Åsa Christina Knutsson

Saab Ventures acquires minority equity positions in fast-growing small or medium-sized companies, and promotes their growth through financial, technical and marketing support. They favor innovation-based companies with technology relevant to Saab's development and core strategy. Saab Ventures co-invests in deals ranging from SEK 15 to 20 million. Their key investment criteria include a fit with Saab's corporate strategy, existing revenues with potential revenues of SEK 100 million within five years, strong IP rights, proven technology, clear customer value and an ambitious, experienced management team. Saab Ventures typically invests SEK 10 million to 20 million. They have invested in a diverse range of sectors including fire fighting, aviation, command and control systems, waste-to-energy management, engine components, medical technology, simulation software, energy technology related to tidal streams, software for spectrum management, acoustic solutions, memory architecture and surveillance radar.

Mittkapital is an active manager which provides equity funding for seed, early, later, and growth-stage capital requirements, and provides management support for its investments. The firm invests in startups, small and mid-sized companies operating in a broad range of sectors such as consumer durables, consumer services, and process industries, and in industries such as forest processing, tourism, manufacturing, and food retail. Mittkapital invests between SEK 0.3 and 20 million in companies located in Sweden, and looks to take both minority and majority stake positions, as well as a seat on the board.

Fouriertransform is an active, long-term manager which invests from their own balance sheet in automotive-related companies in all parts of the value chain and in all business phases. They focus exclusively on the automotive industry in Sweden. The firm seeks to invest up to SEK 150 million in automotive-related companies with an innovative product or service with growth potential on Swedish and global markets, an attractive underlying market with growth and good profitability prospects, entrepreneurial management focused on the company's growth and profitability, industrial partners capable of supporting their commercialization and expansion and good prospects for exit. Fouriertransform utilizes a range of financing solutions including share capital, profit-sharing loans and other capital participation. They typically take minority stakes in their investee companies, sometimes as the principal shareholder, sometimes as a traditional minority shareholder. They partner with investee management, developing a value-adding plan and ensuring adequate reporting and providing a sounding board for the CEO and the chairman of the board. They contribute expertise by placing qualified representatives (Fouriertransform employees or persons from Fouriertransform's network) on the boards of their investee companies.

Saminvest invests in companies located in Sweden. The firm targets companies operating in a broad range of sectors and industries. It provides financing for pre-seed, seed, early, later, growth and buyout capital requirements. It makes fund of fund investments and also makes co-investments.

Industrifonden invests in companies located in the Nordic region. The firm targets companies operating in the fields of planetary health, life science, deep tech and transformative tech. It provides financing for seed and early stage capital requirements with an investment size of SEK 10 – 50 million.

Designs and manufactures music mixing electronic equipment

Develops radio frequency identification technology solutions