Swedish digital privateness startup Dold Adress has raised €1.8 million in what it calls an “unusually massive angel spherical,” because it appears to be like to broaden its suite of instruments designed to assist people and workers take away private info from the online.
The most recent funding comes solely from personal angels somewhat than institutional enterprise capital. Notable backers embrace 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 occasions, 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 Deal with”) appears to be like to turn into a novel participant within the digital privateness area. Their platform allows Swedish customers to delist their private knowledge from generally used info directories equivalent to Mrkoll.se, Ratsit.se, Merinfo.se, and Hitta.se.
It additionally provides darkish internet 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 mum or dad firm Alpha Securities, the Stockholm-based firm is sharpening its concentrate on giving customers management over their digital footprint.
Presently serving over 1,200 places throughout Sweden, the platform claims to have helped take away greater than 1 million hyperlinks containing personal info from serps equivalent to Google. It has additionally uncovered greater than 100k situations of uncovered person knowledge on the darkish internet.
Whereas the corporate has opted to stay exterior the standard VC pipeline for now, Landgren steered that future rounds might nonetheless be open to enterprise corporations underneath the precise situations.
“We thought we would depart the door open for VC traders as latecomers, however because of our angels, we’re already in a robust place. Now we’re totally targeted on shifting ahead,” Landgren mentioned.
For customers searching for 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 knowledge.
