Swedish tech startups and scaleups
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Swedish tech startups and scaleups
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Re: Swedish tech startups and scaleups
#2That's a long list. Wish it was possible to filter it by niche, opensource etc
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#3Fun list to scroll through. I had no idea about most of these startups, although some where familiar. For example, I saw Grafana Labs in the list. And Klarna is not exactly a startup any longer...
Re: Swedish tech startups and scaleups
#4Fun list to scroll through. I had no idea about most of these startups, although some where familiar. For example, I saw Grafana Labs in the list. And Klarna is not exactly a startup any longer...
Not exactly a scaleup either...
Re: Swedish tech startups and scaleups
#5Fun list to scroll through. I had no idea about most of these startups, although some where familiar. For example, I saw Grafana Labs in the list. And Klarna is not exactly a startup any longer...
Where is Paradox Interactive?!
Aaah. Not a startup anymore.
Re: Swedish tech startups and scaleups
#6Fun list to scroll through. I had no idea about most of these startups, although some where familiar. For example, I saw Grafana Labs in the list. And Klarna is not exactly a startup any longer...
Not exactly a scaleup either...
Yeah, Klarna is rather more of a 'scale-down' recently.
Re: Swedish tech startups and scaleups
#7Founder of Encore here (on the list). Great to see so many wonderful companies represented. Sweden is a great place to start a startup these days.
Re: Swedish tech startups and scaleups
#8Fun list to scroll through. I had no idea about most of these startups, although some where familiar. For example, I saw Grafana Labs in the list. And Klarna is not exactly a startup any longer...
Where is Paradox Interactive?! Aaah. Not a startup anymore.
I am the creator of this list. I chose to exclude gaming studios, because I don't really cover them in the newsletter, and have not really any good overview of that sector either.
Re: Swedish tech startups and scaleups
#9Founder of Encore here (on the list). Great to see so many wonderful companies represented. Sweden is a great place to start a startup these days.
I'm starting a subsidiary of a start-up in Germany in Sweden.
It's not my experience that Sweden is a great place for startups, the bureaucracy is extremely hit/miss. Setting up tax information for example is really difficult as a non-Swedish speaker and even tripped up my Swedish speaking friend (who is a project coordinator on the new Skane hospital: so she's somewhat aware of the tax system). How much of your daily work will be administration, how much will be selling services, how much money will you make do you estimate; you must give us an estimation: if it's too far off then we will fine you!
Information in English is... scarce, but gives the illusion of being available.
Hiring is also very complicated, you have to be very explicit in your contracts because anything not spelled out immediately falls in favour of the employed; which is nice, but as a novice employer that's very scary, because I don't know everything obviously.
What in your mind makes you think it's a good place?
Re: Swedish tech startups and scaleups
#10Fun list to scroll through. I had no idea about most of these startups, although some where familiar. For example, I saw Grafana Labs in the list. And Klarna is not exactly a startup any longer...
Not exactly a scaleup either...
Creator of the list here. For some of the companies on the list the label "startup or scaleup" is debatable ofc. But I often find it not to be a clear-cut thing in those cases.
I tried to use a mix of "criteria" such as company age, whether it acts like a startup/scaleup (rapid innovation, invests heavily in growth, needs external funding to get going), whether it's covered intensely by the startup-focused tech media etc.
To me, Klarna ticks those boxes.