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OBOS

Stationsvägen 6, Myresjö, Jönköping, 57471, Sweden

Overview

OBOS Group is a real estate firm that provides property development services for residential properties.

Total investments
9
Lead investments
1
Investments · 12mo
1
Active investors
0

Sector focus

  • Property Development
  • Real Estate
  • Residential
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Investment portfolio

  • Visoid

    Participated · Seed · Aug 2026

    VISOID develops AI design visualization technology that allows architects and designers to create architectural renders more quickly and accessibly. In just over two years the platform has been used by architects in 120 countries to produce more than 5 million renders. Its user base ranges from independent practices to major firms such as OMA and Sweco. The company says it is scaling its team and accelerating product development to support international adoption. VISOID recently raised $2.5 million in seed funding to fund that expansion and product acceleration. Continued support from organizations including Startuplab, OBOS and Antler was also noted in reporting.

  • Telescope

    Participated · Seed · Mar 2025

    Telescope’s core product is a SaaS platform that lets real estate companies onboard assets by address and aggregates geographical and national data to assess physical climate risks (flooding, storms, fire) and biodiversity exposure. The platform also includes energy monitoring and a transition plan module to translate data into actionable, financially driven decisions and green financing insights. Telescope aims to move sustainability from compliance paperwork to strategic asset management, helping clients protect asset values, meet regulatory requirements, and lower insurance and maintenance cost risks. The company has proven traction in Norway, serving several of the country’s largest real estate firms and signing multiple leading customers in 2024 with a team of eight and minimal marketing spend. Telescope is expanding across Europe, launching in Denmark, Sweden, and the Netherlands and broadening its product to serve financiers and investors.

  • Plaace

    Participated · Equity · Jan 2024

    Plaace provides user-friendly, data-driven decision support tools aimed at less digitized commercial real estate and retail operators. The company focuses on using data to improve processes and structures across commercial properties. In 2023 Plaace tripled its revenue and secured contracts with 50 paying customers, including KLP Eiendom, Elkjøp, Norli and Europris. The commercial team has expanded to six people across sales, marketing and Customer Success. Founded in 2020, Plaace is positioning its product for broader commercial scaling across the Nordics. The company expects significantly increased activity in 2024 and is engaging with selected Nordic players to capture rising demand.

  • Otovo

    Participated · Equity · Nov 2023

    Otovo USA is a Houston, TX–based home power services provider led by CEO John Berger. The company closes the reliability gap by combining real-time equipment monitoring, rapid repairs, dependable power supply, and grid rewards into one seamless service. Its power partner model unites retail electricity, energy service (O&M), and grid trading through a cloud-connected Virtual Power Plant. Offerings encompass solar systems, batteries, standby generators, EV chargers, load managers, and other power generation and management systems. The service is currently available in the Texas market and the company plans to expand across America. Otovo USA raised $4M+ to expand operations and development efforts. Founded in Oslo in 2016, Otovo is a marketplace for residential solar and battery installations active in 13 markets. It uses proprietary technology to analyse a home and an automatic bidding process to find the best price and installer. The company has sold and completed over 20,000 solar energy projects across Europe. Otovo has raised €40M in a private shares placement aimed at providing a path to profitability by growing sales volume, optimising operational costs, and monetising subscription assets. Shares in the placement were allocated to existing shareholders including Axel Johnson Group via AxSol, the Norwegian state climate fund Nysnø, housing developer Obos, and Å Energi. In conjunction with the equity raise the company will carry out a repair issue of up to 17.4 million shares at the same price and restructure its options programme for key employees. Otovo operates a marketplace that sells and installs residential solar panels and batteries, matching homeowners to installers via proprietary technology and an automatic bidding process. The company has sold and completed over 11,000 solar energy projects and is active in 13 markets. Otovo plans to build a large portfolio of solar subscription assets and to own and operate distributed power plants composed of rooftop solar and battery installations. The firm recently raised a mix of debt and equity to finance construction of subscription assets and expand its asset portfolio. Management expects the combined assets to amount to roughly 80–105 MW and for the market cap to be approximately €300 million when the financing is fully utilized. Otovo previously announced an intention to uplist from Euronext Growth to the Oslo Stock Exchange, though that uplisting was postponed due to the recent equity issue. Otovo operates a marketplace for residential and commercial solar and battery installations, using proprietary technology to analyse homes and an automatic bidding process to match customers with installers. The company is currently active in seven European markets and plans to add six more within 12–18 months. It is based in Oslo and has a market capitalization of approximately €200 million. Since 2016 Otovo says it has sold and completed more than 6,000 solar systems across Europe. In Q4 2021 the company reported a 223% year‑over‑year rise in sales and a 173% year‑over‑year increase in revenue. With the new capital the company also plans to uplist from Euronext Growth to the Oslo Stock Exchange within 12 months. Otovo operates a digital platform that sells solar panels, simplifies installations, and compares the costs of dozens of local installers quickly. Founded in 2016, the company buys back any excess energy produced and notes its panels generate clean energy for 25 years. Otovo has grown in Nordic markets and was the winner of the Oslo Innovation Award 2018. The startup plans to use lessons learned in Norway and Sweden to expand further into Europe, targeting sunnier southern markets with higher electricity prices. To support that European expansion, Otovo recently raised €10.5 million from KLP Liv / KLP AksjeNorge and Nysnø. Investors framed the investment as part of a long-term strategy to accelerate the green transition.

  • Spacemaker

    Participated · Series A · Jun 2019

    Spacemaker offers AI software that helps property developers, architects and urban planners generate and evaluate optimal environmental designs for multi-building residential developments. The platform ingests physical data, regulations, environmental factors and user preferences to test hundreds of layout iterations and optimise for parameters such as sun exposure, noise, wind and apartment size. By enabling early-stage iteration, Spacemaker says customers can increase sellable area and improve living quality for future residents. The company works with large property and construction names including Skanska, OBOS, AF Gruppen and NREP. Its team exceeds 100 people and includes data scientists, mathematicians, software developers, architects and urban planners.

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