Almi Invest

Ali Altaie is an Investment Manager at Almi Invest, focusing on early-stage and growth investments across sectors including tech, deep tech, AI, SaaS, life sciences, retail, and industrial. He has over 18 years of experience in organizational development and currently serves on ten portfolio company boards, having previously worked with companies such as Rio Tinto, Unilabs, Jula, Scrive, Univrses, and PinMeTo. He has been an angel investor in early-stage companies since 2016 and is fluent in Swedish, English, and Arabic.

Anna Gisselsson focuses on life science investments, working with companies on strategy, market choices, and business development. She has experience spanning research and development, business development, and financing across biotechnology and medical technology, and co-founded two contract research service companies. She holds a Master's degree in Chemistry and a PhD in Biochemistry and is a certified board member with several board positions in early-stage life science companies.

Boris Gyllhamn is an Investment Manager at Almi Invest, working within the firm's GreenTech Fund. Almi Invest is a state-owned Swedish venture capital company that invests in early-stage startups across tech, deep tech, industry, life science and sustainability, always alongside private co-investors as a minority shareholder. The GreenTech Fund, where Gyllhamn works, focuses on climate and environmental innovations and is one of the leading climate tech investors in the Nordics.

Christian Björkman leads the DeepTech investment area at Almi Invest and focuses on companies with high technical complexity and market-redefining potential. He previously worked in finance, IT, and computer games, and serves on several company boards.

Christian Krog-Jensen has worked in innovation for over 30 years as a researcher, business developer, leader, and co-founder of biotech companies in Sweden and internationally. He previously served as incubator director at Karolinska Institutet Innovations, supporting research ideas toward commercialisation. He is trained as an organic chemist with a PhD from Stockholm, additional education in medicine and pharma, and an MBA from Copenhagen.

Emma Burman is an investor at Almi Invest who focuses on early-stage companies and solutions supporting sustainable development. She has over 20 years of experience in innovation support, including roles as a business developer, innovation advisor, incubator CEO, and leader within a university holding company, working across many industries. She holds board positions in several of the firm's portfolio companies.

Erik Larsson is an investor at Almi Invest focused on early-stage company building. Before joining, he spent about eight years at LU Holding, where he co-founded roughly 20 technology companies and gained experience across outcomes ranging from bankruptcy and liquidation to IPOs and trade sales.

Eva Sarlind is an investor at Almi Invest with over 20 years of experience in corporate finance, including roles at local bank offices and a regional credit department. Before joining Almi Invest, she worked as an advisor at Almi Företagspartner, helping entrepreneurs secure financing to grow. She invests across sectors, prioritizing strong teams and solutions with real market potential.

Faten Mustafa invests with Almi Invest, focusing on business innovation, sustainability, and deeptech. She has a healthcare background and prior experience running MedTech start-ups, and has led improvement projects using technology to make care more accessible and efficient. She has worked for several years as an innovation leader supporting companies from start-up through commercialisation.

Filip Blomqvist is an investor at Almi Invest who works broadly across industries, with an emphasis on innovations that qualify as "must-have" solutions in their segments. Before Almi Invest, he worked in financing and business development at Almi Företagspartner, supporting companies from early-stage startups to established industrial firms. He holds a bachelor's degree in economics from Mälardalen University and a master's degree in business administration from Karlstad University.

Fredrik Andersson is an investor at Almi Invest who focuses on B2B technology companies with strong innovation and market potential, supporting them from early stage through scaling and exit. He started his first company at 21 and has founded several software companies, including Swiftcourt AB, which he co-founded. He has also spent nearly a decade as an investor and strategic advisor, including roles as chairman and board member, and was previously a partner at a Gothenburg-based investment company.

Helen Pettersson is an Investment Manager at Almi Invest Syd responsible for sourcing, conducting due diligence on, and developing early-stage companies, as well as executing exit strategies. She holds IPMA C certification as a Project Manager and has experience in strategy development within triple helix initiatives involving academia, healthcare, and industry. Pettersson has extensive background in preclinical and clinical research administration, molecular and cell biology, and higher education, including course development and instruction at Lund University.

Kristofer Öhman is an investor at Almi Invest who works with companies across multiple industries and stages within his region. He previously worked in M&A at PwC, held an operational role at Fjällräven, and handled export transactions at the Swedish Export Credit Agency (EKN). He is certified by Styrelseakademien.

Linda Elfving is an investor at Almi Invest focusing on Tech and DeepTech. She was previously an entrepreneur who ran a company specializing in calculation and simulation in structural mechanics. When investing, she looks for teams with domain expertise, a differentiated product or service, and a growing market.

Linda Murray Wennberg invests in green technology, with particular interest in foodtech and agtech, focusing on companies that pair technological innovation with clear climate benefits. She has over 15 years of experience across large corporations and start-ups, including CFO at Bambuser, finance director at Aftonbladet, and roles at Coca-Cola and Telenor, and co-founded a social app addressing youth loneliness. She completed board training at Michaël Berglund Board & Leadership Services.

Linn Nilsson has over 20 years of experience in corporate finance and business development, working in both banking and state-backed venture capital. Most recently she was a business developer at an incubator. She is a certified board member through the Swedish Academy of Board Directors (Styrelseakademien) and works as a generalist investor across all industries.

Malin Westergren invests broadly with particular experience in property-related investments, focusing on tech companies that support digitalisation, security and sustainability in traditional industries. She has several years of experience in the real estate sector with a focus on financial management, and has run her own B2B and B2C companies. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration and is a certified board member via Styrelseakademien.

Manfred von Richthofen is an Investment Manager at Almi Invest GreenTech. He has around ten years of experience at large companies including Arla Foods and ICA, working in marketing, sales, purchasing and category management, spent seven years as an entrepreneur, and served as Head of Sales at Too Good To Go. He focuses on green innovation that also delivers commercial value.

Marcus Skärbäck is an investor at Almi Invest who focuses on deep tech and technology, as well as business development and financing. He has invested in enabling technologies for over 25 years and has managed venture capital funds focused on the pre-commercial phase, often combining public and private capital.

Ulrika Ågren is an Investment Manager at Almi Invest, focusing on life science and impact investments. She has more than 20 years of experience in life science and intellectual property, with a background in innovation, project management, business development, and team leadership. A certified board member, Ågren has worked for a global medtech company, a biotech startup, and in the public and voluntary sectors.

Alex Molvin, a CEO with investment expertise recruited externally to lead the platform and based in Lund, coaches scaling and exit-stage life science and foodtech startups from southern Sweden's universities.

Anna Wennerstein is Head of Marketing and Communications at Almi Invest, a role built on experience across FMCG, retail, and real estate development sectors. She is co-founder and CMO of Renomate, a renovation services platform launched four years ago to address market inefficiencies, and its subsidiary Talk To. Through these ventures, she has secured investor funding, built teams and processes, and developed brands focused on digital innovation in the renovation industry.

Åsa Wallin is a fund manager focused on Swedish life‑science startups, with Silicon Valley experience fostering Swedish‑American collaborations and a reputation for publicly educating founders on investor expectations.

Emma Hanaeus works as an analyst focused on identifying, analyzing, and evaluating potential investments. She previously co-founded Atium AB, a company developing an electrochemical process to purify water from heavy metals based on research at Chalmers, helping take the technology from early lab research to product launch in the dental care sector. She holds an MSc from Chalmers School of Entrepreneurship.

Erik Madeyski Bengtson is an Investment Manager at Almi Invest Green Tech AB with experience in business development and product development, primarily in the medtech and forest sectors. He has worked across both startup and large organizational environments.

Henrik Jansson is Fund Manager and CEO, the primary decision-maker for West Sweden ventures, a long-standing early-stage presence and core host of Gothenburg's Connect2Capital committed to nurturing local startups.

Henrik Larsson is a fund manager focused on startups in Dalarna, Gävleborg and Värmland, tracking founders from day one and leveraging Karlstad University ties for local talent and spinouts.

Joachim Karlsson, a former founder, ex-Bisnode strategy officer and venture partner, leads investments and boards, sustaining a high pace—91 rounds in six months—focused on B2B software reducing everyday business inefficiencies.

Jonas Bergqvist is an Investment Manager at Almi Invest, where he manages The Greentech Fund. He brings over 20 years of experience in designing, building, and scaling software products and services, along with 10 years of experience supporting and investing in startups.

Kajsa Gustafsson works at Almi Invest, where she supports investment managers and portfolio companies across the Almi Invest family in preparing and executing exits, and drives internal initiatives to improve the firm's processes. She previously worked as a management consultant focused on strategy and acquisition-related matters, often serving private equity clients, and has experience in organisational restructuring. She has board experience from start-ups and investment funds and has completed basic and advanced board training through Styrelseakademien.

Kavita Björkdahl is Finance Manager at Almi Invest, where she has overall responsibility for financial follow-up and reporting across the Almi Invest group. Her background includes business control across various industries and business development within healthcare, as well as volunteer work in microfinance in India. She holds a Master's degree in Economics from Uppsala University and is a certified board member through Styrelseakademien.

Kjersti Frogner works as an analyst at Almi Invest, where she identifies, analyzes, and evaluates potential investments. She has a particular interest in Life Science and MedTech.

Mats Håkansson is a highly active early-stage investor focused on central and northern Sweden who, leveraging a state-backed mandate, backs more technologically ambitious, longer-horizon ventures with commercial and societal impact.

Peter Gullander blends corporate VC and Nordic growth PE with regional development capital, specializing in secondaries, carve-outs and restructurings, and advising boards on advanced technologies from biometrics to quantum computing.

Robert Wahlquist leverages ~20 years in banking and finance and a credit- and risk-analysis background, combining operational leadership as Fund Manager and CEO with board-level governance of a regional investor.

Vilhelm Nygren is an Investment Analyst at Almi Invest, where he focuses on identifying startups, conducting due diligence, and supporting entrepreneurs. His background includes business development, venture financing, and work with growth companies, spanning areas such as fundraising, go-to-market strategy, and scaling.