Inception Fund I

About Inception Fund I

Stockholm-based micro fund backing day-zero startups led by technical founders across New Nordics. Backed by AI entrepreneurs from Silo AI, OpenAI, DeepMind.

Investment Focus

Location / RegionSweden

Funding StagePre Seed

Industry Focus

Ai Ml

Enterprise Software

Investor Signals Profile

active

Sweet Spot

European technical AI founder building global B2B software

inception-stage AI

European deeptech

B2B software

technical founders

super angel

Bullish Signals

Portfolio co-investors: a16z, Sequoia, YCexternal

Angel hits: Lovable, Legora, PhysicsXexternal

Co-founded €1B+ AI companiesexternal

25+ portfolio cos incl. 5 YCexternal

Accel, Sequoia, a16z scout networkexternal

Opportunity fund for seed follow-onswebsite

Co-investors: DST, GV, Conviction, Creandumwebsite

Founder network: ElevenLabs, OpenAI, Deepmindwebsite

Exclusive AI lab credits for portfoliowebsite

9 stealth bets signal active deploymentwebsite

20+ named portfolio cos now confirmedwebsite

YC W26/S25/F25 portfolio representationwebsite

Backed IQM, ICEYE — hardware/deeptech rangewebsite

Hugging Face, Anthropic in founder networkwebsite

20yrs AI + 20yrs VC combined experiencewebsite

Contrarian Signals

GPs still unnamed publiclyexternal

Small tickets €100k–€500k onlyexternal

Network-gated, top 0.1% selectivityexternal

No board seats — limited governance rolewebsite

Network still described as 'pre-training'website

Founder Do's

Be a technical outlier

Build global, business-facing AI/deeptech

Based in Europe or New Nordic

Show zero-to-one ambition

Welcome fast, no-board-seat checks

Founder Don'ts

Don't expect board involvement

Avoid consumer-facing or non-technical plays

Don't pitch without strong technical depth

Key GPs & Partners

Unknown (Silo AI co-founder)

General Partner

AI builderserial founderangel investor

Unknown (Validio co-founder)

General Partner

AI builderdata infrastructureoperator-investor

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Fund Overview

Fund Size€21M

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Key People

Oliver Molander, Caroline Cronstedt, Erik Lindblad

Unknown (Silo AI co-founder)General Partner

Unknown (Validio co-founder)General Partner