# Ericsson

> Ericsson is a VC fund in Stockholm backing Software and Big Data. See 27 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stockholm, Sweden
- Total investments: 27
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 15%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/1060
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/ericsson
- Website: https://www.ericsson.com/en
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ericsson/

Ericsson is a VC fund in Stockholm focused on Software and Big Data. 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.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series B | $3.6M–$110M |
| Series D | $23M–$100M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 11 | 41% |
| Big Data | 5 | 19% |
| Internet | 4 | 15% |
| SaaS | 3 | 11% |
| Mobile | 3 | 11% |

48 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 8 | 30% |
| Funding Round | 6 | 22% |
| Series D | 4 | 15% |
| Series A | 3 | 11% |
| Series C | 1 | 4% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 16 | 59% |
| Sweden | 2 | 7% |
| Ireland | 1 | 4% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ajay Gupta | Vice President and Head of Strategy and Marketing | 7 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ajay-gupta-5 |
| Angel Ruiz | President & CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angel-ruiz |
| Graham Ackerman | VP Strategic Development, Director of Investment Management | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/graham-ackerman |
| Heather Johnson | Vice President, Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/heather-johnson-9539 |
| Leif Johansson | System manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/leif-johansson |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ChipAgents | 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 | 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 |  |
| ChipAgents | 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 |  |
| LotusFlare | 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 |  |
| ChipAgents | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |
| Balena | Balena is a complete set of tools for building, deploying, and managing fleets of connected IoT devices. It provides infrastructure and tools for fleet owners so they can focus on developing their applications and growing their fleets with as little friction as possible.Balena enables devices and their running services to be managed, monitored,and updated through the web dashboard or through its API, via the CLI and SDK.Balena was established in 2013. | $5M |  | Jun 11, 2018 |  |

10 of 27 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Bessemer Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bessemer-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Aspect Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aspect-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [GE Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ge-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Intel Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/intel-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [MediaTek](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mediatek) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Micron Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/micron-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Ericsson invest in?

Ericsson invests primarily in Software, Big Data and Internet startups, most often at Series B and Funding Round stage. Most of the 27 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Ericsson's check size?

Ericsson typically joins rounds of $3.6M–$110M at Series B and $23M–$100M at Series D. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Ericsson participates in.

### How do I contact Ericsson?

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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 Graham Ackerman (VP Strategic Development, Director of Investment Management), among 18 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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