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Chalmers Ventures continues its expansion by recruiting the serial entrepreneur Johan Sköld, who will be responsible for developing the revenue side in the value creation. Johan has an over 20 years long successful career within ICT and comes most recently from the Executive Management Team of Knowit.

Chalmers Ventures has made an additional investment in Sportlala (formerly known as Aktivators.com) in a round of 6 MSEK in total. Sportlala.se offers sport and outdoor products in time-limited campaigns. They started developing the service in 2013 with a re-lauch under the new name in November 2015. The company currently employ four people full time […]

To succeed and create the best conditions for entrepreneurship, we need to learn and leverage from previous experiences, both successes and failures. Sweden has great potential as a country of entrepreneurship, so it’s been a long time and ever since, today’s successful export companies were founded by passionate entrepreneurs. And Sweden is at the forefront and […]

Chalmers Ventures has recruited Marcus Bäcklund as Head of Investment. Bäcklund has through the investment company Deseven worked with numerous companies in the early phases. His mission will be to further accelerate Chalmers Ventures offers towards the Swedish tech scene. It is in line with expanding and developing investments, Chalmers Ventures chooses to fill this […]

Aracne AB, the company behind Futchi, have completed a seed round. Of the 2,5 MSEK, Chalmers Ventures has invested 1 MSEK. The money is to be used for scaling sales and building the sport says CEO Daniel Dahlén when we meet at Stena Center. Futchi is a new addictive sport that combines football and squash. […]

Half of the companies and projects competing in the finals of Venture Cup Väst derives from Chalmers Ventures. And they are actually going head to head in two of the four categories. It’s Cetect versus Lazarus Therapeutics in ”Life Science and Technology” and TRINE versus Epishine in ”Environment and Energy”. Be there to support them […]

Robert Andersson, a multiple world champion in bowling, and Nigul Ilves, M.Sc. in Engineering Physics, won first prize in this autumn Startup Camp at Chalmers Ventures. Under the name Bowlingtracking, they have developed a measuring instrument that helps bowlers to develop in their training. The award consists of an entreprenurial trip to the United States, […]

During one day in October, thirty people from Chalmers Ventures portfolio companies put their startups aside and went out to help refugees in Gothenburg. The goal was to help different organisations and see what problems they faced in order to come up with ideas and projects that would ease their situation. The day was a […]

Chalmers Ventures has made an additional investment in portfolio company Monivent. Also participating in the share issue totaling SEK 3 million is Almi Invest and private investors. Monivent develops equipment for safer treatment of newborns who have problems breathing. The money will be used to finalize and begin sales of a training product. Read full press […]

Jonas Karles and Emma Woxlin from Encubation project Epishine have today been awarded with the 1st prize in the regional innovation competition Pitcha din idé, arranged by Almi Väst at Nyföretagardagen. Almi arranged the competition in order to find ideas that have the potential of turning into the next generation’s viable businesses. Jonas and Emma […]