Likely active: new fund Jan 2024 Verified 7 Nov 2026
BackingMinds
Stockholm-based Nordic venture capital fund founded in 2016 that backs early-stage founders across Europe, with a focus on climate, circular industry and European resilience and on founders outside the usual networks and capital cities.
- Type
- VC firm
- Location
- Stockholm, Sweden
- Stages
- Pre-seed, Seed
- Sectors
- Climate and cleantech, Energy, AI, Fintech, Generalist
- Fund size / AUM
- EUR 100M AUM; Fund II SEK 455 million (2021); Fund III first close over EUR 50 million (own site)
- Website
- www.backingminds.com
Contacts on file
For BackingMinds, the paid file holds: 5 named decision-makers with roles; firm contact email (domain checked); how to pitch (the route the firm publishes); LinkedIn page.
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Notable investments
SaidotCemVisionCetasolLingioBricknode
Sources
- www.backingminds.com/
- www.backingminds.com/about-us
- www.backingminds.com/team
- www.backingminds.com/portfolio
- www.backingminds.com/news/backingminds-invests-in-saidot-to-unlock-enterprise-ai
- registers.esma.europa.eu/publication/searchRegister?core=esma_registers_funds
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