Curus carries out a new share issue led by Alfvén & Didrikson for continued investments in Nordic growth companies in digital health.
The newly formed Curus takes over the subsidiary Add Health Media’s portfolio in digital health to increase the pace of investment in the area. Curus combines Add Health Media’s Nordic media business in health and medicine with investments in digital health.
The company has around 20 holdings in fast-growing players such as Mindler, Doctrin, Medicheck, Knodd, Colivia and Findout Diagnostic.
Investors Alfvén & Didrikson, Stefan Bengtsson via CSB Capital, e-health entrepreneur Alex Stendahl and former CEO of SEB in New York, Christian Dahlberg, are now joining forces with SEK 136 million to continue supporting growth companies in digital health. – Healthcare needs to be digitized because people will want to take tests and monitor their health from their mobile phones just like they do their banking.
With this vision of the future, we choose to accelerate our investments in digital health.
We started investing already in 2016 and so far our forecasts have been right with strong growth for our holdings,” says Johan Bloom, founder and head of investments at Curus. The lead investor is Alfvén & Didrikson, which is an active and long-term partner to entrepreneurs and companies with international growth ambitions.
Alfvén & Didrikson has previously invested in some of Northern Europe’s most successful growth companies such as Trustly, Quinyx, Acast, Mentimeter, Sympa, Joint Academy and Kognity. – We at Alfvén & Didrikson see great potential in the combination of a profitable media business and investments in digital health, which has strong growth.
We have followed the team at Add Health Media for several years and see that they have competence and perseverance and that they often hit the right spot in their investments.
With Curus, they have a good platform to continue the journey and we are grateful to be involved and help scale their business,” says Ken Liebkind, partner at Alfvén & Didrikson. The board of Curus consists of founder Johan Bloom, business angel Lars Lindgren, Doktor24 co-founder Tobias Perdahl, Health Navigator co-founder and board professional Anna Dalgaard and Ken Liebkind from Alfvén & Didrikson. – Our digital media platforms Doktorn.com and PraktiskMedicin.se have experienced strong growth in recent years, as our customers have a greater need to reach patients and healthcare professionals digitally.
We now have the opportunity to expand our business primarily in the Nordic region.
This means that our customers and also the growth companies we are part-owners of can follow us into other countries as we grow,” says Rikard Ekberg, CEO of the media business Add Health Media. Curus’ investment philosophy is to go in at an early stage and support with money, expertise and media, to help companies get to the next level.
In the last four months, Curus has invested in Olivia, digital self-care for menopausal symptoms, Ella, digital care provider and platform for pregnant women, Dropmed, digital marketplace for trading medical devices for healthcare and Ment, digital platform for ADHD.

For more information: Johan Bloom, Investment Manager at Curus AB
[email protected],+46 733-648 490 Ken Liebkind, Partner at Alfvén & Didrikson [email protected],+46 708-284 799 Anna Dalgaard, Chairman of the Board Curus AB [email protected],+46 734-100 113  About Curus Curus invests in digital health in the Nordic region with a focus on supporting early-stage growth companies with capital, knowledge, networks and media with reach in the companies’ target group.
In addition to investments, the company focuses on the acquisition of profitable companies in health and care.
Today, Addhealth Media AB is a wholly owned subsidiary of Curus.
Curus has investments in some 20 growth companies in digital health, see www.curus.se. About Alfvén & Didrikson Alfvén & Didrikson is an active and long-term partner to entrepreneurs and companies with international growth ambitions.
Since its inception in 2010, the team at Alfvén & Didrikson has invested in fast-growing Northern European companies such as Trustly, Quinyx, Acast, Mentimeter, Sympa, Joint Academy and Kognity.
For more information, see www.alfvendidrikson.com.