For our 56th Startup Grind Stockholm meetup we are proud to have with us Pär Hedberg - a leading figure in building Stockholm's innovation ecosystem with initiatives including Sting, Sting Business Angels, Sting Capital, SUP46, THINGS, Ignite Sweden, Propel Capital, and Luminar VC.
In this fireside chat we focus on:
Pär holds an MBA from Stockholm School of Economics and has 2 years of PhD research in New Product Management at University of California (Los Angeles).
He has backed more than 300 startups and is a thinker-builder-inspirer!
The fireside chat will be moderated by Naimul Abd, Business Advisor & Partnerships Lead at Coompanion Stockholm, impact entrepreneur & early-stage investor, and Director at Startup Grind Stockholm.
Join us on the 21st December at 12:00 CET!
Sting
Founder & CEO
Pär Hedberg is the Founder and CEO of Sting, the leading tech-accelerator in Nordics. Pär has supported startups since 1999 with experience of backing 300+ startups. He is the initiator and developer of several components of the Stockholm startup ecosystem. He started Sting (2002) and over the years has started and/or initiated: Sting Business Angels, the VC fund Sting Capital, Sweden’s larges…
Pär Hedberg is the Founder and CEO of Sting, the leading tech-accelerator in Nordics. Pär has supported startups since 1999 with experience of backing 300+ startups. He is the initiator and developer of several components of the Stockholm startup ecosystem. He started Sting (2002) and over the years has started and/or initiated: Sting Business Angels, the VC fund Sting Capital, Sweden’s largest recruitment organization for startups, the co-working spaces SUP46 and THINGS, Sweden’s most active Business Angel investment company Propel Capital, and the corporate-startup matchmaking organization Ignite Sweden. Pär is also the initiator and co-founder of the VC fund Luminar Ventures.
Naimul is a business advisor at Coompanion Stockholm
- Coaches more than 500 startup founders every year
- Responsible for partnerships, events, and ecosystem development
- Speaks at startup events and mentors at workshops and hackathons
- Also an early-stage impact entrepreneur and investor in startups
Before coming to Sweden he has been a marketing director for a fast-paced retail chain and has also consulted more than 20 multinational companies on consumer insights and strategic brand building.
In his spare time he makes music, you can follow him on Spotify.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/naimulabds
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/naimulabd/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/naimulabd/
Facebook (public page): https://www.facebook.com/naimulabdofficial
Facebook (profile): https://www.facebook.com/naimulabd
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/12ZU7uLgBc09oZzfcqWzwS
Olle has been building developer relations for 11+ years for companies like Unity (recently went public at $20B+ valuation) and King (acquired by Activision for $6B). Now he is exploring exploring attention economy with his new startup Devrel.Events.
Coompanion Stockholm
Business Advisor & Partnerships Lead
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Devrel.Events
Co-Founder
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Naimul is a business advisor at Coompanion Stockholm
- Coaches more than 500 startup founders every year
- Responsible for partnerships, events, and ecosystem development
- Speaks at startup events and mentors at workshops and hackathons
- Also an early-stage impact entrepreneur and investor in startups
Before coming to Sweden he has been a marketing director for a fast-paced retail chain and has also consulted more than 20 multinational companies on consumer insights and strategic brand building.
In his spare time he makes music, you can follow him on Spotify.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/naimulabds
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/naimulabd/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/naimulabd/
Facebook (public page): https://www.facebook.com/naimulabdofficial
Facebook (profile): https://www.facebook.com/naimulabd
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/12ZU7uLgBc09oZzfcqWzwS
Olle has been building developer relations for 11+ years for companies like Unity (recently went public at $20B+ valuation) and King (acquired by Activision for $6B). Now he is exploring exploring attention economy with his new startup Devrel.Events.
Coompanion Stockholm
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