News February 28, 2024: INBooks, Compular, Qlucore, Bionamic, Sellto, Cloud Family, Combify, Arboair, PryvX, Emission Twin, Humy, Bolagspartner, Adstuff, byWiT, and more

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Mergers & acquisitions

• Following the bankruptcy in January, the estate of Växjö-based property management SaaS solution INBooks has been acquired by Norway-headquartered software company 24SevenOffice Group for SEK200K (€18K, $19K). Breakit writes that INBooks as recently as last year raised SEK46M from its biggest shareholder Stora Frö Invest (Swedish / Breakit paywall).
• Swedish private equity firm Nordic Capital acquires a majority stake in ActiveViam, an US-based provider of advanced analytics for financial institutions founded in 2005. The price was not disclosed (English).

Funding news

⬜️ publicly traded

• Compular (Gothenburg, next generation computational tool for material development, founded 2020): €5.3M ($5.7M) in a mix of equity and grant funding from the EIC Accelerator (English). The startup has previously raised around SEK5M in pre-seed funding from Icebreaker.vc and Chalmers Ventures.
• Qlucore ⬜️ (Lund, provider of visualization-based software for research-oriented data analysis and precision diagnostics, founded 2007): €2.5M ($2.7M) grant from EIC Accelerator (English).
• Bionamic (Lund, SaaS solution for antibody R&D data, founded 2019): SEK4M (€360K, $390K) from new investor I Love Lund and existing investors LU Holding, Fårö Capital AB, and others. Bionamic's revenue in 2023 was SEK1.5M, and the company expects to reach break-even in 2025 (English, Swedish). Previously, the startup raised around SEK20M in equity funding, according to data registered with Bolagsverket (via Eivora).
• MËTTA (Stockholm, maker of a healthy and tasty meal replacement, founded 2020): SEK3M (€270K, $290K) from existing angel investors Tom Johansson (founder of Hooked Foods) and Swedish speed skater Nils van der Poel (Swedish, machine translation).
• Volvo Group Venture Capital has invested an undisclosed amount in Zacua Ventures, a global venture capital fund focused on early-stage technology for the construction industry (English).

Unannounced funding