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The Healthtech Accelerator That Teaches Startups to Survive the Public Sector
DigitalWell Ventures built an accelerator around the awkward bit of health innovation: getting a promising product through procurement, regulation and the raised eyebrows of real buyers.
At LEAD, the goal is to get the boot
The Swedish incubator sends its graduates off with a golden shoe. Getting there means turning clever technology into something customers will pay for - a discipline now reaching NATO’s innovation network.
Sweden’s business network in Germany runs on introductions
A mystery lunch, a royal patron and a balance sheet tell the story of the Swedish Chamber of Commerce in Germany - and what it takes to turn a membership into a useful business relationship.
SmiLe gives biotech founders a lab - and lets them keep their equity
At Sweden’s SmiLe Venture Hub, shared laboratories come with business coaches, industry introductions and a patient timetable. The proposition is practical: spend less effort assembling the infrastructure, and more proving the business.
Södertälje Science Park and the trouble with making things
A working prototype is only the beginning. In Sweden’s industrial heartland, Södertälje Science Park helps hardware founders meet the people, suppliers and production problems that come next.
Avensia fixes the parts of shopping you never see
Behind the storefront, the Swedish commerce specialist untangles product data, connects unruly systems and tests whether better search actually sells more. Its customer results are a lesson in execution; its own accounts show the price of selling expertise.
Planhat
The Swedish company spent seven years bootstrapping a customer platform before the venture money arrived. Now it wants software agents and the humans who run accounts to work off the same page.
Paligo
Paligo is the component content management system that gives documentation a single source of truth. The reliability layer humans depend on and AI can actually trust.
Ericsson
The 149-year-old Swedish firm that helped write the rules of 5G now has to prove those networks can grow again - under a new CEO and an AI-driven cost squeeze.
Per Langoe
Per Langoe is the CEO of GT Medical Technologies, the Tempe, Arizona company behind GammaTile, an FDA-cleared radiation therapy tile that gets sewn into the brain the same moment a tumor is removed. He arrived in February 2024 after co-founding and selling Palette Life Sciences to Teleflex for $600 million, bringing more than two decades in radiation oncology commercialization from Pharmacia, Q-Med, Galderma and Nestle Skin Health.
Shwan Lamei
Shwan Lamei is co-founder and CEO of Emulate Energy, a Lund- and Boston-based software company that turns everyday household devices - heat pumps, EV chargers, home batteries, solar inverters - into a coordinated 'virtual battery' that utilities can dispatch on flexibility and balancing markets. Trained as an industrial engineer at Lund University, he spent 15 years in industrial B2B sales and corporate development at SWEP and Dover before starting Emulate in 2020 with a childhood friend whose MIT postdoctoral research became the technical seed of the company. In April 2025 Emulate closed a EUR 5M Series A led by Helen Ventures to scale its DER orchestration platform across Scandinavia, the DACH region and the United States.
Nellie Wartoft
Nellie Wartoft is a Swedish technology entrepreneur and the CEO and founder of Tigerhall, a Change Activation Platform that helps Fortune 500 companies drive organizational transformation at scale using AI and social learning. She moved from a small Swedish village to Singapore at 18 with a one-way ticket, spent 4.5 years as a top billing recruiter at Michael Page, then built Tigerhall from scratch into a platform operating across 32 countries, backed by Sequoia Capital and Monk's Hill Ventures with over $10 million in venture capital. Before her tech career she was a Swedish national champion in skeet shooting and air rifle.
Daniel Stenberg
Daniel Stenberg is a Swedish software engineer and the creator of curl and libcurl, tools found on an estimated 20-40 billion devices worldwide - from smartphones and smart TVs to spacecraft and every Windows and macOS installation. A self-taught programmer who began on a Commodore 64 at age 14, he has spent over 25 years maintaining one of the internet's most foundational software projects. He currently works at wolfSSL providing commercial curl support, sits as President of the European Open Source Academy, and contributes actively to internet standards through the IETF. His weekly newsletter chronicles his ongoing work simplifying, securing, and extending curl.