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Top 15 Publishing VC Funds in Sweden

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 15 VC 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 15 Publishing VC Funds in Sweden

Investor	Publishing Sweden investments
Zouk Capital	3
Wellstreet	3
Swedbank Robur	2
Forward Venture Capital	2
Almi Invest	1
Pale blue dot	1
PINC	1
Bonnier Ventures	1
Axel Johnson	1
Atomico's Angel Programme	1
IQ Capital	1
Aggregate Media	1
Optimizer Invest	1
LRF Ventures	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

Readly — Readly is transforming the way we read magazines. Now you can read all your favorite magazines from anywhere, at any time. An all-you-can-read buffet of magazines, including back issues, for one low monthly price.
Taulia — Taulia makes it easy for businesses to free up cash, accelerate payments, and improve supply chain health. Learn about our working capital solutions today.
Zest Eco — Zest Eco is a London, UK-based EV charging company. It is democratizing EV adoption in the UK by rapidly filling the gaps in the maturing public charging infrastructure.

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.
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.
Enable Banking — Empower your business with Enable Banking, the leading open banking connectivity provider, offering a secure, single API solution for seamless integration with 2500+ major banks across Europe. Book a demo today to unlock the future of open finance.

As Sweden's largest fund company, we want to create sustainable value creation. We do this by working actively with sustainability in our funds and products.

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.
Elements Advisors — Elements Vitals revolutionize the way you measure, benchmark, and monitor financial health. Save time serving clients & growing your firm.

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

Dicot — Dicot is a pharmaceutical company focused on drug discovery and the development of novel lifestyle drugs to enrich patients' lives. The Company develops and manufactures medicines for the treatment of erectile dysfunction and premature ejaculation. The company's lead candidate, LIB-01, is in the pre-clinical stage of development.
Trackpaw Scientific — Contributing to the development of safe and effective pharmaceuticals at increased speed and quality by digitalising the preclinical study landscape.
Nordic Forestry Automation — The forestry sector is standing before unprecedented challenges in adapting to increased demand for sustainable raw materials, carbon storage, biodiversity conservation and a shortage of highly skilled machine operators. Digital tools, precision forestry and automation will play a crucial role in

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

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, B2B
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Sweden, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Ember — Travel by electric bus between Edinburgh, Dundee, Perth, Kinross and more. Brand-new buses, affordable fares and real-time tracking.
Cosmic Aerospace — Cosmic Aerospace is a pioneering aerospace technology company dedicated to advancing the boundaries of propulsion systems and enabling innovative solutions for space exploration. The company collaborates with leading space agencies, research institutions, and commercial partners to design, test, and implement these groundbreaking technologies.
Pelikan Mobility — Building a new type of EV leasing company for commercial fleets: tech-enabled and operations-centric.

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.
Improvin' — Improvin' is a sustainability performance platform that helps agri-food companies measure, report and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in their own value chain.
WNWN Food Labs — We're WNWN Food Labs and we love food. We're creating delicious, sustainable and ethical alternatives to unsustainable and ethically dubious foods. We're starting with cacao-free chocolate. Changing chocolate? It's Win-Win #alt-chocolate #altchocolate #alt-universe #altuniverse #alt-protein

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 and funds of various sizes.

Investment focus

Health Care, Digital Media, Software
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Sweden, Finland, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Combify — Combify is a PropTech company that works with simplifying the communication in city development projects.
Natural Cycles — Natural Cycles offers a contraceptive app, spearheading digital contraception, a new category in female reproductive health.Users measure their basal body temperature in the morning and the app computes the temperature (and other relevant data like levels of luteinizing hormone) through an algorithm to calculate whether they are fertile or not.Natural Cycles’ subscription product relies on an algorithmic method to predict which days women are fertile during their monthly cycle — with an in-app color-coded calendar informing users if they could have unprotected sex on a given day or not.Women using the app are required to measure and input their body temperature daily using a basal thermometer. Natural Cycles relies on this and other individual data inputs to algorithmically calculate the probability of the user being fertile on each day in her cycle.
Kyra — Kyra is a Gen-Z entertainment company creating engaging digital content that resonates with youth culture. We represent world class digital native talent, produce digital content with the biggest and best consumer brands and develop media properties publishing daily content on platforms that matter to Gen Z. Kyra has the ability to not onlytarget but truly engage with the Gen-Z audience through content that resonates based on real-time audience data from our proprietary KyraIQ technology. Our inclusive, ahead-of-the-trend content and content creators make us the ultimate destination for the Gen-Z consumer who wants to be inspired by their own community. Our approach and creativity is based on data and insights and has proven to engage this audience better than any traditional publisher. We house a talent agency representing and collaborating with the leading Gen Z social stars such as Abby Roberts and Noen Eubanks; a global content studio creating award-winning content for youth-seeking brand partners such as Converse and HP; and a newly developed portfolio of media properties publishing daily content on Gen Z-native platforms around beauty, fashion, adventure, food, gaming and entertainment.Kyra engages Gen Z better than any traditional publisher, with an audience of 78 million social media followers racking up 750 million monthly video views in 190 countries around the globe. We know exactly where Gen Z is spending their time online and we respect their interests and passions. That result is content that is meaningful and fosters long term engagement for blue chip brands. Our team are experts on Gen Z culture, whether they are producing, managing, creating or marketing in New York, London and Los Angeles. Learn more at https://kyra.com/reel

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.

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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".

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

Mindgard — Mindgard is an AI security company that helps enterprise to test, detect, and respond to cyber threats against their AI models.Given that businesses are increasingly focused on offering AI-driven services such as LLMs, securing this new way of conducting business is equally important. Mindgard ensures that your business can safely and securelymove into the new AI world and continue to protect your digital assets, brand and reputation.Our platform enables enterprise customers to determine, detect, and remediate against any adversarial attack vulnerabilities within all their AI models. This answers the “What is my AI risk?” and “How do I mitigate my AI risk?” questions that currently cannot be answered using traditional Cyber Security platforms. By designing our platform from the ground up to integrate with existing AI and Cyber Security operational tooling, Mindgard can be seamlessly added to your organization, providing repeatable and automated AI model vulnerability testing.The Mindgard platform has been in development for over 4 years based on cutting edge PhD-led, AI & cyber security research, also used by the global Intelligence Community. As well as providing a library of adversarial attacks based on deep research, leveraging our platform that can automate repeated security testing, detection, and response across the entire AI estate. By leveraging the Mindgard platform, our clients free up precious AI and cyber security resources and at the same time understand, detect, and mitigate risks across their entire AI model portfolio, which currently takes too long and is too expensive. Our platform ensures that business can rapidly embrace LLMs and other AI technologies whilst protecting their digital assets, brand, and reputation within the new AI world.
Tagomics — Tagomics transform disease diagnosis through comprehensive multitopic profiling.
Nu Quantum — Home NU QUANTUM Nu Quantum is a quantum networking start-up building the entanglement fabric essential to scaling quantum computers.

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

Zcooly — Zcooly offers several educational games for children.
Parkamo — Parkamo is like Hotels.com & Airbnbn for parking. All apps, all prices, full transparency and you can earn money by renting out your parking.
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.

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

Investment focus

Apps, Mobile, Retail
Funding Round, Seed
Sweden, Spain

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.

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.
NitroCapt — Sustainable nitrogen fixation, from air too fertiliser using climate neutral and fossil-free technology.
Acamp — Acamp captures the camper community's pent-up demand by digitising existing campgrounds in addition to creating new by letting local landowners and small businesses rent out unused land to anyone searching for a place to camp.

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

ionobell — They are a battery R&D company with expertise in battery material development and cell development. They bring a combined several decades of energy storage, Li-ion, and fabrication knowledge and experience, in both academia and industry alike. They have found a way to build the greenest battery in the world by using unwanted materials aroundus. We have a mission of minimizing environmental impact while continuing to power our lives.
Guided Energy — Guided Energy is the smart energy platform to power the next generation of renewable, electric fleets. Our platform makes it easier and cheaper to charge, operate and manage electric vehicles.
Celadyne Technologies — Celadyne Technologies develops membranes for use in electrolyzers and fuel cells that require minimal heat and water management. The company is founded in 2018 and based in Chicago, IL

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