Stockholm Startups List
Map of the local innovation industry.
Meet some of the best and newest startups based in Stockholm.
Marcus Ericsson
Investor
Lead Engineer @salesforce; Computer Science @university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign, Entrepreneur on the @startupbus
Martin Källström
Serial entrepreneur with technical and business background. Founder of @polyester, @twingly and @narrative-2
Joakim Keussen
Hyper Island alumni. Designer @square, previously @airbnb.
Johan Attby
CEO & Founder of FishBrain • Founder of the software company Tific that was successfully acquired in 2011 • MSc & PhD student @chalmers-institute-of-technology
Rob Mallery
Investor
VP of Talent @originate, Founder at LassenGroup
Henrik Lenberg
Founder & CEO of Auxy • Previously VP of Platform at @soundcloud
Frank Schuil
Founded several companies including IRL Connect, ClickClacks, Qubulus and Verbeterdebuurt (foundation). Currently CEO & co-founder Bitcoin company Safello.
Ohad Samet
Investor
Chief Risk Officer at @klarna. Co-founder @signifyd and @Analyzd (acq by @klarna). @paypal New Ventures. Head of Analytics at FraudSciences (acq by @paypal).
http://www.ohadsamet.com/blog/
Phillipe Casorla Sagot
Lead iOS Developer @lifesum • Worked as CTO at @saborstudio • Studied at @Costa Rica Institute of Technology
http://philli.pe
Massimiliano Del Vita
CEO and co-founder of Klappo, strong Product Development background.
Net Jacobsson
Investor
Co-founder & General Partner @sparklabs-global-ventures & @sparklabs Accelerator in Seoul. Former Executive at @facebook. Father of 4. Mountain Biker.
Gaurav Chandrashekar
cofounder @merchii • Worked at @spotify, @indix • Studied at @national-university-of-singapore
Leon Liebman
Investor
Arno Smit
co-founder @fundedbyme, Developer / Designer / Entrepreneur. Namibian born, living in Sweden
Cragg Nilson
Investor
Founder & CEO, Coastal Tech Accelerator. Entrepreneur, investor and startup advisor. Specialize in early and growth stages.
Philip Mikal
Investor
VP, Global Financial Services, @klarna AB.
Andrew Romans
Investor
General Partner Rubicon Venture Capital (formerly Georgetown Angels) Author (McGraw Hill July 2013) The Entrepreneurial Bible to Venture Capital @romansventures
http://rubicon.vc/blog/
Jason Dainter
Co-Founder of Trooply
http://swedishstartupspace.com/author/jason/
Carl Waldekranz
Started and sold design studio with clients as Spotify, Nokia and Rosetta Stone. Bridge technology and design. Co-Founder and CEO @tictail •
Patrick Perlmutter
Head up product & marketing @infinit. Former EIR @lecamping. BA @college-of-william-and-mary. MBA @hec-paris. Experience working @apple.
Uri Levanon
Founder @hastemedia
Johan Jörgensen
Colin Treseler
Product Manager, Business Development - Payments. Dartmouth Econ, CS
Filip Perkon
Founder Alumnee • Worked at @bnp-paribas, @synergy-innovations-venture-fund • Studied at @london-school-of-economics
Siam Choudhury
Global Product Manager @fundedbyme (2014-)
Ex Account Manager & SMB Partner Manager at @facebook (2010-2013)
Nils Svangård
Investor
CTO at Tajitsu.com
http://ni1s.com
Louise Eriksson
Investor
Co-founder + CEO Vint (airbnb for personal training)
Founder AdProfit (Scandinavia's largest b2b adnetwork and media representative)
Cristobal Viedma
CEO/Founder @monkimun. Head of Platform @viki ($200M exit). CEO/Founder @bluewalks.
http://viedma.tumblr.com
Fredrik Stenbeck
Makes things happen. Strong background in large enterprises and B2B (IBM and Lotus etc). Founded Silverbakk, SiXX and Great Simians.
http://fredrikstenbeck.com
Andreas Hassellöf
Founder & CEO at @helishopter.
Ariff Munshi
Founder and CEO of UserScout. Founded Referoll.com previously, now Userscout.com. Leads product development and is the chief architect of the application.
Aydogan Ali Schosswald
Investor
Founding Partner @berlin42 & Venture Partner @hub:raum
Victor Bodin
Founder @unioncy, DesignLocks & Eleseri. Online background with execution skills (@rocket-internet). Business background (M&A @jp-morgan, Strategy Consulting)
Oskar Glauser
An entrepreneur and art director who lives in Stockholm, Sweden. Passionate about great ideas implemented with beautiful design. Co-founder of @videofyme.
Filip Kiš
CTO & co-founder of TrainedOn. Coding for passion since I can remember and getting paid for it since high school. Doing a PhD in HCI with Entrepreneurship focus
Alexander Börve MD
Digital Health Expert. Founder & medical officer @ iDoc24- Ask the dermatologist in any device 24/7. Surgeon and PhD student. Studied @ UC Berkeley.
http://www.bit.ly/DrKnya
Chris Murphy
Investor
Investors Manager @SummitDublin
Connecting start ups and investors at Europe's largest tech event.
Elin Elkehag
Passionate global citizen and tech enthusiast, connecting large corporations with the start-up world. CEO & Co-Founder @vinna-ventures and @hanelin-of-sweden.
Christopher M David
Aaron Colman
Looking for sales and bus dev roles in Stockholm
Pranav Kosuri
Worked at @shortcut-labs • Studied at @california-institute-of-technology, @stockholm-university University. M.Sc. Molecular Biology, Founder & CEO of Alternance AB and Musikmentor.nu
Joakim Dal
Investor
Love to make investments. Previously with MorganStanley and EQT.
Luis-Daniel Alegría
CEO & Co-founder of Vamos. With a strong marketing and product development background. Graduated from Hyper Island 2010 in Sweden.
Stefan Krafft
Entrepreneur - Marketer - Father - Proud co-founder of @listandtell @ecomote and partner of @leadsius Love good ideas, AIK and redwine.
http://stefankrafft.blogspot.com
Marcus B. Svensson
Mikael Eriksson
CEO of @curvanade. Veteran IT entrepreneur. Worked at @microsoft during early-mid 1990’s. Started up three @microsoft based consulting companies
Harsh Shah
Investor
Founder @nova-global, @shopsense • Worked at @opera-solutions, @uventures • Studied at @indian-institute-of-technology-bombay
Taras Kravtchouk
Multidisciplinary Art Director & designer with 10yrs of experience in creating digital beauty.
Joel Marsh
Experience Architect. Worked at @stardoll, @trustpilot , & @piczo. Author of "The Composite Persuasion". Founder @teller-1
Anton Johansson
reinventing things online
Hannes Dernehl
Founder at OpenRatio. Enterprise mPaaS. Create, deploy and manage platform-independent native mobile applications with easy integration to existing data sources
Johan Klaesson
M&A and fund raising advisory for European technology ventures
· http://www.opera-cp.com
Johan Tervald
Founder and Head of marketing @promobucket Entrepreneur. Founder of Jays.
http://promobucket.com/blog
David Wallinder
Founder & COO of cross-platform MMO gaming company @funrock. Created my first F2P gaming success 2004.
Alex Jawad
Co-founder @30k. Strong in product concept & biz dev, sales, financial analysis. Founder & ex-Director @Luxclusif.com / @UpteamCorp
Tom Söderlund
CEO of @weld. Founder of 4 companies, including @it-s-alive and @a-different-game. MSc from SSES.
http://blog.tomsoderlund.com
Joacim Westlund
Founder & CEO of Shortcut Labs. ITC Project & Security manager. M.Sc. Product Realisation, KTH, Stockholm.
Martin Landén
Founder @apprl • Background in Web, Communications and Digital Strategy (DDB, LBi, Startups Freelance consulting) • MSc Media Tech Engineering, Marketing BBA
Giovanni Casinelli
Co-founder & CEO of Asteroid • Worked at @openratio • Studied at @politecnico-milano
David Los
Co-Founder at @foap.com. Also co-founded Trip.com. Bachelor in Medical Engineering & Master in Banking and Finance.
http://blog.foap.com
Johan Lilja
Founder of YouPlanet and YouModels. Online media executive since 2004
David Jouarisse
Your Partner for Growth - at Akka Venture. Passionated about VC Technology Entrepreneurship M&A - with an international outlook. Looking for the next big thing
Jonas Grimfelt
Co-founder of @merchii. Nightowl. Front-To-Back Developer. High ambitions with focus on fundamentally refactor e-commerce which I consider broken by design.
Morteza Zandieh
Founder @centroid-studio • Worked at @google • Studied at @massachusetts-institute-of-technology
Mikael Gustavsson
Co-founder and CTO of GoBreakTheIce
Victor Björklund
Founded Atello AB, a swedish consulting company.
Patrick BLANCHETON
founder at opportunities unlimited @opportunities__ (prelaunch : V @alpha-2)
Creative intelligence Consultant (Founder aestheticphilosphy.fr)
http://opportunitiesunlimited.tumblr.com/
Marcus Tonndorf
Swedish Entrepreneur and currently founder of Primal Shield. 5 Countries, 5 companies, 5 Languages and 5 areas of expertise.
Valdis Pornieks
Founder @rentmama
Michael Roterman
Founder @zaplife & @betobe. MSc at KTH, @stanford-university.
http://michael.zaplife.com
Michael Bergman
GoBreakTheIce. Digital Life Academy 2011 Runner-up
Pejman Dashti
Entrepreneur, start-up mentor and public speaker.I'm active in all topics regarding startups but mostly accelerators, lean methodology & angel investment.
Daniele Galvani
Founder @fashiontrainer, @naturaltutor • Studied at @university-of-modena-and-reggio-emilia
http://toxkeeper.wordpress.com/
Johannes Schildt
Founder Tieday Group • Worked at @stardoll • Studied at @stockholm-university
Martin Berntsson
Social Entrepreneur, Co-founder and CEO at Desmo
Sean Lars Ganser
Founder Infinite Scan • Worked at @mobile-roadie, @greatapps • Studied at @polytechnic-institute-of-new-york-university
Stefan Wille
CEO of @public-picture-ag. Worked for @credit-suisse, @Houlihan Lokey, @Deutsche Bank, @merrill-lynch. Studied at @university-st-gallen.
Filip Johansson
Founder, CEO, Designer at Aevy / Singularitarian / Studied at Business and Economics Stockholm School of Economics.
Therese Gedda
Founder & CEO @30minmba • Serial entrepreneur, Speaker, Writer • Founder at 17 to company in management consulting. • Master degree at SSE • Fitness instructor
http://www.theresegedda.com
Lars Hjältman
co-founder @hcg-partners • Partner in Management Consulting, serial entrepreneur and big company C-leve exec
Pascal
Repeat entrepreneur: twice VC funded, started businesses in Swe, UK, Fra, Ger and now @meritocruitment in the US.
Anton Bergstrom
Founder & COO of @aevy. Love Big Ideas & People. Studied @gothenburg-university-1
George André
CEO of Codeness. Product manager, system architect, security architect at Ericsson and ST-Ericsson, embedded development contractor (Cisco, Intel, NEC).
Aaron McCoy
Founder @betbox. Strong product design, development, UX and business strategy experience in several entrepreneurial ventures.
Lars Willner
Co-founder & CEO InstrumentChamp. Previously CFO of SnapTV and co-founder of Sagastream. Startup advisor in Winner Ventures, helping entrepreneurs create growth
http://www.larswillner.com
Hosam Sherif
CEO of Sharplet. 1st software startup after Ericsson where I was an engineer, product manager, and director. Masters in physics and holographic data storage.
Pavels Romanovskis
FMCG, Retail, Procurement / Marketing executive, father of 5, lives in Riga, Latvia
http://blog.osom.me
Jerrol Spier
Recruiting Sports & Gaming Leaders.
http://www.mrspier.com
Carl Zetterberg
Passion for Web and Entrepreneurship. Co-Founder at May&Barrow.
http://www.pixelview.pro
Niklas Agevik
runs startups, long distances. pm and also occasionaly ceo at instabridge.
http://agevik.se
Anders Ekman
Founder @fatcal-ab
http://www.fatcal.com
Timo Sulg
Founder @giftvisor, @rankademy • Worked at @versioneye, @swedbank • Studied at @tallinn-university
http://zerply.com/tsulg
Paul Jones Winlund
Helped leading companies with their Business/IT-visions and internet strategies (up to 40 000 employees and in more than 100 markets).
Jonas Karlsson
Entrepreneur, optimizer and co-founder @revrise.
Fredrik Posse
Founder Soundtrap • Studied at @stockholm-school-of-economics
Thibaut Patel
Co-Founder and CTO at @findify-1 • Studied Software Engineering at @insa-lyon and Machine Learning at @kth-royal-institute-of-technology-1
Amanda Colldén
Founder @wofo-agency-ab
Alex Kheirmand
Founder and CEO @promobucket-2. Serial entrepreneur. M. Sc. Innovation and Product Development.
Pelle Ljungwall
CEO of zkyon inc.
Young business professional, digital freedom fighter & disruptive entrepreneur.
Launching something ground breaking soon.
Cyrus Toumaj
Investor
Founder of Feedfiller. 2nd startup out of high school. Strong business background (Credit Suisse & Barclays). Meng Aeronautical Engineering, Imperial College.
Maria Richardsson
Founder @nordic-design-collective
http://www.latitud.se
Victor Sahlstedt
Lars Wahlström
Business driven consultant and entrepreneur, passionate about Internet, Mobile and Social Media. Extensive experience from the online gaming industry, B2B & B2C
Alejandro Masferrer
Founder @the-pop-up-agency, @sello-salvaje • Worked at @base-design • Studied at @hyper-island
http://www.wepopup.com
Richard Setterwall
CEO at Jobylon. Strong background (McKinsey Corporate Finance and PwC Strategy). MSc student at Lund Institute of Technology (SE) and @university-of-california-los-angeles Anderson (US).
http://www.jobylon.se/blog/
Johan Tysklind
Co-founder of e-chron, e-challenge, Catalyst Sweden & Crowdcube North
Thanos Makris
Co-Founder and CEO of iMellon. Awarded Software Engineer. Problem Solver.
http://www.imellon.com/blog
Joakim Thorén
CEO @versatile-security. Expert in IT Security, Software, Smart Cards and PKI. International experience in R&D, Integration and Management.
http://joakimthoren.com
Markus Thyberg
Co-founder at Collectably. UX Designer at InUse Experience, previously at Opera Software.
David Prentell
CMO/ Co-founder of Vamos. Previous event organiser, MD of Tatchies (e-commerce & retail), marketing / strategy at award winning agencies Isobar, AKQA & McCann.
http://tumblr.getvamos.com
David Högberg
Frontend head honcho at Desmo.
Joel Purra
Full stack generalist developer; polyglot; open source enthusiast; Swedish. Available from August/September 2014.
Rabih Kanaan
Founder at OpenRatio, we Develop Mobile Platforms and Cross-platform Mobile Applications - B2B, B2C, Mobile Learning, M2M
John Reyhani
Investor
Founder Fuelmatics Corp • VP Petroleum Marketing, General Constructor, BS Aeronautical Science Embry-riddle-aeronautical-university, and Bachelors from UNF.
Carl Sidenvall
Founder @take-space-ab • Engineer and project manager with diverse experience from automotive, baby product, industrial gas and bitcoin industries.
Ville Kymäläinen
Founder @birdia-education, @birdia-education-1
Anjum Javed
Founder @howsip ,Engineering graduate @blekinge-institute-of-technology
Henrik Holdt
Founder of CV-online.se.
Gracia Chen
Founder Stellinc Technology AB
Adrian Swartz
Co-founder & CEO of Cruitway - a mobile application matching employers with talent. Serial entrepreneur within digital business. Execution in focus.
Marco Pardo
William Rudenmalm Högman
Internet entrepreneur, statistics geek and programmer @agflow
http://blog.whn.se
Haseeb Tariq
@startupweekend, @ted, Bryght, Kauzz
Andrey Zhukov
Maker, @toca-boca founding team
Michael Goldman
Entrepreneur with great passion for the online and mobile business.
http://tagmyride.mobi/blog
Joel Hellermark
Founder of Sample
Waseem Soomro
Founder at Mitrae, and productguy at few.
Andreas Holmqvist
Founder @deelioo @glampire-group-inc
Jonas Carlsson
Founder of Atls.me
Åke Bendel
Investor
Founder of FIXIDO.COM and also running some existing business in northern Europe. Contact me for any questions.
Scott Reed
Founder eLinguaBooks Sweden AB • Studied at @state-university-of-new-york-at-buffalo
http://www.facebook.com/flikkt
André Hegge
Founder Cogo Planet
Christoffer Wallin
Missionary of music and founder of @jamclouds • Creative Design @sprinklebit • Worked at @bts, @swedish-armed-forces • Studied at @university-of-utah
http://www.jamclouds.com/blog/read/54/why-jamclouds/
Erik Balck
http://erikbalck.tumblr.com/
John M
Founded several startups. Succesful ones. Worked at Curse and MMORPG.com where I managed several websites who I also founded. Currently running several projects that need funding. Got super-ideas too!
Joel Broms Brosjö
Serial entrepreneur & Creative Director
http://contemporaryhybrid.com
forsbergh
Alexander Frederiksen
Jonas Gold
CIO & Co-founder of @igomoon - Skyrocketing Managed WordPress Solutions. College Degree in eCommerce/Logistics. WordPress Ninja. Apple fanboy & Starbucks addict. Husband & father of two. Love skiing.
http://www.jonasgold.se/
Jon Essen-Moller
CEO at Tenka AB
http://brightbrix.blogspot.com/
Jonny Baho
16 year old high-school student & entrepreneur; Founder & CEO of Tillister; Developer since the age of 12.
Fredrik Berglund
CEO/Founder of @invajo.
CEO/Founder of Internetbolaget (traffic and domains)
Founder of Squace
Founder of Ryce (acquired by Getupdated)
Rodrigo Cauduro
Co-founder of full service digital agency.Digital entrepreneur.
STO-JFK
Social Shopping. Invented.
Tomas Måsviken
Founder and CEO at @zeeyaa
Dan Brazier
CEO, COO, Managing Director, Investor
Fredrik Jansson
Mohamed Abdulahi
Somali entrepreneur based in Sweden, Founder and the CEO of Somalia Fish co, Promoting sustainable investment and ventures. Aspiring to accelerate change for the better!
Andreas Svensson
Founder of @citynow, @skolnatet.
James Bluemink
Founder and Landlord of @pubme The loyalty based social media app on tap.Tap in earn reward points claim free drinks and discounts.
Erik Jonason