EQT Leads, Batch 12026-08-03

Taigatech

Gothenburg computer-vision AI for sawmills: 22.7 MSEK revenue growing 112% in filings, near-zero press, founded 2020. Registry-visible, web-quiet.
Preemptive Series A ← All leads
Founded
2020Gothenburg (559297-7374)
Revenue FY2025
22.7 MSEK+112% YoY in filings
Employees
9+50% in latest filing
Disclosed VC
None foundno announced institutional round
Yield claims
+0.7-1.7%saw yield; 4-10% raw-material util.
Why this fits the sweetspotThe same profile as Velora, in industrial AI: revenue more than doubling in filed accounts, efficiency of 2.5 MSEK per employee, and essentially no funding press. Deep domain moat (AI log-recognition and traceability for sawmills, one of Sweden's largest traditional industries) in exactly the technical-complexity-is-not-the-moat, domain-expertise-is shape.
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What the company does

Taigatech builds AI-based traceability and optimization for sawmills: computer-vision log recognition (biometric fingerprinting of logs), log-rotation optimization and yield analytics. Reported customer results: 0.7-1.7% saw-yield increase from a single log-rotation unit; the founding claim is 4-10% raw-material utilization improvement. Sawmilling margins live and die on yield, making the ROI case mechanical.

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Founders & traction

Founded 2020 by Christoffer Johnsson (CEO), John Randelin and Arvid Viktorsson, a Gothenburg team pairing AI competence with sawmill domain knowledge. Filed accounts show revenue 10.7 to 22.7 MSEK (+112%) with average headcount 9, and profitability, growth funded by customers, not capital.

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Round status, the preemptive window

No institutional round appears in the public record (checked 2026-08-03). A company at this revenue and growth, bootstrapped, is either about to raise its first real round or a perfect buy-and-build anchor, both conversations worth having before anyone else does.

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What the public record does not disclose

Customer concentration (few large sawmill groups could dominate revenue), hardware-vs-software revenue mix, and international expansion state are not public. The FY2025 figure is registry-verified; its composition is not.