Swedish digital privateness startup Dold Adress has raised €1.8 million in what it calls an “unusually giant angel spherical,” because it seems to be to increase its suite of instruments designed to assist people and workers take away private info from the online.
The most recent funding comes totally from personal angels quite than institutional enterprise capital. Notable backers embody John Daniels, former head of safety for the Swedish Armed Forces, serial entrepreneur and billionaire Magnus Emilson, and board member Anders Holm.
Within the phrases of Founder Filip Landgren, “We’re extraordinarily proud to have raised 20 million [Swedish Krona] in such unsure instances, with out having to usher in VC or difficulty choice shares. The curiosity from heavyweight angels demonstrates the energy of our imaginative and prescient and product.”
Based in 2023 by Filip Landgren and Anthon Wansland, Dold Adress (which interprets to “Hidden Handle”) seems to be to develop into a novel participant within the digital privateness house. Their platform permits Swedish customers to delist their private information from generally used info directories similar to Mrkoll.se, Ratsit.se, Merinfo.se, and Hitta.se.
It additionally provides darkish net monitoring and deletion providers for many who are particularly involved about identification theft or harassment.
Dold Adress addresses a rising societal want, the place over 500k Swedish residents are reportedly subjected to harassment yearly and greater than 3 million face tried identification hijacking or fraud.
Working underneath mother or father firm Alpha Securities, the Stockholm-based firm is sharpening its concentrate on giving customers management over their digital footprint.
At the moment serving over 1,200 places throughout Sweden, the platform claims to have helped take away greater than 1 million hyperlinks containing personal info from search engines like google and yahoo similar to Google. It has additionally uncovered greater than 100k situations of uncovered consumer information on the darkish net.
Whereas the corporate has opted to stay outdoors the standard VC pipeline for now, Landgren instructed that future rounds may nonetheless be open to enterprise companies underneath the appropriate circumstances.
“We thought we would go away the door open for VC buyers as latecomers, however due to our angels, we’re already in a robust place. Now we’re absolutely targeted on transferring ahead,” Landgren stated.
For customers in search of a level of digital invisibility – whether or not for security, privateness, or peace of thoughts – the corporate provides an accessible, GDPR-aligned pathway to reclaiming private management over on-line information.
