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October 31, 2022

Wellstreet Journal - October 2022

Welcome to our newsletter 🍂

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October 19, 2022

Welcome to the future of horse riding safety with Y/ELM+

Y/ELM+ develops next-generation horse rider safety and protection solutions and has secured a notable investment round from Wellstreet, Alexander Hars and horse riding star Ebba Danielsson

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October 5, 2022

Backed by Wellstreet, Enable Banking secures open banking high profile Sarah Häger

Finnish Fintech Startup, Enable Banking, discloses a round of €600,000 led by Wellstreet and attracts the strong open banking profile Sarah Häger, now leaving Nordea after 15 years.

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September 30, 2022

Wellstreet Journal - September 2022

Welcome to this our newsletter 🍂

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September 1, 2022

Wellstreet Launchpad for Shift collaboration

On the 14th and 15th of September, we'll hold this exclusive startup training curated in partnership with Google for Startups

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June 27, 2022

Apply to join Wellstreet as Head of Marketing & Communications

Wellstreet is looking for a great addition to the team!

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June 23, 2022

Wellstreet Journal - June 2022

Welcome to this month's Journal 🌞

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May 13, 2022

Wellstreet Launchpad - Gothenburg edition

On the 7th, 8th, and 9th of June, we'll hold this exclusive startup training curated in partnership with Google for Startups

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May 9, 2022

Wellstreet Invests in DTC Brand Sisterly Tribe To Accelerate Global Growth

With HQ at Wellstreet & Friends, the company has raised SEK 4.5 million from Wellstreet and serial entrepreneur Alexander Hars

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April 8, 2022

Wellstreet Journal - April 2022

Welcome to this month's Journal 🌼

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March 23, 2022

Aura Cloud Names Caroline Farberger as Chairwoman of the Board

The finance executive Caroline Farberger joins the company as chair of the board, as part of her upcoming work with Wellstreet.

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March 17, 2022

Wellstreet Journal - March 2022

Welcome to this month's Journal 📰

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February 23, 2022

Welcome Ola Laurin - The Newest Member of Wellstreet Fintech Board

The PayEx CEO offers his experience of working with corporate institutions and investment banking

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February 17, 2022

A New Fintech Investment Vehicle

Wellstreet Launches $40 Million Fund to Invest in Early-stage Fintech Innovators

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February 11, 2022

Wellstreet Journal - February 2022

Welcome to the first Wellstreet Newsletter of the year!

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January 24, 2022

Shift – A Platform That Shifts the Odds for Underrepresented Entrepreneurs

Shift is an initiative of the business network Bling and the news site Breakit with the common goal to get more entrepreneurs from underrepresented backgrounds into the spotlight.

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January 13, 2022

Caroline Farberger Joins Wellstreet as Partner and Working Chair

Wellstreet today announced that Caroline Farberger, a noted finance executive and CEO of ICA Insurance, is joining the company as partner and working chair.

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December 14, 2021

Wellstreet to Open Collaborative Office Space in Gothenburg

The new facility Wellstreet & Friends brings startups and tech companies in Sweden’s second city a much-needed arena for innovation and interaction across the ecosystem

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December 12, 2021

Wellstreet Journal - December Edition

Welcome to the last Wellstreet Journal of the year!

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December 10, 2021

A new phase for Gamifiera with an investment round

The 11.5 MSEK seed round is led by Quiq Holding and Wellstreet

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November 23, 2021

Wellstreet Journal - November Edition

Welcome to the November Wellstreet Journal! Come with us for this edition’s adventures!

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November 18, 2021

Raising Investment - Lessons Learnt From Wellstreet’s Alumni Companies

When setting your fundraising goals, the cash is just the tip of the iceberg. So how to choose the right investor for you?

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October 22, 2021

Fintech Loft Startup Challenge 2021

A competition where you can pitch your fintech startup to the Wellstreet Fintech Board, in collaboration with AWS

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October 21, 2021

Wellstreet invests in deep tech startup Texelio

Texelio is making stock market news relevant

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October 18, 2021

Wellstreet Journal - October Edition

Welcome to the October Journal! 🍂 This is a juicy one, so buckle in for the ride!

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October 8, 2021

Welcome Evelina Anttila - Wellstreet's new Partner

Evelina joins the team as the Head of Transactions

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October 8, 2021

Wellstreet invests in Esgaia – The Platform for Sustainable Investments

Esgaia launches platform for sustainable investments backed by Wellstreet Fintech Fund I

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September 8, 2021

Wellstreet Journal - September Edition

Welcome to the September Journal!

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September 1, 2021

Wellstreet is looking for a great addition to the team!

Apply to join the Wellstreet management team as an Associate

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July 8, 2021

Wellstreet Journal - July Edition

Welcome to the July Journal! ⛱️

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July 7, 2021

X Shore - On the Quest To Make Leisure Sustainable

The “Tesla of the seas” has a sustainability-first drive, which harmonizes with Wellstreet's vision of the future.

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June 14, 2021

Wellstreet Journal - June Edition

This month's newsletter is out and you don't want to miss it!

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June 2, 2021

Behind the Scenes: The Rebranding Process of Wellstreet

How do you go about creating your new business' branding? Take a look at the process we followed when rebranding ourselves a couple of years ago

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May 14, 2021

Wellstreet Journal - May Edition

This month's news is as hot as ever!

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May 10, 2021

Impressions of a week at Wellstreet

Amanda, the winning student of Jönköping Business School career fair, spent a week with our investment teams at The Factory. Here's her experience!

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May 3, 2021

DanAds Raises £3.5M and Anders Borg is the New Chairman of the Board

Planning to follow its UK and USA success strategy across Europe, DanAds prepares with leading support from Wellstreet

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April 20, 2021

Wellstreet Journal - April Edition

🌸 Spring is here and we are feeling the buzz! With now a straight line before the summer, it's #gotime 🐝

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April 15, 2021

Wellstreet Launchpad event: Leadership & Team Building

Want to know how our Launchpad events in partnership with Google for Startups work? Take a look at the last one!

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April 13, 2021

Looking for a great addition to the Wellstreet team!

Wellstreet is looking for an Associate to join the management team

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March 8, 2021

The Importance of Female Representation in Higher Positions

On International Women’s Day, let’s take a look at the progress made regarding inclusivity and diversity in higher positions in Nordic companies in the past decade or so.

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March 4, 2021

Wellstreet Journal - March Edition

February is short, so this edition is already here! ☺

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February 8, 2021

Wellstreet Journal - February Edition

Welcome to our first Journal of the year! ☺

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February 5, 2021

What’s in Store for Brands in 2021?

We are excited to see our portfolio companies enabling the future of retail for brands in 4 key trends emerging stronger than ever after the 2020 push for online retail.

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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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