Investors / Sweden / BackingMinds
BackingMinds
Venture capital · Stockholm, Sweden · Europe
BackingMinds is a Swedish venture capital firm founded in 2016 by Sara Wimmercranz and Susanne Najafi. It backs founders early, often before other investors, and supports them as operators through every stage of growth.
Invests inIndustrial & Manufacturing
In its own wordsclimateclean energycircular economyaicybersecurityfuture of work
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Or find every investor that fitsBackingMinds lists 20 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 9 funding rounds, 6 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 60% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Industrial & Manufacturing (25%), AI & Machine Learning (13%) and Education (13%). 56% of its companies are based in Sweden. It invests most often alongside Crowberry Capital, Calm/Storm Ventures and Centripetal.
Counts come from funding rounds that name BackingMinds, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not BackingMinds' whole history. Rounds on record name 8 companies; its own site lists 20. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 60% |
| Series A | 20% |
| Series B | 20% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 1 | 1 |
| '24 | 1 | 0 |
| '25 | 3 | 3 |
| '26 | 4 | 2 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 51th | 20 companies |
| Recent activity | 82th | 4 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 76th | 60% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 97th | 30% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 36th | 25% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 78th | 5 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 25% | 7% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 13% | 18% |
| Education | 13% | 7% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 9% | 6% |
| Cybersecurity | 6% | 4% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 6% | 15% |
| Fintech | 6% | 12% |
| Consumer | 3% | 3% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Crowberry Capital | 2 |
| Calm/Storm Ventures | 1 |
| Centripetal | 1 |
| Course Corrected | 1 |
| Further Than Capital | 1 |
| Gorilla Capital | 1 |
| Impact X | 1 |
| Leitmotif | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers1995%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company15%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Crowberry Capital
Compare BackingMinds head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Funds
from public registers and its siteRecent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with BackingMinds| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 5 Nov 2026 | Round Led | |
| 10 Sept 2026 | Series B | |
| 19 Aug 2026 | Seed | |
| 1 Feb 2026 | Round Led | |
| 1 Nov 2025 | Seed Led | |
| 23 Jun 2025 | Series A Led | |
| 28 Jan 2025 | Seed Led | |
| 19 Nov 2024 | Seed |
Round details for BackingMinds
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in BackingMinds' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
20 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boneprox builds clinical intelligence from the ground up, including diagnostic workflows, AI imaging, and infrastructure that connects them. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
FintechE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | |||
| Campcation operates a booking site for campsites and motorhome stopovers | Legal & ComplianceReal Estate & Construction | Portfolio page | ||
| Cemvision is decarbonizing cement with a full-stack approach, using alternative raw materials, electrified cement production, and slag upcycling to reduce CO2 emissions. | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Cetasol provides a maritime monitoring and analytics platform for vessel performance and fuel consumption tracking | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Nov 2025Seed | Page + round | |
| The company handles industrial waste water directly on site through evaporation, separating water from contaminants and reducing the amount of waste to be transported and destroyed. | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Hybird develops and provides intelligent electrical panels for energy savings | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Jan 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| HyBird connects equipment, drawings, and operational records to provide spatial intelligence for industrial operations | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Lingio provides employee training software for frontline workers | EducationHuman Resources | Portfolio page | ||
| Loovi offers a health membership that includes testing, coaching, and planning to improve users' health over time. | Healthcare & Biotech | Feb 2026Round | Funding round | |
| Mylla delivers food directly from producers to customers' doors | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| NitroVolt rethinks chemistry for heavy industry | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Saidot provides an AI governance system of record for enterprise AI agents | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Nov 2026Round | Page + round | |
| Serviceform provides AI agents for business websites and WhatsApp | AI & Machine LearningE-commerce & Marketplaces | Nov 2024Seed | Page + round | |
| Skrym offers efficient tools to help you regain control over your logistics operations. | E-commerce & MarketplacesSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| SnerpaPower provides a platform for power intensive industries to automatically plan and manage their electricity consumption and flexibility potential | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Aug 2023Round · 2 rounds | Page + round | |
| Tavion builds and operates utility-scale battery energy storage systems for the long term | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Sept 2026Series B | Page + round | |
| Techarena organizes a tech and business event in Stockholm | Consumer | Jun 2025Series A | Page + round | |
| The company allows users to send money to their loved ones in various countries. | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Uniqkey provides password and access management solutions for businesses. | CybersecurityEnterprise Software | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- backingminds.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 30 Aug 2023
- Companies checked
- 20
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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