Stories

June 15, 2020

Wellstreet Ventures Fund invests in insurtech startup Pensure

The Stockholm-based startup Pensure has developed a digital platform where companies can easily subscribe and manage their occupational pensions. Pensure offers Sweden's most affordable occupational pension with savings of about 24% compared to competitors*. In connection with its launch, Pensure now takes in SEK 5.6 million from the existing owners and Wellstreet Ventures Fund I.

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June 15, 2020

Armando Coppola joins Wellstreet as Partner & Head of Fintech

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April 3, 2020

Survival Survey outcomes - how are startups dealing with Covid-19

Startup Sweden's Survival Survey had the goal of screening the current status of the covid-19 crisis in order to better assist Swedish startups. The result came out this week, with an impressive number of 667 that participated in the research.

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March 3, 2020

Looking back on our Wellstreet Launchpad Kick-off Days!

The Kick-off of the Wellstreet Launchpad, our support Programs in partnership with Google Developers Launchpad that we offer to portfolio companies, took place on the 8th and 9th of January 2020. It was a couple of very intense days of solid knowledge sharing and skills development for our founders. We had a FoundersLab Day and a Diagnostics Day.

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November 13, 2019

Christian Zanders joins Wellstreet – Upcoming Expansion to Gothenburg

Wellstreet Strengthens the Team with Serial Entrepreneur Christian Zanders and Announces an Expansion to Sweden’s West Coast.

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October 22, 2019

A day in the Life of a Google Launchpad Mentor

Last week I headed to Málaga in Southern Spain to take part in one of Google for Startups’ Launchpads. The launchpad was a 5 day programme, for startups in the field of Cybersecurity. 8 selected European startups took part, from pre-launch stage to raising a series A. I showed up for day 5, which is always focused on business & growth, so fundraising tends to be a popular topic.

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October 17, 2019

Wellstreet launches a new Fintech program in Stockholm

New strategic collaboration of Wellstreet with Amazon Web Services to support the growth of financial services startups in the Nordics.

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September 13, 2019

How Wellstreet and Sollentuna are a Match to Spark the Future

With The Factory now up and running, this mutually beneficial partnership is certainly one of its most scalable investment fortifications. The Wellstreet Team believes that this close, mutually supportive business relationship with local government will allow their Factory groundwork to rise into the visionary tech center/investment incubator that will greatly benefit Stockholm’s evident expansion into a robust economic future for the next entrepreneurial generation.

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September 13, 2019

The Wellstreet Ethos Embraces Failure as

Ironically, it’s our constant, clinging need for safety and security that so often leads to the unnecessary failures we could’ve otherwise easily avoided by taking risks rather than ignoring them. Because of their own experience, the Wellstreet Team is determined to engage in a new investment and entrepreneurial culture that feeds on both the fear and the ugly reality of failure, and then turns it into the rocket fuel of success!

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September 13, 2019

The Secret Sauce of the Wellstreet Hustle Crew

The fuel that feeds the Wellstreet hustle engine? Dynamic entrepreneurial ideas that cannot and will not be contained by the boundaries of status quo templates.

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September 13, 2019

Wellstreet Women are Closing the Tech Gap

In even the most progressive of business cultures, in the most progressive countries, women everywhere continue to face a range of strictly gender-based challenges upon entering traditionally male-dominated workspaces. Perhaps nowhere is this imbalance more evident than in the tech sector. As active investors in the future of tech, we realized we had a responsibility to find a way to break the self-defeating cycle that shuts far too many fertile female minds out of the tech loop.

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September 13, 2019

The Factory by Wellstreet

The Factory is an undertaking by Wellstreet Group in order to house an ecosystem for startups, scaleups and companies invested in being a part of their successes.

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