The Nordic hardtech community
For everyone building hard things in the Nordics.
Hardtech is innovative, complex and physical. It takes longer to build and more capital to scale, and the knowledge lives in few places. Nordic Hardtech exists so the people who build it, fund it and enable it can find each other.
The funding map
ALL 149 INVESTORS →Every Nordic investor with documented hardtech investments, plus the grants and public instruments that fund the other half of the journey from lab to factory.
Monen Invest
Swedish investment company focused on long-term ownership in real estate, technology, and entrepreneurship.
Zenith VC
Pre-seed investor supporting tech startups across the Nordics with capital and hands-on expertise.
Marvelous Deeptech
Naika Invest
Private equity firm investing in small and mid-sized businesses with long-term growth potential across the Nordics.
Linnea Capital
A seed fund co-founded by Uppsala Innovation Centre, investing in early-stage tech and life science startups.
Node.vc
Early-stage venture fund investing in Nordic B2B software and platform startups.
JM Ventures
JM is the largest residential developer in the Nordics. Through our CVC, they partner and invest in early-stage startups along our value chain with a special focus on project design, sustainability and construction automation.
Snö Ventures
Nordic early-stage VC investing in founders with global ambitions across software and climate tech.
SEB Greentech VC
Corporate VC investing in early-stage Nordic companies driving green technology transitions.
Centripetal
Invests in early-stage climate tech startups that aim to accelerate decarbonization through scalable innovation.
Scania Ventures
Supports venture building and innovation initiatives tied to sustainable transport solutions.
EQT Ventures
European venture capital fund backing bold tech companies from early to growth stage with global ambition.
The ecosystem
ALL 799 COMPANIES →Who builds, supplies and enables hardtech across the Nordics, from garage startups to industrial giants. Browse by role, phase and vertical.
Medoma
Provides hospital-at-home services, integrating technology and healthcare to deliver advanced care in patients' homes.
Canatu
Canatu is a carbon nanomaterial developer creating the most advanced carbon nanotubes for industry-transforming products, serving the semiconductor, automotive, and medical diagnostics industries.
Unimi Solutions
Offers universal, future-proof foundations for EV charging stations.
Realisator Robotics
Realisator Robotics specializes in developing robotic systems and automation solutions for various industries, focusing on efficiency and precision.
Peafowl Sol
Peafowl Sol develops transparent solar cells using plasmonic nanoparticles, aiming to integrate solar energy harvesting into various surfaces.
ReBake (new Cake)
Electric bikes
Norrköping Science Park
Supports innovation and entrepreneurship by providing infrastructure, networks, and services to startups and tech companies.
Eskilstuna Elektronikpartner AB
Provides electronics manufacturing services, including PCB assembly and product development.
Bosch
Bosch offers innovative products and services across various sectors, including mobility, industrial technology, consumer goods, and energy and building technology, with a strong presence in Sweden.
Pasq Space
Develops modular satellite platforms to simplify access to space for various applications.
Aprilice
Aprilice operates a B2B platform for solar energy products, connecting suppliers and installers to streamline the solar supply chain.
PDSVISION
Offers software solutions and services for product development, including PLM and CAD tools.
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Hardtech news from the Nordics and beyond, new raises, events worth travelling for, and the deadlines you should not miss.
Open raises
SEE WHO IS RAISING →Raising for something innovative, complex and physical? Apply in five minutes. We curate, and your round reaches the readers of the newsletter, including the investors on the map. The list is open for the first entries.
The podcast
ALL 37 EPISODES →Conversations with the founders and funders of Nordic hardtech.
EP 37 Lisa Eriksson (KTH Innovation) – Building Europe’s Deeptech Pipeline
37. Building Europe’s Deeptech Pipeline Lisa Eriksson , Head of KTH Innovation and CEO of KTH Ventures , joins the Nordic Hardtech Podcast to discuss what it takes to turn world-class research into venture-backed companies. KTH Innovation supports hundreds of founders, researchers and students every year, helping transform ideas into startups across fields such as AI, energy, semiconductors, life
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EP 36 Monica Bellgran – Produktionsänglar & Sveriges bortglömda konkurrensfördel [SWE]
36. Produktionsänglar & Sveriges bortglömda konkurrensfördel Monica Bellgran , vicerektor för innovation vid Mälardalen Universitet och medgrundare av Produktionsänglar , gästar podden för att prata om en av hardtech-världens mest underskattade utmaningar: att gå från prototyp till produktion. Från industrialisering och leverantörskedjor till automation, AI och geopolitik förklarar hon varför så m
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EP 35 Tomas Becklin – Teaching Infrastructure to Speak Animal with Flox
#35. Teaching Infrastructure to Speak Animal with Flox Tomas Becklin , CTO and co-founder of Flox , joins our podcast to explain how AI, acoustics and edge computing can reduce conflicts between wildlife and critical infrastructure. Flox builds systems that identify animals in real time and play sounds they instinctively understand, guiding behavior without fences, barriers or harm. In this conver
LISTEN →Insights
ALL INSIGHTS →What we have learned about building, scaling and funding hard things in the Nordics.
INSIGHT The Hard Way: The Nordic Way
Nordic hardtech founders keep choosing complex, regulated, physical-world industries over easy, fast-scaling opportunities.
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INSIGHT The game beneath the game
Elite football's technology stack, from smart balls to computer vision, shows how Nordic hardtech is proving itself on the pitch.
READ →Europe Doesn't Have an Innovation Problem
KTH Innovation's Lisa Eriksson argues fragmentation, not lack of innovation, holds back Europe's deeptech scaleups.
READ →Partners keep this open
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One sharp email, every two weeks.
Hardtech news from the Nordics and beyond, new raises, events worth travelling for, and the deadlines you should not miss.