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Niklas Jansson
Partner · CEO
Built StudentConsulting to SEK 700M in revenue before exiting in 2013. Took Codemill public, sold Vaccina to Kry. Sets the direction and loves helping the founders we back.
Serge Lachapelle
Partner · CTO
18 years at Google leading Meet, Hangouts and WebRTC. Before that, founded a video startup Google acquired. Owns the AI stack and the technical lens on every deep tech case.
Smita Hashim
Partner · US Markets, AI & Product
Smita builds alongside founders, opens the US market for the portfolio, scales DV's operations with AI, and invests in Nordic deep tech and AI companies. Former Chief Product Officer at Zoom, with sixteen years at Google behind her: Google Meet 30x, Chrome OS 60%. PhD in video compression.
Pontus Kressner
Partner · Investment Manager
Built Vaccina from zero to over SEK 300M in revenue and SEK 75M in profit in 2.5 years before exit. Pricing, sales and distribution, the unglamorous mechanics that move revenue. Partner across Crystal Alarm, Vaylo and Strativ.
Henrik Lundgren
Partner · Investment Manager
A decade in SaaS and international software sales. Took Codemill into Europe and the US after the IPO, then ran the Nordics and Baltics for AWS. Co-leads the deep tech vertical.
Anton Nygren
Partner · Investment Manager
Spotify, Deloitte and a handful of startups before DV. Master's from Chalmers. Has worked across sales strategy, capital raises and M&A. Owns sourcing and drives the investment process with new companies.
Mikaela Jansson
Partner · Investment Manager
MSc in Industrial Engineering from KTH (data and machine learning). An analytical background in finance and business development took her to the investment side. Co-leads the deep tech vertical and owns large parts of the investment process with new companies.
Cassie Gustafsson
Partner · AI People Lead
14 years at Google. Built People Operations in Canada and Europe, then ran leadership and culture at Google Stockholm through hypergrowth. Leads team and leadership development at DV.
Jonna Persson
Partner · CHRO
Has built teams in tech companies through the whole scaling journey, with deep expertise in HR, recruitment and organisational development that connects to the business. Finds the ambiguity slowing a team down, solves it, moves on. Owns HR and recruitment across the portfolio.
Fanny Lundin
Partner · HR Manager
Years of recruitment and HR in fast-moving startups, most recently inside venture capital. Works across organization, culture and operational HR: the methods that turn rapid hiring into a team that performs.
Jakob Nylund
Partner · Brand Director
Designer and brand strategist. LEGO, Google, Netflix, EA, plus startups at every stage in between. Runs brand development across the portfolio. In an AI-flattened world, authenticity is the moat.
Helena Liden
PR & Communications
Ten years running PR for Google, and the BBC and Ericsson before that. A UK and European press network built over three decades. Owns how DV and its portfolio companies appear in the press, internationally, from London.
Henrik Lindahl
Partner · Engineering Lead
Started as an audio engineer at Sveriges Radio, then computer science at Uppsala and Gapminder with Hans Rosling. Followed Trendalyzer into Google: 19 years there, most recently on Google Meet in Stockholm.
Brad Williford
Software Engineer: AI & Product
Brad works at the intersection of code, UX and product strategy on our AI initiatives. He spent 13 years at Google in engineering roles embedded across product, UX and marketing teams, including a key period in 2020 scaling Google Meet alongside the engineering team in Stockholm. At Disruptive Ventures he builds new AI-first companies from the ground up.
Adam Spreitz
AI Engineer
MSc in Engineering from Chalmers with a master's in Complex Adaptive Systems, specialising in data science and machine learning. Built and evaluated a GraphRAG system in his thesis at Saab. At DV he builds agentic AI systems from the ground up that automate workflows and create leverage across the organisation.
Per-Ola Grandin
AI Engineer
MSc in Engineering Physics from Chalmers with a master's in Complex Adaptive Systems. Built the machine learning model for timber drying at Alent Dynamic in our portfolio, and trained neural networks for adaptive radar waveform generation in his thesis at Saab. Builds applied AI and the tools that let people get more out of the technology in their daily work.