At the start of the year, venture capital firm Monterro took a controlling stake in Uppsala‑based startup Kaisa Technologies. The company’s 2025 financial results show continued stable and profitable growth, and it announced a dividend of 22 million Swedish kronor to its owners.
Salesforce announced the acquisition of Berlin‑based Contentful, a developer‑focused headless CMS used by over 4,000 companies. Financial terms were not disclosed. The deal aims to embed Contentful’s API‑first platform into Salesforce’s Customer 360 suite and AI agents, enhancing its headless content capabilities. Existing investors in Contentful include Tiger Global, Base10 Partners, Tidemark, General Catalyst, Benchmark and Balderton Capital.
Swedish nicotine startup Haypp Group posted a 28% YoY revenue jump to SEK 1.2 billion in Q2 and is now focusing on a large push into the British market.
DokterOnline, a Dutch e‑health platform, used visitor‑behavior data to create five behavioral segments and adjusted a few homepage elements (hero, featured treatments, recommended articles) for each segment. The modest changes boosted overall visitor engagement by over 15% and increased the click‑through rate of personalized content by about 83%, demonstrating that small, data‑driven personalization can significantly improve user experience without large technical investments.
Transfer Galaxy, a Swedish fintech startup, changed its strategy to a strict profitability focus, resulting in the distribution of nearly the entire profit from the previous year – roughly 25 million SEK – to shareholders, with rumours that the major owners may be planning an exit. Co‑founder and CEO Yosef Mohamed highlighted how special this achievement feels personally.
The UK‑based fintech Revolut secured a banking licence from the French regulator, enabling it to offer full banking services to its customers in France and further expand its European footprint.
After his hedge fund Situational Awareness suffered a historic crash, investor Leopold Aschenbrenner is returning to the market with a new multi‑billion‑krona investment in Swedish chip maker Source Foundry.
The article highlights Omio’s role in guiding travelers to optimal dark‑sky locations in Italy for the Perseids and to top spots in Spain for the August 2026 total solar eclipse, using its multimodal booking platform to suggest routes and transport options.
In just two years Arkiv has gone from zero to more than 30 million SEK in sales of murder‑mystery games and is now entering new markets. The founders quit their jobs to start the company.
At Techsylvania 2026, Super Technologies founder Sacha Dragic recounted the bootstrapped origins of Superbet, its early €500k seed from personal networks, the path to profitability in 2012 and the landmark €1.3 billion refinancing by Blackstone and HPS Investment that pushed the company into unicorn status.