Strenghten the company’s financial situation
Companies accepted to the UIC Accelerator business development program are offered SEK 600,000 in initial investment from Linnéa Capital. The goal is to strenghten the companies’ financial situation and increase growth. That, while giving investors access to a broad portfolip of competitive companies
55 %
of the portfolio companies had a
female co founder
100 %
of the portfolio companies contribute to at least one of the global sustainability goals
1,2 Bsek
invested in UIC-companies
during 2022
Linnéa Capital – investing in your company
Linnéa Capital’s strength is the combination of competent angel investors, capital and UIC’s documented successful business development support. The access to capital strengthens the companies’ finances and give even better conditions to succeed.
Linnéa Capital is aimed at investors who want to work together to develop competitive companies. The goal is to strengthen the financial system around one of Sweden’s best incubators. But also, give angel investors access to prosperous and interesting companies.
Behind the financing is the governmental venture capital company Saminvest together with private business angels. UIC manages Linnéa Capital but continues to act neutrally and does not take ownership stakes in the companies. Linnéa Capital complements UIC’s model with access to financing.
Saminvest and selected angel investors make a bet on the companies that meet the criteria to be admitted to the UIC Accelerator. The companies are offered an initial investment. Then, selected business angels are given the opportunity to make subsequent investments together with Saminvest.
UIC Accelerator business development program
The business development program UIC Accelerator is aimed at innovative growth companies that are ready to scale up operations or grow in an international market. In the UIC Accelerator, your company is matched with a business coach from the UIC network.
During UIC Accelerator, you as a business owner and entrepreneur receive individual business coaching from UIC and a hand-picked business coach in the business world from UIC’s broad network. In addition, we have around twenty UIC partners who offer their services and expertise to the company’s development through, among other things, individual advice. We at UIC do not take ownership shares.
Together we set goals and milestones identified to strengthen the company’s growth. We at UIC open up our networks and share expertise within UIC, our business coaches and our UIC partners so that your business can grow as quickly, safely and sustainably as possible. The UIC Accelerator runs for two years.
Admission to the UIC Accelerator takes place four times a year.
The deadline for the application in 2023 is 1 February, 1 May, 1 September and 15 November.
Saminvest is a governmental venture capital company
..which contributes to stimulating the supply of private capital in those parts of the capital supply chain where private capital is lacking.
Saminvest works actively for the establishment of investment companies with suficent quality and long-term vision to be able to develop the Swedish venture capital market. This is so that more innovative and fast-growing companies will have access to both capital and ownership expertice, and to contribute to the development and renewal of Swedish business life.
We received better support than expected and a lot of opportunities thanks to UIC. I have met experts who have opened many doors for us and given us support and security all the way from idea to finished product.
Liza Löf, grundare och vd på Readily