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Propel

Venture capital

propelcapital.org

Propel invests in early-stage ventures and supports visionary leaders challenging the status quo. It also runs programs to improve economic outcomes and access to capital and to grow the social impact talent pipeline.

Invests inAI & Machine LearningCybersecurityFood & Agriculture

In its own wordsimpactdiversitysocial impactearly-stageaccess to capital

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3portfolio companies
3funding rounds on record
1rounds, last 12 months
under $1Mtypical round it comes in at
Seedmost frequent entry

Propel lists 3 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 3 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (50%), Cybersecurity (25%) and Food & Agriculture (25%). 100% of its companies are based in Sweden. It invests most often alongside Sting, Chalmers Ventures and Foundry.

Counts come from funding rounds that name Propel, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.

Entry stage

share of companies by the stage of its first round
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Share of companies by the stage of the firm's first round
Value
Pre-seed0%
Seed100%
Series A0%
Series B0%
Growth0%

Activity by year

rounds it joined, last 10 years
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TotalRounds it led
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Investment themes

share of its checked companies

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AI & Machine Learning50%18%
Cybersecurity25%4%
Food & Agriculture25%3%

Invests most often with

firms sharing its portfolio companies
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Co-investors
Share
Sting3
Chalmers Ventures1
Foundry1

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Its portfolio companies

where they are based, and what their own sites show

Headquarters

Site status

  • Site answers3100%
  • No longer answers00%
  • Points to another company00%
  • 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 together
Sting: 3 shared companiesSting3Chalmers Ventures: 1 shared companiesChalmers Ventures1Foundry: 1 shared companiesFoundry1
Shared portfolio companies with PropelFirms that also back companies together

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Compare Propel head to head

portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both back

Three or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.

Recent portfolio activity

when companies last raised with Propel
DateCompanyStage
14 Sept 2026freyaindustries.comfreyaindustries.comSeed
21 Aug 2025Seaqure Labsseaqurelabs.comSeed
20 Mar 2017Challengizechallengize.comSeed

Round details for Propel

Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Propel's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.

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Portfolio

3 companies checked against their own sites
CompanyWhat it doesThemesFirst round with itEvidence
Challengizechallengize.com · Sweden
Mar 2017SeedFunding round
freyaindustries.comfreyaindustries.com · SwedenFreya Industries builds the intelligence layer for physical security using connected sensors and a platform that turns captured data into actionable insights
CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning
Sept 2026SeedFunding round
Seaqure Labsseaqurelabs.com · SwedenSeaqure Labs develops fungi-based ingredients for animal feed using mycelium.
AI & Machine LearningFood & Agriculture
Aug 2025SeedFunding round

About this data

site last read 5 Nov 2026
The homepage of Propel, as last read
propelcapital.org as VCinfo last read it
Site
propelcapital.org
Last read
5 Nov 2026
Watching since
6 Nov 2026
Rounds since
20 Mar 2017
Companies checked
3

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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