News January 24, 2022: Kognity, Zebrain, Care to Translate, Atium, Neovici, Carla and more

Here are today's news from Sweden's startup and tech sector, plus some interesting reads, exclusively for subscribers of Swedish Tech News.

Mergers & acquisitions

• Kognity (Stockholm, developer of "intelligent" textbooks for the education sector) acquires UK-based global tutoring and online course company Elite IB. Financials were not disclosed (English, Swedish / DI Digital paywall).

Financing rounds

• Zebrain (Stockholm, personalized platform for online-coaching): SEK27M (€2.6M, $3M) from By Wit (English, Swedish).
• Care to Translate (Stockholm, medical translation app for healthcare professionals): SEK25M (€2.4M, $2.7M) in a funding round led by Provider Investment, with participation from new angel investors and existing investors (English, Swedish).
• Atium (Gothenburg, developer of water treatment technologies): undisclosed amount in a pre-seed funding round led by Stena New Ventures, with participation from existing investors (English, Swedish).

News from Swedish startups, the tech sector and VCs

• Neovici, Stockholm-based fintech providing a financial process automation platform, announced having won Mexico’s leading mobile telecom operator Telcel as customer (English, Swedish).
• 🎧 Podcast interview with Patrik Illerstig, CEO and co-founder of Stockholm-based online store for used electric vehicles Carla (Swedish, 38 minutes).
• Swiss digital asset and cryptocurrency exchange Smart Valor is going to be publicly listed on Sweden's Nasdaq First North Growth Market (English, Swedish / DI Digital paywall).
• Swedish VC firm Creandum is hiring a Principal in Berlin (English).

Other interesting things from the startup & VC world

• London-based Sova VC announced Europe’s second-ever "liquidity" fund for founders and early employees that want to cash out early (English).
• An investigation of a decade of tech IPOs, comprising of 166 companies, shows that capital has historically been vastly overrated as a predictor of startup success (English).

Other interesting things from Sweden

• Once more, an app developer is going to be deported after over a decade in Sweden, due to an insurance policy mistake made by a previous employer (English).
• A Swedish man nearing the retirement age happens to be the lucky owner of the domain meta.se, which could be worth millions (Swedish / SvD paywall, Swedish #2, machine translation).

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That's it for today.