Investors in Deep Tech

At PUSH, we are committed to combat climate change and transform healthcare. Our initial investments are typically at pre-seed or seed stage with the potential to follow-on. Focus areas are health and future of the planet in Europe, especially Austria and Germany.

ScaleX Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm, specialised in late seed and A round investments in Emerging Europe’s most promising tech startups. Silicon Valley’s secret isn’t starting a business. It is scaling. That is what ScaleX is focused on. Startups involve a lot of challenges – raising capital, hiring the right talent, cultivating networks, and developing business. ScaleX is an value-adding VC in the truest sense, guiding startups and their founders through this maze and helping them tap into and realize their potential.

Rooted in the Norrsken Foundation, the fund is an early-stage deep tech impact (Article 9) investor that offers access to impact capital, world-class recruitment resources, and scalable growth structures. With a focused strategy, the fund makes 1-3 selective investments per year and takes a deeply operational approach, working closely alongside founders to drive growth and achieve impactful outcomes.

They invest in early-stage companies from seed to A-round and sometimes earlier, with initial investments typically ranging from 10-50 million SEK. Their evergreen fund structure allows them to prioritize long-term value over short-term gains. They focus on unique, scalable innovations that can have a meaningful societal impact, led by passionate founders capable of driving industry-changing ideas to fruition.

Saab Ventures serves as the corporate venture arm of the group, established in 2001 to harness Saab's extensive engineering expertise. The primary objective of Saab Ventures is to facilitate the transition of Saab's innovative ideas and technology into independent companies. This initiative plays a pivotal role in fostering a culture of innovation within the organization.

Early stage VC fund based in Vilnius and London investing in teams with innovative ideas and global aspiration. Our sights are firmly set on funding the most promising and ambitious startups in the region.

FIRSTPICK is a high-speed VC fund and an accelerator for tech startups in the Baltics. We aim to be the first pick of tech founders starting their journey. And the founders in our portfolio know that they always come first for our team.

They aim to partner with exceptional individuals to build technology-driven companies that solve important societal problems. Acting as active owners rather than mere investors, they focus on a small number of enterprises for long-term success. Their philosophy emphasizes Europe's ability to attract top talent globally and their commitment to fostering companies that lead in critical areas of societal impact. Founder is Daniel Ek, Founder and Chairman of Spotify.

They are a prominent deep tech investor and venture builder in the Nordics, specializing in commercializing innovations from research labs. Their unique model integrates venture creation and tech investments, leveraging Chalmers’ entrepreneurial ecosystem to identify and nurture high-potential deep tech opportunities with commercial and societal impact. They actively start and support companies based on cutting-edge research, playing a pivotal role from investment through to exit. Profits are reinvested to sustain their evergreen model, funding further groundbreaking research at Chalmers University.

Mist Ventures specializes in investing in technology-driven companies, particularly those in deep tech sectors with proprietary technology that offers a competitive edge. Their focus areas include embedded software, hardware, ASIC, telecom, machine learning, and algorithms, where they leverage strong technological and industry expertise. With investments up to 1M SEK, Mist Ventures actively engages with portfolio companies to maximize their benefit from the team's experience. They target scalable technology ventures in the pre-seed and seed stages, aiming for significant international market opportunities. Their investments prioritize businesses with sustainable long-term potential built on future-proof technologies.

First Venture invests in strong entrepreneurial teams in technology, health and sustainability. First Venture invests in both unlisted and listed growth companies with a market cap lower than SEK 500 million. The investor team led by Rune Nordlander and Peter Werme together has a long, relevant and unique experience of investing in both listed and unlisted companies in technology, health and sustainability. First Venture is a long-term, active owner and works closely with the entrepreneurial teams in the portfolio companies.

Quinary Investment AB is a Stockholm-based investment company focused on long-term value creation through investments in both private and public technology companies, with a focus on B2B.