Linköping-based Synclair Vision, which makes AI camera systems that analyse imagery on board drones, raised SEK5m (about €445,000) in September from Almi Invest and East Sweden Capital, which put in SEK2.5m each.
Both investors are publicly backed. Almi Invest is a state-owned venture capital investor that must invest alongside independent co-investors, and usually puts SEK1m–SEK4m into a first round. East Sweden Capital is an angel investment company launched in March 2025. It is run by LiU Holding, Linköping University’s holding company, and financed by Region Östergötland.
The round was the company’s first external investment, which it describes as pre-seed. The money will go on industrialisation, production and further development of its autonomy technology, and on expanding in Sweden and Ukraine, according to a statement from LEAD, the Linköping incubator where the company was developed.
Chief executive and co-founder Carl Wikström said the next challenge was delivering quickly and in volume, mainly to Ukraine.
Swedish investors have also put money into Ukrainian defence companies directly. In June, Front Ventures and Hede Capital backed Ukrainian ground robot maker Trinity Robotics.
Synclair Vision says its software extracts several stabilised views from a single wide-angle camera and uses AI to detect and track targets. In a LinkedIn post, the company said it had demonstrated three things together in one autonomous drone mission: navigation without satellite positioning, target acquisition, and terminal guidance (steering a drone onto its target in the final phase).
Linköping University students set up the company in 2022. It has previously received a SEK1.3m (about €116,000) grant from Vinnova, Sweden’s innovation agency, under a programme for civil-military innovation.
No valuation was disclosed.
