# R Ventures

> R Ventures is a VC fund in Stockholm backing Medical and Health Care. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stockholm, Sweden
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Jun 2018
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/r-ventures?trk=company_logo
- Website: http://rventures.co

R Ventures is an investment company that provides early-stage investments to firms in the technology and healthcare industries. It was founded in 2012 by Richard Leksell.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$2.1M |
| Angel | $860k–$1.4M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Medical | 2 | 20% |
| Health Care | 2 | 20% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 20% |
| Apps | 1 | 10% |
| EdTech | 1 | 10% |

18 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 40% |
| Angel | 2 | 20% |
| Series A | 1 | 10% |
| Series B | 1 | 10% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 10% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 30% |
| United States | 2 | 20% |
| Sweden | 1 | 10% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Richard Leksell | Founder & Managing Director | 12 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/richard-leksell |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Meru Health | Meru Health offers a digital program that helps improve the lives of people living with depression and saves on healthcare costs. It develops and delivers cost-effective, clinically proven, and engaging digital solutions to empower people living with depression.Founded by Kristian Ranta, Albert Nazander, and Riku Lindholm in 2015, Meru Health isheadquartered in San Mateo, California. |  |  | Jun 25, 2018 |  |
| Sana | Sana Labs is the global leader in the development and application of artificial intelligence to learning. We partner with the world’s leading organizations to transform learning outcomes with personalized learning.The interdisciplinary teams consist of experienced engineers and scientists with backgrounds ranging from Google AI and Spotify toImperial College and BCG Gamma. | $1M | Seed | Jun 01, 2018 |  |
| Invicta Medical | Invicta Medical operates as a medical technology company that develops therapies for sleep apnea. Its neurostimulation wearable is designed to address the shortcomings of existing therapies, which are expensive, intrusive, and yield low patient compliance rates. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. | $21M | Series B | Jan 02, 2018 |  |
| Learnerbly | Learnerbly assists with the development of people at work by curating learning and development opportunities to accelerate professional growth. Its platform helps forward thinking businesses such as likes of Ideo, Curve, goCardless. | $2.1M | Seed | Jul 17, 2017 |  |
| Reflection.io | Reflection makes it possible to track performance for your own apps, as well as revenue and downloads for competitors across leading app stores. Track all your App Store, Google Play and Ad revenues on one dashboard, and benchmark your performance against other apps and developers. | $1.8M | Seed | Dec 08, 2016 |  |
| Invicta Medical | Invicta Medical operates as a medical technology company that develops therapies for sleep apnea. Its neurostimulation wearable is designed to address the shortcomings of existing therapies, which are expensive, intrusive, and yield low patient compliance rates. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. | $6.6M | Series A | Jul 12, 2016 |  |
| Reflection.io | Reflection makes it possible to track performance for your own apps, as well as revenue and downloads for competitors across leading app stores. Track all your App Store, Google Play and Ad revenues on one dashboard, and benchmark your performance against other apps and developers. | $1.6M | Seed | Oct 23, 2015 |  |
| Invicta Medical | Invicta Medical operates as a medical technology company that develops therapies for sleep apnea. Its neurostimulation wearable is designed to address the shortcomings of existing therapies, which are expensive, intrusive, and yield low patient compliance rates. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. | $1M | Seed | Jan 01, 2015 |  |
| Reflection.io | Reflection makes it possible to track performance for your own apps, as well as revenue and downloads for competitors across leading app stores. Track all your App Store, Google Play and Ad revenues on one dashboard, and benchmark your performance against other apps and developers. | $860K | Angel | May 01, 2014 |  |
| Qubit | Qubit is the leader in highly persuasive personalization at scale.Leading ecommerce companies work with Qubit to transform the way they understand and influence their customers in order to increase revenue, build loyalty and improve marketing efficiency.By combining rich customer data, deep learning technology and advanced segmentationcapabilities, the Qubit Customer Influence Engine can precisely match customers with the widest range of personal, online experiences to influence behavior at scale. Qubit is trusted to deliver real impact to the bottom line for the biggest brands in ecommerce including Ubisoft, CafePress, Topshop, Shiseido, and Emirates. Across the global Qubit customer base, $600 million worth of online sales are influenced over a typical week. To date, we have received over $76 million in funding from Goldman Sachs, Accel, Sapphire Ventures, Balderton Capital and Salesforce Ventures. | $1.4M | Angel | Oct 01, 2010 |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Bonit Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bonit-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Leksell Social Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/leksell-social-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Thiel Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/thiel-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Courage Ventures Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/courageventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Eclipse](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eclipse-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Endpoint Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/endpoint-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does R Ventures invest in?

R Ventures invests primarily in Medical, Health Care and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 10 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 R Ventures's check size?

R Ventures typically joins rounds of $1M–$2.1M at Seed and $860k–$1.4M at Angel. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds R Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact R Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at R Ventures?

The team at R Ventures includes Richard Leksell (Founder & Managing Director). 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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