# Knut Frängsmyr

> Knut Frängsmyr is a seed investor at Qred (Stockholm) backing Banking and Financial Services. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Qred](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/qred-ab-publ)
- Location: Stockholm, Sweden
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Feb 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/knut-fr%C3%A4ngsmyr-5382a924/?originalSubdomain=se

Knut Frängsmyr is a seed investor at Qred in Stockholm focused on Banking and Financial Services. Knut Frängsmyr is the chief operating officer and deputy chief executive officer of Frängsmyr holds master’s degrees in law from Frängsmyr is based in Stockholm, Sweden.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $606k–$4.3M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Banking | 2 | 40% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 40% |
| Energy | 1 | 20% |
| Retail | 1 | 20% |
| FinTech | 1 | 20% |

14 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 60% |
| Series A | 1 | 20% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 2 | 40% |
| Sweden | 1 | 20% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Elvy | Geofy AI platform provides home owners control over their energy needs with subscription of solar, heat pump and battery system. | $3.5M | Seed | Feb 20, 2025 |  |
| Maintract | Maintract is a new generation of financial contract management software. It also offers banking and financial services. They provide contract management automation solutions to banks for drafting, data verification, workflow automation, contract data monitoring, tracking workflow and documentation, compliance management, and more. | $605.9K | Seed | Mar 09, 2023 |  |
| OnBuy | OnBuy is an online marketplace that offers multi-category products. Its marketplace offers competitive fees for its sellers and helps to list all the products in its portal that enable users to purchase products without hassle. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Poole, Dorset. | $48.3M | Series A | Jul 13, 2021 |  |
| upSWOT | UpSWOT is a fintech platform that enables banks to connect, collect, and normalize data from business software tools they regularly use.The company's technology serves financial institutions to help them build loyalty and grow engagement among their SMB clients. Its platform is a white-labeled portal deployed into customers’ private cloudand connected with the online banking application. Using an approach similar to Plaid, SMBs connect their data for continuous, API-enabled access to QuickBooks, Xero, Salesforce, and 120+ other business-critical SaaS applications. Data is aggregated in real-time and thousands of signals are analyzed to help SMBs better understand the health of their businesses via interactive dashboards. On the back-end, Upswot surfaces meaningful data for relationship managers to upsell the right products and services while building more meaningful and longer-lasting relationships.The Berkeley, Califoria-located company was co-founded by Aleksander Simeiko, Andrey Davydchuk, Dmitriy Syvolap, and Dmitry Norenko in 2019. | $4.3M | Seed | Mar 15, 2021 |  |
| upSWOT | UpSWOT is a fintech platform that enables banks to connect, collect, and normalize data from business software tools they regularly use.The company's technology serves financial institutions to help them build loyalty and grow engagement among their SMB clients. Its platform is a white-labeled portal deployed into customers’ private cloudand connected with the online banking application. Using an approach similar to Plaid, SMBs connect their data for continuous, API-enabled access to QuickBooks, Xero, Salesforce, and 120+ other business-critical SaaS applications. Data is aggregated in real-time and thousands of signals are analyzed to help SMBs better understand the health of their businesses via interactive dashboards. On the back-end, Upswot surfaces meaningful data for relationship managers to upsell the right products and services while building more meaningful and longer-lasting relationships.The Berkeley, Califoria-located company was co-founded by Aleksander Simeiko, Andrey Davydchuk, Dmitriy Syvolap, and Dmitry Norenko in 2019. | $4.3M | Seed | Mar 15, 2021 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [First Southern National Bank](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/first-southern-national-bank) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Common Ocean Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/common-ocean-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [SpeedUp Venture Capital Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/speedup-venture-capital-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bring Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bring-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [CFV Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cfv-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Essential Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/essential-404e) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Qred

VC Fund · Stockholm, Sweden

Qred is a tech enabled bank offering financing to small businesses. Qred was founded in 2015 by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs. By using innovative technology and a high degree of automation, Qred has quickly become the market leader in Northern Europe. Qred has, as the only Swedish company, qualified for the Financial Times list of Europe'sfastest-growing companies for four consecutive years and was the winner of the Nordic Scaleup Award 2024. Qred has helped over 50,000 businesses and created over 40,000 new jobs in Sweden, Finland, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Norway.

4 contacts available at Qred.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Emil Sunvisson | CEO and Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emil-sunvisson-c3e5 |
| Jason Francis | Co-founder & Vice CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jason-francis |
| Knut Frängsmyr | Chief Commercial Officer and Deputy CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/knut-fr%C3%A4ngsmyr |
| Thomas Jansson | Chief Growth Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/thomas-jansson |

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## FAQ

### What does Knut Frängsmyr invest in?

Knut Frängsmyr invests primarily in Banking, Financial Services and Energy startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 5 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 Knut Frängsmyr's check size?

Knut Frängsmyr typically joins rounds of $606k–$4.3M 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 Knut Frängsmyr participates in.

### When did Knut Frängsmyr last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Knut Frängsmyr closed in Feb 2025. Shizune tracks 5 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?

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