Brightly Ventures

Brightly Ventures is a venture capital firm established in 2018 and based in Stockholm, Sweden, with a focus on the Nordic region, including Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland. The firm specializes in seed and early-stage investments, primarily in the technology sector, encompassing areas such as HealthTech, FinTech, Marketplaces, DeepTech, and MediaTech. Brightly Ventures emphasizes a hands-on approach, providing substantial support to founders with high-potential ideas to help bring their innovations to market. The firm typically makes equity investments ranging from SEK 2 million to SEK 50 million, targeting companies with an enterprise value between SEK 20 million and SEK 150 million. Brightly Ventures is committed to each investment, leveraging its extensive network and company-building expertise to enhance the growth journey of its portfolio companies.

Christopher Albinsson

Principal

Katja Bergman

Partner

Kerstin Cooley

Managing Partner

John Elvesjö

Managing Partner

Andy Johnston

Partner

36 past transactions

Yabie

Venture Round in 2022
Kaching provides a kickass retail platform designed for scalability and real-time operations to simplify cloud-connected commerce in-store and on the go

PerceptiLabs

Private Placement in 2019
PerceptiLabs has developed a next-generation machine learning tool with a visual modeler that is a GUI for TensorFlow. Building machine learning models is now easier, faster, transparent, and more accessible to a wider spectrum of developers.

Yabie

Venture Round in 2021
Kaching provides a kickass retail platform designed for scalability and real-time operations to simplify cloud-connected commerce in-store and on the go

Future Ordering

Series A in 2020
Future Ordering is a cloud company in the restaurant and catering sector. The company is has been around building stuff online since the late '90s. It used to build systems, experiences and products in different tech savvy industries. Over the years a team formed around talent, mutual respect and a strong obsession for pushing the boundaries of technology.

Exeri AB

Venture Round in 2021
Exeri AB develops a power grid known as Smart Grid Surveillance for monitoring purpose. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Luleå, Sweden.

Wehype

Seed Round in 2019
Wehype Global AB operates as an influencer marketplace connecting brands to gaming influencers. The company promotes products and services through live video content. The company's platform provides creator index, influencer dashboard, automated monitoring, brief and communication, directions for campaigns, payment ops, cross-platform support, and reporting. Wehype Global AB was founded in 2016 and is based in Uppsala, Sweden.

Acuminor

Seed Round in 2019
Acuminor AB provides online services for risk assessments and actions against money laundering (AML), counter-terrorist financing (CTF), and sanctions. The company's online service for financial crime risk assessments complies with the European Union (EU) anti-money laundering regulations. The company provides its services to real estate agents, economists, legal advisors, insurance, banking and finance, and gaming and gambling industries. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden.

Debricked

Seed Round in 2020
debricked AB provides state-of-the-art tools and solutions for cybersecurity and vulnerability management. They also offer consulting services and training.

Acuminor

Private Placement in 2018
Acuminor AB provides online services for risk assessments and actions against money laundering (AML), counter-terrorist financing (CTF), and sanctions. The company's online service for financial crime risk assessments complies with the European Union (EU) anti-money laundering regulations. The company provides its services to real estate agents, economists, legal advisors, insurance, banking and finance, and gaming and gambling industries. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden.

Worldfavor

Seed Round in 2019
Worldfavor is the first to bring sustainability and compliance information based on established frameworks to one global platform. We connect businesses around the world to share sustainability information with each other through one platform, where they can also manage and excel their own performance in a secure, collaborative space. We help businesses avoid manual spreadsheets and stiff, expensive software. Simply because we want you to save time and resources for your impact, and because modern technology can enable so much more. The vision is to be global de-facto information platform for sustainable decisions, serving any actor with sustainability/compliance data (business data 2.0) on any organization from one shared platform where they also manage it. The SaaS covers all sustainability/compliance needs under one roof: Manage Sustainability, Visualize Sustainability and data collection and assessment of any type of partners in the Value Chain, such as suppliers or portfolio companies.

Open Payments

Seed Round in 2020
Open Payments Europe is a developer of an open banking platform used to offer a single, open, and secure point of access. The company provides the groundbreaking market infrastructure required for successful open banking. The Open Payments Platform is a PSD2 compliant API aggregation platform that offers a single, open, and secure point of access to the diverse bank API networks throughout Europe. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.

Yabie

Venture Round in 2019
Kaching provides a kickass retail platform designed for scalability and real-time operations to simplify cloud-connected commerce in-store and on the go

Open Payments

Seed Round in 2019
Open Payments Europe is a developer of an open banking platform used to offer a single, open, and secure point of access. The company provides the groundbreaking market infrastructure required for successful open banking. The Open Payments Platform is a PSD2 compliant API aggregation platform that offers a single, open, and secure point of access to the diverse bank API networks throughout Europe. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.

Yabie

Private Placement in 2019
Kaching provides a kickass retail platform designed for scalability and real-time operations to simplify cloud-connected commerce in-store and on the go

Debricked AB

Private Placement in 2020
Debricked AB develops a SaaS-based service for cybersecurity and vulnerability management. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Malmö, Sweden.

Collective Minds Radiology

Venture Round in 2023
Collective Minds® is the new radiology workspace. A cloud-based service for collaboration, consultation and access to new digital tools and expertise. We are building the largest global network of collective and artificial intelligence, with humans and machines.

Worldfavor

Series A in 2022
Worldfavor is the first to bring sustainability and compliance information based on established frameworks to one global platform. We connect businesses around the world to share sustainability information with each other through one platform, where they can also manage and excel their own performance in a secure, collaborative space. We help businesses avoid manual spreadsheets and stiff, expensive software. Simply because we want you to save time and resources for your impact, and because modern technology can enable so much more. The vision is to be global de-facto information platform for sustainable decisions, serving any actor with sustainability/compliance data (business data 2.0) on any organization from one shared platform where they also manage it. The SaaS covers all sustainability/compliance needs under one roof: Manage Sustainability, Visualize Sustainability and data collection and assessment of any type of partners in the Value Chain, such as suppliers or portfolio companies.

Hooked Foods

Seed Round in 2021
Hooked Seafood AB develops, manufactures, and markets plant-based shredded salmon and related seafood products. The company offers salmon, calamari, and shrimp. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Nacka, Sweden.

Worldfavor

Private Placement in 2019
Worldfavor is the first to bring sustainability and compliance information based on established frameworks to one global platform. We connect businesses around the world to share sustainability information with each other through one platform, where they can also manage and excel their own performance in a secure, collaborative space. We help businesses avoid manual spreadsheets and stiff, expensive software. Simply because we want you to save time and resources for your impact, and because modern technology can enable so much more. The vision is to be global de-facto information platform for sustainable decisions, serving any actor with sustainability/compliance data (business data 2.0) on any organization from one shared platform where they also manage it. The SaaS covers all sustainability/compliance needs under one roof: Manage Sustainability, Visualize Sustainability and data collection and assessment of any type of partners in the Value Chain, such as suppliers or portfolio companies.

Wehype

Private Placement in 2019
Wehype Global AB operates as an influencer marketplace connecting brands to gaming influencers. The company promotes products and services through live video content. The company's platform provides creator index, influencer dashboard, automated monitoring, brief and communication, directions for campaigns, payment ops, cross-platform support, and reporting. Wehype Global AB was founded in 2016 and is based in Uppsala, Sweden.

Fast Travel Games

Series B in 2021
Fast Travel Games is a new game development studio located in Stockholm, Sweden, building virtual reality games. Founded by game development veterans with years behind us at studios like EA DICE, Rovio and Avalanche, we want to change the way you play. We're gamers by heart, and believe VR is the ultimate platform for deep, engrossing game universes. Our mission is to build games where players are free to explore their surroundings, where they will experience rich narratives and interact with others in new and interesting ways.

Collective Minds Radiology

Seed Round in 2021
Collective Minds® is the new radiology workspace. A cloud-based service for collaboration, consultation and access to new digital tools and expertise. We are building the largest global network of collective and artificial intelligence, with humans and machines.

EVAM

Private Placement in 2020
H&E Solutions AB manufactures a vehicle to vehicle communication system under the name EVAM Transmit that allows emergency services, road maintenance providers, and others to communicate important real-time information. The company uses a technology that enables the communication without retrofitting any receivers. Its product is installed in the vehicle and a compact antenna is mounted on the roof which integrates with current controls. The system on activation sends a message to the motorists and warns them about the emergency vehicle. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden. H&E Solutions AB operates as a subsidiary of Almi Invest Stockholm Ab.

Open Payments

Private Placement in 2020
Open Payments Europe is a developer of an open banking platform used to offer a single, open, and secure point of access. The company provides the groundbreaking market infrastructure required for successful open banking. The Open Payments Platform is a PSD2 compliant API aggregation platform that offers a single, open, and secure point of access to the diverse bank API networks throughout Europe. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.

PerceptiLabs

Seed Round in 2019
PerceptiLabs has developed a next-generation machine learning tool with a visual modeler that is a GUI for TensorFlow. Building machine learning models is now easier, faster, transparent, and more accessible to a wider spectrum of developers.

EVAM

Private Placement in 2020
H&E Solutions AB manufactures a vehicle to vehicle communication system under the name EVAM Transmit that allows emergency services, road maintenance providers, and others to communicate important real-time information. The company uses a technology that enables the communication without retrofitting any receivers. Its product is installed in the vehicle and a compact antenna is mounted on the roof which integrates with current controls. The system on activation sends a message to the motorists and warns them about the emergency vehicle. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden. H&E Solutions AB operates as a subsidiary of Almi Invest Stockholm Ab.

Fast Travel Games

Venture Round in 2023
Fast Travel Games is a new game development studio located in Stockholm, Sweden, building virtual reality games. Founded by game development veterans with years behind us at studios like EA DICE, Rovio and Avalanche, we want to change the way you play. We're gamers by heart, and believe VR is the ultimate platform for deep, engrossing game universes. Our mission is to build games where players are free to explore their surroundings, where they will experience rich narratives and interact with others in new and interesting ways.

Open Payments

Private Placement in 2019
Open Payments Europe is a developer of an open banking platform used to offer a single, open, and secure point of access. The company provides the groundbreaking market infrastructure required for successful open banking. The Open Payments Platform is a PSD2 compliant API aggregation platform that offers a single, open, and secure point of access to the diverse bank API networks throughout Europe. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.

EVAM

Seed Round in 2020
H&E Solutions AB manufactures a vehicle to vehicle communication system under the name EVAM Transmit that allows emergency services, road maintenance providers, and others to communicate important real-time information. The company uses a technology that enables the communication without retrofitting any receivers. Its product is installed in the vehicle and a compact antenna is mounted on the roof which integrates with current controls. The system on activation sends a message to the motorists and warns them about the emergency vehicle. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden. H&E Solutions AB operates as a subsidiary of Almi Invest Stockholm Ab.

Collective Minds Radiology

Seed Round in 2021
Collective Minds® is the new radiology workspace. A cloud-based service for collaboration, consultation and access to new digital tools and expertise. We are building the largest global network of collective and artificial intelligence, with humans and machines.

Frequencz

Seed Round in 2021
Frequencz, is an emerging leader of shared virtual private networks for Enterprises. We brings cloud economics to radio and disrupt the way private networks are built, operated and managed. Our solution delivers innovation within the radio domain that offers foundational change in ROI and profitability for private network operators and Enterprises.