News January 27, 2023: Amferia, Mycorena, Sweden startup guide, CodeEasy, Chroma, Inventure, 10 new tech startups and more

Here are today's news from Sweden's startup and tech sector, exclusively for subscribers of Swedish Tech News.

Funding news

• Amferia (Gothenburg; developer of materials that can efficiently kill bacteria when used as medical devices, for example within wound care): SEK15.4M (€1.4M, $1.5M) in a funding round from Almi Invest, Chalmers Ventures, and several undisclosed angel investors. The funding will be used to launch the first product, a wound care dressing with a patented hydrogel that actively combats infections and kills antibiotic-resistant bacteria (English, Swedish).
• Mycorena (Gothenburg, developer of fungi-based vegan protein): €1.5M ($1.6M) grant from the EU, funded by Vinnova, FFG Austrian Research Promotion Agency, and Eurostars, for a collaborative project with Austrian plant-based seafood startup Revo Foods (English).
• An addition to the news about the strategic investment raised by Yangi which I covered on January 25: The luxury brand CHANEL also invested in the Swedish company (English).

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News from Swedish startups, the tech sector and VCs

• Handy guide to Sweden's startup sector by Dragos Novac (English).
• CodeEasy, Stockholm-based online educational platform aiming to teach beginners C# programming "in an easy and fun way", launched a version for teachers (English).
• Breakit highlights the "worst deals" of the 2021 tech hype: Visa's acquisition of Tink, Bolt's acquisition of Tipser, Klarna's acquisition of Pricerunner, Polaris' acqusition of Stronger, and Visma's acquisition of Bookio (Swedish / Breakit paywall).
• Biz Stone has joined the board of Swedish audio startup Chroma. Last year, the Twitter co-founder participated in a seed round raised by the Stockholm-based company (English).
• Linus Dahg, Stockholm-based partner at Nordic & Baltic seed fund Inventure, is the firm's new CEO (English).

Swedish tech earnings

• Lavendla (Stockholm, digital provider of funeral services) has had its first profitable year in 2022 since launching in 2014, while generating SEK96M (€8.6M, $9.3M) in revenue (Swedish, machine translation).
• Hemnet (Stockholm, Sweden's largest property platform) published its Q4 2022 interim report (English).

Other interesting things from the startup/VC world & beyond

• Dealroom published the European Deep Tech Report 2023 (English, PDF with 43 pages).
• Valuation multiples may have fallen too far from their 2021 peaks for many late-stage companies to catch up to their last valuation as quickly as investors initially hoped, according to PitchBook calculations (English).
• ChatGPT is AI's iPhone moment. Its main innovation is the user interface (English).
• Most downloaded apps in Q4 2022 globally (English):

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That's it for today.