Top 15 Publishing VC Funds & Investors in Sweden (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Zouk Capital
VC Fund
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3 | United Kingdom, Germany, United States | Private Equity, Series B | Software, Renewable Energy, Energy | $1.1M–$145M |
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Swedbank Robur
VC Fund
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2 | Sweden, United States, Norway | Post-IPO Equity, Series B | Health Care, Manufacturing, Mobile Apps | $2.4M–$230M |
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Forward Venture Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Sweden, Denmark | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce | |
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Aggregate Media
VC Fund
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1 | Sweden | Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Information Technology, Software | $193k–$21M |
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Almi Invest
VC Fund
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1 | Sweden, United States, Ukraine | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $174k–$2.2M |
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Atomico's Angel Programme
VC Fund
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1 | Estonia, Germany, Norway | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | Software, B2B, SaaS | $45k–$1.6M |
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LRF Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Sweden | Seed, Series A | Agriculture, Travel, Farming | $2.7M–$3.8M |
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Optimizer Invest
VC Fund
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1 | Sweden, Spain, United States | Seed, Convertible Note | Apps, Financial Services, Casino | |
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Bonnier Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Sweden, Finland, Germany | Seed, Series A | Internet, Software, E-Commerce | $1M–$21M |
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Aller
VC Fund
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1 | Sweden | Pre-Seed | Audiobooks, Publishing, Creative Agency | |
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Dynamo
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Germany | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Logistics, Supply Chain Management | $370k–$25M |
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Pale blue dot
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Energy | $1M–$33M |
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IQ Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning | $1.3M–$44M |
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Axel Johnson
VC Fund
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1 | Sweden, Norway, United States | Seed, Series E | Solar, AgTech, Energy | |
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PINC
VC Fund
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1 | Sweden, Denmark, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Biotechnology, Agriculture, Food and Beverage | $549k–$7.4M |
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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.
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- Industry: Software, Renewable Energy, Energy
- Stage:Private Equity, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 51
- Round size: Series B $6M–$106M; Private Equity $1.1M–$145M
- Lead/follow: 61% lead, 39% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $513M in 2021
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.
- iZettle — iZettle is reinventing technologies and banking services that help small-business owners live better, work less and earn more. Based in Stockholm, the financial technology company revolutionized mobile payments in 2010 with the world’s first mini chip card reader and software for mobile devices. Today, small-business owners around the world useiZettle’s powerfully simple services to improve the speed and ease of payments at checkout, business management, sales analytics, customer engagement, and funding
- Huddle — Ideagen Huddle is now known as Ideagen Collaboration Portal.
Swedbank Robur is a small, equity-based mutual fund that provides in largest asset managers and a strong investment partner.
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- Industry: Health Care, Manufacturing, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Post-IPO Equity, Series B
- Geography: Sweden, United States, Norway
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Series B $8M–$208M; Post-IPO Equity $2.4M–$230M
- Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
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.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Sweden, Denmark
Investor stats
- Total investments: 63
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
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.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Information Technology, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Round size: Seed $193k–$860k; Series A $840k–$21M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
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.
Almi Invest is Sweden’s most active early-stage venture capital firm, investing in scalable startups across Sustainability, Industry, Tech, and Life Science.We invest from pre-seed to Series A, always co-investing with independent private investors to accelerate innovation and long-term success. Our portfolio spans sustainable solutions,industrial innovation, deep tech, SaaS, and life science, supporting startups that drive economic and environmental progress.With €430 million under management and over 1,000 investments since 2009, we have backed leading companies like MIPS, Tobii, and Neo4j, with notable exits to Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Qlik.Beyond capital, we offer engaged ownership, providing strategic guidance, active board participation, and access to an extensive investor network.Almi Invest is part of the Almi Group and is funded by the European Regional Development Fund, Almi AB, and regional partners.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Sweden, United States, Ukraine
Investor stats
- Total investments: 270
- Round size: Seed $174k–$2.2M; Pre-Seed $236k–$1.4M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Standab — Standab is helping cities adopt cleaner, more effective urban mobility systems by offering innovative and eco-friendly parking and charging options, thereby influencing the direction of micromobility.
- Ambidex AB — helps food retailers create new revenue streams on their refrigeration systems by stabilizing the electricity grid.
- Indevex AB — Indevex is a science-based and privately owned biotech company from Sweden. A natural and reliable partner, providing evidence based natural nutrition concepts based on the patented NGC™ Formula.
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- Industry: Software, B2B, SaaS
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: Estonia, Germany, Norway
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Pre-Seed $45k–$1.6M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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".
LRF Ventures provides capital, relevant expertise and a network for start-ups.
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- Industry: Agriculture, Travel, Farming
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $2.7M–$3.8M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
Optimizer Invest is a fully founder funded venture capital company. Optimizer helps early stage business and entrepreneurs to build great companies
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- Industry: Apps, Financial Services, Casino
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Sweden, Spain, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
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.
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.
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- Industry: Internet, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Sweden, Finland, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 58
- Round size: Seed $1M–$6.6M; Series A $3.4M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Acast — Want to start a podcast? Acast can help. We're the world's leading independent podcast company, helping creators and advertisers reach listeners globally.
- Mediaflow Europe — Mediaflow Europe is a SaaS company that provides its platform for image, video, design, templates, and document sharing and management.
- Kyra — Scaling end-to-end campaigns with the creators, content, and clarity your brand's been missing. Powered by AI technology, curated by humans.
Aller is a publishing firm that specializes in advertising, marketing and recruitment magazines.
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- Industry: Audiobooks, Publishing, Creative Agency
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Aniara — Aniara is a service that allows authors and rights holders to access a global audience through their locally published works.
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- Industry: Software, Logistics, Supply Chain Management
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 91
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$5.6M; Pre-Seed $370k–$4M; Series A $6.4M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Vizion — Vizion integrates and estimates data and observes tracking and monitoring for ocean freight, logistics, and supply chain industry. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
- Sennder — sennder is a digital road freight forwarder in continental Europe, linking large commercial shippers with small freight carriers. With its in-house-developed platform, sennder provides a new level of automation, transparency, and efficiency to the European €300 billion road freight market, which until now has been dependent on paper, phone, and faxand characterized by multi-layer subcontracting. sennder’s digital connection to over 10,000 vehicles in all segments allows for almost unlimited capacities, no matter what time of the day. sennder digitalizes the truckload-shipping ecosystem by providing mobile apps to drivers, fleet management tools to carrier managers, and logistics management solutions to shippers. Real-time booking, a designated contact person always on hand, as well as precise live tracking, bring full transparency to any logistics supply chain. By integrating directly with the shippers’ Transport Management and Freight Management Systems via APIs and by cutting the multiple middlemen, sennder increases efficiency and reduces cost for all stakeholders.
- Solvento — The smart factoring solution for truckers.
We invest in diverse and ambitious founders building scalable companies that help us reduce or reverse climate change.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Energy
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 58
- Round size: Seed $2M–$8M; Pre-Seed $1M–$2.9M; Series A $12M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- VEAT — VEAT is on a mission to make healthy, plant-based foods more accessible. We cook and prepare our fresh meals locally at Stora Essingen and deliver them daily to our vending machines throughout the city.
- HIVED — Looking for a greener, cheaper and better way to send your parcels? All parcels tracked and insured. Same-day, next-day and other options. Contact us today.
- Monta — Monta's EV charging management software helps industry pioneers to streamline their operations and deliver stellar EV charging experiences to their customers.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 190
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$13M; Series A $4.5M–$44M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $200M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Molyon — Molyon is creating the next-generation energy storage system: the lithium-sulfer battery. Molyon offers long-life lithium-sulfur batteries that have twice the energy density of existing lithium-ion batteries on the market.
- Nyobolt — Nyobolt develops high-power energy storage systems based on advanced lithium-ion battery technology designed for rapid charging and sustained high performance. The company focuses on battery systems that enable very fast energy replenishment, supporting applications where downtime needs to be minimized. Its technology combines specialized anodematerials, cell design, battery management systems, and power electronics to achieve high charge and discharge rates. The platform is used in sectors such as robotics, data centers, industrial equipment, and electric mobility where consistent high power delivery is required. It also develops integrated energy solutions that support demanding workloads like automated logistics systems and high-performance computing infrastructure. Nyobolt’s approach emphasizes optimizing cycle life, thermal stability, and energy density for repeated fast charging environments.
- Nu Quantum — Nu Quantum has been pioneering quantum networking technology since 2018. Our market-leading expertise is uniquely positioned to deliver a distributed quantum...
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.
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- Industry: Solar, AgTech, Energy
- Stage:Seed, Series E
- Geography: Sweden, Norway, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
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.
- Volta Greentech — Battling global warming by reducing methane emissions from cows
PINC was launched as Paulig Incubator in 2018 to help Paulig stay in the forefront of relevant innovations, as well as to contribute to a tastier, healthier and more sustainable planet. Today, our ambition is the same, but we have developed into a corporate venture arm. We aim for strategic, financial, and societal impact in our investments,fostering a sustainable food system for tomorrow. We are investing across the agrifood value chain in three primary impact themes: Improve planetary health and diet within the current food system: This includes innovations in agriculture and food security, such as advanced crop breeding or green fertilizers, innovative ingredients and next generation healthy foods, as well as solutions for tracking and improving climate and nature. Novel technologies to feed 10 BN people by 2050: Technologies needed to sustainably produce enough food for our growing population. This includes food production without land use change, such as precision fermentation and cell-culture. A circular system for food & materials: Regardless of whether we grow our food in soil or in bioreactors, the system needs to be circular. Some examples are upcycled ingredients, food from unused sources, new coating and packaging solutions, as well as technologies to prevent or make better use of side streams. We are looking for entrepreneurs in an attractive market space with an intrinsic drive to find a solution to the problem they are addressing, a clear and scalable plan for success, a reliable team and partners whom we can trust and work closely with.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Agriculture, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Sweden, Denmark, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Round size: Seed $823k–$7M; Pre-Seed $549k–$2.8M; Series A $4.1M–$7.4M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Scindo — Creating a novel biological process to turn low-value plastic landfill waste into high-value molecules.
- EvodiaBio — Mirroring nature with pioneering bioscience for natural flavors
- BlueRedGold — Discover BlueRedGold - the home of exquisite Swedish Saffron, ethically grown and harvested with precision in Sweden. Experience the unparalleled quality of our saffron, perfect for culinary enthusiasts and chefs alike. Join us in embracing sustainable luxury.
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