Swedish Tech Weekly #350: Selma, Quicktables, TicTac, Graphmatech, Airspot, enkei, ParkingAid, Samfora, Pubblo, fixkod, Sinema, FootWallBall, Bilkostnader, Sobrius, X Shore, Opper, Curlify, Flat Capital, and more

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• Selma (Stockholm, AI-driven sales assistant) is being acquired by publicly listed Växjö-based company Briox for SEK35M (English). ➡️ Added to the Exits Database for PRO subscribers.

• Quicktables (Malmö, all-in-one tool for restaurant growth – built with Lovable) has been acquired by an undisclosed "strategic buyer" (English). ➡️ Added to the Exits Database for PRO subscribers.

• TicTac (Malmö, provider of corporate e-learning solutions) acquires the French company Distrisoft, a learning technology and software value-added reseller within learning. This marks TicTac's expansion into France (English).

• Flat Capital, publicly traded Swedish investment firm of Klarna CEO and co-founder Sebastian Siemiatkowski, is divesting a large portion of its passive AI and software-related holdings, including ElvenLabs, Lovable, Cerebras Systems, and Alpaca (English).

Send press releases about funding rounds, and other potentially relevant news, to news@swedishtechnews.com.

• Graphmatech (Uppsala, materials technology company that solves industrial challenges using graphene): SEK20M (€1.8M, $2.1M) in equity funding from existing and new investors. The company also secured SEK40M in grants from the Swedish Energy Agency and the EU (Swedish / Di Digital paywall).

• Airspot (Stockholm, self-serve platform for TV ads): SEK12M (€1.1M, $1.3M) in an angel round (Swedish / Breakit paywall, funding details page). ➡️ Startup first covered in PRO on September 10.

• enkei (Stockholm; transforms construction waste into new design-grade materials and objects): SEK4.6M (€420K, $480K) in pre-seed funding from angel investors (funding details page).

• ParkingAid (Stockholm; platform that helps cities and mobility stakeholders analyze parking and traffic): SEK4M (€370K, $430K) led by existing investors Almi Invest and Soläng Invest (funding details page).

• Samfora (Stockholm, donation platform): SEK1.75M (€160K, $180K) in an angel round (funding details page). ➡️ Startup first covered in PRO in April 2025.

• Pubblo (Umeå, deal engine for publishers, designers, and distributors of board games): undisclosed amount from Partnerinvest Norr, E14 Invest, Northern Light Capital, and First Gate Invest, for the global expansion (funding details page). ➡️ Startup first covered in PRO in July 2025.

• fixkod (Gävle, QR-code solution for reporting broken equipment or property-related problems): SEK500K (€46K, $53K) from Tregion Startup Invest (funding details page). ➡️ Startup first covered in PRO in April 2024.

• [PRO last week] A stealth mode startup founded by a serial entrepreneur, aimed at healthcare professionals, raised a yet-to-be-announced first funding round led by a major Swedish VC firm, at a pre-money valuation of almost SEK200M.

• [PRO last week] Another new agentic sales startup has raised first funding, amounting to €200K.

• [PRO last week] An autonomous robotics startup in stealth mode from western Sweden raised first, yet-to-be-announced funding

I covered many more funding rounds, and more details for each, in Swedish Tech News PRO last week.

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• Sweden's most active startup investors – I published the monthly update to my Leaderboards. The top 5 most active VCs: #1 Almi Invest, #2 Antler, #3 Industrifonden, #4 Luminar Ventures, #5 (shared) Wave Ventures and Navigare Ventures. The two most active angel investors (shared first spot): Sebastian Knutsson and Mattias Miksche (English).

• Sinema has launched, a new Swedish startup founded by repeat entrepreneur Jimi Tadi, that lets families, friends, and other social groups rent private, automated lounges to hang out, watch movies or sports, play games, or sing karaoke (Swedish, machine translation).

• Legora, Stockholm-based AI platform for lawyers, has crossed the mark of $100M in ARR, 18 months after reaching $1M (English).

• FootWallBall, a new startup from Malmö, is developing a standardized football training module for clubs that includes a wall, a 32 square meter playing area, a camera system and software with AI (Swedish / Rapidus paywall).

• Bilkostnader, based in Stockholm has launched its tool that calculates the real monthly cost of owning a specific car, including depreciation, insurance, fuel and service. ➡️ Startup first covered in PRO on February 2.

• Sobrius, Örebro-based platform for organizations to let employees map alcohol, narcotics, medication and gambling habits, and seek support if needed, signed Vattenfall as customer. A "break-through", says founder Karl Dahl (Swedish, machine translation).

• X Shore, the Swedish electric boat maker, is restarting after bankruptcy with new owners (Swedish / Impact Loop paywall).

• Candela unveiled a business version of its P-12 hydrofoiling electric ferry platform, that adds a premium, business-class interior designed for high-end transport routes like resort transfers and urban commuter links (English).

• Opper, Stockholm-based startup offering an AI gateway for agents across every model and modality, has launched AI Roundtable, a tool for letting 200+ models answer and debate a user's questions.

• Many founders should resist the instinct to "systematically go from Sweden straight to the US", argues Tandem Health co-founder and CEO Lukas Saari in an op-ed. (English).

• Lovable is looking for a new, larger office in Stockholm, only a few months after the opening of its current workspace (Swedish / Fastighetsvärlden paywall, Swedish #2, machine translation).

• Over 10 years, Sweden has produced 1.8 unicorns per $1B venture capital invested, putting the country second in Europe after Switzerland (English).

• The proposed EU Inc. legal framework conflicts with Swedish company law in several respects (Swedish / Di Digital paywall).

• Daniel Stenberg, the Swedish founder and solo developer of the free open source command line tool and library curl, and Bokio founder Mikael Pawlo, are creating the company Curlify. Its aim is to support the future of curl, and to remove some of the pressure from Stenberg (Swedish / Breakit paywall).

• The European Defense Tech Hackathon will take place on April 24 in Stockholm (English).

• Norrsken Evolve, the Swedish pre-seed fund that evolved from Norrsken Accelerator, is hiring a Finance Manager in Stockholm (English).

• Saminvest, the state-owned VC firm, is hiring a Chief Accounting Officer (Swedish).

• [PRO last week] A new Swedish startup wants to build a universal platform for space computing, and is raising a first large funding round.

• [PRO last week] A Stockholm-based startup that's developing household robots, has come out of stealth mode.

• [PRO last week] A Swedish foodtech entrepreneur is switching gears—from working with food to building an AI co-pilot for the sector (in stealth).

• [PRO last week] A digital leadership coaching solution for organizations went bankrupt.

I covered many more news – many of which have not been reported elsewhere – and more details for each, in Swedish Tech News PRO last week.

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• In Q1 2026, investors poured $297B into 6,000 startups globally, up around 150% quarter over quarter and year over year (English).

• "The most important thing AI changed for me as a founder is not speed. It is the cost of exploration" (English).

• The war on Iran has become a catalyst for green technology, as Europeans scramble to find less volatile alternatives to oil and gas (English).

• A look at why Dotcom Bubble comparisons to the AI boom are off (English).

• Some iOS developers say the App Store review process is taking significantly longer, up to multiple weeks, with an influx of vibe-coded apps as the likely cause (English).

• In 2025, cases of deadly violence in Sweden fell to the lowest level since 2012 (Swedish, machine translation).

• Starting this week, a reduced VAT on food has taken effect (Swedish, machine translation).

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Martin