I'd like to announce our partnership with Rethink Ventures to help us accelerate Fleevo's mission! No more spreadsheets, PowerBI or in-house systems for integrations and analytics in commercial fleet operations. Commercial fleets 🚛 are the backbone of global logistics and are rapidly growing as fleetification reshapes industries. Yet many operators struggle to harness the full potential of fleet data. Fragmented systems—spreadsheets, PDFs, and siloed software—make it hard to extract insights. Limited resources and legacy systems that lack robust integration and AI-driven analytics, lead to inefficiencies and missed opportunities for fleets. Fleevo is set to change that, building a centralised system that streamlines fleet application integrations and delivers the critical insights fleets need 💡. With the recent funding from Rethink Ventures - specialist VC in mobility & logistics and Antler - one of the most active early-stage investors, We can move faster toward providing scalable solutions to fleet operators who need intelligent tools to make data-driven decisions. Thank you Jens-Philipp Klein, Matthias Schanze and the entire Rethink team for your partnership! Aidarbek Suleimenov, Yongjie Chen and I are very excited to go on this journey together. | 11 comments on LinkedIn

Stockholm-based Sortrace, which develops AI-powered waste analysis technology, has raised about $800,000 in a round led by Almi Invest. Antler Gorilla Capital and several angel investors also took part. The startup uses cameras on waste collection vehicles to analyse household waste as bins are emptied. Its computer vision software turns images into data that flags incorrect sorting and tracks collection patterns, linked to individual bins and routes. "Municipalities face new requirements and are investing heavily in collection and in information to households. But without data, no one knows whether those efforts work," said Rahel Surshi, chief executive officer and co-founder. Images are stored within the EU. Sortrace already works with several municipalities. The funding will help it meet rising demand and extend its technology to other stages of waste management.

Nordic HR tech startup Fronted has raised €1.7 million (NOK 18 million) in seed funding to expand abroad and develop its AI-powered platform for managing global employment. Swedish investment firm Kaknäs Invest led the round, with Skagerak Capital participating. Existing investors Antler and Sondo Capital, plus a group of new angel investors, also joined. Fronted combines cross-border recruitment, Employer of Record (EOR) services, and company entity setup in one platform. Its software automates payroll calculations, tax reconciliations, and employment contracts, building in local labour rules to simplify compliance. The money will fund commercial expansion, extend operations to 70 countries, and further develop its AI payroll engine. "We are building the invisible software layer that takes away the headache of cross-border administration," said chief executive officer Marius Blaker Høgevold.