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.
Vasa Angels
Angel investor network associated with GU Ventures, investing in early-stage startups.
Novax
Investment arm of the Axel Johnson Group focused on long-term partnerships in health, sustainability, and future retail.
Volvo Cars Tech Fund
Corporate venture capital fund investing in technologies that shape the future of mobility.
Fiftyfive Capital
Danish VC investing in growth-stage companies in lifestyle, software, and hardware across Europe and the U.S. Formerly Nordic Eye.
Noon Ventures
Early-stage VC backing sustainable innovations and companies addressing major societal challenges.
Pre-Seed Ventures
Denmark’s largest and most active pre-seed investor, supporting ambitious tech startups.
Plug & Play Gothenburg
Global innovation platform connecting Nordic startups with corporations and investors in Gothenburg.
Energimyndigheten
The Swedish Energy Agency, a public funding body that supports energy-related innovation and entrepreneurship for a sustainable energy system.
Icebreaker VC
Pre-seed and seed-stage investor in Finland, Sweden, and Estonia supporting tech teams from research to company building.
Seven District
Early-stage VC focusing on scalable Nordic tech companies, especially B2B SaaS and digital platforms.
Skagerak Capital
Norwegian venture and growth investor focused on sustainable tech and cleantech innovation.
Revalence Ventures
Invests in early-stage companies developing solutions for the energy transition and climate resilience.
The ecosystem
ALL 784 COMPANIES →Who builds, supplies and enables hardtech across the Nordics, from garage startups to industrial giants. Browse by role, phase and vertical.
Frikab Produktion AB
Provides manufacturing and assembly services for industrial products.
Senseair AB
Senseair provides NDIR-based gas sensors for CO₂, alcohol, and refrigerant detection, used in various applications.
Polar Light Technologies
Polar Light Technologies develops advanced photonic components, specializing in light-emitting materials for various applications.
Elywhere
Elywhere designs and manufactures charger-plus-battery-storage EV charging stations that let fast charging work at sites where the local grid cannot support it.
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.
Lundoch Dia
Provides diagnostic tools aimed at early detection and prevention of diabetes.
Xenergic
Provides ultra-low-power on-chip memory IP for system-on-chip designs, enhancing energy efficiency.
Skansen Technologies
TD Synnex
Global distributor of IT products and services, supporting various technology vendors and resellers.
Calmon Stegmotorteknik AB
Calmon specializes in motor control solutions, offering development and consulting services for BLDC, DC, and stepper motor systems.
Validio
Offers real-time data validation and monitoring solutions powered by AI.
Flintab
Provides weighing systems and solutions for various industries.
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.
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