On the shoulders of giants.
We draw inspiration from software, security and digital infrastructure with Swedish roots. Our thanks go to the people behind these companies and projects, and to the researchers whose work helps others build.
Software and security
Tools that help developers build systems that keep running, see inside them, work with connected data and protect access.
- Erlang
A language for fault-tolerant, distributed systems, first developed at Ericsson’s Computer Science Laboratory.
- Grafana Labs
Open-source dashboards and monitoring, growing from Torkel Ödegaard’s Grafana project.
- Neo4j
Graph databases that make relationships in data easier to explore.
- Yubico
YubiKey security keys and contributions to open authentication standards.
Digital life and creativity
Swedish technology reaching people through music and worlds they can build together.
- Mojang Studios
Minecraft and the freedom to build worlds together.
- Spotify
Music listening and discovery through streaming.
AI from Sweden
New Swedish companies putting AI to work, from apps built by description to inference that stays in Sweden.
- Lovable
Building working apps and websites by describing them in plain language, from Stockholm.
- Legora
AI for legal work that supports lawyers in research, review and drafting, founded in Stockholm in 2023.
- Berget AI
AI inference on Swedish infrastructure for private and public organisations, founded in Sweden in 2024.
- Opper AI
An AI gateway for agents that reaches many models through one EU-hosted API, built in Stockholm.
Networks and human interaction
The infrastructure that carries our messages, and new ways for people to interact with computers.
Science for the benefit of humanity
Alfred Nobel left a legacy that rewards work benefiting humanity. We admire that ambition as we build tools for AI.
Sweden’s Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences celebrates discoveries from around the world. In 2024, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry recognised Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for protein structure prediction, alongside David Baker for computational protein design.
That year’s Nobel Prize in Physics honoured John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for discoveries enabling machine learning with neural networks. Our thanks go to these researchers and the teams behind their work.
An independent internet culture
We also thank the independent builders in Sweden’s internet history: Daniel Stenberg and the curl community, and the people behind The Pirate Bay: Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Fredrik Neij and Peter Sunde. Their work has shaped tools we use and debates about sharing, copyright and control online.
Spotify’s early desktop app grew from the same file-sharing era. Ludvig Strigeus, creator of µTorrent, helped build it. Its delivery system combined servers with peer-to-peer sharing of cached Spotify tracks between listeners’ computers.
Our gratitude reaches beyond famous names to the open-source maintainers, teachers and contributors whose work lets others build. Orchestrator Zero grows from that shared effort.
And many, many more.
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