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January 29, 2021

Wellstreet awarded Best Entrepreneur Support Team

We are so delighted to announce that we won the prize awarded by CFI.co Awards 2020.

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December 21, 2020

Wellstreet Journal - End of Year Edition

We bring you that last bit of news for this weird year! ⛄

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December 21, 2020

Wellstreet in Partnership with Cancerfonden – Joining the Fight Against Cancer

Before we round off the year, we want to take the opportunity to proudly present one final strategic partnership that is close to our hearts.

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December 17, 2020

Wellstreet Fintech Journal

Welcome to this special edition of the Wellstreet Journal, our newsletter, completely dedicated to fintech 💲.

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December 16, 2020

Wellstreet invests in Aura Banking Cloud – the next generation banking platform

Aura has built the next generation banking platform - Now the company takes in 7 million from Wellstreet and Almi Invest

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December 8, 2020

Meet Erika Eliasson – Chairwoman of Wellstreet Fintech Board

We welcome Erika Eliasson as the Chairwoman of the Wellstreet Fintech board and together we look forward to bringing more efficiency to the industry.

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December 7, 2020

The Emerging Fourth Wave in Fintech: Wellstreet Opens the Floor for Collaboration

We're excited to be a frontrunner of the fourth wave in the fintech industry, by collaborating and forming the Fintech Loft Advisory Board.

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November 25, 2020

Meet Jessica Rameau – the French-Brit running Wellstreet’s First Fund

Know more about Jess, a person who never stops learning. She brings a wealth of insight and perspective to managing a portfolio, and a thriving curiosity that takes her to the forefront of the industries she invests in.

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November 23, 2020

Future of Retail solves the connections between suppliers and resellers

Bankruptcies, reconstructions and the threat of store deaths - now the new fintech company wants to take Swedish retail into the future - Wellstreet Ventures invests 8 million

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November 13, 2020

Wellstreet Journal - November Edition

November is here! We have some exciting updates and some great reading for you this month.

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November 11, 2020

Fireside Chat with Tibber’s CPO Daniel Linden

During our last Wellstreet Launchpad event with Google for Startups, we had Fireside Chat with Tibber’s CPO Daniel Linden hosted by our CEO Mikael Wintzell, focused on product development in a scaling company. Join us and take a look at it!

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October 13, 2020

Jessica Rameau answers your questions about Wellstreet Ventures

Here's an excerpt from the interview Jessica Rameau gave to the blog Unicorn Nest, written by Roman Bdaitsiiev and focused on what Wellstreet offers.

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October 9, 2020

Wellstreet Journal - October Edition

The month has changed, so here's what's new at Wellstreet, at The Factory and with portfolio companies

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October 8, 2020

Makerzone opens at The Factory

Makerzone is a new creative meeting space for learning technology in interaction with practical areas. Makerzone is located in Häggvik and is an initiative by Sollentuna municipality and the technology investment company Wellstreet.

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September 4, 2020

Wellstreet Journal - September Edition

We share what we're up to, what’s going on in our glass fortress The Factory as well as some juicy updates from our portfolio companies

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September 4, 2020

Wellstreet welcomes Christian Zanders as a new partner

We talked to Christian to know about his experience so far and his expectations for the future.

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September 3, 2020

Filip Tysander and Wellstreet welcome Brink - the uncrashable e-commerce platform

Swedish start-up Brink raises $1M to its uncrashable e-commerce platform for the world’s fastest hyper-growth companies – backed by Daniel Wellington-founder and Wellstreet

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August 31, 2020

Meet Anatomic Studios, our newest portfolio addition

Anatomic Studios disrupts the traditional medical equipment industry by offering highly personalised and customizable 3D-designed and printed covers for prosthetic users. Customers enjoy a far superior online user experience akin to fashion e-commerce stores, beyond the incomparable physical experience. In preparation for a wider launch, the company just closed its first round of investment, backed by Wellstreet Ventures Fund I, Queen Invest and Edument, among others.

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August 21, 2020

Mikael Wintzell – The Visionary Man Behind Wellstreet

Mikael’s story is an object lesson in the rough and tumble, wild west world of a hungry entrepreneur. Let's learn more about this lesson?

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August 14, 2020

Regily: Tech Company that is defining change

Regily provides the best solution to process sign-ups, with clever design, approach, data protection, and incorporating behaviour data patterns.

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July 31, 2020

Tibber: The Company That Started Electric Revolution

A trip down memory lane: Tibber's journey from Wellstreet's office to Founders Fund portfolio

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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. 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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