# Bjorn Beckman

> Bjorn Beckman is a Series A investor at Verdane (Stockholm) backing Fashion and E-Commerce. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Verdane](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/verdane)
- Location: Stockholm, Sweden
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Mar 2024
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bj%C3%B6rn-beckman-5a248529/

Bjorn Beckman is a Series A investor at Verdane in Stockholm focused on Fashion and E-Commerce. Björn joined Verdane Capital Advisors in 2013 as an Associate. Previously, he completed internships at Verdane and in the capital goods team at Investor AB. He has also experience from Securities Finance at SEB, and family office HMP Family. Björn graduated from the Stockholm School of Economics with a B.Sc. in Business and Economics, andan M.Sc. in Finance.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Fashion | 2 | 50% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 50% |
| B2B | 1 | 25% |
| Music | 1 | 25% |
| Shoes | 1 | 25% |

17 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 1 | 25% |
| Series B | 1 | 25% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 25% |
| Private Equity | 1 | 25% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sweden | 3 | 75% |
| Germany | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ingrid | Ingrid was founded with a mission to create delivery experiences that fit people's lives by letting e-commerce businesses deliver sustainable growth and giving shoppers the power to personalize delivery and returns. The result is a better overall customer experience and greater efficiency for both the retailer and the delivery carrier. | $22.8M | Series A | Mar 19, 2024 |  |
| Fashion Cloud | Founded in 2015, Fashion Cloud is the all-in-one solution for content and data exchange as well as digital pre- and reorder in the fashion wholesale industry. Fashion Cloud offers the world's largest picture database for the fashion industry and furthermore creates transparency in ways of sustainability: Next to images, videos and productdata, brands can also provide sustainability information like certifications and standards, which retailers can integrate into their webshop to help consumers to make the right buying decision. The company also offers brand shops in which suppliers can sell their articles to their wholesale partners in an easy, digital way, making it the all-in-one solution for more than 600 fashion brands and 20,000 retailers. International brands like Hugo Boss, Scotch & Soda and Moss Copenhagen collaborate and trade with retailers like Zalando, Magasin du Nord, Engelhorn or Omoda. | $26.6M | Series B | Dec 13, 2022 |  |
| Centra | Centra is part of creating the next generation of brands, with a direct-to-consumer and wholesale e-commerce software for global brands. Brands across Scandinavia and the world trust Centra to seamlessly connect people to products. We're a medium-sized company with offices in Stockholm, Sweden, Wroclaw, Poland and New York City, USA. | $100M | Private Equity | Nov 22, 2021 |  |
| Allihoopa | Millions and millions of us are making music everyday, round the clock, all over this planet. Just for the love of it. They have to. It is just in us. Something unique for each of us compels us, something beyond any commercial drive, tool or technology—that pure joy of making, creating, working together.Allihoopa brings all of us, everyone,together for a free and open exchange of music pieces, ideas and people, all united in “doing music” just for the sake of it. |  |  |  |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Heartland](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/heartland-22c5) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Schibsted](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/schibsted-4dda) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Verdane

VC Fund · Oslo, Norway

Verdane is a specialist growth equity investment firm that partners with sustainable, tech-enabled Northern European businesses to help them reach the next stage of international growth. Verdane can invest as a minority or majority investor, either in single companies or through portfolios of companies, and looks to deploy behind three core themes;the Digital Consumer, Software Everywhere and Sustainable Society. Verdane funds hold more than €3bn in total commitments and have made over 120 investments in fast-growing businesses since 2003. Verdane’s team of over 80 investment professionals and operating experts, based out of Berlin, Copenhagen, Helsinki, London, Oslo and Stockholm, is dedicated to being the preferred growth partner to tech-enabled businesses in Northern Europe.

5 contacts available at Verdane.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Andreas Daae | Investment Professional | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreas-daae |
| Arne Handeland | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arne-handeland |
| Bjarne Kveim Lie | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bjarne-kveim-lie |
| Bjorn Beckman | Investment Professional | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bjorn-beckman |
| Daniel Ahlstrand | Investment Professional | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-ahlstrand |

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## FAQ

### What does Bjorn Beckman invest in?

Bjorn Beckman invests primarily in Fashion, E-Commerce and B2B startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Sweden. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Bjorn Beckman last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Bjorn Beckman closed in Mar 2024. Shizune tracks 4 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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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