How to find Swedish companies by industry, size, and financials

Finding Swedish companies is easy; finding the right two hundred of them is the actual job. The raw register is public and its basic data is free. This guide covers what the official sources give you, where they stop, and how to get from "manufacturers in Skåne with 20 to 100 employees" to a list with financials and people you can call.

Last updated 9 July 2026. Figures verified against AngelEQ's production data.

Step 1: define the segment before you touch any source

Every useful search is a combination of four dimensions. Decide them first, or you will drown in the 1.39 million companies of the complete register:

• Industry. Sweden classifies companies with SNI codes, the national version of the EU's NACE standard. Useful as a coarse filter, with real limits the linked guide covers.
• Size. Employee bands are the practical size measure; revenue is better but lives in the financials layer below.
• Region. County (län), municipality (kommun), or city.
• Financials. Revenue, margins, growth, solvency, from filed annual reports. This is the dimension that separates a name list from a qualified list.

Step 2: know what each official source gives you

• Bolagsverket is the companies registration office: the legal register of record. Companies are registered here, and annual reports are filed here as public documents.
• Statistics Sweden (SCB) runs the statistical business register, covering every active company with basic data: name, organisation number, SNI code, size band, location. Its basic data has been free since 2025, which is why raw company data is no longer something worth paying for.
• Lookup services such as allabolag.se are built to research one company at a time, and do that well.

What none of these give you: filed financials as filterable numbers across the whole market, named decision-makers and contacts attached to each company, or a way to express all four dimensions in one query and export the result.

Step 3: close the gap between raw data and a usable list

The free layer hands you names and codes. To act, you still need the financials parsed out of hundreds of thousands of annual reports, people worth calling matched to each company, and the whole thing deduplicated and export-ready. Doing that by hand for one segment takes days; doing it fresh for every new segment is what kills most prospecting workflows.

This is the layer AngelEQ is built for: the complete register with filed financials for 550,000 companies, named board and CEO decision-makers for 379,000, and business contacts attached. You describe the segment in plain language, in English or Swedish, and the list comes back with the data already on it. Already have a list of your own? Enrich it against the register. Want more companies like your best customer? Start from a lookalike.

A worked example

"Profitable manufacturers in Skåne, 20 to 100 employees, that export." Resolved against the register that becomes: SNI section C, region Skåne, employee band 20 to 99, an export marker, and a profitability filter from filed financials. In AngelEQ that sentence is the query; the result is an export-ready list with each company's revenue, margin, and the named person to call. If you are still comparing approaches, the guide to choosing a prospecting tool covers how to evaluate any vendor, including us.

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