Jane Walerud
Partner @ Walerud Ventures
Stockholm, Sweden
Jane Walerud is a seed investor at Walerud Ventures in Stockholm focused on Video Games and Manufacturing. Walerud Ventures joins high tech companies in very early stages, repeatedly from just an idea and a couple of people.
- Total investments:
- 13
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 15%
Last updated:
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Industries Jane Walerud invests in
Stages Jane Walerud invests in
Countries Jane Walerud invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $579k–$965k
Investment Focus
Industry
- Video Games 2 (15%)
- Manufacturing 2 (15%)
- ISP 1 (8%)
- Solar 1 (8%)
- Gaming 1 (8%)
Stage
- Seed 10 (77%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (8%)
- Series A 1 (8%)
- Post-IPO Equity 1 (8%)
Country
- Sweden 8 (62%)
- United States 2 (15%)
- United Kingdom 2 (15%)
- Switzerland 1 (8%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Kaedim
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Kaedim’s product creates 3D content as easily as you can take a photo, 2D content, with your smartphone today. | $15M / Series A / Mar 11, 2024 | |
Racefox
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Racefox is a real-time digital coach for running and XC-skiing. By combining research at the frontline from biomechanics and sports science with data science and artificial intelligence, Racefox provides individualized coaching. Racefox delivers very significant performance improvements while detecting and addressing potential injuries before theyhappen. Racefox improves the performance of world class athletes as well as casual runners and skiers who practice to stay in shape and be healthy. | $579K / Seed / Aug 01, 2016 | |
Satcube
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Satcube is a satellite communications company, developing and selling terminals and services to enable people to communicate anywhere on the planet. Satcube is based in Gothenburg, Sweden. | $965K / Seed / Apr 01, 2016 | |
Teclo Networks
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Teclo Networks provides TCP/IP data acceleration solutions that improve data delivery across networks to mobile operators and businesses in Switzerland and internationally. The company offers S-Series, an in-line solution that optimizes TCP/IP for mobility without requiring modified client side software. Its mobile operator solutionsmanage data traffic through protocols, such as TCP/IP, HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP, and IMAP across network infrastructures, including LTE, 3G, and Wi-Fi. The company also provides support, network consultancy, and training services.Teclo Networks was founded by Jane Walerud in 2009 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. | Seed / Mar 01, 2010 | |
Ellen.se
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Ellen AB was founded in 2000 and is a Swedish biotech company that develops high-quality products that give a sense of wellbeing and address intimate health conditions. Specially designed for women's sensitive intimate areas, the products contain probiotics or have a high proportion of natural and organic ingredients. Ellen's products aresold by a finely tuned network of distributors, the majority of which are based in Europe. Its probiotic products are unique in the world and patent protected. In 2003, Ellen was the first company in the world to offer a tampon treated with lactic acid bacteria that restores the bacterial vaginal flora balance. Since then, ellen® tampon has been launched in several European countries and sells for some SEK 100 million in European pharmacies. In 2012, Ellen released a probiotic intimate cream based on the same combination of several probiotic strains (LN inside, LN®) as those used to treat the tampons. LN® bacteria are both preventive and restorative. New intimate care products will be launched that will enhance the company's unique probiotic product portfolio in 2014. In just a short period of time, Ellen has evolved from a one-product company to a multiple-product company with a portfolio comprised of several intimate care products that complement each other. | Seed / Oct 01, 2005 | |
Klarna
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Klarna is an eCommerce payment solutions platform for merchants and shoppers.The platform gives customers the freedom to choose how and when to pay. They also offer direct payments, pay after delivery options, and installment plans. Klarna is a regulated bank known for its “buy now, pay later” model that offers shoppers interest-free financing onretail purchases over a period of installments.Klarna was founded in 2005 in Stockholm, Sweden by Sebastian Siemiatkowski, Niklas Adalberth, and Victor Jacobsson. | $66K / Pre-Seed / Feb 01, 2005 | |
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Meqon Research
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Meqon Research develops physics middleware for the computer game industry. | Seed / Jan 01, 2005 | |
Midsummer
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Midsummer was founded in 2004 by people with a background from the optical disc manufacturing equipment and the photo mask industry. Midsummer has its head office in Stockholm, Sweden and has some of the most experienced CIGS researchers in Scandinavia.Thin film solar cells have long been considered as a promising technology for photovoltaics.Thin film CIGS solar cell technology has now been developed for almost 40 years. The technology has matured in the sense that several research groups have reached CIGS solar cell efficiencies over 20%. However, the transition from laboratory research to volume manufacturing has often proven quite hard. Many CIGS companies have ceased operations due to either lack of technical success or difficulties to reach profitability. In many cases, promising laboratory scale results have proven difficult to transfer to large scale volume production at a competitive cost.Midsummer, has taken a different route from the start as Midsummer’s founders have their background from the optical disc industry, making production equipment for CD and DVD manufacturing. This mature technology we decided to use for the production of CIGS thin film solar cells. As the technology relies on simultaneous parallel processing of several small area substrates, Midsummer makes 156×156 mm CIGS cells which are interconnected into modules in the same manner as silicon solar cells. By making cells, instead of large area modules, we have been able to do all our process development on 156×156 substrates and thereby avoid any upscaling issues. As the substrates are made of 0.15 mm thin ferritic stainless steel, they are flexible and can be used for lightweight flexible modules. | Seed / Jan 01, 2004 | |
Datawatch Corp
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Datawatch Corporation designs, develops, markets, and distributes business computer software products in the United States and internationally.The company sells its products through direct sales force, value added resellers, strategic partners, and distributors. Datawatch Corporation was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Chelmsford,Massachusetts. | Post-IPO Equity / Jan 01, 2002 | |
Telcogames Ltd
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Telcogames offers various categories of games, such as action, card and casino, puzzles and boards, sports and racing, and strategy and RPG games. | Seed / Jan 01, 2002 | |
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Co-Investors
About Walerud Ventures
See portfolio http://www.walerud.com/portfolio IN THE TRENCHES We join at the very early stages, often from just an idea and a couple of people. We spend a day a week with you to help set up the early team, strategy and sales. We'll join you in packing boxes, (wo)man the booth at trade shows, and as CxO as necessary. Since wework so closely with our startups we only take on a few at a time. Therefore, we make sure to select projects that make our hearts sing. LONG & CURRENT EXPERIENCE Of the 18 companies we have been heavily involved in, four have become world class successes (Klarna, Tobii, Lensway, Bluetail) and another ten had good and profitable exits or are growing nicely. We've also coached hundreds of startups and work very hard to make our startups successful. DEEP TECH We are techie and curious, and will understand your product. We've started companies in areas including AI, 3D, solar cells, fintech, telecom and biotech and have worked in tech for a long time: Jane was once a teaching assistant for a programming course at Stanford, Bengt is a top multivariate statistical analyst, and Caroline studied natural sciences at Cambridge. We like companies with sustainable competitive advantages and entry barriers. WHAT WE LOOK FOR Fantastic founders with full focus on ONE product that solves a problem that HURTS. Selling to a growing market with high margins. A brilliant, hard working, self motivated, open team with complementary skills and integrity. Since we work hard with you, we want to be close: within commuting distance from Stockholm. We speak Swedish and English. INVESTMENT We are on the entrepreneur's side. We want a painless investment process so we can get on with building the company with you. Therefore we do standard, simple and fair contracts (eg startupdocs.se) want the founders to own the lion's share of the company. We invest 1-10M SEK and take a board seat.
Walerud Ventures Contacts
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Bengt Walerud
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Caroline Walerud
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Jane Walerud
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FAQ
What does Jane Walerud invest in?
Jane Walerud invests primarily in Video Games, Manufacturing and ISP startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Sweden. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Jane Walerud's check size?
Jane Walerud typically joins rounds of $579k–$965k at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Jane Walerud participates in.
When did Jane Walerud last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Jane Walerud closed in Mar 2024. Shizune tracks 13 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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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 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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