Coompanion

Name

Coompanion

Website

https://coompanion.se

Company type

Private

Founded year

1985

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Cooperative Business Development Services

NAICS

Educational Support Services (61171), Convention and Trade Show Organizers (561920)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600), Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

Youth Business Incubators & Accelerators (EDAMAHAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Collaboration & Teamwork (EDABAMAC), Leadership & People Skills (Influence, Managing Up, Supervisory Readiness) (EDAAAKAI)

Keywords

• Cooperative business advisory
• Social enterprise incubation
• Cooperative development services
• Business formation support
• Cooperative consulting

Headquarters

HQ city

Stockholm

HQ country

Sweden

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Core offering

Coompanion helps individuals and groups who want to start a business together, supporting them across the full lifecycle from initial idea generation through to a complete, operating business. Its work is oriented specifically toward cooperative and collective forms of enterprise, delivered as advisory and incubation services from its Stockholm base.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Cooperative Business Formation Support

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves2 records

Broad incumbents

• International Cooperative Alliance (ICA): Global apex body representing cooperatives worldwide. Comparable as a membership-driven cooperative advocacy and support organization, though operating internationally and at a federation level rather than as a local service provider.
• ALMI Företagspartner: Swedish state-owned business financing and advisory firm. Comparable as a broad Swedish founder-support organization providing advisory and capital; competes for the same Swedish early-stage entrepreneur audience but serves all business forms.
• Kooperativa Förbundet (KF / Coop Sverige): Sweden's largest cooperative federation and retail operator. Comparable as a Swedish cooperative ecosystem actor with related mission and member-based structure, though much larger and primarily a retail business rather than a cooperative-development advisor.

Regional players

• Co-operative College (UK): UK-based educational charity focused on cooperative learning and development. Comparable as a non-profit cooperative-development educator, but operating in the UK market rather than Sweden.
• Coompanion Norge / Norsk Katappult (analogous Nordic cooperative advisors): Norwegian cooperative advocacy and advisory ecosystem (e.g., Samvirke). Comparable as a Nordic non-profit cooperative-support organization, operating in Norway rather than Sweden and providing a cross-Nordic benchmark for the cooperative-advisory model.

Direct peers

• Företagarna (Swedish Federation of Business Owners): Swedish membership organization representing small business owners. Comparable as a non-profit membership-based support organization serving Swedish entrepreneurs, though broader in scope and focused on advocacy rather than cooperative formation.
• Sting (Stockholm Innovation & Growth): Stockholm-based startup incubator/accelerator supporting early-stage Swedish founders. Directly comparable as a Swedish business-support organization, but with a for-profit technology/tech-focus rather than cooperative specialization.
• NyföretagarCentrum: Swedish non-profit providing free advisory services to aspiring entrepreneurs nationwide. Directly comparable as a Swedish non-profit founder-support organization with a similar advisory-based, multi-stage support model.
• SUP46: Stockheadquartered startup hub and community for Swedish tech entrepreneurs. Comparable as a Stockholm-based founder-support organization, though for-profit and tech-focused rather than cooperative-specialized.

Others

• Tillväxtverket (Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth): Swedish government agency administering entrepreneur-support programs and funding. Relevant as both a potential funding source and a competing provider of publicly funded founder advisory services in Sweden.

Market position

Strengths2 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/Coompanion

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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