News October 14, 2022: Tradera, Flowlife, Pirr, Exeger, Node Ventures and more

Here is today's curation of news from Sweden's startup and tech sector, exclusively for subscribers of Swedish Tech News.

Funding news

• Tradera (Stockholm, online second hand marketplace): SEK50M (€4.5M, $4.4M) in equity funding from Ceder Capital at a post-money valuation of SEK915M. Additionally, the investment company bought existing shares and now owns around one third of Tradera (Swedish / DI Digital paywall, Swedish #2, machine translation).
• Flowlife (Stockholm, maker of recovery tech massage products): SEK17M (€1.5M, $1.5M) from undisclosed investors (Swedish / Breakit paywall, Swedish #2, machine translation).
• Pirr (Stockholm, upcoming personalized erotica app): undisclosed amount in a pre-seed round from undisclosed angel investors, as well as a SEK900K grant (€80K, $80K) from Vinnova (English).

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News from Swedish startups, the tech sector and VCs

• "This is a long term game", says Giovanni Fili, founder and CEO of Stockholm-based Exeger, in this lenghty interview. So far to date, the manufacturer of flexible solar cells made to power gadgets, has raised €180M ($175M) since its creation in 2009 (English).
• Climatiq, the Berlin-based carbon intelligence platform co-founded and led by Swedish entrepreneur Hessam Lavi, just raised a €6M ($5.8M) seed round led by Singular VC (English).
• E-scooter companies in Stockholm were fined a total of SEK1.3M (€120K, $115K) during September for vehicles that broke the newly introduced parking rules (Swedish, machine translation).
• Node Ventures (node.vc) is the name of a new Stockholm-based early-stage VC firm co-founded and led by John Elvesjö, the co-founder of technology company Tobii and most recently of Brightly Ventures. No details on the fund size yet (Swedish / Breakit paywall).

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Other interesting things from the startup/VC world & beyond

• As Sweden has as bunch of electric motorcycle startups, this is potentially great news for them (and will probably emerge as a trend in other comparable countries as well): Indonesia plans to put 2 million electric motorcycles on the road in the next 3 years (English).
• UK-based private equity platform Lightrock has closed its inaugural Lightrock Climate Impact Fund (LCIF) with €860M ($840M) in funding, to drive net-zero innovations in Europe and North America (English).
• How to find startup ideas (English).
• As a software engineer, joining late-stage companies is no longer an almost guaranteed way to make big money (English).
• A text by someone who claims to have earned $200K last year ghostwriting tweets for US-based venture capitalists (English / Insider paywall, alternative URL).

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That's it for today.

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