Jan 2026 – Present · 4 mos

• Building a new breed of AI systems that understand the real world.
• Careers: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ami
• www.amilabs.xyz/

Jun 2025 – Present · 11 mos

• Inception Fund investments still in stealth:
• AI-native code understanding & documentation.
• Superhuman AI Evaluation Engineer.
• AI-native risk & resilience platform.
• AI-native OS for private capital.
• Human-like AI agents for customer support.
• The context layer for the automated enterprise.
• AI agent optimizing Product-led Growth.
• Frontier AI lab building AI that recursively improves.
• AI research lab developing world models.

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 4 mos · Stockholm

• After over a decade in AI and data infra as a founder & operator, I'm backing via Inception Fund the top 0.1% of New Nordic & European made technical brilliance at the very earliest inception stages.
• Syndicating the regional AI leadership - serving outlier founders to go from zero to one and the global maximum faster.
• www.inceptionfund.vc

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 4 mos

• Frontier AI from Europe making existing LLMs radically more efficient.
• Careers: https://www.bottlecapai.com/#join-us
• www.bottlecap.ai

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 4 mos

• Supercharge LLM performance by removing context bloat.
• Careers: https://thetokencompany.com/careers
• www.thetokencompany.com

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 4 mos

• Building the AI-native OS and system of record for the dental sector.
• Careers: https://dentio.io/careers
• www.dentio.ai

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 4 mos · Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

• AI-native IDE for lawyers (YC X25).
• www.vesence.com
• Careers: www.vesence.com/careers

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 4 mos · Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

• The next generation of AI-powered bid management for public procurement.
• www.hedda.ai
• Careers: www.hedda.ai/careers

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 4 mos

• AI Software for commercial insurance brokers (YC W25).
• www.vantel.com
• Careers: www.vantel.com/careers

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 4 mos · Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

• Build a backend in minutes with AI and scale it forever.
• www.specific.dev

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 4 mos

• Autonomous security research and development lab.
• www.cybret.ai
• Careers: https://www.cybret.ai/careers

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Automatically organizes your team's emails and meeting notes - find anything in seconds, get intelligent email drafts, and reclaim hours every day (YC S24).
• Careers: https://scape.app/careers
• www. scape.app

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 4 mos

• Build and launch native mobile apps with AI.
• www.natively.dev

Jan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 4 mos · Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

• Building the last piece of software.
• Careers: https://lovable.dev/careers
• www.lovable.dev

Jan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 4 mos · Stockholm County, Sweden

• 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

Jan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• AI research lab training foundation models for real-world interaction
• www.tzafon.ai
• Careers: https://www.tzafon.ai/#careers

Jan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 4 mos

• Navigate and protect your IP and patent journey with AI.
• Careers: https://www.lightbringer.com/apply
• www.lightbringer.com

Jan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 4 mos · Munich, Bavaria, Germany

• The AI optimization engine for ML teams seeking to simplify scalable inference.
• Careers: https://careers.pruna.ai/
• www.pruna.ai

Jan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 4 mos

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

Jan 2024 – Nov 2024 · 10 mos · Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

• Gradient Partners was a Nordic boutique AI, Data & Emerging Tech and Investment Advisory firm to the Private Equity, Venture Capital and Technology sectors.
• We acted 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.

Mar 2023 – Sep 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos

• 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

Jan 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 4 mos · Copenhagen, Capital Region, Denmark

• The first Causal AutoML company.
• Careers: https://churney.io/about
• www.churney.io

Jan 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 4 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

• Agentic integration infrastructure.
• Careers: https://app.screenloop.com/careers/stackone
• www.stackone.com

Jan 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 4 mos · Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

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

Nov 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 6 mos

• 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.

Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 · 1 yr

• 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

Sep 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 8 mos · Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

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

May 2021 – Apr 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos · Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

• 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

Nov 2020 – Mar 2023 · 2 yrs 4 mos

• I joined from the investor side as a full-time co-founder to get my hands dirty and build up the GTM function, 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.

Jan 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 4 mos

• Supported Validio to go from zero to one in a highly technical and complex category.
• Company has raised $50M in funding to date and established itself as a data quality category leader.
• Raised the largest data infra seed round in Nordic history, built a world-class product & GTM team, signed the first customers, built our positioning and brewed a lot of coffee (and cleaned toilets). The usual founder stuff.
• Started looking into the data quality category in late 2019 after being involved in +20 AI/ML projects (hands-on experiencing how data gravity is king in AI).
• 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. The company raised a $30M series A in early 2026, catalyzed by strong enterprise growth.

Jan 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 4 mos

• 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, Visionaries Club, EQT, Creandum, Northzone and Firestreak.
• "Logic will take you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."
• Albert Einstein

Jan 2019 – Aug 2020 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Supported Peltarion to go from zero to one (acquired by King in 2022).
• Peltarion was a pioneering Nordic Deep Learning startup and AI lab. We raised a total of $50M 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

Apr 2018 – Feb 2019 · 10 mos

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

Jun 2017 – Apr 2018 · 10 mos

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

Sep 2017 – Jan 2023 · 5 yrs 4 mos · Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

• 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% VC
• www.j12ventures.com

Jan 2017 – Jan 2023 · 6 yrs · Stockholm County, Sweden

• 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

Jan 2017 – Jun 2017 · 5 mos

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

Sep 2015 – Nov 2016 · 1 yr 2 mos

• 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 2015
• The 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.

Sep 2015 – Aug 2016 · 11 mos

• 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.

Mar 2015 – Sep 2015 · 6 mos

• Interim Industry Manager, supporting the Finnish large customer team.

Sep 2013 – Aug 2015 · 1 yr 11 mos

• 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.

Sep 2012 – Sep 2013 · 1 yr · Helsinki

• 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

Jan 2012 – Present · 14 yrs 4 mos · Finland | Lithuania | Latvia | Estonia

• 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

May 2011 – Sep 2013 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Helsinki

• 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

Mar 2009 – Sep 2016 · 7 yrs 6 mos

• 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.