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In the heart of the Stockholm archipelago lies Ostmakeriet på Rindö. Anna Kälvebrand has been making artisan cheeses in the small dairy next to Oxdjupet and Oscar-Fredriksborg Fortress since 2012. It all started after a friend talked about food crafts and Anna discovered that there were few cheese makers in Stockholm. Once the idea was born, things moved quickly. A location was found, she got in touch with a dairy farm and began her journey as a dairywoman.
Since its inception, Ostmakeriet på Rindö has grown rapidly and won a number of awards for its cheeses. Anna and her husband collect the milk at Öster Grytinge Gård. She then processes it into cheese before it is stored and sold in their own cheese shop in the dairy building. Her favorite is the cave-aged cheddar cheese Oscar Fredrik, which she has been allowed to store inside the old adjacent fortress.
"The advantage of cheese is that there is an inexhaustible amount of different varieties to explore and that there is always something new to learn. I tried a cave-aged cheese at a cheese tasting and was so impressed by the taste that I decided to try to make one myself."
Founded
2012
Headquarters
Rindö
Employees
4 employees
In addition to the production of about ten cheeses and their own shop, Ostmakeriet på Rindö also has a summer café and organizes cheese tastings. For a few years now they have also been producing ice cream from milk. Among other things, the award-winning whey sorbet, which is made from whey left over from cheese production. It was precisely the production of ice cream that made Anna turn to Froda.
"Starting to make ice cream is a big investment. Ice cream machines, freezers, and deep freezers are not cheap. To be able to make that investment, we needed additional financing. Otherwise, it would take far too long to get started with it."
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Why did you choose Froda?
"I was at a lecture where a woman from Froda was speaking, and I felt like this sounds like me. As a small business owner, you feel a bit small in banking contexts, and you always need to have a lot of other things behind you to get a loan. But with Froda, the process is simple and straightforward. Froda makes it easy to be an entrepreneur, and I feel both appreciated as an entrepreneur and as part of a community."
What isthe future of Ostmakeriet på Rindö?
"The transportation is still a bit poor if you don't have a car, so many people don't make it out to Rindö. We want more people to enjoy our cheeses and ice creams, so we have just opened a pop-up shop in Vaxholm. We thought that if people don't come out to us, we'll bring some good cheese and ice cream to Vaxholm. That's kind of the plan going forward, to increase business towards the mainland."
About Froda AB
Froda was founded in 2015 with the ambition to redefine business finance by making it more accessible and effective for small businesses. Froda's vision is to empower all small business owners, regardless of background, to realize their business ideas. By combining technological innovation with efficient digital processes, Froda has shortened the loan processing time from months to minutes - creating a financing model that is fast, fair and inclusive. Today, Froda is one of Europe's fastest growing tech companies.
In 2021, Froda launched an embedded finance initiative, through which the company has expanded to the Nordic region, the UK and Germany and entered into partnerships with Visa, Lunar and Checkout.com, among others. As a credit market company, Froda is under the supervision of Finansinspektionen.
