Lars Eriksson 
The Anna app for parents of children with non‑profit foundations (NPF) has attracted 10,000 users in six months without any marketing spend. The founders, Tommy Jacobson and Karl-Johan Persson, are now investing an additional 5 million SEK to boost the app’s growth.
Elergi Labs, a newly founded AI startup led by former Einride veterans including Tomas Ohlson, raised 37 million SEK in its first funding round to build agentic AI for the energy sector.
Stockholm‑based healthtech startup Tandem Health secured $100 million in Series B funding led by the Scaleup Europe Fund, bringing its total financing to $160 million. The round will be used to scale its AI medical assistant across European healthcare providers and to evolve the product into a full AI‑native clinic operating system.
Finnish startup Verda has raised billions of euros, becoming a unicorn, and will construct a large data centre in Sundsvall, Sweden, backed by investors such as By Founders, to support faster AI development.
Norwegian fintech startup Benford secured €5 million in pre‑seed funding, led by firstminute capital, to launch its AuditOS engine and create a fully integrated, technology‑driven audit firm. The capital will fund office expansion across Europe and hiring to accelerate growth in the mid‑market audit space.
Tatiana Shalalvand, a prominent investor at Kinnevik, has decided to move to the venture capital firm Cherry, aiming to find the next trillion‑dollar company, which she believes will likely originate from the Nordics or Sweden.
Estonia‑based credit data platform Mifundo announced a partnership with UK open‑banking infrastructure firm Yapily. The collaboration will combine Yapily’s categorized, consent‑based bank account data with Mifundo’s verified credit information from more than 20 European countries, giving lenders a complete, standardized view of borrowers with cross‑border financial histories.
The article describes how AI models are shaking up the fashion industry, with new European startups like Uncut and Gyodi quickly gaining high‑profile fashion clients, while established players express concern.
Danish defence‑tech venture capital firms Final Frontier and Myriad have combined under the Final Frontier brand and are targeting a €100 million Fund II to invest in early‑stage defence technology companies across the New Nordics and Ukraine, aiming to strengthen Europe’s defence ecosystem.
Aima Sense, a Swedish women’s health startup, reports losing millions due to social‑media censorship and has escalated the issue to the government. The company is now looking for investors and a strategic partner to fund its growth and become a global brand.