Swedish Industrial Development Fund
industrifonden.com Direct investor
Nordic venture capital fund investing in deep tech and life science; focuses on pre-seed and early-stage companies developing transformative technologies.
Swedish Industrial Development Fund is a venture capital firm headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, founded in 1979. It invests directly in companies, from seed to growth, in deep tech, life science, advanced materials and industry 4.0. Its stated cheque size is 10–50 million SEK first ticket. 5 billion SEK under management and 60 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We look for unique, scalable innovations that improve our society through breakthrough technologies and science.”
— Swedish Industrial Development Fund, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Invests in
- SE, Nordic region
- Sectors
- deep tech, life science, advanced materials, industry 4.0, energy, computing, AI, synthetic biology, biotech, medtech, healthtech
- Cheque size
- 10–50 million SEK first ticket
- Founded
- 1979
- Assets under management
- 5 billion SEK
- Portfolio
- 60 companies
Team, as Swedish Industrial Development Fund publishes it
- Andreas Hiller
- Andreas Söneby Venture Partner
- Anna Haupt Investment Director
- Anna Ljungdahl Senior Investment Director
- Birgitta Stymne Göransson Chair of the board
- Caroline Murray CFO
- Caroline Wadstein Investment Manager
- Charlotta Nilsson
- Charlotte Landin Office Manager
- Clara Norgren Associate
- Elena Vallin Investment Manager
- Fredrik Lehmann Venture Partner
Names and roles exactly as listed on industrifonden.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 224 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- Navigare Ventures 7 shared companies: enginzyme.com, elypta.com, pixelgen.com, adamantq.com…
- Sound Bioventures 4 shared companies: goo.gl, anacardio.com, boostpharma.com, teiturtrophics.com
- HealthCap 4 shared companies: bonesupport.com, gesynta.se, oncopeptides.com, tribunetx.com
- Fairpoint Capital 4 shared companies: kisabsemi.com, trustrace.com, avassa.io, dbvis.com
- Oxx 3 shared companies: goo.gl, funnel.io, apica.io
- KDventures 3 shared companies: anacardio.com, boostpharma.com, oncopeptides.com
- Brightly Ventures 3 shared companies: exeri.se, fasttravelgames.com, openpayments.io
- FORWARD.one 2 shared companies: goo.gl, alixlabs.com
- MTIP 2 shared companies: goo.gl, trialbee.com
- Sofinnova 2 shared companies: calliditas.se, enginzyme.com
and 214 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Swedish Industrial Development Fund publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://industrifonden.com/is_investor, layer, type, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, invests_in_geographies, cheque_size, thesis_quote, aum, name, hq_country, hq_city, thesis_quote_page, description, status, confidence
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10535306founded, hq_city, hq_country
- https://industrifonden.com/our-story/invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, founded, portfolio_count
- https://industrifonden.com/team/people
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Record 87 · added 2026-08-27 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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