# Sebastian Knutsson

> Sebastian Knutsson is a seed investor at King.com (Stockholm) backing Software and Apps. See 23 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [King.com](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/king)
- Location: Stockholm, Sweden
- Total investments: 23
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/sebastian-knutsson/0/248/73a
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/king_games
- Website: http://www.candycrushsaga.com/news/press-kit/sebastian-knutsson-bio
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sebastian.knutsson

Sebastian Knutsson is a seed investor at King.com in Stockholm focused on Software and Apps. Sebastian Knutsson is one of our founders and has served on our Board of Directors since October 2003, as our chief creative officer since June 2004 and as our executive product developer from February 2003 to June 2004. Sebastian has more than 18 years of experience in the Internet industry. As chief creative officer, he leads the productstrategy, games development and service offerings for King. Sebastian has designed more than 100 games for King.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$16M |
| Pre-Seed | $366k–$4M |
| Series A | $10M–$48M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 6 | 26% |
| Apps | 5 | 22% |
| FinTech | 4 | 17% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 17% |
| Gaming | 3 | 13% |

42 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 14 | 61% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 13% |
| Series A | 3 | 13% |
| Series B | 2 | 9% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sweden | 11 | 48% |
| United States | 4 | 17% |
| France | 1 | 4% |
| Estonia | 1 | 4% |
| Vietnam | 1 | 4% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Scape | Scape is a Y Combinator-backed AI workspace designed to streamline customer communication and relationship management for modern teams. The platform automatically syncs emails, records and summarizes meetings, extracts action items, and creates intelligent follow-up reminders, eliminating manual CRM updates. By consolidating customer conversations,tasks, and insights into a single, searchable workspace, Scape enables sales, customer success, and startup teams to stay organized, prepare for meetings faster, and focus on building customer relationships instead of administrative work. The platform is currently available in private beta. | $3.2M | Seed | Jul 24, 2026 |  |
| 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 |  |
| fomo | Fomo is a cutting-edge fintech startup revolutionizing the financial landscape through innovative technology and strategic partnerships. | $75M | Series B | Jun 22, 2026 |  |
| Zellify | Zellify is a constructing Web2App infrastructure. | $3.6M | Seed | Apr 28, 2026 |  |
| Newly | Newly is the easiest way to build and ship cross-platform mobile apps — no senior engineering team required.Our mission is to empower a new generation of builders to launch high-quality native mobile apps without getting blocked by code, complexity, or cost.We’re building the first truly accessible mobile app development tool — combining thespeed of no-code with the power of real code when you need it — and opening the door for the estimated 99.5% of people who currently can’t build mobile apps on their own.Newly is used by early-stage founders, junior developers, designers, and product teams who want to ship faster and smarter. | $2M | Seed | Mar 23, 2026 |  |
| Agaton | Agaton builds secure, domain-specific AI Agents for Sales teams, introducing superhuman co-workers that help companies win.We automate complex, core workflows with a sophisticated always-on AI-powered analysis that leverages proprietary voice AI to correlate quantitative and qualitative factors across all your customer calls. Our system isdesigned to surface and identify what truly drives deals — and help you close more of them: we call it AI for ROI.Agaton is located in Stockholm, Sweden and is backed by a global group of prominent tech entrepreneurs, super angels and VC investors, including Sequoia.See more at agaton.ai | $9.9M | Seed | Feb 19, 2026 |  |
| Eyeball Games | Eyeball Games operates as a gaming studio set up by the original creators of 8 Ball Pool, serial entrepreneurs and degens. | $3.3M | Seed | Apr 09, 2025 |  |
| Flower | Flower operates a Power Refinery - a hardware agnostic platform that connects flexibility assets with buyers of flexibility. We integrate with flexibility assets, collect metering values and can actively manage their power profiles, we prognose available flexibility and decide in which markets and at what price flexibility will be offered. We runprojects within light and heavy EV charging, energy storage, hydropower, solar power and heating. We aim to offer ancillary services and participate in capacity markets. Flower's mission is to drastically increase available flexibility to support the renewable electrification of everything. | $21.8M | Series A | Oct 31, 2024 |  |
| Revyze | Revyze is a community-powered app with a sharp focus on high school education. | $6M | Seed | Oct 08, 2024 |  |
| Reforged Labs | Reforged Labs’ SDK makes it possible to generate endless, live gaming content. With a combination of generative AI and recommender systems, game studios can use our SDK to produce intelligent characters with dynamic behavior and truly divergent, branching narratives. As lifelong gamers, Robert & Oscar are on a mission to make games more fun,immersive, and personalized. | $3.9M | Seed | Aug 08, 2024 |  |

10 of 23 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Everywhere Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/everywhere-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Motier Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/motier-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Creandum](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/creandum) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [LocalGlobe](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/localglobe) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Speedinvest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/speedinvest) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [VNV Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vostok-nafta-investment) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About King.com

VC Fund · Stockholm, Sweden

King.com is an interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, with people all around the world playing one or more of its games. It has more than 180 titles in 14 languages, and its games include Candy Crush Saga, Farm Heroes Saga, Papa Pear Saga, Pet Rescue Saga, and Bubble Witch Saga.The company has over 324 million average monthlyusers, across web, social and mobile platforms. It has casual games with a broad appeal, which are easy to learn and challenging to master, allowing people to play for a moment, then move on with their day, and pick up their game later. King.com’s games are also synchronized across platforms, allowing players to switch seamlessly between devices and platforms and continue their game wherever they left off, so they can play anywhere, any time, and on any device.King.com makes its games available for free, while players can purchase virtual items priced relative to the entertainment value they provide. The company embeds social features in its games that improve the player experience.King.com has six game studios in Stockholm, Barcelona, Bucharest, Malmö, and London, along with offices in San Francisco and Malta. It was founded in 2003.

5 contacts available at King.com.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Humam Sakhnini | President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/humam-sakhnini |
| Sebastian Knutsson | Head of Product Development | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sebastian-knutsson |
| Alan Fung | Non-Executive Employee | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alan-fung-c07f |
| Jaime Lanchares | Technical Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jaime-lanchares |
| Karin Bergvall | Strategy Director at Candy Crush | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/karin-bergvall |

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## FAQ

### What does Sebastian Knutsson invest in?

Sebastian Knutsson invests primarily in Software, Apps and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 23 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Sweden. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Sebastian Knutsson's check size?

Sebastian Knutsson typically joins rounds of $1M–$16M at Seed, $366k–$4M at Pre-Seed and $10M–$48M 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 Sebastian Knutsson participates in.

### When did Sebastian Knutsson last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Sebastian Knutsson closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 23 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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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