News September 27, 2022: Urb-it, Vembla, Juni, Female Founders Malmö, Klarna and more

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

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Funding news

  • Urb-it (Stockholm, sustainable logistics platform): SEK23.3M (€2.2M, $2.1M) through a directed share issue (English, Swedish).
  • Creandum co-led a €5.8M ($5.6M) seed round raised by Dutch digital timber marketplace Timberhub (English).

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Other interesting things from the startup/VC world & beyond

  • Estonia-based Trind VC rolls out €55M fund to invest in consumer and SME-focused startups in Europe (English).
  • Over the past 5 years, the US has created net new unicorns at a rate of 52% year-over-year – half the rate of Europe (English).
  • Cameras on 14 stations of Stockholm's subway are equipped with AI technology that is tasked to spot potential suicide attempts in order to quickly stop trains. So far, 4 attempted suicides were prevented (Swedish, machine translation).
  • The Swedish movie "Logistics" tracks, in reverse chronological order, the journey of a pedometer from a shop in Sweden to a factory in China. It was made in 2012 and is 857 (not a typo!) hours long (English).

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That's it for today.

Martin Weigert

Martin Weigert

Martin is the founder of Swedish Tech News. Every day he spends many hours gathering and curating the latest from Sweden's startup & tech sector. Contact: m@swedishtechnews.com
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