Sweden
Europe · Pop. 10.6M · #13 startup ecosystem by EV · WithinWorldEMEAEurope incl IsraelG20High Income Countries (UN definition)Horizon Europe countriesNATO member countriesNIF countriesOECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development)EuropeBaltic Sea RegionESA Member StatesEU27European UnionEuropean Union + UKNordicsSweden
1 Startup funnel
Sweden's startup funnel
Companies headquartered in Sweden at each stage today, by total VC raised. Hover or tap a bar for the split.
Source: Dealroom.co
2 Latest quarter
Sweden's latest quarter in venture capital
Venture capital raised by Sweden-headquartered companies each quarter since 2020, split by round size, with detail on the latest complete quarter.
Latest complete quarter
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3 Enterprise value
How much Sweden’s VC-backed companies are worth
Combined enterprise value of VC-backed companies headquartered in Sweden, founded since 1990 and still operating, at the end of each year. Companies stay in the total after they list or are acquired.
4 VC investment
How much venture capital flows into Sweden
VC investment into Sweden-headquartered, VC-backed companies, broken down by round size, company location, sector and funding stage.
5 Largest rounds
Largest funding rounds in Sweden
A live treemap of $40M+ rounds from the Dealroom API. Each cell is one round into a company headquartered in Sweden, grouped by Dealroom sector.
Largest rounds in Sweden - 2024–2026
6 Startup hubs
Inside Sweden: 3 startup hubs, 83 universities
Hubs are sized by combined enterprise value; universities by the startup founders they produced. Hover any point for its numbers; the lists rank hubs by EV and universities by founders.
7 Founder origins
Where Sweden's unicorn founders build
150 founders born in Sweden are behind 76 unicorns; 25% of those were built in the US. Origins are resolved from biography and education history, not current address. Compare with the other origin countries in Europe, ranked by founders or per 1M inhabitants.
8 Location comparison
Unicorns, decacorns and centicorns — Sweden in a global comparison
Companies count where they were founded or are headquartered. Values are per 1M people or totals, as a share of the US (US = 100%) or absolute; bars scale to the largest value in each column. Hover any value for the per-1M rate and absolute count.
9 Patent intelligence
Sweden startup IP portfolio: 62.6K patent families
Granted patent families assigned to startups headquartered in Sweden. Aggregated across the country's hub-level filings — Bay Area, Boston, etc. roll up under the United States row, the same way Tokyo and Osaka roll up under Japan.
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