Mentors fall 2024

Arthur Savander
Investment Manager
Fåntell

As an Investment Manager at Fåntell, Arthur plays a pivotal role in shaping the Family Office investment strategies. He adeptly directs investment strategies across Funds of Funds, Private Equity/Venture Capital funds, co-investments, and early-stage opportunities.

Arthur has a background from the venture capital (Open Ocean) and cyber security (Hoxhunt) scene and holds a MSc In Economics from Hanken School of Economics.

Anna Adlarsson
Investor
Kinnevik

Anna Adlarson joined Kinnevik in 2021 and is part of the investment team.

Early on in university, she joined a startup and realized the beauty of combining strong  entrepreneurship with new technology. Anna has also worked on innovation and digital business building as well as M&A for four years as a consultant at BCG in Stockholm.

She has a special passion for scalable solutions to important societal challenges, and has a particular focus on climate related business models.

She has been part of leading the investments in H2 Green Steel, Aira, Agreena, and SafetyWing. Anna also sits on the board for Nicks and Karma.

Tatiana Shalalvand
Investment Director
Kinnevik

Tatiana joined Kinnevik in 2022 and leads Kinnevik’s early-stage strategy. Prior to Kinnevik, Tatiana spent four years working at the VC fund Inventure, focusing on pre-seed and seed stage businesses in the Nordic region.

She spent numerous years in different commercial roles at early and scale-up stage tech companies before moving to the investor side, and is passionate about supporting founders early in their journey and helping them on their growth trajectory.

Tatiana sits on the board of Agreena, Aira and Safetywing.

Bob Thomas
Partner
OXX

Bob is a Partner based in Stockholm and joined Oxx in 2018. He has been integral in building out their people-first philosophy and specialist SaaS investment focus. Bob is both a finance industry veteran and has an operator background.

With a deep expertise supporting SaaS companies across stages: he’s both an angel investor and early-stage SaaS mentor, and his extensive background in M&A and capital raising transactions has made him an expert in corporate development and exit strategies.

Dr. Nadine Geiser
Principal
World Fund

Dr. Nadine Geiser has previously worked for M Ventures, Bank Vontobel, and most recently as Principal at Redalpine, a Swiss sector-agnostic venture capital fund where she invested in companies like Umiami, Better Dairy, Mushlabs and Luya. Nadine is a member of the advisory board of the Bioinnovation Institute - Novo Nordisk Foundation.

She has a PhD in Biotechnology and has studied in Zurich, Munich and Singapore.

Patrik Sandin
Angel Investor
Nevermind Invest

Patrik is working as an investor & advisor. He is the founder of Infront IT-Partner AB | RTS Group that was a comprehensive supplier of IT infrastructure, IT consultants and managed IT services in the Swedish B2B market and public sector.

He founded the company in 2011 and had a phenomenal mega growth. Sales increased from SEK 0 to 1 billion and was sold in 2023 to an industrial player (Advania Group with majority owner Goldman Sachs). Patrik offers active support and advisory in several areas of leadership, sales and organization.

Lin Gong-Deutschmann
Angel Investor
L&R Holding GmbH

Lin Gong-Deutschmann is an angel investor and partner at Climate Founders. Previously she co-founded companies in e-commerce and AI education and held VP and MD positions in global companies.

She was awarded as Europe's Female Angel Investor of the Year 2022 and is very engaged in bringing more female investors into the investment landscape.

Joel Uddén
Principal
Ventech

Joel has a strong understanding of technology businesses, especially SaaS; both as an investor evaluating hundreds of investment opportunities and as a CEO. He loves to engage in discussions regarding international expansion, sales, marketing, positioning, and financials. Joel has also seen the power of inbound marketing work in practice as both his previous companies used SEO and content marketing to acquire customers. He has a background in technology and started his career as a software engineer.

Stanislas Lot
Partner
daphni

Stan is a partner at daphni. He has experience in consulting startups in China before creating his own startup where he developed a real empathy for entrepreneurs.

He joined the VC industry at Eurazeo (ex-Idinvest) before joining daphni in early 2018. He studied engineering at CentraleSupelec and management at UCL in London.

Pierre-Eric Leibovici
Co-Founder & Partner
daphni

Before co-founding daphni, he co-founded Orkos Capital, a private equity fund management company dedicated to VC investments in telecommunication (ETMF II), digital technology (Orkos III), and service robotics (Robolution Capital).

Pierre-Eric has a background as an investment banker at Merill Lynch (risk management in emerging markets) and corporate banker at Banexi (M&A and investments), then investor at BNP Paribas Private Equity.

Emma Hernmarck
Sequoia Scout
Sequoia Scout Fund

Emma Hernmarck has held various roles across companies in the investment and startup sectors, with experience in both venture capital and operational roles, including building companies from the ground up. Currently, she is a scout investor at Sequoia Capital and works full-time at Alrik, focusing on growth and go-to-market strategies.

In addition, Emma serves as a board member and investor in several organizations. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Management from ESCP Business School.

Luke Pappas
Partner
NEA

Luke Pappas is a Partner at NEA based in London where he leads the firm's European investing efforts. He is focused on investing in software at the application, infrastructure, and data layers, and also consumer social and marketplaces.

He works closely with the firm's investments in Aquabyte, Wiith, Modyfi, DJUST, Sana Labs, Bliq, and PlayVS, and Connect Ventures, which is NEA's joint investment venture with CAA. He graduated from Stanford University with dual BS degrees in computer science and management science & engineering.

Paul Bazin
Partner
daphni

Paul is a partner at daphni. He worked as an engineer on several research projects on robotics, artificial intelligence and embedded systems before joining daphni in 2016.

He studied engineering at ESIEE Paris and London Brunel University. He acquired an entrepreneurial focus at EMLyon.

Maxine Rior
Principal
Northzone

Based in Stockholm, Maxine is part of the investment team at Northzone. She covers the Nordic and French-speaking markets across a wide range of sectors, with a special interest in the consumer, fintech and electrification spaces.

Prior to Northzone, Maxine was with Swedish investment company Kinnevik and in the investment banking division of Carnegie Investment Bank.

Amanda Hultman
Investor
Atomico

Amanda is an Investment Manager at Atomico, based in London, where she works on sourcing, due diligence, and portfolio management for early stage companies. She primarily focuses on the Nordic and Baltic markets.

Prior to joining Atomico, Amanda spent two and a half years at the global strategy consultancy Bain & Co. Before that, she held a combination of strategy, tech and advisory roles at EY, H&M and the Swedish Chamber of Commerce.

Nadja Reischel
Investor
Cherry Ventures

Nadja is based in London, primarily focusing on B2B SaaS and machine learning. Before Cherry, she worked in fintech and business development at Mastercard Consulting and N26.

After realizing that her true calling was on the more technical side, she learned how to code and joined Cherry portfolio company Luminovo.ai. She led the company’s product intelligence development, combining both quantitative and qualitative scaling approaches.

Sami Ahvenniemi
Partner
Vendep

Sami has seen it all, from Co-Founder and product sales to Chairman roles and scaling from 15 people to IPO and launching US offices in Silicon Valley.

A strategic thinker and super networker, Sami can call on more than two decades of experience of entrepreneurship, startups and VC and angel investing.

Pierre-Yves Meerschman
Co-founder & Partner
daphni

Before Pierre-Yves co-founded daphni, he was a financier that went to become an investor: auditor at Ernst & Young, investment banker at Société Générale (M&A) then investor at BNP Paribas Private Equity and co-founder of Orkos Capital, a fund management company specializing in digital technologies, including Robolution Capital.

Shabir Vasram
Partner
daphni

Shabir is a partner at daphni. He has experience in private equity, marketing and business development. He joined the VC industry at Jaïna Capital in 2017 before joining daphni.

He studied business at EDHEC Business School and focused on Entrepreneurship at the MDI university of Gurgaon.

Siam Choudhury
Head of Product (AML)
Verified Group

Siam is a founder with fundraising and acquisition experience. He was most recently the co-founder and CEO of Pliance, which raised VC funding and was acquired by Verified Group in 2023. He is now Head of Product (AML) at Verified Group.

The company was founded by Siam and 2 co-founders in 2018 and automates anti-money laundering processes via modern API-based solutions. As CEO, Siam led the fundraising, product management, and sales efforts of the company.

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Investment Associate
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Anders Bach Waagstein
Partner
Den Sociale Kapitalfond
Anette Nordvall
Tech Investor
Butterfly Ventures
Anna Lundin
Investor
Norrsken
Anna Nordell-Westling
Co-founder & CMO
Sana Labs
Anne Jorun Aas
CEO Farmforce and Boardmember
Investinor
Bengt Julander
Chairman
LINC
Caritta Seppä
Investment Manager
Spintop Ventures
Carl-Magnus Chalmers
Angel Investor
iScale
Caroline Hultman
Principal
J12 Ventures
Caroline Wachtmeister
Principal
Industrifonden
Christine Bjärkby
Boardmember, Investor
EBAN
Cilia Holmes Indahl
CEO
EQT Foundation
Claes Mikko Nilsen
Investment Director
Nordic Ninja
Cécile Garcia Le Goff
Pitch coach
-Own company-
Daniela Sjunnesson
Partner
node.vc
Eira Tobrand
Investor
Luminar Ventures
Elin Hauge
Co-founder
Network Development Hub
Emma Dansbo
Partner
CIRIO
Emma Rees
Serial Entrepreneur
Deployed
Erik Lindblad
Partner & CEO
Zenith Venture Capital
Fredric Gunnarson
Serial Entrepreneur, Investor, Board Member
Red Six
Heidi Lindvall
General Partner & Co-founder
Pale Blue Dot
Helen Agering
Partner
Spintop Ventures
Henna Keränen
Head of Nordics & Network
Kvanted
Indra Sharma
Partner
Peak
Inês Rocha
Investment Manager
Norrsken VC
Jack Peters
VC Scout
Jacob Key
Founding and General Partner
Luminar Ventures
Jenny Lindblad
International Pitch Coach
ELIZA Communication
Jenny Gizard
Innovation Coach
ALMI
Jens Ingelstedt
Investor
Jessica Rameau
Fund Manager & Partner
Wellstreet
Jin Jeong
Managing Director
Apis Partners
Julia Nilsson
Senior Manager
Antler
Kim Groop
Managing Partner & Co-founder
First Fellow Partners
Kristina Johansson
International CEO
Various companies
Kristina Söderberg
Investment Manager
SEB Venture Capital
Lena Apler
Founder CEO and Angel Investor
Collector Bank
Lene Schulze
Venture Partner
Scale Capital
Lisa Gautier
CEO & Founder
Hack Your Closet
Lisa Lindström
CEO & EMEIA CXO
EY Doberman
Malcolm Larri
Pitch coach
Brave Personal Development
Manolo Obaya
Investor Relations
Connect Sverige
Maral Kalajian
Marketing Professional
Maria Bergsten
Partner
VEQ
Markus Erik Lukk
Associate
Antler
Mette Nielsen
General Partner
VÅR Ventures
Moha Bensofia
Founder & CEO
Mendi
Nastaran Baleng-Soultani
Founder & Innovation Expert
Rad Cap & SPACE Academy
Niclas Holmberg
Head of Commercial Strategy
Vator Securities
Noel Abdayem
Founder/CEO
The Humble Co
Oli Harris
Investor
Venturebeam
Per Björklund
Angel Investor
Further Than Capital
Peter Settman
Founder & Chairman
Simplexity Partners
Pär Norberg
Partner, Head of Investor Relations
Nordic Capital
Salomé A. Trambach
Personal Growth & Leadership Coach
Salomé Trambach
Sara Myrenfors
Investment Manager
Schibsted Ventures
Sara Rywe
Investor
byFounders
Simon Edström
Serial entrepreneur
Stefan Frank
Angel Investor
Vitellius Invest
Tahero Nori
Founder & CEO
TechBuddy, BuddyPro, BuddyCompany, Rachtail
Tanya Marvin-Horowitz
Partner
Butterfly Ventures
Terhi Johanna (TJ) Vapola
Head & Founder
Helen Ventures
Timo Ahopelto
Founding Partner
Lifeline Ventures
Tobias Bengtsdahl
General Partner
Osito Ventures
Tove Larsson
General Partner
Norrsken VC
Trond Riiber Knudsen
CEO Farmforce and Boardmember
TRK Group
Zenia W. Francker
Connector & Venture Partner
Zoe Peden
Principal in the UK and Nothern Europe
Ananda Impact Ventures