Tech CEO who built his tech startup in Sweden on LinkedIn: I have sold the company as I am being forced to leave Sweden and this is not by …

Tech startup CEO Abhijith Nag Balasubramanya, founder of Hydro Space Sweden AB, announced that he is stepping down and leaving Sweden. Balasubramanya made the announcement in a long and scathing LinkedIn post citing what he called a ‘Xenophobia and hostile’ immigration system. He said that he was forced to sell his agri-tech startup which is locally celebrated for its microgreens harvest after the Swedish Migration Agency (Migrationsverket) denied his residency, despite the company’s rapid growth and local impact.

“This isn’t an exit by choice. It is an eviction by an incompetent and increasingly hostile state apparatus,” he wrote, adding that the agency’s handling of his case was marked by “gross incompetence,” “procedural cowardice,” and “systemic hostility.”