CFO Emma Siljeäng

We are a team

of people who genuinely love entrepreneurship and innovation. And being able to make a difference. For real.

We have more than 20 years of combined experience of starting and growing tech companies. This is something we have the privilege to do together with researchers and entrepreneurs. In this process, we follow a technology idea and watch it grow into a successful company.

We have a deep and unique understanding of entrepreneurship. Because we are with you all the way.

MANAGEMENT TEAM for 2021

Sara Wallin - CEO Viktor Brunnegård - Strategic Developer Charlotte Emlind Vahul - Head of Venture Creation Pontus Ottosson - Head of Investments Jonas Sandwall - Head of Communications & Marketing Emma Siljeäng - CFO STYRELSE för 2021

Johan Inden (Chairman) - Volvo Penta Anna Lundgren (Vice Chair) - Chalmers University of Technology Caroline Krensler – Vinngroup Lennart Johansson – Patricia Industries Sophia Litsne – Västra Götaland Regional Council Elisabeth Björk – Astra Zeneca Amanda Lindenmeyer Asadi – student representative, Chalmers Tekniska Högskola Fredrik Sanell - Chalmers University Foundation

An entrepreneurial ecosystem

Chalmers Ventures’ mission is to be a leading resource when it comes to commercializing research results and technology ideas. Chalmers Ventures helps researchers and innovators to build a sustainable business model, team and corporate structure around their technology ideas.

Our aim is to provide a possible route for research results to benefit society. A development and an asset that is becoming increasingly important to reach out with research and new technology.

- We can see that the world’s sustainability challenges require increasingly complex solutions that often need to be based on stable, long-term research,” says Stefan Bengtsson, President and CEO of Chalmers University of Technology. The commercialization of research ideas and outcomes provides an opportunity to increase the benefits of the innovations contributed by researchers and universities. Chalmers Ventures has an important part to play here.

Entrepreneurship is part of the Chalmers Group’s strategy.

- Collaboration within the Chalmers Group is a crucial factor for utilization, says Stefan Bengtsson. We can see how important it is to offer entrepreneurship as an opportunity for our students and researchers so that more ideas can reach out to society. Since 2021 is Chalmers Ventures owned by the Chalmers University Foundation.

- Over the past few years, we have consciously and strategically helped to shape an operation that builds a business model for the future,” says Martin Nilsson Jacobi, CEO of the Chalmers University Foundation. The outcomes for 2021 speak for themselves. We are now looking forward to a development where more and more research and technology ideas can create sustainable structures in the world around us thanks to the work being done by Chalmers Ventures.

Utilization is an important enabler helping research to reach out to society and meet its needs. Not least when it comes to sustainability.

- Chalmers has always been at the cutting edge when it comes to utilization, says Mats Lundquist, Vice-President of Utilization and Professor of Entrepreneurship at Chalmers. This is made possible thanks to our world-leading processes for starting and developing sustainable technology companies, and for forming and coaching entrepreneurial teams.

Chalmers Ventures business involves investing and becoming an active partner in the companies that enter the program. Further seed investments and growth investments are made through co-investments where Chalmers Ventures is involved in attracting external capital.

- Our business model is tried and tested, and now we are entering a new stage where we want to scale up further, says Sara Wallin, CEO of Chalmers Ventures. The whole point of this is to be able to help create more and larger companies where Chalmers research and new technology ideas can reach out and positively influence the world around us.