Partnerinvest Norr

Partnerinvest Norr is a private equity firm based in Sweden that specializes in early-stage investments across various sectors, including software, security, biometrics, industrial, transport, and technology. Established in 2009, it focuses primarily on companies in the expansion phase located in the Västerbotten and Norrbotten counties. The firm aims to support the growth of limited companies by providing capital and expertise, fostering innovation and development within these key industries.

Mikael Edstrom

Investment Manager

Mattias Eriksson

Investment Manager

Lena Fridlund Forsgren

Investment Manager

Ingela Lidström

Chief Executive Officer

Stefan Lundblom

Investment Manager

Past deals in Nordic Europe

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.

Photon Sports

Venture Round in 2021
Photon Sports is a producer of an analytics setup for tracking sports activity. Photon Sports enables faster, easier and mobile performance tracking of speed, agility and quickness to optimize training for youth and champion soccer teams.

Future Ordering

Series A in 2020
Future Ordering Sweden AB is a Stockholm-based company that specializes in cloud-based software solutions for the restaurant and catering industry. The firm provides a comprehensive ordering system that seamlessly integrates marketing, operations, and point of sale for multinational restaurant brands. With a history dating back to the late 1990s, Future Ordering has evolved from developing various online systems and products into a focused provider of advanced technological solutions for the food service sector. The company prides itself on fostering a team culture centered around talent, mutual respect, and a commitment to innovation.

Once Upon

Series A in 2019
Once Upon is a company that specializes in transforming personal memories into beautifully designed photo books. Based in northern Sweden, it aims to celebrate life and enhance happiness by helping users preserve their cherished moments. The company's app, which has garnered approximately 2 million downloads, is accessible in 12 languages and has enabled customers to create and order photo books easily. Once Upon has successfully shipped its products to 87 countries worldwide, making it a globally recognized solution for memory preservation.

Fortlax

Funding Round in 2018
Fortlax is Northern Sweden's data center with three world-class facilities just outside Piteå. We help companies grow using smart IT and cloud services. We store data in highest-class facilities at a location where risk analysis shows extremely low risk of natural disasters. In addition, we operate all our facilities with 100% green energy and use natural cooling for large parts of the year. Fortlax AB has over the past fiscal year more than tripled its revenue and shows profit.

Once Upon

Seed Round in 2018
Once Upon is a company that specializes in transforming personal memories into beautifully designed photo books. Based in northern Sweden, it aims to celebrate life and enhance happiness by helping users preserve their cherished moments. The company's app, which has garnered approximately 2 million downloads, is accessible in 12 languages and has enabled customers to create and order photo books easily. Once Upon has successfully shipped its products to 87 countries worldwide, making it a globally recognized solution for memory preservation.

Memotus

Seed Round in 2018
Instrube Health provides the Memotus service to athletes who have experienced various complaints and injuries. Via Memotus, you can quickly get advice from highly experienced doctors and physiotherapists / physiotherapists on how to best train and get rid of their inconveniences. The motive brings home the Memo Juice and can easily record a short video describing their inconvenience and receiving expert answers via the app.

ShimmerCat

Venture Round in 2017
ShimmerCat creates faster e-commerce websites with an intelligent IT infrastructure that use HTTP/2 and AI. ShimmerCat is developed by ZunZun AB, a company founded in 2014. The product is a performance-oriented web server that dramatically reduce the amount of work that it takes to create a web application that loads in a fraction of the time. It automatically optimizes delivery of web resources to browsers, by leveraging HTTP/2 Push and preload link headers in a way which is more efficient for your each individual website visitors, considering his or her network connectivity and cached contents, and page fetch. Additionally, it uses the time during which the backend is processing a request to send in advance assets needed by that request to the visitor. ShimmerCat also filters out traffic from pernicious bots and automatic optimize your loading times based on your own data.

Umecrine Cognition

Corporate Round in 2017
Umecrine Cognition specializes in developing pharmaceutical products aimed at treating cognitive neurological disorders linked to endogenous CNS-active steroids, particularly GABA-steroids. Founded in 2006 as a subsidiary of Umecrine AB in partnership with Karolinska Development, the company focuses on addressing neurological issues within the central nervous system. It recognizes the role of the GABA system, the primary inhibitory neurotransmitter system, in various clinical conditions, including Hepatic Encephalopathy, Alzheimer's disease, and Down syndrome. Umecrine Cognition is dedicated to the development and commercialization of innovative therapeutics specifically targeting Hepatic Encephalopathy in patients with liver disease, aiming to alleviate the neurocognitive symptoms associated with this condition.

Future Ordering

Venture Round in 2017
Future Ordering Sweden AB is a Stockholm-based company that specializes in cloud-based software solutions for the restaurant and catering industry. The firm provides a comprehensive ordering system that seamlessly integrates marketing, operations, and point of sale for multinational restaurant brands. With a history dating back to the late 1990s, Future Ordering has evolved from developing various online systems and products into a focused provider of advanced technological solutions for the food service sector. The company prides itself on fostering a team culture centered around talent, mutual respect, and a commitment to innovation.

SpaceTime Communication

Seed Round in 2017
SpaceTime is tomorrow's sustainable travel platform. Large and small organizations can save space, save space, improve the environment and continuously develop more responsible travel.

Elastisys

Seed Round in 2017
Elastisys AB is a Swedish company based in Umeå that specializes in providing information technology solutions. Founded in 2011 as a spin-off from a prominent distributed systems research group at Umeå University, Elastisys focuses on scalable and responsive IT systems. The company offers a range of services, including cloud architecture, DevOps, and data science and analytics. Its products emphasize predictive auto-scaling and multi-cloud capabilities, leveraging decades of research in distributed systems and high-performance computing.

Smart Video

Seed Round in 2017
Smart Video is the latest video tech offering from Codemill - an expert that has successfully deployed custom video solutions to global brands like The Guardian and ITV amongst others. Codemill has satisfied clients in the US, UK and Europe.

Lipigon Pharmaceuticals

Seed Round in 2016
Lipigon Pharmaceuticals is specialized in fat metabolism and develops new blood lipids. Lipigon is currently focusing on developing drugs directed against the enzyme lipoprotein lipase (LPL). People with low activity at LPL have a higher incidence of elevated blood fats and also related disorders such as insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome. Thanks to Lipigon's expertise in this area, AstraZeneca has chosen to enter into a cooperation agreement with the Company to develop LPL-based pharmaceuticals. Lipigon can receive up to $ 110 million in compensation at achieved milestones related to development and sales.

Reclaimit

Venture Round in 2016
Reclaimit AB was founded in 1999 by Swedish entrepreneurs Håkan Johansson and Jörgen Dernbrant, initially under the name of ETTnoll Design AB. Since then the company has developed system solutions to handle various aftersales issues – particularly, returns and complaints, service and repairs, and shipping. The company's constant driving force has been the insight that "satisfied customers always come back." That is why we always aim to be on the cutting edge in terms of leveraging smart IT solutions to help sellers create cost-effective, efficient processes to handle returns, complaints, service requests and logistics.

Sustainalube

Venture Round in 2016
Sustainalube AB specializes in the development of innovative, environmentally friendly lubricants that meet and exceed current environmental standards without sacrificing performance or cost. Founded in 2015 by three professors from Luleå University of Technology, the company has created a unique oil-free lubricant based on patented technology after extensive research. Sustainalube's products are water-soluble, non-toxic, and completely biodegradable, making them suitable for various applications, particularly in the forest and construction industries. These characteristics allow users to clean without the need for harmful chemicals, thus saving time and money while promoting sustainable practices. Sustainalube has gained recognition for its contributions to environmental innovation, winning several entrepreneurial awards, including the Venture Cup Sweden in the "Environment & Energy" category and the Future Prize in 2015. The company conducts sales both directly and through retailers, welcoming inquiries from a global customer base.

Gemometrics AB

Seed Round in 2016
Gemometrics develops technical aids that will revolutionize the gemstone market's way to price gems. The tool helps the user quickly and efficiently determine if a diamond, ruby, sapphire or emerald is genuine, synthetic (created by man) or treated (to be more valuable). The tool is portable, reliable and user-friendly, all to ensure skills and high quality.

Storigo AB

Seed Round in 2016
Storigo sells a product for so-called "digital signage" ie. software to enable customers to communicate more efficiently and more automated through different types of large-screen displays.

InfiCure Bio

Seed Round in 2016
Inficure Bio AB offers preclinical development and validation of drugs for chronic inflammatory and fibrotic conditions. The company offers a preclinical model which tests the effects of anti-inflammatory and anti-fibrotic drugs. It provides investigation of fibrosis developments in tissues. Inficure Bio AB was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Umeå, Sweden.

BioResonator Good Eye

Funding Round in 2016
BioResonator Good Eye is a Swedish Medtech company developing, marketing and selling quality high end tonometers using unique and patented technology developed in cooperation with scientists at Umeå university Hospital. The Tonometer is named ART, it is very easy to use, independent of operator, accurate and safe to use measuring internal pressure of the Eye (IOP).
Botnia Exploration Holding AB (publ), together with its subsidiaries, engages in the exploration of precious and base metals in Sweden. The company primarily explores for gold, as well as for silver, copper, zinc, and tungsten minerals. Its project portfolio includes approximately 20 exploration permits; and an exploitation concession.

COS Systems

Venture Round in 2015
COS Systems is a provider of IT Solutions for Planning and Operating Fiber Networks. Umeå Company COS Systems develops and offers solutions for broadband operators and network owners. The expansion of fiber takes place rapidly throughout the world, and broadband networks open to multiple service providers are rapidly gaining momentum.

Xore

Venture Round in 2015
Xore AB has develops and sells analyzers to enrichment plants in the mining industry. Xore is one of the world’s leading suppliers of on-stream analyzers and related services to the mining industry. Xore is the natural first choice when investing in equipment for on-stream analysis of pulp and liquids. Our product brand is Boxray™. Xore is a genuine Swedish engineering technology company based in Skellefteå in northern Sweden.

Likvor

Seed Round in 2015
Likvor AB, a medical device company, develops a system for neurological investigations. The company provides CELDA System for assessment of cerebrospinal fluid dynamics. Its CELDA System includes various parts, such as instrument, software, tool set, and a bed for the investigation; and available in English, Swedish, French, German, Finish, Danish, Norwegian, and Dutch languages. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Umea, Sweden.

Protab AB

Seed Round in 2015
Protab specializes in machining, turning and milling and manufactures details for the hydraulic and forest industry. Another important part of the business is system delivery, where the company also assembles the details that were manufactured. Protab manufactures components primarily for the hydraulics and forestry industries. System deliveries, where the company assembles manufactured components, form another important part of the operation. We also do value flow analyses to improve the efficiency of our customers' businesses. How can we make things better for you?

SpinChem

Seed Round in 2015
SpinChem AB develops and sells products used by laboratories in chemical processes to produce and clean substances. Its products are rotating bed reactors used to eliminate slow reaction kinetics caused by poor mass transfer between your solution and solid phase, MagRBR used for heterogeneous reactions with numerous types of solid phases, including immobilized enzymes, encapsulated cells and ion exchangers, solid reagents, laboratory equipment, starter kits, and accessories. The products used in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, food, and has further applications in process development, reaction screening, biocatalysts, reactor engineering, and downstream processing. SpinChem AB is based in Umeå, Sweden.

Tempus Information Systems

Seed Round in 2015
Tempus Information Systems specializes in developing a user-friendly school management platform focused on scheduling and attendance management for preschools and leisure activities. The system enhances operational efficiency by providing features such as digital scheduling, real-time attendance tracking, absence notifications, and automatic reminders. Additionally, it facilitates communication among caregivers, staff, and administrators, thereby simplifying administrative tasks and enabling data measurement in early childhood settings. By streamlining operations, Tempus aims to improve the overall experience for both caregivers and parents.

Umefast AB

Funding Round in 2014
Since 1991, Umefast has delivered system solutions for the real estate industry to a number of government, municipal and private management companies around the Nordic region. Umefast develops computer applications for property management and maintenance are known for delivering comprehensive and flexible systems use the latest technology to develop web-based applications on Microsoft platforms provide application hosting (Cloud) and data hosting We offer systems for both technical property administration and financial control.

Kittelfjall

Seed Round in 2014
Kittelfjall Utveckling is owns the hotel and the lift facility in Kittelfjall.

SmartPlanes

Venture Round in 2014
SmartPlanes AB produces small and rugged unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for aerial mapping applications. The company offers SmartOne UAV that serves various markets, including forestry, agriculture, civil engineering, utilities, rescue, waste dump management, corridor mapping, open pit mines, archeology, golf courses, and real estate.

Limes Audio

Seed Round in 2014
Limes Audio specializes in audio signal processing with a focus on speech enhancement. Founded in 2007 by Lindström and Christian Schüldt, both of whom hold Ph.D. degrees in Applied Signal Processing, the company is based in Umeå, Sweden. Limes Audio develops technology designed to improve the quality of speakerphone communications by effectively removing echoes and background noise, resulting in natural and clear speech. The company's solutions are grounded in extensive academic research in acoustic echo cancellation and are aimed at providing a superior audio experience for its clients' communication systems.

c/o GERD

Private Equity Round in 2014
Nature Cosmetic Group of Swedish Lapland develops, Co Gerd manufactures and sells organic beauty products under the brand c / o Gerd. Research, development and recipes are being made at the Jokkmokk plant in consultation with chemists. The products are tested and approved at the institute in Germany. All products are made from organic raw materials, completely free of toxic substances such as parabens, aluminum and alcohol. Vision is becoming an international world-class company in the organic skin care and cosmetics market. The goods are sold mainly through retailers and the webshop. Some of the products are exported mainly to Belgium and Japan. The company was founded in 2008 by Anna-Lena Wiklund Rippert and Johan Wiklund from Jokkmokk.

Norrtoppen Förvaltnings AB

Private Equity Round in 2014
The Norrtoppen Group owns and manages store properties in central locations in Skellefteå, Luleå, Gällivare and Kiruna.

Darkathlon AB

Seed Round in 2014
Darkathlon AB is a company in tire and bicycle tests that through a giant tunnel can enable winter tests throughout the year. This should be combined with skiing. The investment is made in connection with a ski resort in Piteå, Lindbäck's Stadium.

ProAnt AB

Seed Round in 2014
ProAnt is a Umeå-based company that develops and manufactures antenna solutions for installation and external mounting. The company works with customized antennas in an international market.

Content Central

Seed Round in 2014
Content Central is a platform designed for the distribution of editorial content. It serves as a channel that facilitates the dissemination of various types of written material, aiming to connect creators with their audience effectively. The platform is currently under development, indicating a commitment to enhancing its offerings and user experience. By focusing on editorial content, Content Central seeks to carve out a niche in the content distribution landscape.

Agency9

Seed Round in 2013
Agency9 AB specializes in developing web and mobile solutions for three-dimensional (3D) visualization of geographic information and maps, catering to the infrastructure, construction, and public sectors. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, the company offers products such as CityPlanner, a cloud service designed for urban planning, and the 3DMaps SDK, which facilitates the creation of 3D-enabled applications for various uses, including geoportals and fleet management. Agency9 serves cities and municipalities primarily through distribution partners and OEMs across Europe and Asia. The company is a subsidiary of Bentley Systems, Incorporated, and operates an additional office in Luleå, Sweden.

Evado Mobile Solutions

Seed Round in 2013
Evado Mobile Solutions AB is a Swedish company based in Luleå that specializes in developing mobile software solutions aimed at enhancing marketing and communication for organizations. The company provides a mobile platform and application that allow clients to easily implement and manage their mobile services. Evado operates in two main areas: mobile solutions and business development, focusing on simplifying both internal and external communications within corporations. The team consists of experienced consultants and project managers dedicated to understanding client needs and identifying areas for improvement. Through their collaborative approach, Evado assists companies undergoing change, fostering innovation and effective communication strategies.

LYSTRA personlig assistans

Seed Round in 2013
Lystra Personal Assistans aims to create, with Norrland as a base, one of Sweden's leading assistant companies by conducting the business entirely in line with what the legislators intended when introducing LSS.

Flexibla Bostader Nord AB

Seed Round in 2013
Flexibla Bostäder Nord AB has developed a unique scheme for real estate financing of housing in regions with unclear future. Through Flexibostäder's construction, new residential properties will be able to be built throughout Sweden. In short, the first bet will be reported.

Zordix

Seed Round in 2012
Zordix is a game development company that is involved in handheld games development. Its special talents include design, animation, 3d modelling, programming, web, marketing, sales, and CRM. Zordix is developing games for the new digital download channels Nintendo DSiWare and the Nintendo eShop for the Nintendo 3DS. It is based in Umeå, Sweden.

Evosport AB

Seed Round in 2012
Evosport AB is a venture company that designs, develops and sells products under the brands Oxdog, Wooloc and Rotor. Behind the company is Entrepreneur Joacim Bergström with 20 years of experience in the industry, Marko Sompa and Mattias Eklund, two legendary in the bandwidth world.

Kloverbergsgarden

Seed Round in 2011
Klöverbergsgården AB is Norrbotten's largest egg producer. The business produces and sells locally produced poultry products, primarily eggs, of the highest quality to the consumer market. The plant houses 33,000 hens producing about 28,000 eggs a day.

Enycon AB

Private Equity Round in 2011
Enycon AB manufactures biofuel boilers. Enycon AB is based in Umeå, Sweden. Enycon AB offers complete heat as well as projects, constructs and operates less district heating systems (near heating and heating) with a focus on overall economy, security and optimized technology. The company's offerings are primarily aimed at property owners and municipalities who need to invest in new heating plants or convert their oil and electricity heating systems to biofuel-based solutions.

miwa AB

Seed Round in 2011
miwa is a company in Lövånger that offers customized heating systems focusing on climate-smart solutions. The company offers complete energy solutions for the villa, cabin or caravan.

Ecotech AB

Seed Round in 2011
Ecotech AB is develops, manufactures and sells wastewater treatment plants for large and small sewers.

Resize Design

Seed Round in 2011
Resize Design has developed a unique furniture system based on a column that attaches to the floor and ceiling. On this column, lots of different shelving systems can be placed. The company is run by 24-year-old Viktor Lindbäck.

Nordic River

Seed Round in 2010
Nordic River, the leading innovator in visual version management. Founded in 2006 and has developed TextFlow, TextFlow API and the CompareMyDocs.com website. TextFlow makes it easy to review document versions simultaneously, and rapidly produce a final draft; allowing users to cut time with a tool that helps compare, recombine and even merge multiple versions of a document. Based on the patent-pending WeaveSync technology - an indexing, matching, synchronization and presentation framework - TextFlow enables users to visually differentiate between multiple documents, allowing writers to work completely independent of one another, either online or offline, in a system of their choice, and when they want choosing when to contribute their work.

Treehotel

Seed Round in 2010
Treehotel offers exceptional living experience in modern, architecturally designed wooden rooms to customers from all over the world. Treehotel offers a unique hotel experience: treerooms with contemporary design in the middle of unspoiled nature. Here you can forget about the time constraints of everyday life, enjoy the serenity, and rejuvenate in a sophisticated yet familiar environment.