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# News April 1, 2022: Dropmed, VIDEM, Astrid, Yubico, Stockholm Exergi and more
- URL: https://www.swedishtechnews.com/news-april-1-2022/
- Published: 2022-04-01T14:37:09.000Z
- Updated: 2023-07-31T15:03:13.000Z
- Description: Here is today's curation of news from Sweden's startup and tech sector, as well as some interesting reads, exclusively for subscribers of Swedish Tech News.
- Author: Martin Weigert
- Tags: Daily (PRO), dropmed, VIDEM, Astrid, Yubico, Curus, Add Health Media, Pluscap

Here is today's curation of news from Sweden's startup and tech sector.

Note: This issue is free of April Fools' jokes.

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**Financing rounds**

- [Dropmed](https://www.dropmed.se/) (Stockholm, online marketplace for medical technology): SEK3M (€290K, $320K) from Add Health Media, Pluscap and Swedish physicist and astronaut Christer Fuglesang ([English](https://www.dropmed.se/press?hss%5Fchannel=tw-214403744&utm%5Fcampaign=Brand+Awareness&utm%5Fcontent=202989379&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fsource=twitter)).

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**News from Swedish startups, the tech sector and VCs**

- Gothenburg-based startup [VIDEM](https://www.videm.se/), which works on a small, handheld and low-cost molecular diagnostic device for infection detection, won this year's Almi Pitch event ([Swedish](https://news.cision.com/se/almi-invest-ab/r/portabla-minilabbet-videm-vann-2022-ars-almi-pitch,c3537916), [machine translation](https://news-cision-com.translate.goog/se/almi-invest-ab/r/portabla-minilabbet-videm-vann-2022-ars-almi-pitch,c3537916?%5Fx%5Ftr%5Fsl=auto&%5Fx%5Ftr%5Ftl=en&%5Fx%5Ftr%5Fhl=en&%5Fx%5Ftr%5Fpto=wapp)).
- [Astrid Education](https://www.astrideducation.com/), Stockholm-based maker of an AI-powered voice-based English learning solution for kids and teens, announced its expansion into the South Korean market ([English](https://twitter.com/astrideducation/status/1509875833678221322?s=11&t=jTQdvpbpCYPq%5FWEKN-JD6g)).
- Christopher Harrell, CTO at Stockholm- and Silicon Valley-based provider of secure login solutions [Yubico](https://www.yubico.com), published an article reviewing the status quo of open authentication standards, and sharing what the future holds for modern WebAuthn/FIDO authentication ([English](https://www.yubico.com/blog/what-does-the-future-hold-for-modern-authentication/)).

**Other interesting things from the startup/VC world & beyond**

- A filterable list of (currently) 177 climate tech VCs ([English](https://climatetechvc.co/climate-tech-vcs/)).
- Signs that an entrepreneur is over-prepared for meetings with investors ([English](https://www.saastr.com/what-are-the-signs-of-an-entrepreneur-who-is-over-prepared-for-meetings-with-investors/)).

**Other interesting things from Sweden**

- Stockholm Exergi, Stockholm municipality's energy company, received €180M from the EU’s Innovation Fund for its plan to build Europe’s first large-scale negative emissions plant ([English](https://siliconcanals.com/crowdfunding/stockholm-exergi-receives-180m/), [Swedish](https://www.stockholmexergi.se/nyheter/stockholm-exergis-bio-ccs-projekt-far-180-miljoner-euro-i-eu-stod/)).
- Sweden is one of the most active countries experimenting with geofencing for general traffic ([English](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/28/world/europe/geofencing-sweden.html) / *NYT soft paywall*, [alternative URL](https://archive.ph/fdsKb)).
- A pandemic baby bump shines a spotlight on the Nordic welfare model ([English](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-23/northern-european-pandemic-baby-bump-shows-benefits-of-social-welfare-model) / *Bloomberg paywall*, [alternative URL](https://archive.ph/Z0P32#selection-3015.0-3015.67)).

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That's it for today.