Venture Capital and Private Equity in Sweden
Did you know…?
- Sweden's private equity investments as a percentage of GPD exceeded the United States in 2005.
- Some 80% the total capital in Swedish PE funds is from other countries.
- There are 80 Swedish VC firms with 800 portfolio companies
- The turnover of these companies accounts for 10% of the Swedish GDP
- Since 2006, nine Swedish companies have been among Red Herring’s Top Private Firms (Rebtel, Packetfront, Nanoradio, Polar Rose, Cypak, Hotsip, MySQL, Operax, and Transmode)
- Since 2000, Sweden’s investors have had 196 successful exits, including 38 IPOs
- In the last three years there have been 81 exits with 17 IPOs
Would you like to know…?
- How Sweden, a nation of only nine million people, does it?
- How they think about innovation?
- What is their secret sauce?
- What’s a triple-helix?
- Why Sweden has more cell phones than people?
- If individual reindeer on the tundra really have GPS?
- What startup companies are now emerging from Sweden’s innovation pipeline?
Register for our program featuring the best-in-class IT, Telecommunications and Life Science companies from Sweden’s leading incubators. You will learn about the strategic and competitive advantages that US companies have gained from partnering and investing with Swedish companies and venture capitalists. Some 30 companies and VCs from Sweden will attend.
US investors are invited both days, but will find the 13 March program most relevant.
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