Jane Walerud

Executive Chair, co-founder

2021 - Current

We re-store captured carbon into industrial raw materials.

Executive Chair

2018

Enabling the green transition with graphene - Metals for electrification - Polymers for the hydrogen economy - Conductive polymers for 3D printing

Member, group XII; awarded Gold Medal 2014

2013

The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, IVA, is an independent arena for the exchange of knowledge. By initiating and stimulating contacts between experts from different disciplines and countries the Academy promotes cross fertilisation between industry, academia, public administration and various interest groups. Bringing people together to take part in lectures, conferences, research exchanges and other projects serves to generate new ideas and knowledge.

Associate, Oxford Said, Climate and AI streams

2019 - 2024

Creative destruction Lab's initial cohort at Oxford Said Business School, and I was a mentor for the full five years the program was active in Oxford.

Member of the Board

2014 - 2024

Investor

2005 - 2022

First money into Klarna AB. I loaned the founders money to buy thier founders shares and introduced them to their first tech team.

Partner

2002 - 2022

Walerud Ventures joins pre-seed and seed stage companies as investors, advisors and part-time employees for a couple of years, usually. We step back into a board position as the company hires people for the roles we've filled. Our focus sectors are deep tech / green tech for the living planet and our ticket size is 1M€.

Member of the Board

2016 - 2021

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Member

2015 - 2018

The Prime Minister, Stefan Löfvén, convened an Innovation Council ("Innovationsråd"), with five ministers and ten representatives from business and academia. I was one of the business representatives.

Chairman of the Board

2016 - 2018

SatCube develops and sells gorgeous, easy to use satellite terminals for the new generation of high throughput satellites. They set up in less than a minute and give 10 Megabits per second of data capacity uplink and downlink, an enormous improvement over the Inmarsat BGAN terminals.