People
Thomas Madsen-Mygdal, Founder & Chairperson
Entrepreneur and designer. Spent the last 30 years building European startups, designing pioneering digital products, and building platforms to move the digital world forward.
Margrethe Vestager, Patron
Former Executive VP of the EU Commission and Commissioner of Competition, World leader Fellow at Blavatnik Institute. Chair of the board of DTU.
Ambassadors
Sebastian Schwemer, Technology and Law
Sebastian brings deep expertise in tech policy and regulation, as Professor of Law and Technology at BI Norwegian Business School. He has advised lawmakers on key digital legislation and holds a track record of launching and advising tech ventures.
Mathias Ockenfals, Marketplaces
Mathias founded The Marketplace Conference, Europe's leading event for marketplace funders and founders, positioning him as a key expert in understanding and navigating the dynamics of building successful marketplace businesses. As a partner at b2venture, he's personally led investments in more than 70 startups and supported founders through over 200 funding rounds.
Henrik Torstensson, Business scaling
Henrik has scaled some of Europe's most successful tech companies. As head of premium sales and member of Spotify's global management team during its growth phase 2010-2013, later as CEO at Lifesum. Now a partner at Alliance VC backing early-stage Nordic startups.
Linda Liukas, Children
As bestselling author of the Hello Ruby series, she's helped countless children and adults understand coding and technology through storytelling. Her work spans from children's books to city-scale learning initiatives and TED talks.
Neil Murray, Venture Capital
Neil is a Solo GP and founder of The Nordic Web Ventures, investing in early-stage Nordic founders and startups. He was among the first investors in Sanity and Lovable. Before running his own fund, he founded Playmaker (YCW21).
Roxanne Varza, Start-up ecosystem
Roxanne is the director of STATION F in Paris, the world's biggest startup campus. She is also an angel investor and on the board of media company NRJ Group. Previously editor of TechCrunch France, startup lead for Microsoft France and scout investor for Sequoia Capital and Atomico, she has cofounded Tech.eu, StartHer and Failcon Paris.
Stig Kirk Ørskov, Media
Stig brings extensive leadership in news media as incoming CEO of the World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA). He’s led Denmark's largest news publishing house for 12 years, and previously served as editor-in-chief. His background spans business journalism and media innovation across European news organisations.
Christian Lindholm, Design
Christian is the inventor of the Navi Key user interface used on more than 600M phones. He is the father of Series 60 used on more than 250M early smartphones. He built KoruLab, a wearable operating system acquired by Google. Now Chairman and Co-Founder of Vertical and executive in residence at Aalto University, founder of the Future Interface Lab.
Madeleine Gummer von Mohl, Ecosystem
Madeleine is founder and CEO of betahaus, one of Europe's largest networks of co-working spaces across Berlin, Hamburg, Sofia and Barcelona, she's mastered creating environments where creativity and collaboration thrive. Now Managing Partner at XTR Capital.
Founding Donors
Steffen Fagerström Christensen
European programmer and entrepreneur behind TwentyThree, the european player in the global video space, that started as one one the worlds first photo sharing services.
Martin von Haller Grønbæk
Pioneering European digital lawyer, thinker, investor and entrepreneur that spent the last decades at global tech lawfirm Bird & Bird.
Jens Martin Skibsted
Visionary entrepreneur, author and designer. Has founded and shaped European design-led brands, such as Biomega.
Niels Hartvig
European programmer and entrepreneur behind the global open source project Umbraco.
Thomas Madsen-Mygdal
Entrepreneur and designer that’s spend the last 30 years building European startups, designing pioneering digital products and building platforms to move the digital world forward.
