Aligned VC – Helping unconventional founders bring their ideas to life
We are passionate about making a lasting impact and helping founders realize their vision. We bring meaningful investment experience, a diverse network and a committed partnership to support on the journey.
Early stage
& Growth
Industry
agnostic
Companies
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A2X Real Estate
A2X is a London based real estate investment and development manager
- Industry Property development
- Year 2020
- City London
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All Aboard
Europe’s leading travel agent solution for international train travel. Enabling travel agents to include train services to their offering in a simple way.
- Industry Travel
- Year 2020
- City Stockholm
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Astrid Education
Subscription-based AI assistant for customer-facing teams to improve how they communicate with partners and clients.
- Industry Education
- Year 2021
- City Stockholm
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Beauty Disrupted
A beauty brand free of plastics & harsh ingredients in Soap bar format. Designed in Stockholm and consciously crafted in the South of France.
- Industry Beauty
- Year 2021
- City Stockholm, Grasse
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Beckley Psytech
Dedicated to helping patients suffering from neurological and psychiatric disorders by developing a pipeline of psychedelic compounds into licensed pharmaceutical medicines.
- Industry Healthcare
- Year 2020
- City London
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Big Atom
A clean recycling company creating a circular economy for polymer materials, creating new life for hard-to-recycle plastics.
- Industry Recycling
- Year 2019
- City London
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Brineworks
Critical raw materials and enabling affordable CO2 removal, utilizing desalination brine.
- Industry Materials
- Year 2023
- City Amsterdam
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Buddywise
Buddywise prevents injuries and loss of life by using real-time risk detection, through computer vision, to help companies proactively build a safer workplace.
- Industry Safety tech
- Year 2020
- City Berlin
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Chess.com
The leading online destination for playing, learning and watching chess.
- Industry Online gaming
- Year 2021
- Country USA
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Contingent
Improving procurement for companies by reducing friction and increasing resilience, all while empowering procurement teams to make the right choices as part of the wider business.
- Industry Supply chain Saas
- Year 2021
- City London
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Dance
Making the subscription e-bike the primary way people move in cities. Founded with the purpose of having a positive impact across health, sustainability and livable cities.
- Industry Mobility
- Year 2022
- City Berlin
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Doktor.Se
One of Europe’s leading providers of Digi-Physical healthcare.
- Industry Healthcare
- Year 2022
- City Stockholm
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Flowery
Bringing cut flowers to the door of your home and office in a sustainable way, as a subscription service.
- Industry Subscription services
- Year 2019
- City Stockholm
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Flowlife
Sport recovery products that enable you to be the best active version of yourself. Making an active life possible for everyone.
- Industry Sports Equipment
- Year 2022
- City Stockholm
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Freshsound
Automating the process of music sync for content creation.
- Industry Music tech
- Year 2020
- City Stockholm
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Klarna
Payment solution provider.
- Industry Payment solutions
- Year 2018
- City Stockholm
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Lifestyle Labs
A house of healthy low-carb nutritive food brands.
- Industry Food/nutrition
- Year 2021
- City Barcelona
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Meadow
Aiming to convert single-use packaging to circular packaging based on the aluminum can and the deposit return system.
- Industry Packaging
- Year 2020
- City Stockholm
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Insights
Giving people access to expert insights and key learnings from tldr, talks and podcasts by world renowned health & wellness thought leaders, in just a few swipes.
- Industry Health & Wellness
- Year 2019
- City Stockholm
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Mojo Fertility
Creating the future of fertility care using AI and robotics. Accessible, affordable and reliable preemptive care.
- Industry Health tech
- Year 2021
- City Lyon
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Namastay
A fast, secure and intuitive digital last mile experience for hotels and guests.
- Industry Booking SaaS
- Year 2023
- City Paris
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Pet Media Group
The leading operator of online marketplaces for pets and horses.
- Industry Marketplace
- Year 2019
- City Stockholm
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Plantredo
Bringing high-quality plants smoothly to your doorstep with home delivery, creating green environments for us to feel good.
- Industry House plant delivery
- Year 2021
- City Stockholm
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Producers Trust
Building a leading network of agricultural producers to connect value chains more directly and efficiently with greater transparency and visibility to consumers.
- Industry Agriculture
- Year 2022
- City San Francisco
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SeenThis
Shaping the future of screen experiences through streaming. A unique technology platform that disrupts the efficiency for the display of digital content.
- Industry Ad-tech
- Year 2018
- City Stockholm
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Swiss Organic Partners
Striving to improve life by making high quality, Swiss made cannabinoid products accessible to everyone, both in the wellbeing and the medical cannabis market.
- Industry Cannabis
- Year 2021
- City Zurich
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TalentUp Africa
Helping global organizations recruit top african tech talent in a fast and compliant way.
- Industry Recruitment
- Year 2020
- City Lagos
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Three Spirit
Designing a functional and healthier non-alc booze alternative, revolutionizing a third Way to socialize by bringing plants and pleasure to the people.
- Industry Non-Alc beverages
- Year 2018
- City London
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Timely
The automatic time tracking tool for improving company productivity and profitability as well as helping deep work planning.
- Industry Productivity SaaS
- Year 2021
- City Oslo
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Unaric
Acquiring and growing Salesforce ISVs (Independent Software Vendors)
- Industry Productivity SaaS
- Year 2023
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Wild Immersion
Providing educational, ethical and ecological 360° VR entertainment of wild animals and their natural habitats.
- Industry Education
- Year 2020
- City Paris
We build supportive partnerships with founders
Meaningful creation and long term partnerships is what gets us up in the morning.
We work to ensure our partnerships are a true meeting of minds - not just your business plan. We combine an extensive network of entrepreneurs and investors with years of strategic experience to help drive your business forward.
Our office is in Stockholm but we spend our time wherever inspiring people and ideas may be.
Founders that see the world differently
The founders we back want to make a lasting impact, either on a global level or a community level. We seek passionate, thoughtful teams who are finding unconventional solutions to common problems.
We are sector agnostic and invest in businesses in a wide range of industries – from Ad-tech to consumer goods, ecommerce to property development.
Who we are
Aligned is an investment vehicle sprung out of our shared joy for entrepreneurship. We also believe it is possible, as an investor, to promote positive change not only for companies but for communities of all sizes.
Aligned was founded in 2019 by two childhood friends, Eric Carlson Rydman and Christian af Jochnick.
Eric Carlson Rydman
MD and Founding PartnerEric handles the day-to-day operations of aligned, supporting the portfolio and scouting for new investments.
Before Aligned, Eric held senior commercial and strategic positions at Spotify. Prior to that, he was a Corporate Finance Advisor specialising in M&A at Stockholm-based Access Partners.
Christian af Jochnick
Founding PartnerAfter starting his career at Goldman Sachs in London followed by his own stint as a start-up co-founder, Christian entered the venture space and has been supporting entrepreneurs since 2013.
He currently supports a range of social and environmental initiatives as a board member of the Af Jochnick Foundation. His main personal passion is the role plant medicines and regenerative agriculture can play in helping us transform our societies.
Are you an unconventional entrepreneur?
Contact: eric@alignedvc.se