Top 50 Social Media Startup Investors in Sweden in September 2025

Investor	Social Media Sweden investments
Industrifonden	5
H&M Group Ventures	4
Spintop Ventures	3
Creandum	2
Niklas Eklund	2
Wellstreet	2
GP Bullhound	2
Almi Invest	2
Atomico	2
Active Venture Partners	2
Northzone	2
Cloud Capital	2
Maxis	1
Eda Arikan	1
CultTech Accelerator	1
Henrik Torstensson	1
Marcus Wallén	1
Sweet Studio	1
Lars Markgren	1
Singular	1
Peter Muld	1
Stefan Magnusson	1
Hesham Zreik	1
Evan Sharp	1
Zobito	1
Greylock	1
D-Ax Corporate Venture Capital	1
Notion Capital	1
Houman Ashrafzadeh	1
Q Angels	1
Rouven Dresselhaus	1
NFT Ventures	1
RECAPEX	1
Biz Stone	1
Recruit Strategic Partners	1
Novel TMT Ventures	1
Hampus Jakobsson	1
Axel Bard Bringéus	1
Johan Siwers	1
Mats Lindoff	1
Nordea	1
Jonas Brogårdh	1
Christopher Persson	1
Ben Silbermann	1
Anders Böös	1
Mathias Ackermand	1
Menmo Ventures	1
Mattias Miksche	1
Entreprenörskapital	1
Krim Talia	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

Fibbl — Fibbl is the world's first cost-effective end-to-end solution for 3D and AR focused visual marketing. Integrate 3D & AR into e-commerce and marketing in minutes.Fibbl have industrialized the process of producing photorealistic 3D models for consumer products from global brands. Fibbl has the world's largest 3D model database forconsumer products.Learn more - https://www.fibbl.com/
Gårdsfisk — Gårdsfisk is a company managing fishing farms. Gårdsfisks develops a new method for fish farming on land. The cultivation takes place in large pools in a closed system, where the nutrient residual water can be reused as fertilizer on the fields.
Tribune Therapeutics — Tribune Therapeutics is a preclinical biopharmaceutical company building a promising pipeline of novel medicines to treat patients with a wide range of fibrotic diseases. It was founded in 2020 with funding from HealthCap and Novo Seeds.

H&M Group Ventures is the venture capital arm of the H&M Group.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Centra — Centra is part of creating the next generation of brands, with a direct-to-consumer and wholesale e-commerce software for global brands. Brands across Scandinavia and the world trust Centra to seamlessly connect people to products. We're a medium-sized company with offices in Stockholm, Sweden, Wroclaw, Poland and New York City, USA.
Voyado — All-in-one CRM, Loyalty, CDP, marketing software and AI-powered product discovery purely built for retail and e-commerce.
Colorifix — Colorifix is a biotechnology company that has pioneered the first entirely biological process to produce, deposit and fix pigments onto textiles. Using a synthetic biology approach, it offers a radically different solution to incumbent dyeing technologies that entirely cuts out the use of harsh chemistry and leads to huge reductions in waterconsumption. Colorifix’s investors include Cambridge Enterprise, H&M, Mills Fabrica, Primera Impact and Sagana, whose collective backing is funding its expansion. For more information, visit www.colorifix.com

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, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Sweden, Finland, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Embedl AB — Efficient Deep Learning by Deep Learning model optimization
VISS.AI — Talk to your apps and automate tasks
Impulso — Seamless product tracking. We help brands, agencies and suppliers increase sell-through, reduce administration and create a more sustainable retail landscape.

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

Laka — Laka is collective bicycle insurance especially for cyclists. We flipped insurance. By making it pay to pay out, we are the collective that backs each other. Protect your bikes and gear against theft & damage with Laka 5-star rated cycle insurance.
Appcharge — Built for mobile gaming, we help publishers grow revenue and personalize every player interaction and checkout.
Lovable — Build software products, using only a chat interface

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.

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.
Key Ward — Accelerate your engineering projects with data intelligence. Mitigate the risk of late stage failures in your AI adoption journey with our no-code platform.
Maintract — Maintract is a new generation of financial contract management software. It also offers banking and financial services. They provide contract management automation solutions to banks for drafting, data verification, workflow automation, contract data monitoring, tracking workflow and documentation, compliance management, and more.

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

Q-CTRL — Infrastructure software to power the quantum future
Playtomic — Playtomic operates an online sports court booking platform intended to become a social network for sports players. It provides a platform to reserve courts, find other players with similar skill levels, and join a social sports community dedicated to learning that helps sports clubs to optimize the use of their facilities and step into the digitalage.Playtomic was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.
Mentimeter — Interact with your audience using real-time voting. No installations or downloads required - and it's free!

Almi Invest is Sweden’s most active early-stage venture capital firm, investing in scalable startups across Sustainability, Industry, Tech, and Life Science.We invest from pre-seed to Series A, always co-investing with independent private investors to accelerate innovation and long-term success. Our portfolio spans sustainable solutions,industrial innovation, deep tech, SaaS, and life science, supporting startups that drive economic and environmental progress.With €430 million under management and over 1,000 investments since 2009, we have backed leading companies like MIPS, Tobii, and Neo4j, with notable exits to Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Qlik.Beyond capital, we offer engaged ownership, providing strategic guidance, active board participation, and access to an extensive investor network.Almi Invest is part of the Almi Group and is funded by the European Regional Development Fund, Almi AB, and regional partners.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Embedl AB — Efficient Deep Learning by Deep Learning model optimization
Epigenica — Epigenica focuses on advancing epigenomics through its EpiFinder™ platform, a multiplexed ChIP-seq technology for high-throughput analysis of epigenetic marks. The company offers R&D services for the development of therapeutic molecules and diagnostic methods using epigenetics. Epigenica aims to improve scientists' ability to capture andextract insights from the epigenome, contributing to precision medicine and the discovery of new biomarkers.
Polar Light Technologies — Polar Light Technologies focuses on developing the next generation of Nano and micro LED technology.

Atomico invests in innovative technology companies around the world.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Cortea — Cortea leverages artificial intelligence to revolutionize the auditing process by enhancing speed, accuracy, and transparency. Cortea transforms audits from traditional, labor-intensive processes into faster, more reliable, and more transparent operations.
Framer — Framer is a tool to design interactive high-fidelity prototypes for iOS, Android, desktop, or the web. It enables users to turn static mockups into interactive prototypes and to experiment quickly with dynamic, native-feeling animations and interactions.Framer integrates with design tools, exports smoothly to mobile devices, and is powered bythe language of the modern web, Javascript. The company was founded by Jorn Dijk and Koen Bok.
PhysicsX — PhysicsX is a developer of AI and simulation engineering technologies to reinvent the design and operation of machines and products.

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 — Automate support, boost sales, and capture more leads with AI Assistants, live communication tools, and interactive content. Request demo today!
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.

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, Information Technology, FinTech
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.
Topline Pro — Receive a optimized website built for you in 24hrs with online tools to grow your service business. Take your business to the next level.
Predoc — Predoc provides an AI-native platform for medical record retrieval and analysis and health information management. The company offers a range of services, including medical record retrieval, record indexation (from both structured and unstructured data), and medical record analysis. Its platform replaces manual health information management withintelligent, end-to-end automation connecting and transforming all formats and sources of clinical data, even faxed medical record PDFs, into digestible clinical insights that amplify, but are not meant to replace, clinical judgment.

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 — Jeevam Health is an Online Medical Clinic to Cure Root Cause of Chronic Issues in India. Jeevam Health is creating the treatment for patients suffering from chronic issues to reverse their conditions. It's a personalized, whole-body approach to medical care driven by functional medicine doctors.

Private Equity Investment arm of Isbank

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Dengage — Dengage is a Customer Experience Data Platform (CXDP) with built-in CDP powered by full marketing automation capabilities.
OctoXLabs — OctoXLabs is dedicated to tackling the most pressing challenges in the fields of Information Technology and Cybersecurity, delivering innovative solutions that enhance system resilience, data protection, and operational efficiency for organizations navigating an increasingly complex digital landscape.
Tark Games — Tark Games is a publisher focused on independent PC and console game developers. It provide development funding, hands-on production support, marketing resources, and long-term collaboration - without taking equity or creative control.

Eda Arikan is the Founder at 1000 Volt Post Production. As a partner at Film & TV production, she brings over 18 years of media production experience and domain expertise in artificial intelligence and media. She has a bachelor's degree in communication and media studies, a master's degree in digital moving image, and an executiveprogram certificate in artificial intelligence from MIT Sloan School of Management. She has also developed competencies in vice presidents, business analysis, and financial analysis, which enable me to manage the strategic direction, financial performance, and operational excellence of the company.

Investment focus

Podcast, Education, Social Media
Series A
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Wiser Media — Wiser Media delays and defects outside our control. If our suppliers are delayed by an event outside our control, then we will contact you as soon as possible to let you know and we will take steps to minimize the effect of the delay.

The accelerator for tech startups in culture

Investment focus

Podcast, Education, Social Media
Series A
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Wiser Media — Wiser Media delays and defects outside our control. If our suppliers are delayed by an event outside our control, then we will contact you as soon as possible to let you know and we will take steps to minimize the effect of the delay.

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

Investment focus

FinTech, SaaS, Cyber Security
Seed, Pre-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 — Connect Castle to Cloudflare with no code, or use your own edge stack. Use the SDK to monitor users and stop fraud in-app. Enterprise security without the friction.
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.

Marcus Wallén

Investment focus

Internet, Analytics, Peer to Peer
Angel
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Greta — Greta helps developers to shorten content load times, reduce buffering and increase content quality. This improves their product’s end user experience, especially during traffic spikes, which leads to higher conversion rates, more engaged users and a better bottom line.By using machine learning technology Greta analyzes network data inreal-time, and automatically calculates the fastest route for the content to be delivered, which improves performance. Greta currently supports images, audio and video.The implementation takes a few minutes, and you can then easily make configurations in the UI and access your own dashboard to evaluate how your content delivery setup affects your end users’s experience.
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!

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! — Koo! is an audio based social networking service that let users record and listen to 1-minute audio clips called Koos.
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.

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!

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

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, Machine Learning
Series A, Seed, Series B
France, Germany, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Climatiq — Climatiq provides an open dataset of global emission data and the technical infrastructure you need to inform meaningful reductions to your climate footprint.We collect and maintain open climate impact datasets that are constantly expanding and improving in collaboration with the science, technology and sustainability communities, making theinsight needed for accurate calculations and decision-making readily available.To make this data applicable in real-world settings, we pair it with a simple, lightning-fast API and powerful computational tools that allow for emission calculations in real-time, powering novel climate-positive solutions.
FAIRMAT — We are bringing a new, sustainable and innovative way to recycle carbon fiber composite. Thanks to our proprietary technology, we produce a recycled material with a negative footprint! It's a light and strong high-tech material designed to be used in industries such as design, mobility, electronics, construction, transport, and logistics.
Sparta — Learn how Sparta provides real-time, actionable market intelligence to enable traders to anticipate future pricing trends and trade with conviction.

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.

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!

Hesham Zreik is the CEO of FasterCapital. He previously worked at DreamApps as a Project Manager. Hesham attended the University of Westminster.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

TEQUILA SUPREMO — A premium tequila brand crafted in the heart of Jalisco, Mexico, using the finest Agave tequilana Weber Azul.
LocationBit — it is a community-driven global location encyclopedia designed to tackle the fragmented and inaccessible nature of local knowledge in 2025.
Ethnic Youth Development Organization (EYDO-SL) — it is a Sierra Leone–based agribusiness established to transform the way smallholder farmers engage with markets.

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

Wispr Flow — Wispr AI is a developer of the next-generation of neural interfaces to provide seamless interface with immersive technology. The company is working with the leading neuroscientist, hardware engineers, machine learning researchers, and product engineers to bring frontier technology to the mass consumer market.
Yupp — Yupp a discovering, contrasting, and utilizing the newest AIs is made simple and enjoyable, which also contributes to the field's future development..
Ristretto — Ristretto electric bikes - representing the pinacle of superior riding performance - the 512 combines design with sustainable luxury

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 — CyberVadis provides a scalable solution for third-party cybersecurity risk assessments.

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

Baseten — Baseten is the ML Application Builder for data science teams. Ship full-stack apps in minutes. No frontend, backend, or infrastructure knowledge required.
Mandolin — Streamline your infusion center operations with Mandolin. Our AI workers handle back-office tasks within your EHR, leveraging millions of buy-and-bill datapoints to ensure peak efficiency. Focus on delivering life-changing therapies, not paperwork.
Cogent Security — Discover how Cogent Security's AI-native platform leverages the latest advances in machine learning to streamline security workflows, free up resources, and accelerate risk reduction.

Novax is an active, long-term partner for growth companies and an ecosystem where individuals and organizations can thrive. By investing in, supporting, and developing small and medium-sized enterprises, we contribute to building successful companies and future pillars for Axel Johnson.

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Miru Labs — Miru Labs offers tailored solutions to spot, rank, and halt crypto threats for enterprises and retail users.
Orus — L'assurance professionnelle que vous attendiez. Plus juste, rapide, simple et humaine. Souscrivez en 5 minutes et recevez votre attestation sous 48 heures.
Zango — Zango is an AI-powered compliance automation platform designed to help financial services firms manage regulatory change across multiple regions, including the UK and EU. Leveraging cutting-edge AI, the platform performs real-time horizon scanning, automated gap analysis, and human validation to ensure accuracy and maintain security andtransparency. Backed by industry-leading investors, it empowers compliance teams to dramatically accelerate processes and reduce manual oversight.

Houman Ashrafzadeh

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
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Turkey, United States, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

PulpoAR — PulpoAR provides omnichannel AR commerce virtual try-on solutions for beauty brands and e-commerce platforms.
eTasin — https://etasin.com
Makromusic — Meet people with similar music taste with you, see your music taste in common with your friends, and share about your favorite artists and music. Create your music profile!

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.
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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.

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.

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, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Yupp — Yupp a discovering, contrasting, and utilizing the newest AIs is made simple and enjoyable, which also contributes to the field's future development..
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.
Vantage Discovery — Vantage Discovery is a generative AI-powered SaaS platform that enables intelligent search, discovery, and personalized recommendations so apps can deliver breathtaking customer experiences.

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.

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.

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 — Clinical-grade, AI-powered sperm analysis from the comfort of home. Test your sperm count, motility, morphology and much more with the Mojo kit. Check your fertility from home at low cost - without the need for clinic visits and awkward waiting rooms.
Volta Greentech — Battling global warming by reducing methane emissions from cows

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 — Discover AnyDesk, the secure and intuitive remote desktop app with innovative features, perfect for seamless remote desktop application across devices.
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.

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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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.

Nordea Bank is Denmark's second-largest bank and counts every fourth Dane among its customers. Through their nationwide network of some 340 branch offices and a broad range of self-service facilities, they are able to offer you a full scale of financial products and services, including Netbank, Online Investment, telephone banking and cashdispensers.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Banking
Funding Round, Debt Financing, Seed
Finland, Sweden, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Tibber — Tibber is a digital electricity supplier that offers smart solutions to minimize their customers’ consumption and costs. Its vision is to make sustainable energy consumption simple and affordable for all households. Tibber's mission is to reduce the residential electricity consumption for European households by 20 %. Founded in Norway andSweden in 2016, the company has expanded its offer to Sweden and Germany where it powers hundreds of thousands of homes. Tibber replaces traditional utilities with smart technology, supplying its customers with renewable energy at fair and transparent prices. In addition, its app provides real-time analytics into energy usage, and pairs with a variety of smart home devices to reduce electricity consumption at home. The company sells tech-gadgets in their online store and recently was licensed to balance the main power grid in Sweden with EVs.
Statzon — Make data-driven plans & faster decisions with a simple access to +1M datasets & market reports about 8,000 topics from +200 trusted data providers.
Get It Done Now — GIDN is a Nigerian Fintech Company targeting medium and low income population for Loans and Financial products. GIDN has in addition a cashless, mobile based community marketplace, with more than 5k members, and aims to regulate the informal economy and facilitate the purchase of Services and Digital Products.

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!

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.

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, Information Technology, Wellness
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.
Dex — Dex is purpose-built for 3-8 yo multi-lingual children. Dex turns everyday moments into fun, multilingual adventures. Learn languages in the world, learn the world in languages

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!

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.

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.

Mattias Miksche - Angel Investor & Chairman @ Hem

Investment focus

Software, Big Data, Financial Services
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Vetnio — Vetnio is an AI scribe that records conversations between veterinary professionals and pet owners, automatically generating clinical notes for the meetings. It saves veterinary professionals time, allowing them to focus more on their patients.
Normain — Normain is the AI platform for deep knowledge work. Automate your complex analyses and reports directly on Sharepoint or Google Drive. Access your own data and public sources in one single platform.
Lovable — Build software products, using only a chat interface

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.

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.