Novel treatment for heart failure
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.
3D printing for aerospace and medical applications
3D printing for aerospace and medical applications
Arcam was a pioneer within 3D printing for aerospace and medical applications. Their patented technology, the EBM process, utilizes a high-power electron beam that generates the energy needed for high melting capacities and high productivity. Arcam was acquired by GE Group for 6 billion SEK.
Reprogramming cancer cells to immune cells
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.
Remodeling syntetic material into bones
Remodeling syntetic material into bones
Bonesupport develops and markets CERAMENT®, an innovative range of radiopaque injectable osteoconductive and drug-eluting bioceramic products that have a proven ability to heal defects by remodeling to host bone in six to twelve months. Their products are effective in treating patients with fractures and bone voids caused by trauma, infection, disease or related surgery. The company was listed in Stockholm in 2017. Industrifonden exited in 2022.
Novel treatment for rare conditions
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.
Electrifying the hydraulics industry
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.
Early detection of cancer
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.
The future of sustainable chemical production
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.
Helping marketers be data-driven
Helping marketers be data-driven
Data without context is meaningless – or even misleading. Funnel offers a solution for performance marketers to make sense of all data by providing fully automatic data imports from >500 data sources and turning it into “business-ready data”. The data and insights are presented in real-time, allowing for marketers to optimize their performance marketing.
The future of power electronics
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.
Streaming service for books
Streaming service for books
Since the company was launched, it has developed into a fast-growing platform that enables the unlimited distribution of stories and knowledge in various digital formats. For a fixed monthly fee, customers can get unlimited access to popular titles across all genres. Today, Nextory is launched in 10 markets and is one of the Nordic region’s largest subscription services for audio and e-books.
The original oat drink company
The original oat drink company
Oatly is the original oat drink company and a company that is built on the idea of change and in the 1990s, they set out to create a plant-based drink that was in tune with the needs of both humans and the planet. Oatly’s patented method uses natural enzymes to transform fiber-rich oats into a nutritional liquid. There was a partial exit in conjunction with an IPO in 2021.
Therapies for hematological cancers
Therapies for hematological cancers
Oncopeptides is a biotech company focused on the development of targeted therapies for difficult-to-treat hematological cancers. The company is science-driven and committed to bringing innovation to patients with unmet needs and improving patient lives. There was a partial exit in 2018.
Fully transparent solar cells
Fully transparent solar cells
The world’s first plasmonic solar cell is finally here! Peafowl Plasmonics brings new and sustainable energy solutions with its fully transparent light-collecting cells – empowering low-power devices that benefit from self-powering such as indoor sensors, e-paper displays, and dynamic windows.
Modernizing pulsed power
Modernizing pulsed power
Radiation therapy, scientific research, and various industrial processes – are all contexts for which pulsed power is the essential cornerstone. ScandiNova is a world-leading provider of solid-state high-power pulse modulators and RF units. Their unique patented technology is creating a new market standard, praised for its excellent precision and reliability.
Next generation telecom solutions
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.
Fashion supply chain traceability
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.
Memory compression technology
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.
Transforming the video experience
Transforming the video experience
Accedo helps the world’s leading content providers, television operators, broadcasters, and brands deliver multi-screen video services. They provide a combination of the products and services needed to support our customers at every stage of the video business journey, from strategy and conception through to delivery and post-launch optimization.
Diamond-based IC systems
Diamond-based IC systems
Adamant Quanta strives to innovate and deliver immediately useful cost- and energy-efficient quantum tech using defects in diamond crystals. Leveraging their extensive experience and know-how, their mission is to serve the timing, sensing, and detection markets with innovative functionalised diamond crystals that utilize their quantum mechanical properties to deliver superior functionality and performance.
A breath of relief
A breath of relief
Airsonett’s cutting-edge technology offers effective treatment of allergic diseases such as asthma and atopic dermatitis. The medical device provides ultra-clean air for the breathing area as the patient sleeps and removes the allergic load during the hours when it is often the most harmful, allowing the immune system to strengthen and recover.
Disrupting the semiconductor landscape
Disrupting the semiconductor landscape
AlixLabs is disrupting the semiconductor landscape with their innovative approach to manufacturing. Through their ALE Pitch Splitting technology (APS), they enable the precise division of nanostructures while significantly reducing energy consumption and emissions.
Specialty products for rare diseases
Specialty products for rare diseases
AO Pharma is a pharmaceutical company focusing on specialty products for patient groups with limited alternatives.
Solving digital performance issues
Solving digital performance issues
Apica’s active monitoring platform is used by global organizations and fortune 500 brands to solve the most complex digital performance issues in today’s multi-cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments. Apica measures what matters and delivers scalable monitoring and detailed insights – while reducing friction and time for its users.
Managing private edge clouds
Managing private edge clouds
Cloud computing revolutionized the IT industry and made things we only dreamt of before possible. Today it’s causing challenges such as the need to be run closer to users or data sources. Avassa has a solution for that and offers a Platform-as-a-Service software where the customer can create and manage “private edge clouds”.
A new standard for surgical room ventilation
A new standard for surgical room ventilation
Airborne bacteria is a great threat to patients undergoing surgery and surgical site infections can be deadly. Avidicare is pioneering this field and provides ultra-clean air in operating rooms through its innovative air ventilation system to prevent surgical site infections.
Accessing the world’s online auctions in one place
Accessing the world’s online auctions in one place
Sourcing arts and antiques online used to be a hassle, but not anymore. Barnebys pioneered the world of online auctions as an online aggregator of art, design, antiques, and collectibles – giving you access to all the auctions in one place. Today the platform lists items from many auction houses, dealers, and galleries globally.
Translating cancer antibody biology into immuno-oncology therapies
Translating cancer antibody biology into immuno-oncology therapies
BioInvent is a clinical-stage biotech company that discovers and develops novel and first-in-class immuno-modulatory antibodies for cancer therapy, with currently four drug candidates in five ongoing clinical programs. Its F.I.R.S.T™ technology platform simultaneously identifies both targets and the antibodies that bind to them, generating many promising new drug candidates.
Safe handling of hazardous drugs
Safe handling of hazardous drugs
Carmel Carmel Pharma is the manufacturer of the PhaSeal System, today’s only clinically proven closed-system drug transfer device for the safe handling of hazardous drugs. Supported by more than 15 years of experience focused solely on the development of PhaSeal, Carmel Pharma offers the highest level of trust, quality and confidence.
Automated routine analysis of blood
Automated routine analysis of blood
CellaVision is a global medical technology firm that provides automated systems for routine analysis of blood and other body fluids in health care services. The products replace manual laboratory work, and support effective workflows and skills development within and between hospitals. The company specializes in image analysis, artificial intelligence, and automated microscopy. Exit in conjunction with IPO in 2012.
Next dimension upstream bioprocessing
Next dimension upstream bioprocessing
Cellevate develops and markets products based on a proprietary nanofiber-based platform – the Cellevat3d™ – a game-changing, green and sustainable, deep-tech innovation for the biopharmaceutical industry.
AI decision-support for doctors
AI decision-support for doctors
Combinostics has developed a leading technology platform by applying AI to MRI — providing data-driven decision support for doctors worldwide. It makes it possible to detect patients suffering from neurodegenerative diseases, such as dementia and Alzhemier’s, earlier and intervene adequately to delay the progression of the disease.
Pioneering real-time data from IoT devices
Pioneering real-time data from IoT devices
Industrial IoT and edge computing are major contributors to the next industrial revolution. As the industry is migrating to the cloud, Crosser provides a low-code platform for this. By helping companies to monitor their data in real time, Crosser makes it easier for industrial companies to analyze, automate, and streamline their production.
The database tool for all databases
The database tool for all databases
DbVis was founded with the vision of creating a universal database tool for all databases. The company has created DbVisualizer – a database management tool that supports connecting to a wide range of data sources over a standardized protocol. Today, the company has a strong global position with over 20 000 customers in 129 countries.
Digitalizing the intellectual property market
Digitalizing the intellectual property market
80 percent of a company’s value resides in intangible assets, but the process of trademarking them has previously been lengthy and cumbersome. Now Digip has made the traditional intellectual property rights market completely digital.
The GDPR savior
The GDPR savior
Regulation tech pioneer DPOrganizersolves companies’ GDPR and CCPA compliance challenges with an end-to-end solution for privacy management. Their Saas tool helps businesses map, visualize, report on and manage their personal data processing.
Supply Chain Automation
Supply Chain Automation
eBuilder provides an array of enterprise tech services in business process automation, information security and AI-enabled predictive analytics for future-ready organizations across the world. They offer solutions that seamlessly connect multiple systems and partners to achieve operational excellence, cyber security, and predictive smartphone analytics.
Cold chain supply solutions
Cold chain supply solutions
Envirotainer is the world leader in air-transportation solutions for temperature-sensitive pharmaceuticals. They contribute to a sustainable world by helping their customers enable global access to life-saving pharmaceuticals, through patient-safe, reliable, and efficient cold chain solutions.
Digitalizing the electric grid
Digitalizing the electric grid
As our society becomes more dependent on an uninterrupted power supply, Exeri plays an important role in enabling a sustainable and secure supply of electricity. Their smart grid system monitors the electricity grid and can locate possible problems in real time, while at the same time providing increased security along the power lines.
Changing the way we play
Changing the way we play
Fast Travel Games is a game developer and publisher, building world-class virtual reality games. Founded by game development veterans, the company is on a mission to change the way we play. They build games where players are free to explore their surroundings, experience-rich narratives, and interact with others in new and interesting ways.
Tomorrow's visual marketing platform
Tomorrow's visual marketing platform
Fibbl is the world’s first cost-effective end-to-end solution for 3D and AR focused visual marketing. Integrate 3D & AR into your e-commerce and marketing in minutes.
The social network for fishing fans
The social network for fishing fans
Connecting with other fish enthusiasts? There’s an app for that! Fishbrain is the world’s most popular app for connecting fishing enthusiasts. Fishing fans use the app to log and track their catches, share tips within the network and boast about ‘the one that got away’. By doing so Fishbrain provides fishers with the tools and skills needed to perform better.
Runs specialized stores online
Runs specialized stores online
Footway started off as a highly automated marketplace specializing in footwear, growing to become the market leader in the Nordics. In recent years Footway Group has scaled its business and technology to other verticals. Today, Footway runs 10 specialized online stores – all sharing the same smart backend.
3D printers for metal
3D printers for metal
Mass collaboration is needed to solve the complex challenges of additive manufacturing. Freemelt’s advanced 3D metal printers for metal together with its open-source platform accelerates this process, making it possible to develop new materials, shapes, and applications the industry has yet to see.
Reduces harmful inflammation and pain
Reduces harmful inflammation and pain
Gesynta Pharma develops novel anti-inflammatory, pain-relieving pharmaceuticals. The company currently focuses on endometriosis – a painful, chronic, inflammatory and estrogen-dependent disease that causes great suffering to millions of women.
Novel therapies for acute kidney injury
Novel therapies for acute kidney injury
Guard Therapeutics is a Swedish biotech company on a mission to provide breakthrough treatment for patients with acute kidney injury. The company’s investigational drug RMC-035 is being developed as a kidney protective treatment in connection with open heart surgery.
Making machine learning easy
Making machine learning easy
Hopsworks has set out to make machine learning easy for every company, providing tools for data scientists and engineers to manage features and develop and deploy models in production. The company has developed a platform for data-intensive artificial intelligence with the industry’s Python-centric enterprise feature store.
The future of mitral valve repair
The future of mitral valve repair
The majority of mitral valve disease patients are not able to undergo treatments involving open heart surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass. HVR Cardio provides a new treatment option that is safer, faster, and less traumatic cardiac intervention for mitral regurgitation patients worldwide – without compromising clinical efficacy.
Great gut feeling
Great gut feeling
InDex Pharma is on a mission to significantly improve the lives of patients suffering from immunological disorders by providing effective and safe drugs. The current focus is ulcerative colitis, a chronic and debilitating inflammation of the large intestine that affects patients of all ages, for which they have developed the candidate drug Cobitolimod.
The digital front door of your business
The digital front door of your business
Inriver’s software for product information management enables B2B and B2C organizations to bring compelling product stories to life for highly customized purchases, obtain actionable guidance on what influences buying decisions, and then quickly adapt to put insights into action.
Digitalizing legal services
Digitalizing legal services
Lexly is the leading legal tech pioneer in the Nordics and gives you access to expert legal advice anytime, anywhere. The company offers digital legal services to a broad range of customers based on their specific needs and by doing so they have made the conservative legal industry accessible to anyone.
Make superior investment decisions
Make superior investment decisions
Limina is modernizing investment management workflows for asset managers. The platform includes order management, portfolio management, risk management, and compliance and empowers its customers to make superior investment decisions while reducing complexity and operational risk.
Helping banks use data
Helping banks use data
Meninga transforms the way banks use transaction data with a framework for next-generation digital banking and is a global leader in white-label digital banking solutions – serving over 100M banking customers across 30 countries. They help banks use data to drive digital engagement, build customer loyalty and increase revenue.
Fresh ready-to-eat foods
Fresh ready-to-eat foods
Micvac is a food-tech company that brings smart technology to the world of fresh ready-to-eat foods. The company has created an innovative method for preparing and packaging food, minimizing pasteurization time while maximizing nutrition and flavor. Best of all, the long shelf life that prevents food waste throughout the value chain.
Saving babies with maternal vaccine
Saving babies with maternal vaccine
To protect infants from GBS-induced diseases – a maternal vaccine given to pregnant women is the only long-term viable option. Therefore, MinervaX is developing a maternal vaccine for Group B Streptococcus (GBS) – the leading cause of life-threatening infections in newborns.
Enables the software-defined car and beyond
Enables the software-defined car and beyond
Movimento is a company within the automotive industry originating from Gothenburg. Their vision is to help create the software-enabled car, the vehicle through which we are forging the integrated and increasingly autonomous driving experience. The company has completed millions of vehicle and module updates for some of the leading companies in the world. The company was sold to Delphi Automotive in 2017.
Commercial fusion power
Commercial fusion power
Fusion power has the potential to provide a limitless supply of emissions-free, reliable, safe, and affordable energy for all. Novatron Fusion aims to revolutionize the field of fusion energy production.
Innovative drug discovery platform
Innovative drug discovery platform
Nuevolution is a biotech company with the goal to deliver drugs of the future for the treatment of cancer and inflammatory diseases. Nuevolution has a patent-protected drug research platform to identify small-molecule drug candidates against cancer and inflammatory diseases. The company was IPO:ed in Stockholm in 2015 and acquired by Amgen in 2019.
Digital therapeutic platform for respiratory health
Digital therapeutic platform for respiratory health
Nuvoair brings a more human-centric experience and changes the care model for patients with severe lung diseases worldwide. Its connected hardware wrapped in a data-driven user-friendly software platform tailored for the needs of severe lung conditions has so far built the largest dataset in the market and has proven to improve outcomes in patients with severe respiratory disease.
The missing piece in a digital experience stack
The missing piece in a digital experience stack
Occtoo is an Experience Data Platform built to accelerate the way companies create relevant customer experiences everywhere. With Occtoo the user can easily unify all experience data (customer, product, transactional, behavioral, content, and more) and make it accessible in real time in any front-end of choice.
Cutting-edge infrastructure for Open Banking
Cutting-edge infrastructure for Open Banking
Open Payments provides the groundbreaking market infrastructure required for open banking. The company has sorted out how to implement Open Banking in businesses and connect multiple banks through one single unified API. This removes the complexity and frictions of many diverse integrations.
Pioneering spatial proteomics for single cell
Pioneering spatial proteomics for single cell
Pixelgen has developed Molecular Pixelation, a DNA-based visualization technology for analyzing cell surface proteins, to gain novel insights into cellular activity that will advance better medicines and diagnostics.
Replicating the human eye
Replicating the human eye
What if a camera lens would function like the human eye, with instant autofocus, all-in-focus, and constant field of view options? Almost two decades of research and development have resulted in PoLights technology that replicates the viewing experience of the human eye for lenses used in such devices as barcode scanners, mobile phone cameras, medical devices, and more.
Closing the gap between data and action
Closing the gap between data and action
Qlik offers an Active Intelligence platform, delivering end-to-end, real-time data integration and analytics cloud solutions to close the gaps between data, insights, and action. By transforming data into Active Intelligence, businesses can drive better decisions, improve revenue and profitability, and optimize customer relationships. Industrifonden’s investment in Qlik provided 900 million SEK in exit value.
The marketing and sales operations platform for real estate
The marketing and sales operations platform for real estate
Marketing tech company Realforce leads the new wave of digitization in residential real estate. Their platform makes it easy for marketing professionals to automate and scale recurring marketing activities for brokers and sellers with unparalleled control and flexibility.
Recovery of clean water
Recovery of clean water
Retein adapts nature’s finest separation for use in the recovery of clean water from any accessible water mixture. The patented molecular separation technology was developed at Chalmers University of Technology with the purpose of accelerating the transition towards a resource-efficient and sustainable world from the bottom up.
Renewable energy on demand
Renewable energy on demand
SaltX industrial large-scale energy storage solutions enable a decarbonized and fossil-free future by making renewable energy plannable. Cities and industries must heavily reduce their carbon footprint and SaltX is here to make it happen.
One more reason to love your phone
One more reason to love your phone
Scalado is a world leader in the mobile imaging industry, with a long history of developing innovative platform-independent imaging solutions. Based on Scalado’s unique Random Access JPEG and more than 50 patent and patent-pending technologies, these innovations are currently being used by the world’s leading global telecom and platform players.
Secure your data in the cloud
Secure your data in the cloud
ShardSecure is changing the nature of data security. Their patented Microshard technology cloud-enables data by distributing sensitive data for use in the multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud environment, while at the same time reducing management complexity and improving business continuity.
Turning nature into nutrition
Turning nature into nutrition
Smartfish turns nature into tasty and clinically proven nutrition products. Their technology platform delivers omega-3-enriched nutritional drinks with superior taste and health benefits, targeting both the fast-growing field of medical nutrition and the consumer health market.
Music streaming for businesses
Music streaming for businesses
With Soundtrack Your Brand, you can find the perfect music for your business in the world’s largest commercial catalog with over 58 million songs – all legal to use for your business. The platform gives businesses the freedom to play the music they want and the tools to make it easy; music scheduling, AI, and an explicit-lyrics filter.
Make music online
Make music online
Soundtrap is a collaborative, cloud-based recording studio, on a mission to make music creation and storytelling simple and collaborative for everyone. With an easy-to-use creation platform, Soundtrap empowers creators to build original content using a combination of software instruments, real instruments, and audio recording. There was an exit through acquisition by Spotify in 2017.
Novel therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases
Novel therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases
Teitur Trophics is a biotech company dedicated to developing new treatments for patients suffering from neurodegenerative diseases. The company has developed a platform of first-in-class cyclic peptides with a novel mechanism that preserves neuronal function. The peptides have the potential to treat patients suffering from a broad range of neurodegenerative diseases.
Texray has developed the world’s first...
Texray has developed the world’s first...
Texray has developed the world’s first radiation protection textile to address the need for comfortable and safe personal protection equipment (PPE). The Texray material is currently used in products designed for healthcare professionals exposed to X-ray radiation during surgical interventions. The Texray material may also provide value for professionals in various industry sectors, including nuclear, aero, and space.
Unlocking the full potential of forests
Unlocking the full potential of forests
Treebula is a Swedish company, up until now known as Virkesbörsen, dedicated to unlocking the full potential of forests. With a vision to utilize the true and upgraded value of forests, Treebula aims to be the premier source of forestry information, providing services and a digital meeting place for forest owners, buyers, and other stakeholders. By offering comprehensive forest management solutions and facilitating informed decision-making, Treebula strives to drive sustainable practices, promote biodiversity, and contribute to a greener future.
Matching service for clinical trials
Matching service for clinical trials
Identifying, matching, and enrolling the right candidates for clinical research programs is the number one challenge in the global clinical research industry. Trialbee combines advanced digital technology and life science to create a next-generation platform that simplifies the enrollment process for patients and supports the successful completion of clinical trials and access to medicine.
AI-based machine health monitoring
AI-based machine health monitoring
Viking Analytics is a company developing AI-based machine health monitoring technology. They are on a mission to enable every industrial service company like maintenance companies, OEMs, and system integrators to monitor more machines reliably and sustainability.