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# News April 26, 2022: Venture Design, Internetstiftelsen, Gimi, Parakey, Humla, Ryde and more
- URL: https://www.swedishtechnews.com/news-april-26-2022/
- Published: 2022-04-26T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-07-21T11:32:19.000Z
- 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), venture design, internetstiftelsen, gimi, Parakey, Bricca (formerly Humla), ryde, eEquity

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

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**Funding news**

- [Venture Design](https://venturedesign.se/) (Växjö, online B2B2C furniture sales provider): SEK100M (€9.6M, $10.3M) from eEquity ([English](https://www.eequity.se/eequity-invests-in-venture-design-a-leading-online-b2b2c-player-in-furniture/)).

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

- The Swedish Internet Foundation ([Internetstiftelsen](https://internetstiftelsen.se/)), the organization responsible for the .se top-level domain, invested an undisclosed amount in Norwegian startup [iQ](https://iq.global/), provider of business intelligence & abuse monitoring SaaS platforms ([Swedish](https://internetstiftelsen.se/om-oss/press/pressmeddelanden/internetstiftelsen-investerar-i-it-sakerhetsbolag/), [machine translation](https://internetstiftelsen-se.translate.goog/om-oss/press/pressmeddelanden/internetstiftelsen-investerar-i-it-sakerhetsbolag/?%5Fx%5Ftr%5Fsl=auto&%5Fx%5Ftr%5Ftl=en&%5Fx%5Ftr%5Fhl=en&%5Fx%5Ftr%5Fpto=wapp)).
- [Gimi](https://www.gimi.com), Stockholm-based maker of a savings and spending app for children, released a co-branded app with Dutch major bank ABN AMRO ([English](https://siliconcanals.com/news/startups/fintech/gimi-partners-with-abn-amro/)).
- [Parakey](https://parakey.co/), Gothenburg-based provider of digital key solutions, announced the milestone of 250,000 users of its product ([English](https://en.parakey.co/blog/parakey-accelererar-passerar-250-000-anvandare)).
- [Humla](https://www.humla.se/) is a new fintech founded by Swedish company group Axel Johnson, aiming to "build the next generation of financial services and loyalty products". It's the first customer of the new banking-as-a-service (BaaS) platform developed by SEBx ([English](https://www.humla.se/press-and-news)).
- [Ryde](https://www.ryde-technology.com/), the Norwegian e-scooter provider which placed its vehicles on the roads of Stockholm without permit, will have to remove them until tomorrow, Wednesday. The police says that it'll confiscate the scooters otherwise ([Swedish](https://www.di.se/digital/efter-manovern-norska-elsparkcykeln-tvingas-bort-fran-gatan/), [machine translation](https://www-di-se.translate.goog/digital/efter-manovern-norska-elsparkcykeln-tvingas-bort-fran-gatan/?%5Fx%5Ftr%5Fsl=auto&%5Fx%5Ftr%5Ftl=en&%5Fx%5Ftr%5Fhl=en&%5Fx%5Ftr%5Fpto=wapp)).

**Swedish tech earnings reports**

- [Nordic Entertainment Group](https://www.nentgroup.com/) (Stockholm, media, entertainment and streaming company): [English](https://www.nentgroup.com/reports-presentations/q1-2022-interim-report-january-march-0).

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

- New York-based [Left Lane Capital](https://www.leftlanecap.com/), which last year made an investment in Swedish startup [memmo.me](https://memmo.me/), closes a $1.4B fund to invest in global consumer tech ([English](https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/26/left-lane-second-fund/)).
- The venture “crunch” right now is everywhere except in seed ([English](https://www.saastr.com/its-basically-a-quiet-series-a-series-b-c-and-d-crunch-now/)).

**Other interesting things from Sweden**

- The Swedish police is using facial recognition technology to identify people involved in riots that occured during the Easter holidays ([Swedish](https://computersweden.idg.se/2.2683/1.765417/polisen-anvander-ansiktsigenkanning-efter-paskens-upplopp), [machine translation](https://computersweden-idg-se.translate.goog/2.2683/1.765417/polisen-anvander-ansiktsigenkanning-efter-paskens-upplopp?%5Fx%5Ftr%5Fsl=auto&%5Fx%5Ftr%5Ftl=en&%5Fx%5Ftr%5Fhl=en&%5Fx%5Ftr%5Fpto=wapp)).

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That's it for today.