# Luminar Ventures

> Luminar Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Information Technology. See 68 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stockholm, Sweden
- Total investments: 68
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 41%
- Last fund: Oct 2023
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/18387339/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/LuminarVentures
- Website: https://www.luminarventures.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/luminarventures/

Luminar Ventures is a venture capital fund that prefers to make early-stage investments in technology companies. They engage with their portfolio companies and are actively helping with strategic, growth, team and organizational, and operational support, and together setting the foundation for future expansion.Luminar's core investment focusis on scalable digital seed-stage companies from the Nordics, founded by highly motivated and talented entrepreneurs with a vision to disrupt or transform major industries. The firm aims to provide experienced seed-stage financing and active operational support to Sweden based early-stage technology companies that are looking to disrupt or transform major industries with digital technologies and innovations.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $960k–$5.4M |
| Series A | $8.3M–$21M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 9 | 13% |
| Information Technology | 7 | 10% |
| SaaS | 4 | 6% |
| Health Care | 4 | 6% |
| FinTech | 3 | 4% |

90 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 29 | 43% |
| Series A | 9 | 13% |
| Funding Round | 8 | 12% |
| Pre-Seed | 5 | 7% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sweden | 31 | 46% |
| Norway | 3 | 4% |
| United States | 2 | 3% |
| Iceland | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jacob Key | Founding & General Partner | 19 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jacob-key |
| Linda Samlin Hoglund | Non-Executive IC member | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/linda-samlin-hoglund |
| Louise Hagen | Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/louise-hagen |
| Magnus Bergman | Co-Founder & General Partner | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/magnus-bergman |
| Reid Jackson | Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/reid-jackson-03f7 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Fika Jobs | is building a video-first hiring platform that combines AI interview agents with short-form video profiles. | $4M | Pre-Seed | Jun 23, 2026 |  |
| Lightbringer | Generative AI technology company offering tools for preparing patent applications more quickly, more easily, and with incredible quality | $10M | Series A | Jun 16, 2026 |  |
| RedpineAI | RedpineAI provides a new data infrastructure for AI development. The platform gives companies building AI and autonomous agents access to high-quality, multi-modal, and domain-specific datasets. | $8M | Seed | Apr 28, 2026 |  |
| Photoncycle | Photoncycle aims to change the way electricity is generated, stored, consumed and paid for. Our mission is to deploy space-effective, autonomous energy systems powered by the sun, enabled by innovative technology, affordable for many. | $17.4M | Series A | Mar 04, 2026 |  |
| Berget AI | Berget AI is an AI platform that focuses on inference and agentic infrastructure, enabling businesses to deploy and expand open-source LLMs. | $2.5M | Pre-Seed | Feb 02, 2026 |  |
| Opper AI | Opper AI is a task completion API for AI. Reliably complete tasks with AI models. Ship AI assistants, agents and backend features that really work. Access 100+ models, built in quality process, observability and more. | $3M | Pre-Seed | Jul 14, 2025 |  |
| Motorica | Generative AI for motion synthesis — making AAA animation possible in minutes instead of months. | $5.8M | Seed | Jun 24, 2025 |  |
| IPercept | At IPercept we provide AI-based, hardware-enabled software solutions and services that can best be described as the fitness tracker for complex industrial machines. At the push of a button, you can learn about a machines’ health, down to micrometer changes for each critical component. You can get insights into what maintenance activities you shouldapply and when. You can monitor how the machines are operated, how to optimize their utilization and much more. All of this is achieved through a plug-n-play installation - for old machines as well as new. All securely provided without requiring access to any machine controllers or IT-systems. These services reduce maintenance costs, downtime and increase productivity - a solid ROI for our customers. In 5 years, most complex industrial machinery sold in the world will be supported by our technology. | $5.7M | Seed | May 05, 2025 |  |
| ReCarber | ReCarber is a Swedish impact start-up revolutionizing bio-energy carbon capture and storage (BECCS). ReCarber is scaling carbon removal by accelerating the commercialization, and financing of the infrastructure. The innovative platform simplifies the complex BECCS value chain, enabling faster project deployment and significant climate impact. | $5.3M | Seed | Feb 10, 2025 |  |
| Lightbringer | Generative AI technology company offering tools for preparing patent applications more quickly, more easily, and with incredible quality | $4.3M | Seed | Dec 18, 2024 |  |

10 of 68 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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## FAQ

### What does Luminar Ventures invest in?

Luminar Ventures invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 68 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Sweden. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Luminar Ventures's check size?

Luminar Ventures typically joins rounds of $960k–$5.4M at Seed and $8.3M–$21M 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 Luminar Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Luminar Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Luminar Ventures?

The team at Luminar Ventures includes Jacob Key (Founding & General Partner), Linda Samlin Hoglund (Non-Executive IC member) and Louise Hagen (Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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