Ted Persson

CEO

Stockholm, Sweden29 yrs 8 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Co-founded leading digital innovation agency in Scandinavia.
  • Extensive experience in venture capital and startup advisory roles.
  • Expert in creative strategy and product design.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned professional in digital marketing and venture capital with a strong focus on design-centric startups.

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AdvertisingCreative StrategyCreative DirectionInteraction DesignBrand ArchitectureIntegrated MarketingConcept DevelopmentInteractive AdvertisingArt DirectionDigital MarketingTypographyDigital StrategyGraphic DesignUser ExperienceDigital Media

About

Ex entrepreneur, product builder, designer, creative turned VC. Lives in Stockholm.

Experience

Odyssey

Member of the Board

Oct 2024Present · 1 yr 5 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

Vsim

Board Observer

Sep 2024Present · 1 yr 6 mos

1x

Member of the Board

Jan 2024Present · 2 yrs 2 mos · Norway

Hume ai

Investor

Jan 2024Present · 2 yrs 2 mos · New York, United States

Evroc

Member of the Board

Oct 2023Present · 2 yrs 5 mos

Nothing

Member of the Board

Mar 2022Present · 4 yrs · London, England, United Kingdom

Formo

Investor

Sep 2021Present · 4 yrs 6 mos · Berlin, Germany

Flow engineering

Investor

Aug 2021Present · 4 yrs 7 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

Juni

Member of the Board

Aug 2021Jan 2024 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Gothenburg, Vastra Gotaland County, Sweden

Verkor

Investor

Jun 2021Present · 4 yrs 9 mos · Grenoble, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Origin.bio

Member of the Board

May 2021Present · 4 yrs 10 mos · Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Sana labs

Member of the Board

Jan 2021Present · 5 yrs 2 mos · Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Kive

Member of the Board

Dec 2020Present · 5 yrs 3 mos · Stockholm

Seeqc

Member of the Board

Sep 2020Present · 5 yrs 6 mos · New York, United States

Frontify

Member of the Board

Feb 2020Present · 6 yrs 1 mo · St Gallen, Switzerland

Einride

Member of the Board

Sep 2019Present · 6 yrs 6 mos · Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Sonantic

Investor (Acquired by Spotify)

May 2019Feb 2022 · 2 yrs 9 mos · United Kingdom

Eqt ventures

2 roles

Partner

Promoted

Mar 2019Present · 7 yrs

  • One of 6 partners of EQT Ventures. Focusing on frontier/climate tech, as well as design centric startups.

Operating Partner

Feb 2015Mar 2019 · 4 yrs 1 mo

  • Part of the team getting EQT Ventures off the ground, I worked on the deal side and also supported portfolio companies with product design, user experience, category design and storytelling.

Heart aerospace

Member of the Board

Mar 2019Present · 7 yrs · Gothenburg Metropolitan Area

Silexica

Member of the Board (Acquired by AMD)

Aug 2018May 2021 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Cologne Area, Germany

  • Silexica was acquired by Xilinx in 2021

Baffin bay networks

Member of the Board (Acquired by Mastercard)

Jul 2018Mar 2023 · 4 yrs 8 mos · Stockholm, Sweden

Anydesk software gmbh

Investor

Apr 2018Present · 7 yrs 11 mos · Stuttgart Region

Varjo

Member of the Board

Sep 2017Present · 8 yrs 6 mos · Helsinki

3d hubs

Member of the Board (Acquired by Protolabs)

Aug 2016Jan 2021 · 4 yrs 5 mos · Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

  • 3D Hubs was acquired by Protolabs in 2021

Scrive

Member of the Board (Acquired by Vitruvian Partners)

Mar 2014Mar 2015 · 1 yr · Stockholm, Sweden

  • I was a board member of Stockholm based startup Scrive.

Hyper island

Advisor, Program Steering Committee, Digital Media Creative

Feb 2014Jan 2022 · 7 yrs 11 mos · Stockholm

  • I was part of the school's program steering committee for the digital media creative program in Stockholm and Karlskrona.

The north alliance

2 roles

Partner

Jan 2014Jul 2018 · 4 yrs 6 mos

  • I’m was a partner at North Alliance (NOA), Scandinavia’s leading communications and technology agency network consisting of 12 agencies and around 800 employees. Great Works, that I co-founded, was part of the roll-up that led to its formation in 2014.

Founding Partner, NOA Incubator / Startup Studio

Jan 2014Dec 2015 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • I co-founded North Alliance's incubator and led the investment in two companies.

Wrapp

Chief Product Officer + Head of Marketing

Jan 2014Nov 2015 · 1 yr 10 mos · Stockholm, Sweden

  • I led product strategy, design and marketing at Wrapp, a digital retail startup bound to make shopping better for both merchants and consumers. This was done through North Alliance's Incubator (part time).

Our/vodka

Co-founder

Jan 2013Dec 2015 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Stockholm, Berlin

  • I was part of setting up Our/Vodka, a global vodka brand with local roots, within Pernod Ricard. After a successful introduction in Berlin and Detroit, Our/Vodka will open up micro distilleries in eleven cities across the US, Europe and Australia including New York, Amsterdam, London and Melbourne, together with local partners.

Lociloci

Co-Founder, member of the board

Jul 2007Jul 2010 · 3 yrs · Stockholm, Sweden

  • Lociloci was one of the first friend finder services launched in Europe. Initially it used SMS based cell tower positioning but later switched to GPS based positioning.

Cloudo ab

Co-founder, CEO, CPO

Aug 2006May 2010 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Stockholm, Sweden

  • Cloudo was a WebOS - a full fledged computer in the cloud, complete with productivity software suite and development environment.

Great works

Founding Partner, Global Chief Creative/Design/Innovation Officer

Jan 2002Dec 2013 · 11 yrs 11 mos · Stockholm, Barcelona, New York, Tokyo, Shanghai

  • I co-founded a Great Works, one of Scandinavia's leading digital innovation, marketing and product design agencies, with offices in Stockholm, Copenhagen, Barcelona, New York, Tokyo and Shanghai.
  • I led the agency's creative and design teams, oversaw work coming out of the global offices, led new business from a creative perspective and worked as creative lead on brands like Absolut Vodka, H&M, Electrolux and Samsung. I helped set up offices in New York, Tokyo and Shanghai. I also coached startups and tech companies like Spotify, Magine, Wrapp, C3 Technologies (acquired by Apple) and more.
  • Great Works was co-owned by Tokyo based TYO Group between 2007 and 2011 and is now a part of the North Alliance (NOA). At Great Works, we won awards in almost all leading advertising, digital and design award shows. I also was in the jury of some of those award shows (no, I didn’t award myself :)

Abel & baker

Founding Partner, Teamleader Creative & Design

Jan 1999Jan 2002 · 3 yrs · Stockholm, Sweden

  • We merged Speedway with two other agencies and formed Abel&Baker. Expanded to London, Helsinki and Paris. I worked as creative lead for clients like Microsoft and Adidas, and was a member of the board some of the time period.

Speedway digital army

Co-founder/Creative/Designer

Jan 1998Jan 1999 · 1 yr · Stockholm, Sweden

  • Creative at Speedway Digital Army, one of the first creatively oriented digital agencies. Worked, and didn't work, on all kinds of clients and non-clients. Agency later merged and turned into Abel & Baker.

Clockwork consulting

Graphic Designer

Jan 1997Jan 1998 · 1 yr

  • I was a digital designer at Clockwork, one of the first digital agencies in Sweden. I worked on Eurocard, Diners, Alcro, Medborgarskolan and a bunch of clients I've forgotten about. Clockwork was later acquired by Bonnier and Mogul. During this time I was also product manager of dagenstv.com, which was run by Clockwork.

Dimac

Graphic Designer

Jan 1997Apr 1997 · 3 mos · Helsingborg, Sweden

  • I did design and frontend development at Dimac, a pioneer in the web based application space. It was also at Dimac where social networking platform Playahead took its first steps. Playahead was one of two leading social networks in Sweden pre Facebook.

Blocket

Lead Designer

Aug 1996Apr 1997 · 8 mos · Fjälkinge

  • I did design work at Multimediaverkstan AB, just prior to the time when Blocket.se was born (now one of Europe’s largest classified services, part of Schibsted).

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