Global venture capital firm Antler has invested in eight new portfolio companies as part of its Stockholm cohort. The startups focus on industries including recycling electrical devices, impact investing, and sustainable packaging, improving mental wellbeing, monitoring data centres and making communication more efficient with AI. This is Antler’s fifth cohort out of Sweden, and it has now supported 700 entrepreneurs and invested in 75 early-stage startups in the Nordics.

Each of these companies will be given a platform at Antler’s Restart Summit, a conference that marks the end of the year-long eponymous pandemic initiative to support the creation of new businesses in Sweden. The lightning pitches will be framed by inspiring discussions, featuring speakers such as Oscar Höglund, CEO of Epidemic Sound, and each of the startups will discuss current trends, and why they decided to build in that space.

Livia Moore, Associate Partner, Marketing at Antler says, "As we enter the new normal, we have a collective responsibility to act. We need to rebuild industries to ensure that they are more sustainable, more efficient, and positivelyA contribute to society at large. At Antler, we believe that founders will drive this change forward. That is why we're keen to provide a platform to both the current and next generation of leading entrepreneurs at Restart Summit."

To kick off the event, journalist Mia Odabas will be talking about taking the Swedish tech ecosystem to the next level with Anna Nordell Westling, Co-founder/CMO Sana Labs, Nicklas Bergman, Angel investor and EIC Fund advisor, Sara Resvik, CEO Backing Minds, Marie Wall, Deputy Director Startups at Ministry of Enterprise and Johan Attby, Founder/CEO Fishbrain.

Please find some more information about Antler's new portfolio companies below, each of which will be speaking at Restart Summit.

Worthmore helps people and companies to make an impact with their used electronics. They make it easy for users to calculate the impact they could make by donating their phones to a cause they care about and provide a simple logistical solution to do so.

Circulate is a B2B marketplace for sustainable packaging and a purchasing tool for European SMEs. Their mission is to speed up the world's transition to more sustainable consumption and a circular economy by connecting packaging producers and resellers with relevant buyers across markets.

PhantomIQ is a DeepTech, SaaS-platform that reduces complexities, saves costs and simplifies Private Cloud management. Their solution provides comprehensive monitoring, a state-of-the-art insight engine, and hybrid resource management that gives valuable insights and increases the utilization of their customers’ cloud infrastructure.

Finuprise is an impact investing platform that allows millennial investors to invest in publicly traded companies aligned with their values.

​Off The Court connects the current generation of high-level athletes with aspiring youth. A marketplace that makes it easy to find a perfect mentor and coach who has overcome similar challenges. Align goals, create a plan, and succeed together!

Reeler is a platform to streamline user-generated content campaigns. Collect, organize and publish user-generated content in any marketing channel – hassle-free.

NudgeLabs provides employees with empowering advice based on true data, to improve the health and performance of individuals and organizations, making wellbeing the natural state in this high-performance and high-stress world.

Hypertype makes business email communications more efficient by combining AI, sales expertise, and human touch. Their approach to data, State-of-the-art AI/ML pipeline and user experience focus make the offer unique.