Ericsson
VC Fund
Stockholm, Sweden
Ericsson is a VC fund in Stockholm focused on Software and Mobile. Ericsson specializes in information and communications technology services. The company's portfolio comprises mobile and fixed network infrastructure, telecom services, software, broadband, and multimedia solutions for operators, enterprises, and the media industry. The company's products include telephones, switches, mobile systems,semiconductors, and other products.
- Total investments:
- 29
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 14%
Last updated:
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Industries Ericsson invests in
Stages Ericsson invests in
Countries Ericsson invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 17 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Series B
- $3.6M–$110M
- Series D
- $23M–$100M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 11 (38%)
- Mobile 5 (17%)
- Big Data 5 (17%)
- Internet 5 (17%)
- SaaS 3 (10%)
Stage
- Series B 9 (31%)
- Series D 4 (14%)
- Funding Round 4 (14%)
- Series A 3 (10%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 3 (10%)
Country
- United States 18 (62%)
- Sweden 2 (7%)
- Ireland 1 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Ajay Gupta
Vice President and Head of Strategy and Marketing
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Vice President and Head of Strategy and Marketing | Total investments: 7 | Find email | |
Angel Ruiz
President & CEO
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President & CEO | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Borje Ekholm
CEO & President
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CEO & President | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Graham Ackerman
VP Strategic Development, Director of Investment Management
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VP Strategic Development, Director of Investment Management | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Leif Johansson
System manager
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System manager | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 17 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alpha Design AI is reinventing semiconductor design and verification through advanced AI agent techniques. Alpha Design AI is pioneering an AI-native approach to Electronic Design Automation (EDA), transforming how chips are designed and verified. Our flagship product, ChipAgents, aims to boost RTL design and verification productivity by 10x,driving innovation across industries with smarter, more efficient chip design. | $60M / Series A / Jul 29, 2026 | ||
| Spectro Cloud is an enterprise software company that develops an AI infrastructure and cloud-native infrastructure management platform for enterprises and public sector organizations. It helps organizations deploy, manage, govern, and scale Kubernetes, virtual machines, edge computing, and AI infrastructure across public cloud, private cloud, baremetal, and edge environments through a unified control plane.The company's flagship platforms, Palette and PaletteAI, provide Kubernetes lifecycle management, AI infrastructure orchestration, GPU resource management, virtual machine modernization, edge computing management, policy-based governance, security, and infrastructure automation. The platforms enable organizations to provision and manage infrastructure from operating systems to applications and AI models, automate cluster operations, enforce security and compliance policies, optimize GPU utilization, and operate distributed environments, including air-gapped and sovereign deployments, at enterprise scale. | $100M / Series D / Jul 15, 2026 | ||
| Alpha Design AI is reinventing semiconductor design and verification through advanced AI agent techniques. Alpha Design AI is pioneering an AI-native approach to Electronic Design Automation (EDA), transforming how chips are designed and verified. Our flagship product, ChipAgents, aims to boost RTL design and verification productivity by 10x,driving innovation across industries with smarter, more efficient chip design. | $50M / Series A / Feb 17, 2026 | ||
| We build awesome digital experiences to drive Growth. Our mission is to bridge established companies with the software stack and Growth mindset of the most successful Internet players. We partner with companies in telecom, finance, media and technology to build intuitive, engaging digital products and to systematically drive user engagement,retention and monetization on these apps and websites. We also create digital B-brands, often focused towards Millenials who expect a 100% digital experience when interacting with companies. | Dec 03, 2025 | ||
| Alpha Design AI is reinventing semiconductor design and verification through advanced AI agent techniques. Alpha Design AI is pioneering an AI-native approach to Electronic Design Automation (EDA), transforming how chips are designed and verified. Our flagship product, ChipAgents, aims to boost RTL design and verification productivity by 10x,driving innovation across industries with smarter, more efficient chip design. | $21M / Series A / Oct 21, 2025 | ||
| Formant is a monitoring and operations infrastructure that allows companies to monitor robot fleets, receive alerts, and embark on root cause analyses when something goes wrong. Its platform is built on a secure and scalable cloud stack that can integrate robotic applications and existing tools that lets clients with a cloud infrastructure aid inrobotic automation.Founded by a team of former Google, Savioke, and Redwood Robotics software engineers, roboticists, and product managers—Formant believes that more efficient cloud infrastructure can help unlock the shared potential of humans and robots.The company was established in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California. | $21M / Series A / Oct 11, 2023 | ||
| Formant is a monitoring and operations infrastructure that allows companies to monitor robot fleets, receive alerts, and embark on root cause analyses when something goes wrong. Its platform is built on a secure and scalable cloud stack that can integrate robotic applications and existing tools that lets clients with a cloud infrastructure aid inrobotic automation.Founded by a team of former Google, Savioke, and Redwood Robotics software engineers, roboticists, and product managers—Formant believes that more efficient cloud infrastructure can help unlock the shared potential of humans and robots.The company was established in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California. | $18M / Series A / Jan 05, 2022 | ||
| Einride is a freight technology company providing digital, electric, and autonomous shipping. It was founded in 2016 and became the world’s first company to operate an autonomous, electric freight vehicle on a public road in 2019. Einride´s award-winning technology and products enable users to execute on electrification and automation, order andtrack shipments, oversee routes and assignments, visualize data and gain insights. | $110M / Series B / May 06, 2021 | ||
| PubNub is a secure global Data Stream Network (DSN) and easy to use API that enables our customers to connect, scale, and manage realtime applications and IoT devices. With over 70 SDKs for every platform, 250ms worldwide data transfer times, and scalability for hundreds of millions of devices, PubNub’s unique infrastructure gives you the abilityto easily connect and operate world-class realtime applications and IoT devices. PubNub is headquartered in San Francisco. Visit https://www.pubnub.com to start a free trial today. | $23M / Series D / Apr 09, 2019 | ||
| Founded in 2007 as a designated small business with manufacturing and corporate headquarters located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, ConcealFab Corporation® provides commercial wireless carriers and government customers with radio frequency (RF) transparent shelters and enclosures to protect and conceal sensitive communication equipment from publicdetection. They have prototyped, manufactured, and delivered hundreds of rooftop and ground based antenna concealment solutions to both commercial and government customers. ConcealFab® RF-transparent patented technology is made from proprietary thermoplastic and advanced composite materials, fabricated into architectural shapes that Hide In Plain Sight®. End-user costs and production lead times are significantly lower than existing RF enclosure options and the company’s innovative, modular designs simplify field installation.The launch of one of their newest product families — oDAS and Small Cell Wireless Solutions — has solidified ConcealFab's position as the leader in this emerging industry. ConcealFab Corporation's® oDAS and small cell wireless solutions are ideal for fiber infrastructure build-outs, upgrades and retrofit projects. Their standardized platform integrates with any antenna and radio configuration, effortlessly blends into urban/suburban environments, and withstands harsh weather conditions. The full family of ConcealFab® solutions includes RF-transparent rooftop screenwalls and enclosures, quick-deploy maintenance shelters, antenna barns, mobile containers for tactical deception, oDAS and small cell wireless solutions, equipment integrated poles, and backlobe suppression units. They offer commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) solutions as well as custom solutions tailor-made to accommodate your site-specific component requirements. | Venture - Series Unknown / Dec 24, 2018 | ||
| See all 29 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Ericsson invest in?
Ericsson invests primarily in Software, Mobile and Big Data startups, most often at Series B and Series D stage. Most of the 29 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Ericsson invest in?
Ericsson typically joins rounds of $3.6M–$110M at Series B and $23M–$100M at Series D. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Ericsson's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Ericsson took part in.
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Who are the partners at Ericsson?
The team at Ericsson includes Ajay Gupta (Vice President and Head of Strategy and Marketing), Angel Ruiz (President & CEO) and Borje Ekholm (CEO & President), among 17 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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