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Top 35 Retail VC Funds in Sweden

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 35 VC 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 35 Retail VC Funds in Sweden

Investor	Retail Sweden investments
Wellstreet	5
Industrifonden	3
Schibsted Growth	2
Almi Invest	2
Antler	2
NFT Ventures	2
Swedbank	2
Iron Wolf Capital	2
Northzone	2
Chalmers Ventures AB	2
Verdane	2
Norrsken VC	2
Brightly Ventures	1
Rävberget Venture Capital AB	1
Collector Bank	1
J12	1
Foxmont Capital Partners	1
Bonnier Ventures	1
Seedcamp	1
NEA Partners	1
GroundBreak Ventures	1
Vinnova	1
Luminar Ventures	1
Marius Jakulis Jason foundation	1
The Nordic Web Ventures	1
Creades AB	1
Wave Ventures	1
DHS Venture Partners	1
Proptech Farm	1
Heartcore Capital	1
XVC Tech	1
Collector Ventures	1
SF Ventures	1
Black Pearls VC	1
henQ	1

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Wellstreet is an innovation and tech ecosystem that includes an investment company, a strategic consultancy firm and a venture building incubator.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Retail
Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
Sweden, Norway, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Y/ELM+ — Y/ELM+ is a horseback riding safety and protection brand that focuses n creating leading-edge rider safety solutions.
Maintract — Maintract is a new generation of financial contract management software. It also offers banking and financial services. They provide contract management automation solutions to banks for drafting, data verification, workflow automation, contract data monitoring, tracking workflow and documentation, compliance management, and more.
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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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Arevo — Arevo offers liquid and granular amino acid fertilizer technologies for faster and better plant establishment.
AlixLabs — AlixLabs is an innovative startup enabling the semiconductor industry to scale down in a cost effective manner
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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 — Camping, RV parks, glamping near you. Book your outdoor stays.

ALMI Invest is a venture capital company which invests in Swedish companies with exciting, scalable business models and motivated entrepreneurs. ALMI Invest consists of eight regionally based venture capital funds, all with local offices and experienced local investment managers. We manage a total of SEK 1 billion. Unlike most venture capitalists,we can invest in a wide range of businesses. A strong team of entrepreneurs, a scalable business model and an initial revenue stream are more important than the line of business when we invest.Our first, initial investment would typically be SEK 2-4 million. During the lifetime of an investment, sums of up to SEK 10 million can be ventured. We always syndicate with an investment partner (another venture capitalist or angel investor) from Sweden or otherwise which means that we can take a maximum of 50 percent of an investment round.ALMI Invest was founded in 2009 by ALMI Fretagspartner together with regional investors. Half of our capital comes from European Union structural funds, which accounts for an investment of SEK 500 million. The other 50 per cent comes from regional investors and ALMI Fretagspartner.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
Sweden, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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

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Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Singapore, United Kingdom, Australia

Portfolio highlights

FitFlo — FitFlo brings to life the connected gym experience for Operators, Trainers and Members.
Mole — Mole is a digital business card and mobile website software. Connect with your clients, promote your business online and much more. Comes with free customised NFC business card.
Optacloud — Fostering a global AI powered ecosystem to achieve 100% cloud efficacy-> effortlessly, economically and eco-consciously. Dev tools stack for automating the entire development lifecycle of cloud apps across- Build, Deploy & Optimize.

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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.
roaring.io — We create automated solutions that simplifies your daily business processes, enabling you to work smarter and stay competitive.
Acknoledger — Ackno API will consist of UCNS and Ackno plagiarism engine that will be used by NFT platforms, NFT Marketplaces, Metaverses, and Digital Universes UCNS will adopt a decentralized approach to provide unique identifier for any content that is validated across Metaverses and NFT platforms AcknoLedger will collaborate with the current NFT and MetaverseEcosystem Partners to deploy UCNS solutions to their existing Digital Assets

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.

Investment focus

Banking, Real Estate, FinTech
Funding Round, Post-IPO Debt, Debt Financing
Sweden, Latvia, Finland

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.
Kojamo Group — Kojamo plc will focus on real estate investments in Finland, renewing rental housing to make it increasingly attractive by developing new types of homes and services. The solutions promote work-related mobility in urbanising Finland, increase well-being and help preserve the environment. The vision of the housing investment company is to be apioneer in housing and the customer’s number-one choice.
Exeger — We invent, engineer, and provide world-changing technologies to improve everyday life.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Infrastructure, Manufacturing
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Lithuania, Estonia, United Kingdom

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.
Repsense — Reputation management software - Repsense is AI powered online reputation management service that helps you track your reputation.
Kingdom Technologies — Kingdom builds novel robotic lawn mowers for large terrains

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

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Sweden, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Jow — Jow is a grocery shopping app that simplifies shopping and gives advice of what to eat. This app offers free and simple recipes that adapt to the customer's taste. It automatically creates a customized menu with delicious recipes and fills the cart with all the ingredients necessary for cooking.Jow was founded in 2017 and is headquartered inParis, France.
spektr — Automate your ongoing due diligence cycle to boost revenue with spektr's compliance solution. Simplify client monitoring and risk control for commercial success.
Monumental — Pioneering the automation of on-site construction with cutting-edge robotics and software. Committed to transforming the industry, our mission is to enable software-defined construction, creating bespoke, beautiful buildings rapidly with minimal labor.

We are a leading tech investor & venture builder in the Nordics. Taking deep tech from lab to market.WELCOMEINVESTMENTS

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Energy
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Vesiro — Vesiro enables companies to scale their databases with increased performance.
Vividye AB — Vividye's technology makes it possible to apply all sorts of colors and designs to textiles, which can later be removed to re-apply new ones. In other words, we take sustainable fashion beyond green.
ReVibe Energy — ReVibe Energy® was founded to provide sensors and monitoring systems with a power source that is both sustainable and reliable – something that hasn’t been possible before. Through a unique vibration energy harvesting technology, our products offers our customers the possibility to convert vibrations that exist in most industrial environments toelectricity to fully power their sensor and monitoring system

The preferred growth partner to tech-enabled businesses in Northern Europe.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
Funding Round, Private Equity, Series A
Sweden, Norway, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Jobylon — Jobylon is a social recruiting and hiring software with the purpose of liberating the hiring managerJobylon aims to provide the easiest way for companies to create and share beautiful job ads, manage candidates with their team and hire the right person with one simple tool.The recruitment industry has stayed unchanged for too long whilstthe need for a simple and efficient tool has increased. Our mission is to change recruitment as you know it!Sign up for your free account on www.jobylon.com
Meltwater — Discover how Meltwater helps PR and marketing teams monitor media coverage across both news and social media and enhance brand management.
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.

We are a venture capital fund investigating in Start-Ups solving the worlds biggest problems while building massive businesses.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Food and Beverage
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Sweden, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Cellcolabs — Cellcolabs provides high quality stem cells at competitive prices for use within research and treatments.
Fever — Grid balancing to enable more re-newables
Heart Aerospace — Heart’s mission is to create the fastest, most affordable and sustainable transportation for regional travel to every corner of the world. Their first aircraft is the ES-19, a nineteen-passenger airliner with an operating range of 400 km. Heart's goal is to have the aircraft certified for commercial operation by 2026.

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, Series A, Funding Round
Sweden, United States

Portfolio highlights

Zevoy — Automate receipt and expense management
Adway — Adway specializes in recruitment marketing, employer branding, Hr-tech and candidate journey solutions.
Worldfavor — Worldfavor is the first to bring sustainability and compliance information based on established frameworks to one global platform. We connect businesses around the world to share sustainability information with each other through one platform, where they can also manage and excel their own performance in a secure, collaborative space. We helpbusinesses avoid manual spreadsheets and stiff, expensive software. Simply because we want you to save time and resources for your impact, and because modern technology can enable so much more.The vision is to be global de-facto information platform for sustainable decisions, serving any actor with sustainability/compliance data (business data 2.0) on any organization from one shared platform where they also manage it. The SaaS covers all sustainability/compliance needs under one roof: Manage Sustainability, Visualize Sustainability and data collection and assessment of any type of partners in the Value Chain, such as suppliers or portfolio companies.

Venture Capital

Investment focus

Rental, Retail, Peer to Peer
Seed
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Hygglo — Peer to peer plattform for renting and renting out everyday stuff.

Collector is a niche bank that offers cost-effective and innovative financial solutions to private and corporate customers.

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.

J12 Ventures invests early in innovative companies in the Nordics.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Sweden, Germany, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Ayora — Ayora is a revenue management platform that assists professionals in optimizing revenue decisions and streamlining associated processes.
Buddywise — Gain control of your safety risks and empower your EHS teams to be truly data-driven. Use existing cameras to gather data, eliminate risks and react in real-time.
Jimini AI — Cutting-edge AI for next generation law firms and companies.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Philippines, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Etaily — Etaily provides complete end-to-end omni-channel eCommerce services to ensure brands will successfully thrive in the digital economy
RuralNet — RuralNet is a digital API-driven platform that assists by providing a wide range of insurance and other financial services.
Toki — Discover a world of treasures at Tokiasia.com! Shop for exclusive collectible toys, LEGO sets, Funko Pops, sports cards, and sneakers. Find your passion now!

Bonnier Capital is the investment division of the Bonnier Group. Since 2016, we invest in promising companies in structurally growing industries and have become a reliant investment partner to companies and funds of various sizes.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

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.

NEA Partners is a Swedish investment company founded in 2017 with the idea of combining the best of entrepreneurship, networks and capital.

Investment focus

Energy, Retail, CleanTech
Angel, Funding Round
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

blipp.se — blipp.se is a digital marketplace for selling and buying cars.
Qvantum — Qvantum is driven by a passion for a sustainable future and we are changing the way the cities of Europe are heated.

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.

Investment focus

Real Estate, Software, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Fillogic — Get your retail logistics in gear with Fillogic and make your middle- and final-mile delivery more efficient, sustainable, and cost-effective
Local Logic — Local Logic provides precise location insights that drive decisions for real estate professionals, developers, investors, and governments.
Virtuo — Virtuo is a CX platform built for home builders, real estate agents, mortgage lenders, and more, to elevate their home buyer experience.

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.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
Grant, Funding Round, Seed
Sweden, United States

Portfolio highlights

Enerpoly — Enerpoly offers proprietary zinc-ion battery cells and packs. Our batteries are a safe, reliable and incredibly cost-efficient solution for stationary energy storage.
XNK Therapeutics — XNK Therapeutics, founded in 2012, is one of the pioneering companies within the landscape of cell therapy.
Blue Cromos Management AB — Protect your brand with Blue Cromos. The platform provides anti-counterfeiting technology, the application provides brand protection, authenticity control, identification, and production quality control.

Luminar Ventures is a venture capital fund that prefers to make early-stage investments in technology companies. They engage with their portfolio companies and are actively helping with strategic, growth, team and organizational, and operational support, and together setting the foundation for future expansion.Luminar's core investment focusis on scalable digital seed-stage companies from the Nordics, founded by highly motivated and talented entrepreneurs with a vision to disrupt or transform major industries. The firm aims to provide experienced seed-stage financing and active operational support to Sweden based early-stage technology companies that are looking to disrupt or transform major industries with digital technologies and innovations.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Muninn — AI-powered cyber security - defending your entire network
Aviant — Delivering full-stack drone services that enables autonomous and on-demand transport of cargo.
Vibrant — The best in taking easy payments! Start accepting contactless transactions straight through your phone!

Marius Jakulis Jason foundation is a non-profit foundation of lawyer and investor Marius Jakulis Jason.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Denmark, Norway, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Steep — The modern analytics platform powered by metrics.
All Gravy — Butter gives you happier employees, by reducing their financial stress and giving them an understanding of their salary and financial situation
Platypus — 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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, E-Commerce
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Sweden, United States, Luxembourg

Portfolio highlights

Kreditz — Kreditz makes sense out of open banking/PSD2-data with their proprietary Analytics Categorization Engine (ACE). By using ACE, Kreditz is able to fine-tune the transaction data (from any AISP-data aggregator) to make it understandable and usable in valid functional products such as income verification, credit scoring, KYC and many more. Theproducts are available both by API or by an integration-free Web portal. Kreditz serves industries such as consumer- & SME-lending, money transfer, auditing, gambling/betting, insurance and more throughout the Nordic countries.
Instabee — Delivery when it suits you who shop online
Aira — Aira operates as a clean energy-tech company.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile Apps, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Finland, Sweden, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Solu — Solu.co is a Fastest Growing hub for Technology, How-to, Gadgets, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Digital Marketing And Business Ideas.
Solu — Discover the next generation toolkit for analyzing, storing and sharing bacterial genomes.
Taika Tech — Taika Tech builds a novel interface for controlling the surrounding technology by making sense of your hand movement and location with a smart ring

DHS Ventures, Stockholm School of Economics alumni angel investing network that invests early on into inovative companies.

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.
Treyd — Working capital for fast growing brands. Order Now, Pay Suppliers Later
Circulate — Find the best packaging for you and the planet in our marketplace

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. Proptech Farm - We accelerate Proptech start-ups!

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.

Heartcore Capital invests in companies re-enchanting the world through technology.

Investment focus

Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Series B
Denmark, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Quesma — At Quesma we help customers to innovate faster by re-shaping the way applications are built and connected to their DBs. Quesma database gateway enables development teams to modernise and evolve application architecture.
CarbonPool — Innovative carbon credit insurance which pays claims in carbon credits, not cash. See how we can help you.
Superform Labs — THE UNIVERSAL INTERFACE FOR YIELD IS FORMING

XVC Tech is a $125mn fund supported by founders of the XDC Blockchain Network that specializes in investing in early-stage Tech start-ups.

Investment focus

Gaming, Soccer, Mobile Apps
Pre-Seed
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Fanzword — Fanzword: Where Football Passion Meets Prizes. Immerse yourself in the ultimate sports fan experience. Predict, discuss, and earn rewards while playing trivia and Fantasy Football. With $2,000 in monthly giveaways and a massive $10,000 season finale, the excitement never ends. Join the game and fuel your love for sports today!
Swiftcourt — Swiftcourt helps buyers and sellers to perform safe and smooth peer-to-peer-transactions, by providing them with smart digital contracts, e-signing and transaction-related add-on services.Swiftcourt was founded in 2016 and has since then helped over 70 000 buyers and sellers complete over 40 000 transactions. At the moment, the company is insuccessful partnerships with FINN.no, one of the most prominent classified sites in the world and with Mittanbud.no, the market leading service finder classified site in Norway. Recently, Swiftcourt also closed a deal with the biggest classified site in Sweden, Blocket.se.Swiftcourt aims to be a global standard of conducting safe and smooth online transactions and help buyers and sellers with their deals worldwide.
Bolero — Invest in the music rights of your favourite songs and get royalties on Bolero, the all-in-one marketplace to invest in Song Shares. Invest in music today!

Collector Ventures is the investment vehicle of of Collector Bank, founded by Lena Apler.

Investment focus

Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech
Funding Round, Series A
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Leeroy — Leeroy provides a technology platform that transforms customer data into marketing both on-site in-store and mobile. Leeroy provides merchants with tools to communicate and interact with the customer in real time leveraging efficiency, revenues and customer experience putting the merchant in the driver seat. The company's platform is aproduction and distribution tool for several different digital channels: in-store with communication by digital signage and by mobile to enhance loyalty.
Capcito — Capcito is a provider of working capital to SMEs. Products are invoice discounting, factoring and business loans, all offered with a click of a button. Smoothly integrated with cloud accounting applications and banks. A proprietary lending platform and scoring engine is continuously being developed to improve accuracy on credit assessment andprovide a more lean and relevant solution to SMEs in need of financing for further growth. Capcito strives to empower businesses to grow.
Swiftcourt — Swiftcourt helps buyers and sellers to perform safe and smooth peer-to-peer-transactions, by providing them with smart digital contracts, e-signing and transaction-related add-on services.Swiftcourt was founded in 2016 and has since then helped over 70 000 buyers and sellers complete over 40 000 transactions. At the moment, the company is insuccessful partnerships with FINN.no, one of the most prominent classified sites in the world and with Mittanbud.no, the market leading service finder classified site in Norway. Recently, Swiftcourt also closed a deal with the biggest classified site in Sweden, Blocket.se.Swiftcourt aims to be a global standard of conducting safe and smooth online transactions and help buyers and sellers with their deals worldwide.

SF Ventures is a venture capital firm.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Property Management, Software
Pre-Seed, Funding Round
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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Poland, United States, United Kingdom

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.
HeavyFinance — A borderless lending marketplace, where farmers meet investors
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.

Early-stage funding for the odd ones out in B2B software.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
The Netherlands, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Malou — Malou offers food marketing and digital marketing solutions for restaurants. The company also offers content management, restaurant marketing, reputation management, presence management, and SEO solutions.
Tomorro (ex Leeway) — Leeway helps you reduce the time spent on contract management and gives you more control and visibility over legal and financial risks.
CloudTalk — CloudTalk is an intuitive and easy-to-use cloud-based call center software with many advanced features designed to improve customer support.

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Media (entertainment)

EdTech

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