Johanna Björklund started Codemill in Umeå in 2008 as a consultancy for digital video. It became a product business: Accurate.Video and the Accurate Player SDK, tools for review, quality control and editing of media directly in the browser, frame accurate.
The customers are the heaviest names in global media, among them Paramount Global, Warner Bros. Discovery, Amazon MGM Studios, NBC Universal, BBC, ITV and ProSiebenSat.1. The company listed on Nasdaq First North in 2021 and acquired Cantemo the same year, which took the products across the whole chain from media library to delivery.
A company in Umeå delivering the infrastructure behind American studios is the kind of proof Sweden needs more of.