly — Crypto taxes without the headache. Divly simplifies and automates declaring taxes on your crypto trading.
Håkan Nilsson is the founder of Zinnovate.
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- Payments, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Seed
- Sweden
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- Payer — Online B2B payments for your enterprise and SME business. Accelerate conversion, payments and admin with our powerful, customisable platform.
Established in 2013 by Dr. Lin Han, Gate is one of the world’s pioneering cryptocurrency
exchanges, serving over 34 million users across more than 224 countries and regions. It
supports trading for over 3,800 cryptocurrencies, ranking among the top 2 globally in spot
trading volume and top 3 overall in comprehensive strength. Gate is the firstmainstreamexchange to commit to 100% reserves. As of July 11, 2025, Gate holds $10.504 billion in
reserves with a 126.03% reserve ratio. The Gate ecosystem goes beyond trading to include:
Gate Alpha – A platform for early-stage, high-potential on-chain assets. Gate Web3 – A Web3 gateway integrating wallet, cross-chain, staking, and Dapp access. Gate Ventures – A blockchain and fintech-focused venture capital fund. Gate Labs – Incubation and operational support for innovative startups. Gate Pay – A crypto payment solution for global merchants and users. Gate operates under multiple licenses and regulatory registrations in jurisdictions includingDubai, Japan, Lithuania, Malta, Italy, Gibraltar, Argentina, Bahamas, and Hong Kong. In 2025, Gate launched its new brand domain Gate.com to reflect its vision as a next-generation
crypto exchange.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
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- 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.
- DeepSafe — DeepSafe is a decentralized AI trusted verification network designed to ensure transparency, security, and reliability in the development and deployment of artificial intelligence systems.
- aPriori — aPriori is a monad-native MEV infrastructure and liquid staking mechanism developed for parallel executions.
WE ARE COCOA #LETSDOTHIS
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, France, Sweden
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- Embedd — Fast software integration of chips that gives you full vendor and target flexibility. Accelerate your time-to-market and remove supply chain dependencies.
- Fractile — Fractile is designing AI compute systems that will enable the next generation of AI scaling: frontier model inference, 25x faster, at 1/10th the cost.
- Cyclana Bio — Cycle Therapeutics - Building the future of women's health, one cycle at a time.
Staffan Persson - CEO @ Swedia Capital
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- Financial Services, Apps, Banking
- Funding Round, Seed
- Sweden
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- Dirac — Use Dirac to transform your listening experience. Our patented audio technology makes any sound system sound better.
- 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.
- 24 Storage — We at 24Storage rent stores in many different sizes for both individuals and businesses. Long or short time. But we also tend to say that we are developing the third generation of self-storage properties. By that we mean that we create a new system that makes it possible to build smaller properties, find better positions closer to the customer andcreate a better and more flexible solution for the customer. As a customer, you no longer have to travel far out of town to access their gadgets.24Storage AB was formed in early 2015. The founders and owners have over 20 years experience in the self storage industry as a partner and leader of the company, Shurgard Europe (Europe's leading self storage operator), SelStor AB and Pelican Self Storage. The founders have been involved and responsible for the establishment of over 100 self storage facilities in seven countries in Europe.In September 2015, we purchased Stockholm Storage in Sundbyberg, a smaller plant with development potential, but also a good pilot plant to develop our concept. At the same time, we bought a property in central Tyreso. The facility will be the first full-scale 24Storage plant in operation.From November 2, 2015, we own and operate Humlans mini camp with seven plants in western Sweden. The plant located in Gothenburg was founded in 1988 and was the first self storage facility in Sweden.From February 1, 2016, we own and operate the Mini-Store . A smaller facility centrally located in Boras. Mini-Store, started operations in late 2013 that Boras first self storage facility.As of June 1, 2016 we change the names of all companies and will pursue all activities under the brand 24STORAGE .
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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- FinTech, Payments, Mobile Payments
- Seed
- Sweden
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- 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.
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.
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