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4 September 2020 08:00

Welcome to Build to Last - a full day digital networking event for entrepreneurs and investors



The world is in constant change and lately we've had a few fast turns. To be able to navigate in this new landscape it is more important than ever to build your business for the future. Join us for a full day of trend forecasts, discussions and pitching. This year we'll be 100% digital, but not to worry. All important components of a great event is still there! 

Program - You are in for a treat, we have something really exciting planned!

09.30 Welcome to #GBGTECHWEEK Build to Last!

09.45-10.30 Impact Investment Trends w. Tove Larsson, General Partner at Norrsken

10.45-11.45 Reverse Pitch w. Unconventional Ventures, Maki.vc, Summa Equity, ByFounders and Almi Invest Greentech

12.00-12.40 Entrepreneurial Stories w. Sven Wolf, CEO at Bzzt and Johan Gustafsson, CEO at Visiba Care

12.45-13.30 Innovations compatible with the 1,5 degree scenario w. Energimyndigheten

13.45-14.30 Panel w. Newion, Brightly Ventures and Industrifonden

14.45-15.55 Company pitches w. Scaffcalc, Vividye, OnDrop, SKRIIN and Ligna Energy

Matchmaking
We have set up a digital matchmaking tool which lets you book one-2-one meetings throughout the whole of Gothenburg Tech Week, YES YOU HEARD RIGHT! Take the chance to meet new ventures, investors and partners.

Get your ticket now, and stay tuned for coming releases!

This is a digital event, links and matchmaking platform will be distributed to those who have bought a ticket. 

Tickets

Gisle Glück Evensen
Investment Manager at Summa Equity

Gisles role at Summa Equity AS is to lead the work of the individual investment teams. He truly enjoys working with the whole investment process, from generating ideas to supporting the companies in achieving their goals. Earlier in his career he have been fortunate enough to work in a variety of sectors and filled very different roles. The common denominators, as he sees it, have been opportunities at the intersection between technology and commerce, digitalization, investment management in different ownership settings – and a clear purpose.

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Sara Rywe
Investment Manager at ByFounders

Sara oversees ByFounders investments in Scandinavia, focusing primarily on Sweden and Norway. Prior to joining byFounders, she supported both small and large companies as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, Head of the group-wide Transformation Office at Danske Bank, and as an active member of the Nordic start-up ecosystem.

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Dennis Pamlin
Senior Advisor at RISE

Dennis Pamlin is an entrepreneur, strategic advisor and the founder of 21st Century Frontiers.  He is a senior associate at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, visiting fellow at the Research Centre of Journalism and Social Development at Renmin University, advisor for the Centre for Sustainable Development at the Confederation of Indian Industries, Accelerator Digital Sustainability Cybercom, and Senior Advisor at RISE. He is currently leading the Net-Zero Compatible Innovation Initiative under Mission Innovation.

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Andreas Stubelius
Senior Portfolio Manager at Swedish Energy Agency

Andreas has more than 15 years of innovation experience in the energy business. His team has been involved in more than 200 startups the last 12 years and Andreas has successfully managed follow on investments in many of the portfolio companies with 125 million $ from Bill Gates Break through Energy Ventures to one single company. Andreas is an experienced board member and joined his first board assignment at the age of 17. Today he is on the advisory board for Cleantech Group, an extensive network for cleantech investors. He holds one degree in electrical engineering and one in corporate finance from the mid Sweden University.

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Markus Hökfelt
Fund Manager at Almi Invest Stockholm

Markus started as Fund Manager at the Almi Invest Greentech fund in August 2017. The 650 MSEK fund is financed by EU, Almi and the Swedish Energy Agency targeting direct equity investments in Swedish innovative and fast growing start-ups that can significantly reduce the climate emissions. The fund has currently invested in 17 companies and screened well over 300 companies in the GreenTech space.

Markus has several years of experience from the Energy industry leading international development of new business around smart meters, energy visualisation, rooftop solar, and charging of electric vehicles.

Markus also has a background as a Management Consultant at Accenture and is a co-founder of start-up company Unimi Solutions.

Markus holds a Master of Science and Mechanical Engineering from LTH specialising in Technology Management.

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Pauliina Martikainen
Investment Director at Maki.vc

Before joining Maki.vc, Pauliina co-founded Wave Ventures, a pre-seed fund investing across the Nordics. She’s previously worked in the field of marketing and communications at both agency and in-house sides, and now, she works closely on the commercialization and brand strategies of Maki’s portfolio companies.

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Nora Bavey
Partner at Unconventional Ventures

Partner at Unconventional Ventures, a Nordic early-stage investment firm that invest in scaleable tech startups at the pre-seed/seed stage, founded by underrepresented founders. Nora is an award winning serial entrepreneur. Recently an EdTech founder that turned VC Partner. Nora has international experience working with corporates and startups, developing strategies for segmented and differentiated audiences. Nora has made it her mission to improve the possibilities for underrepresented groups to access technology, entrepreneurship and capital.

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John Elvesjö
Managing Partner at Brightly Ventures

John is the founder and managing partner at Brightly Ventures. He has a background within Engineering Physics at KTH and as a resercher within applied mathematics at Ytkemiska Institutet (YKI). His reserach at YKI was the foundation of Jenser Technology (founded in 1999) and Tobii (founded in 2002). John was co-CEO and CTO at Tobii until 2018.

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John Sjölander
Partner

After working for four years as a Venture Capitalist in Stockholm, John joined Newion in 2019. He entered the Venture Capital industry after gaining experience in various management positions at different Nordic B2B SaaS startups. As a partner of Newion, his key focus is covering the Nordics investments for Newion.

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Sven Wolf
Co-founder and CEO at Bzzt

With one foot in digitalisation and the other in green tech, Sven has been busy turning innovative ideas into sustainable ventures with a global impact, in Sweden and internationally. He is co-founder and CEO of Bzzt, a Swedish mobility startup challenging the inefficient fossil transports that in fact are killing our city centres today. 

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Tove Larsson
General Partner at Norrsken

Tove Larsson is a General Partner at Norrsken VC which is a €100 million impact fund backed by Norrsken Foundation, launched in December 2019. Tove has been active in the impact entrepreneurship space since 2012, before Norrsken at Inkludera Invest where she helped social entrepreneurs build scalable and financially sustainable organizations. Prior to focusing on this sector, Tove worked as a Management Consultant at Bain and Company and ICA Sweden.  

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Ronja Koepke
Moderator

Ronja is an angel investor, speaker, entrepreneur, writer and co-founder of InHouse-app and Investpodden. She has invested in startups focusing on AI, IoT, GPS, Fintech and health.

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Anna Ljungdahl
Investment Manager at Industrifonden

Before joining Industrifonden, Anna spent five years as investment manager for SEB Venture Capital followed  by senior management positions focusing on business development and change management in several listed companies. She holds and executive MBA from SSE.

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Information regarding the Corona virus covid-19 during Gothenburg Tech Week 

We follow the regulations and recommendations of Folkhälsomyndigheten regarding the current outbreak of the Corona virus covid-19. This means we advise all our participants to follow the recommendations being communicated. If you are experiencing any symptoms or visited any listed regions please stay home to keep others safe. Please see all current information at www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se and www.1177.se

In the case of a cancelled event attendant fees will be reimbursed. 

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