Digiclean Solutions AB has secured €2.5 million in new funding from Unconventional Ventures and Almi Invest GreenTech, who co-led the seed round, to advance its platform for industrial cleaning and maintenance optimisation. The round also included participation from S-E Bankens Utvecklingsstiftelse, Impact Shakers and Feminvest Ventures, the first investor in the company alongside the EIT Community. The investment will support continued product development and commercial scaling across Sweden and key European industrial markets.
The momentum follows recent recognition from the EIT itself: Digiclean placed third in the Venture category at this year’s EIT Innovation Awards in Budapest.
Charlotte Stigen Låstberg, CEO and Co-Founder of Digiclean, has been part of the Supernovas community throughout her entrepreneurial journey. After joining Rocket Up, she also participated in Supernovas Investment Forum, now known as Fundraising Support, benefiting from additional resources, connections, and opportunities as she scaled Digiclean and prepared the company for its next stage of growth.
How Digiclean works
Industrial washing processes are a mission-critical function in asset-intensive industries, directly affecting equipment performance, component quality, production uptime, regulatory compliance, and worker safety. Despite its importance, the category remains almost entirely manual, reactive, and difficult to measure.
Before a component can be coated, painted, or assembled, it must be perfectly clean. Factories wash parts in large cleaning machines, and the chemistry in those processes determines product quality, uptime, and cost. Process chemistry is one of the last unmeasured systems in modern manufacturing. While machines, energy, and logistics have been digitised, the chemistry that determines component quality and uptime is still managed by manual sampling and intuition.
The Digiclean platform is already deployed across more than 20 industrial sites in Sweden, including installations with leading automotive and manufacturing companies. Digiclean addresses this through a plug-and-play IoT sensor and AI model that continuously monitor cleaning bath chemistry and automate chemical dosing, replacing manual sampling with real-time data. The platform allows customers to significantly reduce unplanned downtime, optimise resource use across water, chemicals and labour, and improve traceability and compliance. Every process fluid in a factory continuously carries information about product quality, equipment condition, and chemical consumption. Digiclean captures it in real time, making a previously invisible layer of production data measurable and actionable.
Founder perspective
“Industrial cleaning is a fundamental part of how factories operate, yet it has remained largely unchanged for decades. We are building the tools needed to make it measurable, optimisable, and aligned with modern efficiency and sustainability requirements. With the incredible support and belief of Unconventional Ventures and Almi Invest GreenTech, we can accelerate this transition across industries”, says Charlotte Stigen Låstberg, CEO and Co-Founder of Digiclean.
From an environmental perspective, inefficient cleaning processes contribute to unnecessary chemical waste, excess resource consumption, and avoidable emissions. Digiclean’s approach enables more targeted interventions and supports customers in reducing their operational footprint while maintaining high performance standards.
What the investors saw
“At Unconventional Ventures, we look for companies working in places that have been overlooked – where the problem is real, the founder has lived it, and the commercial logic is inseparable from the impact case. Digiclean is all three. Charlotte grew up inside the industrial chemical industry. She knows the problem from the inside out. And every sensor her team installs reduces chemical consumption, wastewater generation, and CO₂ emissions while generating recurring revenue – impact and returns are not in tension here, they are the same thing. That is exactly the kind of company Unconventional Ventures was built to back”, says Alexis Horowitz-Burdick, Partner, Unconventional Ventures.
“Digiclean has done something most early-stage companies struggle with: they have built a technically differentiated product and secured validation from leading industrial customers. The team’s ability to translate a complex technical solution into commercial traction at such an early stage is particularly impressive. Combined with strong unit economics, favourable regulatory tailwinds, and deep domain expertise, we believe Digiclean is exceptionally well positioned to capitalise on a significant market opportunity”, adds Jonathan Lannö, Investment Manager, Almi Invest GreenTech.
Next steps
The new capital will fuel the next phase of growth for Digiclean across three areas: the further development of the intelligence powering automated precision dosing, commercial expansion within and beyond Sweden, and the expansion of the team to continue to deliver exceptional value for customers.
A proud milestone for our community
Charlotte’s journey is exactly why Supernovas exists: to give ambitious women founders the tools, network, and confidence to turn deep expertise into scalable businesses. After participating in Rocket Up and Fundraising Support, Charlotte’s journey reflects the value of continued access to the Supernovas community as founders grow and scale. Watching Digiclean grow from an early-stage idea into a company backed by leading European investors is a proud moment for the whole Supernovas community, and just one example of what’s possible when founders have access to the right resources and opportunities.
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