Entrepreneurship as the power to pay it forward

Lennart started working in the family business Nilssons Trikåfabrik AB (now Sätila of Sweden) in 1974 and took over as CEO in 1985. After the financial crisis in the early 1990s, he started investing in properties in Gothenburg and Stockholm and later also in London. The assets amount to just over one billion SEK. He also runs a wholly owned venture capital company with approximately SEK 500 million in capital under management. Lennart has been involved since the start of the street newspaper Faktum, which is sold by the homeless and people in social exclusion. The newspaper started in Gothenburg in 2001 and is today in seven more cities in southern Sweden. In 2009, the company Mitt Liv was started, with the aim of helping and integrating immigrants into Swedish society through professional contacts and networks, which leads to employment. Lennart Grebelius contributed start-up capital and sits on the board of the company, which has operations in Gothenburg, Stockholm, Malmö and Norrköping.

Emelie Meurk Demerud felt that she was an entrepreneur already at a young age. Today, she has started Hedylity Technology, which creates successful digitization journeys and Deb. who work to create diversity in boards. She will, among other things, talk about why she became interested in creating tech companies, about how companies can work with sustainability and innovation.

Jonas is the co-founder of Devotion Ventures, a start-up fund that invests in early B2B SAAS founders in Europe who can make a clear positive impact on the world. He previously led the team at Minna Technologies, a fintech backed by Visa Ventures and Element Ventures. During his time there, he scaled the company to over 75 employees in over 10 markets while maintaining high productivity. With experience in change management, OKRs, KPIs and other growth methodologies, Jonas brings a wealth of operational expertise to Devotion Ventures' Portfolio Companies.