# Pale blue dot

> Pale blue dot is a VC fund backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 62 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Malmö, Sweden
- Total investments: 62
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 42%
- Last fund: May 2023
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/palebluedot-vc/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/palebluedotvc
- Website: https://www.paleblue.vc/

Pale Blue Dot is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage startups addressing global challenges with innovative and sustainable solutions. Pale Blue Dot invests in pre-seed, seed, and early-stage companies that are working on innovative solutions to combat climate change. Their investments span various sectors, including energy, food andagriculture, transportation, and materials.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2M–$8M |
| Pre-Seed | $1M–$2.9M |
| Series A | $12M–$30M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 7 | 11% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 6 | 10% |
| Energy | 4 | 6% |
| Internet | 4 | 6% |
| Finance | 3 | 5% |

56 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 28 | 45% |
| Pre-Seed | 15 | 24% |
| Series A | 7 | 11% |
| Series B | 1 | 2% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 2% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 11 | 18% |
| Germany | 5 | 8% |
| Sweden | 4 | 6% |
| United States | 4 | 6% |
| France | 3 | 5% |

11 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hampus Jakobsson | General Partner | 43 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hampus-jakobsson |
| Heidi Lindvall | General Partner | 12 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/heidi-lindvall |
| Joel Larsson | General Partner | 7 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joel-larsson |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| VARM | Varm provides efficient insulation for energy saving and comfort. | $20M | Series A | Jun 23, 2026 |  |
| Pollen | Pollen is developing a universal battery-swapping network for mopeds and motorcycles, enabling riders to quickly exchange depleted batteries for fully charged ones, reducing downtime and supporting efficient, scalable electric mobility in urban environments. | $3.8M | Seed | May 07, 2026 |  |
| Tangible | Tangible is a platform to facilitate the structuring, modeling, and management of asset-backed financial transactions. | $4.3M | Seed | Feb 12, 2026 |  |
| Overstory | Overstory combines AI and advanced satellite imagery to help electric utilities pinpoint and prioritize vegetation risks before they materialize. With Overstory's vegetation intelligence, transmission and distribution operators can make smarter decisions about the vegetation around their power corridors, optimizing resources and improvingoperational efficiency. This helps prevent outages, reduce wildfire risks, and accelerate the transition to a safer, more resilient grid. | $43M | Series B | Nov 25, 2025 |  |
| Pionix | PIONIX develops EVerest, a fully featured commercial open source SW platform for charging stations. With our open platform, we will provide a broad ecosystem for EV charging that can be easily extended by the open-source community and utilized by any commercial party.PIONIX as main developer of the EVerest ecosystem offers integration andsoftware update services, cloud operations and productivity & security enhancements as subscriptions. | $9.3M | Seed | Nov 18, 2025 |  |
| Brineworks | Brineworks' saltwater electrolyser's high-efficiency design allows for industry-leading CO2 extraction while also creating green hydrogen (H2) at a reasonable cost. | $8M | Seed | Sep 19, 2025 |  |
| Solarock | Solarock is a French solar panel installer specializing in residential and small commercial self-consumption. The company offers a turnkey solution combining quality, transparency, and local support, with certified technicians and a comprehensive service, from design to maintenance. Solarock relies on sustainable equipment, a local franchise model,and technological innovations to democratize access to efficient solar energy that is accessible to all . | $8.3M | Seed | Jul 02, 2025 |  |
| Way | asset and fleet management without additional hardware installations by unifying real-time, multi-OEM primary data | $2.9M | Pre-Seed | May 27, 2025 |  |
| Maiven | Maiven is an artificial intelligence-powered startup that helps businesses negotiate complex climate policies. | $1.8M | Seed | Mar 27, 2025 |  |
| Podero | Podero's aim is to create software that controls energy devices, such as batteries, electric cars, and heat pumps, in order to lower CO2 emissions, create new revenue streams for utilities, and lower consumer electricity bills.Podero's objective is to make it possible to coordinate the largest fleet of devices in the world by utilizingtrade algorithms, software automation, and machine learning forecasts to move energy use to the most economical and sustainable times. | $5.7M | Seed | Feb 06, 2025 |  |

10 of 62 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [First Momentum Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/first-momentum-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [AENU](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aenu) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
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- [MCJ](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mcj) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does Pale blue dot invest in?

Pale blue dot invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Energy startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 62 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Pale blue dot's check size?

Pale blue dot typically joins rounds of $2M–$8M at Seed, $1M–$2.9M at Pre-Seed and $12M–$30M 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 Pale blue dot participates in.

### How do I contact Pale blue dot?

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### Who are the partners at Pale blue dot?

The team at Pale blue dot includes Hampus Jakobsson (General Partner), Heidi Lindvall (General Partner) and Joel Larsson (General Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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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