STING Capital guarantees a qualitative flow of potential investment projects

Venture capital funds are dependent on a steady flow of attractive, high quality investment opportunities. STING Capital has succeeded in creating a reliable flow of potential investment projects thanks to coherent strategies and specific targets.

• Based in Kista Science City &en-dash ; just outside the Swedish capital Stockholm, with some 30,000 employees in over 1,000 businesses, more than 1,000 researchers at different institutes and some 5,000 university students &en-dash ; STING Capital provides an especially fertile ground for ideas, research and business to flourish.

• The vast majority of STING Capital’s investment projects originate from STING &en-dash ; one of Sweden’s most successful backers of technology-intensive start-up companies. STING is also based in Kista Science City and enjoys close ties with the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm. STING has also developed close cooperation with Karolinska Innovation, part of Karolinska Institutet, one of Europe’s largest medical universities.

• STING Capital has established close relationships with the most successful venture capital companies specializing in hi-tech start-ups. These links bolster the flow of potential funding for start-up businesses at later stages of their development by giving STING Capital the opportunity to create interest among investors about companies right from their inception.

• STING and STING Capital also work closely with other expert partners keen to develop technologically intensive firms. The Swedish Space Corporation, the Swedish Defence Research Agency and the Swedish Institute of Computer Science are among these organizations, all of which generate advanced concepts based on unique research and technologies with international potential.