Gothenburg startup directory
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Chalmers Ventures
Established 2015 (building on earlier university incubation). Venture builder and fund for tech startups from Chalmers University using an Encubation model; provides pre-seed funding, business coaches, and lab access. Notable spin-offs include Minesto and KomboSat. Scope: Regional (West Sweden).
Christina Brinck
Christina Brinck is the President of Volvo Group Venture Capital, the corporate venture arm of the Volvo Group focused on investing in transformative technologies for sustainable transportation, logistics, and manufacturing. She leads strategic CVC investments in deep tech and software startups that align with the Volvo Group's long-term innovation agenda across mobility and industrial sectors. Brinck is a confirmed speaker at NORDEEP 2026 representing the corporate venture perspective in the Nordic ecosystem.
Cleantech Capital Day 2026
The 20th-edition annual conference connecting the Nordic and Baltic cleantech ecosystem, with startup pitch competitions, workshops, and one-on-one investor pitching. Explicitly founder- and investor-focused.
Gothenburg Tech Week 2026
Week-long distributed tech festival across Gothenburg with events hosted by Chalmers, Lindholmen Science Park, Volvo, and local startups. Covers automotive tech, AI, sustainability, and industrial IoT with a strong Gothenburg flavor. Most sessions free. Useful for founders in mobility, industrial tech, and climate who want to connect with Western Sweden's corporate-innovation ecosystem.
Ignite Sweden
Organizer of the Ignite Sweden Summit and corporate-startup matchmaking program, active since 2017. Ignite Sweden has facilitated over 4,000 meetings between startups and large corporations, accelerating B2B partnerships and innovation procurement across Swedish industry sectors including manufacturing, energy, and public services.
Ignite Sweden Summit 2026
Summit on corporate-startup collaboration in Sweden featuring case studies, B2B networking, and structured matchmaking between startups and large enterprises. Organized by Ignite Sweden, the national innovation matching program. Particularly valuable for B2B startups seeking pilot contracts and enterprise partnerships with Swedish corporates.
Juni
Juni is a Gothenburg-based financial management platform for e-commerce businesses, founded in June 2020 by Samir El-Sabini, Jonathan Sanders, and Anders Orsedal. The platform offers multi-currency accounts, virtual and physical cards, credit products, analytics, and accounting integrations designed specifically for online merchants and digital advertisers. Juni holds an Electronic Money Institution (EMI) licence from Sweden's Finansinspektionen and has raised $282 million across five funding rounds including a $206 million Series B.
Kognic
Kognic is a Gothenburg-based AI company, formerly known as Annotell, founded in 2018 that provides a data platform for annotating and refining the sensor data used to train and validate perception systems in automated driving and other safety-critical AI. Its tools help automotive and robotics teams align their datasets and models with human intent.
Startup Goteborg / GU Incubator
GU Ventures is the incubator and holding company of the University of Gothenburg and one of Sweden's longest-running university incubators. It helps researchers and entrepreneurs commercialise ideas from the university, providing seed funding, business-development support and workspace to build science- and technology-based startups.
