Tag: Sweden

Swedish savings app Qapital has picked up $12m in a Series A round to further develop its personal finance platform From Stockholm, UK and US-based VCs.

Swedish mobile point-of-sale (POS) payments firm iZettle has raised another €60m in a round made up of debt and equity from existing backers.

Swedish retirement robo-advisor Pensionera has raised €1.2m after winning Optimizer Invest’s startup competition. The deal values the company at €8m.

Swedish payments service Klarna is expanding its retailer financing offering through a new wave of UK partnerships with a e-commerce brands including Shopify, Worldpay, BigCommerce and CyberSource.

Swedish invoicing startup Billogram has raised $1.18m in a round of venture funding. The capital comes from Edstra Venture Capital and angel investors.

Swedish payments startup Klarna is inking a deal with UK retail conglomerate Arcadia to bring a “buy now pay later” offering to its e-commerce channels.

Swedish mobile payments player iZettle is acquiring Scottish point of sale startup (POS) intelligentpos in a move that will expand its software offering to SMEs.

Northzone, a Scandinavian VC firm that’s backed FinTech startups including iZettle, MarketInvoice and Klarna, has raised €300m ($335m) for its new fund.

Swedish financial services group Nordea is selecting startups for its second accelerator programme from a long list of 35 teams.

Bankrupt bitcoin mining conglomerate KnC Group has sold its KnCMiner subsidiary to fellow Swedish company GoGreenLight.