# Norrlandsfonden

> Norrlandsfonden is a VC fund backing Software and Information Technology. See 17 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Luleå, Sweden
- Total investments: 17
- Last investment: May 2023
- Lead investor: 12%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/norrlandsfonden
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/Norrlandsfonden
- Website: http://www.norrlandsfonden.se
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Norrlandsfonden/184625791555545

Norrlandsfonden is a foundation that promotes the development of companies with growth ambitions. They offer flexible prime loans for new establishments, development, and expansion. They provide the opportunity for offensive and forward-looking investments and enable companies and people to grow.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $444k–$1.8M |
| Debt Financing | $390k–$3.1M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 7 | 41% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 24% |
| Analytics | 2 | 12% |
| Health Care | 2 | 12% |
| Web Hosting | 2 | 12% |

38 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 6 | 35% |
| Seed | 4 | 24% |
| Debt Financing | 2 | 12% |
| Corporate Round | 2 | 12% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 12% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sweden | 13 | 76% |
| United States | 2 | 12% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Anders Öhberg | Chairman | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anders-hberg |
| Per-Erik Persson | Investment Manager | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/per-erik-persson |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Big Akwa | Big Akwa is a food-tech company that develops circular aquaculture systems by integrating land-based fish farming with industrial symbiosis to increase efficiency, sustainability, and resource use. The company’s approach uses waste streams such as low-temperature industrial heat to warm fish farm water and repurposes nutrient-rich recirculatingwater into industrial processes, supporting a closed-loop production model that reduces energy consumption and limits environmental discharge. Big Akwa focuses on producing locally farmed fish through systems designed to optimize growth rates and lower operational costs while converting byproducts into valuable inputs for partner industries. Its work supports planning, engineering, and pre-construction phases for large-scale aquaculture facilities that aim to supply sustainable protein with reduced carbon footprints and enhanced resource efficiency. The company collaborates with technical partners, investors, and industrial operators to advance project design, secure permits, and prepare for commercial-scale deployment of its land-based fish farming concepts. Big Akwa’s model aligns aquaculture production with circular economy principles to address food security, environmental performance, and scalable food-tech innovation. | $390K | Debt Financing | May 03, 2023 |  |
| Flasheye | Flasheye has proven technology from the automotive, defense, and robotics industries into industrial applications. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 19, 2022 |  |
| Crosser | Crosser designs and develops streaming analytics and integration software for any edge, fog, or cloud. The Crosser platform enables real-time processing of streaming or batch data for industrial IoT, data transformation, analytics, automation, and integration. | $3.6M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 09, 2021 |  |
| Codemill | Codemill is a technology company publicly listed on Nasdaq First North Growth Market, offering custom software development and products for the Media and Entertainment industry. Codemill’s Accurate.Video, Accurate Player SDK and Cantemo MAM products power the world’s leading broadcast, VOD/OTT, Content Supply Chain and Media Asset Managementworkflows. Codemill's clients are the major Hollywood studios including Amazon MGM Studios, Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount Global, broadcasters such as ITV, TF1 and ProSieben.Sat1, VOD/OTT services including Pluto TV, and news publishers such as The Guardian. | $3.1M | Debt Financing | Feb 10, 2020 |  |
| Crosser | Crosser designs and develops streaming analytics and integration software for any edge, fog, or cloud. The Crosser platform enables real-time processing of streaming or batch data for industrial IoT, data transformation, analytics, automation, and integration. | $3.3M | Series A | Apr 30, 2019 |  |
| Leeroy | Leeroy provides a technology platform that transforms customer data into marketing both on-site in-store and mobile. Leeroy provides merchants with tools to communicate and interact with the customer in real time leveraging efficiency, revenues and customer experience putting the merchant in the driver seat. The company's platform is aproduction and distribution tool for several different digital channels: in-store with communication by digital signage and by mobile to enhance loyalty. | $4.2M |  | Feb 15, 2019 |  |
| Skyresponse | Skyresponse (previously Skygd) is a leading supplier of all types of alarm management and deviations for connected products. Our dynamic services build a nerve system that reacts to incidents and guarantees that the right person, resource or system is always reached. We cooperate with leading partners and our cloud-based system enables thedevelopment of new service packages together with our partners’ products. With its state-of-the-art technology, in-depth experience and flexible business models, Skyresponse develops services that are sector independent and ideally suited to the growing IoT area. www.skyresponse.com |  |  | Feb 06, 2018 |  |
| Crosser | Crosser designs and develops streaming analytics and integration software for any edge, fog, or cloud. The Crosser platform enables real-time processing of streaming or batch data for industrial IoT, data transformation, analytics, automation, and integration. | $1.8M | Seed | Oct 16, 2017 |  |
| Umecrine Cognition | Umecrine Cognition develops drugs against central nervous system neurological disorders, CNS caused by endogenous CNS active steroids (GABA steroids).Umecrine Cognition is a lean organization in a competent network. Together with Karolinska Development, the company was founded in 2006 as a subsidiary to Umecrine AB, in order to focus thedevelopment activities on finding treatments for neurological disorders in the central nervous system that are caused by endogenous CNS-active steroids (GABA-steroids).The GABA-system is the major inhibitory neurotransmitter system within the central nervous system and an excessive GABAergic tone has been described in several important clinical conditions such as Hepatic Encephalopathy, Alzheimer’s disease, and Down syndrome. Certain endogenous GABA-steroids act as strong agonists at the GABAA receptor and alterations in the production and metabolism of these GABA-steroids has been described in Hepatic Encephalopathy, Alzheimer’s disease, and Down syndrome.The company is focusing its efforts on the development and commercialization of novel therapeutics to treat Hepatic Encephalopathy in patients with liver disease. | $1.9M | Corporate Round | Oct 04, 2017 |  |
| VOYD | Sell your video content, live or on-demand. We empower content creators with their own pay-per-view platform. | $444K | Seed | Dec 08, 2016 |  |

10 of 17 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Norrlandsfonden invest in?

Norrlandsfonden invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Analytics startups, most often at Funding Round and Seed stage. Most of the 17 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Sweden. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Norrlandsfonden's check size?

Norrlandsfonden typically joins rounds of $444k–$1.8M at Seed and $390k–$3.1M at Debt Financing. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Norrlandsfonden participates in.

### How do I contact Norrlandsfonden?

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### Who are the partners at Norrlandsfonden?

The team at Norrlandsfonden includes Anders Öhberg (Chairman) and Per-Erik Persson (Investment Manager). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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