News May 16, 2022: Findity, Sileon, Meme.com, Bower, Gordon Delivery and more

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

Funding news

• Findity (Stockholm, SaaS solution for business expense management): SEK50M (€4.8M, $5M) from Johan Blomquist, Niklas de Bésche, and existing investors as well as employees (English, Swedish).

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News from Swedish startups, the tech sector and VCs

• Stockholm-based Paynova is rebranding as Sileon to offer a buy now pay later SaaS solution aimed at financial institutions globally (Swedish, machine translation).
• The founders of Helsingborg-based tokenized meme platform Meme.com, Mattias Tyrberg och Johan Unger, paid $1.25M for the .com domain, financed by a token sale the company conducted in May 2021 (Swedish, machine translation).
• Bower, the Stockholm-based recycling app, aims to grow its user number from 300,000 to 10 million in 2024, according to founder and CEO Suwar Mert (Swedish, machine translation).

Swedish tech earnings reports

• Some financial figures from Gordon Delivery, Stockholm-based urban logistics provider for food home deliveries: Swedish, machine translation.

Other interesting things from the startup/VC world & beyond

• What a great board prep contains (English).
• Don’t hire designers too late (English).

Other interesting things from Sweden

• Sweden will apply for Nato membership (Swedish, machine translation).

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That's it for today.