The surplus food e-commerce platform has secured $12.6m in an Ikea-backed round that likely also featured Axel Johnson.

Sweden-based discount food e-commerce platform Matsmart has raised SEK100m ($12.6m) in funding from investors including furniture and domestic product retailer Ikea, Nordic9 has reported.

Investment banking firm GP Bullhound also took part in the round, along with venture capital firms Edastra Venture Capital, Inbox Capital and Northzone, and undisclosed angel investors.

D-Ax, a corporate venturing subsidiary of trading group Axel Johnson, and Norrsken Foundation had invested $8.9m in Matsmart last month in a deal that was likely the first close…