Stockholm startup directory
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Almi Invest
Almi Invest is the venture capital arm of the Swedish state-owned group Almi, investing risk capital in early-stage startups alongside private co-investors. One of the most active early-stage investors in Sweden, it backs companies across technology, life sciences and cleantech and recycles returns into new companies.
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Anton Osika
Swedish entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Lovable, a Stockholm-based AI coding startup that lets people build software through natural language. He previously co-founded the e-commerce product-discovery company Depict.ai and was an early engineer at Sana Labs, with earlier research work at CERN.
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Anyfin
Anyfin is a Stockholm-based fintech founded in 2017 that helps consumers cut the cost of their existing loans and credit-card debt by refinancing them at lower rates, using a photo of a statement and data-driven credit assessment. It has expanded from Sweden into Finland, Norway and Germany with a focus on reducing borrowing costs rather than lending more.
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BackingMinds
BackingMinds is a Stockholm-based venture capital firm founded in 2016 that deliberately invests in founders and markets overlooked by mainstream investors, backing early-stage technology companies in the Nordics and beyond. Co-founded by Sara Wimmercranz and Susanne Najafi, it focuses on 'blind spots' where it sees underestimated potential.
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Brickanta
Brickanta is building an AI-native operating layer for early-stage commercial construction planning. The platform interprets drawings, code constraints, and cost data to automate bid analysis and estimation, reducing procurement risk and planning overhead for project owners and contractors.
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Candela
Candela is a Stockholm-based marine technology company founded in 2014 that designs and builds electric hydrofoil boats and ferries, which lift out of the water on computer-controlled foils to cut energy use dramatically and extend the range of electric propulsion. Its models include leisure craft and the P-12 electric passenger ferry, and it aims to eliminate fossil fuels from waterborne transport.
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Creandum
Creandum is one of Europe's leading early-stage venture capital firms, founded in Stockholm in 2003 and now operating from Stockholm, Berlin, London and San Francisco. It backs technology companies from seed to Series A and has been an early investor in category-defining businesses including Spotify, Klarna, Bolt, Kahoot, Depop and Pleo. In 2024 it closed its seventh flagship fund at around 500 million euros to continue backing European founders.
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Daniel Ek
Daniel Ek is the co-founder and CEO of Spotify, the world's largest music streaming platform, which he launched in 2006 and took public on the NYSE in 2018. Outside Spotify, Ek is an active angel investor and a key figure in Stockholm's thriving tech ecosystem. Through his personal investments and Prima Materia, his private investment firm, Ek backs early-stage European startups across healthcare, AI, defense tech, and consumer technology. He invested EUR 100M into Prima Materia to support moonshot companies working on some of Europe's hardest problems. Ek has also backed several Nordic startups directly as an angel, and his presence in the ecosystem has helped attract global attention and talent to Sweden's startup scene. He is widely regarded as one of the most successful European tech founders of his generation.
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Detectify
Detectify is a Stockholm-based cybersecurity company founded in 2013 that offers an external attack surface management and web-vulnerability scanning platform, powered by a crowdsourced community of ethical hackers whose findings are automated into its product. It helps security teams continuously discover and monitor their internet-facing assets for weaknesses.
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DevSum 2026
Stockholm's premier developer conference at Kistamässan, with 70+ international speakers across web development, architecture, AI/ML, and cloud.
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Eco Wave Power
Eco Wave Power is a Stockholm-headquartered, Nasdaq-listed wave-energy company that develops onshore and nearshore wave-energy conversion technology attached to existing marine structures such as breakwaters and piers. It runs projects in multiple countries, including Gibraltar, Portugal, Israel and the Port of Los Angeles, aiming to make wave energy a scalable clean-power source.
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Einride
Einride is the Swedish pioneer of autonomous freight, best known for its cab-less "Pod" trucks that are designed from the ground up without a driver. Rather than retrofitting automation into traditional vehicles, Einride built a purpose-made electric platform paired with remote operations. Its "Mesh" system allows a single human operator to supervise multiple autonomous pods in real time from a control center, enabling higher utilization while keeping safety oversight in the loop. The year 2026 is a defining moment for Einride. Following a merger with Legato Merger Corp. III, the company began trading on the Nasdaq Global Market on 10 June 2026 under the tickers ENRD and ENRDW, at a pre-money valuation of roughly $1.35B and with a $113M PIPE raised ahead of the debut. This public-market transition gives Einride the balance sheet to scale fleet deployments, charging infrastructure, and regulatory approvals across key logistics corridors. By mid-2026, Einride is executing on major commercial contracts with GE Appliances in the United States and DP World in the UAE. It does not sell trucks in the traditional sense; it sells freight capacity as a service (FaaS), bundling vehicles, energy management, and its digital "Saga" operating system that optimizes routes, energy usage, and scheduling. The 2026 focus is on "Einride Grids": dense regional networks in Northern Europe and the US Southeast where autonomous pods handle repeated hub-to-hub routes, driving down costs compared to diesel trucking while cutting emissions. Einride's ecosystem ties include Norrsken House in Stockholm and early innovation pilots through Plug and Play. Its investor base blends Nordic growth capital and strategic logistics backing: EQT Ventures, NordicNinja, Maersk Growth, Soros Fund Management, and Temasek are among the key supporters. In 2026, Einride stands out as the most mature European autonomous freight platform, combining electric hardware, autonomy software, and logistics orchestration into a single commercial service. The company is also investing in safety validation, regulatory engagement, and remote-operations tooling to scale autonomy responsibly across multiple jurisdictions.
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Epidemic Sound
Epidemic Sound is a Swedish company headquartered in Stockholm that operates a royalty-free music and audio licensing platform for content creators. Founded in 2009, it provides creators, businesses, broadcasters and agencies access to a library of music tracks and sound effects, owning the rights to its catalog so users can publish and monetise content without separate licensing. The platform offers a Studio tool, mobile and desktop apps, and integrations with software such as Adobe Creative Cloud. In March 2021 it raised a growth round led by EQT Growth and Blackstone at a reported $1.4 billion valuation.
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EQT Growth
EQT Growth is the growth equity arm of EQT, one of Europe's largest alternative investment firms headquartered in Stockholm. Launched in 2019, EQT Growth manages over EUR 4B and invests EUR 30-200M in high-growth technology companies scaling across Europe and globally. The fund focuses on category-leading software, fintech, and marketplace businesses at Series C and beyond. Notable investments include Vinted (led its EUR 250M Series F), Mollie, Epidemic Sound, and Small Giant Games. EQT Growth leverages the broader EQT platform's industrial network and 30+ years of operational value creation expertise.
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EQT Ventures
EQT Ventures is the VC arm of EQT Group, launched in 2016 in Stockholm with offices in London, Berlin, and San Francisco. Managing over EUR 2.2B, the firm invests EUR 1-25M from seed through Series C in AI, fintech, mobility, and marketplaces. EQT Ventures uses Motherbrain, its proprietary AI deal-sourcing platform, to identify opportunities early. Portfolio includes Einride, Epidemic Sound, Voi, and Wolt. The fund leverages EQT's network of 300+ industrial advisors for strategic support.
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Ester Sklarsky
Ester Sklarsky is Principal at Sound Bioventures, a Nordic life science venture capital firm specializing in early-stage biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and medtech companies in Scandinavia and the broader European region. She is an active investor and participant in the Nordic life science investment community. Sound Bioventures is one of the leading dedicated life science VCs focused on the Nordic ecosystem.
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Exeger
Exeger is a Stockholm-based deep-tech company that manufactures Powerfoyle, a patented, silicon-free dye-sensitised solar-cell material that converts both indoor and outdoor light into electricity. Founded in 2008 by entrepreneur Giovanni Fili and scientist Dr Henrik Lindström — joint winners of the European Inventor Award in 2021 — the company spent a decade developing and patenting the technology before scaling commercial production at two factories in Kista, Stockholm. Powerfoyle is integrated as a thin, flexible film directly into product surfaces, removing the need for charging cables or disposable batteries. Shipping products span headphones and earbuds (Urbanista, adidas), cycling helmets (POC), professional hearing protection (3M Peltor), digital shelf labels (VusionGroup), remote controls (Philips, Hama) and IoT sensors. Exeger has raised over €169M from backers including SoftBank, Swedish pension fund AMF, the European Investment Bank (€35M InvestEU loan) and Fortum, and in late 2025 secured a SEK 130M grant from the Swedish Energy Agency and was selected for the NATO DIANA defence accelerator.
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Flower
Flower is a Stockholm-based energytech company founded in 2020 by John Diklev; its name is a contraction of flexible power. Flower develops hardware-agnostic AI and machine-learning software for forecasting, optimisation, and trading of flexible energy assets, including large-scale battery energy storage systems, solar and wind farms, hydro, EV charge points, and data centres, operating them as a virtual power plant to provide grid balancing, frequency regulation, congestion management, and day-ahead trading. Alongside its optimisation platform, Flower develops and operates grid-scale battery storage projects in Sweden. The company raised a Series A round led by Northzone in 2024.
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Funnel
Marketing data platform that collects, cleans and normalizes data from 600+ ad, analytics and CRM sources into a unified marketing data hub. Founded 2014 in Stockholm.
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GP Bullhound
GP Bullhound is a global technology investment bank and investment firm founded in 1999, advising technology companies and entrepreneurs on capital raising and M&A while also managing funds that invest in leading tech businesses. It has advised on more than 700 transactions worth over 58 billion dollars and operates from offices across Europe and the United States, including a long-standing Nordic presence.
