TeknoSeed

TeknoSeed is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Lund, Sweden, founded in 1996 by Mats Johansson and Marcus Skärbäck. The company specializes in financing startups focused on research and development, particularly in the life sciences sector, which includes medical technology, biotechnology, and pharmaceuticals. Additionally, TeknoSeed invests in information and communications technology, covering areas such as hardware, software, and services. By partnering with emerging companies, TeknoSeed aims to enhance their value and facilitate successful exits, either through trade sales or initial public offerings.

Marcus Skärbäck

Co-Founder and Partner

5 past transactions

LocalizeDirect

Venture Round in 2010
LocalizeDirect is a game localization firm founded in 2009 by former game developers. Headquartered in Helsingborg, Sweden, with a development team in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, it offers translation and localization QA services in more than 40 languages. The company’s CMS, LocDirect, enables developers to translate games during development, shortening time‑to‑market. It operates a network of over 200 native‑speaking translators and testers, supported by sales, LQA, and project managers worldwide. LocalizeDirect has localized more than 600 titles and assisted more than 450 developers, including Warner Bros, King, Avalanche Studios, Tencent, Rebellion, and N3twork, to launch games globally.

Phase Holographic Imaging PHI

Venture Round in 2009
Phase Holographic Imaging PHI AB, founded in 2004 and based in Lund, Sweden, specializes in the development and marketing of time-lapse cytometry instrumentation and software products for the life sciences sector. The company offers a range of advanced imaging solutions, including the HoloMonitor M4, a live cell imaging microscope, and the HoloMonitor M3, a bench-top time-lapse cytometer designed for variable magnification. Additionally, it provides HoloMonitor, an intuitive software suite that facilitates experiment setup and data analysis. To enhance image quality, the company also offers HoloLids, which mitigate disturbances caused by vibrations and condensation in cell culture vessels. Phase Holographic Imaging's products are utilized in various applications, including cell quality assessment, proliferation, migration studies, morphology analysis, and dose response evaluations, serving researchers across Europe, Asia, Australia, and North America.

Conveneer

Seed Round in 2007
Mashmobile Sweden AB, also known as Mikz, operates as an information technology company which offers software products for direct content dissemination between mobile phones, personal digital assistants, laptops, and personal computers. The company operates in the fields of fixed-mobile convergence and mobile communities based on a P2P technology. Its technology enables users to navigate between devices by surfing from a personal computer to a mobile phone using a Web browser, or streaming music from a personal digital assistant to a mobile phone. It was formerly known as Conveneer AB. Mashmobile Sweden AB was founded in 2004 and is based in Lund, Sweden.

Mitrionics

Series A in 2005
Mitrionics AB provides field programmable gate array (FPGA) based processing solutions for accelerated computing. It offers Mitrion Software Development Platform, which comprises Mitrion Virtual Processor that runs software written in the Mitrion-C programming language in FPGAs; Mitrion Software Development Kit, which enables the development of Mitrion-C applications for the Mitrion Virtual Processor; Mitrion SDK PE that is used to develop and simulate applications for the Mitrion Virtual Processor without having access to FPGA hardware; and Mitrion SDK XL, which adds bundled synthesis, and place and route software from Xilinx to provide a tool flow for creating configuration bit files for the target FPGA. The company also provides Mitrion-Accelerated BLAST that accelerates the BLAST-n nucleotide search program of the NCBI BLAST application; and hybrid computing servers, in-socket FPGA accelerators, and hybrid computing plug-in processors. In addition, it offers various services, such as on-site and on-line training, pre-study, proof-of-concept, application development, porting to new hardware platforms, and technical and coding support services. The company’s products are used in various applications, which comprise bioinformatics, genomics, image processing, digital signal processing, Internet data processing, business process optimization, financial computing, and information retrieval. Mitrionics AB was founded in 2001 and is based in Lund, Sweden with additional an office in Los Gatos, California.
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