# Walerud Ventures

> Walerud Ventures is a VC fund in Stockholm backing Software and Internet. See 26 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stockholm, Sweden
- Total investments: 26
- Last investment: Oct 2024
- Lead investor: 23%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/walerud-ventures
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/JaneWalerud
- Website: http://www.walerud.com

Walerud Ventures is a VC fund in Stockholm focused on Software and Internet. See portfolio http://www.walerud.com/portfolio IN THE TRENCHES We join at the very early stages, often from just an idea and a couple of people. We spend a day a week with you to help set up the early team, strategy and sales. We'll join you in packing boxes, (wo)man the booth at trade shows, and as CxO as necessary. Since wework so closely with our startups we only take on a few at a time. Therefore, we make sure to select projects that make our hearts sing. LONG & CURRENT EXPERIENCE Of the 18 companies we have been heavily involved in, four have become world class successes (Klarna, Tobii, Lensway, Bluetail) and another ten had good and profitable exits or are growing nicely. We've also coached hundreds of startups and work very hard to make our startups successful. DEEP TECH We are techie and curious, and will understand your product. We've started companies in areas including AI, 3D, solar cells, fintech, telecom and biotech and have worked in tech for a long time: Jane was once a teaching assistant for a programming course at Stanford, Bengt is a top multivariate statistical analyst, and Caroline studied natural sciences at Cambridge. We like companies with sustainable competitive advantages and entry barriers. WHAT WE LOOK FOR Fantastic founders with full focus on ONE product that solves a problem that HURTS. Selling to a growing market with high margins. A brilliant, hard working, self motivated, open team with complementary skills and integrity. Since we work hard with you, we want to be close: within commuting distance from Stockholm. We speak Swedish and English. INVESTMENT We are on the entrepreneur's side. We want a painless investment process so we can get on with building the company with you. Therefore we do standard, simple and fair contracts (eg startupdocs.se) want the founders to own the lion's share of the company. We invest 1-10M SEK and take a board seat.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 19% |
| Internet | 3 | 12% |
| Manufacturing | 3 | 12% |
| Analytics | 2 | 8% |
| Real Time | 2 | 8% |

45 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 17 | 65% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 15% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 8% |
| Series A | 1 | 4% |
| Post-IPO Equity | 1 | 4% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sweden | 15 | 58% |
| United States | 3 | 12% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 4% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 4% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bengt Walerud | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bengt-walerud |
| Caroline Walerud | Partner | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/caroline-walerud |
| Jane Walerud | Partner | 13 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jane-walerud |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| AirForestry | AirForestry We are building the forestry of the futureAirForestry thins forests in a completely new way, namely from the air. Through our innovative thinning, we reduce carbon dioxide emissions from forestry work while increasing the forest's ability to sequester carbon by freeling up 20% of forest land that is currently used for forestryaccess roads.By creating better forests, we contribute to a more sustainable society - economically, environmentally and socially. A sustainable society is not only our main goal but also our main driving force. | $9.4M | Seed | Oct 10, 2024 |  |
| Paebbl | The modular technology from Paebbl may be included in any carbon capture system and is industrially scalable. As a result, Paebbl provides a raw material stream that is carbon-negative, radically altering the economics of preventing carbon from entering our environment. | $8M | Seed | Oct 25, 2022 |  |
| Graphmatech | Graphmatech is a Swedish materials technology startup company that invents, develops and sells novel Graphene-based nanocomposites materials and services. They are on a mission to deliver truly world-changing graphene hybrid materials that have the potential to make the world a better place | $10.2M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 10, 2021 |  |
| AirForestry | AirForestry We are building the forestry of the futureAirForestry thins forests in a completely new way, namely from the air. Through our innovative thinning, we reduce carbon dioxide emissions from forestry work while increasing the forest's ability to sequester carbon by freeling up 20% of forest land that is currently used for forestryaccess roads.By creating better forests, we contribute to a more sustainable society - economically, environmentally and socially. A sustainable society is not only our main goal but also our main driving force. | $193K | Pre-Seed | Sep 01, 2020 |  |
| Ekkono Solutions | Ekkono's product is built for purpose—to be embedded into the firmware of any device, even constrained devices, from a sensor to an embedded controller, a PLC, an ECU, an HMI, or a gateway. What's unique, besides the super-tiny footprint, is that Ekkono not only does inference but also training at the edge. A custom machine learning modelis trained per installation/device/vehicle that represents its normal behavior.Besides enabling personalization, this offers better accuracy since the non-generic approach can focus on one specific scenario and condition, but it also speeds up training by using high-resolution sensor data at the edge instead of the blunt averages that are sent to the cloud. And it improves data integrity and enables cases where sensitive sensor data can't be sent to the cloud.Ekkono targets Automotive and Automation—industrial, building and product Automation. We enable Adaptive Automation where every machine learns how it's being used, detects deviations, and autonomously adapts to always run at its best. These are things that can only be learnt in operations, after the product leaves the factory. This is an evolution from programmable automation where you only solve problems and conditions that you already know, to where the product learns and adapts in a personalized fashion.Among Ekkono's reference customers are Siemens, Danfoss, Infineon, Husqvarna and Atlas Copco. Ekkono sells directly and indirectly through solution partners like Etteplan (NASDAQ HEL:ETTE) and technology partners like Infineon (IFX.DE). | $2M | Series A | Apr 25, 2019 |  |
| Swedish Algae Factory | Swedish Algae Factory extracts with silicon algae as a raw material a nanoporous material from these algae, which when applied to solar panels gives increased efficiency. The first tests in laboratory environments indicate a significant increase in efficiency. |  |  | Sep 28, 2018 |  |
| Graphmatech | Graphmatech is a Swedish materials technology startup company that invents, develops and sells novel Graphene-based nanocomposites materials and services. They are on a mission to deliver truly world-changing graphene hybrid materials that have the potential to make the world a better place |  | Seed | Sep 11, 2018 |  |
| Volumental | Volumental's platform enables everyone to create an accurate 3D body model to customize products and services. Their globally praised 3D scanning software has created thousands of models on Volumental.com and is used for 3D printing and for customizing products by market leaders in the retail and medical industries. | $1.2M |  | Aug 28, 2018 |  |
| Ekkono Solutions | Ekkono's product is built for purpose—to be embedded into the firmware of any device, even constrained devices, from a sensor to an embedded controller, a PLC, an ECU, an HMI, or a gateway. What's unique, besides the super-tiny footprint, is that Ekkono not only does inference but also training at the edge. A custom machine learning modelis trained per installation/device/vehicle that represents its normal behavior.Besides enabling personalization, this offers better accuracy since the non-generic approach can focus on one specific scenario and condition, but it also speeds up training by using high-resolution sensor data at the edge instead of the blunt averages that are sent to the cloud. And it improves data integrity and enables cases where sensitive sensor data can't be sent to the cloud.Ekkono targets Automotive and Automation—industrial, building and product Automation. We enable Adaptive Automation where every machine learns how it's being used, detects deviations, and autonomously adapts to always run at its best. These are things that can only be learnt in operations, after the product leaves the factory. This is an evolution from programmable automation where you only solve problems and conditions that you already know, to where the product learns and adapts in a personalized fashion.Among Ekkono's reference customers are Siemens, Danfoss, Infineon, Husqvarna and Atlas Copco. Ekkono sells directly and indirectly through solution partners like Etteplan (NASDAQ HEL:ETTE) and technology partners like Infineon (IFX.DE). |  | Seed | Oct 11, 2017 |  |
| Ekkono Solutions | Ekkono's product is built for purpose—to be embedded into the firmware of any device, even constrained devices, from a sensor to an embedded controller, a PLC, an ECU, an HMI, or a gateway. What's unique, besides the super-tiny footprint, is that Ekkono not only does inference but also training at the edge. A custom machine learning modelis trained per installation/device/vehicle that represents its normal behavior.Besides enabling personalization, this offers better accuracy since the non-generic approach can focus on one specific scenario and condition, but it also speeds up training by using high-resolution sensor data at the edge instead of the blunt averages that are sent to the cloud. And it improves data integrity and enables cases where sensitive sensor data can't be sent to the cloud.Ekkono targets Automotive and Automation—industrial, building and product Automation. We enable Adaptive Automation where every machine learns how it's being used, detects deviations, and autonomously adapts to always run at its best. These are things that can only be learnt in operations, after the product leaves the factory. This is an evolution from programmable automation where you only solve problems and conditions that you already know, to where the product learns and adapts in a personalized fashion.Among Ekkono's reference customers are Siemens, Danfoss, Infineon, Husqvarna and Atlas Copco. Ekkono sells directly and indirectly through solution partners like Etteplan (NASDAQ HEL:ETTE) and technology partners like Infineon (IFX.DE). | $724K | Pre-Seed | Oct 10, 2017 |  |

10 of 26 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [ABB Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/abb-technology-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Forward Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/forward-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [2050](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/2050) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Almi Invest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/almi-invest) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Almi Invest GreenTech](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/almi-invest-greentech) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [CapitalT](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/capitalt) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Walerud Ventures invest in?

Walerud Ventures invests primarily in Software, Internet and Manufacturing startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 26 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Sweden. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### Who are the partners at Walerud Ventures?

The team at Walerud Ventures includes Bengt Walerud (Partner), Caroline Walerud (Partner) and Jane Walerud (Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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