Top 45 Social Media Startup Investors in Sweden

Investor	Social Media Sweden investments
Industrifonden	5
H&M Group Ventures (Prev. H&M CO:LAB)	3
Wellstreet	2
Creandum	2
Northzone	2
GP Bullhound	2
Atomico	2
Niklas Eklund	2
Active Venture Partners	2
Spintop Ventures	2
Zobito	1
Evan Sharp	1
Recruit Strategic Partners	1
Johannes Schildt	1
Almi Invest	1
Peter Muld	1
Rouven Dresselhaus	1
Mathias Ackermand	1
Cloud Capital	1
Marcus Wallén	1
D-Ax Corporate Venture Capital	1
Rikard Steiber	1
Greylock	1
Menmo Ventures	1
Anders Böös	1
Biz Stone	1
NFT Ventures	1
Lars Markgren	1
Henrik Torstensson	1
Axel Bard Bringéus	1
Jonas Brogårdh	1
Ben Silbermann	1
Christopher Persson	1
Sweet Studio	1
Mats Lindoff	1
Entreprenörskapital	1
Notion Capital	1
Hampus Jakobsson	1
Krim Talia	1
Novel TMT Ventures	1
RECAPEX	1
Johan Siwers	1
Stefan Magnusson	1
Q Angels	1
Singular	1

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.
Telness Tech — We help telcos maximize customer happiness and minimize OPEX through automation. Our proprietary, cloud-based, end-to-end BSS/OSS platform is connectivity ready in 64 countries.
ZeroPoint Technologies — ZeroPoint Technologies AB was created in 2016 as a spinout from Chalmers University of Technology. The Intellectual Property Portfolio related to computer memory management was the acquired from the University and transferred into a new startup.The Technology, ideas and many of the people behind and with ZeroPoint comes from Professor PerStenströms research group, which is internationally recognized for excellence within high-performance Computing. Since its creation, ZeroPoint has attracted skilled people from industry, finance and the startup community and raised its’ first round of Venture Capital in 2016.

H&M CO:LAB is the venture capital arm of the H&M Group.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fashion, Sustainability
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
Sweden, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Laced — Discover the latest sneaker releases with Laced. The UK and Europe's authentic sneaker marketplace, discover coveted styles from Nike, Air Jordan, Yeezy, New Balance and more. Buy and sell now with Laced.
eComID — eComID empowers global online retailers to collaboratively reduce product returns
A Retro Tale — Discover A Retro Tale, Stockholm's exclusive online boutique for vintage and second-hand fashion accessories from the world's top luxury brands. Enjoy fast and secure shipping with our 100% owned inventory.

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.
Enable Banking — Empower your business with Enable Banking, the leading open banking connectivity provider, offering a secure, single API solution for seamless integration with 2500+ major banks across Europe. Book a demo today to unlock the future of open finance.

We support early-stage founders in building global, category-defining companies. From Seed to IPO and beyond.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, FinTech
Series A, Seed, Series B
Sweden, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Prewave — Supplier monitoring for purchasing, supply chain management and sustainability managers.
Plancraft — MISSION We empower our customers to focus on what they love: crafts & construction VISION In times of automation, individual and high-quality work of craftsmen will be as demanded as ever. Plancraft paves the way for profitable projects by bringing powerful calculation to an easy-to-use and accessible level.
Visibly — Visibly developing technology to bring about the change our built environment requires by providing businesses with the tools they need to reduce the industry's skills gap and ensure our infrastructure can meet the needs of the population.

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

CuspAI — CuspAI is a revolutionary AI startup that is developing a platform for next-generation materials to address global sustainability and renewable energy concerns. CuspAI uses cutting-edge generative AI, deep learning, and molecular simulation to accelerate the material design process. Their platform works similarly to a search engine for materials,allowing users to request certain properties for new materials on demand.
Faircado — Stop wasting time and money - faircado helps you find the best pre-owned deals for your wallet and the planet.
Tandem Health — Focus on providing care, while Tandem helps you easily write medical notes directly after the patient consultation.

Since 1999, GP Bullhound has invested in and advised brilliant leaders. Powered by more than 180 employees across 13 offices worldwide.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
United Kingdom, Sweden, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Sesamy — Sesamy provides frictionless single purchases and consumption of digital content, without restricting the user’s choice of app or device.
EcoVadis — Ratings platform to assess corporate social responsibility and sustainable procurement. Solutions include risk monitoring, audit management and sustainability ratings.
CoverManager — CoverManager is a tool for creating, sell and managing reservations of a restaurant.

Atomico invests in innovative technology companies around the world.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Healx — At Healx we use AI drug discovery to develop new treatments for rare diseases. We bring treatments from prediction to patient.
Iconic.AI — Iconic AI is an AAA games studio AI-driven game development
Lakera AI — Lakera Guard empowers organizations to build GenAI applications without worrying about prompt injections, data loss, harmful content, and other LLM risks. Powered by the world's most advanced AI threat intelligence.

Over the past 25 years, Niklas has an entrepreneur built and internationalized a range of companies in the area of reservation systems, revenue management, online marketing, and web publishing; amongst others he was the CEO and co-founder Bookatable, Livebookings, Infogate, and Epani.Over the past 8 years, Niklas has a direct investor and advisorto investment companies and venture capital companies; amongst others he was a co-founder and general partner at D-Ax (Axel Johnson Group CVC), a venture partner for Wellington Partners Venture Capital. Niklas is currently a general partner for PES Holdings. Investment focus is the Digital Media Sector and Digital Growth Companies, primarily in the Nordic countries and across Europe. Niklas describes himself as a ‘computer software geek and wizard turned businessman’ as he started his career at the age of 15. His achievements in building internationally successful companies have been recognized by various industry awards.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Internet
Seed, Series A, Angel
Sweden, Japan, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Savr — Savr is an Investment platform disrupting the Swedish fund industry with a lower fee structure and a new business model.
PinMeTo — Optimize your time and local presence with an all-in-one local SEO tool. Show up in local search, manage listings, reviews, messages from one dashboard.
Winnow — Winnow builds artificial intelligence tools to help chefs run more profitable and sustainable kitchens by cutting food waste in half. They develop technology to cut food waste in their operations. Their digital tools provide data to drive improvements in kitchen production processes and reduce environmental footprint.Winnow's mission is toconnect commercial kitchen, create a movement of chefs, and inspire others. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in London, England, United Kingdom.

ACTIVE is a European venture capital company focused on positively disrupting its traditional sector. Spearheaded by a diverse, passionate and multinational team, it is building a reputation for providing support that goes beyond capital for high growth businesses.With a presence in Spain, Germany and Scandinavia, ACTIVE targets entrepreneurialteams driving digital start-ups and seeking holistic partnerships based on shared values and pro-active support. Start-up founders connect to the unique ACTIVE community to engage with sector specialists, growth experts and senior advisors.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Spain, United States, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Odilo — Odilo removes the technology barriers, allowing any institution to offer all kinds of digital content to its users whilst ensuring compliance with copyright laws.Their company is one of the leading software solutions for libraries offering a comprehensive product suite to discover, manage and distribute digital content as well as print.They are headquartered in Cartagena, Spain and have offices in Madrid, Spain; Miami, Florida; Mexico City, Mexico; and New York, New York.Their aim is to develop the market’s most innovative and creative solutions. They lead the way in defining and designing efficient, user-friendly products, serving the needs of public, private, university, school and special interest libraries today, while enabling them to transition into the future.
Whisbi — Live commerce platform leader for Enterprises. Improve the quality of online leads, grow your digital revenue and enhance online customer experience with your live streams and live shopping
Healthify — Healthify builds the infrastructure that integrates social determinants of health into the era of value-based healthcare by creating networks of social service organizations.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Sweden, Finland, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Zymego — Zymego develops solutions that relieve healthcare workers of administrative work while improving patient access to healthcare.
Elastisys — Succeed with your cloud native journey as an organization developing and operating software critical to our society. NIS2, ISO-27001, GDPR.
Tings — Tings is a mobile app that helps people to organize and retain, and sell non-required recyclable and used merchandise.

Zobito They help entrepreneurs and Venture Capital firms improve the operational performance of their companies, primarily in the Enterprise Software industry. Theyhave substantial experience in building operational platforms for sustainable growth. All partners at Zobito have experience in taking companies from tiny to world class and are proud tosay that the success was based on science and not art.An important part of Their business idea is to share both risk and upside in the companies They help. They put Their money where Their mouths are.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Services
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Sweden, France, Italy

Portfolio highlights

Bitrise — Continuous integration and delivery built for mobile: Automate iOS and Android builds, testing and deployment from your first install to the one millionth.
inRiver — Turn product data into a profit maker at every touchpoint with inriver's market-leading PIM solution that powers the entire product journey.
CyberVadis — Scale up your cybersecurity audits: Assess hundreds of vendors with analyst-validated assessments. Methodology based on global standards and regulations.

Evan Sharp is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Pinterest, where he leads all design efforts. A former architect, Evan finds inspiration from pinning interesting maps, science facts, architecture, vacation plans, and fonts for his design projects. Before Pinterest,Evan worked at Facebook as a product designer. He received a bachelor’s degree inhistory from the University of Chicago and studied architecture at Columbia University. Evan hails from York, Pennsylvania, and currently resides in San Francisco, California.

Investment focus

Software, Travel, Women's
Seed, Series A
United States, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Hume AI — Empathic AI research lab building multimodal AI with emotional intelligence. Experience our API: https://demo.hume.ai
Chroma — Sonically driven. Visually enhanced. Technologically evolved. The future sound of entertainment.
Ristretto — Ristretto electric bikes - representing the pinacle of superior riding performance - the 512 combines design with sustainable luxury

Recruit Strategic Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in innovative startups from all around the world. It is a corporate venture capital arm of Recruit Holdings that seeks to invest in education and financial technology, digital healthcare, and infrastructure sectors. It was established in 2008 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Japan, India

Portfolio highlights

Blacklane — Blacklane is the global chauffeur service that offers safety, sustainability, and stress-free travel. Since 2017, the company has been carbon-neutral, combining a five-star guest experience with care for the planet. The customers can book their travels using Blacklane’s mobile app or website.Blacklane was co-founded by Jens Wohltorf and FrankSteuer and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
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ZenBusiness — Start a new business today for $0 or grow your existing business with the ZenBusiness platform. Get to your first dollar faster without the stress.

Johannes Schildt, a true serial entrepreneur who founded or co-founded more than 3 companies, started his first company while still in school. Schildt later made a meteoric career at Stardoll working alongside people like Henrik Torstensson & Marcus Gners. Johannes successfully launched Stardoll's first official Facebook game, reaching1,000,000 monthly unique users within 3 months after launch. Today, Johannes is the CEO & Co-founder of Kry. By combining new technology with leading medical expertise KRY has built a platform to make healthcare digital.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Apps
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Sweden, Finland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Helppy — Helppy is redefining elderly care. We are the trusted companion of seniors and their families. Helppy is a personalized elderly care platform supported by technology. We provide personal care, family support and a broad range of additional services to elderly at home.
Valar Labs — AI to Make Oncologists Smarter
Vital — Vital is an API for wearables, medical devices and lab tests. We make it easy to connect to hundreds of wearables such as Oura, Garmin, Fitbit, Omron, and deliver at home custom branded lab tests through an API.

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

Peter Muld - Chief Strategy & Digital Officer ICA Sverige @ ICA Gruppen

Investment focus

Messaging, Social Media, Video on Demand
Angel
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Keelr — Powerful in-app messaging platform, extremely easy to integrate. Weapon of choice for digital agencies and early startups.

Rouven Dresselhaus is Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Cavalry Ventures. His most notable investments at Cavalry include McMakler, Forto and Planetly (acq. by OneTrust). He also serves on numerous boards, e.g. at BRYTER and Sofía.Rouven started his career at Morten Sondergaard and then moved to Capnamic Ventures. In parallel, as a member of theadvisory board, he spearheaded the digitization initiative of his family business Joseph Dresselhaus GmbH & Co. KG (acq. by Nimbus) comprising core processes such as finance, HR, logistics and procurement.Rouven has invested in more than five dozen startups and participated in over two hundred funding rounds. He is a member of YPO, a global community of chief executives, and has been mentoring young entrepreneurs in formats such as Techstars, Techstars SAP.io, next logistics accelerator and the Axel Springer Plug and Play Accelerator. In addition, Rouven is a supporter of the entrepreneurial charity Founders Pledge.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
Germany, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Inkitt — Publish stories online, join our author subscription program, and read books online for free. Join the Inkitt community for writers and readers today.
Reaction Commerce — Product capabilities and documentation of Mailchimp Open Commerce.
Meine Spielzeugkiste — Spielzeug mieten bei Meine Spielzeugkiste. Jetzt Mitglied werden!

Mathias Ackermand is a Private Investor at Privat. Attended Kiel University.

Investment focus

Apps, Audio, Music
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Sweden, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

46elks — Integrate SMS, MMS and Phone calls into your applications with just a few lines of code. Transparent pricing, no startup fees, no minimum monthly costs.
Kitab Sawti — Kitab Sawti is an Arabic audio entertainment service offering audiobooks and podcasts through mobile apps.
AnotherblockAnotherblock AB — Anotherblock is Transforming Music into an Investable Asset Class. We Specialize in Music Investments, Music Rights, Catalog Valuations, and Royalty Management.

Cloud Capital primarily invests in SaaS companies based on financing solutions that are optimized for SaaS companies' unique conditions. It provides SaaS entrepreneurs who have reached the scale-up phase access to smart expansion capital in the form of loans or shareholder capital or a combination of both. The firm was founded in 2017 byJohan Crona, with a background from starting, building, and investing in software companies.

Investment focus

SaaS, Gaming, FinTech
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Sweden, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

PinMeTo — Optimize your time and local presence with an all-in-one local SEO tool. Show up in local search, manage listings, reviews, messages from one dashboard.
Kandle — Kandle offers ways to make money in Crypto & Stocks through fantasy trading games. Trusted globally by 180,000+ users and growing.
Jeevam Health — Doctor & Coach driven membership plan to address the root cause of the Thyroid. The Treatment revolves around Nutrition, Supplements and Lifestyle Changes.

Marcus Wallén

Investment focus

Internet, Analytics, Peer to Peer
Angel
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Greta — I found a great domain name for sale on Dan.com. Check it out!
HappyTail — HappyTail is a mobile app for active and social dogs and dog lovers. By connecting dogs with dog lovers we eliminate the dog owners dilemma of reduced freedom and lonely dog walks. HappyTail allows users to share photos and find dog-related places such as shops, vets, dog friendly restaurants. This benefits the dog owner as well as the dog –and that is our main mission: Every dog should be able to live a happy, active and social life!

D-Ax is a partnership between Axel Johnson, a Swedish retail conglomerate and RECAPEX, a Nordic Investment company.Axel Johnson’s aim with D-ax is to invest in digital entrepreneurial companies. The ambition is to increase the trading group’s digital resources. As one of the Nordic region’s leading trading groups, Axel Johnson aims to meet withcustomers across all contact channels and develop new digital offers. The ambition is to is to increase the trading group’s digital resources. The firm looking for entrepreneurial digital companies that do business in trading and services. The companies should have achieved a certain level of sales and have a proven business model. While they may be e-commerce companies, this is not a must; they might also be companies that work with other digital business ideas within the spectrum covering online marketing, data transparency and data analysis.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Social Media
Seed, Series A, Series B
Sweden, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

PinMeTo — Optimize your time and local presence with an all-in-one local SEO tool. Show up in local search, manage listings, reviews, messages from one dashboard.
Matsmart — Matsmart sells surplus food online. A major part of the food would otherwise be thrown away due to packaging changes, short or expired expiry dates or other reasons. During 2017, Matsmart saved 2022 tonnes of food from going to waste. The company has seen explosive growth, reaching recurring revenues of SEK 200 million. Matsmart was founded by KarlAndersson, Erik Södergren and Ulf Skagerström, and launched in Sweden in 2014. Since then, the company has also expanded to Norway and Finland. Long live the food!
Winnow — Winnow builds artificial intelligence tools to help chefs run more profitable and sustainable kitchens by cutting food waste in half. They develop technology to cut food waste in their operations. Their digital tools provide data to drive improvements in kitchen production processes and reduce environmental footprint.Winnow's mission is toconnect commercial kitchen, create a movement of chefs, and inspire others. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in London, England, United Kingdom.

I am an entrepreneurial and experienced CEO. I have successfully built, launched, and grown multiple new global businesses at companies such as Google (Internet), Modern Times Group (media), and HTC VIVE (VR). Proven ability to successfully create and communicate corporate visions and strategies, hire and motivate top talent, and lead global sales,marketing, and product teams.Board member of companies such as Cision (software), Scandic Hotels (hotels), and Raymond (solar). Trusted advisor to large firms such as Ericsson and EQT, and cutting-edge startups like Einride (electric trucks), Jetson (flying cars), and Elonroad (electric roads).World class keynote speaker at international conferences such as MWC, GDC, IBC, CES, and invited speaker at Harvard, Stanford, and MIT. I am a future astronaut with Virgin Galactic, and the founder of WIT Global Women In Tech network and events.

Investment focus

Virtual Reality, Sports, Electric Vehicle
Seed, Angel, Series A
Sweden, United States, Czech Republic

Portfolio highlights

WEIQ — WEIQ is an application that offers an ordering and payment solutions for restaurants.
Elonroad — Elonroad charging solutions allow for vehicle agnostic conductive charging, providing freedom and flexibility by charging while driving or parked.
Jetson Aero — Your personal aircraft in aluminium and carbon fibre, powered with eight powerful electric motors.

Greylock Partners is a leading venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley. We are early partners of remarkable teams building companies that matter.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Uplimit — Unlock the potential of your organization with scalable, high-impact learning experiences.
Dazz — Dazz is a cloud security repair service that takes a unique approach to cybersecurity.
Abnormal Security — Advanced email protection to prevent credential phishing, business email compromise, account takeover, and more.

Menmo Ventures is an investment company focused on enterprise software, web, and community based technological products. The company is based in Skane Lan, Sweden.

Investment focus

SaaS, Social Media, Content Creators
Seed
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Hoodin — Save up to 90% of the time compared to manual research with need-centric solutions for selected industries like Medtech, Pharma, Public Sector, Finance, and Tourism. Start monitoring sources of your choice directly in the Hoodin platform.

Anders Böös - Non-Executive Director @ Securitas

Investment focus

Pet, Messaging, Marketplace
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Sweden, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Keelr — Powerful in-app messaging platform, extremely easy to integrate. Weapon of choice for digital agencies and early startups.
DogBuddy — Find your perfect dog sitter, with dog walkers & dog boarding services near you. Liability insurance & 24/7 vet line included, far better than kennels!

Biz Stone is the Co-founder and CEO of Jelly Industries, Inc. He previously worked at The Obvious Corporation as a Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer. Biz Stone attended Northeastern University.

Investment focus

Software, Messaging, Apps
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Karat Financial — Karat is the best card for creators, helping you save money, earn rewards, and grow your channel faster - because content IS a business.
Config — Config combines engineering, operations, and manufacturing to simplify the large-scale shipment of high-quality hardware.
Ristretto — Ristretto electric bikes - representing the pinacle of superior riding performance - the 512 combines design with sustainable luxury

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

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.

Prior to King, Lars served as Chief Technical Officer at Internet consulting company Spray (later renamed Razorfish), and Spray Network Europe (acquired by Lycos Europe in 2000). Lars also co-founded Fjord Network AB.

Investment focus

Internet, Social Media, Online Auctions
Angel
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

HappyTail — HappyTail is a mobile app for active and social dogs and dog lovers. By connecting dogs with dog lovers we eliminate the dog owners dilemma of reduced freedom and lonely dog walks. HappyTail allows users to share photos and find dog-related places such as shops, vets, dog friendly restaurants. This benefits the dog owner as well as the dog –and that is our main mission: Every dog should be able to live a happy, active and social life!

Henrik Torstensson is a Partner at Alliance Venture and a Board Member & Co-founder of Lifesum.

Investment focus

SaaS, Sports, FinTech
Seed
Sweden, United States

Portfolio highlights

Sparta — Sparta is a web-based application and software that enables sales directors to run effective sales competitions. It enables its users to builds sales competitions, invite their team, manage them with rankings, statistics, and reports. It also enables its users to control the metrics and behaviors that they desire to control in a sales environment.Sales directors can run multiple competitions, team-based competitions, send and receive email notifications, receive daily update emails, access a chat feed with @mentions, access reports and insights, and perform many more tasks through the app and software.Sparta was founded by Niklas de Besche, Aref Abedi, Aref Abedi, and James Pember. It is based in Stockholm, Sweden.
Castle — Instantly stop automated and human-originated account takeovers, fake accounts, and any behavior that violates your platform policies.
Fishbrain — Join over 14 million anglers using Fishbrain. Fishbrain is the world's #1 fishing app for finding fishing spots, forecasts, socializing, logging catches & more. Fish smarter with Fishbrain.

EQT Ventures’ in-house international expansion expert, Axel’s early career involved a stint at King.com, where he set up and ran advertising sales, before joining Spotify as Director of International Growth in 2011. In this role, Axel built and managed the international expansion team, taking on the responsibility for strategy and execution ofSpotify’s expansion into new markets across the world. Going from six to 60 markets over the course of six years, Axel oversaw Spotify’s transition into the global powerhouse that it is today. Axel then led the reorganization of the business, moving towards a decentralized model with larger autonomy and accountability in the hands of the regional teams and the Managing Directors, which reported directly to Axel.Axel advises EQT Ventures' portfolio companies on how to become global players, helping them build their strategy and operations for navigating and launching in new territories. Based in Berlin, Axel works closely with our German portfolio companies, including AnyDesk, Home, Wandelbots and BEAT81.

Investment focus

Apps, Software, Fitness
Series A, Series B, Series C
Germany, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

AnyDesk — AnyDesk was founded in Germany in 2014, and its unique remote desktop access software has been downloaded by more than 100 million users worldwide, adding another 5 million every month. The software is based on their unique proprietary codec, DeskRT, that allows for virtually latency-free collaboration, whether you’re down the hall, or on the otherside of the world. They’re one of the 50 fastest-growing firms in Germany, and they need someone like you to help us keep expanding.AnyDesk is the fastest remote desktop software on the market. It allows for new usage scenarios and applications that have not been possible with current remote desktop software.
Wandelbots — We make robots usable for everyone. Learn how our easy-to-use software solutions can empower your organization to work with robots.
Chroma — Sonically driven. Visually enhanced. Technologically evolved. The future sound of entertainment.

Jonas Brogårdh

Investment focus

SaaS, Social, Internet
Seed
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Life Inside — Collect and share videos that engage and convert your website and career site visitors. Try Life Inside for free today!

Ben Silbermann is the Co-Founder and Executive Chair of Pinterest. He previously worked at Google as a Product Specialist. Ben Silbermann attended Yale University.

Investment focus

Health Care, Wellness, Video
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Cambly — Cambly gives English learners on-demand access to native English speaking tutors over video chat.
Dr. Treat — Experience pet care at its best with exceptional personalized veterinary care at unsurpassed levels. After all, our companions are entitled to happier, healthier, and longer lives.
Chroma — Sonically driven. Visually enhanced. Technologically evolved. The future sound of entertainment.

Christopher Persson - General Partner @ RECAPEX

Investment focus

Social Media, Enterprise Software, Location Based Services
Seed
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

PinMeTo — Optimize your time and local presence with an all-in-one local SEO tool. Show up in local search, manage listings, reviews, messages from one dashboard.

We co-found companies, dedicating our in-house team of designers, developers, and marketers to bring ideas to life. With every venture we co-found, our mission is to advance the consumer experience across industries with world-class technology, data-informed design, and lots of heart. Are you an entrepreneur who shares our mission?

Investment focus

iOS, Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence
Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Koo! — The latest technology allows sleep tracker apps to analyze and compare your sleeping patterns. The Sleep++ app allows you to log your sleep and
Alex Therapeutics — The Alex DTx Platform enables partners within pharma and health care to effectively and reliably launch new DTx treatments by leveraging existing insights, modules, processes and data.
Stride Leadership — Stride is the revolutionary leadership product built to help become a confident leader. For too long, we’ve been taught that leadership is an elite act that’s linked to your job title. Now you hold leadership development in your hand, regardless of your age, job title, or seniority.With Stride, you’ll learn what it truly means to lead, and how todo it. We’ll bust common myths and you’ll discover which style of leadership is the best fit for you. Designed by leadership and design experts, Stride will help you learn the mindset required, the basics of leadership, and techniques for dealing with inevitable challenges. Whether you’re new to leadership or you’re a seasoned professional you’ll love learning and forming new habits with Stride.

Mats Lindoff - Owner @ Lindoff Technology

Investment focus

SaaS, Social Media, Content Creators
Seed
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Hoodin — Save up to 90% of the time compared to manual research with need-centric solutions for selected industries like Medtech, Pharma, Public Sector, Finance, and Tourism. Start monitoring sources of your choice directly in the Hoodin platform.

We are the product of the collective wealth of risk capital experience of everyone who has been part of Ekap since its founding.

Investment focus

SaaS, Social Media, Content Creators
Seed
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Hoodin — Save up to 90% of the time compared to manual research with need-centric solutions for selected industries like Medtech, Pharma, Public Sector, Finance, and Tourism. Start monitoring sources of your choice directly in the Hoodin platform.

Notion Capital is a VC firm focused on European SaaS and Cloud.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

TechWolf — TechWolf uses AI to bring you an automated, continuous and objective view on the workforce skills you have, the skills you need and the gap in between.
Caeli Wind — Caeli Wind is a cloud-based intelligent platform that identifies wind potential areas and enables marketing.
Harbor Lab — Designed to streamline the port cost management processes and optimize operational efficiency for cargo operations and husbandry services by leveraging technology and automation.

Hampus Jakobsson is a General Partner at early stage climate tech venture fund Pale Blue Dot.Prior to co-founding Pale Blue Dot, Hampus was a Venture Partner at science fund Blue Yard and a prolific angel investor with >100 angel investments. He co-founded of The Astonishing Tribe (acquired by Blackberry in 2010 for $150m). He left Blackberry2012 to found Brisk.io a sales productivity tool which folded 2016.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Mobile
Seed, Angel, Series A
Sweden, Denmark, United States

Portfolio highlights

ClimateView — ClimateView is a Swedish climate action technology company that helps cities transform climate planning into progress. We combine data, agent-based modelling and interface design to help cities successfully manage the transition to zero carbon economies.
Mojo — Laboratory-grade AI-powered semen test at home. Test your sperm count, motility, volume and concentration with the Mojo kit. Check your fertility from home at low cost.
Volta Greentech — Battling global warming by reducing methane emissions from cows

Krim Talia

Investment focus

News, Social Media
Angel
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Warp News — News that is optimistic and based on facts. The world is better now than ever before, but mainstream media has a negative bias. We balance that.

Novel TMT Ventures backs stellar teams building innovative products and services to improve consumer experiences and efficiencies in commerce, media and payment.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Bloom & Wild — Bloom & Wild, a letterbox flower delivery company, take an online approach to the traditional business of ordering and delivering flowers. It has infused the traditional flower-giving experience with predictive analytics and technology to deliver a fresher, less-traveled bouquet to the people they care most about.Founded in 2013 by AronGelbard and Ben Stanway, Bloom & Wild aims to become the pan-European market leader in flower and gift delivery. The company continued its expansion into more European markets and added bricks and mortar retail for the UK. By entering into a retail partnership with Sainsbury’s, Bloom & Wild sees an exclusive range of premium bouquets available in selected superstores nationwide.
Elevate Brands — We buy consumer-leading Amazon FBA brands and elevate them to their full potential. Tap into our unparalleled team to successfully grow your business.
Backbone PLM — Backbone is a digital workspace to help product creators create, collaborate and scale. Built for designers, by designers.

RECAPEX is a partner to owners and management of companies wanting to realise opportunities created by technology and digital change.

Investment focus

Enterprise Software, Software, Apps
Seed, Series A, Series C
Sweden, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

PinMeTo — Optimize your time and local presence with an all-in-one local SEO tool. Show up in local search, manage listings, reviews, messages from one dashboard.
Planday — Our online staff rota software is designed to meet your own business needs; we make scheduling, communication and HR management simple - Free 30 Day Trial.
Campanja — Campanja’s next-generation Bid Management Solutions radically improve return on your advertising spend.We are a technology driven company backed by noteworthy investors such as Google board member and founding investor, Ram Shriram and MySQL founder, David Axmark. Trusted by global organizations, we are redefining paid search and display with apowerful combination of technical and business expertise. Using advanced technologies such as Real Time Tracking, Predictive Modelling and High Frequency Bidding we harness the true potential of online advertising to deliver great results to our clients.

Johan Siwers is a seasoned online media executive with a passion for entrepreneurial game changing companies.Johan has over the past 15 years been involved in breaking ground for a wide range of media and online ventures within companies like Kinnevik, Spray, Schibsted and InterActive Corp (IAC).Most recently Johan has launched, grown andexited the Northern European operations of Match.com, where he despite entering the market when it was already a crowded space, led the company to dominate the online dating category in the region.

Investment focus

Fashion, Big Data, Social Media
Seed, Pre-Seed
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

PinMeTo — Optimize your time and local presence with an all-in-one local SEO tool. Show up in local search, manage listings, reviews, messages from one dashboard.
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Stefan Magnusson is a Co-Founder of Taurus Technologies Electric.

Investment focus

SaaS, Social, Internet
Seed
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Life Inside — Collect and share videos that engage and convert your website and career site visitors. Try Life Inside for free today!

Q Angels is an angel investment firm that contributes to the growth of startups.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Podcast, Blockchain
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Turkey, Sweden, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Catio — Cloud architecture platform enabling companies to excel with cloud native tech stacks, focused on tech stack evaluation, planning, and evolution, with the help of AI.
Finceptor — Become an early investor of Web3's top projects with over 250,000 other backers.
eTasin.com — https://etasin.com

Singular is a generalist venture capital firm backing ambitious European entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, Enterprise Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
France, Germany, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Tinybird — Tinybird helps data teams build real-time Data Products at scale through SQL-based API endpoints. It ingests millions of rows per second and serves low latency, high concurrency analytical queries over any amount of data.
SynthFlow AI — Forget lengthy development cycles and expensive machine learning teams. With Synthflow you can build sophisticated, tailored AI agents without technical skills or coding - just bring your data and ideas.
Resilience — Resilience Care is building a software-based solution for cancer treatment providers and patients.