# Northern Light Capital

> Northern Light Capital is a VC fund in Umeå backing Software and AgTech. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Umeå, Sweden
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Jan 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company-beta/10583951/
- Website: http://www.northernlightcapital.se/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pg/northernlightcapital/

Northern Light Capital is a VC fund in Umeå focused on Software and AgTech. Northern Light Venture Capital is a venture capital firm specializing in early and growth stage investments. It also helps business grow through contribution of expertise, capital, contacts, and commitment.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Northern Light Capital. Shizune tracks 4 team members at Northern Light Capital. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/northern-light-capital?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 33% |
| AgTech | 1 | 17% |
| Medical | 1 | 17% |
| Chemical | 1 | 17% |
| Forestry | 1 | 17% |

15 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 50% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 33% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 17% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Johan Lidström | Founding Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/johan-lidstrom |
| Andreas Christiansen | Founding Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreas-christiansen |
| Jan Snygg | Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jan-snygg |
| MIKAEL ÖHLUND | Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mikael-ohlund |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cropcision | Cropcision is an agricultural technology company specializing in precision plant nutrition to promote sustainable agriculture. Their solutions focus on optimizing fertilizer use to increase crop yields while minimizing environmental impact. They provide innovative products like the Silvivo fertilizer, which supports root development and droughttolerance in young trees, enhancing forest vitality. Additionally, they offer vegan-friendly nutritional solutions for greenhouses that improve plant health and yield without relying on animal-based ingredients. |  | Seed | Jan 07, 2025 |  |
| Elastisys | We build the next generation of cloud native tech where security and privacy is the default setting. | $2.7M | Venture - Series Unknown | Sep 07, 2023 |  |
| HiloProbe | HiloProbe develops a highly accurate and rapid test to identify a patient’s need for additional treatment after surgery. |  |  | Jun 10, 2020 |  |
| HiloProbe | HiloProbe develops a highly accurate and rapid test to identify a patient’s need for additional treatment after surgery. |  | Seed | Jun 10, 2020 |  |
| ShimmerCat | ShimmerCat creates faster e-commerce websites with an intelligent IT infrastructure that use HTTP/2 and AI. ShimmerCat is developed by ZunZun AB, a company founded in 2014. The product is a performance-oriented web server that dramatically reduce the amount of work that it takes to create a web application that loads in a fraction of the time.It automatically optimizes delivery of web resources to browsers, by leveraging HTTP/2 Push and preload link headers in a way which is more efficient for your each individual website visitors, considering his or her network connectivity and cached contents, and page fetch. Additionally, it uses the time during which the backend is processing a request to send in advance assets needed by that request to the visitor.ShimmerCat also filters out traffic from pernicious bots and automatic optimize your loading times based on your own data. |  |  | Dec 01, 2017 |  |
| Elastisys | We build the next generation of cloud native tech where security and privacy is the default setting. | $588K | Seed | Feb 22, 2017 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Partnerinvest Norr](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/partnerinvest-norr) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Almi Invest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/almi-invest) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Fort Knox](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fort-knox) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Sparbanksstiftelse Norrlands Riskkapitalstiftelse](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sparbanksstiftelse-norrlands-riskkapitalstiftelse) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Spintop Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/spintop-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Umeå universitet Holding AB](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ume%C3%A5-universitet-holding-ab) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Northern Light Capital invest in?

Northern Light Capital invests primarily in Software, AgTech and Medical startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Sweden. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Northern Light Capital?

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### Who are the partners at Northern Light Capital?

The team at Northern Light Capital includes Johan Lidström (Founding Partner), Andreas Christiansen (Founding Partner) and Jan Snygg (Founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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