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Sting

Founders Pu00e4r Hedberg

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Total investments 218
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$81K
Portfolio companies 213
Rounds per year 9.91
Lead investments 24
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.02
Exits 10
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Health Care
  • Information Technology
  • Manufacturing
  • Financial Services
Summary

In 2002 was created Sting, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Stockholm. The venture was found in Europe in Sweden.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 participants. Despite the Sting, startups are often financed by Propel Capital, KTH Holding, Industrifonden. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Wave Ventures, Walerud Ventures, The Nordic Web Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Solu00e4ng Invest, Industrifonden, Almi Invest.

The high activity for fund was in 2017. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 48 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The typical startup value when the investment from Sting is 10-50 millions dollars. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars.

This organization was formed by Pu00e4r Hedberg.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Sweden. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Crowdfunding, Marketplace. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Volumental, Barnebys

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Hypertype

Artificial Intelligence
Email
Natural Language Processing
Sales Automation
$840K04 Jul 2024 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Fill

Business Development
$60K07 Feb 2023 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Alwy

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Personal Finance
$59K27 Sep 2022 Stockholms Lan, Stockholm County, Sweden

Datia

FinTech
Impact Investing
Mobile
Mobile Apps
Sustainability
$3M07 Jun 2022 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Hypertype

Artificial Intelligence
Email
Natural Language Processing
Sales Automation
$1M04 May 2022 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Earthbanc

Finance
Financial Services
Internet
$1M05 Apr 2022 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Tixy

Blockchain
Events
Ticketing
$50K01 Jan 2022 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Strivr.io

SaaS
$1M01 Aug 2021 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Health Integrator

Fitness
Health Care
Wellness
$900K10 Jun 2020 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

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Total investments 218
Average round size 81K
Rounds per year 9.91
Peak activity year 2022
Lead investments 24
Follow on index 0.02
Exits 10
Group Appearance index 0.11

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Hypertype

Artificial Intelligence
Email
Natural Language Processing
Sales Automation
$840K04 Jul 2024 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Fill

Business Development
$60K07 Feb 2023 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Alwy

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Personal Finance
$59K27 Sep 2022 Stockholms Lan, Stockholm County, Sweden

Datia

FinTech
Impact Investing
Mobile
Mobile Apps
Sustainability
$3M07 Jun 2022 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Hypertype

Artificial Intelligence
Email
Natural Language Processing
Sales Automation
$1M04 May 2022 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Earthbanc

Finance
Financial Services
Internet
$1M05 Apr 2022 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Tixy

Blockchain
Events
Ticketing
$50K01 Jan 2022 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Strivr.io

SaaS
$1M01 Aug 2021 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Health Integrator

Fitness
Health Care
Wellness
$900K10 Jun 2020 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
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