Top 20 Social Impact Startup Investors in Sweden

Investor	Social Impact Sweden investments
Wiklöf Holding	2
CommerzVentures	2
Alexander Hars	2
Ingka Investments	2
Mastercard	2
Ålandsbanken	2
Norrsken VC	1
Scott Mackin	1
Jeppe Rindom	1
Marcus Bäcklund	1
Arlan Hamilton	1
Michael Heller	1
Sune Alstrup	1
Klaus Nyengaard	1
Sarah Drinkwater	1
Justin Mateen	1
Citi Ventures	1
Nordic Makers	1
Chalmers Ventures AB	1
Almi Invest	1

Wiklöf Holding operates as a holding company. It invests in logistics, construction, helicopter, real estate ownership, trade, and tourism sectors.

Investment focus

FinTech, Social Impact, Sustainability
Series A, Funding Round
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Doconomy — Doconomy is a Sweden-based fintech company that offers digital banking services. Their vision is of enabling a sustainable lifestyle for everyone. Doconomy wants to inspire change in behaviour and reduce unsustainable consumption and carbon emissions. Doconomy activates a circular ecosystem, connecting the consumer, the producer, the retailer andinfluencer to futureproof planet earth, and achieve a sustainable lifestyle for all.

Venture capital investor in early stage FinTech and InsurTech companies starting at Series A in Europe, Israel and the USA.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, InsurTech
Series A, Series B, Series C
United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Runa — Businesses from every walk of life use rewards to acquire, retain and thank customers but the current process is broken. Sending rewards, incentives and non-cash payouts is manual, expensive, time-consuming and error-prone. WeGift changes this. Operating in more than 30 countries, in 22 languages, 20 currencies, with over 700 brand partners, andhundreds of clients, like Perkbox, Sodexo, New Look and Halfords among others, WeGift’s cloud-based, open API solutions allow businesses to transfer value to consumers, in real-time and globally. Established in 2016, WeGift is backed by leading entrepreneurs and investors.
Volt.io — Increase retention and digital sales by allowing your customers to initiate direct payments, from their bank accounts to yours in real-time. Your checkout in super-drive, powered by Volt.
Money Fellows — MoneyFellows digitizes the ROSCA model, enabling group lending and savings.

Alexander Hars - Board member @ Zalster

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.

We're Ingka Investments, along with Ingka Centres and IKEA Retail, one of the three core businesses of Ingka Group. We invest in generations, not quarters.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, GPS
Funding Round, Series A, Series C
Sweden, United States, United Kingdom

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.
DirectID — We build solutions that create frictionless financial experiences, breaking down barriers & creating trust with bank data online. Bank Data, Open Banking.
GoBolt — Logistics, Simplified. GoBolt is building a sustainable, first-party supply chain network. Delivering an end-to-end customer experience.

Mastercard is a payments and technology company that connects consumers, businesses, merchants, and governments. They provide data services and marketing center. Their marketing materials help card portfolios and businesses. They also provide fraud prevention solutions and payment ecosystem security.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
Series A, Corporate Round, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Fabrick — Fabrick offers Open Banking solutions: a new way of thinking about the bank, open, modular and data driven, closer to your needs
MTN Group Fintech — MTN MoMo is a fintech platform providing consumers and businesses with a host of innovative digital financial services...
Clearbox AI — Benefit from Synthetic Data to unlock your AI projects, overcome privacy issues and improve the utility of your data.

Alandsbanken provides retail banking, corporate finance, asset management, and private banking services to institutions and individuals.

Investment focus

FinTech, Social Impact, Sustainability
Series A, Funding Round
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Doconomy — Doconomy is a Sweden-based fintech company that offers digital banking services. Their vision is of enabling a sustainable lifestyle for everyone. Doconomy wants to inspire change in behaviour and reduce unsustainable consumption and carbon emissions. Doconomy activates a circular ecosystem, connecting the consumer, the producer, the retailer andinfluencer to futureproof planet earth, and achieve a sustainable lifestyle for all.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

LanguifyAI — Languify is an AI based language learning assistant which analyses, corrects, and tracks a user's spoken and written English across all platforms. The AI assistant prompts feedback and nudges that improve conversations in real-time that enable improvisation on the spot without any delay. It also enables users to learn at their own pace throughpersonalized learning plans and games designed to minimize repetition of errors.
Granular Energy — Granular Energy provides solutions for managing and trading clean energy. Our tools have been developed to support the recent emergence of 24/7 time-stamped energy certificates as well as traditional "annual" certificates.
Material Evolution — Material Evolution uses patented geopolymer technology and proprietary algorithms to create the most sustainable materials on the planet.Material Evolution’s first product is a cement mix made from 95% waste using its algorithm technology. Its smart concrete mix is 10X stronger, 5X more durable, and reduces carbon consumption by 85%. Mostimportantly, it’s economically viable for construction companies.

Mr. Scott Mackin is a Managing Partner and Co-President and heads the firm’s Power & Renewables team. Mr. Mackin brings 25 years of energy experience to Denham. He is a member of the Management Committee, Executive Committee, Investment Committee and Valuation Committee. Prior to joining Denham, Mr. Mackin was the President and CEO ofWaypoint Energy, Managing Partner at The Chatham Group, President and CEO of Covanta Energy Corporation, President of Ogden Energy and General Counsel at Ogden Projects, Inc. He was also an Associate at Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis and Law Clerk to the Hon. Daniel H. Huyett III, Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Mr. Mackin currently is a member of the Board of Directors of Greenleaf Power LLC, BTE Wind (Proprietary) Ltd. and Gradient Resources Inc.

Investment focus

Software, Travel, Education
Pre-Seed
Sweden, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Wangie — Connect with qualified mental health practitioners, ready and available round the clock.
Globetrotter VR — Globetrotter VR is a platform for virtual travel. Experience the world through best-in class guided tours using virtual reality.
Views For Change — Social Impact SAAS platform transforming marketing performance by harnessing the power of charitable donations as consumer rewards.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Michael Heller - CEO and Founder @ Talent Resources

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.

Tech Investor and Entrepreneur, former Founder & CEO at The Eye Tribe

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Citi Ventures ignites change and reimagines solutions to drive economic progress for Citi's clients. We explore, incubate, and invest in new ideas in partnership with Citi colleagues, our clients, and the innovation ecosystem to accelerate the discovery of new sources of value.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Series B, Series C, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Binalyze — Binalyze enhances all your digital forensics and incident response processes at max speed.
Vega — The comprehensive wealth creation platform for high-net-worth individuals and their advisors. Vega bridges the gap between the institutional and private wealth management worlds.
Vibrant Planet — Data-driven science and cloud-based technology to help make communities and ecosystems more resilient in the face of climate change.

We know how much grit and luck it takes to build big companies. That’s why we invest our time and our children’s money in crazy, ambitious founders.Founded by a group of serial entrepreneurs that have built, scaled and exited some of the largest technology companies of the Nordics, Nordic Makers is a seed stage hands-on investor, workingactively with companies to take them to the next level.

Investment focus

Software, Education, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Denmark, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Tjommi — B2C app helping customers get money back from price drops
CluedIn — CluedIn helps enterprise companies achieve easier and reliable access to data that is scattered across their business. We build the Smart Data Fabric.
Cognigy GmbH — Automate customer and employee services through Conversational AI implementation across any organization with Cognigy. Book demo or try free now!

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Adsorbi — Adsorbi develops a novel biomaterial based on cellulose.
RadChat — RadChat is a method for arranging timeslots between cars in close proximity. The timeslots can then be used for radar sensing or for transmitting data to nearby cars through the radar unit.The patent-pending technology's ability to eliminate radar interference is unequaled. Because each car in the vicinity has its own assigned timeslot,there will be no interference from other vehicles. RadChat enables your vehicle's sensors to be trusted.The data communication utility is a supplementary technology for communication in scenarios requiring low latency, directed connectivity, and safety. Video feeds, vital safety alarms, location and positioning data, and other types of data can be delivered.
EmbeDL — Efficient Deep Learning for Embedded Systems

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.
EmbeDL — Efficient Deep Learning for Embedded Systems
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