H&M Group Ventures
VC Fund
Stockholm, Sweden
H&M Group Ventures is a VC fund in Stockholm focused on E-Commerce and Fashion. H&M Group Ventures is the venture capital arm of the H&M Group.
- Total investments:
- 60
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 28%
Last updated:
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Industries H&M Group Ventures invests in
Stages H&M Group Ventures invests in
Countries H&M Group Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $2M–$8.7M
- Series A
- $2.2M–$45M
Investment Focus
Industry
- E-Commerce 16 (27%)
- Fashion 12 (20%)
- Textiles 10 (17%)
- Sustainability 7 (12%)
- Manufacturing 6 (10%)
Stage
- Series A 13 (22%)
- Funding Round 10 (17%)
- Seed 8 (13%)
- Series B 8 (13%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 7 (12%)
Country
- Sweden 14 (23%)
- United States 10 (17%)
- United Kingdom 7 (12%)
- India 2 (3%)
- Canada 1 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Erik Karlsson
Investment Manager
|
Investment Manager | Total investments: 7 | Find email | |
Martin Svensson
Associate
|
Associate | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rubi Laboratories develops biocatalyst solutions that manufacture carbon-negative textiles for the fashion industry. Its technology offers a natural resource for making things and directly synthesizes the threads that help clients produce viscose that is carbon-negative, water-chemical, land-neutral, traceable, and biodegradable. | $7.5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 17, 2026 | ||
| Yaga is an e-commerce site that provides t-shirts, clothing, books, magazines, and accessories for men, and women. | $4.6M / Seed / Oct 21, 2025 | ||
| AltMat is a textile manufacturing firm that produces clothing materials, including natural fibers and yarns from agricultural wastes. | Seed / Oct 06, 2025 | ||
| Colorifix is a biotechnology company that has pioneered the first entirely biological process to produce, deposit and fix pigments onto textiles. Using a synthetic biology approach, it offers a radically different solution to incumbent dyeing technologies that entirely cuts out the use of harsh chemistry and leads to huge reductions in waterconsumption. Colorifix’s investors include Cambridge Enterprise, H&M, Mills Fabrica, Primera Impact and Sagana, whose collective backing is funding its expansion. For more information, visit www.colorifix.com | $18M / Series B / Jun 23, 2025 | ||
| 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. | $5.2M / Corporate Round / May 07, 2025 | ||
| Voyado is a Swedish Customer Experience Platform with a sole focus on e-commerce and retail – that holds six major features under the same hood. It allows brands internationally to collect and segment all customer data, work with churn scoring, marketing automation and omnichannel communication, and work effectively with unified commerce. | $6.7M / Corporate Round / Dec 18, 2024 | ||
| Heirloom is a provider of direct air capture technology to enhance the natural process of CO2 absorption from the atmosphere. Its technology accelerates limestone's ability to capture carbon dioxide, storing it permanently underground while operating with renewable energy. | $150M / Series B / Dec 04, 2024 | ||
| Cult Mia is an eCommerce platform for fashion apparel. | $2M / Seed / Oct 18, 2024 | ||
| Avassa is the one, easy-to-use solution to manage distributed applications across your on-premise, co-located and public cloud compute resources. | Oct 01, 2024 | ||
| GALY develops biomaterials through biotechnology and synthetic biology in order to discover new ways to produce natural things. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Amherst, Massachusetts. | $33M / Series B / Sep 03, 2024 | ||
| See all 60 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does H&M Group Ventures invest in?
H&M Group Ventures invests primarily in E-Commerce, Fashion and Textiles startups, most often at Series A and Funding Round stage. Most of the 60 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Sweden. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is H&M Group Ventures's check size?
H&M Group Ventures typically joins rounds of $2M–$8.7M at Seed and $2.2M–$45M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds H&M Group Ventures participates in.
How do I contact H&M Group Ventures?
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Who are the partners at H&M Group Ventures?
The team at H&M Group Ventures includes Erik Karlsson (Investment Manager) and Martin Svensson (Associate). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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 Sep 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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