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FW10: Tempcontrol.se

Welcome to Founder’s Weekly: words of encouragement for the gritty, growth-minded people in Stockholm & beyond. Last year, I met an entrepreneurial spirit trapped inside the body of an employee. Let’s call this person “Katja.” By day, Katja was an employee at a Swedish unicorn (she still works there,

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FW5: The autonomous ferry & Vayapay

Last Thursday, Stockholm became the first city in the world to launch an autonomous ferry. That’s according to Stein André Herigstad-Olsen, CEO of Torghatten AS. The ferry, which begins its short route today between Kungsholmen & Sodermalm, will still employ a captain to oversee the boat's controls. Torghatten, the transportation

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FW4: Polarium & Pär Hedberg

Last week, in line with an announcement made in September, Pär Hedberg stepped down as CEO of Sting. A foundational force in the Swedish startup ecosystem, Sting has seeded hundreds of alumni companies–including our friends at Beleco, imagi, and Panprices–since its inception in 2002. I first subscribed to

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FW4: Polarium & Pär Hedberg