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Daniela Sjunnesson, a co-founding partner, champions gaming and interactive entertainment, backs disciplined teams in operationally complex markets like used-car logistics, and acts as an operator-alumni connector within Sweden's startup community.

Henrik Tellving is a former founder who scaled B2B business-data products to millions (allabolag.se, Retriever Business) and, as a VC, obsessively evaluates proprietary, high-quality non-public data as AI's trust differentiator.

John Elvesjö, turning optical sensor research into customers, brings deep insight to help technical founders commercialize and works side‑by‑side on hiring, negotiations and strategy with over 70 Nordic founders backing.

Mårten Skogö is an inventor with nearly 200 granted patents who built Tobii into a 1,000+ employee global leader, co-founded two companies that went public and prioritized profitability before VC.

Rebecca Sjödin is a firm-building Co-Founder and Investment Principal who leads individual deals, combining finance expertise with certified mindfulness coaching and a focus on health and wellness investments.

Jiri Heinonen co-founded and scaled Swappie into a leading European refurbished iPhone business, offering hands-on expertise in building physical‑digital operations, rapid experimentation, and scaling sustainability-focused consumer brands across Europe.

Firuza Rakhimova is Marketing Lead at node.vc with over 8 years of experience in growth and performance marketing, focused on early-stage startups. She began her marketing career at Klarna and later grew Nabo into one of Sweden's largest proptech companies. Most recently she served as CMO at a Stockholm-based venture studio, working across healthtech, media, B2C/D2C, and SaaS, and has particular interest in martech, adtech, and agentic AI in go-to-market strategy.

Jakob Vaghult is an Investment Analyst at node.vc who works on early-stage companies in finance, insurance, industrial technology and marketplaces. Before joining the firm, he spent nearly three years at Northvolt across engineering, manufacturing, quality, project management and finance. He holds a Master's degree from the Stockholm School of Economics, focusing on entrepreneurial finance and innovation, and co-founded an art startup through SSE Business Lab during his studies.

Olivia Lyng holds an MSc in Business Administration and Communication from Copenhagen Business School and takes part in the Danish startup community. She previously worked as a Scouting Associate at Antler and at Maersk Growth, the corporate venture arm of A.P. Moller-Maersk, where she worked on venture clienting and early-stage investments in supply chain and climate tech.

Soo Min Hong is an Investment Associate focusing on deeptech and frontier innovation, with particular interest in robotics. Originally from South Korea, she moved to Lyon as a teenager and has worked across Europe and Asia as a founder and operator, having started ventures in edtech and healthtech and later helped scale hardtech and consumer startups in collaboration with the South Korean government. She previously worked as an Analyst at Pale Blue Dot evaluating early-stage climate and deeptech companies, and in 2025 co-founded Pluto House, a hacker house initiative with three European residences.

Jonas Malm is an Investment Associate at node.vc with a generalist approach who focuses much of his attention on vertical SaaS, developer tools, and AI. Prior to node.vc, he worked as an Investment Analyst at Brightly Ventures and a single-family office, and interned as a Machine Learning Intern at Wehype, a gaming influencer marketing company. He holds an MSc in Industrial Engineering from Linköping Institute of Technology, with a machine learning thesis, and also leads internal tech tooling at node.vc.

Patric Palm is a serial entrepreneur and co-founder of a stealth AI startup focused on human-agent collaborative operating models. He previously founded and led Favro, a work orchestration platform used by game developers, media agencies, tech startups, and enterprises, and led Hansoft from startup to global operations. His background includes experience in organizational psychology, remote work infrastructure, and leadership of creative teams, along with angel investments in over 20 companies and executive producer credits on award-winning films.