Sortrace raises $800k: Evertrace spotted Tomas Kjellstrand 568 days earlier

Sortrace has raised $800k in a round led by Almi Invest. The Swedish company uses AI to find sorting mistakes in household waste.

Evertrace spotted Tomas Kjellstrand, co-founder of Sortrace, 568 days before the funding announcement.

Before the round

On 13 April 2025, Evertrace detected the first signal of company formation for Tomas Kjellstrand. That was 568 days before Sortrace's funding announcement.

Tomas Kjellstrand founded Sortrace with Rahel Surshi.

What they’re building

Sortrace mounts cameras on waste collection trucks and analyses household bins as they are emptied. Its computer vision turns the images into structured data that flags incorrect sorting and tracks collection patterns.

Each result is tied to a bin and a route, so municipalities and waste companies can see where the problems are and act on them.

The round

Almi Invest led the $800k round, with Antler, Gorilla Capital and angel investors. Sortrace will use the funding to meet demand from municipalities and to take its technology beyond collection vehicles to other stages of waste management.

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