The hottest startups in Stockholm

As sustainable battery maker Northvolt joins the list of major Stockholm success stories with a $3.9 billion valuation, and Candela's all-electric C-7 speedboat takes on the US, the next cohort of Stockholm startups is navigating how to make an impact. “We benefit a lot from world-class, free education, with stellar engineering universities that are producing great talent,” says Joel Hellermark, CEO of AI education startup Sana Labs, “as well as the ratio of talent to companies, which makes it easier to recruit, and an increasing number of executives who have gone through this journey at the likes of Klarna and Spotify. This combination makes Stockholm one of the best places to build a tech company today.” Volta Greentech Inside a 500-square-metre factory in Lysekil, on Sweden's Stångenäs peninsula, the red seaweed Asparagopsis taxiformis is growing. "We've seen strong organic interest in conception here, as well as prevention," says co-founder Thérèse Mannheimer, former head of R&D at health app Lifesum. "We reduced onboarding time by 37 per cent, and 98 per cent of the learners improved," says CEO Joel Hellermark.