Founder and operator turned VC. Backing obsessed Nordic B2B software and vertical AI founders from the earliest stages. No-nonsense, hands-on and fighting for founders.

ImaginAI is my personal holding company investing in tomorrow's winners within B2B SaaS, AI, Data & Cloud Infrastructure and Developer Tooling.Always looking to connect with passionate early-stage founders who are seeking a no-nonsense & hands-on investor and early partner.Syndicated investments with top angels and VC funds such as Sequoia, Lakestar, EQT, Northzone and Firestreak."Logic will take you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."- Albert Einstein

Invite-only community of researchers, academicians, and business leaders to discuss and collaborate with the OpenAI leadership teams.

Pruna AI is the AI Optimization Engine for ML teams seeking to simplify scalable inference.Careers: https://careers.pruna.ai/www.pruna.ai

Helping clinicians focus on providing care instead of on administrative tasks through AI and automation.Careers: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/tandem-health www.tandemhealth.ai

The first Causal AutoML company.Careers: https://churney.io/aboutwww.churney.io

Translate API calls in real-time via pre-mapped unified APIs so you only have to build once to integrate with entire category of tools.Careers: https://app.screenloop.com/careers/stackonewww.stackone.com

Unlocking state-of-the-art AI and building with the world's talent; +100k members and counting and partnering with OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere, Google, AWS, etc.Careers: https://newnative.ai/careerswww.newnative.ai

Building next-gen industrial AI architectures while rethinking intelligence from scratch.Careers: https://careers.intuicell.com/ www.intuicell.com

The easy to use Cloud Cost Visibility and Optimization Platform - bringing the gap between DevOps and FinOps.www.holori.com

The Python-first energy forecasting platform, enabling energy innovators of tomorrow.www.rebase.energy

Started looking into the data quality category in late 2019 after being involved in +20 AI/ML projects. Led Validio's $1.2M pre-seed round in 2020 with J12 Ventures. Validio raised in May 2022 a $15M seed round led by Lakestar, which is the largest seed round raised by a data infrastructure startup in the Nordics.

I joined from the investor side as a full-time co-founder to build up the GTM function and drive our sales, growth, marketing, positioning, pricing and fundraising strategy from scratch.During my time as a co-founder, we raised $17M in seed funding from top investors such as Lakestar (an early investor in Facebook, Spotify and Airbnb to name a few) and angels such as Zlatan Ibrahimovic.We started as a handful of data and ML professionals obsessed with building the best data trust platform for modern data teams - enabling organizations to be data-driven with confidence and trust the data they use to make decisions, build products and use for AI.I built up our GTM strategy and market positioning - including signing our early paying customers - besides building the core commercial and product team. During my time we worked with leading data-driven startups, scaleups and enterprises with modern cloud-first data infrastructure and engineering-led decision-making.

Selected in 2023 by Medium curators as a top writer in the startup category.Better Programming is a newsletter with +200k followers covering the best programming articles published across Medium.

Dayton Group is a leading Nordic & Baltic product supplier and solution provider to the food retail, HoReCa, and industrial sectors with an turnover of +50M€.We proudly employ over 300 people and have offices in Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.www.daytongroup.com

Gradient Partners is a Nordic boutique AI, Data & Emerging Tech and Investment Advisory firm to the Private Equity, Venture Capital and Technology sectors.We act as our client's trusted AI & Data SWAT team leveraging our vast global networks and operational experience from leading AI-first tech companies, startups, venture capital and private equity firms such as EQT, Palantir and Google.Change will never be this slow again.

The fastest growing Data Engineering company in Europe, working with some of the most iconic Nordic brands and enterprises such as H&M, Ikea and Volvo.Strategic advisor to the founders & board.www.syntio.io

Mentoring on career paths within AI and the GTM aspects of machine learning products and data infrastructure.Stockholm AI is the largest organized AI community in the Nordics.www.stockholm.ai

Heroes of Data is a authentic platform by the data community for the data community.Heroes of Data's mission is to bring the data community closer together in a personal setting - enabling knowledge sharing while cutting through the hype.www.heroesofdata.com

A €40M early-stage tech fund empowering entrepreneurs to reach the market in time. Active across Europe.I focused on sourcing, evaluating and winning investment opportunities in early-stage startups - with a focus on AI/ML and data infrastructure, B2B SaaS and developer tooling.Spearheaded J12's transition to becoming an AI/ML and data infrastructure focused investor. Also supported with the fund fundraising process and LP relations.50% Startup | 50% VCwww.j12ventures.com

DHS is a Stockholm School of Economics alumni based early-stage fund and angel network managed by J12 Ventures. Advised on tech investments focusing on machine learning and data infrastructure related opportunities.www.dhsventurepartners.com

Acquired by King. Peltarion was a pioneering Nordic Deep Learning and MLOps startup. We raised a total of $36M in seed and A-round funding during my time at the company from EQT Ventures, FAM (Wallenberg family office), and Euclidean Capital (Jim Simons family office).I was the #1 business hire building commercial operations, recruitment strategy, pricing strategy, go-to-market strategy, and competitive market positioning. Worked at the intersection of sales, marketing, and product in order to make us scale to market. Signed our 20 first customers & partners, created the initial product-led growth GTM, pricing strategy, etc.The Peltarion founders together had a combined +30 years of experience with AI and Deep Learning. The team consisted of top engineers & developers from e.g. Spotify, Skype, King, IBM, Microsoft, and Google. Over 300 companies and organizations have used Peltarion to access the power of AI and Deep Learning, including Tesla, Nasa, Deutsche Bank, BMW, Harvard University & Oxford University. www.peltarion.com

Building out our GTM teams and growth engine in addition to supporting fundraising for seed and series A.

Hired as the #1 business hire (#10 overall). Jack of all trades working with positioning and GTM strategy in the MLOps category.

Explored exciting early-stage ML infrastructure startups to join after digging deeper into the world of machine learning and deep learning during my time at Google.

Worked with and coached a selected portfolio of 10 top-tier Private Equity and Venture Capital backed Swedish companies within the technology scaleup and e-commerce categories (e.g. iZettle, Spotify, Truecaller, Lyko and Etraveli).• Helped with vision and strategy for how their digital business most profitably can scale internationally• Worked across all platforms: Analytics, Mobile, YouTube, Desktop, Apps, Display & Search• Portfolio size under management +60M€ annually and constantly achieving strategic targets with YoY double-digit % growth• Acted as a liaison & mentor for new Googlers• Project Lead for Google’s Digital Excellence Program, a 2-day conference in London• Promoted in September 2015The large customer team helps a premium segment of companies to identify growth opportunities and maximize their digital return on investment both locally and internationally - utilizing Google's online marketing solutions, market intelligence and insights.What we did was measurable, always.

Coached a selected number of Nordic startups & investors how to utilize Google's market intelligence, analytics, and digital marketing tools for identifying growth and investment opportunities. 20% side project.

Interim Industry Manager, supporting the Finnish large customer team.

The large customer team (LCS) at Google helps a premium segment of companies to identify growth opportunities and maximize their digital return on investment both locally and internationally - utilizing Google's online marketing solutions, market intelligence and insights.

Co-founder of the Apertura Sports Nordic division, a sports management and M&A firm. Representation and consultation of individual players and clubs from e.g. Bundesliga and the Premier League.

Cocoa is a leading Cannes Lion awarded Nordic production company. Founded in 2007, Cocoa has grown from a novel production boutique to an industry leading multidisciplinary group of creative production companies working with motion picture and music. Clients include leading global brand such as L'Oréal and Nike.Selected as production company of the year in Finland 2016.Cocoa Digital was a digital production company consisting of over 15 professionals. It was was established as a spin-off from Cocoa Production to complement their service portfolio from motion picture to digital platforms.Production of mobile applications, digital campaigns, web & e-commerce.www.cocoa.fi

Svecasa primarily provides training and coaching courses for students aiming at admission to Hanken School of Economics. The company serves +200 students and employs 5 people. Responsible for the company’s finances, staff and general administration.www.svecasa.fi