Chalmers Entrepreneurship

CEO Chalmers Ventures Sara Wallin

Ready to scale up

Chalmers Ventures is ready to scale up. More tech companies are needed in order to provide research-based solutions to the challenges facing the world. We are in a unique position and well equipped to take more research results from the lab to the market, where they can be of use.

Summing up 2021, Chalmers Ventures is showing a record result. A profit of SEK 81m and more than 100 startups in the portfolio – proof positive that our companies, with their entrepreneurs and innovators, really deliver.

When we gauge what is happening in the world, both in Sweden and globally, we are seeing increasing demand for more complex technology known as deep tech that is often based on advanced research. The aim of this is to meet the societal needs and sustainability challenges we face.

That is why we have decided at Chalmers Ventures to play an active part in developing, funding and creating the right conditions for these deep tech companies. This is Chalmers Ventures’ new position going forward.

We can work together – perhaps with you, the reader – to scale up and create the right

We are involved throughout the entire growth journey and are able to build companies together with researchers and entrepreneurs.

conditions by building a stronger cash position and finding even more external capital for coinvestment. Our aim is to accelerate the market reach of even more deep tech companies and technology companies with a sustainability profile. Building companies and development So why us? Well, Chalmers Ventures is part of a unique entrepreneurial ecosystem at Chalmers. When Chalmers Ventures was formed in 2015, Chalmers also launched a completely new concept on about how creation of tech startups and venture creation could be structured. The hypothesis involved bringing together incubation, acceleration and scaling up of startups and investments in one and the same operation – what is now Chalmers Ventures.

We inject capital in the really early stages

of technology companies’ development, a stage where capital is often lacking because the risks are greater. We evaluate the technology, create the companies, match teams with entrepreneurs, and provide the time and expertise so that the company can both build its business model and find its market.

When they are useful in the market, our goal is to sell our stake to new owners who are more appropriate for that stage. This exit generates returns to invest in new ideas where we work together with researchers and entrepreneurs to build new companies. This has allowed us to build a new ecosystem that allows more deep tech and technology ideas to create benefits for society. Our strategy – scaling up together We know that the strategy for success is spelled t-o-g-e-t-h-e-r. We will be scaling up by attracting more external investors and increasing co-creation in partnerships, hubs, society, research, capital and industry. Both nationally and internationally. And we will go on working together to create and develop companies through the dedicated and professional Chalmers Ventures team!

Sara Wallin CEO, Chalmers Ventures