Aligned VC – Helping unconventional founders bring their ideas to life
We bring meaningful investment experience, a diverse support network and a committed partnership to enable founders of all kinds to realize their vision.
Pre-seed
& Seed
Industry
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Companies
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All Aboard
Solving the user experience of international train travel. Easily explore, plan & travel sustainably by train.
- Industry Travel
- Year 2020
- City Stockholm
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Astrid Education
Combining storytelling with an engaging AI-powered learning journey to help kids and teens around the world become fluent, confident English speakers.
- Industry Education
- Year 2021
- City Stockholm
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Beauty Disrupted
A beauty brand free of plastics & harsh ingredients in Soap bar format. Each bar replaces at least 2 plastic bottles. 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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Buddywise
Enabling traditional industries to automate safety surveillance through computer vision and monitoring of critical scenarios through video images.
- 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
A Saas tool for a quick, complete, up‑to‑date analysis of suppliers
- Industry Supply chain Saas
- Year 2021
- City London
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Cloop
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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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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Freshsound
Automating the process of music sync for content creation.
- Industry Music tech
- Year 2020
- City Stockholm
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Ketonico
A company committed to healing humanity through better food choices.
- Industry Food/nutrition
- Year 2021
- City Barcelona
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Klarna
Payment solution provider.
- Industry Payment solutions
- Year 2018
- City Stockholm
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LALA Plants
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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Memory
Specializes in crafting software that makes companies more productive, including an AI-based time-tracking and planning tool as well as helping to solve for deep work planning.
- Industry Productivity SaaS
- Year 2021
- City Oslo
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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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Odetta
Helping individuals buy and sell used cars safely and at a fair price as well as managing every step of the process.
- Industry Marketplace
- Year 2021
- City Mexico City
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Producers Market
Pioneering transparent food value chains. Producers Market facilitates direct market linkage to empower farmers and incentivize regenerative farming.
- Industry Regenerative farming
- Year 2022
- City San Francisco
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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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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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Storstad Properties
Property development with a focus on delivering well-located, good-quality rental apartments in London.
- Industry Property development
- Year 2020
- City London
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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
Connecting people and organisations with an efficient and objective recruitment platform, in Nigeria and across the African continent.
- Industry Recruitment
- Year 2020
- City Lagos
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Three Spirit
Designing a functional & healthier booze alternative. Plant scientists and bartenders working for happier and healthier ways to socialise.
- Industry Non-Alc beverages
- Year 2018
- City London
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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
We take a personal and value-driven approach to investment and 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
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.
Before we were called Aligned, you might have heard of us as 183 Invest. Same company, same team.
Eric Carlson Rydman
Managing DirectorEric 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 agricultural can play in helping us transform our societies.
Are you an unconventional entrepreneur?
Contact: eric@alignedvc.se