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Top 25 Publishing Startup Investors in Sweden in May 2025

Last updated: May 2025 A list of 25 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Publishing startups based in Sweden. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Publishing companies from Sweden. We update this investor list every month.

Top 25 Publishing Startup Investors in Sweden in May 2025

Investor	Publishing Sweden investments
Zouk Capital	3
Swedbank Robur	2
Forward Venture Capital	2
Nicklas Storåkers	1
Bonnier Ventures	1
Craig Fletcher	1
Almi Invest	1
IQ Capital	1
Jonas Sjögren	1
Atomico's Angel Programme	1
Wellstreet	1
LRF Ventures	1
Pale blue dot	1
Alexander Hars	1
Optimizer Invest	1
Johan Andersson	1
Filip Larsson	1
Rustan Panday	1
David Helgason	1
Aggregate Media	1
PINC	1
Karl Magnus Troedsson	1
Axel Johnson	1
Rikard Lindström	1
Dynamo	1

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Zouk Capital Growth Capital invests to build global leaders in resource efficiency. They believe that resource efficiency is fundamentally driven by technology – both industrial technology and information technology - and it has become clear that companies that improve efficiency are at a distinct advantage. Zouk invests in this new generation ofcompanies, supporting their expansion and accelerating the integration of resource efficiency measures across the global economy. The companies they invest in have commercially proven products and services with revenues between €10m - €150m and are positioned to scale rapidly. They support top-tier management teams to build market-leading, global businesses by providing growth equity and industry knowledge. To support them in achieving their growth strategies, they leverage their extensive international network of senior figures in the industry, business, finance, and government in Europe, North America, Asia, and the Middle East. Dedicated to adding value, they develop close partnerships with their portfolio companies and are some of the most experienced and active investors in the clean economy. Reflecting the value-add of Zouk’s approach, the second Growth Capital fund is the largest of its strategy in Europe at EUR 230m. Zouk’s Growth Capital focus is part of Zouk Capital LLP’s dual strategy of making investments that make a general environmental impact. Alongside its Growth Capital business, Zouk’s Infrastructure team finances the construction of renewable energy and environmental assets.

Investment focus

Software, Renewable Energy, Energy
Private Equity, Funding Round, Series B
United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Dendra Systems — With the Dendra Platform, transform ecosystem monitoring, protection, and rehabilitation. Leverage ultra-high-resolution maps and AI-powered insights to drive impactful interventions at every step.
enspired — enspired is a fully digital energy trading-as-a-service company. We drive the energy transition by enabling our clients to bring flexible assets to power spot markets and capture their full value with our AI-based trading services. Our team consists of leading algorithmic traders, data scientists and technology enthusiasts who firmly believe thatthe way power is traded will soon drastically change - in our world, there is no room for trading screens and traditional optimization. All trades get executed in a fully automated fashion using advanced AI algorithms that outperform the market and monetize our client's flexibility to the fullest while supporting grid stability. Our clients include leading utilities, operators of renewables and batteries or consumption assets across Europe.
Energy Park — Tailored EV charging solutions for residential sites and businesses. We provide expert guidance and ongoing customer support. Find out more.

Swedbank Robur is a small, equity-based mutual fund that provides in largest asset managers and a strong investment partner.

Investment focus

Health Care, Manufacturing, Mobile Apps
Funding Round, Post-IPO Equity, Series B
Sweden, United States, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Anocca — Anocca AB provides services like Biotechnology, Immunotherapeutics, Drug Discovery, Drug Development, Immunology.
Vicore Pharma — Vicore Pharma is a pharmaceutical company dedicated to developing innovative medicines for severe lung disorders. It develops drugs that act through the AT2 receptor. The company’s drug candidate C21 aims to improve the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a rare disease for which C21 has been granted orphan drug designation both in the EUand the US. In addition, C21 is explored pre-clinically in a number of rare diseases where the AT2 receptor plays an important role. The company is based in Astra Zeneca’s Bioventurehub in Mölndal.
Dignitana — Dignitana AB clinically superior scalp cooling technology. The company produces The DigniCap® Scalp Cooling System, a patented medical cooling device that offers cancer patients the ability to minimize hair loss during chemotherapy.

Forward Venture Capital is a Venture Capital fund that invests in early-stage companies in the US and Europe. We support early stage entrepreneurs and help them accelerate their growth.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Sweden, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Uniify — Uniify is a no-code customer onboarding software that makes it fast, easy and secure for financial companies to onboard their customers. Save your business time and money, and build onboarding flows for your customers in minutes instead of months.
Niricson — Niricson Software has developed a proprietary damage assessment software platform paired with a patent-pending drone-based data collection technology that helps infrastructure owners inspect their structures (e.g. hydro dams) in a way that is more accurate, five times faster, and 50% more cost-effective. Niricson is differentiated by its ability toautomatically detect and quantify not only surface damage, but also subsurface damage.
Brink Commerce — Brink Commerce offers leading eCommerce solutions. Boost growth, perfect customer experiences, and unlock agility with our Composable Commerce API.

Nicklas Storåkers

Investment focus

Information Technology, Insurance, FinTech
Seed, Funding Round
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Lysa — Lysa is a digital portfolio management service that allows you to invest as a Nobel Prize winner.
KIT — KIT helps companies to improve relationships with their target groups, in order to increase awareness, loyalty and conversions at a time when social media is our most important marketing channel. KIT was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. KIT is part of People People People, an agency group that consists of Spoon, Oh My,Trickle, TDWT, Gabardin, KIT, Sigmar, Spoon Inhouse & Fuze PR
Nordtech Group — Nordtech Group is a technology group consisting of software companies with industry-specific products. Common to its companies is that they deliver high customer values within their respective segments.

Bonnier Capital is the investment division of the Bonnier Group. Since 2016, we invest in promising companies in structurally growing industries and have become a reliant investment partner to companies of various sizes.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Digital Media
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Sweden, Finland, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Airmee — Airmee provides a new last mile delivery solution. Whether you want to integrate Airmee into your webshop or simply book a local delivery today, we’ve got you covered. Airmee gives customers more – a great deal more – choice and convenience. Items when you want them. Where you want them. In as fast as an hour.
MatHem — MatHem is an e-commerce company that combines a complete grocery store online with recipes and subscriptions for ready-made groceries. It delivers food to Swedish homes 7 days a week. The company also combines a full grocery store online with prescription and subscription finished shopping bags. MatHem offers a broad range of grocery products andadjacent household consumables, catering to more than half of Swedish households. The company food is delivered to your door with their own temperature-controlled to ensure an unbroken cold chain.Mathem.se has been awarded The Grocery Website of the Year (Årets matsajt) in 2010, 2011 and 2013 by the Swedish online magazine Internet world. It was founded in 2009 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden
Natural Cycles — Natural Cycles birth control is 93% effective with typical use and 98% effective with perfect use. Learn more about hormone-free birth control today.

Craig Fletcher is the current CEO of Player1 Events. He previously worked at Liberal Democrats as a Parliamentary Candidate for Romsey and Southampton North. Craig Fletcher attended the University of Edinburgh.

Investment focus

PC Games, Video Games, Gaming
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Sweden, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Aggero — With our video listening tool we convert video content into actionable insights, boosting your marketing strategies & ROI. Discover audience preferences, analyse competitor tactics, and more.
Roro — Roro is a new mobile gaming studio that creates imaginative play experiences using Unreal Engine. Roro is a small, nimble company with a clear vision wanting to expand with more craftspeople who can help build the future.
Cooperative Innovations — Building building tools & products that empower anyone to create the most engaging & inclusive virtual spaces on the market.

ALMI Invest is a venture capital company which invests in Swedish companies with exciting, scalable business models and motivated entrepreneurs. ALMI Invest consists of eight regionally based venture capital funds, all with local offices and experienced local investment managers. We manage a total of SEK 1 billion. Unlike most venture capitalists,we can invest in a wide range of businesses. A strong team of entrepreneurs, a scalable business model and an initial revenue stream are more important than the line of business when we invest.Our first, initial investment would typically be SEK 2-4 million. During the lifetime of an investment, sums of up to SEK 10 million can be ventured. We always syndicate with an investment partner (another venture capitalist or angel investor) from Sweden or otherwise which means that we can take a maximum of 50 percent of an investment round.ALMI Invest was founded in 2009 by ALMI Fretagspartner together with regional investors. Half of our capital comes from European Union structural funds, which accounts for an investment of SEK 500 million. The other 50 per cent comes from regional investors and ALMI Fretagspartner.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
Sweden, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

RemotiveLabs — RemotiveLabs is a developer of an automotive software development platform designed to streamline the vehicle manufacturing process.
Readily Diagnostics — Readily Diagnostics develops speedy and accurate diagnostic tests for respiratory disorders, enabling faster and more effective therapy at the point of care.
Phenaros Pharmaceuticals — Data-centric drug discovery with AI, Phenomics and Automation.

IQ Capital is a Cambridge & London-based VC firm that invests in ‘deep tech’ companies capable of dominating their respective markets on a global scale. Initial investments at Seed and Series A range from £0.5m to £10m, with capacity for follow-on investment up to £30m through the Growth Fund. The team has achieved over 30 exits including toApple, Huawei, Google and Oracle.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Nyobolt — The latest innovations in battery technology have the potential to reduce charging times from hours to minutes. Join us on our journey.
IONATE — IONATE Ltd. is a technology company developing next-generation Hybrid Intelligent Transformers.
Alpine Eagle — The Sentinel Counter-UAS System is an air-to-air sensor & interceptor network designed to detect, classify, and intercept unmanned aerial systems (UAS)

Jonas Sjögren

Investment focus

CRM, Mobile Apps, Advertising Platforms
Funding Round, Angel, Convertible Note
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

DanAds — Streamline ad sales and operations with our self-serve ad platform. Automate management of sales, ops, and creative, maximizing your income. Try it now!
Delibr — Reach a new level of clarity and flow with PRD, story map, decisions, and Jira issues in one epic document.
Cinclus Pharma — A Swedish pharma company bringing relief to the world with the clinical stage drug candidate linaprazan glurate for gastric acid related diseases.

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Investment focus

Software, B2B, Health Care
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Estonia, Germany, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Improvin' — Improvin' is a sustainability performance platform that helps agri-food companies measure, report and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in their own value chain.
Tradesnest — Tradesnest is an AI powered B2B SaaS-Marketplace that revolutionises the B2B industry by removing the barriers for brands looking for distributors and retailers to enter new markets. With Tradesnest, getting your innovations on retailers’ shelves in new markets around the world has never been this easy!
Every Health — Every Health focuses on "holistic, needs-based medical care for the LGBTQIA+ community".

Wellstreet is an innovation and tech ecosystem that includes an investment company, a strategic consultancy firm and a venture building incubator.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Retail
Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
Sweden, Norway, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Y/ELM+ — Y/ELM+ is a horseback riding safety and protection brand that focuses n creating leading-edge rider safety solutions.
Key Ward — Accelerate your engineering projects with data intelligence. Mitigate the risk of late stage failures in your AI adoption journey with our no-code platform.
Maintract — Maintract is a new generation of financial contract management software. It also offers banking and financial services. They provide contract management automation solutions to banks for drafting, data verification, workflow automation, contract data monitoring, tracking workflow and documentation, compliance management, and more.

LRF Ventures provides capital, relevant expertise and a network for start-ups.

Investment focus

Travel, Leisure, Tourism
Seed, Funding Round
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Improvin' — Improvin' is a sustainability performance platform that helps agri-food companies measure, report and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in their own value chain.
Acamp — Find and book RV parks, tent camping and cabins across Europe. Acamp offers anything from large farms with many guests to small places far from the crowd where you can enjoy the calm and quiet countryside.
Gårdsfisk — Gårdsfisk is a company managing fishing farms. Gårdsfisks develops a new method for fish farming on land. The cultivation takes place in large pools in a closed system, where the nutrient residual water can be reused as fertilizer on the fields.

We invest in diverse and ambitious founders building scalable companies that help us reduce or reverse climate change.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

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.
Nala Earth — Nala empowers companies to measure, manage and report their impact and dependency on nature - compliant with regulation.
Maiven — We make climate policy simple, so you can act with confidence.

Alexander Hars - Board member @ Zalster

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Sweden, Norway, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Bookis — Bookis is the Next-Generation Online Bookstore with Direct Author Compensation, making the sharing of stories and knowledge playfully easy - from all bookshelves, for everyone. We leverage community, technology and innovative distribution to enable radically easier peer-to-peer bookselling, with fair author compensation models. Building theworld's largest network of authors fighting for a more fair book industry worldwide.
Lumaly — Lumaly is a browser extension that automatically tries out and uses all available voucher codes in the cart when shopping online.
Brink Commerce — Brink Commerce offers leading eCommerce solutions. Boost growth, perfect customer experiences, and unlock agility with our Composable Commerce API.

Optimizer Invest is a fully founder funded venture capital company. Optimizer helps early stage business and entrepreneurs to build great companies

Investment focus

Apps, Financial Services, Marketing
Funding Round, Seed, Convertible Note
Sweden, Spain, United States

Portfolio highlights

Consector — Consector is a loan broker that offers personal counseling for individuals. Consector helps to competition the individuals' mortgages, personal loans and credit cards with the goal of improving and lowering their interest expenses.
Megalotto — Megalotto is an online gaming and lottery platform designed to revolutionize and popularize the digital lottery experience. The company's platform enables customers to play in a secure, responsible environment for seven-figure jackpots by providing well-known lotteries in numerous markets around the world, in addition to a thorough collectionof instant-win and gaming content and conducting hourly and daily contests of its own.
Playtomic — Playtomic operates an online sports court booking platform intended to become a social network for sports players. It provides a platform to reserve courts, find other players with similar skill levels, and join a social sports community dedicated to learning that helps sports clubs to optimize the use of their facilities and step into the digitalage.Playtomic was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.

Johan Andersson

Investment focus

CRM, Advertising, Advertising Platforms
Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Addressya — Addressya is an app that allows individuals to register a complete, precise and easy to use address.
PocketLaw — PocketLaw is a user-friendly and affordable solution that allows you to create contracts, get legal guidance, manage your documents and contact lawyers.
Vad Vi Vet. — Founded in 2018, Vad Vi Vet started as a single Instagram account explaining how Sweden works before the general election. Today, it is the leading service for quickly improving your general knowledge of a variety of topics, by publishing fact-checked explanations on owned and operated digital platforms, with more than half a million weekly activeusers.

Founder DLL-files.com - the worlds most popular website for downloading dll files Angel investor since 2008

Investment focus

Mobile Apps, Software, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Kind — We want all healthcare providers to enjoy the benefits of modern communication. Kind is a secure cloud platform for communication and knowledge sharing. We meet the needs of organizations of all sizes with our flexible subscription model.
Brick Technology — Brick is an app that solves the problem of electronics running out of battery. Download our app and find the nearest Brick station on the map, then rent a power bank (with cables) to charge your phone, tablet, headphones or whatever it is that is running out of battery. Return the power bank to any Brick station so that you can charge on the go.Stay in charge.
Katam Technologies — Development of drone measurement and cloud-based evaluation service providing high precision forestry data using a mobile phone or drone.

Rustan Panday

Investment focus

EBooks, Retail, Computer
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

blipp.se — blipp.se is a digital marketplace for selling and buying cars.
Storytel — Storytel is a provider of audiobook and e-book streaming services. The company offers unlimited streaming to consumers in 20+ markets. With Storytel, users can discover award-winning detective stories, dizzying novels, or powerful biographies, and easily sort books in Swedish, English, Arabic, Danish or Finnish.Storytel was founded in 2005 andhas since been a leader in subscription services for audiobooks and e-books. The company is established in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Holland, and Poland. Since 2015 Storytel has also been the publisher of the physical books for the acquisition of publishing houses Massolit and B. Wahlstrom.
Light Flex Technology — Light Flex was established in 2015, to amp up the stay-safe visibility sector. By using lighting technology into state-of-the-art active-light wearables, we enhance personal safety by helping people to be more visible when they need to be seen.Light Flex is driven by one key goal: to move garment safety features from existing passivereflectivity to independent active light.

David is a technologist, the founder of Unity Technologies, non-exec director to others, and a restless entrepreneur with a passion for creating feedback loops between innovation and teams and products, applying new and old business models to changing industries, and pushing people to do the very best they can do.David's background is inprogramming, an assortment of university dabbling, creating companies, and helping entrepreneurs. He served as CEO of Unity Technologies since co-founding it in 2003 and until October 2014, with an unflinching vision to democratize game development, and to develop technology and business models for the next phase of the games industry. David Helgason attended the University of Copenhagen.

Investment focus

Software, Gaming, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, Denmark, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Isometric — Isometric is a carbon removal standard and registry.
Slope — We handle the lending, underwriting, debt collection and fully pay out to you immediately once the product or service ships.
Rocky Road — At Rocky Road, we are redefining social gaming with our social gaming network. We are hiring!

Aggregate is a venture capital company investing with media as expansion capital - media for equity. Since the start 2002, Aggregate has made over 150 transactions in a variety of industries; e-commerce, digital services, product- and B2B-companies etc. Aggregate target companies which today are not able to maximize the effect on their market, inlack of capital for media advertising.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Information Technology, Software
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Yazen — Yazen is a digital obesity clinic that offers weight loss through modern pharmaceutical treatment.
Zcooly — Zcooly offers several educational games for children.
Swedish Temptations — Swedish Temptations, founded in 2019 by CEO Pia Qvarnström, built a brand named Bärta for producing organic, vegan and fermented food. The ingredients include Swedish split peas.

PINC invests in attractive start-ups leveraging four major consumer trends: Conscious Consumption, Holistic Health, Personalized Convenience, and Authentic Experiences.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Cooking, Children
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Sweden, France, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Amatera — Amatera is a biotechnology research company that leverages the latest techniques in biotechnology, to create coffee varieties. Amatera urges to make coffee varieties more sustainable and climate resistant to fill that massive demand. Founded by Omar Dekkiche and Lucie Kriegshauser in 2022 and is located in Paris, France.
EvodiaBio — Mirroring nature with pioneering bioscience for natural flavors
Kaffe Bueno — Kaffe Bueno upcycles coffee waste into active and functional ingredients for cosmetics, nutraceuticals and functional foods.

Karl Magnus is the Troedsson Founder at Behold Ventures. He attended University of Gavle.

Investment focus

Gaming, Software, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round
Sweden, United States

Portfolio highlights

Lurkit — Lurkit is a sophisticated ecosystem for data driven collaborations between content creators, game developers and publishers.
Atomontage — Atomontage develops a volumetric graphics and simulation platform that can scale to record-breaking data sets and beyond. The company is headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware.
LootLocker — LootLocker is the next generation backend that unlocks direct-to-player relationships for developers and publishers.

Axel Johnson is the corporate home for a collection of diverse industry-leading businesses. In 2011, Axel Johnson Inc. companies had revenues of approximately $4.0 billion and employed in excess of 1,000 people. AJI is a private investment company, founded in 1920, and owned by the Johnson family of Stockholm, Sweden.

Investment focus

Solar, Energy, Internet
Seed, Series E, Funding Round
Norway, Sweden, United States

Portfolio highlights

Otovo — To homeowners, Otovo is the easiest way to get solar panels on the roof. We are a marketplace organizing a network of hundreds of local, high quality energy installers that we have vetted thoroughly. We use our proprietary technology to analyse the potential of any home and advise precisely about the ideal project. Founded in Oslo in 2016, ourteam consists of engineers, programmers and technical consultants located in Oslo, Stockholm, Paris, Madrid, Warsaw and Milan. In France, we are known as “In Sun We Trust”, the result of the merger with the French solar energy startup.We have sold and completed thousands of solar energy projects across Europe and aim to become the continent’s no.1 residential solar energy company. Otovo is financially solid, being backed by some of Scandinavia’s major investment entities, notably Axel Johnson of Sweden, Norway’s municipal pension fund (KLP), and Nysnø, the Norwegian green sovereign investment fund.
Improvin' — Improvin' is a sustainability performance platform that helps agri-food companies measure, report and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in their own value chain.
ConforMIS — Conformis designs and manufactures customized knee & hip replacements that are patient-specific. Learn about how our implant could be the right choice.

Rikard Lindström

Investment focus

PC Games, Publishing, Video Games
Seed
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Raw Fury Games — Raw Fury is a video game publisher that designs and publishes indie games. Its games include atomicrops, whispers of a machine, and night call that features hand-painted 640x360 graphics, a story with existential twists and multiple endings, enabling users to play and enjoy games.The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Stockholm,Sweden.

We invest in extraordinary founders building startups in supply chain and mobility. We are equipped to support founders through the seed stage in their effort to transform global trade and commerce.

Investment focus

Software, Logistics, Supply Chain Management
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Vallor AI — Board AI is a SaaS AI developer.
Manna Air Delivery — Drone delivery made simple
Mello — Looking to cut logistics costs? Mello empowers your business to harness the power of invoice data, automating workflows and uncovering actionable insights to help you save more. Schedule your demo today!

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