Bringing Nordic breakthrough innovations to the world

10–50

million SEK first ticket size

5

billion SEK in assets

Industrifonden is a venture capital fund backing transformative ventures with the power to change the way we live for the better. We look for unique, scalable innovations that have a meaningful impact on our society.

We partner with passionate founders that can turn their ideas into reality and change the industry – or create a totally new one.

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Our areas of expertise

Deep Tech

We invest in advanced technology that addresses important societal issues. We have a special interest in advanced materials, industry 4.0, energy, advanced computing, AI, and synthetic biology.

Life science

We invest in the commercialization of products and services, grounded in solid science, which address an unmet medical need. We have expertise in biotech, medtech and healthtech.

Transformative tech

We invest in transformative tech and business models to create the industry of tomorrow. We mostly stay within the B2B space but invest in a broad range of industry verticals.

The innovators we’ve partnered with

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Next generation telecom solutions

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Next generation telecom solutions

Telness Tech is a next-generation cloud-based B2B telecom solution for companies looking to enhance innovation capacity while reducing cost and complexity. The product offering consists of an end-to-end Digital Telco on Demand and a White-label Private Branch Exchange (PBX). The company’s flexible and modular telco platform can be deployed and run on any of the major cloud solutions, as well as incumbent IT systems.

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Contact: Tore Tolke ↗

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Novel treatment for heart failure

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Novel treatment for heart failure

Heart failure is the leading cause of hospitalization and death globally. AnaCardio is a biotech company in the clinical stage that is developing a small molecule pharmaceutical with a novel potential first-in-class treatment option. Based on world-leading research from Karolinska Institutet leading to the discovery of a disease-modifying mechanism they provide a unique approach with the potential to save millions of lives.

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Contact: Fredrik Lehmann ↗

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Electrifying the hydraulics industry

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Electrifying the hydraulics industry

Cascade Drives revolutionary technical solution enables energy savings of 60 percent for the global market for hydraulic-based systems. With its patented technology, Cascade Drives dramatically reduces energy consumption and environmental impact, while increasing productivity.

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Contact: Per Anell ↗

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Reprogramming cancer cells to immune cells

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Reprogramming cancer cells to immune cells

What if you could reprogram a cancer cell into an immune one? It sounds like science fiction but through years of research, Asgard Therapeutics might have found the solution on how to do just this. The technology is focused on direct cell reprogramming to discover novel approaches for cancer immunotherapy.

asgardthx.com ↗

Contact: Jonas Jendi ↗

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Fashion supply chain traceability

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Fashion supply chain traceability

TrustTrace’s technology empowers brands and suppliers around the world to standardize how supply chain and material traceability data is captured, digitized, and shared. With all of the trusted supply chain traceability data stored on a single platform, brands get the right evidence in the right place to back-up product claims and meet regulatory compliance.

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Contact: Anna Ljungdahl ↗

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Memory compression technology

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Memory compression technology

Digitalization quickly accelerates energy consumption and maximizing performance per watt in servers and smart devices is critical to breaking the trend. ZeroPoint technology delivers up to 50% higher performance per watt by removing unnecessary information from microchips in data centers and smart devices.

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Contact: Tobias Elmquist ↗

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The future of sustainable chemical production

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The future of sustainable chemical production

By replacing traditional fossil-based manufacturing of chemicals with a cell-free technology platform, EnginZyme seeks to play a key role in solving one of the fundamental challenges of our time – how to produce better, greener, and cheaper products that we use every day. The cell-free biomanufacturing platform combines the breadth and power of biology and the efficiencies of the chemical industry.

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Contact: Patrik Sobocki ↗

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The future of power electronics

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The future of power electronics

KISAB is an innovative provider of silicon carbide substrates, striving to define the future of the semiconductor industry. The company has developed a new process for providing silicon carbide substrates at superior cost and quality. This enables the device manufacturers to further push the limits of performance in future power electronics.

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Contact: Per Anell ↗

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Novel treatment for rare conditions

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Novel treatment for rare conditions

Calliditas addresses the need of people with rare conditions – starting with treatment for renal and hepatic diseases. Today, Calliditas is the leading pharmaceutical company for treating renal diseases and develops treatment for inflammatory kidney disease as well as for Berger’s disease – the most common form of chronic kidney inflammation.

Industrifonden has made a partial exit of its holding in Calliditas.

calliditas.se ↗

Contact: Patrik Sobocki ↗

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Early detection of cancer

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Early detection of cancer

Elypta is a diagnostics firm pioneering metabolism-based liquid biopsies. Its technology allows for non-invasive, safe, and cost-effective tests needed for early cancer diagnoses and for patients’ continued monitoring. Starting with kidney cancer, Elypta’s technology is being developed to ultimately be validated across multiple cancers.

elypta.com ↗

Contact: Jonas Jendi ↗

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We are here to create successful companies based on great science and unique technologies.
Please reach out to our team by sending your pitch deck or simply give us a call. We’d love to discuss your transformative ideas!