# Collector Ventures

> Collector Ventures is a VC fund in Gothenburg backing E-Commerce and Financial Services. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Gothenburg, Sweden
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Sep 2019
- Lead investor: 40%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/collector
- Website: https://www.collector.se/

Collector Ventures is a VC fund in Gothenburg focused on E-Commerce and Financial Services. Collector Ventures is the investment vehicle of of Collector Bank, founded by Lena Apler.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| E-Commerce | 4 | 40% |
| Financial Services | 4 | 40% |
| FinTech | 3 | 30% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 30% |
| Apps | 2 | 20% |

32 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 8 | 80% |
| Seed | 1 | 10% |
| Series A | 1 | 10% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 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. | $7.7M |  | Sep 04, 2019 |  |
| 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. | $4.2M |  | Feb 15, 2019 |  |
| 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. | $965K | Seed | Nov 27, 2018 |  |
| Better Wealth | Better Wealth provides automated investment advice services.BetterWealth is under the supervision of Finansinspektionen. Your investments are covered by the investor protection and your money deposited into a client funds account is covered by the deposit guarantee. | $849K |  | Nov 02, 2018 |  |
| 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. | $965K |  | Apr 12, 2017 |  |
| Lanbyte | Lånbyte is a Swedish based technology company renegotiating debts and mortgages in the Nordics. Lånbyte specializes in obtaining private individuals, evaluating their household financial status, and create a market for Nordic banks to better acquire new and financially sound clients. | $965K |  | Mar 16, 2017 |  |
| Wint | Wint is a full-service agency in economics that manages everything from starting companies, reporting numbers and help with declaration, to making financial statements. |  | Series A | Dec 01, 2016 |  |
| Wrapp | THE NEW STANDARD HAS ARRIVED. Wrapp is The New Standard for rewarding purchases and customer loyalty. The end to an era of irrelevant advertising and outdated memberships. Wrapp connects to our users’ payment cards, and analyzes transactions to learn their buying behavior. This way, our users only get rewards from brands they're interestedin. And by sticking to cashback returns, we make sure they get rewards they actually find useful. Simply put, we put purchasing power in the hands of consumers, and meaningful marketing in the hands of brands. |  |  | Dec 01, 2016 |  |
| Mr Shoebox | Mr. Shoebox is a completely new and revolutionary system that creates new opportunities for entrepreneurs and bookkeepers. |  |  | Nov 24, 2016 |  |
| Identiway | Identity market place and platform. Unlocking the web for trusted users. Taking the pain out of login, signup and payment identification. Instant conversion. |  |  | Oct 06, 2016 |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Collector Ventures invest in?

Collector Ventures invests primarily in E-Commerce, Financial Services and FinTech startups, most often at Funding Round and Seed stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Sweden. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Collector Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Collector Ventures closed in Sep 2019. Shizune tracks 10 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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