Top 45 Retail Startup Investors in Sweden in May 2025
A list of 45 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Retail startups based in Sweden. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Retail companies from Sweden. We update this investor list every month.Top 45 Retail Startup Investors in Sweden in May 2025
Investor | Retail Sweden investments |
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Wellstreet | 5 |
Bo Mattsson | 3 |
Industrifonden | 3 |
Daniel Pilotti | 2 |
Verdane | 2 |
Schibsted Growth | 2 |
Hady Shkeer | 2 |
Norrsken VC | 2 |
Almi Invest | 2 |
Chalmers Ventures AB | 2 |
Northzone | 2 |
Joachim Hedenius | 2 |
Daniel McCormick | 2 |
NFT Ventures | 2 |
Antler | 2 |
Iron Wolf Capital | 2 |
Rävberget Venture Capital AB | 1 |
Proptech Farm | 1 |
Seedcamp | 1 |
J12 | 1 |
The Nordic Web Ventures | 1 |
Sebastian Siemiatkowski | 1 |
Cristina Stenbeck | 1 |
Rustan Panday | 1 |
Fabian Hielte | 1 |
DHS Venture Partners | 1 |
Brightly Ventures | 1 |
Collector Bank | 1 |
Erik Stannow | 1 |
Marius Jakulis Jason foundation | 1 |
SF Ventures | 1 |
Black Pearls VC | 1 |
Aggregate Media | 1 |
Swedbank | 1 |
NEA Partners | 1 |
David Frykman | 1 |
Bonnier Ventures | 1 |
Wave Ventures | 1 |
Karl-Johan Persson | 1 |
Creades AB | 1 |
GroundBreak Ventures | 1 |
Luminar Ventures | 1 |
Vinnova | 1 |
henQ | 1 |
Foxmont Capital Partners | 1 |
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.
Bo Mattsson is a director of Previously, Mattsson founded Cint and served the same company as its chief executive office, chairman, and general and sales manager. Hewas also the head of Swedbank Securities.Mattsson holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and an MBA, both from the Stockholm School of Economics.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Sweden, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Zaver — Zaver develops innovative payment solutions to accelerate the revolution in mobile payments. All for companies and individuals to be able to shop in a more accessible and smarter way - offline and online.
- Påmind — Påmind is a Swedish company founded to give customers control over their existing everyday contracts, ranging from mortgages to insurances. The customer is reminded each time a contract expires, Påmind AB then help the customer to renegotiate the agreement and ensure that the customer is offered the best terms. All this is done without the customerhaving to do anything.
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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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- Sweden, United States, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- Fibbl — Fibbl is the world's first cost-effective end-to-end solution for 3D and AR focused visual marketing. Integrate 3D & AR into e-commerce and marketing in minutes.Fibbl have industrialized the process of producing photorealistic 3D models for consumer products from global brands. Fibbl has the world's largest 3D model database forconsumer products.Learn more - https://www.fibbl.com/
- 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.
Daniel Pilotti is the Founder of Your Special Delivery Service and Ryska Posten.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Retail, Payments
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- Sweden, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- blipp.se — blipp.se is a digital marketplace for selling and buying cars.
- Mantle — Welcome to MANTLE - Scandinavian professional skincare elevated by cannabis.
- Lace Laboratory — Empowering panties. For women by women.
The preferred growth partner to tech-enabled businesses in Northern Europe.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Private Equity, Series A
- Sweden, Norway, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Sitoo — Delight your customers with best-in-class shopping journeys. Every time. Everywhere.
- fiskaly — fiskaly offers cloud-based solutions for all aspects of the receipt. Country-specific and 100% legally compliant.
- Ingrid — Ingrid was founded with a mission to create delivery experiences that fit people's lives by letting e-commerce businesses deliver sustainable growth and giving shoppers the power to personalize delivery and returns. The result is a better overall customer experience and greater efficiency for both the retailer and the delivery carrier.
Investing in great digital companies!
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Investment focus
- Internet, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Sweden, Norway, France
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.
- Dintero — Dintero is a Norwegian startup delivering payment, checkout, crm & loyalty solutions.
- Campanyon — Campanyon is a provider of an outdoor accommodation booking platform intended for people to find and book their next outdoor adventure by connecting campers with hosts.
Hady Shkeer is a swedish entrepreneur and angel investor. the Executive Director of Source A Network LTD and the founder of Dadh LTD.
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Investment focus
- Marketplace, E-Commerce, Same Day Delivery
- Pre-Seed, Angel, Private Equity
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Marifaa — Marifaa is a E-Learning Platform.
- Mhtaref — Connect with the best freelance talent in the MENA region on Mhtaref - the ultimate freelancing marketplace.
- Dukanji AB — Dukanji is an innovative B2B and B2C marketplace platform to connect East and West. to empower the traders around the globe and help them to trade with Europe."Dukanji" A is a global B2B platform that connects suppliers in Europe to the world. And helps manufacturers and suppliers around the world to find buyers in Europe. Dukanjioffers assisting in logistics, advisory and marketing services.Dukanji mission is to make it easy to do business anywhere. They do this by giving suppliers the tools necessary to reach a global audience for their products, and by helping buyers find products and suppliers quickly and efficiently.
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Investment focus
- Software, Food and Beverage, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Sweden, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Kapu — We are an online shopping community that helps you save even more on your everyday essentials when you buy together with your friends.
- trawa — The partner for renewable and affordable electricity for businesses. Get electricity directly from solar and windparks with corporate PPAs.
- Beans — Beans is on a mission to help the planet by reducing food waste, saving products, and offering them through an online grocery platform at discounted prices.
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
- 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.
We are a leading tech investor & venture builder in the Nordics. Taking deep tech from lab to market.WELCOMEINVESTMENTS
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Investment focus
- Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Repli5 — Enabling autonomous vehicles with synthetic data. We automate the creation of synthetic data and digital twins.
- Adsorbi — Adsorbi use cellulose from the Nordic forest to help air purification companies to capture gaseous air pollutants.
- Galaxy Biosolutions — Explore the infinite possibilities of Precision Fermentation with Galaxy Biosolutions
Northzone is a multi-stage venture capital fund that seeks to invest in the healthcare, semiconductors, software, hardware, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and gaming industries.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, Sweden, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Dalma — Dalma offers transparent, subscription-based health insurance that covers pets, reimbursing costs related to illnesses, injuries, and preventive care.
- Clarium — Clarium is transforming healthcare by empowering providers with an AI-powered platform with intelligent workflow automation and actionable insights.
- Fuse Financial Technologies — Financial APIs for building products in the Middle East.
Joachim Hedenius is the VPE and Co-Founder of KRY.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Sweden, Estonia, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Passionfroot — A workspace where you can manage your creator business and organise your finances so that you can optimise your creator-work-life balance.
- Ready Player Me — The Ready Player Me platform leverages AI, ML , and a suite of developer-first tools to empower developers to integrate avatars into their games and apps to launch faster, improve user adoption, and grow revenue through asset monetization.
- Ready Player Me — The Ready Player Me platform leverages AI, ML , and a suite of developer-first tools to empower developers to integrate avatars into their games and apps to launch faster, improve user adoption, and grow revenue through asset monetization.
Daniel McCormick
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Investment focus
- Retail, Software, Marketplace
- Pre-Seed
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Traxlo — We are at the technology and retail industries intersection. Our longtime experience in the industry taught us that only the right innovation has the potential to make a positive impact. Thus we aim to make our solutions as seamless as possible to be able to add only benefits to every worker who uses our apps and to every retail store manager whohas lots on her plate, day in, day out.
- Zero — Buy verified cash app account at the best IT service provider smmsellshop at cost-effective price, we provide SSN, Bank & Selfie verified accounts.
We drive the fintech revolution Next Financial Technology Ventures Backing fintech pioneers since 2014 We aim to capture the shift in the financial industry and empower the entrepreneurs to realize their potential Our Story Strong portfolio across Fintech View the full portfolio Exciting news from the NFT portfolio View all news
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Sweden, Finland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Yabie — Yabie's Payment and POS systems take the effort out of selling. It's the most intuitive, hassle-free and mobile way of interacting with your customers and making a sale.
- Invoier AB — Invoier is on a mission to help small and medium sized businesses become more competitive by changing the behaviour to access and price working capital. Founded in Stockholm, the financial technology company revolutionised short term financing with the world’s first spot market in real time for invoice trading. Today Invoier offers a platformfor businesses in Europe to get paid directly, plan the liquidity and grow its business. Backed by the EIC/European Investment Bank and partnering with some of the biggest investors we are quickly changing how the world sees SME financing. Join us on our mission! Visit: https://www.invoier.com/
- Oort Digital — Oort Digital offers users to store, send, borrow, lease, trade, pay, mine, and game with NFTs.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, Singapore, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- GenPage — GenPage is a SaaS platform that supercharges outreach & account-based marketing (ABM) campaigns with personalized landing pages that captivate, engage, and close. We help our users create unique experiences at scale for every prospect with AI - and win more deals.
- Lodgicl — Lodgicl streamlines the insurance supply chain to enhance the claims experience for policyholders, insurers, and partners.
- FoodHealth — Your home for healthy eating made simple. Powered by a team of food lovers & Dietitians, we help you find the right food for your body. And then we deliver that food directly to your doorstep!
We are here to make you succeed! Iron Wolf Capital is an international venture capital firm with an experienced team of professionals with global outlook and strong roots in the Baltics. and a mandate for helping entrepreneurs realise their ideas into successful businesses.
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Investment focus
- Software, Infrastructure, Manufacturing
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Lithuania, Estonia, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- PIXEVIA — PIXEVIA - AI for retail. Our flagship product - fully autonomous stores, powered by AI, cameras, and sensors. You simply walk in, take what you want, and go.
- RedTrack.io — RedTrack.io offers real-time access to your media buying KPIs/data: ad tracking, impressions, clicks, conversions across multiple channels & 30 data points.
- Kingdom Technologies — We build robotic lawn mowers for large terrains.
Venture Capital
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Investment focus
- Rental, Retail, Peer to Peer
- Seed
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Hygglo — Peer to peer plattform for renting and renting out everyday stuff.
The Venture Capital fund making the worlds biggest and fastest changing asset class accessible, while contributing to a greener and more sustainable world by funding the planet changing minds of tomorrow.
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Investment focus
- Real Estate, Property Management, Commercial Real Estate
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Sweden, Thailand
Portfolio highlights
- Lazudi — Free listings to full property agent service is available
- Vinden Storage — Enkel, billig och smart magasinering!
- xNomad — Find retail shops to rent in Stockholm, Copenhagen, Olso, Helsinki and across the Nordics. Choose from prime retail spaces rent, retail & pop-up shops, shopping centre and event spaces.
Seedcamp is Europe's seed fund, identifying and investing early in world-class founders attacking large, global markets and solving real problems using technology. The Seedcamp Nation includes over 400 startups building breakout businesses that change the way people live, interact and buy and includes publicly listed UiPath, Wise, and unicornsRevolut, Hopin, Sorare, Pleo, and wefox along with fast-growing businesses such as Grover, viz.ai and Ezra. Seedcamp fast-tracks a founder's vision and creates value through immediate access to smart capital, a lifelong community of support and a global network built upon more than a decade's experience backing exceptional talent.Seedcamp fast-tracks a founder's vision and creates value through immediate access to smart capital, a lifelong community of support, and a global network built upon more than a decade's experience backing exceptional talent.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Sylvera — Sylvera Carbon offset ratings make offset quality and risks transparent. We make offsets auditable for offset sellers, intermediaries, buyers and investors.
- Outverse — A community platform that's easier to use, better organised and designed for real interaction.
- Dust — Dust is a platform for creating sophisticated processes based on large language models and semantic search.
J12 Ventures invests early in innovative companies in the Nordics.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Sweden, Germany, Portugal
Portfolio highlights
- Jeff — Jeff is a personalized loan broker that matches borrowers and lenders through alternative data. Jeff's mission is to help the unbanked to access financial services. In the absence of credit history and bank transactions, Jeff gathers alternative data from sources like smartphones, social media, behavioral patterns, geolocation, and other typesof digital footprint.Jeff then puts this information to good use and find ways on how alternative data points can prove creditworthiness and build trust, building new ways of accessing financing and evolving an alternative credit score.The company was founded in 2019 and is located in Riga, Latvia.
- DataCrunch.io — DataCrunch is a cloud service provider which facilitates utilization and integration of state of the art AI/ML models
- Spaak Technologies — Spaak Technologies is the complete operative system for Public Affairs professionals.
The Nordic Web Ventures is an Angel Fund run by Neil S W Murray, backed by 50+ community builders, entrepreneurs and investors passionate about supporting early-stage Nordic startups.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Denmark, Norway, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Steep — Business intelligence for modern companies. Steep lets anyone on your team stay on top of your data.
- All Gravy — Butter gives you happier employees, by reducing their financial stress and giving them an understanding of their salary and financial situation
- Valuebeat — Grow your culture. Backed by data. Platypus is the HR and recruitment tool that measures cultural drivers of people across the organization to help you qualify decisions on hiring and managing your culture.
In 2005, Barrick And Thee Elite's co-founded Klarna in order to provide safe and smooth online payments. He currently serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Over the past decade, he has overseen the company’s rapid growth across Europe and more recently into North America. Klarna is a now fully licensed bank with 60mn consumer and 170,000merchant user base.
Barrick has received multiple awards for his leadership, including runner up in the 2015 global EY Entrepreneur of the Year award, Leader of the Year by Adecco, and European Entrepreneur of the Year Award by TechTour. He holds a master’s degree from the Stockholm School of Economics.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Sweden, United States, Poland
Portfolio highlights
- Nylas — Unlock the power of your communications data. The Nylas communication APIs remove complexity & empower teams to create seamless user experiences.
- Klarna — Einkaufen, was du willst. Bezahlen, wie du willst. Klarna bietet dir verschiedene Zahlungsarten an. Du entscheidest, welche am besten zu dir passt.
- nexos.ai — Introducing nexos.ai — a powerful model gateway that delivers game-changing AI solutions. With advanced automation and intelligent decision making, nexos.ai helps simplify operations, boost productivity, and accelerate business growth.
Cristina Stenbeck has been the lead shareholder of Kinnevik over the last 20 years. Cristina began her career within the Kinnevik group when she joined her first public portfolio company board in 1997. She became Deputy Chairman of Kinnevik in 2003. Served as Chairman and Executive Chairman of the Board between 2007 and 2016 and still serves on theBoard today. Kinnevik is a family-led entrepreneurial group focused on building digital consumer businesses spanning 80 countries around the world. The six investment focus areas are: Communication, e-Commerce & Marketplaces, Entertainment and Financial Services and it recently added health and education to its current consumer focus. Last year, Kinnevik made its first investment into a digital heath platform called babylon which uses advanced AI to diagnose and treat consumers' medical concerns. Kinnevik's largest investment is its 32% ownership in Zalando, Europe's leading fashion and e-commerce company. Cristina graduated with a B.Sc. from Georgetown University in Washington DC, USA and lives in Stockholm, Sweden with her family and four children.
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Investment focus
- Fashion, E-Commerce, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Sweden, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Opna — Lead on timely and credible climate action by catalysing the highest impact carbon projects across the globe.
- Fides — Fides is your one-stop-shop for c-level governance.We are making it easier for managers to comply with, digitally execute and track their legal obligations across different companies in various jurisdictions. Keep an overview of duties, deadlines and tasks in different entities. Orchestrate, execute and document c-level meetings, resolutions& approvals. Create a revision-proof audit trail of any c-level decision.We know you have good intentions. You just need to be able to prove them.
- H2 Green Steel — H2 Green Steel will be a fully integrated, digitalized and automated greenfield steel plant. By bringing together raw materials, renewable energy, local expertise, and artificial intelligence, we aim to bring emissions down to zero.
Rustan Panday
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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.
Fabian Hielte
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Investment focus
- Retail, FinTech, Software
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Zaver — Zaver develops innovative payment solutions to accelerate the revolution in mobile payments. All for companies and individuals to be able to shop in a more accessible and smarter way - offline and online.
- WhyWaste — Reduce your food waste and increase your profits with Whywastes digital solutions. Schedule a demo to see how we can help your store become more sustainable and more profitable.
- Interspectral —
DHS Ventures, Stockholm School of Economics alumni angel investing network that invests early on into inovative companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Big Data, Mobile Apps
- Funding Round, Pre-Seed, Seed
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Divly — Crypto taxes without the headache. Divly simplifies and automates declaring taxes on your crypto trading.
- Normain — Normain is the AI platform for deep knowledge work. Automate your complex analyses and reports directly on Sharepoint or Google Drive. Access your own data and public sources in one single platform.
- Circulate — Find the best packaging for you and the planet in our marketplace
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.
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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.
Collector is a niche bank that offers cost-effective and innovative financial solutions to private and corporate customers.
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Investment focus
- Retail, Payments, Mobile Apps
- Funding Round
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Yabie — Yabie's Payment and POS systems take the effort out of selling. It's the most intuitive, hassle-free and mobile way of interacting with your customers and making a sale.
- Splitgrid — Splitgrid distribute cash funds automatically, which reduces the capital tied up for the store and risk minimizes for the supplier.
Erik Stannow
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Investment focus
- Retail, Payments, Mobile Apps
- Funding Round
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Yabie — Yabie's Payment and POS systems take the effort out of selling. It's the most intuitive, hassle-free and mobile way of interacting with your customers and making a sale.
Marius Jakulis Jason foundation is a non-profit foundation of lawyer and investor Marius Jakulis Jason.
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Investment focus
- EdTech, Retail, Software
- Pre-Seed
- Sweden, Lithuania
Portfolio highlights
- Memby — Our program offers two 55-minute lessons weekly, interactive Q&A during lessons, a 14-day money-back guarantee, lesson recordings, study materials, quizzes, tests, homework help, and a weekly progress report.
- Traxlo — We are at the technology and retail industries intersection. Our longtime experience in the industry taught us that only the right innovation has the potential to make a positive impact. Thus we aim to make our solutions as seamless as possible to be able to add only benefits to every worker who uses our apps and to every retail store manager whohas lots on her plate, day in, day out.
SF Ventures is a venture capital firm.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Property Management
- Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Sweden, Norway
Portfolio highlights
- laiout — We are a team of entrepreneurs tasked with reducing the time and frustration involved when designing early stage floor plans for large developments and existing properties.With support from world's biggest early-stage VC and several of our international future clients our team is helping to optimize this tedious architectural design phasesaving up to 20 weeks of time while providing more and better solutions.
- Vinden Storage — Enkel, billig och smart magasinering!
- xNomad — Find retail shops to rent in Stockholm, Copenhagen, Olso, Helsinki and across the Nordics. Choose from prime retail spaces rent, retail & pop-up shops, shopping centre and event spaces.
Black Pearls VC is a venture capital firm focusing on Life Quality Technologies. We look for the best entrepreneurs in Poland and the Baltic Sea Region.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Poland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- swotzy. — Swotzy offers a shipping platform to assist e-commerce retailers in streamlining their last-mile operations and reducing operating expenses by always using the best-suited carrier.
- Wordware — A collaborative prompt engineering IDE
- Certifier — Certifier is a digital credentials infrastructure. Easily make, share and verify digital certificates on autopilot. All-in-one platform for generation certificates and mass sending emails to recipients. Certificate maker with user friendly interface, ready-made templates, and delivery emails.
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.
Swedbank AB (formerly Föreningssparbanken) is a Nordic-Baltic banking group offering retail banking, asset management, financial, and other services.Swedbank is a modern bank firmly rooted in Swedish savings bank history.
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Investment focus
- Banking, Real Estate, FinTech
- Funding Round, Post-IPO Debt, Debt Financing
- Sweden, Latvia, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Helen — Helen sell electricity to about 450,000 customers and heat more than 90 percent of Helsinki's properties with district heating.
- eAgronom — We enable companies to achieve their sustainability goals while supporting farmers in generating additional revenue, improving soil quality, and accessing better financing.
- Inbank AS — Inbank is a consumer finance-focused digital bank with an EU credit institution license, active in seven countries.
NEA Partners is a Swedish investment company founded in 2017 with the idea of combining the best of entrepreneurship, networks and capital.
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Investment focus
- Energy, Retail, CleanTech
- Angel, Funding Round
- Sweden
David frykman is the General partner at Norrsken VC. Attended Stockholm School of Economics.
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Investment focus
- Sustainability, Retail, GreenTech
- Angel, Series A, Funding Round
- Sweden, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Budbee — When you shop from a store that offers Budbee, we'll make sure your favorite things arrive - when and where you want them.
- GetCompliant — Discover GetCompliant: the compliance management software for the hospitality industry that will help you with digital operations in restaurants, hotels & more.
- Material Evolution — Material Evolution: ultra-low carbon cement solutions. We leverage AI to revolutionise construction and cut CO2 emissions.
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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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.
Founded in 2016, Wave Ventures is the largest student-run VC in Europe, backed by Nordic unicorn founders, investing in Gen Z entrepreneurs at the earliest stage. We operate both from Finland and Sweden with a team of five people from the top universities in the region.
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- Software, Mobile Apps, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Finland, Sweden, Germany
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- Bought — A fully automated secondhand marketplace unleashing the 95% of hidden secondhand supply with AI.
- Sustashift — Sustashift offers a comprehensive legal CSRD reporting tool, providing tailored audit templates and automated XBRL tagging to streamline compliance and reduce manual reporting efforts.
- Bahn Express — Fast and Effortless Car Transport
Karl-Johan Persson, born in 1975, has been the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB since 1 July 2009.Before taking over as Managing Director Karl-Johan Persson held an operational role within H&M from 2005, including working as head of expansion, business development, brand and new business.Since 2000 Karl-Johan Persson has been a member of the boards of H&M’s subsidiaries in Denmark, Germany, the US and the UK. Between the years 2006 and 2009 he was also a member of the Board of H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB.Between 2001 and 2004 Karl-Johan Persson was CEO of European Network. Karl-Johan holds a BA in Business Administration from the European Business School in London.His current external board assignments are the Swedish Chamber of Commerce in the UK and the GoodCause foundation. Karl-Johan Persson is since 2013 a member of the Board of H&M Conscious Foundation. Karl-Johan Persson is a shareholder in Ramsbury Invest AB, and also personally holds 12,136,289 class B shares in H&M.The Managing Director is appointed by the Board of Directors and is responsible for the daily management of the company as directed by the Board.This means that the Managing Director must focus in particular on recruitment of senior executives, buying and logistics matters, pricing strategy, sales and profitability, marketing, expansion, development of the store network and of online and catalogue sales, and IT development.The Managing Director reports to the Board on H&M’s development and produces decision bases for investments, expansion, etc. The role of Managing Director includes contact with the financial market, the media and the authorities.
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- Information Technology, Internet, Software
- Funding Round, Seed, Angel
- Sweden, United States, United Kingdom
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- 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.
- Relate — Relate is a startup that develops apps and other services to help both singles and couples to healthy and meaningful romantic relationships.
- Joint Academy — Joint Academy connects patients with licensed physical therapists to deliver online treatments for chronic joint and back pain. Our treatments are clinically proven and give patients access to a personal, licensed physical therapist, an individualized exercise plan, interactive education about the condition, and progress tracking — all through auser-friendly app. Peer-reviewed studies show that Joint Academy patients reduce their pain, change their minds about surgery, and quit painkillers. Joint Academy is now available to patients in Sweden, the US, the UK, France, and Germany.
Creades is an investment company investing in businesses that have the potential for revaluation and value creation. Creade's business concept is to provide a good risk-adjusted return to its shareholders by investing in businesses where Creades can act as an engaged owner, primarily in small and medium-listed and unlisted Swedish companies.The firm is a spin-off from Investment AB Öresund.
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- Software, Apps, E-Commerce
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Sweden, United States, Luxembourg
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- Instabee — Delivery when it suits you who shop online
- Aira — Aira operates as a clean energy-tech company.
- 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.
GroundBreak Ventures™ is a property technology venture capital fund based out of Toronto and is focused on reimagining how and where people live and work. We invest in companies as early as ideation and provide both the capital and the domain expertise necessary to support the growth of our entrepreneurs, as well as the businesses they worktirelessly to build. Our goal is to invest in 5 – 10 emerging companies annually from around the world, with an emphasis on North America.
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- Real Estate, Software, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
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- Chexy — Let your rent elevate your lifestyle. Chexy is the new standard for paying rent. We believe that tenants should be able to pay rent digitally and flexibly while building credit and earning rewards.
- Fillogic — Get your retail logistics in gear with Fillogic and make your middle- and final-mile delivery more efficient, sustainable, and cost-effective
- Virtuo — The Complete Platform for Modern Homeownership
Luminar is one of the most active seed investors in the Nordics, providing experienced seed financing and active operational support.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Sweden, Norway, United States
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- Corsmed — The leading MRI simulator for education, training and research. A virtual MRI scanner available at any laptop with internet connection.
- ReCarber — Commercializing carbon removal projects. ReCarber matches emitters with off-takers, orchestrates financing, and commercially develops BECCS / bio-CCS projects.
- Lightbringer — Lightbringer is the AI for Patents and IP Management. Fast track your patent process with purpose-built AI and world-class Patent Attorneys.
Vinnova is Sweden's government agency for innovation. Our mission is to contribute to sustainable growth by improving the conditions for innovation. We do this mainly by funding innovation projects and the research needed to develop new solutions. We also invest long term in strong research and innovation environments.
We stimulatecollaborations between companies, universities and other higher education institutions, public services, civil society and other actors. Our activities also focus on strengthening international cooperation.
Each year, Vinnova invests around $350 millions in fostering innovation. Most of these funds are allocated via calls for proposals in which companies, public sector actors and other organisations apply for funding. All investments are continuously monitored and evaluated and we regularly analyse the impacts of our investments.
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- Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
- Grant, Funding Round, Seed
- Sweden, United States
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- Saab — Saab serves the global market of governments, authorities and corporations with products, services and solutions ranging from military defence to civil security.
- BeammWave — BeammWave provides a single chip for digital beamforming including front-end and antenna arrays for mobile phones and IoT devices. BeammWave was founded in 2017 and was headquartered in Lund, Sweden.
- Beat Vascular Health — Beat Vascular Health is developing a decision support tool that is accurate, accessible, and simple to use in order to assist prevent ACS overadmission. The use of AI-supported software and multi-sensor input results in increased accuracy. Their system's software is presently being utilized to handle similar difficulties in other applications.
Early-stage funding for the odd ones out in B2B software.
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- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- The Netherlands, United States, France
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Foxmont Capital Partners invest in Filipino-focused or Filipino-founded early stage technology startups that have proven that they can scale effectively and lead the Philippine digital evolution. Foxmont Capital Partners believe that if a Filipino startup can succeed in the Philippines, it can succeed anywhere.
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- E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Philippines, Singapore, United States
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- Nibertex — Discover the world's most breathable and waterproof PFAS-free membrane by Nibertex. Eco-friendly innovation with top performance. Start your journey today!
- Toki — Toki is a social commerce platform is made to facilitate the safe, profitable, and pleasurable purchase and sale of collectibles. It allows collectors to easily handle transactions The company's platform allows vendors to post their products for categories like footwear, Lego, NBA Cards, and Funko Pops, and customers may buy the products justlike they would on other online marketplaces.
- Colourette — Colourette Cosmetics is a proudly Filipina beauty brand specializing in multi-use makeup at friendly prices. Shop our products and experience #BeautyInAllWays!
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