Top 10 Social Impact Angel Investors in Sweden in October 2024
A list of 10 angel investors that invest in Social impact startups based in Sweden. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Social impact companies from Sweden. We update this investor list every month.Top 10 Social Impact Angel Investors in Sweden in October 2024
Investor | Social Impact Sweden investments |
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Alexander Hars | 2 |
Justin Mateen | 1 |
Michael Heller | 1 |
Jeppe Rindom | 1 |
Marcus Bäcklund | 1 |
David Helgason | 1 |
Klaus Nyengaard | 1 |
Sarah Drinkwater | 1 |
Sune Alstrup | 1 |
Arlan Hamilton | 1 |
Alexander Hars - Board member @ Zalster
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, SaaS
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Sweden, Norway, Germany
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.
- Lumaly — Lumaly is a browser extension that automatically tries out and uses all available voucher codes in the cart when shopping online.
- Brink Commerce — Brink Commerce offers leading eCommerce solutions. Boost growth, perfect customer experiences, and unlock agility with our Composable Commerce API.
Justin Mateen is the Founder of Tinder, the world's largest dating platform. Founded in 2012, Tinder is the highest grossing app on Apple's app store since 2017 and was valued at over $40 Billion dollars in 2021. In 2021, Business Insider ranked Mateen as the best early stage investor in the US, placing him at the number 1 spot on thetop 100 list of US Seed Investors. In 2020, Forbes included Mateen on their list of the decade's top 10 tech entrepreneurs. Fast Company has listed him as one of the most creative people in business.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Mexico, India
Portfolio highlights
- Whop — One-stop-shop for all the latest and greatest digital products to help you earn online. From trading software to reselling communities, we've got you.
- Slash — Tens of thousands of online businesses use Slash to track their profits, earn cash back, and get faster payouts from platforms like GOAT and Amazon. No LLC required, no account fees, no minimum balance, and no credit checks.
- Somethings — We connect your teen with a professional, trained 20-28 year old mentor who supports your teen via text and video call whenever they need. Start today.
Michael Heller - CEO and Founder @ Talent Resources
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, Fashion, E-Commerce
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- United States, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Blisser — Connect with your idols to drive change together. Book an instant video or customized video from a celebrity or industry expert and help drive positive social impact with video proceeds donated to charity.
- Genetica — Elevate your cannabis & hemp experience with our AI product recommendation tool. Uncover ideal matches with AI in retail. Request a demo now!
- Dream Pops — Dream Pops manufactures and markets plant-based frozen desserts formulated with coconut milk, coconut sugar, fruits and herbs. Inspired by Colombian paletas, varieties include mixed berry, chocolate with lion’s mane mushroom, vanilla matcha, coconut latte, and mango rosemary.
Jeppe Rindom is CEO & Co-founder of Pleo.Before starting Pleo, Jeppe was the CFO of the Danish startup success, Tradeshift and he has been involved as an advisor and investor in several startups and fintech companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile Apps, B2B
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Sweden, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- Monta — Monta is the operating platform powering the EV ecosystem serving drivers, companies, cities, and the electricity grid with one integrated solution.
- PocketLaw — PocketLaw is a user-friendly and affordable solution that allows you to create contracts, get legal guidance, manage your documents and contact lawyers.
- Fullview — Fullview let's you instantly monitor, control and analyze user sessions for faster real time customer support. No downloads. Easy to integrate.
Senior Technology Executive - Venture Capitalist and Entrepreneur
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Investment focus
- Software, Security, Analytics
- Seed, Funding Round, Post-IPO Equity
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Betspawn —
- Irisity AB (publ) — At Irisity we're doing real-time video analytics powered by machine learning. Irisity is a public software company with headquarters at Lindholmen, Gothenburg, and offices in Israel, USA, UAE and Singapore, where the innovative spirit is flourishing. We develop smart algorithms to detect and predict suspicious activities while preservingpeople’s integrity. We believe that enhanced AI performance, ethics, and privacy go hand in hand, creating a positive mark within the camera security industry.Irisity’s patented solution IRIS™ can be integrated into any new or existing camera infrastructure, installed directly into the camera, on server or in the cloud, to safeguarding people and assets. IRIS™ product portfolio includes solutions on asset protection, traffic management, and forensic search capabilities for a broad spectrum of industries such as safe cities, education, transportation, infrastructure, and the security industry. All IRIS™ functionality is available with our patented real-time anonymization, ensuring GDPR and US NDA act compliance and ethical safeguarding
- Winningtemp — Improve your employee experience with Winningtemp's AI-powered software. Leverage real-time data and insights to improve engagement and reduce turnover.
David is a technologist, the founder of Unity Technologies, non-exec director to others, and a restless entrepreneur with a passion for creating feedback loops between innovation and teams and products, applying new and old business models to changing industries, and pushing people to do the very best they can do.David's background is inprogramming, an assortment of university dabbling, creating companies, and helping entrepreneurs. He served as CEO of Unity Technologies since co-founding it in 2003 and until October 2014, with an unflinching vision to democratize game development, and to develop technology and business models for the next phase of the games industry. David Helgason attended the University of Copenhagen.
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Investment focus
- Software, Gaming, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Denmark, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Isometric — Isometric is a carbon removal registry and science platform
- TreesPlease Games — TreesPlease Games develops various computer and online games. The company is headquartered in London.
- Scriptic — Scriptic, interactive story games on mobile.
Klaus Nyengaard is the co-founder and Chairman of GenieBelt, a SaaS-based platform that develops project management software. He is also co-founder of the investment club, Nordic Makers. He serves as the co-chairman of Treatwell, a beauty and wellness community marketplace.
Nyengaard has previously been CEO & Chairman of Just-Eat pre-IPO, andbuild a number of tech companies.
In 1994, Klaus Nyengaard graduated from Aarhus University with a specialized degree in economics and management.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Marketplace, Apps
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Denmark, United Kingdom, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Famly — Easy-to-use software for childcare providers. Our nursery management software makes administration, planning, and learning journals easy. Try it for free.
- Panion — Panion is a community-building tool that helps companies, schools, and organizations facilitate more social interactions amongst its members. The platform is entirely keyword searchable and filterable so members are able to search for each other based on common interests, values, goals or experiences and even narrow their searches by location,gender, age, language and much more. Members and admins can propose spontaneous events within the network and form social groups around an interest. Community admins are given a dashboard of analytics to track trends in their community and send segmented messages based on interest and location.
- Spotahome — Spotahome is a mid- to long-term residential rentals platform that is reinventing the property market. It offers the most complete property and room listings for stays above 30 days, bookable exclusively through online viewings which saves tenants and property owners time and money. The company creates the listing at no cost to the landlord - aprofessional photographer ("Homechecker") visits the property and creates the audio-visual materials including high quality photos, HD video tours, detailed floor plans and honest property and neighbourhood descriptions. By offering the most complete property listings, it allows tenants to book their property from anywhere in the world without the need for in-person viewings. It also offers guarantees against default payments and damages. Spotahome is growing rapidly, fueled by a $40M Series B funding round led by Kleiner Perkins, the first leading Silicon Valley VC in a Spanish company. It is present in 11 cities across 8 countries in Europe.Spotahome was launched by Alejandro Artacho, Bryan McEire, Hugo Monteiro and Bruno Bianchi in March 2014 and has offices in both Madrid, Spain and London, UK.
Atomico Angel
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Investment focus
- Fashion, Communities, Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- France, Sweden, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Anyone — Anyone makes getting and giving advice easy through five-minute voice calls. Reserve your handle in the phone book of the future.
- Liberare (Formerly Intimately) — Intimately sells adaptive bras and underwear for women with disabilities. We sell the easiest bras to put on that are also fashionable. Front opening bras with the newest technology allow for easy dressing for everyone.
- Lucky Sweater — Welcome to the ultimate slow fashion community closet. Explore different styles, discover independent designers, and try new things with the slow fashion community.
Tech Investor and Entrepreneur, former Founder & CEO at The Eye Tribe
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Denmark, Sweden, France
Portfolio highlights
- Go Dogo — Go Dogo provides mental workout for dogs - It's an app-controlled wall-mounted robot that uses the home TV to give instructions and feedback. The combination of computer vision and treat releases enables brain games that slowly gets more and more challenging. Over-the-Air updates ensures that Go Dogo never gets old.
- Rerun — Log and visually explore computer vision and robotics data over time. Debug and understand the internal state and data of your systems with minimal code.
- Doublepoint — Solving Next-Generation Interactions. Doublepoint provides future computing platforms more intuitive, robust and versatile interactions.
Arlan Hamilton is the Founder and Managing Partner of Backstage Capital, a venture capital firm dedicated to minimizing funding disparities in tech by investing in high-potential founders who are people of color, women, and/or LGBT. Started from scratch in 2015, Backstage has now raised more than $12 million and invested in more than 150startup companies led by underestimated founders. In 2018, they launched a four-city accelerator program in Los Angeles, Detroit, Philadelphia, and London.Arlan is the author of, It's About Damn Time, an inspirational and tactical business book for budding entrepreneurs and aspiring investors. She hosts the popular podcast, Your First Million, and has been featured on CNN, PBS, and others, and in 2019 became the first Black woman to have an entirely devoted episode of Emily Chang's Bloomberg 1.0.In October 2018, Arlan was featured on the cover of Fast Company magazine as the first Black woman non-celebrity to do so (following Oprah, Serena, and Beyonce).
In 2019, Arlan and her mother, Mrs. Earline Butler-Sims, announced their new scholarship program, which kicked off with Oxford University's first-ever undergraduate scholarship for a Black student, as well as a commitment to fund a full-ride scholarship for a Psychology student at Mrs. Sims' alma mater, HBCU Dillard University.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Communities
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- MicroAcquire — Buy and sell startups in as little as 30 days. Connect with 200k+ qualified buyers & browse 1,000s of vetted listings. Free escrow, legal docs & more. Join now.
- Patientory — Patientory empowers our users with actionable insights from health data, incentivizing them to take control of their health outcomes.
- Maven — Maven is where top creators teach cohort-based courses. We help you make a living teaching what you love.
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