How we built our robot dog startup: ‘We took all our VC meetings at Ikea’
June 2, 2026
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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