Helping founders turn their good ideas into profitable businesses

Philosophy
What's important to us
VEQ invests in early stage companies with innovative, digital and scalable businesses, where technology is the core of the product, or the way you sell and deliver the product
For us, the team behind the company is everything. We look for founders who show grit, intelligence, and maybe most of all, integrity and a moral compass pointing in the right direction.
We are not like other VC’s. Our experience from having worked hands-on with dozens of founding teams, not only giving strategic advice, but writing the lines of code, and the pool of resources available to us through VNTRS, makes us one of the few hands-on operational venture capital investor in the Nordics and Baltics.
What we look for
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Team
For us, the single most important factor is the team. We want to invest in teams that show grit, intelligence and moral integrity.
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Tech
Tech and digital products is what we know and what we believe will empower the future.
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Commercialisation
You're in the perfect stage for us if you're just bringing in your early customers and can show that they're willing to pay.
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Scale
The entire world should be able to take part of the value you create, which is why we like internationally scalable businesses.

Investments
VEQ Coaches
What we offer
We have handpicked a group of trusted people with different functional and industry expertise. Our goal is to be able to help our entrepreneurs reach even further. Our coaches will engage with our companies hands-on and help them build the right capabilities in the most important areas to start scaling.
We will match the specific needs of each company with the areas of expertise from our coaches to make sure we add value to each company at the stage they are in.
Given our unique collaboration with VNTRS, and our selected group of coaches we will be able to support our companies in the best way possible.
The VEQ Coaches have expertise in the following areas:
Product – Build and design your product
Growth – Commercialize and market your offering
Finance & Legal – Keep your house in order
People – Attract and retain the best talent
About
Our story
VEQ was born from our vision to help entrepreneurs turn their good ideas into profitable businesses. We’re also entrepreneurs and investors who have been in the same shoes as the people we want to invest in. We look for entrepreneurs sharing our core values of being adventurous, inspiring, and caring. We believe that diversity and sustainability are drivers of profitability and not only words used in an investor presentation.
Before VEQ was started, we had already backed some twenty start-ups with hands-on resources through sweat equity investments in VNTRS. We are so happy to now be able to continue supporting you, all entrepreneurs out there wanting to do good in the next step of your journey.

Team

Viktor Gällström
Founding Partner
M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering, background as a management consultant, tech entrepreneur and co-founder of VNTRS
“I love my job investing in early stage tech companies – the best thing being the meetings with all inspiring and driven entrepreneurs. I have been in those shoes myself so I know how it feels like.“

Maria Bergsten
Partner
B.Sc. from the Stockholm School of Economics and background from the venture capital industry
“Being a curious person, I got hooked on the startup and investor community since you get to learn something new each day. I think it’s amazing to work with brilliant founders and a privilege to get to be a part of their journeys.”
News

VEQ increases ownership in drone software company Airpelago
We are happy to announce that we’ve increased our ownership in drone software company Airpelago by leading their 8,5 mSEK seed round. The funding will

GLOBHE closes seed round of 20 MSEK to accelerate access to climate data from drones globally
VEQ investee company GLOBHE just closed their seed round, and we’re happy to welcome new investors such as Course Corrected and MIT onboard. We invested

We’re happy to announce VEQ’s investment in Vitala
Today we’re thrilled to announce that VEQ is backing the Vitala team! The digital health platform Vitala just raised capital to continue their growth journey