Top 10 Recruiting Startup Investors in Sweden in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 10 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Recruiting startups based in Sweden. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Recruiting companies from Sweden. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Recruiting Startup Investors in Sweden in January 2026

Investor	Recruiting Sweden investments
Brightly Ventures	2
Briban Invest	2
Sprints	2
Fort Knox	2
Industrifonden	2
Investment AB Spiltan	2
Spintop Ventures	2
MTIP AG	1
Octopus Ventures	1
Northzone	1

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Investor list

Brightly Ventures backs bold founders on a mission to transform industries and change the world for the better. Brightly is an early-stage investor focused on the Nordics. It has a hands-on approach supporting high-potential ideas and bringing them to market. It makes a deep commitment to each investment we make and draw upon its network andcompany-building experience to help boost the journey.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Sweden, United States

Portfolio highlights

Adway — Adway specializes in recruitment marketing, employer branding, Hr-tech and candidate journey solutions.
Fast Travel Games — Fast Travel Games is a VR exclusive game developer and publisher, founded by industry leading veterans and behind acclaimed titles such as Apex Construct and Wraith: The Oblivion - Afterlife.
Collective Minds Radiology — Collective Minds develops and delivers a cloud-based collaboration platform for healthcare and research with access to data, human and digital expertise.

Briban Invest

Investment focus

Computer, Software, Recruiting
Series A, Funding Round
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

TrialBee — Trialbee is revolutionizing clinical trials with innovative global patient recruitment solutions. Streamline your recruitment process today.

Sprints Capital invests in technology-enabled companies with proven business models, strong and durable market positions and excellent teams.

Investment focus

Marketplace, E-Commerce, SaaS
Funding Round, Series C, Series E
Sweden, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

PPRO — From PSPs to tech companies, our partners depend on us to build their digital payments offering so they can free up their time and resources.
Teamtailor — The new way to attract, nurture and hire top talent. Grow faster by focusing on what matters the most: your candidates.
Modular Finance — Platforms and tools for IR & Finance professionals - with top-tier data, intuitive user experiences, and all the features you need. Our offering includes IR-CRM, news distribution, insider management, shareholder data and IR websites.

Fort Knox is a family-owned growth engine that invests in entrepreneurs to grow and develop.

Investment focus

Apps, Agriculture, Financial Services
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Arevo — Arevo offers liquid and granular amino acid fertilizer technologies for faster and better plant establishment.
Elastisys — Welkin by Elastisys is the application platform for software critical to society. A secure and compliant Kubernetes platform made in Sweden.
Impactpool — Job vacancies in the European Union, United Nations and International Organizations.

Industrifonden is a Nordic evergreen venture capital firm with a fund size of $600m, that focuses on early-stage technology and life science companies with international potential. The company works long term with the entrepreneurs we invest in, and have a strong track record of building game changing companies. Industrifonden-backed companiesinclude tech companies Qlik, Arcam, Soundtrack Your Brand, Fishbrain, and life science companies CellaVision, Oncopeptides and AMRA.

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Sweden, United States, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Avtal24 — Avtal24 offers in an easily accessible manner agreements for both private individuals and companies. They believe in making the law available to everyone and they want everyone to have access to legal security. With us, you write agreements online or together with a lawyer by phone. Always at a fixed price. With high legal expertise, innovativetechnology and great focus on customer benefit and offer the market's most accessible legal services.Avtal24 was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.
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.
Tribune Therapeutics — Tribune Therapeutics is a preclinical biopharmaceutical company building a promising pipeline of novel medicines to treat patients with a wide range of fibrotic diseases. It was founded in 2020 with funding from HealthCap and Novo Seeds.

Investment AB Spiltan is a Swedish venture capital and private equity firm. The company, which is based in Stockholm, provides multi stage financing to businesses based within Sweden. The company will invest between SEK1 million ($125,000) and SEK10 million ($1.25 million), with a preferred investment amount of SEK2 million to SEK4 million($240,000 to $490,000). Potential portfolio companies may come from any sector of industry, as it is more important that the business is a viable investment opportunity. Also important is that the management team is committed and has a strong track record. Businesses will be able to leverage the extensive network of angels and other relevant professionals who can contribute expertise for the development of the portfolio company. AB Spiltan will invest roughly 60% of its capital in private companies and the remaining 40% in firms that have already been listed. Private portfolios will need to demonstrate that there will be realistic opportunity for Spiltan to exit within three to five years. Most of the investments in public companies are done through affiliates such as Health Cap and Procuritas.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Software
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Sweden, United States

Portfolio highlights

Qvalia — Digitize procurement, sales, and invoices and manage transaction data. Integration or web interface. Peppol, EDI, PDF, and print messages.
United Robots — Automated content for newsrooms generated from data and delivered ready for publication. We develop and support, you publish. Reliability and consistency.
NuvoAir — Personalized heart and lung care with remote monitoring, tailored plans, and proven outcomes, empowering patients and providers to improve health together.

Founded in 2009, Spintop Ventures is a venture capital firm backed by a network of successful tech entrepreneurs who have invested in Spintop alongside institutional investors, family offices and some of the most experienced private investors in early stage growth companies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Sweden, Finland, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Embedl AB — Efficient Deep Learning by Deep Learning model optimization
VISS.AI — Talk to your apps and automate tasks
Impulso — Seamless product tracking. We help brands, agencies and suppliers increase sell-through, reduce administration and create a more sustainable retail landscape.

MTIP is a growth capital investor that specializes in scaling up healthtech companies in rapidly expanding global markets. Visit our website!

Investment focus

Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Medical
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Hexarad — Hexarad is a radiologist-led radiology company, which combines powerful tech and expert people to provide quick, accurate diagnoses. We have developed the Hexarad Platform, a unique and all-encompassing radiology solution powered by an intelligent allocative efficiency engine.
Caresyntax — Caresyntax is the only enterprise-scale surgical data solution you need to make surgery smarter, safer, and more profitable.
NitiNotes — Nitinotes has developed the EndoZipTM, a fully automated, operator independent gastroscopic suturing system, allowing gastroenterologists as well as surgeons to bring a durable solution to their patients. The procedure creates an effect of stomach volume restriction and motility impair - both are needed to help obese patients reducing weight.

We provide venture capital investment for the people, ideas and industries that will change the world. Learn about what we do and the kind of founders we back.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Baselime — Use logs, metrics, distributed tracing and wide-events to detect, diagnose and resolve issues before they impact your users.
Rekord — The AI-native platform to design, scale and monitor intelligent decision flows across underwriting, onboarding, compliance and fraud.
Zendo Energy — Zendo Energy is dedicated to the mission of decarbonising computing power. The company aims to empower data centres to become smarter, more efficient, and prepared for the increasing future demand of computing by leveraging advanced software solutions. Their platform utilizes real-time analytics and predictive tools to optimise energy consumption,reduce emissions, and integrate renewable energy sources such as wind and solar, thereby supporting the transition to sustainable digital infrastructure. This mission addresses the urgent need to reduce the carbon footprint of data centres amid the exponential growth of AI and computing workloads globally

Northzone is a multi-stage venture capital fund that seeks to invest in the healthcare, semiconductors, software, hardware, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and gaming industries.