Investors in Sweden

Schibsted Marketplaces, renowned for its leading brands in the Nordics, is reshaping consumer consumption patterns across goods and services. Recently, the company underwent a split into two distinct entities. Concerning the division, their business focuses on developing marketplaces within four primary sectors – Mobility, Recommerce, Real Estate, and Jobs – pivotal elements within the circular economy.

HealthCap is a European venture capital firm investing globally in life sciences and has raised eight funds since 1996. HealthCap has backed and built more than 127 companies, taken more than 45 companies public, and completed numerous trade sales. The investment strategy focuses on diseases with a high unmet medical need and breakthrough therapies that have the potential to be transformative, change clinical practice, and change the lives of patients suffering from these conditions.

SEB Venture Capital, a leading Fintech investor in the Nordics since 1995, aims to create sustainable, long-term value through strategic investments in innovative companies. They prioritize strong management teams and seek transformative technologies that enhance the financial industry's intelligence, safety, sustainability, and user experience. Their partnerships offer access to extensive international networks, specialized expertise, and robust financial resources within SEB.

Trill Impact operates as a dedicated Impact House focused exclusively on impact investments. Their unique design ensures that all investments are aimed at generating positive returns while making significant impacts on people, the planet, and investors alike.

They aim to partner with exceptional individuals to build technology-driven companies that solve important societal problems. Acting as active owners rather than mere investors, they focus on a small number of enterprises for long-term success. Their philosophy emphasizes Europe's ability to attract top talent globally and their commitment to fostering companies that lead in critical areas of societal impact. Founder is Daniel Ek, Founder and Chairman of Spotify.

They support entrepreneurs who are developing solutions for the AI era, focusing on founders creating technically sophisticated data and AI tools, as well as AI-native applications. Above all, they prioritize founders who demonstrate exceptional creativity, insatiable curiosity, and unwavering determination to succeed.

They are a prominent deep tech investor and venture builder in the Nordics, specializing in commercializing innovations from research labs. Their unique model integrates venture creation and tech investments, leveraging Chalmers’ entrepreneurial ecosystem to identify and nurture high-potential deep tech opportunities with commercial and societal impact. They actively start and support companies based on cutting-edge research, playing a pivotal role from investment through to exit. Profits are reinvested to sustain their evergreen model, funding further groundbreaking research at Chalmers University.

Luminar is the most active pre-seed and seed-stage VC fund in Sweden. Their focus now extends globally as they seek out future-forward technologies and business models, supporting top-tier founders primarily in the Nordic region.

Creandum, founded after the dotcom bubble and having thrived through the 2008/9 economic crisis, continues to invest steadily despite recent market conditions, believing top founders can emerge anytime. They've witnessed significant growth in the European tech market over 20 years. Now, they proudly announce the closing of Creandum VII, a €500m fund to support Europe's top Seed and Series A startups. Their disciplined, generalist approach focuses on partnering with the best entrepreneurs to build future global, category-defining companies.

They are on a mission to redefine industries and create new categories. As an entrepreneurial investor, active owner, and operational partner, they support challenger companies in Europe and the US. With a permanent capital structure, they invest to rapidly scale future market leaders in healthcare, software, marketplaces, and climate tech. They back ideas, founders, and companies that simplify everyday life globally. They invest in products and services that offer better choices and solutions to pressing issues. Committed to creating long-term value, they engage at all stages of a company’s growth journey.

Founded in Sweden in 2017 by four impact capitalists, Norrsken VC is the venture capital arm of the non-profit Norrsken Foundation, aiming to channel more capital to entrepreneurs building impactful businesses. With a pragmatic, results-driven approach, Norrsken VC supports the top 1% of startups in the impact space, including an increasing number of Unicorns, contributing to worldwide impact.

Founded in Sweden in 2017 by four impact capitalists, Norrsken VC is the venture capital arm of the non-profit Norrsken Foundation, aiming to channel more capital to entrepreneurs building impactful businesses. With a pragmatic, results-driven approach, Norrsken VC supports the top 1% of startups in the impact space, including an increasing number of Unicorns, contributing to worldwide impact.