Top 20 Platforms Angel Investors in Sweden in November 2024

Last updated: Nov 2024 A list of 20 angel investors that invest in Platforms startups based in Sweden. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Platforms companies from Sweden. We update this investor list every month.

Top 20 Platforms Angel Investors in Sweden in November 2024

Investor	Platforms Sweden investments
Sebastian Knutsson	2
Sebastian Siemiatkowski	2
Niklas Zennström	2
Boel Rydenå-Swartling	1
Johan Lenander	1
Lars Björk	1
Hampus Jakobsson	1
David Baszucki	1
Akim Arhipov	1
Katja Toropainen	1
Eros Resmini	1
Simon Josefsson	1
Bjørn Ole Gleditsch	1
Martin Randel	1
Lisa Gradow	1
Sophia Bendz	1
Anne Gleditsch	1
Kari Anette Jakobsen	1
Karina Univer	1
Mattias Weinhandl	1

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Sebastian Knutsson is one of our founders and has served on our Board of Directors since October 2003, as our chief creative officer since June 2004 and as our executive product developer from February 2003 to June 2004. Sebastian has more than 18 years of experience in the Internet industry. As chief creative officer, he leads the productstrategy, games development and service offerings for King. Sebastian has designed more than 100 games for King.

Investment focus

Apps, Music, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Sweden, United States, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Zaver — Zaver develops innovative payment solutions to accelerate the revolution in mobile payments. All for companies and individuals to be able to shop in a more accessible and smarter way - offline and online.
Revyze — Revyze is a community-powered app with a sharp focus on high school education.
Reforged Labs — Make every creative a hero creative.

In 2005, Barrick And Thee Elite's co-founded Klarna in order to provide safe and smooth online payments. He currently serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Over the past decade, he has overseen the company’s rapid growth across Europe and more recently into North America. Klarna is a now fully licensed bank with 60mn consumer and 170,000merchant user base. Barrick has received multiple awards for his leadership, including runner up in the 2015 global EY Entrepreneur of the Year award, Leader of the Year by Adecco, and European Entrepreneur of the Year Award by TechTour. He holds a master’s degree from the Stockholm School of Economics.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Sweden, United States, Poland

Portfolio highlights

Nylas — Unlock the power of your communications data. The Nylas communication APIs remove complexity & empower teams to create seamless user experiences.
Prion — Prion makes it quick and easy for the preschool staff to give parents insight into what happens at preschool - together with the children. The app is available free for iPhone, Android and iPad.
Klarna — Einkaufen, was du willst. Bezahlen, wie du willst. Klarna bietet dir verschiedene Zahlungsarten an. Du entscheidest, welche am besten zu dir passt.

Niklas Zennström is CEO and Founding Partner at Atomico. He works daily with founders and sits on the boards of Farmdrop, Lilium, Pipedrive, Oden Technologies and Varjo. Niklas is an experienced technology investor and entrepreneur, having previously co-founded and managed globally successful technology companies including Skype, Kazaa andJoltid. Niklas founded Atomico in 2006. He is passionate about partnering about founders solving big challenges facing their planet with digital technology.In 2007, he co-founded Zennström Philanthropies with his wife, Catherine. They focus their efforts in two areas: human rights and the environment. Niklas also founded the Race for the Baltic, a foundation for a well-managed and sustainable Baltic Sea, one of the most threatened major bodies of water in the world.Niklas is a keen yachtsman and has won four World Championships with his yacht racing team, Rán.Niklas holds dual degrees in Business and MSc Engineering Physics/Computer Science from Uppsala University in Sweden, and he spent his final year at the University of Michigan.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Apps
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Kingdom, Sweden, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Isometric — Isometric is a carbon removal standard and registry.
Neoplants — The first generation of bioengineered to fight air pollution. We call them neoplants.
Lilium — Lilium is developing sustainable, high-speed air mobility through its electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft, vertiports and digital service.

Boel Rydenå-Swartling

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Mobile Apps
Angel, Funding Round, Seed
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Prion — Prion makes it quick and easy for the preschool staff to give parents insight into what happens at preschool - together with the children. The app is available free for iPhone, Android and iPad.
The Fit — Let our AI-powered fitting technology improve your customer experience and bottom line.
Care to Translate — We provide medical translations for healthcare professionals and patients. Available in 40 languages, 24/7 on your smart device or browser.

Johan Lenander is Owner & Chairman at Martina Children's Hospital. He attended KTH Royal Institute of Technology.

Investment focus

iOS, Apps, Events
Angel, Funding Round
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Minut — Minut keeps your home safe and your neighbors happy while respecting your guests' privacy. Monitor noise and occupancy, secure your home, and enhance guest experience. Only Minut gives you the full insight you need to protect your homes, all in one single sensor.
Qnekt — Qnekt is a multievent mobile application that is focused on creating great meetings between event attendees before, during and after. In that making, for an example, you 2 day conference much longer.Qnekt has two products, Qnekt - the mulitevent app as well as we build stand alone apps for huge events such as festivals and multieventapps forinternal communication for big corporations and schools. We made a shell that the event organizers fill with information and use as a project management tool. And as a bonus all attendees have the possibility to download the Qnekt event onto their phone. By that the event organizer has a new way of communicating with guests and the guests can message each other in the app. Vote on polls, navigate the program and creating their own and more.
Brainlit — Biocentric lighting by BrainLit brings daylight indoors. Exposure to daylight helps balance our circadian rhythms which can improve our health and well-being.

Lars Björk leads Qlik as CEO and is a member of the company’s board of directors. He oversaw the company’s initial public offering (IPO) in 2010 on the NASDAQ, which was recognized as one of the year’s top tech IPOs.Lars is recognized as an authority on driving company culture through an accessible management style, with articles appearing inthe New York Times, Forbes and Harvard Business Review, as well as speaking engagements at conferences including the CEO2CEO Leadership Summit. He was named the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in the technology category and was named Technology CEO of the Year at the 2015 PACT Annual Enterprise Awards. More recently, he was nominated to participate in Startup America, a White House initiative to accelerate high-growth entrepreneurship, and the Clinton Global Initiative, an organization that brings together leaders to drive action on global challenges.Before Qlik, Lars held several positions as CFO at companies such as ScandStick and Resurs Finance. He has an MBA from the University of Lund, Sweden and a Degree in Engineering from the Technical College in Helsingborg.

Investment focus

Apps, Android, Security
Funding Round, Seed
Sweden, United States

Portfolio highlights

Allone — Increase your workplace safety with Seecure, a digital safety solution. The app lets you activate alarms during emergencies.
Epishine — Epishine's goal is to be able to provide the world's most scalable, resource efficient, and affordable solar modules. Epishine sells light energy harvesting modules to manufacturers of wireless products. The modules are used to harvest light in any lighting conditions, turning light into usable power.
Lightdash — Connect your dbt project to Lightdash and allow everyone to answer their own data questions. Built for analysts and the modern data stack.

Hampus Jakobsson is a General Partner at early stage climate tech venture fund Pale Blue Dot.Prior to co-founding Pale Blue Dot, Hampus was a Venture Partner at science fund Blue Yard and a prolific angel investor with >100 angel investments. He co-founded of The Astonishing Tribe (acquired by Blackberry in 2010 for $150m). He left Blackberry2012 to found Brisk.io a sales productivity tool which folded 2016.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Mobile
Seed, Angel, Series A
Sweden, Denmark, United States

Portfolio highlights

ClimateView — ClimateView is a Swedish climate action technology company that helps cities transform climate planning into progress. We combine data, agent-based modelling and interface design to help cities successfully manage the transition to zero carbon economies.
Mojo — Clinical-grade, AI-powered sperm analysis from the comfort of home. Test your sperm count, motility, morphology and much more with the Mojo kit. Check your fertility from home at low cost - without the need for clinic visits and awkward waiting rooms.
Volta Greentech — Battling global warming by reducing methane emissions from cows

David Baszucki is the Founder and CEO of Roblox, the largest entertainment platform for play. A visionary inventor and engineer, David is passionate about building a revolutionary new genre of entertainment that seamlessly integrates user-generated content, social play, and the latest cross-platform technologies to power the imagination of peoplearound the world. David developed a love for construction toys at an early age, spurring his interest in pioneering an innovative entertainment platform where anyone could imagine, create, and share experiences together. Under his leadership, Roblox has been recognized twice on the Inc. 5000 list of America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies, as well as the Deloitte Technology Fast 500™ in 2017. Additionally, the San Francisco Business Times honored Roblox with its Tech & Innovation award in 2017.David, who holds a multitude of patents, was named one of Goldman Sachs’ 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs in 2017. For his contributions to STEM education, he also received the San Mateo Visionary Hero Award in 2015.Before launching Roblox, David founded Knowledge Revolution which became the volume leader in educational physics and mechanical design simulation software. The company was acquired by MSC Software in 1998, where he served as Vice President and General Manager.David graduated from Stanford University as a General Motors Scholar in Electrical Engineering.

Investment focus

iOS, Apps, Gaming
Pre-Seed, Series A, Series D
United States, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Akili Interactive Labs — Akili Interactive is a prescription digital medicine company combining scientific and clinical rigor with the ingenuity of the tech industry to reinvent medicine.
imagi — Programming has never been this much fun! Learn to create with code, share your designs with friends on the imagiLabs app and customize your imagiCharm - a fun, easy-to-use, colorful, and educational toy for girls. Imagine it. Code it. Wear it.
Clockwork Labs — Clockwork Labs is a new game studio focused on building massively-multiplayer “societal games” that are less focused on pure combat and instead encourage social interaction and cooperation between players.

Akim is an Estonian entrepreneur who has cofounded BASIS ID– all-in-one identity verification (KYC) platform for financial institutions and governmental agencies in Southeast Asia. Akim’s team was participated in creation of electronic ID system and eGovernment portals for Estonian government.Previously a co-founder of successful companies in ITand transportation sectors – OnniBus.com and SuperBus.com. The first one is the most successful commercial bus operator in Finland: 20 lines, 200+ daily departures, 6+ million passengers served annually.

Investment focus

Software, iOS, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed
Estonia, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Modash.io — High performing marketing teams use Modash to find, analyze and monitor influencers at scale all over the world. Join them today.
imagi — Programming has never been this much fun! Learn to create with code, share your designs with friends on the imagiLabs app and customize your imagiCharm - a fun, easy-to-use, colorful, and educational toy for girls. Imagine it. Code it. Wear it.
DriveX Technologies — DriveX offers an AI windshield damage assessment tool that gives an instant repairability decision.

Katja Toropainen is the founder of Inklusiiv. Prior to that, she served as a chief program curator at Slush. Katja holds a master's degree in information and service management from Aalto University.