Market before features.
Understand who buys, what problem is being solved and why it matters before deciding what to build.
Derived Ventures AB · Stockholm
From technology to real business.
Derived Ventures brings together new digital ventures, technology expertise and three decades of commercial experience under one company.
We build businesses, develop commercial opportunities and work with technology companies where experience, emerging technology and execution can create measurable value.
How we think
Technology creates possibilities. Execution creates businesses.
New technology has made it faster and less expensive to turn an idea into a product. But building the product is only part of the journey.
A successful business still needs to solve a real problem, create clear customer value and find an effective route to market.
Derived Ventures combines technology with commercial experience to develop ideas, validate opportunities and build businesses designed to grow.
Build to validate.
Put something useful in front of real customers early. Learn from what they do — not only from what they say.
Scale through leverage.
Use technology, partnerships and distribution to grow without unnecessary complexity.
Our ventures
Our Ventures
Different ideas. One commercial mindset.
We develop businesses where technology can simplify something, improve an existing experience or make expertise available to more people.
AI-Powered Video Production
AvatarTwin
Scale video communication with realistic AI avatars.
AvatarTwin helps companies scale video communication through realistic AI avatars and digital replicas. Once created, a digital replica can produce new video content from scripts without requiring the person to return to the studio.
The opportunity: Reduce the time and cost of recurring corporate video production while making professional video easier to scale.
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avatartwin.se
Practical AI Education
AI för Folket
AI explained in Swedish — for people who want to use it, not become AI experts.
AI för Folket makes artificial intelligence understandable through short, practical courses built around situations people encounter in everyday life and work.
The opportunity: Make useful AI knowledge accessible to everyone.
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aiforfolket.se
In DevelopmentVideo-First Dating · In Development
ViblyU
A richer first impression than a static profile photo.
ViblyU is developing a simpler video-first dating platform designed around how people actually experience attraction — through appearance, voice, movement and personality. Instead of relying primarily on carefully selected static images, ViblyU uses personal video to create a more human starting point for meeting someone online.
The opportunity: Build a differentiated alternative in a category still dominated by static profiles and increasingly complex monetisation.
Discover ViblyU
viblyu.com
Company capabilities
Business Development & Advisory
Experience turned into execution.
Derived Ventures works with technology companies, management teams and boards to develop new business opportunities and turn commercial strategy into execution.
Our work spans business development, go-to-market, strategic partnerships, partner ecosystems, AI commercialisation, new business creation and strategic advisory.
The emphasis is practical: identifying opportunities, shaping the commercial model and helping move initiatives from strategy into execution.
Discuss an opportunityBoard & Strategic Advisory
Independent perspective and commercial experience for boards and management teams navigating growth, technology and transformation.
Derived Ventures provides strategic advisory and board-level experience across business development, go-to-market, partnerships, digital transformation, technology and growth.
Start a conversationFounder
Three decades of taking technology to market.
Emanuel Higwall · Founder
Emanuel Higwall has spent more than 30 years in the technology industry, working across business development, strategic partnerships, alliances and go-to-market at Microsoft, AWS, Cloudinary and Planview.
His experience spans hyperscalers, software companies, global systems integrators and partner ecosystems — from developing new markets and partnerships to turning technology into commercial opportunities.
After three decades of helping technology companies grow, Derived Ventures represents the next chapter: applying that experience to businesses we build ourselves — and to selected companies we help along the way.
- 30+ years in technology
- Microsoft
- AWS
- Cloudinary
- Planview
- Partnerships & alliances
- Go-to-market
- Venture creation
Contact
Let's build something valuable.
Whether you're looking for a commercial partner, strategic advisor, technology collaboration or an opportunity to participate in one of our ventures, we'd be interested in hearing from you.
Stockholm, Sweden