Equity · Wednesday, August 26, 2026
A persistent issue for the Stockholm and wider European tech ecosystem is the challenge of securing growth capital for later-stage companies. While initiatives are underway, most companies still look to US funds for later-stage funding rounds, presenting a bottleneck that the ecosystem is working to fix.
“Is the issue of growth capital a European wide problem or is that like Stockholm also have that issue that the, you know, have like the same sort of growth trajectory and maybe the same sort of bottlenecks that, you know, the Silicon Valley]s been trying to fix?”
“Yeah, I mean, I think it's something we've been talking about for a long time. And we have done initiatives and, you know, it is better than before. But I do think that most companies in the later stages, they look to the US funds. And I would love for that to change. So I think it's a bit of a bottleneck that the ecosystem is looking to fix.”