Mesh SF - Nordic VC dinner w. Sandwater, Inventure, Scale, Luminar, Frumtak & Alliance
Join us for our Nordic VCs Dinner at Shack15, hosted by Sandwater, Inventure, Scale, Luminar, Frumtak, People Ventures & Alliance.
After the day's content, we've gathered some of the best VCs in the Nordics to host us for the final Mesh SF 2026 dinner.
Tom and Reetta (Sandwater), Linus (Inventure), Lars (Scale), Magnus and Rikard (Luminar), Andri and Svana (Frumtak), Magnus (People Ventures) and Arne (Alliance) will welcome you to share some food, wine, and good conversations.
At dinner we're also going to celebrate some of the best moments of the trip, handing out awards to the next Mesh legends - a true Mesh Collective tradition.
The dinner kicks off a Nordic night at Shack15 where we expect 500 people join the party in the evening. Our group will have some special access and some surprises during the night. Stay tuned!
Welcome!
About the hosts
Sandwater invest in ambitious European founders who build where software and intelligence meets the physical world, typically within energy, resources and industrial tech. Sandwater focus on later stage venture adding conviction, experience, and capital to scale promising tech to commercial success. Offices in Oslo, Stockholm and Munich.
Inventure is a Nordic and Baltic early-stage investor focused on backing exceptional founders at seed stage, with a track record spanning deep tech, AI, B2B SaaS, consumer and healthtech. They have offices across Helsinki, Stockholm and London.
Scale Capital is a Nordic venture fund based in Copenhagen, investing in seed and Series A companies, with a focus on critical technologies and helping European companies scale globally.
Luminar Ventures is a Stockholm-based pre-seed and seed-stage VC backed by former founders and angel investors, supporting founders from product-market fit through growth and international expansion.
Frumtak Ventures is an Icelandic early-stage investor backing founders with global potential through a concentrated, high-conviction and hands-on approach.
People Ventures is a Nordic early-stage investor that works closely with founders at pre-seed and seed, particularly across software and digital health. Its approach is explicitly hands-on, supporting founders with go-to-market, operational clarity and whatever is needed to move faster.
Alliance Venture invests in exceptional early-stage Nordic tech companies founded by entrepreneurs with global ambitions, with a team made up of experienced investors, operators and founders. Wit offices across Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark.
About Mesh Collective
Mesh Collective exists to unlock the potential of the Nordic ecosystem by becoming a bridge between regions and a gateway for international capital. Each year before SF Tech Week, Mesh San Francisco unites the region's leading founders and investors, co-hosted with top-tier US and Nordic VCs for three days of curated, experience-based activities: surfing, sauna and cold plunge, hikes, morning runs, and dinners in the Bay.
Mesh San Francisco 2026 runs October 3-5th, showcasing the best of the Nordics to the best of SF.