# BackingMinds

> BackingMinds is a VC fund in Stockholm backing Software and SaaS. See 35 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stockholm, Sweden
- Total investments: 35
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 63%
- Fund size: $53M
- Last fund: Nov 2022
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/backingminds/
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/backingminds
- Website: http://backingminds.com

BackingMinds is a VC fund in Stockholm focused on Software and SaaS. €50m Nordic pre-seed/seed fund, backing great underinvested entrepreneurs (€500K-€3m tickets)

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $854k–$3.7M |
| Pre-Seed | $826k–$8.2M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 11% |
| SaaS | 3 | 9% |
| Energy | 3 | 9% |
| E-Commerce | 3 | 9% |
| Agriculture | 3 | 9% |

55 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 13 | 37% |
| Pre-Seed | 5 | 14% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 11% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 4 | 11% |
| Series A | 2 | 6% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sweden | 17 | 49% |
| Denmark | 3 | 9% |
| Finland | 1 | 3% |
| Iceland | 1 | 3% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sara Resvik | CEO and Partner | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sara-resvik |
| Elsa Hyland | PA/Associate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elsa-hyland-631b |
| Niklas Thörnestad | Partner / Advisor | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/niklas-th%C3%B6rnestad |
| Petter Edfeldt | Venture Partner / Advisor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/petter-edfeldt |
| Sara Wimmercranz | Founding Partner & CEO | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sara-wimmercranz |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Tavion | Tavion is a developer of battery energy storage systems that is expediting Europe's shift to renewable energy. Tavion creates and runs utility-scale BESS infrastructure to improve grid flexibility, stabilize intermittent renewable power, and promote energy independence in European markets. | $8.2M | Pre-Seed | Apr 29, 2026 |  |
| Cetasol | Cetasol is an innovative technology firm focusing on intelligent solutions for sustainability in marine sector. It helps in decision-making, timesaving, emission reduction, and more. They provide solutions to enhance maritime operations and services for consultant improvements. | $2.7M | Seed | Sep 24, 2025 |  |
| Techarena | Techarena operates as a platform for innovation, entrepreneurship and sustainability that brings together entrepreneurs, business leaders, experts, investors, decision makers and politicians. | $1.3M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 23, 2025 |  |
| Hybird Energy | Hybird emerged from frustration with traditional electricity monitoring, which lacked detailed insights. Now, Hybird tracks electricity usage at the source level, making it easier to save energy, cut costs, and reduce your CO2 footprint—all at a comparable cost to traditional panels.Hybird offers source-level transparency in electricalconsumption, driving energy management to new levels of efficiency through enhanced control and knowledge. | $2.5M | Seed | Jan 28, 2025 |  |
| Serviceform | As digitalization forges ahead, it is very important that underserved businesses have the same knowledge and access to digital tools that large companies do. Our mission is to make complex technologies accessible and simplify them under one service. Serviceform helps businesses solve their most common problems with lead generation, customermanagement, and customer support. Our product portfolio includes chatbots, live chat, pop-ups, lead bars, social inbox, CRM, web analytics, and dynamic forms. Serviceform does this by taking the best parts of software used by the top companies of the world and simplifying it for the SME market. | $2.6M | Series A | Nov 19, 2024 |  |
| NitroVolt | NitroVolt is decarbonizing nitrogen-based fertilizer production and making the agricultural sector more resilient with a novel production process.Commercial ammonia production supports 40-50% of the agricultural industry as a nitrogen-based fertilizer. But current ammonia production is not sustainable, releasing over 1% of global greenhouse gasemissions during production facilities and further emissions during transportation to the end user, farmers.NitroVolt offers a local ammonia production solution that gives farmers the ability to produce their own nitrogen-based fertilizer. The only inputs required by NitroVolt’s container-sized systems are air, water, and electricity, enabling production of sustainable ammonia directly at farms. NitroVolt’s patented electrochemical Nitrolyzer unit can make ammonia on-demand with intermittent renewable energy sources.With their technology, NitroVolt aims to decarbonize nitrogen-based fertilizer production one farm at a time, cut the logistic costs of distributing fertilizer, and make the agricultural sector more resilient to external factors. | $3.7M | Seed | Nov 13, 2024 |  |
| NitroVolt | NitroVolt is decarbonizing nitrogen-based fertilizer production and making the agricultural sector more resilient with a novel production process.Commercial ammonia production supports 40-50% of the agricultural industry as a nitrogen-based fertilizer. But current ammonia production is not sustainable, releasing over 1% of global greenhouse gasemissions during production facilities and further emissions during transportation to the end user, farmers.NitroVolt offers a local ammonia production solution that gives farmers the ability to produce their own nitrogen-based fertilizer. The only inputs required by NitroVolt’s container-sized systems are air, water, and electricity, enabling production of sustainable ammonia directly at farms. NitroVolt’s patented electrochemical Nitrolyzer unit can make ammonia on-demand with intermittent renewable energy sources.With their technology, NitroVolt aims to decarbonize nitrogen-based fertilizer production one farm at a time, cut the logistic costs of distributing fertilizer, and make the agricultural sector more resilient to external factors. | $3.7M | Seed | Nov 13, 2024 |  |
| Uniqkey | Uniqkey provides a security management platform that automates employee logins to make businesses secure and productive. It simplifies employee security while empowering companies with enhanced control over their cloud infrastructure, access security, and employee management.Recognized as the easiest tool, Uniqkey removes friction from employees’daily workflows by automating time-consuming authentication and security tasks, thereby increasing productivity. Its intuitive and user-friendly interface makes Uniqkey the perfect choice for employees.Uniqkey combats the most significant threats to company infrastructure by safeguarding critical systems and company credentials with state-of-the-art encryption. It also offers unique insights and a comprehensive view of IT infrastructure, employee access, and security scores, making it a valuable tool for IT teams to monitor security policies and confidently assess the impact of awareness campaigns.With powerful integrations and synergies with existing infrastructure such as Microsoft, IT managers can quickly provision or de-provision users for seamless onboarding and offboarding, all while protecting their entire IT infrastructure with advanced encryption.Trusted by 500+ European businesses and ranked as a Top 50 Global Security Solution by G2, our platform is becoming Europe's preferred business password and access management solution. | $5.9M | Venture - Series Unknown | Aug 29, 2024 |  |
| Uniqkey | Uniqkey provides a security management platform that automates employee logins to make businesses secure and productive. It simplifies employee security while empowering companies with enhanced control over their cloud infrastructure, access security, and employee management.Recognized as the easiest tool, Uniqkey removes friction from employees’daily workflows by automating time-consuming authentication and security tasks, thereby increasing productivity. Its intuitive and user-friendly interface makes Uniqkey the perfect choice for employees.Uniqkey combats the most significant threats to company infrastructure by safeguarding critical systems and company credentials with state-of-the-art encryption. It also offers unique insights and a comprehensive view of IT infrastructure, employee access, and security scores, making it a valuable tool for IT teams to monitor security policies and confidently assess the impact of awareness campaigns.With powerful integrations and synergies with existing infrastructure such as Microsoft, IT managers can quickly provision or de-provision users for seamless onboarding and offboarding, all while protecting their entire IT infrastructure with advanced encryption.Trusted by 500+ European businesses and ranked as a Top 50 Global Security Solution by G2, our platform is becoming Europe's preferred business password and access management solution. | $5.9M | Venture - Series Unknown | Aug 29, 2024 |  |
| CemVision | We are re-inventing cement; Replacing everything that’s bad about it with a product that is economical, environmental friendly and technically superior. | $10.9M | Seed | Mar 21, 2024 |  |

10 of 35 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Breakthrough Energy Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/breakthrough-energy-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Crowberry Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/crowberry-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Division Q](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/division-q) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
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- [Export and Investment Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/export-and-investment-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Fashion For Good](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fashion-for-good) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does BackingMinds invest in?

BackingMinds invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Energy startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 35 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Sweden. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is BackingMinds's check size?

BackingMinds typically joins rounds of $854k–$3.7M at Seed and $826k–$8.2M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds BackingMinds participates in.

### How do I contact BackingMinds?

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### Who are the partners at BackingMinds?

The team at BackingMinds includes Sara Resvik (CEO and Partner), Elsa Hyland (PA/Associate) and Niklas Thörnestad (Partner / Advisor), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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