Stockholm startup directory
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Natural Cycles
Natural Cycles is a Stockholm-based femtech company founded in 2013 that makes a fertility-awareness app which uses body-temperature data and an algorithm to identify fertile and non-fertile days. It became the first app cleared by the US FDA to be marketed as a form of contraception and also supports users planning pregnancy.
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Navigare Ventures
Navigare Ventures is a Nordic deep tech venture capital firm and fully owned subsidiary of Wallenberg Investments AB, investing at seed and Series A stages in science-driven companies across the Nordic region. Its core investment themes span future of computing, advanced materials, and life science, with a portfolio covering AI, quantum computing, synthetic biology, and nanotechnology. Navigare Ventures is a long-standing partner of the NORDEEP Nordic Deep Tech Business Summit and plays an active role in the broader Nordic innovation landscape.
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Neko Health
Neko Health is a Stockholm-based preventive health company co-founded in 2018 by Hjalmar Nilsonne and Daniel Ek (the Spotify founder). Neko operates clinics that offer AI-powered full-body health scans using proprietary sensors and imaging technology to detect early signs of cardiovascular disease, skin cancer, diabetes, and other conditions. A scan takes about 15 minutes and costs a fraction of traditional medical imaging. The company has raised over $260 million, including a $260 million round in 2024, and is expanding its clinic network across Sweden and the UK. Neko Health represents a new model of proactive, technology-driven healthcare that could reshape how Europeans approach preventive medicine.
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Nicoya
Nicoya is a Stockholm-based venture capital firm investing at the frontier of food innovation as a dedicated 'future foods' investor. It partners with entrepreneurs transforming how food is produced and consumed, backing companies working on healthier, smarter and more resilient food systems with a long-term perspective on value creation.
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Niklas Zennstrom
Niklas Zennstrom is a Swedish-born serial entrepreneur and investor, best known as the co-founder of Skype and Kazaa. After selling Skype to eBay for USD 2.6B in 2005, Zennstrom founded Atomico (listed separately as VC), one of Europe's most prominent growth-stage venture funds. Beyond Atomico, Zennstrom makes personal angel investments in early-stage European startups, particularly those working on climate tech, sustainability, and deep technology. He co-founded the Zennstrom Philanthropies and is a driving force behind efforts to position the Nordics as a global hub for impact-driven technology. His combination of entrepreneurial credibility, global network, and climate focus makes him one of Europe's most sought-after angel backers.
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Nordic Life Science Days 2026
The premier Nordic life-science partnering event organised by SwedenBIO, rotating to Stockholm in 2026. Brings biotech, pharma, medtech, and digital-health players together for partnering meetings, panels, and company presentations.
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Nordic Tech Week
Organizer of Nordic Tech Week, Stockholm's city-wide, open-access technology festival that connects hundreds of independently hosted panels, hackathons, and investor summits under one platform. The week gathers startups, scaleups, investors, and ecosystem actors across the Swedish capital, anchored by the open Tech Open gathering in Kungstradgarden.
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Nordic Tech Week 2026
Stockholm's city-wide, open-access technology week with hundreds of independently hosted panels, hackathons, and investor summits connected under one platform and anchored by the open Tech Open gathering in Kungstradgarden. The festival convenes startups, scaleups, investors, and ecosystem actors from across the Nordics for five days of programming.
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Nordic.js & Nordic.design
Nordic.js & Nordic.design is a Stockholm-based events company co-founded by Jonny Strömberg, Martina Elm, and Johannes Edelstam that organizes the Nordics' largest JavaScript conference, Nordic.js, which has run annually since 2014, as well as Nordic.design, a sister conference focused on digital design. The organization has attracted over 1,700 visitors from more than 30 countries across its events, with Nordic.js selling out for multiple consecutive years. The conferences are held each autumn in Stockholm and are known for their single-track format featuring both internationally renowned speakers and rising stars from the JavaScript and web development community.
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Nordic.js 2026
Stockholm's iconic JavaScript community conference, running since 2014 and known for its curated single-track program covering frontend frameworks, Node.js backends, tooling, and the emerging wave of AI-augmented developer workflows. 700+ senior JavaScript engineers from across the Nordics and beyond. The post-conference social events in Stockholm's bars and restaurants are a defining feature. Tickets EUR 500-700.
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Normative
Normative is a Stockholm-based climate-tech company founded in 2014 that provides carbon accounting software, helping companies measure their full greenhouse-gas footprint, including scope 3 supply-chain emissions, and produce science-based reduction plans and regulatory reports. It co-founded the SME Climate Hub together with the United Nations and works with enterprise customers across Europe.
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Norrsken Foundation
Norrsken Foundation is a Swedish non-profit organization founded in 2016 by Klarna co-founder Niklas Adalberth, dedicated to helping entrepreneurs solve the world's greatest challenges including poverty, climate change, and mental health. The foundation operates an accelerator program and co-working hubs called Norrsken House in Stockholm, Brussels, Amsterdam, Kigali, and Barcelona, supporting early-stage impact startups with pre-seed investment and mentorship from over 110 entrepreneurs and investors. In 2025 it rebranded its accelerator as Norrsken Evolve and closed a €57 million fund for early-stage impact companies across Europe. Norrsken House Stockholm serves as a key venue for Nordic Tech Week events.
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Norrsken Impact Accelerator
Founded 2016 by the Norrsken Foundation. Eight-week impact accelerator selecting 20 startups annually; offers USD 125K for 5% equity and mentorship from global tech leaders. Focus on climate, health, and education. Scope: International.
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Northvolt
Northvolt is one of the most consequential climate-tech companies ever built in Europe because it attempted to establish a continental battery manufacturing base for the electric era. The company became a flagship industrial project by combining battery-cell production, recycling ambitions, and strategic partnerships with European automotive and industrial players. That vision mattered well beyond Sweden: Northvolt symbolized Europe's effort to reduce dependence on external battery supply chains and to anchor advanced manufacturing capacity closer to regional customers. Its story is also a reminder that deep industrial startups operate under very different constraints than software companies. Battery manufacturing requires enormous capex, long build cycles, complex procurement, and tight execution across energy, materials, logistics, and customer contracts. Even with that complexity and its later financial distress, Northvolt remains central to understanding Europe's climate and industrial-tech ecosystem because it reset expectations for how ambitious startup-backed manufacturing on the continent could be. In directory terms, Northvolt broadens the picture beyond software and marketplaces by representing the hardware-heavy, infrastructure-scale side of innovation that shapes the future of transport, energy resilience, and industrial policy across Europe.
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Pale Blue Dot
Pale Blue Dot is a Swedish venture capital firm dedicated exclusively to investing in early-stage climate tech companies across the Nordic region and Europe. Founded to accelerate decarbonization through technology-driven solutions, the fund backs startups working on energy transition, carbon capture, sustainable food systems, and related sectors. It is one of the most prominent climate-focused VC funds operating in Scandinavia and a partner organization at NORDEEP 2026.
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Pär-Jörgen Pärson
General Partner at Northzone, the pan-European venture firm, splitting time between Stockholm and New York. A long-standing fixture of Nordic venture, he led Northzone's landmark investments in Spotify and iZettle and has shaped the firm's growth into a multi-billion-euro platform.
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Sana
Sana (Sana Labs) is a Stockholm-based AI company founded in 2016 that builds an enterprise platform combining AI agents, enterprise search and learning tools. Its products include Sana, for AI agents and enterprise search, and Sana Learn, a learning and content-creation platform used by organisations to access knowledge, automate work and learn with agentic AI. Backed by investors including NEA, Menlo Ventures and EQT Ventures, the company reached over $130M in total funding before Workday announced a definitive agreement to acquire it for approximately $1.1 billion in September 2025.
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ScandiBio Therapeutics
ScandiBio Therapeutics is a Stockholm-based pharmaceutical company developing AI-driven drugs that target mitochondrial dysfunction, a factor implicated in neurodegenerative disorders and metabolic syndromes. Its lead product has entered a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase III clinical trial in Turkey for patients with mild, moderate, and severe Alzheimer's disease, and has also completed Phase II trials in fatty liver patients and Phase III trials in COVID-19 patients. The company was founded by scientists affiliated with KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Karolinska Institutet, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, and King's College London.
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Sebastian Siemiatkowski
CEO/co-founder of Klarna, Sebastian has Polish roots and has made angel investments in Poland. He participated in funding for Warsaw-based custom packaging startup Packhelp, among others. His presence brings a bit of Scandinavian fintech savvy to the Polish ecosystem. Associated startups: Packhelp (and likely other Polish e-commerce enablers).
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Sofia Lindelöw
Sofia Lindelöw is the Managing Director for the Nordics at Norrsken Foundation, the Stockholm-based impact organization co-founded by Klarna's Niklas Adalberth. She leads the foundation's community and operations across Sweden and the broader Nordic region, supporting entrepreneurs working on solutions to global challenges in health, climate, and education. Prior to Norrsken she held senior roles at Epidemic Sound and holds an M.Sc. in Technology Management from Lund University.
