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February 24, 2025

Searching for startups at Sweden’s Techarena conference: 'It still doesn’t know what it wants to be'

The 'very Swedish affair' played host to lawmakers and big corporations like Amazon and Microsoft

Mimi Billing

3 min read

Opening Sweden’s leading industry event Techarena on Thursday, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson could not help but notice Ukraine was on many attendees' minds, remarking: “Geopolitics sometimes beats technology.”  

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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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