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Top 50 Payments Startup Investors in Sweden (July 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 Seed, Series A or Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
NFT Ventures
VC Fund
7 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
Luminar Ventures
VC Fund
3 Sweden, Norway, United States Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, SaaS $960k–$21M
Brightly Ventures
VC Fund
3 Sweden, United States Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, SaaS $1.2M–$16M
Almi Invest
VC Fund
3 Sweden, United States, Ukraine Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Health Care, Information Technology $193k–$2.2M
Fulgur Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, Switzerland, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, FinTech $50k–$40M
NMI
VC Fund
2 Sweden Pre-Seed B2B, FinTech, Payments $1.1M–$1.3M
DHS Venture Partners
VC Fund
2 Sweden Pre-Seed, Seed Software, Big Data, Mobile Apps
BitScale
VC Fund
2 United States, Singapore, Australia Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software $1.3M–$30M
Draper Associates
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, FinTech, Information Technology $1M–$50M
Thord Wilkne
Angel
2 Sweden Seed, Angel Consulting, Financial Services, Apps
Fredrik Palm
Angel
2 Sweden Seed Payments, E-Commerce, Mobile Payments
Visa
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Series B, Series C FinTech, Financial Services, Payments $3.9M–$100M
Svea Ekonomi
VC Fund
2 Sweden Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Payments $2.9M–$4.4M
Coin98
VC Fund
2 Singapore, Sweden, Estonia Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming $1.8M–$7M
Mathias Hermansson
Angel
2 Sweden Seed Payments, E-Commerce, Mobile Payments
Tether
VC Fund
2 Canada, United States, United Kingdom Corporate Round, Seed, Post-IPO Equity Financial Services, FinTech, Cryptocurrency $1.5M–$775M
Index Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, France Series A, Series B, Seed Software, E-Commerce, Internet $1.4M–$100M
13books Capital
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, Germany, France Series A, Seed, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Payments $3.8M–$34M
Karl-Johan Persson
Angel
2 Sweden, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Angel Information Technology, Internet, Software
Industrifonden
VC Fund
2 Sweden, United States, Denmark Series A, Seed Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology $1.3M–$21M
Sanctor Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Creandum
VC Fund
2 Sweden, Germany, United States Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $1.8M–$80M
Forward Venture Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Sweden, Denmark Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
MCMA Ventures, LLC
VC Fund
1 Sweden Bitcoin, Gift Card, Consumer Goods
Thijn Lamers
Angel
1 Germany, United Kingdom, Sweden Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
La Famiglia
VC Fund
1 Germany, United States, France Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Stahl Invest
VC Fund
1 Sweden Apps, Billing, Robotics
Chainlayer
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, Sweden Seed, Initial Coin Offering Cryptocurrency, FinTech, Finance
Global Brain Corporation
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Dawn Capital
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, United States, Denmark Series A, Series B, Series C Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Jan Kemper
Angel
1 Sweden, Germany Seed, Angel Payments, Software, Consulting
Crypto.com
VC Fund
1 United States, Singapore, France Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Collector Ventures
VC Fund
1 Sweden Seed, Series A Financial Services, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Rikard Steiber
Angel
1 Sweden, United States, Czech Republic Seed, Angel, Series A Virtual Reality, Sports, Electric Vehicle
Partech
VC Fund
1 United States, France, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Accel
VC Fund
1 United States, India, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Series C Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Creades AB
VC Fund
1 Sweden, United States, Luxembourg Seed, Series A Software, Apps, E-Commerce
TGE Capital
VC Fund
1 Sweden, Germany, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Internet, Cryptocurrency
Hesham Zreik
Angel
1 United States, India, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Headline
VC Fund
1 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Seed Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Olof Larsson
Angel
1 Sweden Seed Payments, E-Commerce, Financial Services
Nordic Capital
VC Fund
1 Sweden, Denmark, United States Private Equity, Post-IPO Equity Software, Health Care, Financial Services
Swisscom Ventures
VC Fund
1 Switzerland, United States, United Kingdom Series B, Series A Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Schibsted Growth
VC Fund
1 Sweden, Norway, France Seed, Series A Internet, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Arrington XRP Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Singapore, South Korea Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Schibsted
VC Fund
1 Sweden, Norway, Brazil Series A, Seed Apps, Financial Services, Information Technology
Kangaroo Capital
VC Fund
1 India, Sweden, Vietnam Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Mikko Salovaara
Angel
1 Sweden Seed Payments, Financial Services
Insignius Capital
VC Fund
1 France, United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
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NFT Ventures
VC Fund · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden · 7 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: 62
  • 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

  • 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.
  • Berget AI — Berget AI is an AI platform that focuses on inference and agentic infrastructure, enabling businesses to deploy and expand open-source LLMs.
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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: 65
  • Round size: Seed $960k–$5.4M; Series A $8.3M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • FirstQFM — FirstQFM offers patent-pending AI foundation models for quantum computing.
  • Insurely — Insurely is the leading open insurance platform. A platform that enables experiences that improve conversion and increase customer loyalty.
  • Ivy Interactive — Ivy is the the AI-first open source .NET framework that helps developers build powerful internal tools faster without reinventing the wheel.Ivy is an open-source tool that makes it incredibly easy to create and deploy .NET applications, powered by AI. Start building smarter applications faster. AI powered .Net development. The ultimate toolkitfor building internal apps - App Generator Turn any database into full-featured backoffice applications in minutes with AI. - Database Generator - Design, build and deploy production quality databases models with AI. - Add Authentication - Ivy provides a variety of build in authentication providers to add sign in to your apps. - Dashboard Generator- Build and deploy dashboard in minutes. - One-Click Cloud Deploy - Deploy to Azure, AWS or GCP in seconds.
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Brightly Ventures
VC Fund · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden · 3 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: 30
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$4.2M; Series A $3.4M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% 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 — Leading the transition to a harmless seafood system by serving healthy vegan seafood for everybody to truly enjoy.
  • 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 · 3 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, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Sweden, United States, Ukraine

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 278
  • Round size: Seed $193k–$2.2M; Pre-Seed $236k–$1.4M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • FirstQFM — FirstQFM offers patent-pending AI foundation models for quantum computing.
  • Ambidex AB — helps food retailers create new revenue streams on their refrigeration systems by stabilizing the electricity grid.
  • Indevex AB — Indevex is a science-based and privately owned biotech company from Sweden. A natural and reliable partner, providing evidence based natural nutrition concepts based on the patented NGC™ Formula.
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Fulgur Ventures
VC Fund · Wilmington, Delaware, United States · 3 investments in Sweden Payments startups, 10 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, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
  • 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 — Utexo develops payment infrastructure that enables stablecoin transactions to settle directly on the Bitcoin network. The platform provides an API and related tools that allow payment operators, exchanges, wallets, and financial platforms to process USDT transfers through Bitcoin-based rails. Its system integrates technologies such as the LightningNetwork and the RGB protocol to support instant settlement, encrypted transaction execution, and predictable transaction costs. Utexo also offers cloud infrastructure and developer tools that manage routing, liquidity, and node operations required for stablecoin payments on Bitcoin. These services allow organizations to integrate Bitcoin-based stablecoin settlement into existing applications without operating or maintaining underlying blockchain infrastructure.
  • 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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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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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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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, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$7M; Series A $5M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cicada — Cicada | Institutional Credit Risk Management On Chain
  • Turtle Club — Turtle aligns incentives between protocols and LPs to offer the best curated incentives in DeFi.
  • 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: 402
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$8.3M; Series A $2.3M–$23M; Series B $5M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CryptoMove — Buy a perfect domain name from Sudos.com. Discover thousands of domain names available for sale. Sudos.com keeps you safe.
  • Peer Robotics — Discover the latest cutting-edge robotics solutions at Peer Robotics. We offer innovative products and services to revolutionize industries.
  • Picnic — The Picnic Pizza System is a modular, easy-to-use, automated pizza assembly system that saves time, money, and labor without compromising quality.
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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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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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Visa
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Sweden Payments startups

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, Series C
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 132
  • Round size: Series B $6.5M–$62M; Series C $3.9M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Oze — OZÉ brings African small businesses into the digital era. It is an app that makes it easy for businesses to track sales, expenses, and customer information. The data is analyzed to provide tailored recommendations, reports, and business education. If the entrepreneur needs a little extra support, an OZÉ Coach is just a click away. As they are usingOZÉ to manage their business and learn how to run it better, we are learning about them. Using this data and machine learning, we can predict their credit risk and provide them with affordable capital from our banking partners. With over 20,000 registered users, OZÉ is the largest online community of SMEs in Ghana. The most exciting thing is that OZÉ works; 97% of businesses that have used OZE for at least 9 months are growing or profitable or both!
  • HoneyCoin — HoneyCoin is a web3/web2 ecosystem of products built in a way that abstracts complexity and brings all the value of web3 and web2 to the forefront.
  • Astrada — Astrada is a software company that provides financial infrastructure, payments, and automation services.
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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: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Series A $2.9M–$4.4M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% 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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Coin98
VC Fund · Ho Chi Minh City, NA - Vietnam, Vietnam · 2 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: Singapore, Sweden, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$7M; Series A $4.1M–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% 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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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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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: 60
  • Round size: Seed $2.1M–$81M; Corporate Round $1.5M–$250M; Post-IPO Equity $74M–$775M
  • Lead/follow: 80% lead, 20% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sorted Wallet — Sorted Wallet simplifies crypto transactions for feature phones in emerging markets.
  • NEURA Robotics — Cognitive Robotics for Real-World Applications: NEURA Robotics enables safe and smart robot integration for Industry, Work and Everyday Life
  • LemFi — Send money to India, China, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and 30 other countries. Receive and manage your money without stress
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Index Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 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: 1170
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$16M; Series A $5M–$35M; Series B $10M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $117M in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • Codat — Codat turns on-demand client data into personalized insights that help commercial banking teams deepen relationships and grow revenue.
  • StorSimple — Learn how to migrate a StorSimple 8100 or 8600 appliance to Azure File Sync.
  • Trustpilot — Trustpilot is a powerful review platform - free and open to all. With more than 58 million reviews of over 270,000 domains, Trustpilot gives people a place to share and discover reviews of businesses, and we give every company the tools to turn consumer feedback into business results. Our mission is to bring people and businesses closer together tocreate ever-improving experiences for everyone. Trustpilot reviews are seen more than 3 billion times each month by consumers worldwide. With offices in Copenhagen, London, New York, Denver, Berlin, Melbourne and Vilnius, Trustpilot's 700 employees represent more than 40 different nationalities.
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13books Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Sweden Payments startups

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: 30
  • Round size: Seed $3.8M–$11M; Series A $8.8M–$21M; Series B $12M–$34M
  • Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Bitstack — Bitstack is a simple and automated bitcoin savings solution. Round up your purchases and save the spare change in bitcoin or schedule recurring purchases to save regularly.
  • 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.
  • Blockbrain — AI-Driven Business Excellence
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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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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: Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Sweden, United States, Denmark

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 194
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$6.2M; Series A $3.3M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Gesynta Pharma — Founded in 2017, Gesynta Pharma bases its R&D on research from the Karolinska Institutet. The most advanced drug candidate, GS-248, reduces inflammation and increases blood flow in the microvasculature, thereby having the potential to provide improved treatments for several serious diseases. In an ongoing clinical proof-of-concept study,GS-248 is being evaluated for its capacity to normalize vascular blood flow and reduce pain in patients with the autoimmune disease systemic sclerosis. Positive results from this study may lead to a rapid broadening of the development program towards additional indications, for example cardiovascular diseases and rheumatic diseases other than systemic sclerosis. Major shareholders include Industrifonden, Linc, Hadean Ventures, and a number of successful life science entrepreneurs. For more information, please visit www.gesynta.se
  • Peafowl Plasmonics — IOSBET menyediakan akses slot demo Pragmatic resmi dengan pilihan game terbanyak, pendaftaran mudah, sistem aman, serta pengalaman bermain nyaman tanpa risiko.
  • Trackpaw Scientific — Contributing to the development of safe and effective pharmaceuticals at increased speed and quality by digitalising the preclinical study landscape.
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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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Creandum
VC Fund · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden · 2 investments in Sweden Payments startups

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: 274
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$16M; Series A $5.3M–$33M; Series B $8M–$80M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • unitQ — unitQ's product quality monitoring platform empowers businesses to take a data-driven approach to product quality so they can fix the right quality issues smarter and faster.
  • Payosu — Use Osu to get more bookings, take payments with zero fees, automate the invoicing, and let your business thrive.
  • Vivino — Vivino empowers people everywhere to enjoy wine to the fullest. Vivino is the world's largest online wine marketplace and most downloaded wine app, powered by a community of millions. Vivino’s unique wine shopping experience uses community data to suggest personalized wine recommendations, make wine discovery, and purchase fun, accessible, andeffortless for wine drinkers of every level of expertise. The Vivino app is available for download on Android and Apple devices. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
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Forward Venture Capital
VC Fund · Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands · 2 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, Financial Services, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Sweden, Denmark

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 63
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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MCMA Ventures, LLC
VC Fund · Denver, Colorado, United States · 1 investments in Sweden Payments startups

MCMA Ventures, LLC. Angel investor team of Mashuri Clark and Candice Gottlieb-Clark. Specializing in seed and pre-seed investments for disruptive innovators.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Bitrefill — Purchase Gift Cards or Mobile Refills from more than 3,500 brands in 186 countries instantly, safely, and privately with Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
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Thijn Lamers
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Sweden Payments startups

Thijn Lamers is the former EVP Global Sales at Adyen Global Payment Services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Atlar — Atlar’s platform lets businesses automate all of their payment activities – including initiating transfers, reconciling transactions, and handling direct debits – directly with their existing bank partners.The Stockholm-based company was founded in 2022 by Johannes Elgh, Joel Wägmark and Joel Nordström who were previously early team members atTink (acquired by Visa for $2.2bn). Atlar is backed by Index Ventures – a firm that has previously backed category defining companies such as Adyen, Revolut, Figma, and many more.Backed by world-class investors, we help great tech companies such as Banxware, Mynt, and Lassie automate their bank payments.
  • Oaks — Oaks rewards consumers for saving up for the things they really want
  • Wordware — A collaborative prompt engineering IDE
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La Famiglia
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 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, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 109
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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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Stahl Invest
VC Fund · 1 investments in Sweden Payments startups

Stahl Invest

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Billing, Robotics
  • Geography: Sweden

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Wrebit — Wrebit började som ett projekt på Wengbrand Redovisning (redovisningsbyrå med kontor i Borås och Ulricehamn). Dagens teknik har medfört ett hot mot redovisningsbranschen, vi ville helt enkelt vara nyskapande och erbjuda småföretagarna ett eget bokföringsprogram. Det resulterade i Wrebit - Enkel bokföring i mobilen. Det är ett komplett bokförings -och faktureringsprogram som är helt appbaserat. Vi har gjort appen väldigt enkel och användarvänlig, inga förkunskaper krävs för att använda appen. Användaren kan bokföra, fakturera, ta fram resultat- och balansrapport, liksom momsrapport. Den är även fylld med fakta i form av avdragslexikon, ekonomifakta och viktiga datum.
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Chainlayer
VC Fund · 1 investments in Sweden Payments startups

blockchain, bitcoin, ethereum, akash, bumper, concordium, cosmos, e-money, flow, kava, regen, serum, solana, the graph, unslashed finance.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Cryptocurrency, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Initial Coin Offering
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Bumper — Bumper protects the value of your crypto using a radically innovative DeFi protocol. Deposit USDC today to earn BUMP tokens
  • NuLink — NuLink combines best practices with best-of-breed security solutions to provide privacy-preserving technology with enterprise level security for decentralized applications
  • Unslashed Finance — The best and easiest way to protect your crypto assets against hacks and other events.
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Global Brain Corporation
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Sweden Payments startups, 68 in the past 12 months

Global Brain Corporation is a venture capital firm that invests in companies from seed or early to pre-IPO startups. Global Brain has invested in 300+ startups from seed/early to pre-IPO startups and achieved 25 IPOs and 61 M&As as a result of providing hands-on support services and resources to its portfolio startups. Global Brain hasmanaged a pure investment fund as well as multiple corporate venture capital funds partnered together with tier 1 public companies of telecom, real estate development, financial service, beverages, agriculture food, logistics, and electronic devices.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 348
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • OpenLogi — OpenLogi is a Tokyo based logistics platform focused on SMEs and freelancers. OpenLogi was founded back in December 2013 by Hidetsugu Ito who was previously involved in launching Japanese magazine subscription service Fujisan.co.jp. Based on his experience in discussing and negotiating with logistics companies, he founded OpenLogi to addresslogistics solutions for small e-commerce players.
  • Michibiku — Michibiku is a customized administration platform that offers board management and security services for companies and businesses.
  • Sixty Percent — Sixty Percent is an overseas fashion mail order site that collects street brands from various countries and transmits asian fashion.
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Dawn Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Sweden Payments startups

We are a family of investors, entrepreneurs, strategists and operational specialists, drawn together by our passion for helping B2B founders build category-defining companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Denmark

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 128
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Kraaft — Kraaft.co is an instant messenger app dedicated to site monitoring for VRD public works trades: roads and various networks. Paris, Île-de-France in 2019.
  • Omi — Omi is where marketing teams generate and publish stunning product photos and videos. Generate eCommerce banners, Social Media visuals, Ads creatives, CRM bundles and Print materials.
  • Cover Genius — Cover Genius provides an insurance distribution platform designed to protect the customers of e-commerce companies. Its products feature integrated end-to-end insurance and warranty capabilities and offer dynamic product recommendations and pricing optimization, while also undertaking the payment of a customer's claim in real-time, enablingcustomers to access increased protection against any uncertainty.The company was founded in 2014.
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Jan Kemper
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investments in Sweden Payments startups

Dr. Kemper is the Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer of Omio. He is also an Assistant Professor at RWTH Aachen University and Inhaber Märkische Höfe.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Payments, Software, Consulting
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Sweden, Germany

Investor stats

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

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.
  • Green Air — Green Air is a service provider in the trade of GHG certificates.
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Crypto.com
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 1 investments in Sweden Payments startups

Over 100 million users buy, sell, and trade Bitcoin, Ethereum, NFTs and more on Crypto.com. Join the World's leading crypto trading platform.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • ZKM — By utilizing the Power of zkMIPS we have created the Entangled Rollup Network where blockchains can share native assets with no added security assumptions.
  • Kiln — Stake your treasury directly, or bring staking to your users through our whitelabel product.
  • Radius — Radius is a trustless shared sequencing layer that provides rollups with sequencing-as-a-service and cross-rollup interoperability solutions. Rollup blockchains are specialized blockchains that have off-chain executions to improve transaction processing speed and overall blockchain performance.
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Collector Ventures
VC Fund · Gothenburg, Vastra Gotaland, Sweden · 1 investments in Sweden Payments startups

Collector Ventures is the investment vehicle of of Collector Bank, founded by Lena Apler.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Leeroy — Leeroy provides a technology platform that transforms customer data into marketing both on-site in-store and mobile. Leeroy provides merchants with tools to communicate and interact with the customer in real time leveraging efficiency, revenues and customer experience putting the merchant in the driver seat. The company's platform is aproduction and distribution tool for several different digital channels: in-store with communication by digital signage and by mobile to enhance loyalty.
  • Capcito — Capcito is a provider of working capital to SMEs. Products are invoice discounting, factoring and business loans, all offered with a click of a button. Smoothly integrated with cloud accounting applications and banks. A proprietary lending platform and scoring engine is continuously being developed to improve accuracy on credit assessment andprovide a more lean and relevant solution to SMEs in need of financing for further growth. Capcito strives to empower businesses to grow.
  • Swiftcourt — Swiftcourt helps buyers and sellers to perform safe and smooth peer-to-peer-transactions, by providing them with smart digital contracts, e-signing and transaction-related add-on services.Swiftcourt was founded in 2016 and has since then helped over 70 000 buyers and sellers complete over 40 000 transactions. At the moment, the company is insuccessful partnerships with FINN.no, one of the most prominent classified sites in the world and with Mittanbud.no, the market leading service finder classified site in Norway. Recently, Swiftcourt also closed a deal with the biggest classified site in Sweden, Blocket.se.Swiftcourt aims to be a global standard of conducting safe and smooth online transactions and help buyers and sellers with their deals worldwide.
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Rikard Steiber
Angel · Atherton, California, United States · 1 investments in Sweden Payments startups

I am an entrepreneurial and experienced CEO. I have successfully built, launched, and grown multiple new global businesses at companies such as Google (Internet), Modern Times Group (media), and HTC VIVE (VR). Proven ability to successfully create and communicate corporate visions and strategies, hire and motivate top talent, and lead global sales,marketing, and product teams.Board member of companies such as Cision (software), Scandic Hotels (hotels), and Raymond (solar). Trusted advisor to large firms such as Ericsson and EQT, and cutting-edge startups like Einride (electric trucks), Jetson (flying cars), and Elonroad (electric roads).World class keynote speaker at international conferences such as MWC, GDC, IBC, CES, and invited speaker at Harvard, Stanford, and MIT. I am a future astronaut with Virgin Galactic, and the founder of WIT Global Women In Tech network and events.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Virtual Reality, Sports, Electric Vehicle
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Sweden, United States, Czech Republic

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • WEIQ — WEIQ is an application that offers an ordering and payment solutions for restaurants.
  • Elonroad — Elonroad charging solutions allow for vehicle agnostic conductive charging, providing freedom and flexibility by charging while driving or parked.
  • Jetson Aero — Your personal aircraft in aluminium and carbon fibre, powered with eight powerful electric motors.
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Partech
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in Sweden Payments startups, 22 in the past 12 months

Partech is a global venture capital firm with offices in San Francisco, Paris, Berlin and Dakar. Partech invests in Internet and information technology startups at seed, venture and growth stages.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 468
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Yampa — Discover yampa's autonomous AI agents and revolutionize your customer experience. Elevate your service with the most advanced AI technology.
  • Quibim — Leading radiomics company pioneering quantitative imaging biomarkers and medical applications in precision medicine.
  • Shippeo — A global leader, and European specialist, in supply chain visibility, giving companies instant access to predictive and real-time information for all their deliveries.
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Accel
VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 1 investments in Sweden Payments startups, 89 in the past 12 months

First partner to exceptional teams everywhere

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1623
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Recraft — The first generative AI design tool that lets users create and edit digital illustrations, vector art, icons, and 3D graphics in a uniform brand style.
  • Axe — Axe is a software firm that develops procurement software for businesses.
  • Biostate AI — Biostate AI develops generative AI that benefit all human health.
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Creades AB
VC Fund · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden · 1 investments in Sweden Payments startups

Creades is an investment company investing in businesses that have the potential for revaluation and value creation. Creade's business concept is to provide a good risk-adjusted return to its shareholders by investing in businesses where Creades can act as an engaged owner, primarily in small and medium-listed and unlisted Swedish companies.The firm is a spin-off from Investment AB Öresund.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Instabee — Delivery when it suits you who shop online
  • Aira — Aira operates as a clean energy-tech company.
  • 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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TGE Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Sweden Payments startups

I found a great domain name for sale on Dan.com. Check it out!

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Internet, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Sweden, Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Hedget — Hedget is a Defi-focused derivatives platform which operates a decentralized options trading.
  • Chromia — Chromia is a relational blockchain platform, making it easy for people to build decentralized apps in the real world, for a better world.
  • KILT Protocol — KILT Protocol is an open-source blockchain protocol for creating Web 3.0 credentials that are verifiable, revocable, and anonymous.KILT provides Internet Data Sovereignty and puts users in control of their data, allowing them to choose which data to share, when, with whom, and why. It's a blockchain protocol that creates a distributed onlinetrust market to help people manage their online trust connections.It was founded in 2018 and is based in Berlin, Berlin.
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Hesham Zreik
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 1 investments in Sweden Payments startups

Hesham Zreik is the CEO of FasterCapital. He previously worked at DreamApps as a Project Manager. Hesham attended the University of Westminster.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 377
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • ToyFlix — Toyflix is a pioneering subscription-based toy rental platform transforming India’s US$2 billion toy industry by making premium.
  • LocationBit — it is a community-driven global location encyclopedia designed to tackle the fragmented and inaccessible nature of local knowledge in 2025.
  • Kyamaganda Community Development Organisation — it is a community-based nonprofit organization founded to restore hope and dignity among vulnerable children, youth, and families in Uganda.
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Headline
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Sweden Payments startups, 28 in the past 12 months

Headline is a Venture Capital firm actively on the ground in 7 cities around the world. We invest across categories and geographies, leading rounds at every stage. Once we commit to a team, we go to the ends of the earth to make their success global.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 392
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Air — Do you like your marketing and brand collateral scattered everywhere? Neither do we. Send productivity soaring with a flexible and powerful creative ops system.
  • Buk — Software de Recursos Humanos para atender todas las necesidades de tus colaboradores. Desde el pago de sus remuneraciones hasta su desarrollo profesional.
  • Gentrace — Test generative AI across teams. Automate evals, tune retrieval systems, and edit prompts for reliable LLM products and agents. Start for free today.
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Olof Larsson
Angel · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden · 1 investments in Sweden Payments startups

Olof Larsson is the founder and CEO of IT-HUSET.

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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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Nordic Capital
VC Fund · Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark · 1 investments in Sweden Payments startups

Nordic Capital is a private equity investment firm and now has an enviable reputation in investment and portfolio management.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Financial Services
  • Stage:Private Equity, Post-IPO Equity
  • Geography: Sweden, Denmark, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 52
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Riskpoint — The RiskPoint Group is one of Europe's largest MGUs, providing best in class insurance solutions to businesses and their advisors globally.
  • Hjo Installation — Hjo Installation is a Swedish conglomerate made up of a significant number of local enterprises specializing in energy optimization, electricity, VS, and ventilation.
  • Equashield — EQUASHIELD offers a portfolio of closed system transfer devices (CSTDs) and robotic automation solutions, protecting workers from exposure to hazardous drugs.
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Swisscom Ventures
VC Fund · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland · 1 investments in Sweden Payments startups, 8 in the past 12 months

Swisscom Ventures is an venture capital arm of Swisscom AG, that specializes in early stage tech investments founded in 2007.Swisscom Ventures invests in growth companies with emerging business models and technologies of strategic relevance to Swisscom's core business. As a value-add investor, Swisscom brings its investees the technicalexpertise and strategic insights of an incumbent telecom operator. We act as a bridge to Swisscom's operational business units, which portfolio companies can also leverage as a test environment for their products and services.Swisscom Ventures seeks minority stakes in companies related to the information/communications/entertainment space.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: Switzerland, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 129
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • rready — Boost internal innovation and engage employees with ready-to-use programs, accompanied by experts in intrapreneurship.
  • Pexapark — We make PPAs for renewables simple. Master your wind and solar power purchase agreements and get the tools to manage merchant risk.
  • Spacetek Technology AG — Our process control instruments measure gases in real time, delivering a full quantitative chemical analysis up to ten times per second.
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Schibsted Growth
VC Fund · Oslo, Oslo, Norway · 1 investments in Sweden Payments startups

Investing in great digital companies!

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Financial Services, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Sweden, Norway, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 51
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Bookis — Bookis is the Next-Generation Online Bookstore with Direct Author Compensation, making the sharing of stories and knowledge playfully easy - from all bookshelves, for everyone. We leverage community, technology and innovative distribution to enable radically easier peer-to-peer bookselling, with fair author compensation models. Building theworld's largest network of authors fighting for a more fair book industry worldwide.
  • Dintero — Dintero is a Norwegian startup delivering payment, checkout, crm & loyalty solutions.
  • Campanyon — Camping, RV parks, glamping near you. Book your outdoor stays.
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Arrington XRP Capital
VC Fund · Miami, Florida, United States · 1 investments in Sweden Payments startups

Arrington Capital is a thesis-driven firm investing in digital assets and Web3 since 2017

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 101
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Schibsted
VC Fund · Oslo, Oslo, Norway · 1 investments in Sweden Payments startups

A global family of digital consumer brands leading the way across media, online marketplaces and technology ventures.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Financial Services, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Sweden, Norway, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Savr — Savr is an Investment platform disrupting the Swedish fund industry with a lower fee structure and a new business model.
  • 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.
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Kangaroo Capital
VC Fund · 1 investments in Sweden Payments startups

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

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: India, Sweden, Vietnam

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Solak — Solak is an AI browser and DeFi platform that is transforming the digital world.
  • STAGE — Always-on music competitions powered by the blockchain. Vote for your favorite artists and share their success.
  • KOKODI — World without adults!
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Mikko Salovaara
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Sweden Payments startups

Mikko Salovaara

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Payments, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Sweden

Investor stats

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

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.
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Insignius Capital
VC Fund · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden · 1 investments in Sweden Payments startups

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

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: France, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Payments Investor funding in Sweden at a glance

Stats across 99 deals from 162 investors.

162
investors
in Sweden Payments startups
99
deals
in Sweden Payments startups
$3.6M
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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