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June 3, 2026

How we built our robot dog startup: ‘We took all our VC meetings at Ikea’

Surwera’s founders on how they got into the startup ecosystem to build its mouthy robot dog.


Mimi Billing

5 min read

When you think of Stockholm's tech scene it’s AI application startups that come to mind rather than robotics. But although it’s a nascent sector in the region, at Magasin 9, in the former offices of Stockholm Nasdaq, Surwera is trying to combine the two.

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Mimi Billing

Mimi Billing is Sifted's Europe editor, based in Stockholm. She covers the Nordics and can be found on X and LinkedIn

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