Top 15 Publishing VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Sweden in November 2024
A list of 15 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 15 Publishing VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Sweden in November 2024
Investor | Publishing Sweden investments |
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Zouk Capital | 3 |
Wellstreet | 3 |
Forward Venture Capital | 2 |
Swedbank Robur | 2 |
Bonnier Ventures | 1 |
PINC | 1 |
Pale blue dot | 1 |
Atomico's Angel Programme | 1 |
Almi Invest | 1 |
Aggregate Media | 1 |
Optimizer Invest | 1 |
IQ Capital | 1 |
LRF Ventures | 1 |
Axel Johnson | 1 |
Dynamo | 1 |
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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Investment focus
- Software, Renewable Energy, Energy
- Private Equity, Funding Round, Series B
- United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Dendra Systems — Enabling faster, effective, transparent and scalable ecosystem restoration for our complex and biodiverse natural world. Discover our RestorationOS today.
- 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.
Wellstreet is an innovation and tech ecosystem that includes an investment company, a strategic consultancy firm and a venture building incubator.
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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.
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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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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 birth control is 93% effective with typical use and 98% effective with perfect use. Learn more about hormone-free birth control today.
- 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
PINC invests in attractive start-ups leveraging four major consumer trends: Conscious Consumption, Holistic Health, Personalized Convenience, and Authentic Experiences.
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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.
- EvodiaBio — EvodiaBio is a bio-industrial firm that creates natural, sustainable scents for the food and beverage industries. Founded in 2021 and is based in Copenhagen, Capital Region.
We invest in diverse and ambitious founders building scalable companies that help us reduce or reverse climate change.
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Investment focus
- Software, Electric Vehicle, Energy
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- VARM — Varm provides efficient insulation for energy saving and comfort.
- Paebbl — Captured carbon re-stored into raw materials. We put CO2 to good, permanent use in carbon-negative minerals through the process of CO2 mineralisation.
- Brineworks — Brineworks is making sustainble CO2 and H2 production afforable. The building blocks for green fuels - from seawater.
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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".
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Sweden, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- FLOX — Transforming global wildlife interactions with autonomous technologies. From fields to airports, we redefine boundaries for coexistence.
- RemotiveLabs — RemotiveLabs is a developer of an automotive software development platform designed to streamline the vehicle manufacturing process.
- GAIA BioMaterials — GAIA BioMaterials is the manufacturer of a bio-degradable product that offers pouch, tray, and bottle products.
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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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.
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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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.
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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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, The Netherlands
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- NanoSyrinx — NanoSyrinx is an award-winning, discovery stage biotechnology company based in the UK. We are using synthetic biology approaches to develop protein nanosyringes as a completely novel modality for intracellular delivery of protein and peptide biologic drugs.
- Vsim Technology — Experience the power of next-generation physics simulations with Vsim. Our cutting-edge technology provides realistic and accurate simulations for various industries.
- BMLL Technologies — BMLL Technologies Ltd. operates cloud based technology platform that offers machine learning and inference framework for common limit order book problems.
LRF Ventures provides capital, relevant expertise and a network for start-ups.
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Investment focus
- Travel, Leisure, Tourism
- Seed, Funding Round
- Sweden
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- 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 — 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.
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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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.
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.
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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.
- Bonx — Bonx a startup studio focusing on operations (supply chain, construction, and industry), reinvents ERP for French SMEs. Bonx is a no-code ERP that can be deployed in a matter of weeks and readily adjusts to the difficulties unique to each manufacturer.
- 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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